Mouselemming
@Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on ‘California sober’: marijuana may help you drink less, study finds 18 hours ago:
Might want to sniff, then taste if safe, and see if you have a half-bottle of vinegar for salad dressing.
- Comment on Is it normal to see this static when you close your eyes? 1 day ago:
Yes, and if you GENTLY press on your eyelids you can make other colors happen.
Also if you stare at a clear sky, NOT AT THE SUN, or at a bluish wall, you may see little swirly things, it’s the white blood cells in your retinas swimming around.
(Blue field entoptic phenomenon - Wikipedia share.google/MveakONY2KB3QXUUh)
- Comment on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues 2 days ago:
Might be a good moment to ask the Board if they’d like to go another route
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Did you delete a comment, or is this your comment? Because funny if so
- Comment on Is it bad if I'm 31 and I feel genuinely sad and empty that a mythical creature isn't real? 3 days ago:
Mythical or not, how creatures or people are portrayed in media often has very little to do with how they actually are. Or especially how one acts towards an individual, such as you. As long as it’s not leading you into doing something dangerous, or withdrawing from reality, your version/interpretation is just as valid as the stories someone else dreamed up.
- Comment on Brushing teeth before going to the dentist has the same motivator as shaving pubes before going to the gynecologist: If someone's going to be looking inside there, you want it to look nice. 1 week ago:
I completely agree. That said, a little lip balm while you’re in the waiting room can help with the chapping.
- Comment on Fox star trashes Trump’s 50-year mortgage plan: ‘I do not like this idea’ 1 week ago:
From the article:
Graham Stephan, a real estate investor and financial commentator, wrote on X: “A 50-Year mortgage would allow you to buy approximately 10 percent more house (or save about 10 percent) at the expense of nearly DOUBLING your payment schedule. There’s no way that ends well.
“A 50-year mortgage isn’t worth it and won’t add much benefit since your mortgage interest is front-loaded. Homeowners will have very little, if any, equity by the time they sell (homeowners keep their home an average of 11.8 years). It sounds good on paper, but financially, it makes very little sense.”
Montana Representative Lukas Schubert, a Republican, wrote on X: “The best way to help young homebuyers is to deport all the 30 million illegals from this country, that will free up a lot of housing!"
from me: Good point, Graham. As for you Lukas, who do you think builds houses and apartments in this country?
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 1 week ago:
Going to college can inform, but doesn’t cure innate stupidity. And if the student is particularly willful, they can hold onto their ignorance as well.
Case in point: Trump.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Maybe their version of “rule the planet” involved mostly just hanging out in their den and thinking interesting thoughts.
- Comment on Let him keep it. 1 week ago:
Agreed although apparently use of the meme is now expanded to include anything that sends us back to 1984, so it could mean “that’s an old joke” or “women these days appreciate a big stick, that’s outdated sexism.”
As an old woman, I disagree though. Big sticks should be appreciated in Nature and then left for someone else to enjoy. That’s not sexist. And OP’s comic is new to me. It’s also adorable.
- Comment on Let him keep it. 2 weeks ago:
He needs a shed outside to keep his big stick in.
- Comment on Let him keep it. 2 weeks ago:
Am I supposed to not be able to see what’s in her speech bubble?
- Comment on The 1980s summed up in a single photo. 3 weeks ago:
But those casinos stank just as bad, because stale cigarette smoke out-ranks cheap food
- Comment on It's interesting to see what qualifies as a swear in different languages. 3 weeks ago:
Yup, just assume they are.
- Comment on Does it get windy in New York City? 3 weeks ago:
But have you ever been downtown in any big city with lots of skyscrapers? The subheader of the question asks about those as well, and since the consensus is that NYC can be very windy because the grid funnels the wind (I’ve experienced it myself) it would be interesting to know if an older circular-walled city origin would cause the modern skyscrapers (planted in old lots) to block the wind more effectively, for instance.
- Comment on aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 3 weeks ago:
Meowtch
- Comment on The people who protest against the Palestinian Genocide would be the same people who protested against the Holocaust. 3 weeks ago:
Concentration camps yes, but Death Camps with gas chambers and crematoria, not intended to hold people for any longer than it took to “exterminate” them, were new. Even slave-labor camps of the sort where inmates were starved and worked to death were frowned upon, not considered normal. That’s why the Nazi lied, and created false camp films for propaganda.
- Comment on Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more 3 weeks ago:
Sorry to have set them up, mod. I should have known.
- Comment on Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more 4 weeks ago:
I can see the word. And it’s an appropriate reference to inappropriate speech by others, imho. But to avoid having the censorship interfere with making your point, you might want to type something like fxxxxt that gives a clue to the slur you’re referring to.
- Comment on A cavity search is when someone roots around in your canal 4 weeks ago:
Groan
- Comment on Carrot 4 weeks ago:
Some, but not most. There’s significant nutrition in the phloem (layer under the skin) which is not removed by peeling. And even the center has nutritional value. It is best to peel them just before using rather than let them sit around once peeled, since the peel protects them.
- Comment on Carrot 4 weeks ago:
I peel carrots because to me the peel tastes like dirt. As for that whole poop discussion, I’m pretty sure that guano in the soil is not the worst contaminant on the skin of the carrot. E. coli on vegetables for instance usually comes from the hands of someone who handled it.
I grant you that the skin probably also contains lots of vitamins, although there’s still plenty in the interior. And giving the carrot a really good scrub would get the skin clean.
But I’ve never been able to scrub away the dirt flavor to my satisfaction. So I peel them with a carrot peeler. The existence of which indicates it’s a common enough behavior not to merit an interrobang.
Though I do love an interrobang, so thanks.
- Comment on Carrot 4 weeks ago:
They did you a favor. The advantage is, you only have to peel One Carrot. And it’s not that hard to cut it up, you could even make carrot sticks and dice half of them for stew, or cut half and shred half for carrot salad. The sticks keep nicely in the fridge with a little cold water.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 4 weeks ago:
Yeah you might as well “work overnight to fix this,” because you can’t go to bed anyway
- Comment on Well do you? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on How do Ghostwriters work? Does the person the book is about say to the writer I will give you 2 or 20 percent of the sales or is it a 50 50 split? 4 weeks ago:
They usually get a set amount payable on submitting a final draft, or a salary. Which, if it’s an ego project, might be more lucrative than a percentage of profits.
- Comment on arborholing 4 weeks ago:
Consider the Navel Orange. Completely unable to reproduce on its own, yet it has millions of progeny because of people like you!
- Comment on Public service announcement 4 weeks ago:
It’s apparently less common than it used to be (I’m quite old, and I also had pelvic pain which is another reason for doing a rectovaginal exam) but considering the fact that colorectal cancer is skyrocketing in young adults maybe it should make a comeback.
- Comment on Public service announcement 4 weeks ago:
My Obstetricians didn’t but the (female) internist who did my pap smears as part of my annual physical did them. Not weird at all because she was examining the whole body, not just the female bits. And she warned me, as she did about everything down there, and didn’t mess around. She also took care as she opened the speculum so I could unclench (vaginismus). Frankly much more considerate than my second OB, I broke their speculum and they blamed me rather than their technique.
- Comment on Public service announcement 4 weeks ago:
Yes and after they swab/scrub/scrape your cervix they usually put a finger in the rectum to feel for lumps, and wipe it on a slide for a stool sample.