🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@Demosthenes I tend to be highly skeptical of reasoning that basically equates to "all the problems are trump's fault".. dont get me wrong trump caused plenty of problems but the USPS was complete shit long LONG before Trump.

Moreover Trump nor the administration does not have the legal ability to replace management in the USPS, so I'd need a good source (by good source I mean primary source, not commercial news outlets that make money selling to a bias)... Generally the Post master general hires all the upper management of the post office and has authority that supersedes that of the president. Even the Postmaster General is elected from the 9 USPS governors, the chair, and the Postmaster Inspector. The president doesnt even get a say in management of USPS.

No offense mind you, while I am highly dismissive of these types of arguments I hope you dont take it personally either, I do respect your perspective even if i disagree with it.

@torresjrjr

I had her from a fairly young age, I got her at 15/16 against my moms wishes (and had always wanted a dog growing up).. I literally went and got one the first week I had a license and a car to do so.. The story around that is a bit funny in its own right.

She lived 15 years, to an old pupperino, with sage wisdom and licks for all. But she was very near and dear to me, with all the emotional connection of a daughter, loosing her was like loosing any close relative and friend.

But yes, she passed after 15 years of smiles, this was soemthing like 7 or 8 years ago now, so the pain isnt as sharp, I just remember her with smiles and maybe a little water in my eyes but mostly happiness over having that time with her.

But yea its been 8 years and I still talk about her anytime I get the chance, I will be 100 years old and on my death bed and the nurse will tell me if i need anything and with my dying breaths I'll start with "Did I ever tell you about blue?"

It reminds me of the song Mr. Bojangles who also had a dog named Blue who died in his youth and for his whole life he would talk about Blue to everyone he met.

Here is the song along with a little spoken back story by Bromburg: https://youtu.be/50JBp71K5tw

"He spoke with tears of 15 years of how his dog and him traveled about. His dog up and died, ya know hsi dog up and died. After 20 years he still grieves." -- Mr. Bojangles

@mur2501 @Wetrix @funny @dogs

@noelle Hey, just wanted to check in and see how you've been doing (feel free not to respond if you dont feel like sharing how your doing).. Otherwise just wanted to say hi and let you know you're in my thoughts should you need anything.

FYI the post is public, feel free to respond publicly or DM in private if you prefer. Seemed you might be having a rough time as of late so just wanted to remind you I'm here if you need anything or just want to chat too, and wishing your the best in trying times.

Every god damn time.

This right here is the very reason I am more than happy to see the USPS tank.. If you can't deliver a quality reliable service then make way for the private sector to replace you.

@mur2501

She was a character to say the least. How much attention she gave you was directly perportional to how new you were.. New people she insisted on hello cuddles for the whole time your over. She would eagerly await for the gues to sit somewhere and then nudge her nose under their leg or arm and force her way in for some cuddle time.

Also the more the new person seemed standoffish or even scared the harder she tried. If you had a fear of dogs or pitties she would put in twice the effort insisting she break you of your fear with endless cuddles :)

Some random attached pictures as evidence.

@Wetrix @torresjrjr @funny @dogs

@Wetrix

My dog was an amazing liar too. I have a story I tell, it sounds like an exaggeration but I assure you it is not.

My friend had been staying with me and he had just had a gigantic > 1 foot cheese steak delivered and he sat down, unwrapped it and it was an inch away from his mouth when ht noticed he was stopped by my dog who had placed her water bowl on his lap.

you see she had conditioned us many times before that whenever she was done drinking her water bowl and it was empty that she brings it to one of us and we will go fill it for her, it was pretty cute and smart of her in her own right.

Anyway my friend of course puts his glistening cheese steak sandwhich down and gets up to fill her bowl.. Now usually the bowl sat right at the base of the sink we used to fill it. Right as he walks over to fill the bowl I hear a cry from him "what the hell there is water all over the floor" as he stands in a puddle with his socks. A split second later he looks over and sees my dog, propped up on the chair with an entire foot and a half long cheese steak going down her throat in one byte like she was an anconda. Even though he only turned his back away for a few seconds there wasnt a speck of food left, just a dog with a gigantic grin on her face.

It tooks us both a few seconds to realize what happened.. but what Blue did was she saw the cheese steak and even though her bowl was filled that cheeky bastard literally dumped the water on the floor and brought the bowl to him just to distract him from the cheese steak so she could get an in to steal it. It was cold, and calculated, and kinda fucking brilliant for a dog if you think about it. As far as I was concerned she earned that damn cheese steak :)

@torresjrjr
@funny @dogs

@funny

This is literally me

#Funny #joke #jokes #humor #humour #Dog #doggos #puppy #meme @dogs

@esvrld You mean I gave up my first born child for nothing? I wish I knew... actually you know what, thats cool, he was a brat anyway.

@blinkwarpmy reaction is... well its her life and her child to make the decision for, and i respect her right to judge it on her own... but comes across as reckless and puts the life of her child at risk. I dont see this as responsible.

I also see her talking about primary sources, which I agree with. but the very problem here isnt that the primary sources say it is safe or dangerous, the concern is that it didnt go through the usual 5 years of safety checks first so there simply hasn't been enough time for primary sources to be written yet that tell us much about its safety.. yes read primary sources, also be careful to analyze the quantity of data available to create primary sources at the same time, and as such use that to adjust your risk model.

@penny Never heard of it, but it does look cool! Have fun!

@HermeowneBlue Whats wrong, if you need someone to talk to I'm here for ya!

@trinsec

I think it depends on what "It is a word" really means... generally we use the phrase "that is not a word" to mean it isnt in the dictionary or it has no meaning.. but I think thats an oversimplification, one that is good enough for us and works and all, but im not sure it is truly accurate to what is or is not a word.

Strictly speaking the definition of a word is as the following: "a single distinct meaningful element of speech or writing, used with others (or sometimes alone) to form a sentence and typically shown with a space on either side when written or printed."

This definition suggests to me that even if a "word" has no definition, has never been used, and is purely an error, it is still a word so long as it can be written or spoken in a sentance.. so as long as it has letters, and sounds and looks like a word it is one.. Now the key that could break that thinking in the definition is the part that says "meaningful"

The other side is, if we consider a word to be a thing that is actually used in every day speech and has been before, or names of things, even new and unique names, all because they have known "meanings" .. then the definition seems self limiting. If a word has no definition it has no meaning, and therefore cant be a word.. within that view point at least.

@torresjrjr

@trinsec

Actually its much mroe simple than that, there are words actually listed as entries in a dictionary that dont have any definition.

dord is a primary example (see attached image).

It was defined in mariam websters from 1934 to 1939 as meaning "density" in physics... However it was an error, dord, in reality, had no definition, it wasnt a word at all. It was a mistake caused by a mixup that was caught and corrected and no longer appeared after the 1939 addition.

So in fact, yes, there have been words as actual entries in dictionaries (not just appearing in the text) which did not, in reality, have a definition.

@torresjrjr

@torresjrjr yes, yes there are.