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Pons_Aelius, to risa in Who's on first?

He's the short stop.

Pons_Aelius, to lemmyshitpost in Survive the zombie apocalypse

Machete

crossbow

body armour

night-vision.

Stealth, protection and silent defence.

Pons_Aelius, to piracy in Where to turn to if I need books that are paywalled behind overly expensive academic portals?

IIRC: The Oxford Politics Trove is more text books than academic papers.

Pons_Aelius, (edited ) to asklemmy in How do you discourage a dog from biting while playing?

Yep, the difference in that short time is pretty big. My parents bred dogs when I was a kid. My dad liked to keep them together for 16 weeks.

taken at 8 weeks or sometimes even younger.

The people who do this are arseholes running puppy mills in my opinion.

Pons_Aelius, to asklemmy in How do you discourage a dog from biting while playing?

That was what I was going to say as well.

They usually learn to stop by interacting with their litter mates.

Pons_Aelius, to lemmyshitpost in this is a threat

Good thing I am not a dog.

Pons_Aelius, (edited ) to lemmyshitpost in Jingle Bells, Batman sme...

Olfactory fatigue:

Olfactory fatigue, also known as odor fatigue, olfactory adaptation, and noseblindness, is the temporary, normal inability to distinguish a particular odor after a prolonged exposure to that airborne compound.

Pons_Aelius, to memes in Don't know if you guys like history memes

But then you took an arrow to the knee?

Pons_Aelius, to asklemmy in Be honest: if you had the power to stop time, your morals would go out the window.

people are morally questionable by nature

You keep making sweeping statements about all of humanity.

Please speak for yourself.

Pons_Aelius, to risa in As a lefty it feels extra special when I get that glide finally

Shop for lefties

Pons_Aelius, to archaeology in Stolen remains of Aboriginal people and Tasmanian tigers traced to grave-robbing Victorian naturalist

a Victorian Tasmanian naturalist

Or possibly a Victorian Van Diemen's Land naturalist as Morton Allport was there before the name change in 1856.

Pons_Aelius, to cooking in [Question] Are you cooking something other than turkey for Thanksgiving?

Edit of title required...

Pons_Aelius, (edited ) to asklemmy in If another species on Earth began to develop civilization, how would you like to see them approached?

I seriously doubt it would be possible with humans still in the picture due to our impact on the biosphere and resource use.

No matter what high minded principles we might espouse, human history shows that we fuck up less tech advanced cultures, even when we think we are trying to help.

Case in point North Sentinel Island.

TLDR: Hunter gatherer society that the world has decided to leave alone as they do not want contact but some fuckhead US christian decided he knew better, attempted contact to tell them about God or whatever and got himself killed. While possibly infecting them with something they have no immunity for.

Pons_Aelius, to asklemmy in What's a food you forget you like? Then you eat it, and wonder why you don't buy it more often?

I frickin’ love lamb dishes

If you ever get a chance, try goat curries. They will rock your world.

Pons_Aelius, to science_memes in Hummingbird feet

seems eminently wikipediable

Telephones existed for a century before wikkipedia...

In the before times: The guinness book of records started as a promo by the guinness brewery given to pub owners to settle bar argumnets like this one.

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