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proudblond

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  • How would you feel if someone moved next to your residence and you found out they're a cop? Would you move away? Or try to get on their good side? Or something else?

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  • Pretty much how I am with all of my neighbors anyway…

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  • According to the folks on the podcast No Such Thing as a Fish, it’s a learned behavior. My 11 year old son has started mimicking my husband’s ridiculous sneezes and his voice hasn’t even dropped yet so… yeah might be.

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    Introducing kitten to old ass man cat

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  • Old boy might feel extra protective of his treats. You may want to take them out of the equation during interactions. Otherwise, just take it slow and steady, keep up the supervision for a while, and let them do their thing if no one is getting hurt.

    I introduced two kittens to a 9yo cat several years ago. Our old lady is also a very sweet cat. To the kittens, she kind of acted (and still acts to some extent) like an auntie who isn’t afraid to tell them what’s what with a hiss or a bap, but it’s never very mean. Nowadays one of them will give it back to her, too. They don’t cuddle, but they all get along fine now and both “kittens” (they are almost 6 now) clearly like the old lady and will often sit near her. I think you have to give your old man a chance to make sure kitten knows that he’s in charge, and the way they do that is by asserting their dominance with a his or a bap. No claws is a great sign.

    For what it’s worth, we also had to let our cats make sure the dog also knows who is in charge, lol. And she definitely knows!

  • What tourist destinations do you think are NOT overrated?

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  • For real. As a kid, I was enamored with the idea of Nessie, so when I went as an adult a couple of years ago, I just figured it wouldn’t live up to my childhood ideal. Little did I know that the area around Loch Ness is totally gorgeous. I loved every bit of it and would go back in a heartbeat to spend more time there.

  • What advice or tips do you have which sound like nonsense but really work?

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  • My husband and son get the worst, most painful full-body hiccups so when I heard about the straw I thought, why not? It does work. However, it’s stupid expensive for a plastic straw so it stays at home all the time and sometimes they get hiccups when we’re out. We’ve found that jamming a regular straw flat against the bottom of a cup and then sucking really hard will pretty much work. The trick is making it hard to suck the liquid up the straw, so that your diaphragm is really working for it, and it’ll help reset things.

  • Free Tool Says it Can Bypass Discord's Age Verification Check With a 3D Model

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  • That’s a great teacher.

  • Free Tool Says it Can Bypass Discord's Age Verification Check With a 3D Model

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  • My kid last year in 5th grade (or maybe even the year before?) and his classmates figured out they could use shared Google Docs on their school accounts to have chats with each other, during school. The parent side of me rolled my eyes but the 80s kid in me was legitimately proud. Did I narc on them? Hell no.

    The one hilarious thing is that all sorts of new social issues arise with this kind of workaround. Document names get changed, someone deletes something that someone else thinks is important, etc., and they have to work it out. So it’s a learning experience, for sure!

  • Correlating Electric Cars With Better Air Quality

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  • Mine are probably lasting about as long as previous non-EV cars, but I’m also terrible about getting them rotated when it’s not combined with an oil change.

  • Do you volunteer?

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  • As someone who works for an arts nonprofit: thank you!

  • Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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  • Godspeed friend

  • What's an objectively terrible movie that you love anyway?

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  • I can force myself past Costner’s accent. It’s Slater’s hair that yanks me out of immersion! I do love that movie though, I just wish they’d cast someone other than Christian Slater.

  • What was your most catastrophic miscommunication with someone else?

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  • Oh boy I feel you on that one.

  • What was your most catastrophic miscommunication with someone else?

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  • Turned out to be not so catastrophic in the end!

  • What did you stupidly believe as a child?

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  • Okay so in our case it’s very California-specific. We managed to buy a house (hooray!) after the housing crash. Because of the way California handles property taxes, we will never move unless we decide to leave California for good. If we take a job that is not close to us, too bad, we’re factoring commute into the offer, because we can’t move. My husband seriously considered a job that would require either a 1.5 hour drive or train ride because the money was amazing but ended up taking a much lower-paying WFH job, and the commute was a huge factor.

  • That time Apple sent everyone a U2 album: 'I DONT WANT YOU.'

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  • I was a big fan growing up. Really liked Achtung Baby and of course Joshua Tree is a great album. I even liked Zooropa and Pop. Went to see them live in the 2000s but by then the shine was wearing off; I was getting older and being a fan of things wasn’t as important to my identity anymore. But I was curious recently, so I looked up when their partnership with Apple started… Yeah, it was exactly the time I stopped liking them as much. It was both validating and depressing to make that connection. I’d always nodded along when people talked about bands selling out, but U2 was my band and they weren’t supposed to do that! Now I feel like they’re the poster child of selling out.

  • Three blind mice

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  • This is niche, never expected to see a meme about Schenker of all people on a very generalized community. I dig it though.

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  • I don’t love audiobooks but last year I made the switch from podcasts to audiobooks and I haven’t looked back. Podcasts are fine but I get my news online and too much of it anyway, and I wanted to prioritize reading instead. I also always make sure to have an ebook loaded on my phone, and I find myself reaching for it when I run out of Lemmy, or if I’m waiting at a doctor’s office or in line somewhere. It’s really nice to have an alternative to the internet. Highly recommended!

    Btw I use Libby and Bookwyrm to track so it’s all 100% free. I purchase physical copies of the ones I really like.

  • Mixtapes 2.0

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  • Not at all. One of my kids only likes to watch the same thing over and over and over. I think it must be comforting in the same way that we like to listen to the same music over and over; we recognize what comes next and there is a comfort in having that power.

  • Does anyone just feels extremely annoyed when other people are playing their videos on loudspeaker?

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  • He has earbuds! But he doesn’t use them. Phooey