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Moonside OP wrote

Yeah I am definitely pretty much the same. For example much like the article mentioned, I have difficult time tuning out background music during conversations, which sucks boinkydoinkers. I think it definitely played into my childhood obsessions with comics, books, legos and video games.

It's kind of amazing though how much you need to fight other people to let them give some peace, even people I've known for a long time.

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Moonside OP wrote

My late commentary: honestly I kinda agree with the teens that using Google for research is a pain. IDK but I feel like there's some glut of irrelevancy that has been creeping up there with bad info driving out good in the search results. Increasingly it feels like a weird yet quite powerful Unix tool, controlled with a text string and adjusting a lot based on the results. I hope better stuff comes along.

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noordinaryspider wrote

Reply to comment by musou in Fireworks Are Trash by devtesla

In a perfect world we wouldn't have needed to play with toy bombs at all but it's been a rough year. I wish there had been a better place to do it from the dog's perspective. It sucks being a dog no matter how nice your people are.

I'm not beating myself up over it because we were one of many, many neighbours making our poor next-door-dog's life a living hell, but I am passing along what their person told me as calmly and objectively as they were able to.

There are also thunder blankets and other non-med things that help, but I'm not responsible enough to take care of a dog so I don't know all the details.

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musou wrote

Reply to comment by noordinaryspider in Fireworks Are Trash by devtesla

yeah, i have a dog too and he hates fireworks. when i say "in the sticks" i mean miles from any building. still probably spooks some deer and opossums but i'm less worried about nature than domesticated animals that can't survive without humans.

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noordinaryspider wrote

Reply to comment by musou in Fireworks Are Trash by devtesla

Since they're toy bombs anyway, we did a bunch of riot/revolution LARPing this year and had a lot of fun, but it wasn't fun for neighbourhood dogs. :(

I like the idea of a shooting range type place that had a reasonable or no fee where people could go to play with them.

A lot of dogs have to be on meds on the 4th so it's a good idea to let their people know if you have leftovers and want to play with them on the 5th if that's legal in your area. The dog's people need to know how long the meds are necessary.

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