...dogs have conscious functioning.

And the main constituency for electric cars ( smug liberals with a lot of money )

You lost it right here. It's normal people who don't want the world to burn.

You could just say he's a narcissist who changes his tune as the wind turns.

Your link is not working for me. I click and nothing happens. (Firefox mobile)

It being bad because it was rushed doesn't make it not bad.

Cruise ship. They're basically very sad apartment buildings on water and with more pollution.

It seems more likely that it comes down to fossils.

But when the lot starts to fill up (which “usually happens at 4AM or so,” according to Tung) what looks like a maddening ballet of autonomous parking — and honking — begins. The noise goes for as much as an hour at a time before it settles down, she said.

Did you read the article? Because that sounds really egregious.

It's something you have to worry about in basically all apartments (in the US--despite thin walls and no insulation, I never had loud and inconsiderate neighbors when I lived in Japan). You might get lucky and get a place with good soundproofing, but the odds are slim.

Where the Red Fern Grows

Whatever happened to using periods?

Well yeah. Most of those single-use plastic items are going to the same place.

Never buy a Samsung kitchen appliance. They are expensive and they fail. Just say no.

Meeting someone online is and has been "normal circumstances" for some years now.

Sounds more like someone who is mentally disabled to me, but it's hard to tell.

New Axis of evil in the works.

My friends' cats use theirs. I think they started getting them to by luring them with treats.

Sometimes a little too smart.

A puppy, and no, even though she did die of cancer right after she turned two. She was my joy.

I have been thinking of him as "the mayonnaise" personally.