Something I’ve personally noticed as someone who will perform a light disassemble before tossing an “broken” item.

The plug in oil heaters that look like radiators. Efficient, low cost. 3 now, total. The knob spins and I can no longer turn it on. Unplug. Unscrew. And a broken Dshaft knob falls out. They don’t make it obvious and easy to get to these knobs, you have to remove the large side panel without bothering the wires to get to a small panel to unscrew to get to the knobs. Then you have to find or make a Dshaft knob to fit, which isn’t easy.

The best way I’ve heard the class war explained in a while.

Jonathan Swift, again.

My phone isnt enough of a tracker, I’m going to attach a second tracker to my wrist.

I agree with legalizing assisted suicide for terminally ill humans. As such, if the pets quality of life at the end of life declines that much, then yes. Sometimes the treatments make things worse.

For example, on the human side, people may not want to spend most of their last days in hospitals hearing machines beep and sleeping in an uncomfortable hospital bed. They want to go home, be comfortable, and die not in pain. Fair. In states where it’s legal, that sometimes means taking prescribed euthanasia on their terms, rather than letting the cancer do it. Sometimes it means just having the option close by as a reassurance while letting the cancer take them, but I digress.

How much do our pets like the vet? Staying overnight? Considering that at the end, alongside pain, is something we have to weigh in these decisions. Unfortunately, unlike humans, our pets can’t make that decision for themselves. You’ll have to decide for them. When is enough enough? What’s the balance between their pain and your want to have them with you? None of us can tell you that answer.

The only real advice I can give you is to listen to them, really listen to them, and don’t allow your personal pain drown out their voice. Humans or animals.

Literal spam, look at that guy.

The data centers in Texas took all the water and now MAGA wants Mexico to pay for it.

This is like making a fake gold Olympic medal out of paper mache and giving it to your kid after they learn to ride their bike.

Only in this case, the kid never learned to ride the bike.

There’s a Criminal podcast on this as well.

One does have to wonder how much is real and how much is fomo.

Agreed.

Vance’s future running mate, probably. The ick ticket.

Germany fronting some really insidious shit. Again.

https://youtu.be/JWfULMcFikI

You can buy a rechargeable heated shawl as well.

Who knows. I’m more likely to hear the complaints in spring, about not being able to find good workers any more. My money is on that one.

It makes a point of slapping people who truly believe, even now, that all the ICE activity thus far has been against illegals.

Illegal only. For real. They believe that.

A maga relative in landscaping was mystified as to why half his employees had either left or were leaving and weren’t coming back for the next season. In his words: they’re believing all the lies and hype being spewed by the media.

In his mind, even now, ICE is only doing their job: removing people here illegally. Because media can’t be believed and is filled not with lies but terrible twisting of the truth.

So putting a face on this, that looks like MAGA, is about all that’s left to try to get their attention.

It’s conspiracy theory regarding the ball room. I love that so may here love the rigors of proper science, but do try to have some fun with this. It’s a TikTok posted to Substack.

Substack does a couple things. Journalism, yes. Essays from people like Robert Reich and Heather Cox Richardson, among others. But there is also an incredible amount of conspiracy theory over there as well.

Ofc it’s not real journalism. It’s ballroom conspiracy theory.

Clearly raccoons have spent far too much time mingling with humans.