Mouselemming
@Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Why aren't Americans filling the manufacturing jobs we already have? 10 hours ago:
The temperature thing seems like it should be fixable and the union should call for it.
- Comment on Oh god 1 day ago:
Cat wand toy.
Perforated bowel coming up
- Comment on There should be something like a flea market where hobby gardeners go to share sprouted seeds 3 days ago:
Ooh, reading this post got me to search “seeds and cuttings exchange Santa Monica” and I discovered there’s a Seed Library in my area! “Sprouts” popped too many wrong results because it’s the name of an organic grocery store chain.
- Comment on Anyone? 5 days ago:
Augh, I’m okay but so embarrassed!
Just gonna add, you can use a stick of lip balm on cuticles!
- Comment on Anyone? 5 days ago:
If having lotion in your hands makes you uncomfortable, try just dabbing a tiny bit on the the backs of your fingernails and rubbing them against each other to spread it only on your cuticles. No slimy fingerpads or palms, and it really helps.
- Comment on Anyone? 5 days ago:
If having lotion in your hands makes you uncomfortable, try just putting a
- Comment on Second US Navy jet is lost at sea from Truman aircraft carrier 1 week ago:
At this rate there won’t be any left for the birthday parade!
- Comment on aaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAA 1 week ago:
I “heard” that title to the tune of “Immigrant Song”
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 1 week ago:
A fucking rhino!?
How many people did it take to get him on the gurney?
- Comment on If you see a bunch of otherwise normal people with the same odd behavior then you are probably seeing the effects of a marketing campign. The effects can last for years, even decades. 1 week ago:
Are you sure that’s not just the innate weirdness of theatre students you’re seeing?
- Comment on What's the matter Aquaman? 1 week ago:
Depends, it’d be cool if he could be made as a tub toy that swims fast
- Comment on A completely useful compulsion I have. 1 week ago:
Are you a lefty? (Left-handed, I assume you’re politically Left because you’re here)
- Comment on A completely useful compulsion I have. 1 week ago:
Eggs all over the floor! Especially if the carton is also not quite hooked shut, or slightly creased.
- Comment on When you count, your lips don't touch until 1 million. 2 weeks ago:
F is still not lip-to-lip, because air is leaking out your mouth between teeth and lip.
M, all the air comes out your nose, mouth is closed.
N, it’s your tongue stopping the air and sending it through your nose, lips are open.
- Comment on When you count, your lips don't touch until 1 million. 2 weeks ago:
Lip on teeth isn’t lip-to-lip
- Comment on The crossbow 😭 2 weeks ago:
That’s a hip, not a belly. I think.
- Comment on Trump, in blue, sleeping at Pope Francis' funeral 2 weeks ago:
Also, what’s happened to Melania, with her veil and look of loathing?
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 2 weeks ago:
Add-on question: when using a fork, do you put the points on the plate (or stab a piece) and then use your knife to push food onto the downward curve of the tines (I would say the back but that’s because I don’t do this) and lift it points-down?
Or do you carry food on the concave curve of the tines (as well as stabbed on the points of course) and lift it points-up?
This is cultural, neither is incorrect, but it might affect your choice of fork.
- Comment on Holy shit, pick one already please 2 weeks ago:
Llama mischievous bad
(Dalai) Llama mischievous good
- Comment on Why hasn't congress passed a law saying that you can only deport people *back to their own country*? 2 weeks ago:
There’s a lot wrong with sending everyone to El Salvador or Gitmo. But quite a few people who seek asylum are trying to escape a deadly situation in their own country. (Yes if they’re trying for asylum they’re not supposed to be deported without due process but that’s not stopping the Reich.
- Comment on How Tariffs Will Skyrocket Electronics Prices - IEEE Spectrum 2 weeks ago:
Unrelated, but ever since I was a child I’ve been hearing a comic-book villain scream when I read, “IEEE!”
- Comment on How important is it that cans are clean when i put them in the recycling. 3 weeks ago:
Since you have so many, and I assume the food is dried-on, consider tearing off the paper labels and running them through the dishwasher. It’s what I do with my cat’s food cans (along with regular dishes) and it works great.
- Comment on The fastest bicycle in history is the stationary bike on the ISS. 3 weeks ago:
And yet it’s not positioned for you to look out the window
- Comment on Becoming more and more normal 3 weeks ago:
Anybody checked under “Krasnov” yet?
- Comment on Tomorrow: grass extinction 4 weeks ago:
And I don’t think those were clean hands
- Comment on Even his doctors are full of it 4 weeks ago:
Cute joke, but more likely osteoporosis, preceded by childbearing. Pregnancy hormones make tendons in general soften/stretch, in order for the pelvis to let the head through. I had C-sections, but my feet got bigger and apparently the rest of my bones sagged a bit too. And now I’m getting thinner vertebrae.
- Comment on Even his doctors are full of it 4 weeks ago:
My doctor’s office measured my height along with my weight last year. First time I remember since I’ve been an adult. I’m an old white woman and apparently I’ve lost an inch.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 4 weeks ago:
Funny thing, as they do, they open spaces you can anticipate and use. Even a roadhog can’t hog the whole road, they’re always moving away from somewhere. You signal and start to edge right, they zoom forward, you ease slightly off the gas and get the front corner of your car into the space behind their left rear tail light, now you’re in that lane and ahead of the guy behind them, and you stay close until you get fully in the lane. Then of course you leave a safe buffer in front of you. Your goal isn’t to be the first in front, but to use the lanes to get where you need to go.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 4 weeks ago:
You’re right of course. You should drive defensively at all times, and with courtesy, remembering the humans around you. But it’s also dangerous and confusing to others if you don’t take the right of way when it’s yours. Or if you signal a move and then don’t do it. As with my example of lane changing, you can anticipate another driver not making it easy and use that to find your spot. You shouldn’t try to zoom ahead and cut them off, and you shouldn’t even be starting to signal if there’s not room. But soon after you start blinking, your car should at least indicate what you’re doing by changing position within your own lane, and then you should finish the move as soon as it’s safe.
You should also realize that the other person’s signals need to be treated as a warning. Even if the car and its driver look small and easily intimidated, you should allow them the space to make their move. Too many drivers don’t.
I’m going to add, if you see someone do something incredibly stupid, assume their GPS just gave them an impossible direction. Or their kid is kidnapped and they are hurrying to the ransom drop. Or whatever it takes for you to let go of your frustration and just add it into the day’s tally of crazy driving rather than getting angry.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 4 weeks ago:
Always use the blinker. Remember it’s not a request, it’s a warning.
When changing lanes in fast traffic, using the blinker will usually cause the car next to you to speed up. This is a feature, not a bug, as it opens a space behind them into which you can stick the nose of your car, ahead of the guy following them.
Adding in: if you routinely drive with your lights on, you will find that little extra visibility makes people slightly less likely to cut you off or more likely to let you in. Sometimes they don’t mean to be assholes, they’re just distracted, and being more visible helps. If you consider that “dingdingding” a reminder to lock it, it will turn off the lights and be safe.