Sparky is anxious and needs a friend, but because of the poison ivy issue, I have been standoffish and not as cuddly as is our custom.
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Walking the dog or doing yard work is more fun when candy grows on bushes.
The blackberries are getting ripe and they are the best. Cherries are just as tasty, but birds eat them about 15 minutes after they ripen. Plums might be good, but my trees have more black knot than fruit. Eating an apple doesn’t feel like a treat, and the pears are too firm until they sit on the window sill for a while.
No sign of poison ivy in Sparky’s favorite parts of the yard.
CNN: Trump gets a big win on NATO — but key questions over the alliance remain
CNN makes it sound like President Trump is personally benefiting from European countries paying for their own defense.
Who Counts? Trump Poised To Try To Remove Noncitizens From Census
Following a years-long surge in illegal immigration, the Trump administration is poised to challenge a longstanding but legally fraught practice: counting illegal aliens in the U.S. census.
This is one of those bullshit issues that is only decided on who benefits, not whether or not it’s right.
NYT: Why Does Every Commercial for A.I. Think You’re a Moron?
Ads for consumer A.I. are struggling to imagine how the product could improve your day — unless you’re a barely functioning idiot.
I rarely see a commercial, so wonder how often people see advertising for consumer A.I.. The article doesn’t say. Running the commercials during episodes of Murderbot or The Black Mirror might be a bad idea.
WSJ: Even Warren Buffett Hasn’t Fixed the RV Industry’s Serial Breakdowns
WSJ: Even Warren Buffett Hasn’t Fixed the RV Industry’s Serial Breakdowns
Forest River, owned by Warren Buffett’sBerkshire Hathaway, is one of the RV industry’s Big Three, along with Thor and Winnebago. Over the past decade, those companies have reported more recalls than Detroit’s Big Three automakers, even though they make far fewer vehicles.
That’s lucky. My Wolf Pup was made by Forest River.
The silver fox domestication experiment
In 1959, a Russian geneticist in Siberia was interested in the domestication of wolves into dogs. To study the effects of domestication, he decided to use the silver fox. The experiment is still running after 65 years, and now they have domesticated silver foxes that have some physical characteristics of dogs.
JD Vance is said to be trolling Democrats, but his post may be accurate. NYC just chose a socialist, Zohran Mamdani, as the Democratic candidate for mayor over the former governor, Andrew Cuomo.