Mouselemming
@Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Nature Valley: 10 bars in 5 packs 9 hours ago:
Or better, put the pack in the bottom of your backpack and at lunchtime pour the whole smashed bag of crumbs into a little tub of yogurt and eat it with a spoon 🥄
- Comment on Big booty meteorologists are best meteorologists 20 hours ago:
He’s only boring-ass in that suit jacket. Were he to remove it, you’d be able to appreciate his hot booty. Which of course he has, because he’s a true meteorologist.
- Comment on Does it seem odd to track my lifespan? 4 days ago:
You’re 15-16 years old.
At that age, it’s normal for you and your peers to make dismissive judgements about each other’s behavior as you sort out your own ways of existing in the world.
What “weird” means here is, “this makes me uncomfortable so I reject it.” Similarly, if they’d said it was “cool” it would mean, “this intrigues me and I might like to try it in my life.”
In both cases they project their personal reaction as of it’s the universal judgement of society. And because at this age the opinion of one’s peers is an important part of one’s self-esteem, you’ve taken it as a social judgement rather than a personal one, and come to Lemmy to see if there’s social support for your side.
Personally, I can only say, there’s no harm in it. If it’s weird at all, it’s good weird, like most weird is.
I would look at that number differently on different days. Sometimes I might interpret it as a reminder to get shit done. Today I might think, “You have survived these many days, you can survive today.” Although at my age, the number of days is gonna run out of room on the screen…
You do you, hon.
- Comment on pick your side 1 week ago:
I like the way you think
- Comment on Rules for Life 1 week ago:
This is why I have a little bottle of gabapentin in the fridge. I’m fine with the scars of playful nips and accidental scratches but sometimes a gentle manicure is needed or it’s necessary to get her into the carrier and go to the vet. And just in case she’s ever injured, I could ease the pain before taking her in and she wouldn’t struggle and maybe injure herself more. Because pain doesn’t stop a cat, they just fight harder.
- Comment on Crime 1 week ago:
Just remember, Mom says it isn’t really levitating or flying if you can’t do it straight off the ground! Jumping off a high place doesn’t count, and nobody’s impressed, so don’t even bother.
- Comment on Tell me what it smells like in the comments! 1 week ago:
MTG? You don’t mean Margerine Tailor Green do you? She’s more unhinged aggression than depression. Although the “smells like ass sweat” part probably would fit.
- Comment on orinthologists be like 2 weeks ago:
How do you even type “orinthologists”? Maybe it’s because I’m on mobile but it’s automatically corrected to ornithologists before I even finish. Besides don’t you remember learning it in middle school and your teenage brain branding them “hornythologists”?
- Comment on You know, with his health, I'm just happy he's healthy enough to take a dump. 3 weeks ago:
Poor sweetie is doing the best she can, pooping in the box and THOROUGHLY burying it! My old cat did that until the day she died. But our present cat is unclear on the concept; she scratches at the plastic edge and in the air, then walks away with the poop still proudly and aromatically perched atop the undisturbed litter. It’s a tradeoff.
- Comment on But they wouldn't know the taste 3 weeks ago:
Alien: Damn, it looks just like my mother-in-law!
- Comment on Sunday 3 weeks ago:
Maybe it was unintentional. You can’t see what the topside of your jellymold will look like before it’s inverted, so they could have tried for a floral pink effect and taking this picture shows they have a sense of humor about their failure.
- Comment on what the heck is a pensioner in the UK and why are they the butt of so many jokes ? 3 weeks ago:
Just gonna hop in here and give a shout-out to “One Foot In the Grave.” In the US it’s on BritBox.
- Comment on Anon misses a potential match 3 weeks ago:
Plot twist: Anon is the fastest man you’ve ever seen in your whole life. He just swiped away the only woman on Tinder who would ever swipe right on him.
- Comment on don't tell iceland 4 weeks ago:
The street address doesn’t exist. April fools
- Comment on don't tell iceland 4 weeks ago:
Must be an April Fools prank.
215 Juniper St. Pismo Beach CA doesn’t exist.
- Comment on don't tell iceland 4 weeks ago:
That earthly address does not exist. Pismo Beach is just that, a beach. (You can successfully dig for clams there, or you could when I was a kid.) And there’s no street by that name anywhere in the vicinity.
- Comment on don't tell iceland 4 weeks ago:
I know this one! Baby latches on and Mama pumps a big gulp of milk, baby swallows one, done! So baby doesn’t have to hold it’s breath too long.
The address is the ad doesn’t exist, though. Which is good because there’s no way anyone could ethically harvest whale milk.
- Comment on [CW: Slurs/pejoratives, morality] When is it considered immoral if someone is saying something that they know is pejorative and they are not intending it as disparaging towards the original group? 5 weeks ago:
I’m in my mid-60s and I would still assume “queer” or “gay” when used about a human being refers to them being not-cishet in some way.
I can see them being used about something inanimate. A rainbow flag and a US flag can both flutter gaily in a parade. And a queer old Cabinet of Curiosities might be intriguing.
