KittenBiscuits
@KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee
- Comment on Where can I buy a mosquito laser system? 5 days ago:
You need more capital. One
million… billion dollars oughta do it. - Comment on When people say the AI bubble will burst, what exactly does that mean? 1 week ago:
Yes. They don’t have to be public companies for investors to lose their shirts, and employees to lose their jobs.
- Comment on Horse-flippers? Have any horses from history, ever been fitted with horseshoes that improve their ability to swim? 1 month ago:
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- Comment on Horse-flippers? Have any horses from history, ever been fitted with horseshoes that improve their ability to swim? 1 month ago:
I 100% expected this to turn into a Hell in the Cell meme
- Comment on Horse-flippers? Have any horses from history, ever been fitted with horseshoes that improve their ability to swim? 1 month ago:
Same! First thought the title was a typo!
- Comment on How do I know if a medical issue should be addressed by a Clinic Visit, Urgent Care, or the Emergency Room? 1 month ago:
Very good points. I based my comment on a personal experience with family, and they were not endangered by waiting a few days to see a cardiologist. I didn’t know there could be other causes that are critical enough for the ER. But I should have guessed because I know it is similar with tachycardia. Sometimes someone’s had too much Red Bull, and sometimes it’s a birth defect in the nodes in the heart and heavy sedatives are needed to calm that down.
- Comment on How do I know if a medical issue should be addressed by a Clinic Visit, Urgent Care, or the Emergency Room? 1 month ago:
If it’s bugging you not knowing and you don’t wait until your clinic appt, then yes, urgent care would be able to at least tell you if it’s an emergency cardiac event and send you on to the ER, or if it’s something like afib and it can wait to follow up with an office visit.
- Comment on Why do boomers hate squirrels so much? 2 months ago:
Squirrels can clean out a feeder pretty quickly. Not as fast as deer can, but much faster than the birds.
So it’s a pain in the ass to go fill it back up, and it costs money. A person gets a bird feeder because they want to watch birds. There are cheaper ways to feed squirrels, if you like squirrels.
Both squirrels and birds can build nests in your home. Squirrels can chew their way into your attic, then you risk them chewing through wires. Birds nest in your dryer vent or bathroom vent. A nest in the dryer vent is a fire hazard. And they can introduce bird mites into your home. It’s like having a bed bug infestation except you can’t see them, their bites are hella itchy, and at least they can be dealt with by multiple rounds of thorough vacuuming. Ask me how I know.
I used to love to keep a bird feeder and watch the bird party on a snowy day. But I wasn’t out to feed the deer, and the mite problem erased any lingering feelings about feeding birds.
- Comment on If Necromancy suddenly became possible, can the undead be called as a witness during court proceedings? 2 months ago:
Hellboy animated a corpse to get info out of it. I don’t think he subscribes to modern jurisprudence though. I don’t recall him being concerned in the least with handing the corpse a subpoena first.
- Comment on If Russia takes out all the Internet cables like the news is saying. How much of that traffic can be re-routed to satellite? 2 months ago:
I know, what if we put lasers on the birds!
- Comment on What does dying from all causes mean? 2 months ago:
Puff, puff, pass away
- Comment on I'm not a good liar but need to pretend I like my current job and not rant about how much I dislike it till I find a job I like more. How do I make my coworkers and supervisors believe this lie? 2 months ago:
I have seen PIPs that are fair and actually used as intended, and I have seen PIPs that are so demanding, it’s beyond obvious that they want you to fail so they have an excuse to let you go. Which do you think this one is?
I’m getting the vibe that this is the latter. I am not at all familiar with working under a union contract, but in a hostile situation, I would consider the likelihood of success of going to HR and saying “let’s skip the PIP that you can’t enforce anyway, offer me a reasonable severance, and I’m out of your hair today/this week.”
You don’t need to be running yourself ragged pretending to try to meet their unreasonable demands at the same time as you’re job hunting.
- Comment on Prank calls don't really exist anymore with caller ID and everyone sending unknown numbers to voicemail. 3 months ago:
Hahaha, I would have loved to listen in on those. Arnold quotes are a favorite language a la ‘Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra’ in this house.
- Comment on Prank calls don't really exist anymore with caller ID and everyone sending unknown numbers to voicemail. 3 months ago:
They can just keep on being upset. Their reaction kind of reinforces why I have the damn thing mostly disabled from its primary function anyway.
- Comment on What other animals "make music" together? (Specifically harmony or rhythmic coordination) 3 months ago:
If it’s rained in the late afternoon then stops by nighttime, the frogs in the marshland across the street seem to synchronize their songs and get very very loud.
I’ve heard katydids do the same thing at night after very hot days.
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- Comment on If global warming is a biproduct of humans, wouldn't the logical answer be to kill 2/3rds of the humans? 4 months ago:
But if enough were detonated, would it create a nuclear winter thereby offsetting the warming trend? Image
- Comment on After 30 years, I'm finally going to see a total solar eclipse. Also, Potato World is a thing. 7 months ago:
I am giddy-happy for you!
I’m glad you have someone with you to share in the event. It is going to be such a special day!
- Comment on Fake Vs Counterfeit Eclipse Glasses. Did You Get Any? 7 months ago:
I’m driving about 15 hours (over 2 days, not all at once, lol) from Virginia to the totality path with a “just ok” forecast. I made a similar trip in 2017. It is definitely not the same as looking at a picture. It’s the changes in atmosphere, the insects’ behavior, the light quality all around you that make a totality viewing special. If you can make it somewhere with decent enough skies, you will be glad you did.
- Comment on Those free USB sticks in your drawer are somehow crappier than you thought 9 months ago:
Is no one else paranoid to put a free usb stick in their computer? I thought that was the classic social engineering hack.
(full disclosure: I’m not in I.T. and my info might be older than the hills)
- Comment on Wasting water with tankless heater 1 year ago:
um, the goal is to get the heater going by drawing on the hot supply, right? I’ve only ever seen cold supply hooked up to a toilet. So emptying and refilling the toilet tank doesn’t use up the cooled water in the hot supply line. However, catching cooler shower water in a bucket and using this to manually flush the toilet doesn’t waste the water. It is a lot of effort though.
- Comment on The Observable Universe Might Be A Black Hole, Suggests A Chart Of Everything 1 year ago:
Can I get a volume estimate of this worm on a scale of Kangaroo?
