Lol yeah, like I wanna live like a refugee in my native country. And I’m wrong somehow for not being OK with that?

Get fucked with that shit, friend. I’m not willing to gamble what little I have on possibility, better infrastructure or not.

Probably the evolutionary arms race between rapey males and females. Males have long corkscrew penises that inflate rapidly during copulation to fill the tract of the female. Females, what with their desire to choose mates and all, have evolved corkscrew vaginal tracts with dead ends and stuff that spirals in the opposite direction. Forced mating frequently ends without insemination, as a result.

I am genuinely unsure of the mechanism by which successful mating actually happens, considering the anatomical arms race and all (maybe it’s like dolphins, which have a similar problem. Female dolphins have a false vagina and can choose where the male’s sperm goes by changing her tail position), but they seem to be able to reproduce, so it is what it is, and I’m not super keen to look it up at the moment.

According to the first inflation calculator I found, adjusted for inflation in today dollars thats $3,682.67/cat/yr, and I think thats probably plenty.

I rub my chin against their heads in the same motion as licking would produce. They seem to interpret it as grooming behavior, as they’ll start grooming me back when I do it, whether or not they know I’m not actually grooming them. Well, the one tries to shove her nose up my nose when I do it, but close enough.

I’m not who you replied to, but this is a stupid take.

My area doesn’t have public transit to speak of, its semi-rural small town, and everything is in another town, so I’m forced to drive. Everywhere around here is like this. I explicitly do not have the option to move to a more urban area because I live in a very low cost of living area, which means very depressed wages, and I genuinely cant afford to move, much less live somewhere with walkable infrastructure or decent public transit, without better wages first. Because no, getting rid of everything and starting over isn’t an option, nor should it have to be.

And I didn’t choose to be here in the first place, either. When you are born into a very low cost of living area, you often get stuck there or can only move somewhere even further behind, because wages are so depressed you can’t save enough to get into a better area. The only way you get out is if you can land a good job before moving, which is insanely difficult, since remote work usually scales to the local wages, and who can afford to travel for in-person interviews?

Just move is easy to say when you can bring home more than you pay in bills, or have enough in savings to cover a few months until you find work or whatever, and its really easy to say when you already live in an expensive area. But its not actually a practical option for many of us.

So idk about that other person, but yes, I’m fucking tired of being told to just move if I don’t like how things are. Condescending out-of-touch bullshit, is what it is.

I think the word you were looking for is extradite, which is sending someone home/to the country where crime was committed, to face their justice system.

Excommunication is kicking someone out of a religion/the church, specifically christian afaik, though not all use that word :)

I’m like 90% certain its crabdance/crab rave, something I’m not actually familiar with but which many many many people on the internet say they will be posting when certain horrible people die.

Why, I do not know.

If you can get these materials you should try these cooling packs. The materials should be cheap enough to give them to everyone you know.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqxjfp4Gi0k

I vibe as well, the one exception being making bread in the bread machine, and thats mostly because its old and sucks and if I don’t use very specific weight-based measurements it fails and falls. Still edible but disappointing. I genuinely do not have the capacity to make bread any other way, I’ll forget about it or wait too long or whatever else, 1000% guaranteed, but I am in the market for a newer machine, maybe better features, maybe a cooking coil that doesn’t turn every loaf into a thick-crumb dark brown, even on light crust setting loaf.

I might just do the ps5 one cuz I genuinely never use that fucking thing. I play disc games (as in wont pay for digital) and there just aren’t a lot for ps5…

Both of my parents died, one in my early 20s, one a few months ago, and the day after each was just beautiful. One in early December, one in spring, but both deaths were followed by clear sunny skies after days of bad weather.

That was, the first time, the most offensive part of the grieving process for me; my world stopped, the world did not, and I paid my bills the next day because that’s what the world not stopping means. The second time it was actually nice, I’ve had a lot of time (~20 yrs) between the two to sort out my feelings and beliefs on existence. The world didn’t stop just because mine did, and that’s ok.

This oblate spheroid we call home will continue to turn no matter what we do. Life will almost certainly find a way to overcome the bullshit we are doing, we just wont be here to see it, same as we probably wont be here to see our great grandkids have their own kids.

