I'll add to the pile.

note: Not siblings. The big guy laying down is Batman who was from a litter of three the rest of which who are no longer with us. The tiny head looking up on the right is Skeeter from a rescue in quebec. And Eddie, sitting up, is from a rescue in Ontario.

This shit never changes.

And this is good old Boston, The home of the bean and the cod, Where the Lowells talk only to the Cabots, And the Cabots talk only to God

• John Bossidy, 1910.

This chart is an inverted 'quality of life' chart. Weird, I wonder how that happened...

Why is it that half the time I see a diatribe with no substance but a lot of syllables just for the sake of syllables it is you? Are you getting paid by the word?

Cut it out.

I tried to jump out the window but I was blocked by a popup saying the window was unusable at the moment due to a forced update. It has been fun. Time to die!

I once heard someone say that everyone draws a line in the sand sometimes. And most often that line is right in front of where you're standing.

Remembering that helps me to be more conscious about my implicit biases and where I draw those lines.

But who will do the dishes after the revolution?

I do my own dishes now. I'll do my own dishes then!

One of my sensory tortures is the feeling of cotton balls being torn apart. I think my brain registers it as a sound, but as you've said, there doesn't seem to be a sound. thinkymeat is so dumb.

A car horn at the wrong moment can completey ruin my day. And I don't mean when it is aimed at me. Just the sound itself at the wrong time.

Unless I am misinformed - This is a weird nitpick. Stellantis just split the brand names for ram trucks off from dodge for the rest of the non-pickup line. They are still the same company.

I'm on year four of living in the woods. That 25k would have lasted about the first 4 months... Maybe. Infrastructure is expensive and carrying water from the creek to boil for use gets old fast.

My dude.

And luckily, friends and empathetic strangers.

Stop undervaluing what was the single most important part of your experience. Not everyone has friends, family, or access to people who don't want to fuck them or fuck them over.

yuck

All fair and valid. Your heart is in the right place and nothing else really matters. I hope your day is a good one.

And not just escape tourism. Business travel too.

I may be just small potatoes, but my refusal to take onsite work in the US since the orange menace took office again has meant that 3 people who used to spend ~40% of their time in US hotels, eating at US restaurants, and paying US transportation costs, are now staying in Canada or picking up the pace with EU clients.

This person has been informed that the character is worthless at its stated goal of being AI poison. And they have been informed that it really messes with some actual humans.

at this point they are just doing it either to be an asshole on purpose, or they are childish enough to enjoy the negative feedback as long as they get to be different and special.

Raccoons like to poop on top of their old dried poop. raccoon poop looks a lot like human poop. especially when more than one animal is using that latrine.

in the forest they often do it where two trails meet.

think about that before jumping out of a bush.

and if it was a raccoon don't handle that poop please. call animal control.

[edit to add] if you want some nightmares; google 'pinworm human infection' and then stay far away from raccoon droppings.

I watched a lady bring a small dead bird in a ziploc onto the Metro in Montreal and then proceed to pluck its feathers onto the floor.

and we aren't talking about your game hen or a quail here or something. I'm lalking about a fucking sparrow or something like that.

Imagine my (mild) shock after doing my own brakes for 30 years and then coming upon this tidfbit of knowledge JUST after buying parts for my truck.

For anyone else navigating all the misinfo around doing this on a ford truck:

Set the ignition to ON.

Press and hold the accelerator pedal and place the electronic parking brake (EPB) switch in the APPLY (upward) position. Continue to hold the accelerator pedal and the electronic parking brake EPB switch.

Firmly press the brake pedal for at least 1 second. Release the brake pedal while continuing to hold the accelerator pedal and the EPB switch.

Set the ignition to OFF then set the ignition to ON within 5 seconds, then release the accelerator pedal and the EPB switch.

This was the movie Caught Stealing. Pretty good flick if you can stomach a lot of violence.