i_stole_ur_taco @ i_stole_ur_taco @lemmy.ca

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overstock.com bought the BB&B brand after they went bankrupt, so we’ll be seeing it for many years to come.

Except instead of being run by inept business people, it’ll be run by an inept fascist business person.

(I know, I know, he resigned)

Happened here, too. Also using Memmy.

The carnist-compatible alternative is to just stop pretending to care about animal welfare.

It’s a consistent moral position to say “animals exist as my prey and their feelings don’t matter to me”, but it directly conflicts with this hypocrisy where we act like baby farm animals and dogs and cats are soooo cute, and then we conveniently ignore everything that happens on the farm and downstream because it doesn’t suit that narrative.

What drives me absolutely crazy is when people willingly say “I don’t like to think about where my grocery store meat comes from!” but continue to buy it.

I had an old Windows Phone I recycled years ago. It had nothing on it since I had migrated everything to Google a while earlier. Instead of wiping it, I dropped it at the recycling place in Vancouver.

Imagine my surprise when I get an automated email 6 months later saying someone just tried logging into my Microsoft account on that device from Shenzhen, China.

Wipe your shit, folks! It’s good advice inside and outside the bathroom.

Fascist? I thought IQ testing was designed around the apolitical flavour of white supremacy.

Trying to make a fitbull joke work and I'm coming up short.

They ought to be. You might have to change ownership of the file to some other local user (and disable permission inheritance for that file so admin can't touch it), but I bet this would work for most use cases except like a system restore.

Unfortunately, in doing so, Signal became Yet Another Messaging App. It really damaged their value proposition in my eyes.

If I need a separate app for SMS, WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram, Signal, etc, it just becomes a chore to find enough friends willing to move to it exclusively.

The IM ecosystem really needs to be harmonized on the user end. I remember Trillian was this great app back in the day that brokered all your MSM, Google Chat, etc IM accounts into a single app that let you just focus on messaging people and not worrying about what platform was being used. We badly need this again.

One person needs to subscribe (I thought it was like 3 bucks a year) for all the premium sharing features.

Both are excellent household cleaners, but despite common belief, they aren't good cleaners when mixed together.

Omg I thought this was just me.

Spend an hour on nexusmods and fooling around with installing them, then call it a night.

It's the gaming equivalent of spending the night scrolling Netflix and never watching anything.

This post made me nostalgic for the days when uTorrent was the shit. Man, how the mighty have fallen.

There's kneading and there's scratching. Handle them differently.

If he's scratching, he's usually standing and stretching around the same time. They need to do this, but you can redirect it to someplace that's ok for them to scratch.

Quite often you can do this by placing a scratch post near the place they're nuisance scratching. Something carpeted works well, but I really like the cardboard ones. It looks like a board of cardboard glued together, with a waffle-ish pattern they can really dig into. Another nice thing about cardboard is its nothing like furniture or carpeting, so less likely to confuse the cat about what he's allowed to scratch.

Kneading is more of an expression of comfort and love. You should nurture this, because it's adorable and they will do it less intensely as they grow up. If they're kneading they're often purring and rhythmically kneading dough.

In both cases, you should be trimming his claws regularly. If you do it calmly and gently from an early age, this should be trivial. I have 2 cats and trim their claws every couple of weeks. It takes about 30 seconds per cat.

This does require confidence on your part (cats smell your hesitation and stuff body language and hate it), and it requires your cat to trust you enough to let you handle his paws.

Look up a handful of guides and videos online on the technique. Jackson Galaxy is a popular YouTuber that probably has some content on this.

My mom has a semi-feral cat who simply will not tolerate her claws being trimmed. As a result she's a nightmare - damaged furniture, accidental scratches, and she's constantly getting caught on fabric. Don't let that happen!

Something to do with efficiency when they transport them via aircraft.

Dammit. I thought I'd escaped it after not thinking about it for years, and now his contributions to Moulin Rouge are stuck in my head again!

I first read it as the left side being the industrialized world, and the right side being from developing countries. I saw it as a subtle awareness about how we rich fucks try to exclude immigration from "shithole countries" because then we wouldn't have as many toys.

Men Seeking Mimes

1000% agreed. While those add-ons I paid for were all "optional", they do reek of benefits only available to the privileged.

I can live with that, but what I find really egregious is that people get a bill (of $150, but still) if they need an AMBULANCE to take them to a hospital. I'm sure there's programs in place to help people without a lot of money to get it covered, but the fact it's been set up this way in the first place stinks.

Why walk across town when you can dance?

Every type of mushroom is edible at least once.