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I was talking to a friend who's the owner of two pugs. Her 1st pug is in decent shape, but she acquired the 2nd years later, and even at the time they knew it was a charity case. All pugs are unhealthy to start, but the deformation of a pug's face can lead to chronic health conditions, and this pug was born with a deformed jaw, causing physical problems and the teeth on that side of its face to rot.

A few weeks ago she brought the pug in to have its teeth cleaned, and while cleaning the dog dentist accidentally broke its jaw! (The jaw is very weak.) They had to rush it off to the vet and BAM!, $5,000 bill out of nowhere. We live in a high cost of living area, so that's $10,000 pre-tax.

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From Trump's truth social an hour ago [1]:

The “Pardons” that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen. In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them! The necessary Pardoning Documents were not explained to, or approved by, Biden. He knew nothing about them, and the people that did may have committed a crime. Therefore, those on the Unselect Committee, who destroyed and deleted ALL evidence obtained during their two year Witch Hunt of me, and many other innocent people, s

Mildly interesting, Ed Yong, a top Science™ Expert™, has announced that he is leaving The Atlantic [1]. In his departure post (which I'll avoid linking to so as not to send any additional traffic his way), he's proud that he occasionally wrote about topics other than Covid, but that realistically, he was a single topic writer:

I’m really proud of the work I did at The Atlantic. Hagfish. Lichens. Endlings. Source diversity. 60+ pandemic pieces. Long COVID especially.

Indeed, you you take a look at this article history [2], you can see a pattern over time as he starts writing about Covid and how dangerous it is and how it will kill us all, transitions seamlessly over to writing about Delta