unnamednewbie13
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uo and opera for youtube. untouched so far, hopefully that'll be the ticket for awhile. there may be some old scripts and manually-selected element blocks on the ublock for further blocking, but they should be obsolete to whatever youtube updated with.
SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
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Plastic bottle recycling fee on every purchase in California. Stupid.
https://i.imgur.com/xsoGn9X.jpg
RTHKI
mmmf mmmf mmmf
+1,741|6954|Oxferd Ohire
then get a reusable one
https://i.imgur.com/tMvdWFG.png
SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
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I only drink water from plastic bottles. The taste is much different. Go drink rain water
https://i.imgur.com/xsoGn9X.jpg
RTHKI
mmmf mmmf mmmf
+1,741|6954|Oxferd Ohire
There are reusable plastic bottles
https://i.imgur.com/tMvdWFG.png
unnamednewbie13
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mac doesn't wash dishes. a reusable bottle would soon be a petri dish with an intimidating culture of every pathogen he picks up at his job.

tap filter or filter on a 2gal reservoir. extra maintenance, but honestly screw nonstop plastic bottles. even with recycling so much unnecessary energy burn. also, lots of evil corporations selling that shit. buying nestlé water is funding the villains of tank girl.



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uncanny
Dilbert_X
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The links for the russian dating website which bombards my facebook get blocked by Norton

How am I supposed to meet someone in this techno-hellscape?
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SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
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My FWB has a Golden Retriever. It kept coming into the room to look at what was going on when we were sleeping together.
https://media.posterlounge.com/img/products/730000/724294/724294_poster.jpg

I don't recall if there is a door between the bedroom and hallway or not. I will investigate another time. But we had to tell the judgmental dog to go away.
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After we were finished, I was getting dressed and realized my clothes were in different rooms. The dog took various pieces of my clothing and walked away with it.
https://petnest.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/EOFY-SALE-55.jpg
It didn't feel great putting on a pair of boxers knowing a dog had had it a moment ago.

Speaking of animals...one of my coworkers said he has like 10 cats. His long-term girlfriend loves animals. His house must smell terrible.
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/06/10/article-0-1A3D68E5000005DC-229_634x576.jpg
I need a ride home today. I am not going to ask him though. I am afraid his car will smell like cat and I will have an asthma attack which is strange because I don't have asthma.
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Dilbert_X
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Dogs smell much worse than cats.
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RTHKI
mmmf mmmf mmmf
+1,741|6954|Oxferd Ohire
dogs shit outside
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unnamednewbie13
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dog people sometimes don't paint a complete picture. people will get a cat, won't take care of the litter box, and wonder why their places stink (like, what happens to bathroom's odor when the toilet doesn't get flushed?). or wonder why their unfixed animal is marking. a fixed cat that does its business outside or has a maintained litterbox, not put somewhere stupid like your kitchen, won't stink up the place any more than a dog. having taken care of both kinds of animals, cleaning up after dogs is a far smellier process. how does someone scoop a steaming wet turd off their lawn and think to themselves "yeah, this sure beats cats." if your neighbor took a crap on your lawn you'd probably call the police. come home from the dog park and direct your animal directly into the tub because they just rolled in some premium poodle mousse. "sure glad you're a dog and not a cat!" lol
RTHKI
mmmf mmmf mmmf
+1,741|6954|Oxferd Ohire
I'm just going by Mac's harsh judgement of his coworker
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SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
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People just shouldn't live with animals. It is against the natural order of things. You should keep your dogs in a barn like horses.
https://i.imgur.com/xsoGn9X.jpg
SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
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My ultimate teacher crush has 3 cats and a dog. She also has a bunch of fish tanks. She calls her apartment she shares with her boyfriend "the jungle." Again, I assume it smells terrible and the furniture is cheap.
https://empire-s3-production.bobvila.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/How-To-Get-Rid-Of-Cat-Pee-Smell.jpg

As much as I like the idea of carrying this girl off into the sunset it would mean I would have to live a lifetime cosplaying as a farmer and pretending to care for animals.

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/worried-sad-african-american-man-thinking-sitting-couch-holding-head-living-room-cat-worried-sad-african-american-man-229166877.jpg
I am a pretty relaxed boyfriend because I have an outlet (drugs and Tinder).
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But I could totally see myself getting into a shouting match with her about whether or not we should get another cat.
https://d.newsweek.com/en/full/2213192/couple-arguing-sad-cat.png?w=1200&f=cae8c88baff39d57906fe73e1c6ebe35
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unnamednewbie13
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Definitely a real stain and not photoshopped or poured there by the stock photographer, lol.

Cats are easy to train off counters and tables, which you should be periodically wiping down anyway. Put in a decent cat tree and they can be encouraged into a more attractive hangout, and off the sofa you should be protecting with a throw anyway. You can toss a blanket in the wash. The couch won't fit, and is a more involved process. You don't have to let your cat in your room, though that could be a point of contention in some relationships. They don't need to be on your bed or in your face. They'll settle down somewhere, probably figuring that's the way things should be.

Been my experience that even semi-feral rescues will prefer a box or the outdoors over messing where they eat and sleep and live. Most measures you can take to keep a clean house with cats and dogs present are measures you'd take to keep a house clean while living in it alone. If your house is a mess with or without cats, it's probably a you problem. Did you know humans shed too? bits of hair and skin accumulate. Before even taking into consideration what you might get up to at your place.

Another advantage to having an indoor or indoor/enclosure cat is there's less opportunity for them to get into the mucks and poisons of the great outdoors. Besides them not really needing to wander through traffic or get mauled by other animals, it'll reduce the intensity of your home workload and the amount of vet bills. The cat'll be fine and just chill on one its favorite spots. If you're constantly gone and worried that your cat will go bonkers from no interaction with anything, either have a second cat it gets along with or better yet: don't have pets if you're clearly not interested in giving them attention.

