QualifiedKitten
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- Comment on Cool Bug Fact #47 21 hours ago:
I’m not afraid, in fact, I desire it. But there’s a couple people who’d be pretty upset if I left, and I don’t want to hurt them, so I’m stuck here.
- Comment on Will never understand how anyone wears these. 3 days ago:
Absolutely! Just thought it was interesting and tangentially relevant.
- Comment on Will never understand how anyone wears these. 3 days ago:
Fun tidbit: high heels shift the stance from plantigrade to digitigrade. Many animals, including cats and dogs, are digitigrades and naturally walk on just their toes.
- Comment on Is my laundry machine broken? 3 days ago:
What if you’re using liquid detergent?
- Comment on meal choice 4 days ago:
You have $3 to spend and can pick any combination of items. The items in the top row cost $5 each, the items in the middle row cost $4 each, and the items in the bottom row cost $1 each.
Spoiler
Since you only have $3, you can only afford to choose from items in the bottom row.
- Comment on Do dogs actually like having their belly rubbed or do they just know we really like to rub their bellies? 1 week ago:
One of my cats is also a lover of belly rubs, to the point that I joke about his belly being a trap again. When we snuggle and I wrap my arm around him, he’ll often adjust his hind legs so that my arm is sandwiched between them. He also sometimes wraps his front paws around my arm and pulls my hand in towards his belly.
- Comment on *Proceeds to append an exclamation mark* 2 weeks ago:
My new job has us doing various security trainings every month and they also send out fake phishing emails. I initially ignored the emails prompting me to do the training because they require you to click a personalized link in the email to access the training. Eventually, my manager reached out and asked why I hadn’t done the training, so I explained, but finally clicked through to do it. That month’s training was about how a long passphrase is more secure than a list of character type requirements. Guess whose password requirements are a list of character type requirements?
- Comment on Tiddies are nice but the metric system is better 2 weeks ago:
I want to upvote metric, but downvote “tiddies”. 😡
- Comment on Gotta go sad! 3 months ago:
So, you’re telling me that if I just walk slower, I’ll be happier?
- Comment on Sound of silence 3 months ago:
I think it depends on the beach. If it’s somewhere with lots of other people, somewhere super accessible, then I kinda expect it. But if it’s a less populated beach, maybe one that’s more difficult to get to, I probably chose it in hopes of listening to nature.
- Comment on What? 3 months ago:
I think that’s Swiff_er_?
- Comment on Growth 3 months ago:
I just like the bisexual flag colors better.
- Comment on ngl kinda hoping people start arguing over this 4 months ago:
My bathroom is my foster room, so yes, the door is often closed, but definitely doesn’t solve the TP problem.
- Comment on Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers? 4 months ago:
Another issue: multiple times I have gone out of my way to avoid Amazon only to find out the company is still using Amazon for delivery anyway. The most recent one was shoes. I literally went to the physical store to try on shoes, but decided on a color/size combination that they didn’t have in stock. The sales person did their magic to order the shoes for me, and they were still fucking delivered by Amazon.
- Comment on Is it weird that I cringe whenever someone calls my name and I avoid using peoples names when talking to them? 5 months ago:
Chiming in to say, yep, me too. One example that used to really drive me nuts was when I’d go to the gym and the person at the front desk would acknowledge me by name, even though we’ve never had an actual conversation or anything. It felt fake and forced and I hated it so much.
I also always felt so awkward as a kid talking about my friends’ parents. Mr./Mrs. LastName usually felt weird, but it also usually felt weird to use their first names, so I’d almost always refer to them as Friend’s mom/dad.
- Comment on it isn't 7 months ago:
Assuming it’s a real cat, my best guess is that it’s a black & white cat with advanced vitiligo? I’m not aware of any coat genetics that would explain that sort of spotting pattern.
- Comment on Can't believe it's been renamed for a year now! 8 months ago:
They still haven’t actually updated it on all the government sites though.
- Comment on 8 months ago:
I’m a millennial, and regularly talk to friends & family on the phone. There’s plenty of situations where I’d much rather talk on the phone than communicate via text.
- Comment on 8 months ago:
Slight edit based on a conversation I had once at a bar with people of widely varying ages: Image
- Comment on Do you ever feel guilty for trying to sign up for government assistance programs? 8 months ago:
Nope. I got laid off over a year ago, then diagnosed with cancer. I feel guilty for being detered by how complicated some of them are and for not taking full advantage of the programs while I’m at a point where I really do need them and qualify for them. I’m on the mend now, and as soon as I can find a job again, I’ll be glad to be paying back into those programs.
- Comment on 8 months ago:
Oh yeah, you’re right. I was focusing on just where the first day of the week lands, not the full month calendar.
- Comment on 8 months ago:
No, since there’s only 7 different possibilities, then over a sufficiently large sample, the probabilities would all still balance out to 1 in 7.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Find some organizations you’d be interested in volunteering with and pull up their websites to find out what they need. Some will list it on their websites, but for others you might have to send an email or submit an application first. Yes, some organizations will ask their volunteers for a minimum commitment since training takes effort, but others will have opportunities for you to commit one day at a time.
A friend of mine volunteers at a local food bank and also a tiny home building group, and just signs up for random shifts here & there when their availability matches the scheduling needs. Me personally, I’ve been volunteering to foster cats for years now. The organization I’m with also needs volunteers for a variety of administrative roles, driving/transportation, and trapping (TNR). There’s another group I’ve been meaning to check out that just does some park maintenance once a month, and their info page says “no RSVP necessary”, so you can just show up.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 8 months ago:
Huh. I’m unemployed & job hunting right now, and have had a few interviews via Teams. I’m running Mint and using the Teams web app in Firefox, and for some reason, the sound has never worked properly, so we’ve ended up switching to phone each time. The sound works fine in Zoom. My next interview expects to conduct it via Teams video, so I found a friend with Teams to help me troubleshoot later today. I was thinking maybe it was a Firefox problem, but it works fine in Firefox for you?
- Comment on Fuck you in particular 1 year ago:
Joke’s on them! They’re annoying me into saving my money!
- Comment on Jajajaja 1 year ago:
Wait, for real? Is that an actual thing? I zoomed in trying to figure out what that is, and that was my conclusion, but I also concluded that I couldn’t possibly be right…
- Comment on Anon eats Italian 1 year ago:
2 eggshells of water
What a random measurement! Does that mean just half the shell, full of water, twice? I realize precision here is probably unnecessary, but my brain is just really struggling!
- Comment on It's efficient. 1 year ago:
I was so confused, trying to figure out why anyone would want to grind up Smarties on their pizza.
- Comment on Chipolo, an AirTag rival, debuts rechargeable trackers with a six-month battery life 1 year ago:
- Comment on Pandering to conservative Americans 1 year ago:
It’s also printed on In-N-Out drink cups & Forever 21 plastic bags.
