limelight79 @ limelight79 @lemm.ee

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Forfty percent of people know that!

Statistician.

But the Simpsons lied to me. I have not been offered the opportunity to go to space.

She did a bit on Colbert that was a joint venture between her business and his spoof of her business. Either she's extremely clueless and didn't realize his fake store is mocking her real store, or she knows it's snake oil and is continuing to sell it.

I have two of them that will cuddle up with me no matter how warm I already am.

But I still get the better end of the deal. We also have a 60 lb dog, and he will usually cuddle with my wife, again, no matter how warm it already is.

I bought a Lenovo about 2 years ago that I've been really happy with. I wanted something with a metal shell because I carry my laptop around sometimes and use it balanced on one hand, and my previous Dell (plastic) started flexing and having weird issues with the TouchPad as a result. The Lenovo has been solid. I'm running Kubuntu on it, but my plan is to go Debian at some point.

Insurance money? He thinks that there's insurance for businesses being run into the ground?

Maybe they actually hate the idea of LLMs and are trying to sour the public's opinion on it to kill it.

On ours, the back of the aerokat is open, so removing the inhaler would let the drugs out. Yours looks like it might have some kind of restrictive flap though.

The steroids were the initial attempt to control his asthma. It worked pretty well for a while (a year, maybe more), but a few weeks ago he went into respiratory distress so we rushed him to the animal hospital. So now it's steroids plus inhaler! He's been doing a lot better under the current regimen.

We just had to start doing the aerokat with one of ours. I was dreading it, but it has actually gone pretty well.

I'm sure this was just for the picture, but you do need to keep the inhaler in the back of it until they've done the 10 breaths, I think.

We are also giving the same cat a steroid. There's a pharmacy that compounds it into a dermal gel that we just rub on his inner ear. Getting pills into that cat was hard, but he doesn't mind the dermal at all. (And we're expert cat pill givers - a previous feline resident of our house needed many.)

All these comments, and I'm wondering who would ask someone about their height like this...it's pretty easy to estimate someone's height just by observation.

I moved and took my cat to a new vet near my new house. That vet was not great with him, kind of rough, and we could hear dogs barking constantly, so he was already stressed before the vet even started.

I've never seen that cat so upset. But I got him home, he left the carrier, went a few steps, and flopped on his side, and I knew all was forgiven.

I never took him back to that vet - I ended up taking him to the previous vet instead. Much longer drive but they were already familiar with him and his issues, and were much better with him, so it was worth it.

When we adopted another cat, we started using a different vet local to us that we still use (the first cat passed away years ago).

Yeah, we bought a new LG washer and dryer set when we moved to this house in late 2016. The washer has been trouble free. In fact, it actually saved us from washing delicate clothes in hot water (the handles on the spigots are reversed - the blue is hot; the red is cold) - it filled up, recognized there was a problem, and drained without doing anything more. I thought there was an issue with the washer at first, but then I realized how warm it was inside the washer, and I figured it out from there. I don't think it's technically a smart washer in the current sense (there's no app or anything), but it's definitely smarter than the ones I've had before.

The dryer's tension pulley failed, so I had to replace that, for ~$20 from Amazon. It was making noise for a long time, but like a dolt I waited until it actually failed to replace it. The replacement has been trouble free. I found a video on Youtube from someone that showed how to disassemble it to get to the part - it's easier than it looks.

There's a bill in Congress now to insert a citizenship question into the next Census. I assume it's unlikely to go beyond the House, but they definitely haven't given up.

Yeah, I think you're right. I forgot to add that there's no mucking about with drivers and all of that, it really just works. Older scanners usually aren't a problem with Linux, but Vuescan almost certainly supports them as well.

I paid for Vuescan. There are a ton of Linux scanning apps, but pretty much all of them require editing all pictures to some extent after the scan. Vuescan applies a useful set of defaults that work for most pictures, speeding up the work flow. I had over 4,000 pictures to scan so anything to simplify that was worth it.

They don't care. The only way for a Trump aide to get fired is to mock them on SNL.

That is, ummm, interesting. Can their installed system do anything, though? There are so many restrictions, it seems like it would be a difficult installation to daily drive.

And some of the justifications are really confusing. I realize some are probably typographical errors, but I can't figure out what a few of them are saying at all. It reminds me of the people that invent their own lexicon and just expect everyone to understand what they are saying.

A good point. The BBQ place owns their own building, I believe, but in general that is a good point.

It's not just fast food. They're getting the attention because they're supposed to be cheap, but the price of eating out in general has jumped over the last 4 years or so.

For example: We often eat at a local barbecue place, usually getting the same order each time. (During the pandemic, we would get take out.) I don't have the numbers in front of me, but when I looked it up a while back, I think we were paying ~$15 more now for the essentially the same order. Adding $15 on to a ~$30 order is a huge increase, as a percentage.

In general, our dining out expenses have gone way up since the start of the pandemic, but we aren't eating out more often or ordering more extravagant foods. The prices have just gone up. (When we go out for meals, we go to a mix of fast food and casual dining places, some with counter service.)

I used to work in a hardware store. One day a guy came in looking for a skyhook.

After we called his boss to confirm the situation (this was well before cell phones), we all had a good laugh. I think the boss was shocked he fell for it.