Tears have always held a duality in rock and roll, embodying both heartbreak and triumph, sorrow and reflection. The word itself has served as a powerful symbol across decades of music, inspiring songs that traverse genres, emotions, and interpretations. In this article, we explore 10 Best Songs With the Word ‘Tears’ in the Title, a collection that highlights how artists have infused their personal artistry into this universal motif. From original masterpieces to transformative covers, these songs showcase how “tears” have become more than just a word—they are a vessel for storytelling and emotion. Notably, many of the songs on The post 10 Best Songs With The Word ‘Tears’ In The Title appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

The post CatVideoFest: The Purr-fect Combination of Fun and Feline Philanthropy by Nicole Cosgrove appeared first on Catster. Copying over entire articles infringes on copyright laws. You may not be aware of it, but all of these articles were assigned, contracted and paid for, so they aren't considered public domain. However, we appreciate that you like the article and would love it if you continued sharing just the first paragraph of an article, then linking out to the rest of the piece on Catster.com. Do you love watching cat videos online? If you’re reading this, chances are it’s one of your favorite pastimes, and you’re not alone. Over the past decade, cats have become the unofficial mascot of the internet, often leaving people wondering if the internet is good for much other than staring at cute and hilarious kitties. CatVideoFest pairs an irresistible blend of adorable entertainment with a meaningful mission, to raise money for cats in need. It’s a globally celebrated 75-minute reel of the internet’s latest and greatest cat videos, from laugh-out-loud clips to heartwarming animations. The cause brings together the universal love for our feline friends in a joyous, communal experience—exclusively in theaters. A Celebration of Cats with a Cause Since its inception in 2019 by director Will Braden, CatVideoFest has raised over $150,000 for local animal shelters, charities, and welfare organizations. This incredible impact extends far beyond the screen, with its shows inspiring adoptions, fostering, and volunteer sign-ups worldwide. By partnering with local groups, the event ensures that proceeds directly benefit the communities hosting it, addressing the unique needs of cats in each area. Braden shared that the 2024 season of CatVideoFest was the biggest year ever for the event and a step forward in its “quest to take over the world one cat video at a time.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by ᑕᗩT ᐯiᗪE0 ᖴEᏕT (@catvideofest) The Man Behind the Purr-tain To bring this event to life, Braden meticulously sifts through more than 15,000 submissions, handpicking the best videos, animations, and internet memes from around the globe. The result is a family-friendly compilation that offers something for everyone, from the most dedicated cat enthusiasts to casual animal lovers. Each year, they aim to make it bigger and better and reach more audiences, and the success of the 2024 event should propel them into a successful 2025 season. Where Cats Rule the Screen CatVideoFest can be shown almost anywhere, from theaters and museums to outdoor festivals. The reel’s wide demographic appeal has made it a favorite for community gatherings, bringing people together to laugh, share, and support a cause that truly matters. View this post on Instagram A post shared by ᑕᗩT ᐯiᗪE0 ᖴEᏕT (@catvideofest) Don’t Miss Out! Most of CatVideoFest’s 2024 showings have concluded with the year coming to an end, but there are still a handful more in the USA (see the schedule here) and some in the UK in December. This is more than just a film screening of cute cats—it’s a movement. Whether you’re a die-hard cat lover or simply enjoy a good laugh, attending CatVideoFest is a win-win: you’ll walk away smiling, and your ticket purchase will contribute to a brighter future for cats in need. Get your tickets now and be part of this extraordinary feline celebration. Because when cats take center stage, everyone wins! Follow them on Facebook and Instagram for more information and check out their website today. The post CatVideoFest: The Purr-fect Combination of Fun and Feline Philanthropy by Nicole Cosgrove appeared first on Catster. Copying over entire articles infringes on copyright laws. You may not be aware of it, but all of these articles were assigned, contracted and paid for, so they aren't considered public domain. However, we appreciate that you like the article and would love it if you continued sharing just the first paragraph of an article, then linking out to the rest of the piece on Catster.com.

