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NutinButNet

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  • What games have you and your cat co-discovered thru randomness and play?

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  • He’s actually really well behaved lol. Today was the first day I’ve had to scold him in a while because he snuck out of the house when I cracked the door open to leave. But he generally sleeps at the foot of my bed right beside or on top of my feet.

    But for the most part, he’s very obedient and kind to me. I taught him as a young kitten to not bite and to instead “ask” for pets. He was an extremely violent kitten! He would always bite. I started scolding him and he would stop and would instead start to just lean in slowly for a bite because he didn’t want to hear me yell and when he would do that, I would scratch his ears or under his chin since his face was already near my hand, which is his favorite place to get scratches. I love touching his paws and he hatesss that. So that was the perfect teaching opportunity, whenever he would lean in to bite, I immediately scratched his chin and he began associating discomfort with redirecting me instead of resorting to biting me. So when he would get those urges to bite, even the love biting, he now just leans in for a scratch and I give him a good scratch under his chin and he goes wild with purring. I also unintentionally taught him to use his paws to grab my hand to ask for pets too, so he does that instead of biting too and will try to get me to not stop scratching his chin. I think that came from me touching his paws and he associated that with scratches so he does that to “ask” for scratches. He often reaches up with his little paws to demand scratches while I’m working from home even in meetings.

    He bit me on my foot once a few months ago but I could tell it was because I was petting him with my foot and he wasn’t enjoying it and in hindsight, I think I wasn’t paying enough attention to his warnings to ask me to stop. I can’t remember the last time he tried biting me before that.

    He was declawed many years ago by my parents when I lived with them, so scratching hasn’t been an issue. That’s the reason I’m very strict about him being outside because we have owls and coyotes and other cats and he can’t defend himself from them like other cats can. I take him outside supervised for a little while each day which has helped our bond too. I can tell he trusts me a lot and will go in when I tell him to even though he loves being outside. So I think he doesn’t want to bite me because of the bond we have too.

  • What games have you and your cat co-discovered thru randomness and play?

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  • I think my cat knows it’s a game when I put my hand under the blanket and swish around on the sheets. He especially likes it when the hand reaches over the side of the bed and he can see it move partially and hears that sound of hand swishes across a sheet.

    His eyes widen up and he slouches down in attack mode and waits for the kill. But he’s gentle when he goes in for the kill, only grabbing on and then letting go. I give him some scratches and grab him up to hug him close as I scratch him all over his head as a reward.

  • Title/caption this in comments

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  • Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got here.

  • Why was this never released? I want 10

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  • i was going crazy over this so I asked AI lol

    Here’s the answer it gave me:

    What the Evidence Shows

    •  Star Trek Cereal Promotions in the Early 1990s: Cereal promotions tied to Star Trek were common, especially with brands like Kellogg’s, General Mills, and Shreddies. For example, Canada’s Shreddies cereal in the early 1990s offered unpainted starship toys, including the Enterprise-D, Klingon Bird of Prey, Romulan Warbird, and Ferengi Marauder, which came with stickers for decoration. These were small plastic models, not spoons, but they align with your memory of Star Trek-themed cereal prizes.

    •  Spoons as Cereal Prizes: Cereal box prizes in the 1990s often included plastic spoons, especially themed ones. For instance, Kellogg’s offered lightsaber-shaped spoons for Star Wars promotions in the mid-2000s, which were popular and memorable. While no specific Star Trek ship-shaped spoon is documented, the concept of a themed spoon as a prize was common, so it’s possible you’re recalling a similar item.

    •  Other Star Trek Collectibles: The early 1990s saw various Star Trek-themed food-related collectibles, like the 1989 Kraft “Marshmellon Dispenser” (which included a plastic spoon, fork, and belt ring as a mail-in offer) and Weetabix’s 1995 Star Trek Generations cut-out display scenes. However, none of these explicitly describe a spoon shaped like a starship.

    •  Memory and Confusion: It’s possible you’re conflating a Star Trek toy (like the Shreddies starships) with a spoon-shaped prize from another promotion. For example, Nabisco’s 1958 “Spoonmen” figures, which sat on spoons, or Kellogg’s Star Wars lightsaber spoons might have blended in your memory with Star Trek imagery, especially if your grandparents had Star Trek memorabilia around. Additionally, the term “spoon heads” (a derogatory reference to Cardassians in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) might have created a mental association with spoons, though this is unrelated to cereal prizes.

