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aramis87

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  • Disagree. Kitten!

  • Poor Trump supporters are about to get a rude awakening — but we shouldn't be celebrating

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  • Every time you saw one of those MAGA freaks complaining about the cost of food, and looked at photos of their actual grocery carts, it's like these people had never considered the cost of food before. All of it's high-end food that they're bitching about being expensive.

    I hadn't paid that much attention to their grocery carts, but I still think the economic anxiety argument holds weight. They look at their grocery carts and rising prices and they get anxious, because they know how tenuous their hold on their economic status is. They didn't want to lose that status, because they know how badly the next lower rungs are treated and they didn't want that for their family

  • Poor Trump supporters are about to get a rude awakening — but we shouldn't be celebrating

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  • We're all going to be in a lot of pain these next few years. I'm perfectly happy to celebrate the people responsible for creating that pain to also have to feel it.

  • Does getting a flu shot do anything for bird flu?

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  • Hey, question on NovaVax, if you have any thoughts? I got NovaVax last fall, and I know you're supposed to get two shots to establish your initial immune response. But of course I couldn't get a second shot because they only do single shots these days. I followed it up with a second NovaVax last spring and a third one this fall. Am I gaining any resistance from such distantly-spaced NovaVaxes?

    [For context, I also have 2 Pfizers and 4 Modernas.]

  • Musk calls MAGA element "contemptible fools" as virtual civil war brews

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  • For people used to being called "deplorables" by Democrats,

    Oh, please - we call them "MAGAts".

  • Dropshadow

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  • This image makes me smile :)

  • Behold, my first ever 3D printed object

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  • It's lovely! I should make some!

  • What are some fun lightweight mobile games?

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  • Seconding Simon Tatham's Puzzle Collection. Quite a number of different puzzles, very lightweight.

  • Please help resolve a disagreement in our home

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  • Technically, mine isn't a drawer, it's a shoebox tucked under the coffee table, but yes.

  • Helped a friend move today and met his lovely void

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  • What a handsome kitten!

  • How the heck do you give you cat a pill?

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  • It depends on what the medication is. Mostly I just crush it up and mush it into a Churu or their food or something. If they need to be on an empty stomach, like if I need them to have some gabapentin before a vet visit but they need to be on an empty stomach, I'll dose their water.

    Depending on the cat, you may need to look into a different medication, especially if it's one of the ones with weird flavors, like cherry Clavamox; I'll see if I can get an abx injection instead.

    Worse comes to worse, you can try getting the medication compounded into a different form or a different flavor. The one thing I absolutely insist on getting compounded are appetite stimulants: the cat doesn't want to eat anyway, and me forcing something down his throat is going to make him more likely to try to avoid both me and the food. I get transdermal ciproheptadine (mirtazapine can make some of them agitated, and I'd rather be certain that any weirdness is their illness and not the treatment). You just gently rub some on their inner ear and an hour later they want to eat :)

  • TIL that George Washington Carver didn't really invent peanut butter but just popularized it. He made some other pretty cool things like peanut rubber for WWII.

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  • I didn't find the peanut rubber, but did find that

    Dr. George Washington Carver's work resulted in the creation of more than 300 products from peanuts, contributing greatly to the economic improvement of the rural South. source

    OP's article states that

    He helped Henry Ford make peanut rubber for cannons for World War II.

    But I can't find a actual source for that just endless repeated comments to that effect. I wonder if whoever-originated-that-idea conflated Carver's peanut work with his other work with Ford:

    By the time World War II began, Ford had made repeated journeys to Tuskegee to convince Carver to come to Dearborn and help him develop a synthetic rubber to help compensate for wartime rubber shortages. Carver arrived on July 19, 1942, and set up a laboratory in an old water works building in Dearborn. He and Ford experimented with different crops, including sweet potatoes and dandelions, eventually devising a way to make the rubber substitute from goldenrod, a plant weed. Carver died in January 1943, Ford in April 1947, but the relationship between their two institutions continued to flourish. Source

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  • Ooh - Jeff Bezos, and some way to irreversibly triple every non-executive Amazon worker/contractor's pay, plus full healthcare. He can afford it and Amazon has enough direct and indirect workers that it'll be felt throughout the country and the economy, and other companies will eventually be forced to compete, raising living standards for most people (and increasing tax revenue).

    End with a tweet supporting an inflation-linked living wage, Medicare for All, and UBI.

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  • Vance is an opportunist and would cheerfully go along with the Project 2025 folks in order to be their figurehead and grab a bunch of loot. And they'd be happy to have him as a figurehead, so long as he does what they tell him to.

  • His Family Voted to Support Trump’s Deportation Plan. That Includes Him.

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  • So, I read the article, and all those stupid, blind, privileged people telling him not to worry, they'll protect him, he's "one of the good ones". And they don't understand that that's not going to matter; once the round-ups begin, the government's not going to care about any of that.

    I keep thinking back to Hitler, who said something vaguely like, "There cannot be any exceptions. If we allow exceptions, then everyone has their 'one good Jew' and we'd never make any real progress."

  • His Family Voted to Support Trump’s Deportation Plan. That Includes Him.

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  • Honestly, I just don't care anymore. I've spent over a decade caring, helping, warning, working and trying - in addition to decades of activism before that - and I just don't have it in me any longer. They wanted this? Then fuck it, let it all burn.

  • Kitten Goes Camping

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  • Aww, Kitty has their own tent to protect them from the harsh empty barren plains! :)

  • Kitten Goes Camping

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  • So, sometimes (like now) I get these posts and there's just no link for me to see the picture that's supposedly there. Anyone know what's going on or how to fix it? [I wanna see the camping kitty!]

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  • Pardons require a sympathetic governor, which will never happen.

    Jury nullification requires that everyone on the jury votes not-guilty, which is a pretty high bar to hit.

    A hung jury, on the other hand, simply requires one or more members of the jury to vote not-guilty. He could still be re-tried, of course, but having just one principled person is a lot easier than having all 12.