Column Science Fiction Film Club Save the Green Planet! — A Brutal, Slapstick Descent Into Humanity’s Madness A brilliant, quirky, violent gem of an alien invasion film—it’s a cult classic for a reason. By Kali Wallace | Published on December 11, 2024 Comment 0 Share New Share Save the Green Planet! (Korean: 지구를 지켜라!) (2003) Directed by Jang Joon-hwan. Written by Jang Joon-hwan. Starring Shin Ha-kyun and Baek Yoon-sik. While reading about this movie, I should have kept count of all different ways film critics found to say, “What the fuck did I just watch?” I can’t read Korean, so I’m relying on English-language reactions from mostly Western critics. I don’t know in detail what the reaction to the film was in Korea, but I think it was pretty positive. Writer and director Jang Joon-hwan and the lead actors won a handful of awards, so clearly the film made an impression upon its release, before settling into its current cult film status. I also haven’t been able to find much info about the production of the film, as in English-language spaces it generally shows up in lists or reviews of off-beat, low-profile sci fi films. That might change in the next year, as there is a much higher-profile English-language remake in the works, helmed by director Yorgos Lanthimos. We’ll see how that goes. I hope it will at least get more eyes on this quirky, violent little gem of a film. And, seriously, it’s a good question: What the fuck did I just watch? And why is it so great? According to Jang Joon-hwan, he got the idea for Save the Green Planet! when he thought of what Stephen King’s Misery would look like told from Annie Wilkes’ point of view, then he combined that with an idea drawn from a joke conspiracy website claiming that Leonardo DiCaprio is an alien from outer space. It’s a delightfully random idea origin story, and there is no real reason for it result in a good movie. But it does. To paraphrase an AV Club film critic, a premise like this almost always ends up in a disappointing “not as cool as it sounds” area, but Save the Green Planet! does the opposite. This film is so much better than it has any right to be. It wholeheartedly commits to the bit, borrowing genre and media influences from every conceivable inspiration to create a patchwork of bleak, uncomfortable, off-the-wall weirdness. The style has a very early-2000s feel to it, with cinematic inspiration drawn from that kind of wry, bloody freneticism that we associate with the likes of Quentin Tarantino or Robert Rodriguez, but Jang and cinematographer Hong Kyung-pyo make it work without feeling overly derivative or dated. Hong has an extremely impressive list of cinematography credits, including Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer (2013) and Parasite (2019). And of course, it helps that the acting is fantastic, especially from leads Shin Ha-kyun and Baek Yoon-sik, and the scene-setting is both outrageous and creepy. Because, let’s be honest, if you have a chance to set a film in a conspiracy theorist’s torture dungeon hidden away in bunker alongside a rural beekeeper’s handmade mannequin workshop, why wouldn’t you? The point is, the premise of Save the Green Planet! is completely nuts. The movie itself is completely nuts. It was Jang’s first feature film; it could so easily have been an embarrassing disaster. But there is a whole lot of skill, boldness, and cleverness in this movie, and the result is something unique, unsettling, and wholly entertaining.  A note about spoilers: This movie came out in 2003. You all know by now that these Sci Fi Film Club articles will spoil anything and everything about the movies. But I’m dropping a spoiler warning here anyway, because this is a cult film that isn’t widely available or well-known, even in sci fi film corners. And I am going to spoil the entire story, including the ending, which will almost certainly change the way you view the movie if you don’t know anything about it. If you plan to watch it unspoiled, this is your chance to back out. Go into it blind. Report back. Got it? Let’s go. Save the Green Planet! tells the story of Lee Byeong-gu (Shin Ha-kyun, absolutely brilliant in the role), a mentally ill, methamphetamine-addicted, part-time beekeeper who believes that malevolent aliens from outer space have infiltrated Earth, posing as people in positions of power. With the help of his girlfriend, Su-ni (Hwang Jeong-min), Byeong-gu abducts Kang Man-shik (Baek Yoon-sik, also fantastic), the CEO of a large chemicals and pharmaceuticals company, whom he believes to be one of these alien imposters. His goal is to disrupt the aliens’ takeover plan and save the Earth. That’s all explained in the first few minutes of the movie. There is no build-up, no easing in, no establishment of a more familiar status quo. The film opens, and we are dropped headfirst into the world of Byeong-gu’s conspiracy-riddled paranoia. We have no idea how he got there. (Aside: In 2002, Shin Ha-kyun played another desperate kidnapper in Park Chan-wook’s Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance. But in my totally biased opinion, his best acting as a traumatized oddball character is in the 2021 show Beyond Evil, a brilliant Korean crime drama that is one of my favorite TV shows of all time. Perhaps I should make a note to myself to find an excuse to write about it in its own essay.) A lot of articles and websites classify Save the Green Planet! as a comedy. They’re not wrong, really, as