I adopted a dog about 5 months ago (~1.5 years, 70lb lab(?) mix). One thing I cannot shake is his incessant biting and punching. He does not enjoy playing with people or toys, only dogs. I live in a dorm, and he will randomly jump in my bed and begin to bite my blankets, bed, arms, even face (he also whacks you in the face, throat, or crotch with a front paw). He doesn’t break skin, but he also doesn’t get a clue! I’ve tried yelping, ignoring, and leaving the room, but these seem to spur him on. Yelping or “no” (a word he does know the meaning of) seems to make him more excited, and he also enjoys continuing to nip if I ignore him (even going as far as to jump on your back). He doesn’t see me leaving as punishment. I’m exceedingly frustrated, as he has been to trainers and they all recommend the same methods. He gets lots of walks, has access to toys (which I try to initiate play with), plays with dogs every other day, he even has puzzles because I thought he was bored, but he still likes beating me up when I am working or resting. This weekend he woke me up at 3 am by whacking my back and gnawing on my shoulder. I’ve never met a dog so socially oblivious.

So a while back I got a husky adorable little guy but hes very well behaved at home but leaving the house is the problem, when I take him on a walk and he sees another dog he goes nuts he starts yelling bloody murder and tries to go to to thw dog almost nocking me over he wants to sniff and see the dog, he's very social bit his cries are VERY loud. I know hes no trying to be agressive but I really dont know what to do peaple think my dog is agressive. Help

So basically, I am about a NW2 at age 22 and it still looks good. Hairline has basically been like this for the past 3-4 years with only a tiny amount of additional recession judging by the photos of my scalp I've taken overtime.

I am not opposed to finasteride but its very hard for me to decide if I should take a hormone altering drug if my hair loss is not even aggressive. If you told me that 5 years from now my hair would only have slightly more recession, I wouldn't really care about using finasteride.

I know there are a lot of men who have hair loss which is somewhat slow or stops. I've seen plenty of examples of men who have some recession early in life and their hairline hardly changes over 5-10 years.

Maybe I should start using other treatments now for the time being?

If you have any thoughts about all of this, please let me know.

I’m just tired of getting shot by randoms that thought I may be a threat, or may be unsure whether my intent is to kill/steal/hurt their progress.

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Did I have a Settler that went feral? Is this just one of those famous glitches? Who knows.

Real spiders won't prevent you from going to sleep (unless if you have arachnophobia), then why do spiders and cave spiders in Minecraft prevent all players from sleeping as if all players have arachnophobia? I think this should be fixed.

I am not blocked by him and this disappoints me. I don't want to make an argument . How do I get this to happen?

I have a two year old mixed breed dog that we believe is a Jack Russell and a Pointer. He's around 45 pounds and has a lot of emotional issues. He is never aggressive but everything new seems to make him nervous. It probably does not help that we work from home; it is rare that he is ever alone and he has a lot of physical attachment to us.

When we first got him, he was a little lunatic. He would constantly try to jump on your back and nibble all over you and would just do laps around the house. If we had people over, he would get so worked up. His tail would wag so hard and he would shake and then would just starting peeing. Now at two, he is much more comfortable at home. He likes to lounge and cuddle and eventually he will just hang out when people come over. He still gets too worked up when new people first arrive (hyperventilating, red rocket, the works...). When this happens, we have talk him to go get a toy or bone out of his toy box . He will take his toy/bone to the corner of the room and will go crazy chewing it until he is calm enough to come back over and socialize.

I take him for a two mile walk every morning and for a second 2-3 mile walk in the early evening. He use to bark and lunge at every single thing he saw (people, trash cans, plants, etc.) but over time he has gotten better. We walk past people and cyclists all of the time and for the most part he does not bark at anyone. Strangely enough, I got him to stop barking at people by catching him right before he started barking and praising him repeatedly for being good and not barking. It is the only thing that works now if we are walking by a large group of people or landscapers/workers with equipment.

The problem I am having is that if we see another dog, it is the end of the world. He starts pulling on his harness like crazy and does everything he can to get near the dog. He will literally stand on his back legs and hop while barking and lunging. I try to be assertive with other dog owners and I always yell over the loud barking that he is very friendly and that he just gets excited. The majority of the people we see understand and I will bring him over to say hi if they are okay with it. He has never growled or snapped at another dog, so I feel comfortable having him interact with the dog.

As soon as he sees that he is approaching the dog and not walking past him, he is fine. He completely calms down and stops barking. If we see a very calm, secure dog everything goes grea

Major Kira and possibly Rom should have been given Starfleet commissions after Starfleet re-captured DS9 from the Dominion. Especially when Kira served on the Defiant so they won’t cause Bajor to break the nonaggression pact it had with the Dominion, a Bajoran Militia officers serving on a Starfleet vessel at a time of war could’ve possibly broken the nonaggression treaty with the Dominion.

Additionally Kira and Rom committed an act of terrorism against the Dominion when they tried to take down a minefield and sabotaged DS9 and therefore so Bajor to keep the nonaggression pact treaty with the Dominion Bajor should’ve thrown both Kira and Rom out of the Bajoran Militia to maintain Bajors neutrality. Rom could’ve been made a Starfleet maintenance crew men. Rom designed the minefield when he was working as a Bajoran Militia engineer.

Finally it was a strategic mistake to leave Rom on DS9 when they evacuated all Starfleet personnel and Starfleet lost the station in the season five finale as the Dominion later found out he was one of the ones responsible for designing the minefield and interrogated him to find out how to disable it.

Hello all,

I meet up with a friend who has been training her puppy since he was 10 weeks old. He has been through puppy classes twice (not for lack of skill, just extra practice) and just started his intermediate class (his natural heel is TO DIE FOR).

