limelight79

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limelight79,

Biden rides bikes, too - there’s a video of him falling after failing to unclip.

limelight79,

Yeah, just wanted to clarify.

Though I have commuted on my recreational/sport cycling bicycle, with clips. (My wife and I work at the same place, and she would play softball some afternoons - so I’d often pack the bike in the car, drive in together, then I’d ride home while she went to softball.)

limelight79,

Ah I put that style on my mountain bike and my gravel bike - the mountain bike (which was used) came first and just had steel pedals, so I wanted something clipless, and that seemed like a good compromise for potentially using it to roam the neighborhood looking for our dog when he runs off.

The gravel bike I just built over the winter, and its main purpose is for touring, but I figured I might use it as transportation at certain events we sometimes go to, which are often held on large fairgrounds that require a lot of walking to get from one end to the other.

limelight79,

Maybe they actually hate the idea of LLMs and are trying to sour the public’s opinion on it to kill it.

limelight79, (edited )

We just had to start doing the aerokat with one of ours. I was dreading it, but it has actually gone pretty well.

I’m sure this was just for the picture, but you do need to keep the inhaler in the back of it until they’ve done the 10 breaths, I think.

We are also giving the same cat a steroid. There’s a pharmacy that compounds it into a dermal gel that we just rub on his inner ear. Getting pills into that cat was hard, but he doesn’t mind the dermal at all. (And we’re expert cat pill givers - a previous feline resident of our house needed many.)

limelight79,

On ours, the back of the aerokat is open, so removing the inhaler would let the drugs out. Yours looks like it might have some kind of restrictive flap though.

The steroids were the initial attempt to control his asthma. It worked pretty well for a while (a year, maybe more), but a few weeks ago he went into respiratory distress so we rushed him to the animal hospital. So now it’s steroids plus inhaler! He’s been doing a lot better under the current regimen.

limelight79,

I saw one of the cult yesterday on a sidewalk waving a US flag with Trump signs around her. These people are delusional and nothing will stop them. They’ll probably vote for him even after he dies.

limelight79,

His fans: “Wow! That could have been me!”

limelight79,

It would eat him up inside if he were capable of admitting he did something wrong. Every action he takes is the best, the most perfect action, no one could have done a better action. Every action he didn’t take, but his definition, is clearly wrong.

limelight79,

Great question - during the pandemic there were a lot of memes about how dogs are loving the humans being home all day, while cats were hating it. Our cats were glad to have us home all day (as was the dog, who kept demanding walks at odd times until he settled into the new routine).

When we get home from errands, the dog will of course be at the door - and there’s about a 85% chance the one cat will be nearby, too. Another cat will often show up as well. (The third cat, never. He’s too busy hiding.)

limelight79,

All these comments, and I’m wondering who would ask someone about their height like this…it’s pretty easy to estimate someone’s height just by observation.

limelight79,

Our state has speed cameras in school zones. I would like to see before-and-after statistics showing that fewer kids have been hit since the installation of the cameras.

Of course, said data doesn’t exist, because no one bothered to collect it. It “feels” safer and generates revenue, so they do it.

limelight79,

To your first question: 26 U.S. Code § 6103

limelight79,

This planet with a major overcrowding problem builds an entire copy of the Enterprise in their limited space in the hopes of trapping Captain Kirk. Have they considered the concept of taller buildings? Maybe talk to the Federation about ships to help them colonize another planet? You know, lots of more sane ideas.

limelight79,

I moved and took my cat to a new vet near my new house. That vet was not great with him, kind of rough, and we could hear dogs barking constantly, so he was already stressed before the vet even started.

I’ve never seen that cat so upset. But I got him home, he left the carrier, went a few steps, and flopped on his side, and I knew all was forgiven.

I never took him back to that vet - I ended up taking him to the previous vet instead. Much longer drive but they were already familiar with him and his issues, and were much better with him, so it was worth it.

When we adopted another cat, we started using a different vet local to us that we still use (the first cat passed away years ago).

limelight79,

News, businesses, and celebrities continue to use it for some reason. It won’t die until they stop.