    I’m willing to agree with this that it might have just been a plastic, unpainted Star Trek ship I am remembering but it was shaped like a spoon so my mind mixed the two up.

  • Why was this never released? I want 10

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  • I swear I remember one cereal having a spoon like this that came in the box.

  • Mad world 2.0

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  • Should be “unalived”

  • Hi, I'm Toast.

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  • It wouldn’t be a cat if it wasn’t picky even about what kinds of inedible plastic it wants to consume lol

  • Cause at this point, I'd buy several clones before I consider $80.

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  • This doesn’t mean anything. Something only has as much value as the customer is willing to pay. People don’t want to pay more than $60 for most new games being released today and companies need to accept that.

    Fuck what it cost years ago.

    Same goes for everything else. You could make the same argument for cars and trucks which are now reaching $50k USD for base features. Still doesn’t matter. Still overpriced.

    Let’s talk about what we’ve lost too. Games used to come as a complete edition. Now you get the game and it’s unplayable on the first day without an update and even then still has features broke, waiting for an update weeks or months later. Not to mention DLC.

  • Was the bastard fed today?

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  • His insatiable greed disgusts me

  • Defending the second floor

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  • He’s got the mustache and the hair to match 🤣

  • Does Bambu lab transparent petg just suck as a material?

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  • The benefit of these is that they actively dry your filament as it rolls into the printer. At least mine does that which has been great to reduce the time needed to prep for my prints. Mine lets you set the temperature and it will keep that as it rolls in.

    I heard about the food dryers but this was my choice also because I have limited space in my smaller home. This little box is about the size of a spool and sits behind my printer and I have it automated to turn on when I turn on my printer too.

  • Does Bambu lab transparent petg just suck as a material?

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  • Which case is Pi-hole for?

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  • In addition to adblocking, some people use it for family censoring like blocking porn and gore on the domain level. It’s a more effective means as it would mean that your kid can’t go to ph on the family computer as well as their iPad.

    You can block individual domains if you wish but there are also a lot of lists out there that are generated and maintained by the community to include new sites as they arise.

    I like it for my iPhone for playing free games like solitaire and the like. A lot of these have intrusive ads but the PiHole effectively blocks the ads and I don’t have to have any third party apps running on my phone.

    Additionally, I set up a VPN on my Raspberry Pi so I can take this adblocking on the go too.

    You can also set up the PiHole to keep a log history which some people may want or you can use it to never keep the history for privacy reasons. I suppose this is another use case in ensuring your DNS server at home doesn’t keep a history of websites you visit from any device on the network.

  • What's the smartest thing you've seen a wild animal do?

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  • I read this as cow at first and was so confused lol

  • MacBook 2022 constantly losing network connectivity

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  • Most likely hardware issue. You might try running a live Linux USB to see if it still happens in there just to rule out any funky Apple software issues. But the refresh of macOS seems enough there.

    Unfortunately it’s not going to be easy if you don’t have AppleCare. Apple solders everything to the main board so it’s not like you can just remove the WiFi card like nearly every other computer out there.

  • What's the worst or weirdest injury you've seen in real life?

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  • My brother and I were riding bikes in the driveway when my dad asked if he could ride too.

    He took over and then fell over. He got up and said he needed to go to the hospital while showing us his pinky finger. I kid you not, his finger was at an almost perfect right angle.

    My dad liked playing pranks on us and we thought he was pulling a joke on us, but he was not…

    I’ve never seen an injury quite like that one.

  • recommended dashcams?

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  • I bought this one off Amazon recently for $79 USD (currently has a 20% discount too) Anyski 3 channel 5GHz (can’t link here because comment gets removed).

    Reasons I liked it:

    • it mounts to the window and won’t do that thing where it gets knocked out of place in the event of extreme force such as getting rear ended. You’ll see a lot of YouTube dash cam videos where the camera goes up after the car has been rear ended because it wasn’t on a fixed mount like this one but a swivel. Avoid swivels if possible for this reason.
    • has a total of 3 cameras, 1 facing the street, 1 facing the cab, and 1 facing the rear view window behind the car
    • the rear view camera is not necessary to hook up so you could just do the main unit with 2 cameras and still have a camera, just smaller POV, of the back
    • the sound quality was decent for interior of the car
    • it had a WiFi hotspot feature so you can remotely connect using your phone to easily and quickly grab videos and not have to mess with the SD card (but you still had that option if you wished)
    • the video quality is really good

    I think it might meet your criteria.

