Tar_Alcaran

I don’t have a food-only budget, but our “supermarket + food” spending for 2 humans and 2 cats last year was ~280 euros per month. That includes takeout/delivery but not restaurants, cleaning materials, catfood (but not the vet), alcohol, snacks.

Hmmm, femicide or desperate suicide? Either one for probably the exact same reasons.

I wanted to design bridges and/or so something with history. So I went to school, took one year of civil engineering and realized that the last on earth I wanted to do was design bridges.

Switched to chemistry, got a PhD, realized the second-to-last thing I wanted to do was academia, followed closely by lab work.

Unfortunately I finished right in the middle of the housing crash, so I did QA for a factory for a bit (which combined a little policy stuff with a lot of labwork). Then went back to civil engineering, aiming for something chemistry ike asphalt or concrete.

That didn’t really work out, but I did end up being vastly overqualified for my job there. Rolled into safety and compliance by virtue of being the least unqualified person there. They paid for another college level degree during office hours, and then fired me after restructuring (thanks for the free degree guys!) so now I’m self-employed in safety and compliance, I do audits and help people and the environment stay safe and clean.

I do historical reenactment as a hobby, because history is cool!

Nooooo, do you really think we’ll need a computer to run it? You don’t say, and I thought we’d just use one of the big 1920s lever boards with lots of Frankenstein style switches and big manual valves and just work really really fast.

It’s hilarious that you’re phrasing as if the software is the problem, and the gigantic, multi billion dollar facility that is required to do it.

That’s not even a joke.

The most pessimistic cost for ITER, the first real fusion reactor, is 65 billion dollars in total.

In the last two years, we (people) have spent over 600 billion dollars on LLM shit. Mostly datacenters and GPUs.

I remember when steam launched, and we all fucking hated the “always online” requirement because be all had dialup and switching steam to offline mode was a damn annoying hassle.

Honestly, a lot of these examples fall under “did you not read anything you signed?”

But yeah, it’s a pretty big problem that banks are just allowed to go “Nah, we don’t want to deal with you”. It’s a problem entirely caused by political choices though, and the UK population have repeatedly shown what they want to happen by their shitty voting actions.

To run it in a circle is the same as leaving it to sit stagnant in a bowl except with extra dust collected from the air.

Some cats will genuinely drink more from moving water. Other cats love water with some waterplants in it. And yet more cats would rather lick from muddy puddles than drink fresh clean water.

Regardless, these fountains usually have filters.

Rig up a constantly dripping faucet and maybe your cat’s kidneys will stop failing after a few years.

Cats as a species have weak kidneys. Cat kidney failure is kinda like human cardiovascular disease. Older humans get, the more likely their cardiovascular system gives out, and the older cats get, the more likely their kidneys are to fail.

Dust in water is not a contributor to kidney failure unless you work on a lilly farm or aspirin factory or something.

Not at all. I’m saying you should interact and stand behind your interactions.

For example, you downvoted my post, which is fine. You also replied, which is also fine. Why is it bad that one isn’t on your profile (but it is public) and the other is openly visible in a list on your profile?

Interactions are by default public, otherwise there’s no point to interacting. I’d go one further and say that having the voting information public but not visible by default is by far the worst option.

i find it concerning because this enables creating a very detailed profile of a users interests, political alignment, medical issues, sexual orientation etc. Even if they never post anything!

So don’t interact. What you read isn’t stored, but if you interact, it should be public.

For example I accidentally upvoted a really disgusting NSFW post misclicking on my phone.

I agree that it’s dumb you don’t have a “my votes” page where you can remove that. But you can go to said post and just remove your vote.

Why is that concerning? The whole system was meant to be transparent

If you value stuff like safety and the environment, there’s also regulations.

Walk? In the snow? I have people for that.

Kittens and older cats can’t always clean themselves properly. And sometimes cats just do something incredibly dumb and need rescuing…

Holy shit, that’s some alternate history right there.

Ahhh, posted by a .ml account, of course

https://www.kielinstitut.de/publications/news/ukraine-support-tracker-europe-fails-to-offset-us-aid-drop/

This aid tracker says otherwise, but maybe it changed since the last update…

Nah, it’s not satire, it’s just brainwashing.

The alternative was not expanding NATO’s sphere,

NATO didn’t annex anyone, countries ask to join. Like Sweden and Finland did after Russia’s imperialist actions got a little too close.

We shall see how it evolves.

Well, Russia already gained two more NATO neighbors thanks to your aggression, so I wouldn’t exactly call it a roaring success so far.

The alternative is living in Russia and fighting for Gazprom

This has strong “look what you made me do” abuser energy.

Russia is attacking because they’re in an imperialist war against ukraine, not because of Zelensky