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Tractive just sent me an email notifying me that my dog isn't sleeping well and is active a lot at night. They suggested that I discuss this with my vet.

This cracked me up. My dog is a working Great Pyrenees. His job is patrolling our farm and barking all night. He mostly sleeps during the day.

The vet would diagnose him with a bad case of Livestock-guardianitis.

Anyone who has had a Pyr will understand why we have a GPS tracker on him, too haha

... but I seem to be really picky these days, what should I do?

I've tried to use music similarity tools to find other artists, but they tend to get distracted by irrelevant details and miss the salient features that I love. I don't care if the singer is a woman, for example, but I do prefer mostly clean vocals. I like music that hits hard, but I dislike wall-of-noise metal (metal should breathe, so there's contrast when the wave comes crashing down).

The most important feature that I look for is innovation and unexpected shifts in meter/key/tone/vibe, and I don't like repetition. Jazziness and funkiness are great, as is the use of unusual instruments. But I want weirdness that is built ar

I (37m) have been struggling with performance problems with my girlfriend (3 years). I find her attractive, and we both want to have sex. Intimacy isn't a problem: we snuggle a lot and we're loving/supportive, with little conflict.

We're intimate 1 or 2 times a week, usually, but recently that has amounted to me failing to get any erection at all, making her orgasm in the hope that spurs a response, and then giving up and snuggling.

This has been a waxing and waning problem for most of our relationship. I think its roots are in her anxiety and ADHD, which used to often lead her to say or do distracting things that brought the foreplay to a screeching halt, took me completely out of the mom

Anyone who likes college sports or who thinks beating a top-ten team is cool should check out UVA's soccer teams. Klockner stadium is hosting some of the best college soccer in the country, and the games are free this year (no tickets required).

The women's team is currently ranked #1 in the country, with a 9-0-1 record. They have beaten the #9 and #2 teams in the country this season.

The men's team is ranked #16 in the country, with a 5-1-2 record. In back-to-back-to-back games, they tied #8 Va Tech, beat #6 Louisville, and then stomped #1 Wake Forest 6-3.

The last time the men's team was playing this well, they lost in penalty kicks in the 2019 NCAA championship game. They have won the

I just ordered a bunch of new Ball pint jars, which I've done numerous times before. I threw five of them into my pot that I always use as a canner, and they wouldn't quite fit without me forcing them in, which would make them a pain to extract. I've processed dozens of batches in this pot, so I was confused.

I tried changing their orientations, but they remained too snug. Suspicious, I swapped out two of the new jars with two older pint jars that I got about 6 months ago, and they all slid easily into place. No problems.

It seems like Ball either very slightly increased the outside diameter of their pint jars, or I got a weird batch. Perhaps the raised decoration was changed a little bit?

Is it normal to play 500 turns across three games without an AI ever declaring war on another AI? They declared war on me twice in that span (still not much), but they coexist with each other without conflict. In one game, almost every AI had befriended almost every other AI at the same time. I'm not running any mods.

It makes politics/diplomacy boring and linear.

Our whole house just vibrated for about 15 seconds, dishes rattling and everything.

As a general guideline, I try to eat things with more protein than sugar, so my wife grabbed a box of chocolate Eat Your Mouth Off cereal when it was heavily on sale. I'm not a picky eater and will happily eat bland cereals or strongly flavored snacks.

But I'm shocked by how disgusting Eat Your Mouth Off is. I find it almost inedible, and I'm suffering through it so it doesn't go to waste. My wife simply refuses to eat any more of it. The Stevia flavor is about 10 times stronger than it should be, with a horrible lingering chemical aftertaste. The texture is bizarre: crispy on the outside, foamy in the middle, but it all crumbles/powders a little bit, too.

I'm curious if anyone is actually

TL;DR: My metamour made a risky decision and broke an agreement. How do we move forward now that I actively distrust and dislike my metamour?

My wife (34f) and I (35m) have been poly for years. I have another serious partner, and she has a partner that she feels very strongly about despite not actually spending much time together (he's a bit far away and very busy). Things have been going well for the past six months of the current arrangement, generally speaking.

I've always felt a little suspicious of her partner, though, because he talks the talk, but his actions have not demonstrated that she gets much priority or consideration. Despite his insistence that she's important to him, she's

I've cleaned up the barrel of the chuck, and it looks like perhaps a hex socket screw. I've tried every size allen wrench I have, and I can't tell why nothing grabs it. I've also tried screw drivers (phillips, slotted, torx) of various small sizes, just in case. All tools spin freely, and the space is too narrow and dark to see what the problem is once the tool's in there.

The drill is at least 10 years old, maybe more like 15. The only DR340 manual I can find online says to use "a screwdriver" but the diagram seems to show a hex socket screw....

I know this is niche, but does anyone have insight into how to get this chuck off this drill? Thanks!