Unfortunately, fire tornadoes are a thing :(

Most of my cars, I’ve bought from friends, co-workers, or relatives, or people that they knew. We agree on blue book value, I get it checked by my mechanic, occasionally I’ve had to get a bank loan, and it’s done.

Part of it’s starting to keep your ears open when you think your current car may be getting toward the end of it’s life, so that you can take advantage of anything you might hear about. Part of it’s asking people if they’ve heard of anyone who might be getting rid of their old car. And part of it is people remembering that you’ve asked about these things before so that, when they or someone they know start thinking about getting rid of their old car, you’re one of the people they think of who might be willing to take it without hassle, at a fair price.

Palestinians in Gaza rejoice in streets In Tel Aviv, hostage families express joy Israeli PM says some items unresolved

And he’s already prepping his get-out clause, whatever “issues” he decides are “unresolved”.

Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg will be sitting together at Trump’s inauguration. This also is a comment that I felt like making for no particular reason.

Virtue signalling means that you want to appear like you’re better than you actually are, at least in public.

So it means that Zuck thinks people who leave Meta are actually scum, they just want to look nice to others.

If you threw away the cheese, it’s clearly not yours anymore, why are you depriving them?!?!

Italy’s population density is twice that of the US.

Archive also usually has a direct download option, if you can’t get the content from torrents there.

My issue is the disparity of the pictures, with the bowtie picture having the duck’s entire neck almost completely in shadow, while the shadow is comparatively minimized on the necktie image. It’d be nice to see both options under both light and dark conditions.

That said, I currently prefer the necktie; it provides an element to the rest of the body. I’m the bowtie picture, everything is happening around the head - beak, eyes, hat, bowtie - leaving the rest of the body comparatively empty.

If you’re at a table with nine Nazis and you don’t leave, then the table has ten Nazis at it. History won’t care why you were at the table, just that you were there.

So, methylene blue can be used as a fabric dye; it can also be used as ink for temporary or permanent tattoos. However, medically, it’s used in the treatment of methemoglobinemia, as a urinary analgesic, anti-infective, and anti-spasmodic agent, or in endoscopy as a gastrointestinal dye, and can also be used as a rescue antidote in life threatening poisonings causing refractory shock states and other shock states.

While I sincerely doubt anyone’s state IV cancer has been cured by methylene blue, dismissing it as “a fabric dye” is wrongfully dismissive of it’s actual medical uses.

Ah, okay. It’s a Polish language server, so I won’t join it. I do miss kbin, though!

Thanks for the info, though - I do appreciate it :)

Thanks :)

The drawer grippy things are often still slide-able when momentum is applied, which is why I went with a cut-down bath mat.

Which instance is still accepting signups?

Nah, with Trump in office, he’ll be delighted to hire in H1B slave labor …

[Obi-wan Kenobi voice] Daily Galaxy. Now that’s a name that I haven’t heard in a long, long time …

So, are they any more reputable than they used to be, now that they’ve been acquired by a venture capital firm, instead of being more focused on the fringier edges of science?

Ours is an old carrier. The interior dimensions are 16 inches tall, 14 inches wide, and 24 inches long. Our cat was maybe 14 inches tall, but of course she wouldn’t want to stand fully upright and either bang her head on the roof, or constantly brushing her ears against it. Plus the bath mat and towel ‘raised’ the floor a bit. And sometimes when you scream, you just want to throw your head back and let go!

I like the bath mat because I can suction it to the bottom of the carrier, so neither she nor the towel slide around like they would on plain plastic or metal.

One cat would yell for a while, then settle down. When she was older, it took longer for her to settle down, until she was just yelling constantly for hours. I finally gave up and let her out of the carrier - the only time I’ve ever done that, and we were an hour from home with no traffic and no stops needed - and she stopped yelling immediately, just stood on my lap, panting.

At which point I realized that, as large as our car carrier was (it’s one of the largest ‘carryable’ ones I’ve seen), it wasn’t quite tall enough for the cat to stand completely upright and she was in pain because of her arthritis. We’d been torturing her, for hours! We made some changes after that!

For people who have carriers with a smooth or only slightly rough bottom: your cat may be yelling because they can’t keep traction and are unexpectedly sliding a bit on curves and turns. We got one of those non-slip shower mats and cut it down to size, to reduce slipping, then added a beach towel for comfort. Everything is still washable (use white vinegar to get rid of the smell of cat urine), but the cat is much happier!

I just want to say how much I love this question! Yes, I should think more often if the things that I really enjoyed as a kid :)