Look how deep Twitter is in sports reporting. Any article about an event in a game (a goal, a hit in hockey, etc.) has the video… from Twitter. It’s the default and just won’t stop. Until that mindset changes, I’m afraid Twitter will continue to exist.

limelight79,

There’s a bill in Congress now to insert a citizenship question into the next Census. I assume it’s unlikely to go beyond the House, but they definitely haven’t given up.

limelight79,

Yeah, we bought a new LG washer and dryer set when we moved to this house in late 2016. The washer has been trouble free. In fact, it actually saved us from washing delicate clothes in hot water (the handles on the spigots are reversed - the blue is hot; the red is cold) - it filled up, recognized there was a problem, and drained without doing anything more. I thought there was an issue with the washer at first, but then I realized how warm it was inside the washer, and I figured it out from there. I don’t think it’s technically a smart washer in the current sense (there’s no app or anything), but it’s definitely smarter than the ones I’ve had before.

The dryer’s tension pulley failed, so I had to replace that, for ~$20 from Amazon. It was making noise for a long time, but like a dolt I waited until it actually failed to replace it. The replacement has been trouble free. I found a video on Youtube from someone that showed how to disassemble it to get to the part - it’s easier than it looks.

limelight79,

I paid for Vuescan. There are a ton of Linux scanning apps, but pretty much all of them require editing all pictures to some extent after the scan. Vuescan applies a useful set of defaults that work for most pictures, speeding up the work flow. I had over 4,000 pictures to scan so anything to simplify that was worth it.

limelight79,

Yeah, I think you’re right. I forgot to add that there’s no mucking about with drivers and all of that, it really just works. Older scanners usually aren’t a problem with Linux, but Vuescan almost certainly supports them as well.

limelight79,

I thought I read that the helium used in party balloons was a grade that wasn’t useful for medical devices. For example, this link. They of course are a company that is selling party balloon helium, so… This link might be more reliable.

limelight79,

The speaker at my college graduation was convicted of fraud a few years later. I can’t decide which is worse, that guy telling us what a great businessman he was, or an AI speaker.

Please share your experiences with IBS.

You awesome people were so responsive to the picture of Tommy that I posted yesterday so I was hoping some of you might be able to chime in with your IBS experiences because he has it and none of my cats have before. I got Tommy a few months ago. He had been surrendered after having crystals and was eating prescription food for...

limelight79,

I have a cat with IBS on my lap right now, and we had another one who passed away about 10 years ago.

For both, the prescription food was enough to control it. Going back to regular food would generate issues, and if the earlier one got into something he shouldn’t, he’d often toss his cookies.

Ours weren’t diarrhea issues, though. Both of ours were throwing up a lot. The earlier one, even with the prescription food, threw up a lot - even now with three cats, I still have less cat vomit to clean up.

Eventually, the cat that had IBS developed cancer and passed away. I had had him 12 years at that point, and he was a young adult when I adopted him (they said he was “about a year old” but a vet later told me that means “anywhere between 1 and 6 years old”). So he might have been as young as 13 or as old as 17.

(Same deal with lap cat - they told us he was about one, we adopted him in 2016, but his black fur is starting to fade in some spots on his legs, so I suspect he’s older than they claimed. No real way to tell though.)

limelight79,

I’ve seen this argument a lot, and I don’t understand it. Few people are buying those high end bikes, and no one is forced to buy one. Using that as justification that the prices are out of control is just weird to me.

There is an argument about prices to be made. I just looked up the base model Specialized Allez with 8 speed Claris, and it retails for $1200. A few years ago that would have been an ~$800 bike, I think (albeit likely with rim brakes instead of disc). I don’t know what all is driving the prices, inflation is certainly a factor.

But that conveys the issue way better than complaining about super bikes that cost $15k. The barrier to entry for a newbie has gone up that much.

limelight79,

They don’t care. The only way for a Trump aide to get fired is to mock them on SNL.

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