A drab fate, to be sure, but probably better than death.

My dog tried a grapefruit once. It’s hard to describe just how cute and hilarious it was when he’d take a little lick, shiver from the bitterness and shy away, and then go in for another lick.

We also brought home a mineral ball once, a big one, and he found it something eminently attackable. He’d move to grab it with his mouth, realize it was too large or too hard to bite or carry, stop, paw at it, and repeat, like he was attacking a giant bug. (He also used to body slam stinkbugs into the carpet - less cute)

Oh, when he was young, my grandmother encouraged him to be a lapdog. Unfortunately, he was a bit too big for that. So as he grew up, he was big enough that he’d sit on my grandmother’s lap, but slowly slip off, and then jump back up to try again.

Oh, he’d also carry his food in his mouth out to the living room and drop it on the floor so he could eat ‘with’ us.

My grandparents’ dog used to sleep sandwiched between the pillows. If you walked by in the middle of the night, you’d see her little head poking out, eyes glistening and watching you as you made your way through the hallway. Never seemed to bother my grandmother’s sleep at all, having a little Pomeranian beneath her head all night.

She would also hop up on the back of the couch to get high enough to perch on my grandfather’s bald head. And he would let her.

On one hand, I understand the decision. The Soviets were anything but restrained, and the Nazis beat that drum as loudly as they could.

On the other hand, with the benefit of hindsight and not being immersed in Nazi propaganda, your chances of getting through the Red Army’s advance and occupation were much higher than, say, with a state policy of industrialized genocide poised against you.

https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1985-11-36-173

Afraid I don’t have much more information, maybe someone with more patience can dig some up.

Statistically speaking, they would have been unlikely to kill any men - only fascists.

Iron Maiden, Saxon, Motorhead, and Black Sabbath.

Look at that dashing rake posing at the bottom!

2012. Cast a vote for Obama. Knew it didn’t mean much, living in a safe state, but I considered it my civic duty to participate.

Almost seems quaint, that Romney was seen as radical by many of us. I remember my objection at the time, that I felt Romney would damage democracy at home and abroad with his policies and strengthen the oligarchic class.

I mean, he would have. But that we weren’t immediately staring down a double barrel of fuckwadded fascism seems strange after having a decade of Trumpification of the GOP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aconitum#Toxicology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conium_maculatum#Toxicology

Reverse image search will get you the results you’re looking for.

https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9BvkLz69

I also think he could have closed Guantanamo.

Apparently you don’t remember how that went either.

And I even think he could have bailed out the people that lost their houses and not the people that owned the houses.

Oh, sure, just pass an executive order for it, right?

I still think he should have nationalized the banks that failed and renamed them to “Bank A” and “Bank B.”

Jesus Christ man.

Crazy huh.

In desire, no; in perceptions of what the president has the power to do, yes.

If Obama had wanted it, he could have done it.

Lord.

California and New York have GDP’s above most other countries in the world.

But Cali and New York do not reap the tax revenue of a country with the GDP of their size; they can only reap part of it, both because Federal taxes remove a portion of that taxable income, and because states are necessarily more limited in their options for taxation than national governments.

It’s possible, don’t get me wrong, but significantly more difficult.

Tell me why I shouldn’t blame the democrats for:

Doing Obama care half assed, when something like 80% people wanted a public option.

Bruh, do you not remember how Obamacare was passed?

I oppose breakfast foods for a different reason. Pancakes for dinner, and damn the haters!

only in Africa (see the answer in AskHistorians)

While my answer was related to Africa, as that’s where I’m most familiar with a paucity of study and an excess of material, I’d bet even money that there are plenty of other non-European (and outside of the Americas) collections that have yet to be fully catalogued, especially in the Islamic World and India. I just couldn’t swear to it or name any regions in particular to look into.

Not sure about the wisdom of making the move to the US in current circumstances, but the Green Card Lotto is where many start.

Merit is generally the superior of the two. Seniority should only really be preferred if:

• The performance of the task at hand is more dependent on pre-established connections and the like - ie a very knowledgeable and charismatic but new diplomat might actually be a worse choice for a given job than a rather boring and mid-tier diplomat who nonetheless has a lot of long-standing relationships in the area.

• There is an issue of systemic rules in an institution where merit is not always the top concern, or not easily and clearly discerned - such as legislative committee appointments. “The best person is the most qualified for the top job” is a nice thought, but raises questions of “How do you figure out who is the best person?” and “The people didn’t send the best person, they sent this fellow to represent their interests.”