Some AV Processors include a night mode or loudness processing that attempts to normalize the levels. In practice, the levels will lower some, but perhaps not enough to alleviate the problem.
You could try reporting the provider, but it's likely their legal team would argue the CALM act doesn't apply to them. Come to think of it, the FCC may not have ever formalized the rules still...
This is classic efficient market hypothesis brain worms, the kind of cognitive dead-end that you arrive at when you conceive of people in purely economic terms, without considering the power relationships between them. It's a dead end you navigate to if you only think about things as they are today – vast numbers of indebted people who command fewer assets and lower wages than at any time since WWII – and treat this as a "natural" state: "how can these poors expect to be offered more debt unless they agree to have their all-important pocket computers booby-trapped?"
-Cory Doctorow from his blog, unintentionally addressing you
Thank you! I wanted to provide a fun bio with his background because I always like learning about the kittays on here. I also thought some might wonder about his ear.
Thank you! We love our Charlie -- though I'm the only human in the house that calls him by that name. My GF likes silly names, and calls him, "big boy," pronounced, "beeg bwai," on account of him being the biggest cat she's ever had.
Fun fact: he may have condor or eagle in his bloodline, because his claws are the biggest, longest, thickest claws I've ever seen on a house cat.
I don't have any left and the vet is getting more from Mexico, but if I recall correctly, the vet said it has natural enzymes from fruits like papaya? I'm waiting for more, because I just can't get Charlie to accept me brushing his teeth. Also, It's possible the enzyme does nothing, and his current diet and the rope are what's helping, but its so cheap, I don't mind.
I'm sorry you're going through this. I haven't seen your previous posts, but I can relate to some of what you are going through.
Our ten year old cat (former feral rescued at age 3+/-) has chronic inflamed gums and buildup on the gumline. In the US, we were quoted $700-$1600 (they said it would depend on a few variables) for twice-yearly cleaning, and said extraction would be the logical next step. We were shocked at that cost, and considered putting our cat down.
About six months later, we moved to Central America, and on our first vet visit, told them the situation. The vet examined his teeth, quoted us $35 for a simple cleaning and $15 for an enzyme we put in his water. No need for extraction. The vet was visibly angry at the proposal to remove his teeth, and especially the cost.
The day of the procedure (1 December), the vet allowed me to assist, and it took only about ten minutes. The whole room stank of bad kittay breath. Recovery from the sedative was hard to watch for the rest of the day, but the next few days he seemed much happier, even playing with his sister instead of being his usual grouch self.
A month ago he went in to treat a rash from an allergy, and he currently has zero problems on his teeth or gums. The vet thinks all he needs is for us to keep using the enzyme (which we're lucky that he drinks water many times a day) and stay on top of it.
Now we no longer mind when Charlie licks us, and he doesn't stink. He's also more playful. We think his mouth always hurt, and made him moody. He loves to chew on natural fiber rope toys (for dogs) with his back teeth, which possibly help keep them clean. He bites so hard his teeth squeak and creak through the rope.
All that is to say that care in the US is crazy expensive, and pretty dismissive of alternative treatment options. It left us feeling like our options were to spend an ungodly amount of money or put our cat down. Surprisingly, even putting the cat down in the states would cost more than the cleaning procedure here in Belize.
Try training Kika to use the toilet? My Grandmother's cat was the same way back in the 80's, and my uncle (yup, he still lived at home in his forties) trained the cat to use their downstairs toilet. Problem solved.
Edit: we kids always tried to catch her doing it but never did, but wed see the evidence after the fact.
Man, Google really does suck now. It feels nearly impossible to get something like a how-to deep in the Debian FAQs to come up, as it mostly surfaces this auto-generated SEO crap
By design. The longer you're Googling, the more ads they can sell.
...Ben Gomes – a long-tenured googler who helped define the company during its best years – lost a fight with Prabhakar Raghavan, a computer scientist turned manager whose tactic for increasing the number of search queries (and thus the number of ads the company could show to searchers) was to decrease the quality of search. That way, searchers would have to spend more time on Google before they found what they were looking for.
And many, many mobile apps out there, except this one is the bad one, because: China.
My point is that meaningful privacy legislation would stop all apps from doing this with our data, but we have legislators who only pretend to care if a bogeyman has access to the data, and forget the part where any adversary could simply buy the data on the open data market.
I'm personally less interested in China having access to my daily movements than I am my own government, which includes states that are trying to criminalize going to certain medical providers.
I'd prefer if nobody had access, but I can see through the charade. These legislators are invested in technology that competes with China, and that collect and sell our data, so they prefer to keep things the way they are and pick winners and losers.
Its definitely awesome that your cat is scratching, and good you want to keep their claws trimmed. Sharp claws can get caught in fabrics, and hurt other pets.
Bad news! Scratching actually sharpens their claws and pulls the old nail sheaths off the new razor sharp claw beneath.
Good news! You can trim your cat's claws for the price of a pair of clippers.
Just be patient and gentle and calm and they'll get used to it. My formerly feral rescue cats sleep through it now after years of it. The first few times, I'd just clip as many as they'd calmly let me. Now the clippers are like the brush, and they purr.
Luna's pose would always get me taking photos. That said, I feel for Luna being so clearly overweight. 😥