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  • My dog growing up was super picky about what human food she would eat. Depending on how something was cooked (even when cooled down) she would flat out deny it (boiled chicken she would eat around or take out of her bowl)

    My current dog is less picky but there’s still some foods he can safey have that he’ll spit out. Like he loves oranges but hates apples, cucumber he thinks is gross but broccoli is good.

    I think a lot of dogs actually do have their preferences about what tastes good to them much like people. I guess most of the dogs in my family are “spoiled” in they get human food as a treat on a semi-regular basis.

    My dog growing up hated kibble and we’d have to cook her something to eat (again spoiled). My current dog doesn’t mind kibble (but he’s very food motivated) but absolutely wants you to share with him what your eating, even if he’s going to spit it out because he doesn’t like it.









  • I’m not a huge fiction person in general, most of the books I read are textbooks/technical manuals or other non-fiction.

    Some documentaries are fine, it’s highly variable based on the subject matter and how much the director tried to make it “movie-like”.

    I’m not a fan of music most of the time, I only really listen to it when I’m exercising. It’s basically to set the vibe for my brain.

    However I do play role playing games quite a bit, which for some reason my brain has decided is not boring.

    Podcasts though, make my brain release that sweet, sweet, dopamine drip… I listened to something like 52 days worth of podcasts last year? Again most of the topics are the same as the books I read.

    I do consulting, so podcasts fill the void between meetings, if I need to taking a break, or as an escape hatch so if I have a particularly hellish client, I don’t fire them.

    I don’t particularly like having “free time”. If I’m not being productive, my brain goes “Ah, I see we decided on depression as our option. Magnificent choice sir!” I basically have to scratch a particular itch my brain wants me to scratch to maintain my mental health.

    Which is partly why I’m in consulting, it scratches that itch and I get paid so it’s kinda a good gig.


  • What about someone who truly does not enjoy watching TV or movies?

    I understand I’m in a very small minority. However watching TV shows or movies doesn’t interest me at all.

    Watching TV or Movies to me is like having stare at a blank wall for 3 hours and forced notice how the faint cracks on the paint spider along it for the entire time. Afterwards I’m supposed to feel like it changed my life or it was somehow an enjoyable experience.

    It’s absolutely not my cup of tea.

    I don’t hate anyone for enjoying them either. I’ll listen to friends or family talk about things they watch. I enjoy seeing how much they enjoyed watching it. It just doesn’t interest me in the slightest.


  • If you for some reason need to reset your password or do something else with the account.

    You still have control over it using those services and there’s no chance of the free account getting reaped for inactivity and getting locked out. Sure creating a new Gmail account works, I just like having more control (and fewer passwords to deal with) using those services.

    It’s also really nice to be able to use it to detect if a breach occurred because the email is unique to the service. Having the ability to make burner emails that are unique but owned by you and able to be toggled on and off helps me control what stuff hits my inbox. It also helps with privacy and preventing tracking as every site has its own unique address.

    Once I started using those services I never give out my real email anymore. I don’t care if something asks for my email, I can just make a new unique email for everything and if you start spamming me it gets turned off until I need to deal with that service again. But having one inbox to check makes it simple to actually use those accounts since everything just goes into my true email.

    Just my 2¢



  • It is arbitrary. While what classification a substance is may have some grounding in research, it’s mostly up to what interest group has either lobbied to get something under or whatever group law enforcement wants to be able to get easy charges for. Cannabis was Sched I because it made it easy for law enforcement to get big sentences for minorities and the counter culture participants of the day. Same thing with LSD and psilocybin.

    All the DEA scheduling is just pick and choose your charge for whatever ideological ax they want to grind. Hence why things don’t line up with reality



  • Unfortunately I wouldn’t buy these given that it’s from Packt Publishing. I’ve bought quite a few of their books over the years and more often than not they’re either full of glaring writing errors that would have been caught if the book was looked at by an editor at all, the code examples have errors that require deep knowledge of said book topic to correct making it hard to progress, or the book doesn’t seem to follow a linear learning path making understanding what the author is trying to convey much harder.

    Don’t get me wrong there are some good books from Packt, but they’re much rarer than say a book from O’Reilly or Manning. They seem to just churn out content and not have a rigorous editing process meaning that it’s mostly up to the author’s writing ability to create something useful.

    I used to grab their free ebook of the day when they used to have that and more often than not I would delete or never finish the books because they were just so low quality.