Every morning we take our dogs out to the tennis court to let them play. My girl Daisy is a natural runner, not a wrestler. She prefers to be chased and has, for her whole life, simply run away from dogs when they discomfort her since she's always faster.

Darby, on the other hand, likes to wrassle. This wouldn't be a problem except in the last week he's started developing a baiting behavior typical in bull dog type breeds: holding on and not letting go.

Yesterday we took them to the dog park in the hopes that the other dogs would teach him not to clamp down on them with vocal cues--Daisy is not a vocal dog so when he holds on she just tries to run instead of growling. The owner will continue taking him to the dog park but in the meantime I'd like to get your advice.

Has anyone had experience with this behavior and training it out? Currently the game is over once he starts biting and we end the play date, but I am considering the use of a drop-it cue such as "release" when he holds on. Yesterday I tried keeping him on his leash and once he starts to clamp down I would have him release and then lunge him (think equine) closer and closer to Daisy, keeping him focused on me before re-initiating play.

Any training suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

The previous update made them "less aggressive," but it is extremely difficult to talk to Charlie, as he hangs around the Scorpion cage, which makes it difficult to finish Eagles' Peak. Also, it makes no sense for zoo inhabitants to be able to attack you through their cages.

I crouch, i wave, i don’t even carry a gun. Yet everyone makes it their mission to hunt me down no matter how far I run, and steal my entire inventory of 12 wire. Congrats. I see posts on here of y’all making friends, that’d be wonderful. Everyone on the Xbox lobbies are bloodthirsty kill seekers.

The pact is there to stay as long as the wolf stays tame. The pact is made, and the werewolf is yours.

This is the first entry in “Overthinking It”, a series of blog posts where I joyfully read a little too much philosophy and politics into movies of questionable quality. This is distinct from my writing about videogames, where all my analysis is completely serious.

Matrix 1 was about “true reality” versus false simulation. Matrix 4 asks if we prefer nonfiction-style realism versus fiction-style emotional narrative.

Partway through “The Matrix: Resurrections”, Neo’s therapist is revealed to be the villain of the movie and the current controller of the matrix-simulation. The therapist reveals that the matrix-simulation has been re-configured under his new management — instead of aiming for the “fussy facts and equations” of a perfectly realistic simulation of human society, the new matrix-simulation is a deliberately incoherent dream-world designed to stimulate maximum emotional drama by dreaming up dramatic stories and conflicts: “can you catch the bullet in time”?

The therapist explains that the reconfigured simulation has been setting new productivity records — the machines can extract more energy per person, and ironically people are less likely to question the veracity of a dream-world that panders to human psychology than they are to question a realistic simulation of a coherent human society.

In the original Matrix movie, the “human world” of 1999 New York is tinted a sickly green — besides giving the movie a distinct visual style, green is associated with the green text of old-fashioned computers and thus symbolized the fact that the matrix-simulation isn’t the real world. Only the “machine world” has a reasonably even (albeit drab) color balance. The basic theme is something like: “true reality vs familiar illusion”.

But in Matrix 4, the “human world” of 2020 San Francisco is cartoonishly oversaturated — the bright colors symbolize how the matrix has been redone as a narrative-friendly dreamworld. Matrix 4 pretends to be about the original theme of bravely choosing truth over lies, but secretly it is about choosing the colorful emotional drama of human feelings and narrative over the boring technicalities of realism.

A three-act descent into feelings-world.

Matrix 4 is kind of a three part movie:

1. **The first part of the movie is a twisty and

Do your worst!

Major Kira and possibly Odo should have been given Starfleet commissions after Starfleet re-captured DS9 from the Dominion especially when they served on the Defiant so they won’t cause Bajor to break the nonaggression pact it had with the Dominion, 2 Bajoran Militia officers serving on a Starfleet vessel at a time of war could’ve possibly broken the nonaggression treaty with the Dominion.

Major Kira and possibly Rom should have been given Starfleet commissions after Starfleet re-captured DS9 from the Dominion especially when Kira served on the Defiant so they won’t cause Bajor to break the nonaggression pact it had with the Dominion, a Bajoran Militia officers serving on a Starfleet vessel at a time of war could’ve possibly broken the nonaggression treaty with the Dominion. Additionally Kira and Rom committed an act of terrorism against the Dominion when they tried to take down a minefield and sabotaged DS9 and therefore so Bajor to keep the nonaggression pact treaty with the Dominion Bajor should’ve thrown both Kira and Rom out of the Bajoran Militia to maintain Bajors neutrality. Rom could’ve been made a Starfleet maintenance crew men. Finally it was a strategic mistake to leave Rom on DS9 when they evacuated all Starfleet personnel and Starfleet lost the station in the season five finale as the Dominion later found out he was one of the ones responsible for designing the minefield and interrogated him to find out how to disable it.

Major Kira and possibly Rom should have been given Starfleet commissions after Starfleet re-captured DS9 from the Dominion especially when Kira served on the Defiant so they won’t cause Bajor to break the nonaggression pact it had with the Dominion, a Bajoran Militia officers serving on a Starfleet vessel at a time of war could’ve possibly broken the nonaggression treaty with the Dominion. Additionally Kira and Rom committed an act of terrorism against the Dominion when they tried to take down a minefield and sabotaged DS9 and therefore so Bajor to keep the nonaggression pact treaty with the Dominion Bajor should’ve thrown both Kira and Rom out of the Bajoran Militia to maintain Bajors neutrality. Rom could’ve been made a Starfleet maintenance crew men. Finally it was a strategic mistake to leave Rom on DS9 when they evacuated all Starfleet personnel and Starfleet lost the station in the season five finale as the Dominion later found out he was one of the ones responsible for designing the minefield and interrogated him to find out how to disable it.