Handyman: Charisma. Being personable means not going bankrupt by competing on a race to the bottom on price.
We all pay. That’s how it works. Gas taxes and registration fees. The driver paid for a license. The truck had sales tax. It’s a distributed payment method. Not a pay as needed system. Unless they go on a toll road. But that’s a separate rant.
The data is conflicting. I think they had already made up their mind on that topic before messaging me. My reply just reinforced their decision. It’s hard to separate causation and correlation in that case.
My standard reply was “hailing frequencies open.” Needless to say it was the opening line that let multiple women know that I was single. Surprisingly it had a 100% success rate. I was the best nerd.
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My mistake. Meant to post this link.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/18/politics/donald-trump-third-term-2024/index.html
That was my third thought as well. That’s a lot of people to band together and make Tesla’s number one asset a viable stand alone company. Even if Musk doesn’t want that.
It’s really a lot more boring than it sounds. Or maybe it’s just something that has happened too often to me for me to think it’s not a regular thing.
She was dating my ex girlfriend. When the split my ex suggested that she should go out with me.
Does anyone have an alternative title for this that doesn’t sound clickbaity as f***? I’m kind of afraid to feed whatever media organization came up with that headline.
Have you ever cracked open a floater and found a perfectly fine egg? You are counting the ones that confirm your bias but don’t have a large enough sample size to work from. I have 21 chickens. 5 ducks and an unknown number of geese that lay eggs. I’ve seen fresh hour old eggs that are bad and sink. I’ve seen 6 week old eggs stored at room temperature that sink. I’ve had day one eggs that float and are still fine. Eggs are a natural product with high amounts of variation. We can’t even reliably tell if a fertilized egg is male or female using the best science available and people expect a float test to determine if it’s infected with bacteria? Not happening. The float test tells you how much air is in it. That’s all. And that isn’t even a guaranteed way to determine age.
By the way. That’s Harper. She moved in a year before my girlfriend. I made sure to ask “if I have to do I have medical permission to have that eye removed.” We eventually did remove that eye. It almost killed her. But when she did finally recover she was a 14 year old kitten with lots of bounce because that cranial pressure was no longer there. The other eye was mostly bad too. Never saw anything other than a laser pointer. She was this way from birth.
When offering up advice in public places I sometimes include options that won’t work in a specific situation but might apply to the few dozen or thousand that might read it. That’s why I specifically mentioned that that probably won’t work in this case. And I stress “probably” because I had a “blind” cat that could see a laser. The first time I lured her into the bedroom with a laser my then girlfriend, now wife, started crying because this cat had previously only detected sun vs shadow and she wasn’t even entirely sure that was not at sensing heat thing.
The difference between sinks and floats is a pretty small amount of air. Now if the egg truly does go sideways then there is probably an issue because the air sack has broken. But floating itself doesn’t say anything about the safety of the egg.
This doesn’t tell you if it’s good or bad. Just tells you if it’s new or old. Older eggs have more air in them.
I’d avoid coddling too much. One tool I found that helps cats get along is the laser pointer. They both get so focused on that that they kind of forget that they’re in each other’s space trying to get it at the same time. Once they realize that they can be in the same space at the same time, without that hostility they tend to get along a lot better.†
It may not work in this situation because of the older cats health issues. But generally the closer you can keep them without any risk of attack, the faster they adopt each other or at least tolerate each other.
† sometimes I wonder if cats are soothed by hunting and exude some kind of smell that disarms other cats.
This is a tough one. When I find out someone has a 13 year old cat or dog I gently tell them that they need a second pet and they need it now. Because statistically in one to 6 years they will come home to an empty house and their soul is going to break when their buddy of more than a decade isn’t there.
You have a cat in declining health. It isn’t 100% possible to tell if their new issues are because of the kitten or if these were things that were going to happen anyway and the kitten’s arrival is just coincidence.
All joining of a new cat to an established cat house is going to be rocky for a bit. I foster ferals for the local county shelter and SPCA and tame them up so they can be adopted. I have mean nasty cats show up and piss off the locals every month. But after a few days everything settles out and they all get used to each other because there is plenty of food they don’t need to fight over and another room they can go to.
Except Junko. She is our 8 year old and still wants to be angry around cats that have been here one year less than her. Because she is mean. If I had the money I’d get her Prozac to see if it helps.
And that’s where your next step is. Your senior cat needs a vet visit. Let’s check their weight and everything else to see if they are getting enough nutrition. Is some medication to chill them out an option for them?
Do they have a spot in the house that is just theirs? Is the kitten making an effort to stay way or are they up in their face trying to make friends?
If they were sharing pictures wouldn’t that maker her eligible for CSAM resulting in further charges?
The link at the top of the post works. Not sure why this comment one doesn’t.