*sigh*
Must everything become a Trump reference?
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I think that’s just what dogs looked like before fancy breeds came in. The feral dogs in Mumbai look like that too.
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I’m not going to look at the images.
But I vaguely remember research suggesting that the earliest members of subclass phobotheria fully domesticated dogs resemble the Yaller or the Carolina as a landrace. And of course fully domesticated dogs’re the sister-group to the Dingo, differing in the dentition.
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You might be interested in this: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/fear-of-dogs-pov-1.4988431
There are images, so you might want to block those if you can before reading the story.
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I used to love getting those when I was a little kid. Never did order the X-Ray Specs though. 
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I wasn’t able to block the images. I was ready for fear, so that’s good. But of course they included a “cute” picture of a “cute” short-faced dog. How about some eye-bleach? Besides their “cute” ugliness, they often suffer severe health problems affecting the jaws and their ability to breathe due to their “cute” short faces.
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Although they did caption it to say that for people with cynophobia, even “cute” animals are fear-inducing.
I saw a meme a few weeks back, with a wolf gazing at a human settlement, contemplating the worst that could happen if the wolf accepts warmth and food and companionship from the humans… followed by a “10,000 years later” caption of a miniature, squashed-face breed wearing a birthday hat.
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a new place to get lost in?
http://smithsonianchips.si.edu
Introduction
The National Museum of American History’s Chip Collection consists of individual donations of objects, images and documentation that traces the history of integrated circuits. The Chip Collection is a continuing collection work-in-progress concerning a small part of the permanent collection of the Division of Information Technology & Society’s Electricity Collections.
I’m not sure how it compares to the computer history museum.
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Yeah, that’s the one.
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As in “pug ugly”? How did they go from being proverbially “ugly” when the medical issues weren’t well-known to “cute” when they are well-known?
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That’s because the term refers to “pugilist”, not any dogs.
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So the insect apocalypse is when there are no longer enough insects to pollinate the flowering plants.
Do this mean we’re already living in a zombie apocalypse? 'cause there aren’t many zombies around here.
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For want of a nail . . .
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I’m not an historian, so I can’t judge the merits of the historians’ argument.
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