it is often very funny. But more truthfully, this is the kind of movie destined to frustrate people who desire precise genre classifications. It is, by design, all over the place, swinging wildly from absurd to horrifying to tense to sincere in a matter of seconds. It’s a riotous blend of genres and genre conventions: brutal crime drama, revenge thriller, absurdist surrealism, torture porn horror, slapstick comedy, and, yes, a bit of political sci fi. The only song of the soundtrack is numerous different versions of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” A man dies by getting attacked by bees and stumbling off a cliff. The main character’s girlfriend is a circus tightrope walker who practices in a torture dungeon. It’s relentlessly violent and over-the-top. It is also, in the manner of the best black comedies, soul-crushingly sad. That’s the thing I keep coming back to, as I spin around trying to figure out how to talk about this movie. It’s madcap and uncomfortable and so incredibly sad. Kang Man-shik is not the first suspected alien Byeong-gu has abducted. He is, from our initial perspective, simply an unlikable corporate boss, a typical rich douchebag. If you’ve seen literally any Korean drama before, you’ve seen this character: the well-connected, corrupt bully CEO. The same is true of the cops that are investigating his abduction. Every one of them is taken right out of the Korean cop show trope list: the promotion-hungry higher-up (Gi Ju-bong), the eccentric outcast detective (Lee Jae-yong), the newcomer eager to prove himself (Lee Ju-hyeon). (I have never seen a Korean crime drama without some versions of those cop characters, and I have watched a lotof Korean crime dramas.) (Another aside: I sat down to write the first draft of this article while some alarming shit was happening in South Korea. The current political situation on South Korea is beyond the scope of this article, but it is a stark reminder of why themes about corruption and the misuse of power are woven so deeply into Korean media, and how the character tropes and narrative patterns drawn from those themes shape the stories.) In contrast to Kang Man-shik, Byeong-gu is a peculiar mix of character types: the weirdo who would often be treated as a joke, and a genuinely terrifying murderer. He’s a ranting, drug-addicted conspiracy theorist who wears a helmet to block psychic powers—but he’s also a guy who has constructed, beneath his ramshackle house in the countryside, a fully equipped dungeon where he interrogates, tortures, and eventually kills men he suspects of being alien infiltrators. He’s a sad-sack loser, and he’s a serial killer. And the movie spends its entire running time not just asking but expecting the audience to sympathize with him. Not to admire, as we do with intelligent fictional killers like Hannibal Lecter or Dexter Morgan or Jigsaw. Not to fear, as we do with brutal, force-of-nature fictional killers like the Leatherface or Michael Myers. Gyeong-bu is cunning, but he’s also pathetic. He treats his girlfriend badly. He lives in depressing poverty. He still gets pushed around by his old school bully. He imagines himself a hero in order to deny the reality of being a downtrodden outcast. He feeds his victims’ bodies to his dog and doesn’t bother to clean up the bones. He is not somebody we want to sympathize with, but the emotional demands of the movie are unwavering—and all the more fascinating because of it. We never learn what draws him into believing aliens are trying to take over Earth, so what we see is a man who is violently delusional, not one who is secretly tuned into conspiratorial truths about the world. I think it’s more common, in stories about unstable revenge killers, to want to explore the hows and whys of how the character got to that point—to show the steps of radicalization, perhaps. When we’re dropped into the killer’s world without context, the story is often cultivating sympathy for the victim—to highlight the disorientation and fear of the person subjected to this torment. But this film goes from zero to torture and telepathic hair right from the start, and still invites sympathy for Byeong-gu. It’s a fascinating storytelling choice that relies on this solid core: Byeong-gu is an irrevocably broken man. We don’t learn the reasons until much later in the film, and even then only in bits and pieces. The childhood disrupted by his father’s horrifying workplace injury and subsequent abusive behavior, his mother killing his father in self-defense, violent bullying both at school and in juvenile detention, a girlfriend who was killed during a protest, and his mother’s limbo in a years-long coma due to the actions of Kang Man-shik’s pharmaceutical company—all of this is revealed in snippets, much of it very late in the movie, some of it with blink-and-you’ll-miss-it quickness. Byeong-gu is a broken man, a man who has spent his entire life in pain, and it was the relentless tragedies of the ordinary human world that broke him. Corporate negligence. Domestic abuse. School bullying. Police violence. Poverty and mental illness and a lack of support for dealing with them. His mother is on life support. He steals drugs to self-medicate. He seizes on the idea that aliens are responsible for every terrible thing in his life because it’s simpler than trying to understand how so many senseless, unfair, and painful things can happen. It turns out (I warned you about