Is This Anything? 26

Here's a mini life-tip: when someone does something that bothers you, and then they say "sorry" / "I hope that's ok" / whatever, TELL THEM IT BOTHERS YOU BUT IT IS OK.

e.g. if they're late and that bothers you, when they say "sorry I'm late," you gotta say "thanks, I appreciate the apology" rather than "no problem".

Telling people "no problem" is training them that it's not a problem, and honestly there are many things in this world that bother some people a lot and genuinely don't-bother others at all, so in many contexts it's reasonable for people to interpret you saying "that's fine" as meaning that you are one of the people for whom it is fine, and then do the thing again in future.

It is difficult to successfully convey "yes I dislike the thing you just did, but it's not the biggest thing in the world, it's ultimately fine just not ideal" – I don't have a good phrasing for this, which is probably why people say "no problem." But you gotta convey that you were bothered but forgive them, rather than there wasn't a problem in the first place, if you want things to change.

Why don't dogs catch colds more?

They're constantly sticking their faces into other dogs' faces, surely their germ-transfer level should be similar to toddlers'?

Or do dogs catch tons of colds, and I'm just not aware of it?

Can the people who make labels and the people who make rules about labelling please come together to label psychoactive products better?

We can argue about whether the legalization of marijuana has been good or bad or mixed overall, but it should NOT be possible to accidentally drink a THC soda while thinking it's just a regular soda, this is bananas.

It should also not require 10 minutes of careful label-reading at a store to figure out whether a beer is 1) non-alcoholic, 2) non-alcoholic but yes-THC, 3) yes-alcoholic, no-THC, actually just a regular beer, but weirdly placed in the non-alcoholic section with a name that contains Zero.

Also, THIS RULE INCLUDES ASHWAGANDA AND WORMWOOD and whatever other legal substances they're putting in psychotropic drinks now. I don't even know which one of these things #$%s me up so much, because the drinks all contain 17 different psychoactives and I don't have the patience to test them individually, but it's a meaningful amount of #$%ed up, and (again) this really shouldn't be something people can stumble into unawares. Thank you.