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[โ€“] CreateProblems@corndog.social 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I would Google some vet recommendations.

I tried to find the video again but I couldn't. But I recently saw an Instagram video of someone asking a vet what they recommended as a safe method of transporting a pet on a bike. If I remember correctly - which I might not - the vet was strongly against something on the handlebars that the pet could be flung out of in a crash. I think they suggested a pet-carrier backpack style method instead.

There are already some super valuable comments on here, and I'm half commenting as a way to save this thread for myself for later.

I wanted to say that for adopting a kitten, the current recommendation is to adopt two kittens to avoid "single kitten syndrome" (aka an unruly/loud/needy cat.)

Which was not something I knew of ~12 years ago when I got my single cat as a kitten. And she is very needy and very loud (less annoying in older age but still.)

However, I haven't adopted a second cat to be her friend because we also now have a high energy dog and another new animal would just be too much for us.

When it's time for our next cat, my plan is to go to the shelter and sit down in the cat room and take home whoever curls up in my lap first (current kitty prefers "proximity snuggles" to true snuggling.) So probably adopting an older cat rather than a kitten. And probably also sticking with just one unless the shelter says the kitty has bonded with a friend (and adopting a bonded pair would be amazing.)

But if we ever get kittens again, I'll definitely get two. Better off letting them terrorize each other in the middle of the night rather than me ๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] CreateProblems@corndog.social 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not like this though

[โ€“] CreateProblems@corndog.social 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I'm sorry, are we not going to talk about Williad Shadespesre?

I'm so glad I opened the comments ๐Ÿคฃ

[โ€“] CreateProblems@corndog.social 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I once read a book without punctuation. It was very difficult to read! It was about a hypothetical apocalypse where everyone suddenly goes blind.

"Blindness" by Josรฉ Saramago

I don't specifically recommend it though.

Good luck writing your book ๐Ÿ™‚

[โ€“] CreateProblems@corndog.social 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You are correct, I actively do not get it.

[โ€“] CreateProblems@corndog.social 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Cool! I hadn't heard that term (chords) before today. Do you have to press both buttons at precisely the same time or is it more forgiving, like CTRL+C, etc?

I type too many numbers every day to give up my num pad, so I've never bothered to research tiny keebs since 98-100% works well for me.

But aesthetically I do really like the small footprint on your desk!

I work in QA so my desk is always cluttered with hardware. I already have a separate numpad at work (after going TKL and regretting it lol) so I've been considering going much smaller for my next build. I still don't think I could give up a stand-alone backspace key though ๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] CreateProblems@corndog.social 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

How do you survive without backspace?

[โ€“] CreateProblems@corndog.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I saw the /s, but to come to my own defense regardless: when I first saw the post it was at 196 points and I was like "mmm okay better not" but then I opened the comments and the points had increased to 198 and I was like "oh hell yeah lfg"

 

I'm really just here for the memes y'all

I don't think lemmy.world would be a good home for 196 so I'm glad that onehundredninetysix was created. But I haven't yet been convinced to abandon ship on the original 196 yet and unsubscribe. (Insert Mean Girls "I wish we could all get along like we used to in middle school" scene playing in my head...)

Anyway when I'm scrolling through my feed, the posts from both communities are labeled as coming from "196" even if they're coming from onehundredninetysix. I have to click into the post and then to the community to tell which it's coming from.

Which is all to say: no one call me a traitor for enjoying a meme regardless of which community it's posted in, okay? I otherwise followed the rule. Thanks

 

I don't think my lurking counts as breaking the rules, I'm just fulfilling my commitment late.

 

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