Oh, good point. I didn’t think to mention that. Thanks!

Yep, leave the cat carrier out where they they can get to it any time they want, maybe under a coffee table or something, just leave the door open. Toss some treats and/or toys in once in a while and eventually they will treat it just like any other box. If they are already stressed about the carrier, leave it out and then them feed them near it. Again, make sure the door is always open. Every day put the dish a little closer to the open door. Eventually put the food dish just inside the door so they can eat without actually going in. Then put it further in every day until they are going in the crate to eat. That has eventually worked with every cat I’ve tried it on.

Our current cats all love the carriers. I took some of my cats to the vet this week. When I got back home, I opened the door to let them out and one of them ran out of the carrier he was in and right into one of the others that had just been vacated by another cat.

So close, except that it’s Trump who has created his own private police force comprised of unemployed men and is trying to stay president for life.

Every conservative accusation really is a confession.

I miss Costco. We moved to a rural part of the US a few years ago and the nearest Costco is now 2.5 hours away. Really hard to justify a 5 hour round trip to shop there. Luckily they do sell a lot of their stuff online but it’s not the same without the browsing and the slice of pizza at the end.

OP’s headline does not match the article linked in any way. I don’t know if the site changed the article or what, but the Grand Jury has not ordered Reddit to turn over any data.

a subpoena issued by federal prosecutors to the management of Reddit, representatives of the site have been ordered to appear before a grand jury in Washington D.C., with an April 14 deadline set in an attempt to compel Reddit to volunteer personal data and the identity of a user who had the temerity to lightly criticize Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on the platform.

Essentially, they have ordered Reddit to send representatives to be badgered into volunteering the user’s information.

Based on the number of people still using the cesspit that Twitter turned into, Reddit has to sink a hell of a lot lower to get people to stop using it.

Free Aunt Tifa!

Take him home. His current owners are idiots since they let him run across the street to visit you. If you don’t, you may very well have the misfortune of finding him dead in the road one day.

Who suggested that he was interested in the freedom of the Iranian people? Last thing he said about them was, “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” He’s never pretended to give a fuck about anyone other than himself and maybe his family, the ones he want’s to fuck anyway.

The 25th would never even get to Congress. Everyone in a position to invoke it is a Trump toady who wants him right where he is.

25th Amendment, Section 4

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

The dicey record appears to stem from several issues in court, including a jury pool that has lost trust in the Trump administration, the FBI and the Justice Department

I think that the main issue is that the jury pool has finally woken up and realized that the DoJ and police consistently lie to the public and the courts and their testimony cannot be trusted.

It’s Hisense and they will likely be forcing ads on you at every opportunity.

Hardware and software laden with ads have, unfortunately, become part and parcel of modern life, but there are occasions when the hunt for revenue goes too far. One of those cases comes from Hisense, known across Western markets as a budget electronics brand. The firm’s TV sets have repeatedly come under fire for forcing non-skippable ads when switching inputs, turning the TV on, navigating to the home screen, and even when switching channels — all changes that took effect unilaterally after purchase, reportedly even for users who had all ad-related options disabled.

Pictures like this make me sad. Never allow your pets go into dryers or similar machines. Too many pets die because they hopped in a washer or dryer when their owner wasn’t paying attention and then turned it on.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pet+killed+in+dryer&ia=web

Can second this comment regarding Linux Mint. Many years ago I tried switching to Linux (Ubuntu, I think, back around 2008) but I lacked the knowledge and skills to make it work. Three or four months ago I decided to try again and downloaded Mint and installed it. I’ve been reading that gaming on Linux had gotten worlds better lately.

I decided to just dip my toes first and set it up to dual boot, in case I chose to go back to Windows. I had very few problems with the installation and operation. Nothing that took more than a quick google search to solve. Since then it’s been not unlike using Windows.

And yes, gaming seems to work pretty flawlessly too. I installed Steam and have had few issues with running any of the games I’ve tried.

Makes me think of Jason from The Good Place.

I’m telling you, Molotov cocktails work. Any time I had a problem, and I threw a Molotov cocktail, boom! Right away, I had a different problem.

He joins a roster of Republicans across the ideological spectrum who have also called it quits in Congress

The whole Republican ideological spectrum? All the way from Asshole to Raging Lunatic Nazi Asshole?

Senator Andy Kim countered accusations that the Democratic party is divided, saying “this is the most united I’ve ever seen the Senate Democrats,”

That’s not a counter. Just because this is the most united he’s seen the Democratic party does not mean that it is united. Divided is the natural state of Democrats. It the words of Will Rogers, “I’m not a member of any organized political party…. I’m a Democrat.”

Tracking calories accurately is a balance between good data and time investment.

Absolutely true, and getting good data is really, really hard. In fact, the nutritional content on food labels (in the USA) is allowed to be over by as much as 20% by the FDA.

In addition to that the processes and formulas used to calculate those numbers are also far from precise .

The most accurate method to measure energy and calories in food is called a bomb calorimeter, Li said. The process works on the theory that when one thing releases heat — in this case, food — it’s absorbed by another, in this case whoever is digesting that food, as energy.

To make this calculation, food scientists seal a piece of food in a pressurized, oxygen-filled steel container — the “bomb.” That container is encased in an insulated box filled with water.

The scientists light the food on fire and let it burn completely. Then, they take the temperature of the water. They use an equation to tell them how much energy — and therefore calories — are in that piece of food, based on how much the burning piece of food raised the temperature of the water surrounding it.

However, this is only an estimate because not everything that burns and releases energy to heat the water can be digested by a person eating it. Fiber, for example, burns in the calorimeter but will just pass through your digestive system without giving up its energy.

Many food companies don’t even test food like this. They simply estimate the calorie content based on the number of grams of fat, carbs, and proteins in the food. Still, unless and until someone comes up with a better way to determine the calories in a given measure of food, it’s the best system we’ve got.

Alpha Schools, opening this fall in the former GEMS Academy in Lakeshore East, says its AI-driven model can help students learn core academics in just two hours a day, freeing up time for workshops, unique projects and learning various life skills.

Well that is a little hard to believe. I have a feeling that these kids will be woefully unprepared for college…

The school will serve 100 students in kindergarten through eighth grade, with plans to expand in the future

Oh my. I’m sorry, these kids will be woefully unprepared for high school. They will crash and burn when they get dumped into a totally different learning environment with kids whose parents can’t afford $55,00 per year for elementary school tuition.

Don’t count on it. These things don’t just zip along in their orbits. LEO is crowded. They have to maneuver to avoid collisions… a lot.

Over the past six months, Starlink satellites have been increasingly performing collision avoidance maneuvers. According to a report filed by SpaceX with the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), SpaceX broadband satellites were forced to avoid more than 25 thousand times from December 1, 2022 to May 31, 2023. And since their launch in 2019, the total number of maneuvers has reached 50 thousand.

If Starlink or any other mega-constellation company loses control of their satellites for any reason, there could be collisions. A recent study (Note: PDF) suggests that a sufficiently powerful CME could cause a runaway Kessler Syndrome in as little as 2.8 days if the loss of control lasts that long.