Awwwww, that's so sweet!

I read a book about her once, crazy

Logical. Dogs are nice.

More evidence to support Dog worship.

It’s like a puppy library

He was so lovely.

Hehehe...

Okay, I'm signing up!

Meanwhile, in the good ol' US of A.....

In British Columbia, Canada you must have a minimum of 2 years education (law, sociology, stats, criminology, etc...) plus after you are hired you must have 9 months more of precise training.

We need this so bad in the US...

Aka funding the police

A high percentage of US cops were on their high school football team. That somehow counts.

Some years ago four Swedish police officers on vacation in New York shocked the American police by de-escalating a fight on a subway train UNARMED and without harming anyone. https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/world/4-swedish-cops-on-vacation-break-up-nyc-subway-fight-1.2343606

Same here in Finland. It's not an easy school to get in to. And it's a higher education like in Norway.

I think most countries do police training. University doesn't automatically make a course more rigorous than a police academy or any other place of higher education.

Takes like nothing in USA. But I'm curious if wages equal schooling

Four year studies in Finland and also hard tests if you even get to study.

Please note the complete lack of target practice. I'm not keen on people who like shooting guns a bit too much.

I doubt if Norwegians are as drug dependent and violent as good ol USA citizens.

To be fair, officers in the US never stop taking classes...there's always a new course of training assigned. They aren't always logical...but they must take the course, nonetheless less. For instance, I live in a the Blue Ridge Mountains, and when my dad was an active duty officer, it was required they drive 4 hours away to the state capital, to take a course on proper driving technique in conditions requiring four wheel drive. The instructor learned a few new things during that course...

I learned that from Jo Nesbo. https://jonesbo.com/

That sounds like a good idea. I’ve always felt that cops need more training and the bar raised. Like a four yr degree. It might weed out more of the incompetent morons I see with guns and badges every day.

Smart.

Wat?

Do they do it on a park bench wearing dark glasses and trenchcoats? Please tell me they do it on a park bench wearing dark glasses and trenchcoats!

He was probably right!

Sounds about right

Man. Joe has dysentery real bad, someone should take care of him. Wtf wants to nurse a guy through dysentery? No one that’s the problem! Wait, don’t we have a baboon around here?

I know this one from an episode the food that built America

Especially that one with the beak.

Damn

Good girl.

I must be a genius then!

This is why I reread books. To visit the people.

This is a pretty cool factoid (micro was one of my favorite subjects in college) but it's not exclusive to influenza; viruses in general have a coating called a capsid that protects the material inside while allowing it to attach to the host cell and replicate/infect.

Think there's an HOA?

I want it, how much is it, I’ll report back with my findings

I'm such a big day dreamer

That's actually not surprising to me. The main way radiation kills living organisms is via DNA Damage. The most susceptible is DNA being decoded, as unused DNA is curled up and will less likely be damaged by radiation. The faster stuff grows the more susceptible to radiation damage (that's why radiating tumors works). As a bonsai is by design being kept withing very strict growing boundaries it has a much higher chance of surviving radiation than a normal growing counterpart. Plus fact: there is a bacterial species called Deinococcus radiodurans which as you may have guessed ist extremely durable towards radiation, they do this via very good DNA repair mechanism but also low metabolism and division rates.

Y’all this is really random but it’s 11:11 and it’s also almost Christmas. So I guess make a wish

I may have tricked you but I tricked you into thinking that you tricked me(repeat seven times with progressively louder tones)

That’s pretty cool actually

Millennials are killing the drugsindustry!

Today is a good day to test this theory