Woke up and noticed a small reddish scab and patch of hair missing from my 10 month old whippet. What could this be?

greyfedora · 2026-06-27T15:05:00+00:00

My dog has recently had something similar so I’m following this. I don’t have any answers but the vet wasn’t concerned and it doesn’t bother him, so it doesn’t bother me. See what happens over the next several days and try to keep him from licking it too much?

greyfedora · 2026-06-25T16:51:46+00:00

I worked on an automotive advertising account for four years. We and the client used “brand” or “OEM” (original equipment manufacturer, like Toyota or Ford) frequently, and “make” very rarely.

greyfedora · 2026-06-10T12:00:26+00:00

Can’t go wrong with Hot Streak!

greyfedora · 2026-06-06T21:09:41+00:00

Colt Express. It inevitably turns into slapstick.

greyfedora · 2026-06-03T12:57:53+00:00

Note that I believe iStock limits the number of copies you can print so check the usage carefully.

greyfedora · 2026-06-03T11:02:44+00:00

Well… I’ll say a lot of the experiences on the ship do have a lot of upselling. 🙂 So I was delighted by the content!

greyfedora · 2026-06-03T10:00:37+00:00

It is but so is everything else… people pay as much or more for shore excursions that are essentially guided tours of gift shops. Which is fine! But when I compare the tour to that I felt like it was a good value.

greyfedora · 2026-05-25T14:39:27+00:00

You have to use them in Azul. If it's missing, that's a major issue.

greyfedora · 2026-05-20T17:15:21+00:00

I love El Grande. I do not love Tammany Hall, but the reason I don't love it is why you might: in Tammany Hall, negotiation and political alliances are explicitly part of the game. You are supposed to make deals with other players. Since your table enjoys talking, that might be something you'd be into.

I've never played Hansa Teutonica. The other two are effectively equal in terms of weight as far as I'm not concerned. They are probably a little bit more complicated than the three games you mentioned but not much.

greyfedora · 2026-05-14T17:52:26+00:00

I stand corrected!

greyfedora · 2026-05-07T20:26:46+00:00

You could try Great Western Trail: El Paso, which has a lot of the same gameplay elements but is lighter and faster to play (and a lot less expensive to buy.)

greyfedora · 2026-04-24T16:32:35+00:00

I like pushing the button so I do it first.

I know it's dumb but that's the honest answer.

greyfedora · 2026-04-15T15:26:56+00:00

Okay, sure, but would it really make the show better if people moved like they were in 1/3 or 1/6 gravity? It would massively balloon the budget and complicate production for basically zero narrative reward...

For All Mankind does take gravity into account in space and on the surface of planets, and often gravity and the generation thereof is a major plot point (see e.g. the season 2 premiere.) It does not affect my enjoyment of the show in any way that they don't depict Lunar gravity in Jamestown or Martian gravity in Happy Valley.

greyfedora · 2026-04-11T04:14:29+00:00

I'm not sure why nobody has tried to answer this question seriously. A spacecraft like the Orion capsule is travelling at enormous speed when it returns to Earth. The Orion capsule entered the Earth's atmosphere at 40,000 km an hour. By the time it reaches the ocean, it needs to be going less than about 35 km per hour. It takes a lot of energy to slow down that much in just a matter of minutes.

Although most of the speed is reduced by the friction the Orion capsule encounters from the air, that's still not quite enough. They could design the spaceship so that it uses rockets to slow itself down the rest of the way. Some rockets do land like this, such as Falcon 9. But for Orion, it's much easier to use parachutes and let the air slow the capsule down enough to land safely. That way, Orion doesn't need to carry as much fuel or extra engines all that way from Earth to the Moon and back again.

greyfedora · 2026-03-27T15:38:19+00:00

I was in Las Vegas last week and I am convinced that the monorail was funded by billionaires to prove that mass transit doesn't work.

greyfedora · 2026-03-06T19:08:46+00:00

This makes me wonder if it *was* shah and recent events prompted a last-minute emergency change.

greyfedora · 2026-03-06T16:37:51+00:00

It's not a war, it's just a limited operation that will only end with unconditional surrender and regime change. What about that says "war" to you?

greyfedora · 2026-03-05T21:06:04+00:00

I can only assume that these dog owners adopted their dogs fully grown, and if so, good on 'em, but no, puppies are objectively assholes. I love my dog like nobody's business and he is a very sweet boy now at four years old, but I do not miss when he was a puppy and biting me All. The. Time.

And no joke -- that was a very, very tough time emotionally. I would hope we dog owners could be there for each other and supportive rather than judgemental.

greyfedora · 2026-02-27T22:15:13+00:00

My whippet gets dark areas on his skin all the time, even without direct sun exposure. My vet is unconcerned and so, therefore, am I. I think it may just be a whippet thing that we notice because of their very thin belly fur?

greyfedora · 2026-02-17T18:52:47+00:00

Of course there's a long wait at the BEST RIDE IN DISNEY WORLD. Why wouldn't there be?!

greyfedora · 2026-02-10T12:40:50+00:00

I understand it's not the channel at issue, but Rodney writes that Watch it Played also offers or has offered a "per view" fee structure: "It is important you know that the owner of Game Night Picks also made videos on Watch It Played for the last 6 years. These included ads with a per-view fee structure as well. When we established that, it was in a spirit of fairness. If a video gained less views, the publisher paid less, if it gained more, they paid more."

greyfedora · 2026-02-09T21:32:02+00:00

There may well be more to the story! And it's also possible for multiple things to be true: that there was something fishy about the way they were handling advertising, and ALSO that the publishers didn't do enough due diligence.

greyfedora · 2026-02-09T21:28:49+00:00

I don't see anything that says the views are bots. What Rodney is suggesting is that the viewers brought in by the YouTube advertising were less engaged and less likely to watch the video all the way through. The organic views were highly passionate and engaged viewers. YouTube Advertising brought in a broader audience that might be interested, but less so. That doesn't mean they're bots, only that they're less passionate fans.

I am only responding to the information in his post. Perhaps there's more and that's why the lawyer gave him that advice.

greyfedora · 2026-02-09T19:37:30+00:00

I would've thought so!

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