Your comment made me curious about how dogs usually travel in airplanes, and some googling later: me thinks not being in a box in economy already is the equivalent to first class…

I found some hilarious guidelines, saying that pets can travel in a box that fits under the seat in front of yours. That’s like a 40cm/1 foot space. I’d not even want the tiniest of dogs to travel like that.

Other ways are more like checked baggage, also in a box of course, and unless you specifically train a dog to do that, it seems like a horrible thing to do to your regular pet.

I am not surprised the dogs from OP get special treatment. They are trained to do one thing specifically, and anything that could mess them up psychologically (like being trapped in a box away from their handlers for hours in an airplane) has to be avoided, so they can do what they’ve been trained for.

Rule 4: “Explain for laypeople (but not actual 5 year olds)”

I think the explanation absolutely works.

It’s all a big conspiracy the band started to rake in money. And it goes back to ancient times! They bribed philosophers to theorize that those were the “elements”. The entertainment industry truly is fucked up

Ah yes, the two most substantial philosophies of the 21st century

But who started it? Certainly not us… there should be a song about this topic.

Neolithic cave painting;

“… anyways, as the great philosopher Ugh Bgoo Gklup once said: fire hot, not touch good, meat good, fire touch meat, meat gooder! Fire good? Fire not good? Fire exist.”

Edit: and yes, I was thinking about the SpongeBob (SpongeGar) episode

Don’t be fooled, it’s what big fire wants you to think. Fire is as real as birds. Wake up sheeple!

I hope this will stay in our collective memory for a long time, but I have zero confidence that it will last long enough.

Japan has old stone markers telling people to not build below this point, because that’s where the “last big tsunami” hit.

Japan is incredibly save, compared to how many different natural disasters they are prone to. But when nature starts acting up, we are still not much better than a butterfly in a storm.

Adolf Hitler paradoxically lead Europe into an age of unprecedented unity (the European Union), decline of open imperialism (GB, France, Japan, and many more gave up their imperialistic ambitions), and decades of insane technological and economical advances.

Hitler is not - and of course should not - be known for “doing” all that, because it was not what he had in mind.

In the same vein, Putin will not become “the savior”, even if his actions ultimately help the global society. He did not plan on helping, and he is not going to be credited for it.