spoilers!) two awful things can be true. Byeong-gu is violently delusional and none of his victims have been aliens—until now, because Kang Man-shik really is an alien who threatens all of Earth and, in the end, destroys it. When a movie has a twist ending like this, I have an impulse to analyze it in terms of how much sense it makes, even though I’m not sure my analytical instinct fits with what this movie is doing. There were three possible endings here: the aliens were only ever part of Byeong-gu’s delusions, the aliens were real all along, or the film ends without confirming or denying their existence. A more straightforward thriller film would probably go for the first option, while a more straightforward horror film might go for the ambiguous ending. Save the Green Planet! chooses the messiest option, which is to make both the delusional behavior and the aliens real. I don’t know that we’re supposed to believe everything Kang Man-shik says in his “confession.” All the stuff about accidentally killing the dinosaurs, the stories of Atlantis and Noah’s Ark, the over-the-top 2001: A Space Odyssey allusion, the sci fi-typical alien moralizing about humanity’s innate violence, the scientific experiments to save us from ourselves…it’s a deliberately convoluted story pieced together from outlandish conspiracy trappings. It there is any truth in it, it seems to be truth heavily filtered through the aliens’ self-aggrandizing propaganda. We do get one verifiable nugget out of all that: the aliens are conducting some kind of experiment—one that kills the experimental subjects with every failure, and every case is a failure. So, yeah, if what you want is a scientifically rigorous and convincing alien-influenced history of humankind, you won’t find that in this movie. Because, no, it does not make sense, nor does it feel like it’s supposed to. But if what you want is a movie that says something interesting about violence and power—well, that’s different. When Kang Man-shik decides to abandon those experiments, he destroys Earth completely. The movie does not frame this choice as the rational action of an advanced species. He is lashing out—a response to trauma and pain, yes, but also a response to wounded pride that his eugenics-like experiment is not successful. Kang Man-shik positions himself and his alien species as god-like saviors of humanity, but his decisions are no different from those of a typical corrupt human CEO. He did terrible things to humans and claimed it was for their own good. He says he wants to save humanity from its own wicked nature, but only if humanity is properly grateful for the uncertain opportunity to be saved. He insists that only humans are uniquely violent, and he casually murders billions—including the cop who saved his life. Save the Green Planet! is a tragedy, because its horrors sit in that uneasy balance between preventable and inevitable. If only people were better, if only people were less cruel, if wouldn’t have ended up this way. But it did end up this way, and the entire planet is destroyed. There is an awful futility underlying the whole story. Even if Byeong-gu had been killing aliens all along, it wouldn’t have made a difference. He was killing sadistic teachers and brutal prison guards, and it didn’t make a difference. It was never going to make a difference, because picking off a small number of bullies does not solve the problem of a complex system that rewards corruption and violence. Kang Man-shik’s experiments were never going to achieve what he wanted, because you can’t force people to be better by subjecting them to violence and expecting them to appreciate it. Sci fi about humans encountering aliens offers a way of looking at ourselves, a way of sticking humanity under a microscope to figure out what makes us tick. Sometimes the focus is on humanity’s noble or admirable traits (such as courage, open-mindedness, curiosity); sometimes it’s on the things we want to believe make us unique (such as creativity, emotion, love); sometimes it’s all about those aspects of ourselves that we hate or want to change (such as greed and violence). Save the Green Planet! is basically taking all of the ugliest things about humanity—everything that makes up our tremendous capacity to cause each other pain while claiming some imagined moral high ground, on every level from the most personally intimate to the most broadly systemic—and compelling us look at them without blinking. Not to scold or to moralize, but to ask, “Isn’t this ridiculous? Isn’t this insane? What are we doing?” And there is no answer. The scenes of Byeong-gu’s life that play during the end credits show love, kindness, tenderness—they show all of the good that existed along with the bad, all of the warmth that accompanied the pain, but even that isn’t an answer. It’s just another look through the microscope. Another facet of our messy species. The same open question: What the fuck are we even doing? What do you think of Save the Green Planet? And its, uh, everything? There is a lot going on here. Spoiler: The dog dies. Because all of Earth dies. Next week: Let’s finish up the year with 1953’s The War of the Worlds. Watch it on Amazon, Fubo, MGM, Apple, Microsoft. Also, if you feel like it, you can listen to Orson Welles’ 1938 radio broadcast of H.G. Wells’ story.[end-mark] The post <i>Save the Green Planet!</i> — A Brutal, Slapstick Descent Into Humanity’s Madness appeared first on Reactor.