- Comment on Anan La Italian BMT 5 weeks ago:
Mamala Salmon
- Comment on How did overalls and jumpsuits went from male work clothe to female fashion without becoming "male fashion" ? 5 weeks ago:
I just tried that and it didn’t work.
- Comment on Is the combined knowledge of humanity safer than it has ever been? 1 month ago:
The problem of restoration after a catastrophic event might be less technical and more about sifting the knowledge from the misinformation and idiocy. There’s worthwhile known fiction as well, cultural icons that are understood in context but after a longer loss might just be clutter, or even cause trouble.
Think about how, after the fall of the Roman Empire, a lot of technical knowledge was lost but the Bible was not only preserved but increased its influence in the practice of medicine, and politics, maybe architecture, certainly art. What if, instead of every town having a church full of gilded pictures of saints, there were pictures showing how to build an aqueduct and bath house? Or even cat pictures? Arguably keeping cat-worship alive could have prevented the devastating losses of the Black Plague.
- Comment on if the bird flu started spreading between humans, how long would you need to stay quarantined before it was safe to come out?? 1 month ago:
We killed off one strain of flu by our less-than-perfect quarantining for COVID. If we mask up for Texas Moo Flu, we’d stop spreading COVID around so much and might slow down its mutation too. At least with flu we know how it’s transmitted, and have related vaccines to tweak. Maybe we’ll be able to call off the Return To Workplace bullshit, too.
- Comment on Do birds find it unpleasant to be out in the rain? 1 month ago:
I have a balcony with bushes, and hummingbirds always perch on the inner twigs to get out of the rain, eschewing their usual dogfights around the feeder.
- Comment on Why do people around me tend to increase their responsibility load (i.e. have children, become a manager, do charity, etc.) while I (30M) try to avoid it as much as I can? 1 month ago:
As long as you feel you want to avoid responsibilities, please do so in a responsible way. Use condoms every time, and don’t get involved with a person who wants children. Be a good support-player at work so your manager doesn’t have to be a bitch (they still might, in which case support your coworkers). And contribute in low-effort ways like donating an occasional pint of blood if you’re eligible, or offering to put someone else’s cart away at the grocery store. Just being a decent person is enough.
- Comment on Why do we castrate animals instead of giving them vasectomies? 1 month ago:
Seems, but you’d have to experiment to see if it actually worked. Cats are nothing if not out-of-the-box ninjas.
- Comment on Why do we castrate animals instead of giving them vasectomies? 1 month ago:
Yeah, probably true. It would take a critical mass of sterile males to make a real difference. But neutered males aren’t trying at all, so females in heat are only mating with fertile males now. If a percentage of the fucks were not going to produce kittens, they might have smaller litters at least. Also if the sterile males were successful at fighting off fertile rivals. Again, neutered males aren’t trying.
- Comment on Why do we castrate animals instead of giving them vasectomies? 1 month ago:
You raise an interesting point with regard to TNE males in feral cat communities. Normally we like the fact that neutered males don’t spend all their time fighting and fucking and marking their territory. But if you had a vasectomied male or six around, you might get fewer of the fertile females impregnated by the fertile males you haven’t caught. Like when we release sterile male mosquitoes. It would be more difficult and expensive but maybe more effective in reducing the population.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Eh, what’s the big deal about walking? Rolling is better in most places. Most walkers choose to roll when given the opportunity, especially for long distances.
- Comment on When will the floss stop hurting 1 month ago:
Once a day is good for flossing, I do it just before brushing my teeth at night, so the bristles and toothpaste can get where the floss cleared out the gunk. It should stop hurting soon and just “wake up” your gums instead.
Think of the floss like a blade and scrape, don’t saw! Obviously if your teeth are tight together you might have to wiggle back and forth a little to get between them, but as soon as you get down to your gums, only go up and down, scraping the side of each tooth, not really going after the gum itself.
I like the Oral B GLIDE “gum care” flossers, because you can pinch to pull the floss taut and wiggle it between tight teeth, then relax it to curve around the sides of the tooth, and get the correct angle even way at the back of the mouth. I rinse and reuse them several times for less waste. Otherwise I like Floss Tape, which is wider than regular floss for more cleaning, less cutting.
Try swishing with warm salt water when your gums feel sore, you can do it anytime. And get some extra vitamin C into your system. It’s good for gums, that’s why bad gums are a symptom of scurvy.
Good on you for doing what your grandmother says! At our age, we know how important it is to keep your teeth as healthy as you can, and as long as you can.
- Comment on And the most popular man in the whole Fediverse is... 1 month ago:
I’m over here laughing, you’re completely playing out the “man can’t handle being corrected by a woman so he resorts to loading on the multisyllabic jargon in order to pretend his arguments are too complex for her to understand instead of facing his own prejudice.” You’re still supporting antisemitism. And that’s all there is to it. I’m not even Jewish, but bigotry is bigotry.