SpacetimeMachine

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One of the last true 3rd places I've found is dog parks. If you go consistently at the same time each day you'll be seeing a lot of the same people, who generally are down to chat. You can talk about their dog to break the ice, and I doubt people would even mind if you don't have a dog.

on Good point · c/dogs · 2 pts · 2d

Recent studies have shown that doesn't seem to affect separation anxiety as much as previously thought. More study is needed, but if your dog doesn't have separation anxiety, it doesn't seem like having high excited energy when you return will increase their chance of developing it.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1558787820300460?via=ihub

From the abstract

"From both experiment 1 and 2, our results indicate that high excitement and playful levels of owners during departures and arrivals is not associated with the development of increased separation-related behavior in newly adopted dogs. It is important to make the distinction, however, that low arousal departures and arrivals are a well-documented treatment for separation-related behavior, and our results only reflect that these arousal levels do not appear to play a causal role in the development of an increased frequency of them."

on Good point · c/dogs · -2 pts · 2d

What? Separation anxiety is usually worsened by ignoring them. Now every dog is different for sure, but generally the best way to treat separation anxiety is to be excited to see the dog when you return, and never scold it or yell at it for things it may have done while you were gone.

I mean, I do it, but I also spend at least 2-4 hours outside a day without any input from my phone. It's more like, "I'm watching an interesting video, but I also need to take a shower, no reason to not do both."

on Anon tests their IQ · c/greentext · 3 pts · 15d

It's a great metric for how well you take an IQ test. No one should really be using it as a measurement for general intelligence.

It's likely they just weren't grown in. I work in produce and the last few times we had issues with E.coli in Romain lettuce (not us specifically, I mean the US in general) we were told that having washed the lettuce or not did not matter. As the ground itself was contaminated before the plants started growing. To note, you also likely washed your produce far better than the average person. You would be amazed at the amount of customers that don't know that they should wash stuff thoroughly.