WASHINGTON—”Washington is still operating as if it’s March 2020. The headquarters of most agencies remain largely abandoned,” Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, wrote in a report released Thursday that paints a dystopian picture of the federal workforce inside the vaunted beltway. It’s been nearly five years since COVID-19 knocked on America’s door. Most schools and businesses opened up years ago. But federal government operations in Washington, D.C., are behind the flyover states. Because of COVID-19, President Joe Biden campaigned from home in 2020. But after American classrooms and businesses reopened, Biden has been a frequently absent executive since he took the oath of office. Ernst figured Biden “was out of office 532 days over the last three-and-a-half years, about 40% of the time he was expected to be in the Oval Office.” The no-show mentality has filtered from the top down. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin didn’t bother to inform Biden when he was hospitalized for days. Defense Deputy Secretary Kathleen Hicks ran the Pentagon while on a beach vacation in Puerto Rico. Moscow and Beijing must be gleeful. In the past, when partial shutdowns shuttered agencies and curtailed services because Congress was dithering, instead of passing funding measures, the press went into overdrive with warnings of dire consequences. But when agencies that are supposed to serve the public—inspecting baby formula, screening calls from veterans who desperately need mental-health services, processing student aid applications—don’t have enough working staff, Americans don’t get time off from paying taxes. Ernst is a founder and member of the Department of Government Efficiency caucus that is preparing to go after the worst abuses in the federal workforce. According to Ernst, “the nation’s capital is a ghost town, with government buildings averaging an occupancy rate of 12%.” The Biden administration has been in no hurry to get federal workers back to the office—to the displeasure of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, as well as area eateries and businesses. An updated contract between the Social Security Administration and American Federation of Government Employees extends work-from-home policies—reporting to the office between two and five days a week—into 2029. TrumpLand has a better take. In a piece that ran in The Wall Street Journal last month, DOGE czars Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy wrote of commonsense reforms that should send a thrill up voters’ legs—most notably, a requirement that federal workers in the D.C. area come to the office five days a week. The DOGE duo expects that the policy “would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome.” Federal employees who show up for work and do their jobs diligently must be enraged at these abuses. According to Ernst, 3% of the federal workforce teleworked daily before COVID-19; now 6% report in-person on a full-time basis, while nearly a third work entirely remotely. The arrogance of those who abused COVID-19 measures can be breathtaking. A Veterans Administration manager dialed into a meeting from his bathtub. He took a selfie of himself in the tub with the headline, “my office for the next hour.” “Instead of pulling the plug on these ‘bubble bath bureaucrats,’ taxpayer dollars keep going down the drain paying their salaries and maintaining their empty offices,” Ernst wrote. I’ve been in this business for so long that I remember when partial government shutdowns generated horror stories about the disasters about to fall upon a vulnerable public. Now we learn that nearly a third of the government workforce is entirely remote. Sort of like Joe Biden. COPYRIGHT 2024 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal The post Joe Biden’s Work-From-Home Bureaucracy appeared first on The Daily Signal.

