I just read them all in the last. 45 minutes. Those two are adorable and Pixie is such a good therapy kitten. <3

I hope Pixie makes friends with a Husky so we can see the Husky v German Shepherd v Malinois energy!

That’s specifically what we did to a good amount of Loyalist conservatives when we founded the country.

Dude. I’m set to retire before I’m 50, and I’m 43, also a veteran. I’m retiring in San Diego, the most unliveable city in the US. Paying taxes is the second most patriotic thing that a citizen can do. The fact that you view them as theft is a you problem. They are the dues that you owe society for treating you so well.

The four most patriotic things one can do are as follows in this order:

1. Vote.

2. Pay your damn taxes.

3. Serve in local office, and maybe higher.

4. Serve in the military.

The reason that the military is so low is that most people aren’t a good fit for the military. We need thinking soldiers that will refuse an unlawful order, not mindless automatons that parrot every hateful lie they can.

Then become a hermit and stop using roads, libraries, police or fire services, and EMT services. You’re the only one keeping you from your tax free dreams.

I think my first one was 512 MB, but I don’t have it anymore.

If we let the fascists claim any symbol they want, we will have nothing left.

Pepe was just a depressed frog boi. Pepe is only fascist if we let the fascists win

Por que no los dos?

The golden retriever was named Tahereh.

I also had mice, gerbils, guinea pigs, and cats. Parents had a nice farm.

Helps if you put the first definition as well. I would think that the use of the word as a glance is more common than male goose.

I figured some of the larger species have some basic emotions. My preying mantis could certainly let me know if she was irritated, though I never really saw a “happy” as much as “content.”

My tarantula and I never managed to talk to one another.

We didn’t have cattle. Just horses, sheep, goats, chickens, ducks, a couple turkeys, and rabbits… Tons of rabbits accidentally one time. We let them do their thing when we wanted more.

Ummm… We don’t typically have just one pen or pasture for the animals. The males and females are typically kept separate from each other, except for when we specifically want more animals.

Plants scream when they die, we just don’t notice it. They release all sorts of pheromone type chemicals that warn other plants that there is danger. That’s definitely a scream.

I’m not saying eating meat is better, I’m just saying that seemingly the only truly ethical things to eat are raw minerals, and I don’t believe that’s possible, other than salt. Salt seems to be the only tasty rock.

Pineapple tries to eat you back when you eat it, if that makes you feel any better. That painful sensation in your mouth that fresh pineapple causes is a digestive enzyme that the fruit releases to prevent animals from eating it. Works on humans about as well as capsaicin.

I’ve asked my cats loads of questions. Not one has given a comprehensive answer.

Insects on the other hand are pretty much nature’s robots.

You guys already hit better than 4% according to some articles I’ve seen posted here-ish over the last couple months.

I’m amazed neither of you mentioned Ecco. That dolphin game is the only DC exclusive game I remember.

I don’t remember what Sonic game came out for the DC. I’m sure they ran ads, but the DC game that I remember above all is Ecco the Dolphin. Never got to play the game.

They also had a gargantuan library of games for every single console they had produced that just didn’t work. Everyone likes to rag on Nintendo for Silver Surfer, or that one Superman game for being unplayable, but Sega had so many of those unplayable games that no one remembers their names. Sega wasn’t known for quality after the console wars. They were known for having much cheaper games than Nintendo. I remember looking at the cartridges in the store, and Sega had a huge selection compared to Nintendo, and those cartridges were in the $45-$50 range brand new. Nintendo had about ½ to ⅓ the selection of titles, and they ran $50-$70 per game, but you knew you were getting good games 99% of the time, especially if you had a subscription to one of the various gaming magazines. PlayStation was Nintendo’s first real competition, and the PS1 was just eating Nintendo for breakfast.

I remember similarly. I was going to say that thumb drives weren’t even invented until 2005-2006, but I looked it up and they were invented in 1999. I guess I forgot that those tiny ones even existed since I was doing all my external storage on DVD-R or CD-RW.