KittenBiscuits
@KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee
- Comment on When you die, what do you want to be done with you? 3 weeks ago:
We’re all just recirculated stardust.
- Comment on When you die, what do you want to be done with you? 3 weeks ago:
I found a service that will mix your ashes in concrete and make you into an artificial reef. I like the idea of getting coral and sea fans to grow on me.
- Comment on Do you think being left-handed gives any unique qualities or advantages compares to other right handed? 3 weeks ago:
We don’t have to switch hands with our forks in order to pick up a knife.
- Comment on Where can I buy a mosquito laser system? 4 weeks ago:
You need more capital. One
million… billion dollars oughta do it. - Comment on When people say the AI bubble will burst, what exactly does that mean? 5 weeks ago:
Yes. They don’t have to be public companies for investors to lose their shirts, and employees to lose their jobs.
- Comment on Is there a subsect of the minimalist community that's focused on portable living? 2 months ago:
What kind of work do they get into?
- Comment on Horse-flippers? Have any horses from history, ever been fitted with horseshoes that improve their ability to swim? 2 months ago:
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- Comment on Horse-flippers? Have any horses from history, ever been fitted with horseshoes that improve their ability to swim? 2 months ago:
I 100% expected this to turn into a Hell in the Cell meme
- Comment on Horse-flippers? Have any horses from history, ever been fitted with horseshoes that improve their ability to swim? 2 months ago:
Same! First thought the title was a typo!
- Comment on How do I know if a medical issue should be addressed by a Clinic Visit, Urgent Care, or the Emergency Room? 2 months ago:
Very good points. I based my comment on a personal experience with family, and they were not endangered by waiting a few days to see a cardiologist. I didn’t know there could be other causes that are critical enough for the ER. But I should have guessed because I know it is similar with tachycardia. Sometimes someone’s had too much Red Bull, and sometimes it’s a birth defect in the nodes in the heart and heavy sedatives are needed to calm that down.
- Comment on How do I know if a medical issue should be addressed by a Clinic Visit, Urgent Care, or the Emergency Room? 2 months ago:
If it’s bugging you not knowing and you don’t wait until your clinic appt, then yes, urgent care would be able to at least tell you if it’s an emergency cardiac event and send you on to the ER, or if it’s something like afib and it can wait to follow up with an office visit.
- Comment on Ok so coffee is made from coffee beans. And beans are *also* made from beans. Why is nobody making, like, black bean coffee? 3 months ago:
Anything is edible. Once.
- Comment on Why do boomers hate squirrels so much? 3 months ago:
Squirrels can clean out a feeder pretty quickly. Not as fast as deer can, but much faster than the birds.
So it’s a pain in the ass to go fill it back up, and it costs money. A person gets a bird feeder because they want to watch birds. There are cheaper ways to feed squirrels, if you like squirrels.
Both squirrels and birds can build nests in your home. Squirrels can chew their way into your attic, then you risk them chewing through wires. Birds nest in your dryer vent or bathroom vent. A nest in the dryer vent is a fire hazard. And they can introduce bird mites into your home. It’s like having a bed bug infestation except you can’t see them, their bites are hella itchy, and at least they can be dealt with by multiple rounds of thorough vacuuming. Ask me how I know.
I used to love to keep a bird feeder and watch the bird party on a snowy day. But I wasn’t out to feed the deer, and the mite problem erased any lingering feelings about feeding birds.
- Comment on If Necromancy suddenly became possible, can the undead be called as a witness during court proceedings? 3 months ago:
Hellboy animated a corpse to get info out of it. I don’t think he subscribes to modern jurisprudence though. I don’t recall him being concerned in the least with handing the corpse a subpoena first.
- Comment on If Russia takes out all the Internet cables like the news is saying. How much of that traffic can be re-routed to satellite? 3 months ago:
I know, what if we put lasers on the birds!
- Comment on What does dying from all causes mean? 3 months ago:
Puff, puff, pass away
- Comment on I'm not a good liar but need to pretend I like my current job and not rant about how much I dislike it till I find a job I like more. How do I make my coworkers and supervisors believe this lie? 3 months ago:
I have seen PIPs that are fair and actually used as intended, and I have seen PIPs that are so demanding, it’s beyond obvious that they want you to fail so they have an excuse to let you go. Which do you think this one is?
I’m getting the vibe that this is the latter. I am not at all familiar with working under a union contract, but in a hostile situation, I would consider the likelihood of success of going to HR and saying “let’s skip the PIP that you can’t enforce anyway, offer me a reasonable severance, and I’m out of your hair today/this week.”
You don’t need to be running yourself ragged pretending to try to meet their unreasonable demands at the same time as you’re job hunting.
- Comment on What other animals "make music" together? (Specifically harmony or rhythmic coordination) 4 months ago:
If it’s rained in the late afternoon then stops by nighttime, the frogs in the marshland across the street seem to synchronize their songs and get very very loud.
I’ve heard katydids do the same thing at night after very hot days.
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- Comment on If global warming is a biproduct of humans, wouldn't the logical answer be to kill 2/3rds of the humans? 5 months ago:
But if enough were detonated, would it create a nuclear winter thereby offsetting the warming trend? Image
- Comment on Am I ruining my liver? 6 months ago:
Long time headache adventurer here.
You are basically making a homemade Excedrin (acetaminophen + aspirin + caffeine). Stimulants cause your body to metabolize the pain reliever more quickly.
As for if you’re ruining your liver, I can’t say, other than you should probably go see you doctor and ask for a blood panel/ liver function test. Even if your liver values are normal, you’ll know for sure, and have a baseline to compare future tests against. Plus your doctor may have some thoughts on why you’re having a headache everyday.
For me it turned out that while i had acceptable blood pressure, it was high “for me”, and a beta blocker took care of the most frequent headaches. But we didn’t figure that out until we had ruled out a whole bunch of other things.
It was a frustrating journey to be sure. I wish you luck in yours.
- Comment on Are shrunken heads a rights violation? 6 months ago:
Well I hope you’ve taken the brains out at this point, or else things would start to get a little stinky.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
If you can boil water, you can can. Jars are reusable. Lids will be your most scarce commodity after a while (you shouldn’t reuse the lids after they have been under pressure). Build a little smokehouse and you can preserve your meat.
I don’t even worry about downloading how to’s. There are libraries and book stores that have this information that isn’t dependent on any kind of electrical device to access it. These sites probably won’t be high priority scavenge sites to the average survivor either.
Winter meals will be mostly canned veggies, bread, and beans for protein. Salt or smoke cured meats infrequently. You’ll learn to trap small game or hunt deer. Surviving will be a lot of work but it’s totally with reach of anyone who can camp or is crafty/handy.
