itt people who conflate declawing with trimming cat nails.

trimming is necessary; not trimming a cat’s claws can result in cat injury as they can’t unhook themselves from carpets and furniture.

have you ever seen a cat with long nails get up from threaded textures? they do NOT look happy.

Huh? Declawing maybe, but not trimming their claws.

If it does hurt, my cat doesn’t seem to show it at all/he literally just sits there and doesn’t move/will sleep through it.

If you have the latter, you probably have the former.

In the Mr. Rogers documentary, even he was asking his wife if he was a good enough person when he was nearing the end of his life.

His wife obviously told him he did more than enough and he was silly to even ask that question, but in a way I was happy to hear he asked that of himself because it shows how universal that question is of the human experience.

…uh, for anyone who has empathy anyways.

🥁

I am shoot on sight!

I’ve been reading Reality is Not What it Seems and it is breaking my brain; like I think I can actually feel my brain caving in on itself or making new wrinkles trying to comprehend what the hell he’s talking about. I THINK I’m following him, but ye gods time and gravity and… just everything… it’s boggling!

How’s the air quality? Is it at least below unknown records?

(i drew this comic when the air quality was so bad the local expert’s vibes were like “leave if you can; if you don’t you’ll uh… well honestly we don’t know what will happen to you, but it probably won’t be good.”

My spouse administers their own shots for their Chron’s disease medication; are the shots pretty much like… the tubular thingies wherein the needle’s kinda hidden and all you feel is the prick after pressing a button? Or is it like… the full-on here’s-a-fucking-needle-good-luck-chump shot?

Anyone have experience with the shots you can get to mitigate allergies/immunotherapy? I was thinking about getting them to temper my chronic sinusitis, and I don’t want to take Claritin for life.

unless you send the message alongside a Bitmoji they aren’t gonna read it…

…why am i helping you?

I need to delete this thread in the event my spouse sees it and gets any ideas.

I appreciate your clarifying what shouldn’t be put in the oven given the context of the community we’re in.

Plus I may have, at some point in my life, put a plastic (electric) kettle on a burner when my parents asked me to put the kettle on.

…I should probably be dead by now.

Do you happen to know if most microwaves throw a fit when they’re run while empty/with nothing to heat, or if it just some of them? I feel like i should’ve known that little factoid by now.

I need that for my weed vitamin d deficiency, and my cats hogs it.

I do, and I’m learning from this thread that that may be my solution.

Now to learn about what makes a plate oven-safe, though I’m sure it’s fine at the lowest temperature.

In a restaurant, they may just grab a plate that has just come out of the dishwasher since industrial dishwashers are really fucking hot.

I guess part of me knew this was the real reason the plates were hot and not because the diner warmed them up for me.

but that’s so much woooork though! for slightly-warmed plates! i gotta wait for it to heat up just to put a plate in there? my time is too valuable for such lengths!

…bah, this is probably the right answer.

My kitchen does not have enough room to accommodate something of that magnitude. Phooey.

Yeah this was my main problem with it was it was just very surface-level. Like I’m glad it’s being brought to the table for discussion for mainstream audiences, but it felt a bit glossed over like something I’d heard from an NPR story on video games; “did you know about this thing called incel culture? it’s all the rage with the youths.”

I don’t know what the solution is or how I want to see it conveyed, but I recall Polytechnique doing a better job at instilling horror in me from incel culture than Adolescence, albeit it was more subtle, and that was from 2009.