Interesting, I’ve read / heard that cats heal themselves through purring but even that was just a guess with the next leading theory being that they’ll purr when in pain to comfort themselves.

I imagine they could if they knew exactly what you did and when, but if it doesn’t get discovered until later and nobody knows what happened, it would probably be a bitch to figure out

I believe this meme qualifies as taking a shot back

To be clear, I think they were asking about streaming torrents. Stremio with torrentio addon, for example.

I tried that, we got a few auto feeders for a trip. Worked for those few days, but when we decided to stick with them, two of the cats eventually figured out how to manually dispense. I taped over the manual button, so they learned how to dig their paws in and around the inside to push the food out.

Problem there is that they were taking from the next batch that was set to dispense. The meal time would come and nothing would come out because they already ate it. They’d get mad and knock it them over, so they’d starve if I didn’t intervene.

Yeah they’re little dickheads.

I’m sure there’s more robust auto feeders but I can only learn that after my cats have had a few weeks to fuck around with them 😂

1980 was 43 years ago :P

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I had to install a network adapter driver the other day. Had to use my wife’s computer to download into a flash drive and bring it over to my computer with zero network connectivity.

Granted, this only happened because my network card was broken.

Thermonuclear take; the kind of work it takes to perform well in school is exactly the kind of work society is preparing kids for, so good school performance can still be a strong indication they’ll be good employees.

Wether or not our society and schools are right for that is a much more interesting topic of debate. Kids who crush it in school (and continue to crush it all the way through college) will go on to make their companies loads of money for cheap.

Or they know bragging about it on the Internet without rank to protect them will get them dogpiled.

I could just have been commanded by some softies, but officers don’t generally have the constitution to get personally attacked. Think about it, they literally wrote the rules that say enlisted can go to jail for shit talking them.

Not even just that. My dad didn’t go to college, he joined the military at 18. He walked away from that and landed an engineering job with no degree. Now, he’s in a position that would ask for a masters minimum making nearly 300k a year.

I joined the military and walked away with bad knees and a list of phone numbers to get a job in the trades. Don’t get me wrong, I took it, but damn I’m sure as hell not making anything near what he was at my age.

Depends on a lot of things. I started an apprenticeship machining, and now I want to turn my garage into a machine shop.

I think the important thing is that you make sure you keep some of it for you.

If I did turn my garage into a machine shop, it would be tempting to start taking orders. That’s where my hobby would turn into more work, having to meet orders and timelines.

I understand spreading awareness or whatever in social media, but people seriously need to stop posting selfies in uniform in an active warzone. You’d be surprised what kind of into can be gained from it. There’s stories of Russian soldiers doing the same and getting blown up. Everybody says “I’m glad they’re so stupid, keep posting pictures, idiots!!!”

But when Ukrainian soldiers do it? Nothing.

I agree, but very few self respecting adults are going to voluntarily sign up for a combat MOS, and we gotta keep those gears turning on the military industrial complex!

For real though, I got lucky. Joined at 19, thought I wanted to kill people, didn’t deploy until I was 23 and much more in the mindset of “what the fuck this is not me at all”

A lot of the younger guys were vocally disappointed when they found out it was just a peacekeeping mission, low risk. Us “older guys” just said thank God, we’d like to go back to our families at the end of this.

Yep, I deployed and my wife and I stayed faithful to each other. The military just has a way of convincing terrible matchups to get married. I started dating my wife a bit before I joined, and basic training had me ready to marry her as soon as I graduated. Luckily she was smarter than me and we waited a few years and worked out about 40,000 problems before we actually got married.

But I see a lot of young soldiers who aren’t smarter. The military can make you feel very alone, make you miss your friends or girlfriend super badly, make you want to make a big romantic gesture when you get back to them, make you want to lock in a partner to face the world with. So yes the 18-20 year olds go marry somebody they really shouldn’t have, and over the years they grow apart because they were only held together by expectations. Then when they get split up by a deployment, they both want to experience another person consequence free.

Music streaming is just … Objectively better for everybody. Small bands can be heard, hence the indy scene booming so hard, consumers can access their content anywhere there’s internet.

I think you miss the ritual around getting physical media and having a session where you just sit back and listen to the album for the first time. You could try to replicate it, but I think child-like wonder was the main ingredient ;)

Yeah that soldier’s boots aren’t bloused!

That’s what I keep saying. I keep getting told I’m wrong though, that Lemmy needs to be easier to join, and hit critical mass and become the reddit killer because that’s the only way we can exist.

Like, no thank you. I’m happy with Lemmy NOW, I don’t need it to keep growing!

That’s how I feel right now. I don’t need the Fediverse to replace reddit and Twitter, I want it to be a refuge from the commercialized crap! The people who can’t be bothered to figure out Lemmy or Mastodon can stay right where they are!