Mouselemming
@Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Could my daughter, who is a lawyer, defend my son’s girlfriend, who killed my cousin’s family in a DUI accident? 18 hours ago:
Why “daughter” and “child” then? Not daughters, age 16 and 2, or daughter and son? If it were the reverse I’d assume the teen was nonbinary but it’s unusual in a toddler
- Comment on Could my daughter, who is a lawyer, defend my son’s girlfriend, who killed my cousin’s family in a DUI accident? 2 days ago:
Your cousin’s daughter was made pregnant and gave birth at 14, then she and her toddler were killed by a drunk driver? I sincerely hope this story really is hypothetical. Otherwise my deepest sympathy to her, and condolences to anyone who loved those poor children.
Oh, and your daughter should refer the case because whether or not it’s legal, she could be forced into a position that destroys her relationships in the family.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Destroying the habitat for endangered desert species
- Comment on It is time to dispel all of the disinformation surrounding the life & death of Charlie Kirk. 4 days ago:
I think you meant “reserved” but I got an interesting mental image from “assassination is reversed”!
- Comment on They gonna cat 6 days ago:
Might as well put it back down on the table where it will be stable and Fluffy can curl up comfortably. It’s got a lid after all. Or better yet, put it on the floor. For cats, low is boring.
- Comment on Happy 3.14 Day 1 week ago:
Okay I vote we get ein stein of beer with our pie!
- Comment on 1 week ago:
This isn’t going to cure tides, you know.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
They didn’t post their vagene.
Feel free to wear a seethrough shirt
- Comment on Glorious cracked out wall kitten returns with more wisdom for the masses. 1 week ago:
I back into my spot when I get home as a gift to Future Me. She’s always in a hurry.
Also, as a short person driving a raised/lowered minivan (floor is lowered so the whole is raised until it kneels as the ramp comes down) with a rear camera, it’s easier to back in exactly all the way than to see down over the hood.
- Comment on Candy cigarettes are illegal because they encourage kids to smoke 2 weeks ago:
You know what? I think I’ll go tell him exactly that! Use the stupid for good. Not only because kids should have to use their own initiative to get addicted to drugs, but it’s also too much plastic and sugar.
- Comment on Can I assemble a metal building by myself? 2 weeks ago:
Boy is this exactly the sort of “go down to that parking lot and hire a couple of ‘Mexicans’ (whatever country they really come from)” scenario that Trump is ruining in the US.
Should you live somewhere else, there’s probably unskilled day workers who would hold the other end for a pittance and a lunch, and skilled day workers who would be more expensive but would have the whole thing done by lunchtime if you’d just get out of the way, dinnertime if you help.
I say crack that box, and/or look online to find the instructions. If you know how to do what’s required, hire the cheap guy who will just do what you say. Still better than drunk friends who will argue with you. And he needs the money.
- Comment on The Hole 2 weeks ago:
Oh, that’s a very good point!
- Comment on The Hole 2 weeks ago:
Be very careful, boys (and others) have been killed by collapsing sand holes. No matter how fast their friends tried to dig them out. The sand is not just cutting off your air, and filling your mouth and nose if you try to inhale, it’s also a crushing weight on your lungs, much more than avalanche snow for instance. If you want to dig a hole deeper than your chest, do it in more-solid dirt, not sand.
- Comment on The Fate of the Reptiles of the Leningrad Zoo 3 weeks ago:
Star tortoise lifespan is 35 to 80 years, better care longer life, and the fact it handled the cold and deprivation so well suggests it was an adult to begin with. So it probably lived awhile longer and then died a natural death, and some nuance shifted in the translation.
- Comment on women 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t read the linked article but from skimming the intro, it seems they found that unprovoked men are more likely to be violent but hell hath no fury like a provoked woman?
I initially connected your previous sentence, so I incorrectly thought it was the victim statistics that evened out, and the disparity was because the male victims were provoking, i.e. asking for it.
- Comment on Pls respond 3 weeks ago:
Fortunately they’re allatime swishing with salt water
- Comment on Fat labrador topilogy 3 weeks ago:
Given it also has a mouth-to-anus tube, is there a name for a double torus? Genus-2 torus I guess
- Comment on You trying to give me a heart attack? I have warrants for chrissakes! 3 weeks ago:
All songs with sirens should start with an advisory, like in the lyrics by the lead singer, with the opening chords, so it plays every time.