  • What is the most horrific thing you've experienced in life?

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  • You’re not an asshole for “not doing anything”. You were a child. Even as an adult, it’s difficult to step up and make decisions like that against a parent, especially when he can physically overpower you and there are likely severe physical consequences as a result. It’s nice when you can, but it’s difficult and not easy. This is going to sound bad, but I feel it’s truth that it was not your job to step up and defend your mom. No child should ever have that as an obligation placed on them. I’m sure your mother doesn’t think that of you if she knew you knew this and had overheard what she went through. In fact, your mom would likely feel sadness for you having to be a part of that and assume she had to do something to protect you from being exposed to it. She did the best she could with what she had at the time as did you. Both you and your mother are victims (in different degrees, but still victims, nonetheless) and don’t forget that. A victim does what they can with what they have and there is no right or wrong about how they handle the unjust abuse they endure.

    This is all on your dad for being the only asshole by not having a basic level of respect for another human being, his partner, the mother of his children. Additionally, exposing his children to that in the house they also lived in, to have to hear and know their own mother was being abused by their father, a man who was supposed to protect the family, not be the cause of something so horrific.

    Your mom stood up to him eventually and that’s what matters most. I’m glad she’s out of that now as are you.

    If you feel you need to, then you should cease contact with your dad, but that is a decision you should make for yourself depending on how you feel about everything. Of course with what little the rest of us know, we feel you should cease contact for your safety, but you know the bigger picture and are best equipped to make that decision for yourself. Don’t feel bad if you do feel he deserves forgiveness and his child still in his life because you have decided that. That’s your decision to make and no one can or should fault you for that decision you make for your life.

    I hope you and your mother are doing better now. I’m sorry for all the pain you two endured as a result of this and your other experience. I’m doubly sorry that you are hard on yourself, which I don’t feel is warranted.

  • What is the most horrific thing you've experienced in life?

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  • I used to be a transportation manager and oversaw drivers who would drive older adults with developmental disabilities to and from their home and the day care facilities they would attend.

    One afternoon, one of the drivers called me and was in a panic saying that she had called the paramedics because one of her passengers had passed away in the van on the way back home. She had pulled off to the side of the road while waiting for paramedics to get there with the rest of the people in a not so great area. Thankfully most of the gangs in the area knew us and wouldn’t bother our population, probably defend them if something happened, but I still wanted to get there and help out any way I could so they could get on with their day.

    I got there and the van, one of those long 15 passenger vans, was parked on the corner and all of the people were standing on the curb with the driver and the police and paramedics were there.

    We got another couple drivers to come take the rest of the people with them so they could go home, but this driver, this was her personal van. Like she owned it and contracts with us to use it, so she didn’t want to leave it unattended.

    The police had confirmed that the woman had passed away and was still in the van. She was in the very backseat in the middle between two other passengers. One of the passengers had to literally crawl over her dead body to get out of the van.

    So I told her to get into my truck and we’d just sit there and wait for the coroner.

    We sat in my truck for hours and just stared at the back of that van, all the while only we knew there was a dead person sitting in there. She didn’t want to go anywhere to make sure no one stole her van so I just sat there with her and we talked for a while.

    It was about 5 hours when a Honda Odyssey van pulled up and a bunch of guys in suits got out. We greeted them and they got inside and put the woman’s dead body into one of those bags you see on TV. I remember when they were pulling the bag out and I remember hearing it drop on the concrete. It’s such a weird sound to hear and like nothing you’ve ever heard or experienced.

    People were now crowding on the streets as it was obvious what was going on now.

    The driver just couldn’t take it and turned around and I held her while I faced the whole thing. They put her in the back of this van and drove off.

    Last part was to take the van back to her house but obviously she didn’t want to drive it back so I let her drive my truck and I drove that van back to her house. The whole drive was just so creepy. The rear view mirror had a perfect position on that particular seat the whole ride and I just couldn’t get over the fact that someone literally just died there a few hours ago.

    I made sure to give her a few days off and rearranged my schedule because that was enough for me and I wasn’t even the one driving when it happened, so I couldn’t imagine what she was going through. And not just for her but the safety of the others, it seemed best to have her take some time to recoup before returning.

    Just one of the creepiest experiences of my life.