You could probably do what the lap cat people do and just stuff a glove and shirt sleeve as a decoy. (They stuff a pair of pants, I’ve done that and it works well until they wise up so use sparingly!)
As long as it’s in the right place, it’ll probably work. For a bit. Might need a decoy mouse attached to it - have any old dead ones?
Unless what the cat wants is those slight movements and the “aww cmon” instant attention it gives :)
There’s a lot of ~65k houses in Indiana, as well.
I live in a low cost area and that’s about the only place I could move to come out ahead if I sell. Because houses there cost what I paid in 2013 for roughly equivalent places.. but they don’t get much weather, and I’d rather ride out the climate catastrophe in a water rich region than a wanna-be desert..
and that should be a government's job imo
To shoot them in the back of the head? I kinda feel like that’s what happens already..?
(I kid, mostly)
Marine is too much work for me as well. Too expensive as well, and I’m not a fan of having to figure out which fish were wild caught, since a huge proportion of marine fish available in the trade are wild caught. I’m not into depleting nature for my own amusement.
Shrimp are fantastic and easily my favorite thing to watch, beating out the variety of snails by just a touch. However most of the commonly available colored ones can interbreed so if you get like red and blue neocardinias (cherry/fire shrimp and blue dream/blue velvet shrimp respectively) you’ll end up with babies (maybe after a few generations, maybe after the first breeding cycle) that revert to normal brown/clear coloring.
This chart is a huge help because it really drills down which species of shrimp you can house without that problem. (Edit to change link to a better chart)
https://www.ukaps.org/forum/attachments/shrimp-crossbreeding-chart-jpg-jpg.146825/
Or if you don’t care about the offspring color intensity, you can get cull packs on Aquabid (like eBay, but aquatic stuff only) for decently cheap, and it’s usually a mixed selection of peach, blue, and cherry neos that don’t have the intense coloring the breeder wants. Super easy to care for, ready breeders, fun to watch, and you can have glass shrimp with them! (ghost/grass/glass).
Apologies for the walls of text here, this is one of my special interests 😅
Clearly so, as you taught me a new definition - vulgarization - the act or process of making something, or of something becoming, better known and understood by ordinary people.
I appreciate that. Thanks! :) in that definition (and the more traditionally used one) I’m a vulgar mf!
Unless you want to know about like magnetic tornadoes on the sun or how sponges are colonies of cells often using glass/silicate compounds in various shapes as a common skeleton (wouldn’t want to bathe with those!! But each species has their own unique structure!), I haven’t much off the top of my head without a good conversation to spark some back-of-the brain latent info that’s stored and conversationally relevant. I’m a steel trap for niche science stuff, and it often takes a good conversation to bring it out. How else do you know what info is worth sharing?
^_^
Where were you three days ago when I started under the dome and haven’t slept since?
Right but the hostility is aimed seemingly entirely toward liberals who, one would expect, would be closer to what we want that conservatives yet I really don’t see any conservative dunking which is part of the confusion.
Perhaps that’s just built in to the normal way your other on-instance communities work, and the only stuff that leaks out is the liberal bashing stuff, I don’t know because I don’t really see much else on my feed tbh.
Yes, but also I just don’t really quite understand what exactly is going on because of that dissonance and I’m really trying to.
This is my first exposure to any of your communities, and I find it very confusing because from what I can tell… I mostly agree with you..? I think? Probably? Except for that hostility. I don’t know what to make of that.
Pre-comment disclaimer- all uses of you here are in reference to hexbear as an instance, not individuals.
I know this is a joke, and I’m a bit uncomfortable making this reply in the first place, but to be entirely honest dunk tank and Cth (which iPhone wanted to correct to Cthulhu, which is why it’s capitalized, and I’d rather share that fun fact than fix it) have confused the absolute fuck out of me as far as what y’all are about, because some of that content is -really- aggressive toward what I used to identify as (and why I’m ancom now - canvassing as a liberal who never felt liberal went far enough), and it’s the vast majority of what comes up on my feed from hexbear, sorted by new (to do my part, 🫡!).
But then I also see the policies, the politic, and the community, and I’ve had zero bad experiences with any of you, hence the confusion.
But I intentionally seek to understand, and have always had user instance information enabled on comments to show where people come from, so it makes it easier to aggregate the information.
I know a lot of the newer users are on apps, since a lot of them came here -because- of apps (I did, tbh, but I like the feel of the platform) and by default most apps (all the ones on iOS that I’ve tested, at least) suppress instance information, to make it more like Reddit, I assume, so they don’t recognize the good stuff from your users, they just see the dunk and cth posts, and assume you all suck because they haven’t been exposed to it and then this HUGELY active community pops up ragging on what they identify as. Rather than question it because they see you elsewhere and know where you come from, they see those posts and that’s it.
The apps also really suck for community finding and searching based on instance.
I’m pretty sure I’m on the same page you lot are but… I honestly don’t know sometimes because I don’t really know you and I see a limited amount of who you are.
Your first sentence made me literally laugh audibly. At work.
Our computer lab when I was in high school was all those eMacs. I hated them and their single mouse button.
I definitely deleted the system drive from half of them at one point or another. It wasn’t hard, either, it was on the desktop.
Sure it didn’t actually delete anything on the drive, but it did force an intensive repair (they reformatted all of them, idk if there was another fix) :)
The workforce needs to shift back toward an apprenticeship/on the job training model for a lot of things, I think (china and globally, really). There’s always a massive delay between demand and college course path/promotion/graduation. And the lag eventually results in graduates going into a saturated market. Plus education not matching actual first jobs leaves people feeling unprepared to take on higher levels, where if it’s a natural progression it doesn’t.
Idk about other countries but in the us this can be seen with the lawyer boom of the 90s and early 00s, and currently with tech saturation.
A person (with some exceptions, like stem) could take some basic community college courses (or just HS, if we streamlined the process) focused on their eventual path and then get the rest of the training as a junior at their job, like what used to happen, but companies want unicorns for no work on their end and certainly no pay, so it’s unlikely to go back to that model any time soon, despite being objectively better for everyone involved.
Their crispy potato taco is the only thing I still go there for. And that’s suuuuuuuuper rare, like once every year or two.
I’m not vegetarian or anything, it’s just the only thing worth getting imho. It’s been on their budget menu since forever.