In some households, curiosity doesn’t kill the cat, but it does the trashcan – especially when you have a dog that is naturally naughty and curious about it. These cleverly naughty pooches see the trash can as a treasure throve of delightful delicacies instead of just that – a container used to store waste until it can be disposed of. Masarik / Shutterstock.com While rummaging through the trash can is be a real problem, the good news is that there are a lot of dog proof trash cans that can survive even the most clever dogs out there and keep your house mess-free. From motion sensors, locking lids to anti-tip and touch-free trash cans, there’s a dog proof trash can out there that can keep your dog safely out of the trash. Continue reading below to find the best match for you and your home! Why Use A Dog Proof Trash Can?Dog proof trash cans play an important role in keeping your house clean, your dog safe from any dangerous content, which therefore, gives you peace of mind. Dogs may dig in the trash for a variety of reasons. But more often than not, it’s usually because they’re hungry, bored, or attracted to the smell of the trash can’s content. More often than not, the trash can contains a variety of garbage. For example, during Thanksgiving, the trash can is where we put all our food scraps after all the celebration. While these food scraps may seem harmless to you, a lot of Thanksgiving food are actually dangerous to your dog. For example, cooked turkey bones and skin, cranberry sauce, and gravy – all of which are actually delicious food to your dog. Furthermore, dogs who rummage through trash cans not only create a whole mess in the area, but there is also the chance that they can get stuck inside the trash can, which is also dangerous. Key Features To Look For In A Dog Proof Trash Can Vera Aksionava / Shutterstock.com When looking for a dog proof trash can, you have to make sure that it has features that will surely keep your pooch from getting into its content. In saying this, here are key features that makes a trash can truly dog proof: The use of durable, high-quality materials. Trash cans made of low-quality materials are very easy to knock over, especially for big dogs determined to get into the trash can. Trash cans made of low-quality materials are cheap, but they will not last long in a household with a naughty dog! Is heavy-weight or has an anti-tip design. Dogs usually tip or knock over trash cans to easily get to its content. So, when buying a dog proof trash can, make sure it’s heavy-weight or has an anti-tip design, so your dog can’t easily tip it over. Features locking lids or pedals. Is your dog particularly smart and can find his/her way into the trash can? Well, you might want to opt for a trash can that features pedals, or better yet, locking lids! Has touch-free technology. A dog proof trash can that only opens when an object passes over the sensor is a handy option for dog owners AND people who want to avoid contact when using their trash can. Our Top 6 Dog Proof Trash Cans Durable, functional, and just what you need to deter four-legged dumpster divers – this list includes our top dog proof trash cans. Continue reading to find the most suitable trash can for your household and dog! 1. Best Overall: iTouchless 13 Gallon Kitchen Trash Can The iTouchless 13 Gallon Kitchen Trash Can is our best dog proof trash can because it checks all our boxes and comes with a few other amazing features, too. Here are the key features that we absolutely love: Touch-free technology. The motion of your hands opens the motion sensor automatically so it is hygienic. Comes with a locking lid. While the touch-free technology ensures the trash can can’t be easily opened, the trash can includes a locking lid to ensure that even if a dog is able to knock it over, they still won’t be able to open it and access its contents. Large capacity. The trash can doesn’t need an inner bucket, so there is 25% more capacity in this 13 gallon trash can. A space-saver with a high-quality, sleek design. The shape of the trash can can snugly fit in corners. It also is made of a finger-print resistant stainless steel exterior. Includes an odor filters. Speaking of hygienic, the trash can comes with an AbsorbX Odor Filter, which absorbs and neutralizes the odor of the garbage inside the can. It keeps your house odorless and ensures your dog doesn’t smell all the leftover food you’ve put inside it. Reasonably priced. For the quality and feature it offers, this trash can’s price is reasonable. While we absolutely love this trash can, here are a few things you might want to consider: It requires batteries or an AC adapter for it to be fully functional. Batteries and the AC adapter are all not included and sold separately. Preview Product Price iTouchless 13 Gallon Kitchen Trash Can with Lid and Odor Filter, Motion Sensor Stainless Steel... $71.74 Buy on Amazon 2. Best Locking Lid Design: Sterilite 12.6 Gallon Locking StepOn Trash Can Credit: Amazon If you have a dedicated four-legged dumpster diver and no amount of dog proofing is working, you might want to give the Sterilite 12.6 Gallon Locking StepOn Trash Can a try – it might just change the game for