Glitterbomb @ Glitterbomb @lemmy.world

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Agreed, but just to expand on your point - he's almost 18 and able to make his own choices soon. If he chooses to leave the church his entire immediate family disowns him, that's for certain. That's what they do. If he isn't drinking the kool-aid, having someone there to help could make a huge difference in which direction his life goes.

My sister dated an ex JW at around 18. He stayed on our couch for a few weeks after his family disowned him.

Ex smoker, hate the smell.

The only time I legitimately cherished the smell was when I stepped into a portapotty that had previously smelled like death for the entire week. That day though, some hero decided to chain smoke in that thing and you couldn't smell the shit anymore.

We've tried the trees you put on your rear view mirror, we tried cans of febreeze, only cigarettes hide the portapotty smell. Please, Cigarette smokers, be the heros we need you to be

All the downvotes are from bakers

From everything you've mentioned, it does kinda feel like she escaped and got lost. The b line for a stoop feels like she knew she came from a door that looked kinda like that. Hungry, matted, sick...for a full grown cat that's a good sign they're lost and not feral - feral cats usually have it worked out how to survive. With kittens it's either way, maybe she got separated from her litter instead, from her perspective that's the same kinda lost.

With that said, it sounds like you already tried a few things and I'm not here to say you should do more. Maybe a single flier outside your house just in case it's an immediate neighbor? Otherwise, I'd switch gears and be thinking how to protect yourself from a potential escape artist! Dress up your front porch (she keeps chewing a houseplant inside? Move it to the stoop. Work boots that smell like you? Store them on the stoop) and give her 10 minutes supervised time out on that stoop a few times while she's still a young kitten that you can corral. This way she recognizes the stoop if she's ever trying to find it AND also isn't immediately terrified if she darts out a door and finds herself outside.

Definitely also get that chip, but you already know! She's adorable!

It's sort of in the realm of hypernormalization maybe

I have an old android phone I keep around because it has an IR LED on top and I loaded it with a few free universal remote apps. They all work offline and it's come in handy so many times.

NAT

You might not believe me but anyone can just walk into maralargo. Trump won't have you trespassed, he will offer you a cash deal to leave. Trust me, it's true. Ez money.

I just wrote 'thanks for looking out for my boy elon' and signed it Hitler.

Dude at the very least learn what 180° looks like.

I didn't think anything of it when I moved into this apartment, but when the modem had to be replaced the ISP worker handed me the new wifi password when he was done, and I'll be damned if it wasn't another 8 character long hexadecimal password. I couldn't believe it, they might as well not even have passwords. I decided i had to know if they were doing that to everyone in the complex. Luckily I also had around 30 high end videocards mining eth in the apartment. I switched a miner with 7 GPUs from mining to hashcat and had a little fun.

Please don't use 8 digit hexadecimal passwords for wifi, or anything really. It's like using a paperclip for a deadbolt

Speaking of convicted, pretty sure at least two of the FBI agents assigned to investigate him WERE convicted and sent to jail for personally stealing funds from silk road during the investigation. The whole thing was mishandled from the beginning and the people he 'ordered to kill' weren't even real people, they were fake identities created by the same FBI agents that were posing as the hitmen and mishandling evidence. Reeks of entrapment.

I'm reminded of a story, I think it's fiction just to get the point across, about a room full of monkeys, a banana hanging from the ceiling, and a ladder to get the banana. If any monkey tries climbing the ladder, someone comes in and hoses down all of the monkeys. Eventually the monkeys figure it out and actively stop other monkeys from trying to climb the ladder. Slowly, they introduce new monkeys and the new monkeys learn to not climb the ladder without ever having been hosed down themselves. Instead they will stop other monkeys from climbing it. Eventually you have a whole room of monkeys that won't climb the ladder for the banana and have no idea why.

It's a neat story and I guess what I'm trying to say is we would probably have to hose down the monkeys a few times

I think it was an andrew callaghan interview where a trump supporter smirked and shrugged at trumps threats of mass deportations and just said 'I'm birthright'

Wonder if he's still smirking and shrugging.

Another Iranian rapper, Toomaj, was given a death sentence in 2024 that was overturned. I think he is still in jail though.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/14/middleeast/iran-dissident-rapper-toomaj-salehi-intl-latam/index.html

Hopefully they both can see freedom soon.

Not OP, where do I apply

I guess Carter isn't either

Banning them just sounds so....bureaucratic. cant we just eat them?

Imagine my surprise learning about them by pulling up to one. I don't think it was even near the CA/OR, but like 50 miles into Cali on the interstate. All of a sudden I see an officer flagging me at a little booth, I figured it was an emergency ahead or maybe I ended up on a toll road? The first thing he says to me was something along the lines of 'Got any fruit or vegetables in the vehicle?' And I just respond 'I'm sorry, what?' He must get that a lot, he pretty much waved me through as he was explaining.

I brought a prepackaged fruit cup my next trip just to see what would happen but I ended up doing the coastal route and never got stopped going that way.