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  • Purging the realm of evil breaks up the monotony.

  • This is great! I had no idea.

    I don't want to be the guy on the internet that says "they should have done x" as though the scientists aren't experts in their field, but I do wonder why they didn't use a bright orange flag or something. The white flag worked well enough, though.

  • Yep, we have that drawer. Ours is much larger and much more full. My wife loves baking, which accounts for a lot of it - there's about 5 pie servers in there, for example, along with various spatulas of many sizes. There are also three ice cream scoops so the odds are good I'll have at least one that is clean when I need it. Lemon zester, spoons, all kinds of baking and cooking-related stuff. The rubber things you use to get stubborn jars open. I can't even think of what else is in there, but there's a lot.

    This is separate from the drawer that has rarely-used knives (we have a knife block for the commonly used knives), cake decorating materials, and similar stuff.

    And both of those are separate from the designated "junk drawer" that has random stuff like box cutters, can coozies, gift cards, coupons, etc.

  • lol I came upon a BMW that clearly had just missed his turn (he slowed down, realized it was too late to make the turn, then sped up again), then turned on his turn signal to pull into someone's driveway to turn around.

    I said to my wife, "This BMW driver is so lost, they're using their turn signal!"

  • We have one of those and got pretty good at using it with our tabby. But when our tuxedo needed medicine, it did not go very well.

    For him, fortunately, his medicine can be compounded into a paste that we rub inside his ear. He doesn't enjoy it, but he tolerates it. Definitely a stress saver for us.

  • This specific tension happened a lot sooner than I expected.

    Let's see... a guy famous for (among other things) owning a company that builds electric cars teams up with the guy who said he wants to outlaw electric cars. Fireworks were inevitable at some point.

  • My first one was a Seagate ST-238R. 32 MB of pure storage, baby. For some reason I thought we still needed the two disk drives as well, but I don't remember why.

    "Oh what a mess we weave when we amiss interleave!"

    We'd set the interleave to, say, 4:1 (four revolutions to read all data in a track, IIRC), because the hard drive was too fast for the CPU to deal with the data... ha.

  • My God, it's full of passengers!

  • I want to call out the lines from Those Old Scientists when the Pike crew was lamenting the loss of the flip top communicators (replaced by badges you can tap that the Cerritos crew had). "But flipping then open is the best part!"

  • That is amazing.

  • He really was. My best friend. We had so many adventures together.

    When my wife and I were getting serious, she said something like, "I'm not sure what to do about Snowball. I don't think he likes me." I said, "Are you serious? He loves you! Why do you think he curls up on you when you're laying on the couch? That cat might like you more than me." She had grown up with dogs and just didn't know cat language.

    Snowball is gone, and a kitten we adopted late in Snowball's life has also passed away from medical issues (and that one hurts so much, too - poor thing was only 7 years old - at least Snowball got a normal cat lifespan). But we have three cats now, and a dog.

  • That was my first thought, too. I saw one video where they actually pulled a woman up into the raft with them, and took her to the stage.

  • Snowball. That was his shelter name, but I'm a fan of the Simpsons, so I had to keep it.

  • I had a cat that was a total food fiend. Eating pizza was hard because he'd try to get some for himself.

    When I would make burgers on the grill, the food I prepped in the kitchen - bun, lettuce, tomato, etc. - had to go in the microwave or he'd grab them while I was working at the grill. He was relentless.

    One time I had some friends over and warned them to watch the food. They didn't believe me when I said how quick he could be. Later, I found part of a burger in my bed.

    Another time, he and I were staying at my parents place, and I got up one morning after they had left for work and noticed a red spot on his white fur. I asked my mom about it - turns out he had pushed a cake in a container off the counter to get some icing that was on the outside edge, and the spot was icing.

    He had a lot of food allergies, so he could only eat one specific variety of prescription cat food, which he didn't like very much. That's what drove a lot of his actions. I couldn't blame him. Unfortunately, the food allergies were IBS that eventually evolved into cancer.

    I miss him. He's been gone 10 years now, and I still think of him a lot.

  • Aren't we all?

  • Can you provide some examples of WaPo articles that did this? Everything I read that I can recall listed his statements in context and gave the actual facts.

  • Don't forget 2 liters of soda!

  • I just ignore questions that I'm not interested in answering.

    The other day, someone asked in the Linux community here on Lemmy why people don't like Ubuntu. It seems someone asks this question every few months. I thought, "I've answered several times, I'm done answering it, let someone else take care of it." Last I saw it had over 100 comments, so I feel the issue is resolved.