I just hope we die out or get our shit together before we trigger a runaway greenhouse effect.

I’m voting for one in the primaries! I hope they win cuz I’d love to be able to vote for one in the general!!

Thats an awful lot of work thats going to cost taxpayer money when “move over, gramps, let the next batch have a try” is completely free.

Who cares if there are still a couple good old people? There are also good young people chomping at the bit to take over.

People shouldn’t be in government past an age where they likely wont be alive for the next decade of consequences from their actions. I’d personally lower the cutoff to like 64. They got their chance to set policy, let people who will live in the world they are making be the ones who steer the boat.

If we try that and it ends up not working, we can reassess. But until we try we’ll never know because those people aim to die in office, and burn the place down on the way out.

“Wrecked EV battery” usually actually means batteries that were in damaged shipping containers. Perfectly good and never used for anything, but not sellable for car use anymore.

At least all the ones I looked at were like that.

I’m sorry you are dealing with that, but they can live a very long healthy life even with ckd!

Just an FYI, the vet kidney disease diets are low protein, which is bad for obligate carnivores like cats. They do it because low phosphorus and low protein works well for humans and dogs, its just not really appropriate for cats. Cats use protein for synthesis of things we use plant sources for, so they just sort of degrade, and you end up needing to do a lot of interventions.

Instead, if you find foods that are made to be low phosphorus but not prescription, you can give a better variety and when they inevitably get turned off to one food, you can swap, or better yet feed a variety so if one stops being available its not a problem.

My cat was diagnosed with kidney disease in 2016 and the vet said even with treatment I’d only get 6-12 mths. He didn’t like the vet food so I did a ton of digging into it, and discovered common wisdom is wrong, they need protein but not phosphorus, and over the next several months of trial and error, found some low-phosphorus foods he liked (he liked weruva slide and serve and the core line, especially the tiny tasters, and they are very proud of making foods that are ok for kidneys because if is good for ckd cats, is good for all cats). I added 1/16 tsp coconut oil every meal to boost the calories, as well as occasionally giving him butter or bacon fat as a snack. I also gave him just about anything he would eat, figuring any calories were good calories (he was down to 4 lbs at his lowest, 10 at his heaviest) and he loved chicken nuggets with the breading removed.

Sadly he passed a couple years ago, about 8 years after he was given 6-12 mths. He was healthy (very relative term), active, playful, and friendly right up until he wasn’t anymore, and then it was time.

I’ve been playing cubic odessy.

Mind, I dont actually like minecraft, so idk how someone who does like minecraft would like it, but this felt like minecraft with spaceships to me.

Keeping them held snug against the body over a lifetime, reduces sagging near the end.

Interestingly, this was thought to be the case for breasts, as well, but up to a certain size (at which point support becomes necessary) its best to leave them be other than specific activities like exercise, because it forces muscles and skin to tighten to support them which keeps them from sagging longer. It’ll still happen, of course, either way.

The way I eat pomegranate is like popcorn meets sunflower seeds.

Take a few of the pearls, pop them in my mouth, break the water balloon with gentle chewing that doesn’t break the seed, suck out the juice, spit the seed. Sometimes I’ll fidget and peel the pulp off with my teeth, is not much, but it’s a nice mindless activity to occupy my brain

Pom is a flavored water fruit rather than a chew and swallow fruit. You don’t miss much leaving the pulp behind (and I’m not talking about the white rind) because theres not much of it to begin with. Its ideal for brainless time like watching movies. The prep is pretty easy, too, since the pearls tend to fall off pretty easily into a bowl, perfect for mindless snacking.

Only time I ever saw anyone’s genitals in the bathroom was because I was fucking one of the strippers (my co-worker, I was never a stripper but in some places cocktail waitresses are close! Not the places I worked, I’m not -that- bold, but she had a good time :)

I don’t think it was a mistake, I was young and that’s the sort of wild thing I was told early adulthood was about. But she offered to reciprocate and made me realize I wasn’t really into it.

Thanks for the reminder that I need to order trichogramma wasps to fix my moth problem again. Downside of keeping my quail inside; moths infest very easily. Upside, i learned years ago that trichogramma wasps (stingless egg parasites) are cheap and work like a dream on pantry moths, plus they are so small you’ll never see them (like moving sand)