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  • is this a good way to hold a cat?

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  • I agree with everyone who says it's cat dependent with a lot of variation. My cat's favorite way of being held is for me to stick my arm through both sets of legs from behind so she's straddling my forearm, and my hand is holding her chest below her neck. She'll happily sit like that for ages, especially if I'm moving around and she can watch the scenery.

    A prior cat preferred to be held like a baby, on his back cradled in our arms, but my current cat hates that.

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  • I live in the US, in Southern California, which is one of the more expensive parts of the country. $2k a month isn't a lot in that it would be hard to live on it, but I made pretty decent money before I retired and it's more than I could have comfortably given away.

    Remember that anyone here talking about hourly wages is talking about gross income and not net income, and if you give money away it comes out of net income.

    Let's say someone was making $100 an hour, which is $200k a year, and fairly decent money. That's $16.6k a month. But after taxes that's more like $10k. Most people making that kind of money have a mortgage, car payments, home and car insurance. Also, employer sponsored medical usually only pays like two thirds of the insurance costs. And they likely have money coming out of their check into a retirement account. So the disposable income is going to be a lot less and $2k isn't going to be a trivial percentage.

    But if the person is making, say, twice that amount, then it's starting to be more trivial. Not a ton of people are making $400k or more a year.

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    Who is at fault if both driver & pedestrian die in a hit & run?

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  • Fault has nothing to do with surviving. That's like saying the pedestrian would be at fault if he lived.

    I don't believe they generally prosecute the dead folks, but it doesn't mean they weren't at fault.

  • xkcd #3290: Trade

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  • Eh, I still say there are cases to be made for times when another country puts their thumb on the scale. It's not a perfect solution, but it has it's place. Still, what's happening now is complete bullshit.

  • xkcd #3290: Trade

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  • That's sort of different. In that case, the tariffs were being used to protect a specific company's product, so it had to be narrowly worded, and that's just not going to work. If they had applied it to, say, all two-wheeled motorized vehicles, Yamaha wouldn't have had a way around it. Of course, in that case it wasn't that Japan had lower prices because of poor wages, it's that they had a better product.

  • xkcd #3290: Trade

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  • It's almost like he's trying to destabilize the country.

  • xkcd #3290: Trade

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  • I don't trust the US, and I'm American

  • xkcd #3290: Trade

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  • I came here to start with the exact same first sentence. There is a use case for tariffs: when another country's prices on a specific item are lower because they pay their people slave wages, a tariff can make the prices on the US version more competitive and encourage people to buy domestically. But Trump is raising prices on things we don't make or materials we don't have enough of, and - like the cartoon says - he's acting like he's punishing the other countries when he's only punishing Americans.

  • Game day

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  • I think he's saying that for a wall like that, if you pulled out a brick and looked through, you'd just see more bricks. The wall wouldn't be just one brick thick.

  • Jucika and the canning

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  • That's what the way I took it for sure.

  • It's perfect

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  • Yeah, my first apartment was 750 square feet and I thought it was great. Got married, had kids, upgraded houses a couple times. I'm old now, and my wife left a little over a year ago. I'm in a condo that's 1375 with just my cat. I was worried that it was going to feel cramped after being in a big, two story house, but it doesn't at all. It's really bigger than I need, but I have a guest room in case any of the kids want to stay over or my wife comes to visit, and I have an office for my desk and computer. I know I could have been fine with smaller, but this feels great, honestly.

  • xkcd #3286: Particle Physics Equipment

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  • I would have put cyclotron halfway

  • Divine tech support

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  • It's just people justifying their beliefs. As I said to someone else, I worked for decades with extremely smart people. A pretty good percentage of atheists, but lots of people who also believed whatever religion they were raised in. All of them made their peace with being scientists and being religious, one way or another.

  • Divine tech support

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  • trying to prove the existence of God

    Which he couldn't/didn't do, giving credence to my position that you don't come to belief in god through logic.

    Look, I spent 40 years working with literal rocket scientists, I understand that smart people can be religious. Literally zero of them were raised without religion and came to it because of logical deduction. Smart people will either try to justify things they were raised to believe, or they'll just say that their religious beliefs come from a faith that isn't tied to logic. But rocket scientists who were raised Hindu will do the same with their pantheon as Christians do with their god.

  • Divine tech support

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  • I didn't say it made him dumb, I implied that faith doesn't flow from logic. Plus it's a little problematic to say that our great minds were people of faith when, for much of our history, not being a person of faith could mean death. But it's true, there were folks like Thomas Aquinas who were brilliant and more than average religious.

  • Divine tech support

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  • Certainly can't disagree with him there

  • Divine tech support

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  • I'd say he must be very logical except, you know...

  • Divine tech support

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  • I have not. I was raised catholic and consumed a lot of catholic stuff in my early years. I'm an atheist now and just can't get interested in any of it.

  • Divine tech support

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  • I like the idea of a technologically literate pope.

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    I'm not sure if it's intentional, but all I see in this hotel bathroom wallpaper is stacked cats

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