“Yo, motherfuckers, we got sirens comin’ up in this bitch, so crack a window in case the popo sneak up on your ass during the chorus.”
(Hello fellow kids do we still say popo?)
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Would you arrange your bromo bricks to form circles or just go wackadoodle?
- Comment on The people who believe "progressiveness is just a fad that one grows out of" are the same people that grew up getting brainwashed into regressive politics. The belief is only true for them. 3 weeks ago:
As an oldster who becomes more progressive (and shorter) every year I have to disagree.
- Comment on xkcd #3212: Little Red Dots 3 weeks ago:
RELEASE THE CATEN!
- Comment on Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst 3 weeks ago:
Arizona is not on the West Coast
- Comment on 5,000-year-old bureaucracy: Over 7,000 prehistoric seal impressions uncovered in western Iran 3 weeks ago:
Damn, I guess those pinnipeds were large and in charge
(If this is a no jokes place give me a bunch of down votes and I’ll delete it. But that is how my lazy brain read “seal impressions,” like fossilized tracks or toothmarks or bones)
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Meryl Streep movie, she could save only one child from the Nazis (or they’d have killed both, the cruelty was the point) and the guilt and trauma stays with her throughout her life.
I was implying that if your mom had to give up one twin for adoption it might still be a painful thing she doesn’t want to talk about.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Your mom said the doctor told her the ultrasound showed “two babies” but I had an ultrasound at 5 weeks and they looked at the tiny embryonic speck and said, “there’s the baby!” In fact no babies are shown in ultrasounds, only fetuses. But my point was, they may have seen one 7-month fetus and one little shriveled thing and said “there’s two babies.”
I guess it’s also possible she brought two babies to term, made a “Sophie’s Choice” to give one up for adoption, and didn’t want you to be heartbroken or afraid of being given away too. And since other people had heard about her being pregnant with twins, she gave you a story you could accept as a child.
And another possibility is that the doctor gave her anesthesia or rohypnol or something and took the twin to put up for adoption, telling her it was absorbed. She’d know she had given birth but not remember it was twice. It’s terrible but not unheard of.
You could ask her, if you feel you’re both adult enough now to handle the emotional implications of all the possible explanations. Remember that you can still trust her love no matter what, but she might not know the whole truth and/or might be ashamed to admit it.
- Comment on We're just scanning for the bear... 3 weeks ago:
I hope you’ve started scanning the dark periphery like we do. Not because you deserved anything that happened to you! And I’m not assuming you weren’t already. But because I can’t do anything to protect you from over here on the Internet and I don’t want that to happen to you anymore. It’s when we’re near home that we tend to let our guard down.
- Comment on I have no idea how to do my laundry 3 weeks ago:
If you have lingerie marked “hand wash only” you can use a clean sink and a little liquid hand soap if you don’t have liquid laundry detergent. Do just a few at a time. Plug the sink, wet the clothes but don’t fill the sink. Put a little dab of soap on the crotch and/or pits of the items and rub between your hands, lathering and working the lather into the whole item. Then swish them all in the sink water for a few minutes. Drain the sink and refill it halfway. (A full sink will splash all over the floor when you swish.) Give the clothes some squeezes and swishes to get most of the soap out. Drain and rinse one more time. Remove each item and squeeze out the water, but don’t wring them hard like you would a rag. Hang them up where they can drip dry.
Or get a mesh bag and put them in the washing machine in cold water, gentle cycle. Hang to dry.
- Comment on We're just scanning for the bear... 3 weeks ago:
As a woman, imagining situations like those: I can see the brightly lit center is empty, that’s all I need to know about it. The stairs require several glances especially if I’m in heels or other unstable shoes. But those dark corners need checking and rechecking the whole time I’m walking, to be sure no tiny changes betray a lurker. Who is probably going to wait until they’re at my back to make a move.
My mental image of the guys scanning the same image: “Yeah that’s where I’m going, that’s obviously where I’m looking.” Sure, they could get mugged but it’s less likely, and physical threat isn’t on their mind.
- Comment on Littering 🚯 4 weeks ago:
Ingestion of lead ammunition is the primary reason California Condors almost became extinct, are still endangered, and aren’t having the greatest success with being reintroduced.
As for bald eagles, they’re lazy smart, if they see takeout just sitting there, they’re not gonna make dinner from scratch.
- Comment on The purpose of many company emails is not to inform the reader, but to protect the writer. 4 weeks ago:
When you find it necessary do this, be sure the conversation is also getting bcc’d to a home email