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> Keeping a dog lot anywhere requires a constant loop of chores: feeding dogs, running dogs, scooping up dog poop. But keeping one in Nome comes with additional responsibilities: monitoring threats from muskoxen, stubborn, shaggy animals with formidable horns and a record of attacking dogs.

I vote that we finally retire the term "yak shaving" and replace it with "fighting muskoxen".

As in you want to create a personal blog so you first have to set up a VM, research static site generators, try to get random ruby gems to work, then figure CI/CD on Github actions, and before you know it you're in the Alaskan tundra fighting muskoxen.



"Fighting muskoxen"doesn't really roll of the tongue tho, it's too long for one, and I feel like it would have a better ring to it if the verb came last(like it does inthe original phrase)

How about "musk fighting"?


Elon’s existence kinda ruins that one.


Depending on your perspective, it might drive the point home even further!


But you're not obsessed. Not at all.




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