you! Here’s why we love this dog proof trash can: Locking lid feature. This trash can’s locking lid feature ensures maximum security and makes this a pet and child-proof trash can. When locked, the trash can’s lid is secured to the base. So even if the trash can is tipped over, it still cannot be accessed and accidental spills will not become a problem. Includes a push-pedal. If you want a hands-free trash can that isn’t motion-sensor, then this Sterilite trash can might be what you need. You only need to step on the pedal slightly for it to open. Large capacity. This dog proof trash can is designed to fit a 13-gallon trash liner, making it a perfect kitchen trash can. A space-saving and unique design. While most trash cans are rectangular or circular, the Sterilite 12.6 Gallon Locking StepOn Trash Can has a D-shaped design that allows for a neat fit against walls, helping you save space inside the kitchen. Made from durable plastic. This dog proof trash can is made from durable plastic that is BPA and phthalate-free. Here are things to consider before buying this dog proof trash can: The locking mechanism is kind of difficult to engage with. The lock can be pretty difficult to turn to get it to stay locked. Preview Product Price Sterilite 12.6 Gallon Locking StepOn Wastebasket with Lid, Large Trash Can for The Kitchen or... $67.99 Buy on Amazon 3. Best Step Trash Can: simplehuman 13 Gallon Semi-Round Kitchen Step Trash Can Credits: Amazon You might think, if a dog is too clever, why suggest a step trash can? Well, this one might not be the usual step trash can your dog is expecting. The simplehuman 13 Gallon Semi-Round Kitchen Step Trash Can is our best step trash can for two reasons – it features a locking lid and does not break the bank! Here are key features we love about this dog proof trash can: Features a silent close-lid. If you’re worried about the sound of the trash can’s lid signaling your dog to the kitchen, then you’ll be pleased to know that this trash can’s lid closes slowly and silently upon use. Features a stay-open lid. This step trash can also stay open for as long as you like, which might be perfect if you have longer chores in the kitchen. Locking lid feature. To deter the four-legged dumpster divers, the trash can features a locking lid that shuts the trash can, even if it gets knocked over. Furthermore, the locking lid feature is easy to use and extremely reliable. Reasonably priced. If you’re looking for both functionality and affordability, then this dog proof trash can fits the bill. We believe that the only thing you should consider for this trash can is the preference for stainless steel over plastic. While this is made of durable plastic, there might be some who prefer stainless steel trash cans over plastic. Preview Product Price simplehuman 50 Liter / 13 Gallon Semi-Round Kitchen Step Trash Can with Secure Slide Lock, Black... $49.99 Buy on Amazon 4. Most Stylish: Function Home Trash Can Cabinet Credit: Amazon Function Home Trash Can Cabinet is where style meets function. If you’re looking for a stylish trash can that will still be able to do the job, then this is the trash can for you. While this trash can is an open-lid type, it doesn’t look like a trash can at all and is made of heavy-weight materials that will not easily get tipped over by a dog. Here are other reasons of why we are in love of this stylish trash can: Has a stylish wood design. The trash can’s wood design and color makes it easy on the eyes as it blends beautifully with the interior of any home. Made of eco-friendly materials. The trash can is crafted from low emission sturdy MDF board, which is good for the environment and is durable. Comes in three colors. This dog proof trash can comes in three colors: grey, white, and black. Features a stainless steel lid leash. The trash can features a stainless steel lid leash for ease of access. While we’re in love with this stylish trash can, here are things to consider before buying this trash can: You have to assemble the product before you can fully use it. Other customers have reported that the screws provided were either too small, not the right length, or did not fit the holes properly. Preview Product Price Function Home Trash Can Cabinet, 13 Gallon Kitchen Garbage Can, Wooden Recycling Trash Bin, Dog... $69.99 Buy on Amazon 5. Best For Large Capacity: simplehuman 15.3 Gallon Stainless Steel Dual Compartment Recycler If you live in a big household and require a large, dog proof trash can, then check out the simplehuman 15.3 Gallon Stainless Steel Dual Compartment Recycler. Thanks to its large capacity, this trash can solves two problem: recycling your trash and keeping it away from your dog. Aside from these, here are other key features that you might want to check out: Heavy-duty design. This trash can is made of stainless steel so you know it’s made of durable materials. With its heavy-duty design, dogs will have a hard time trying to knock this one over! Has a dual compartment. One side of the trash can is for the trash, while the other is for easy disposal of recyclables. Features a steel pedal. The trash can’s steel pedal is engineered to last 150,000 steps – that’s more than 