Located in central Kansas. Work with cheese/neighborhood IT guy/hobby programmer. Born and raised on a dairy farm (and ~1/3 of the milk gets turned into cheese). Random qualifications: Amateur Extra (ham radio), volunteer firefighter in a very quiet area for 5+ years, Rubik's cube PB 19 seconds, can pick open an American Lock 1100 series if given enough time. Contact: itsme at (my HN username).com.
I think people getting blood usually have lost a bunch of their own first. And blood isn't usually given just for fun, it's to save their lives, i.e. PFAS isn't a huge concern at that point.
Our dog is not ok with fireworks or gunshots. He either goes into the basement (normally off limits) or into the bedroom (mostly off limits) when he hears them.
However it also took him quite a few years to get over his fear of thunder.
I think he'll survive even though he'd be included in the 83%.
Just to compare it to my rural county:
Henrico county: pop 345,000, 237 sq miles, 1455 population per sq mile
Marion county: pop 11,600, 954 sq miles, 12 pop/sq mi.
So it might be a small county but it sure ain't rural!
(Before Linode was acquired) I called in and quickly got on the phone with a live human who was very familiar with the product and helpful, and sounded (accent) like US-based support.
I've encountered flibbertigibbet and Brobdingnagian. Never encountered hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia before, at least I don't remember encountering it.
Flibbertigibbet appears in some of the Little House on the Prairie (Laura and Mary) books, if I remember right.
And I've also read Gulliver's Travels which is where Brobdingnagian comes from. Brobdingnag was a land of giants. Pretty sure I've seen the word used elsewhere though.
Tangential - in the case of low profile tires, I've seen pothole damage where the rim itself was broken. That causes a "flat tire" even if the rubber tire itself survived.
Just because it isn't toxic doesn't mean it is edible...?
I would not allow my child to eat drywall, but neither do I consider drywall toxic.
i.e. if they started chewing on some drywall, I wouldn't haul them to the E.R. in a panic.
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