Not having caffeine during the day, and exercising pretty hard (neither of these things usually happen).

Tipped ear kitty! I’ve got one too. Way to adopt (or be adopted by) a former feral!

Not supporting enslavement of the incarcerated, but in California, you can’t be forced to fight fires as a prisoner, it’s a volunteer position.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/us/inmates-firefighters-wildfires-california.html

I almost cried with joy when my boss at my new job as a massage therapist thanked me for being so quiet. I was turned down for jobs and nearly fired from one for being “too quiet.”

The numbers stopped adding up years ago. There are 1.5 military contractors (largely not US citizens) for every 1 enlisted soldier in the US military. We just pay people to fight our wars. Otherwise we would have to draft and people would get upset about our endless wars again.

https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/social/corporate

It’s SpaceNoodle and they have joined the chat.

Not really. Normal people would see prison time for felony tax evasion. They are just making him pay what he owes. He’s not being punished. He’s also under house arrest for human trafficking instead of prison. He’s largely avoiding the consequences of his crimes.

The $3 mil is cool, but I’m most delighted that CBS News put “misogynist influencer Andrew Tate” in a headline.

I think most people just think of Sage in general when they hear salvia.

I’ve a dozen perfectly innocent salvia species and many varietals of each growing in my water-wise garden. When people ask what I’ve got growing and I say “mainly salvias” no one has ever assumed I was farming psychedelics.

Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation would like a word. Or not. They do better when no one pays attention to them.

Yeah, I think it’s meant as a kind of “when pigs fly” statement.

I’d say having someone stand over your shoulder and direct your clicking is worse.

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Just FYI, while the concentration camps in the US were absolutely inexcusable, destroyed communities, forced people to sell their homes and businesses and took people away from the lives they had built and everything the knew and loved, they were not extermination camps.

Of the 120,000 people unjustly incarcerated, 1,862 people died in the camp hospitals in the four years the camps operated. The current US mortality rate is about 0.8% (about 800 deaths per 100,000 people per year). So for 120,000 people (using today’s standard, I can’t find the rate for the 1940s), we would expect about 960 deaths per year, or 3840 in all four years.

Again, not condoning the US concentration camps in any way. But they were not death camps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db492.htm

The noughties, the teenies, and the twenties.

" Disney’s 100.1 Dalmatians "

Canal locks are fucking cool.

https://youtu.be/dmZ7hBMTY8Q?si=yE4ODjFMAg6Cy8DJ

For me that was “The Man in the Well” which the school librarian read to us in 4th grade during library story hour.

https://www.commonlit.org/en/texts/the-man-in-the-well#

Surgery isn’t the only solution, there are medications, like Finasteride, that actually prevent hair loss by blocking the hormone that causes it. But some people do just have thick gorgeous manes their whole life without help.

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