My dogs hate getting their nails trimmed. One won’t let me at all but if I try, the other pushes his way in between.

God love my little ding-dongs. They are my best friends.

EDIT: I just remembered a time when the pushy doggo escaped, I couldn’t get him to come back. He was about a block away.

Knowing that he’s a jealous boy, I stopped to pet the neighbor’s dog and he came running to stop to it.

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One of my dogs won’t let me at all. The vet tried too and couldn’t do it. He’s a sweet boy but he just can’t with the nails.

We do it when he gets his teeth cleaned.

His nails get longish and sharp. They break sometimes. I feel bad for him but he’s terrified of the clippers and he isn’t good motivated at all.

My other doggo will do anything for a snack. He is the easiest dog I ever trained.

Oculus founder Arms dealer, Zionist, and Trump supporter

Every game or movie that comes out now is a reboot/remake. Why would I buy that? I already bought that.

It feels like they just announced it? Why did they even bother?

I will support this on the single condition that all of Meta gets disconnected because they did piracy.

In fact, all AIs are doing piracy. Cut off those companies too.

YouTube gets cut off for hosting copyrighted material. Twitch is cut off.

Twitter gets cut off for sharing copyrighted material.

Google stole all those books. Cut it off.

Do it all. Burn it to the ground.

I’m betting the person injured themself to get off the plane. Maybe with their teeth. ICE was making fun of it, calling him a cannibal and dumbass Noem just believed it word for word.

She doesn’t seem like someone who gets jokes, even bad ones.

Both you and @DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com are correct. Google bought reCAPTCHA in 2012.

Here’s an article about it from 2018.

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Captcha if you can: how you’ve been training AI for years without realising it

And another from 2019! Captchas got harder for us because the AI had learned from our training.

Why CAPTCHAs have gotten so difficult

Oh no! My ATM card! My secret PIN number: 1077.

Welp.

Cartel family members entered U.S. in deal with Trump admin, Mexican security chief confirms

I’d like to fire him from a canon…into the Sun. Melania could be denaturalized.

Already up to 767K. It’s within reach.

I don’t live in the EU, but I’m keeping an eye on it. Fingers crossed!

Idk Bayer made some hemophilia drugs, realized they were tainted with HIV and Hepatitis after it had started selling.

They pulled it from the US and Europe but sold the rest in Asia and Latin America.

They continued producing the medication for something like a year after admitting that it was tainted and when the updated safer version was available, they told distributors to use up the old stock before selling the new version.

Fuck capitalism.

Given that US citizens are getting immigration court notices and even getting deported, I’m sure this is a very accurate and trustworthy system.

We are in the dumbest timeline.

This is how I rolled my car off the interstate.

(I’m fine!)

I was less than a mile from my exit and I thought I could make it. I was trying to hard to stay awake I ended up driving past several exists. Suddenly, I realized my eyes were closed and I wasn’t sure how long they had been like that. I panicked, afraid I would hit the median, slammed on my brakes and swerved.

Once that happened, I was alert and I knew I couldn’t stop the car from rolling so I let go and let it happen. Apparently, that’s partly why I wasn’t seriously injured. I didn’t tense up and try to brace myself. That and seatbelts/good safety design.

I was scared to drive for awhile but it’s fine now. Though, I never speed. I always pull over if it doesn’t feel right. By that I mean, if I’m tired, if there is bad weather, if my car isn’t driving properly….anything. I don’t risk it.

Other drivers seem annoyed that I’m going the speed limit but I don’t give a fuck.

One of my strategies for voting on judges is looking up who in my state appoints them. Do I trust that person to appoint reasonable judges or not? I vote to retain and dismiss judges accordingly.

I’d like to pay a reporter to ask Trump how it feels to wipe his ass with the Constitution. I’d think it would be coarse and unpleasant, but he keeps doing it.

Ill just stick with Charmin or whatever.

I like it here mostly. The police are shit tho.

I have been timing movie previews since August 2022. I was posting the data weekly on Twitter but I stopped using Twitter when the sale to Elon was finalized.

My Qualifications

I have a monthly pass that allows me to go up to 4 times a week. I also worked at a theater for 4 years, with part of that time being as a manager and projectionist. I have selected and put ad rolls on the film myself.

I go every Sunday morning. I started timing ads and previews before the movie started and logging them in a chart, but I am not a data analyst. I am just an annoyed theater patron.

Movie Previews and Ad Roll Lengths

Note: Most of my data is from seeing movies at AMC. I can’t guarantee every theater will be this way but theaters that use digital film distribution instead of physical film should be similar.

Timing start at the scheduled showtime and start the moment the last ad stops and the film credits start.

If you go to AMC, the Nicole Kidman ad is always the last one. I stop counting as soon as she says “AMC Theaters, we make movies better.”

• You can safely go to the theater 15 minutes late every single time.
• Ads ranged from 17 min to 31 min.
• Once, the movie started exactly on time with no ads at all, but that was two years after I started timing previews. This is an outlier.
• Newer movies have longer ads. Movies in the larger rooms have longer ads. IMAX, Dolby, Laser, Prime, and 3D/movies 4D have longer ads. For these movies, ads tend to run approximately 24-27 min.
• The longer the movie has been out the shorter the ad roll length.
• The studio/distributor behind the movie also matters. Indies and smaller budgets have less ads, but big studios like Disney and Sony have more. Studios like Searchlight and Focus can be deceptive as they are owned by bigger companies but they still aren’t as bad as said larger conglomerates.

TLDR: I tracked movie ad times for years and recommend showing up 15 minutes late.