20 steps a day for 20 years. Easy-to-clean. The invisible silver-ion coating allows ease of cleaning. Furthermore, the coating will not dull the natural shine of the steel and can resist fingerprints. Preview Product Price simplehuman 58 Liter/15.3 Gallon Step Can Liner Pocket, Brushed Stainless Steel Dual Compartment... $199.99 Buy on Amazon 6. Best For Small Spaces: simplehuman 1.2 Gallon Round Bathroom Step Trash Can Credit: Amazon Does your dog also snoop around the bathroom or your home office trash? Well, the simplehuman 1.2 Gallon Round Bathroom Step Trash Can might just be the answer to your problem. This trash can works well in small spaces, but is still hard to tip over by dogs. Here are some key features we admire: Stainless steel exterior. This dog proof trash can features a stainless steel exterior and a stainless steel pedal. Durable. The trash can is made of stainless steel, including its pedal, which is engineered to last over 150,000 steps. Has a non-skid base. The trash can cannot be tipped easily, thanks to its durability and its non-skid base that keeps the can steady. 1.2 gallon capacity. The capacity and size of the trash can is perfect for small spaces in your home, such as the bathroom and the office. While the trash can is durable and cannot be easily tipped over, extremely stubborn dogs might still be able to find ways to access its content, so use with caution! Preview Product Price simplehuman 4.5 Liter / 1.2 Gallon Round Bathroom Step Trash Can, Brushed Stainless Steel $29.99 Buy on Amazon Conclusion Keeping your dog out of the trash can be challenging, especially when they find countless ways to access it, but not totally impossible. We believe that choosing a solution that fits your home and your dog’s behavior is the best way to deal with this kind of problem. However, if tweaking your current trash can is not working and you’ve tried everything you can think of, investing in one of these dog proof trash can might just be what you need to do. It will save you a lot of headaches and money. Not to mention, it keeps your dog and children away from dangerous trash can content, keeps your household clean, and gives you peace of mind. Do you have any dogproofing tips or dog proof trash can recommendations? Share them in the comments below!

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Google recently announced advancements in quantum computing, revealing its new quantum chip, “Willow.” According to Google Quantum AI lead Hartmut Neven, this chip can significantly reduce errors as more qubits are added, addressing major challenges in quantum computing like decoherence. Google claims Willow is a step toward making quantum computers “commercially relevant” by outperforming traditional computers at certain tasks. And as Google says, these calculations may be taking place in parallel universes. Neven highlighted a benchmark where Willow completed a computation in under five minutes—a task that would take the fastest supercomputers 10 septillion years (more time than the entire age of the universe). “Willow performed a standard benchmark computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 10 septillion (that is, 1025) years — a number that vastly exceeds the age of the Universe,” Hartmut Neven, founder and lead of Google Quantum AI, explained in a press release. However, the calculation in question, generating a random distribution, has no practical application. Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder pointed out that similar claims were made in 2019 but were later challenged. Despite progress, quantum computers remain impractical for most real-world uses. Google recently launched a $5 million competition to encourage practical applications of quantum computing. Excitement is tempered by the realization that the technology still has a long way to go. A surprising aspect of Google’s announcement was Neven’s reference to quantum computation supporting the “multiverse” theory. He suggested calculations might involve parallel universes, an idea tied to David Deutsch’s concept of “quantum parallelism” in the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. This interpretation posits that instead of collapsing, the wave function branches into multiple universes during observation. Quantum mechanics, the foundation of quantum computing, allows particles to exist in superposition—being in multiple states simultaneously. Quantum computers harness this property, along with entanglement and interference patterns, to solve complex problems. However, the Many Worlds interpretation is just one perspective among others, such as the Copenhagen interpretation and hidden variable theories. While quantum computers do not depend on a specific interpretation, Neven’s remarks about the multiverse are speculative. As it stands, there’s no evidence that quantum computations occur across multiple universes. Though Google’s achievements in quantum computing are remarkable, they remain a step in a long journey, with practical use cases and proof of multiverse interactions still out of reach. The post Google’s Quantum Chip Might Do Calculations In Parallel Universes appeared first on Anomalien.com.