Disclaimer: this is more to swat down stereotype. Not trying to get anyone to acquire a cat. If you don't want an animal, don't get an animal. If you do get an animal, make sure it doesn't make any more animals. Too many unwanted pets in the world.
Dilbert_X
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If you want a pet get a pet, if you don't want a pet don't get a pet.
The odd dismembered pigeon or barfed up mouse is part of the deal.

If you brush your cat 1-2 times/week hair deposition is close to zero, as are hairballs, but people are lazy and complain about the consequences of their laziness.
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Dilbert_X
The X stands for
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Also

https://i.chzbgr.com/full/9821172224/hABF37518/tableware-purrfect-snow-globe-doesnt-ex-2
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unnamednewbie13
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Dilbert_X wrote:

If you brush your cat 1-2 times/week hair deposition is close to zero, as are hairballs, but people are lazy and complain about the consequences of their laziness.
Caveat on your brushing statement, varies from cat to cat. Some are about a daily routine. Some need next to no intervention.

A lot of the pictures out there of crazy cat people houses focus overmuch on the "cat people" aspect. You don't have to have cats to be an untidy packrat. Or any animals, for that matter. Some people also should pause a bit before deciding that mocking the mentally ill or struggling is a good thing to do.

Reality TV programs love to sensationalize the "ew." Do we really need spine-tingling violin runs and an orchestral hit whenever a bag of garbage is revealed under the sink? This is great for rubberneckers, but I think does a lot of people disfavor. There's a lot of "these people deserve our patronizing contempt" vibe from these lifestyle exploitation shows, and not nearly enough "let's show some compassion and understanding and try and get these people the help they need."

I imagine one of them would love to sensationalize and kink-shame the heck out of mac's dating cycle. "Sex Pests" title appears in blazing red, rubberstamped font overlaying a choppy, slow motion clip of a police car. The music:

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SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
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My dating cycle is kind of like an insect's life cycle.

https://cdn1.byjus.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Fly-life-cycle.png
First we match online...then we move onto the texting phase...and we end when I fly away to write about it in my journal/blog.
https://www.reuters.com/resizer/X3ECLido62H4SGWN2MV2HecsSyo=/1920x1920/smart/filters:quality(80)/cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/EENPZRE2SBJ5NF53EGG4KJDAPQ.jpg
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Adams_BJ
Russian warship, go fuck yourself
+2,054|6840|Little Bentcock
How do I subscribe to the vlog
SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
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My lights shut off at 1 AM everyday. I am not sure if it is an Alexa routine I forgot about or a ghost.
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unnamednewbie13
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you'd think the shades of dead people would have better things to do than move paintings around and make lights flicker, but no. if there were ever an argument for not dying, being doomed to forever repeat petty tasks that should honestly be below a disembodied spirit is pretty convincing.

fwp: night mode shuts off at 7 am and the lumens sear my eyes. i could make it stop, but that means opening the program.
SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
+640|3937
It will really suck if we all need to get jobs in the afterlife.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/76/Grim_Fandango_artwork.jpg
I need to fix my Alexa routines and stuff.

I have this one thing I nicknamed the "mood light." It is a Alexa enabled device that produces light in several different colors.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/S/aplus-media-library-service-media/cd59d8f6-cbf9-4438-9933-84de5c75283a.__CR0,0,463,625_PT0_SX463_V1___.jpg
The color I pick is a nice blue. I turn on the "mood light" before I have sex with girls at my place since it produces a nice light glow.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRQUBQIXpaMXqjWDKBRXXKiZPqRaVl0GuB9JQ&usqp=CAU

The issue is that the Alexa no longer recognizes the mood light. And to reprogram it I have to go into the Mood Lights app and program it there first. I forgot the password to the mood light app and will need to go through the process to get that password. I would then need to do the same with the Alexa app.
https://techwelkin.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/mobile-apps-you-should-remove-techwelkin.jpg
I decided to just manually activate the mood light now. Much less sexy probably
https://i.imgur.com/xsoGn9X.jpg
unnamednewbie13
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Get a password manager, seriously. Also keep that stuff written down in a firesafe, and maybe a copy in a safe deposit box. There's like a billion passwords in everyone's lives in 2023 and more and more apps want you to have accounts. Dunno about you but there are things I'd rather have floating on my surface thoughts than credentials for a program I might use once every 5 years.

If it's not obvious, I feel over passwords. A flawed, bypassable deterrence sometimes with artificial limitations, but we're still required to have one. I also dislike smartphone 2fac logons for the mere fact that if something happens to your phone, you're kind of screwed. But it's better than no multifac.
Dilbert_X
The X stands for
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^ Make sure your phone only displays full text messages when its unlocked.
You can set it it show "You have a message from..." and no more when its locked.
There have been major scams where people have stolen phones from locker rooms and don't even need to unlock them to get 2fac authorisations for banks etc out of them.

Went into town for an event

The street I planned to park in, I prefer not to park in multi-stories because they suck ass and weren't engineered for the colossal trucks people now drive, was closed off for a cycle race - which is to say a few people riding up and down and about 10 people watching them.
So I had to park a bit further away.

Walking through the area I intended to park in I discovered the ticket machines have been blanked off and there is now a sign "If you want to park here use the app"
I'm sure thats what people need - going into town they have to download an app, enter all their details, credit card etc, get it all authenticated and working, then they can park - when they could put in some coins or swipe a credit card a whole lot quicker.

No-one has time for this crap.

Last edited by Dilbert_X (2023-11-12 01:27:54)

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