What You've Done Today - Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

[Gorth]

48 minutes ago, melkathi said:

Vet 2: her bite is like a cobra. Suddenly she strikes. Like a cobra.

Cats have very fast reaction times, which is why it's possible to find youtube videos of cats dodging a cobra striking at them (even making it look easy)   

[melkathi]

Vet 2: I'm okay. She bit me. But I am wearing gloves. It hurts. But I am imagining how it would hurt if I didn't wear gloves and that makes it easier.

[BruceVC]

1 hour ago, melkathi said:

Vet 2: I'm okay. She bit me. But I am wearing gloves. It hurts. But I am imagining how it would hurt if I didn't wear gloves and that makes it easier.

Your cat sounds cute, can you post some photos?

I love cats with real personalities 

 

[melkathi]

You just want to know what she looks like, in case you truly anger me and I send her to take you out.

[Gfted1]

My cats will emit a soul rending long drawn out moewing noise from within the cat carrier non-stop the entire drive to the vet, but the second we walk through the door they totally chill out and let the vet check whatever he needs to check. Except for the temperature check, they dont like that and ears go back flat.  They may be overweight too but I apologize for nothing!

[melkathi]

Kassandra showed the vets that she paid attention when I was playing Saints Row.

[Azdeus]

7 hours ago, melkathi said:

Vet 2+3: she is really smart. She knows exactly how to block every move we make. Such a smart cat.

[melkathi]

That was exactly the scene that came to mind for me as well

[Azdeus]

56 minutes ago, melkathi said:

That was exactly the scene that came to mind for me as well

After having a crying shower from discovering a dead vole bloodying my bed, imagine my horror when I realized my cat had learned how to open the outside door...

[melkathi]

Thank God, mine only figured out cupboards and brings me chocolate, bonbons, and books instead of dead animals.

[melkathi]

6 hours ago, BruceVC said:

Your cat sounds cute, can you post some photos?

I love cats with real personalities 

 

Spoiler

When I first found her July 2022

 

More recent

 

And when she considered running for office

 

[uuuhhii]

hard to describe but now there are something wrong with file name in pc

some of them are in color sometimes

never seen nay problem like this before

hope pc will survive this

couldn't afford new parts again

Edited October 19 by uuuhhii

[LadyCrimson]

Had a great morning, life is good!
Hop onto internet, check some news headlines etc. Economics, War, Politics, Hatred! Everyone's insane! Humanity is a terminal virus!

....oh yeah, that's why I stay off the internet more and more now. Imma gonna go kill some zombies and build some towers to feel better again, now.

Hope everyone has a great morning/afternoon/evening!

[ShadySands]

I'm stressing out about a spider that I accidentally killed while trying to take it out, yesterday. Of all the things for my _____ brain to focus on. I don't even like spiders.

[Gfted1]

I too am a "re-homer" of all manner of insects/critters and Ive developed a pretty effective method of capture and release. I use a clear plastic cup or glass and drop it over top of the undesirable, then I slide a piece of printer paper under the cup opening, then pick the whole thing up and out the door they go. Works like a charm. I like to believe that when I pass there will be a legion of insects and animals that Ive saved waiting for me on the other side.

[Bartimaeus]

15 hours ago, ShadySands said:

I'm stressing out about a spider that I accidentally killed while trying to take it out, yesterday. Of all the things for my _____ brain to focus on. I don't even like spiders.

Was also trying to rescue a spider out of a bath tub once, accidentally killed it instead. Felt terrible, it did the death curl and everything. Left it on the piece of paper I was trying to rescue it with, checked back an hour later...yep, still very much dead. I started to move the paper and then it suddenly sprang back to life and wandered off. That little rat bastard made me feel terrible for a whole hour. I mean, I probably still hurt or scared it (I read online later that spiders doing a false "death curl" can sometimes just be a stress and/or self-protection thing, basically trying to cover their body with their legs to protect themselves as much as possible), so I guess I deserved it.

I saved a fly a few weeks back. It was desperately trying to phase through a window, and I grabbed the fly swatter and took aim and...I don't know, I just couldn't do it for some reason. A fly. It must've been because it seemed like it just wanted to get out, and I could oblige it instead of smashing its guts all over a window. So I grabbed a cup and a piece of paper and it strangely let me catch it easily, which seemed very at odds with it frantically trying to get through the window. I put it outside...it's what it wanted, and after all, only spiders are allowed to roam through my domain freely.

[Azdeus]

My spiders are my best allies against the fly invasion I get during spring and summer. If I don't open the windows at all during that period they won't get in ofcourse, but I'm not keen on running the heat exchanger backwards since it's ludicrously expensive, so the spiders I've got here are pretty huge and well fed

[Gorth]

I usually only chase the venomous ones (like that red back family that started an “occupy Gorth’s shower” movement) with the insecticide can. Jumping spiders are just too cute and the larger huntsman spiders do get caught in a plastic bowl and piece of paper slid under it for eviction

 

I usually spend more times chasing lizards as geckos are just a royal pain to catch. Darn sucker equipped feet make them excellent runners up and down walls and ceilings

[LadyCrimson]

If it's a fly, roach, ant, or those stupid little moths that like to eat all your flour/nuts/grains, and it's in the house, it dies. If it's a mosquito and it's anywhere near me, it dies.
On the other hand, if I'm outside and I see a bee/fly/lizard/whatever got itself stuck in the pool, I'll fish it out and put it in the shade to give it a chance to recover (if it does). It's less that I mind killing an insect (vs. my convenience) and more that I don't like "suffering."

Spiders I leave alone, except poisonous ones (around here that just mean black widows). Although I won't let them turn the house into a webbed mecca. Or if I'm in bed and a spider crawls across my pillow near my face, there's a decent chance I'll kill it without thinking.

The funniest tale in this arena for me is still when I rescued/nursed a small butterfly back to health. When I went into the yard to release it, it left my hand and flew into the air, freeeee. Then 3 seconds later a bird came dive bombing out of a tree and ate it. I was aghast for 5 more seconds, then hubby and I howled with laughter.

Such is life.

Edited October 23 by LadyCrimson

[majestic]

Ever since we got a cordless Dyson vacuum cleaner, it has been my go-to tool for moving most arthropods invading my living space. It easily moves them from wherever they are into the vacuum cleaner, where they end up a somewhat literal whirlwind of gore, which suits me just fine. I do make an exception for spiders that creep up on me in the shower or hide inside the drain. Those I crush with my bare hands, screaming bloody murder like a viking berserker charging into battle.

I blame a rather early childhood experience on that, waking up in the middle of the night with the devil's pet spider crawling across my bed. It was probably not as large as it is in my memory, but that is of no consequence, and you're dead all the same, creepy eight-legged freaks.

[Malcador]

Know the xeno, kill the xeno

[LadyCrimson]

I need another very low carb main dish for variety again.

*google - "diabetic friendly simple beef dishes"*

---Korean beef and rice. Rice? Doesn't matter if it's brown rice. Still no.
---some kind of sloppy joes. Served on Kaiser rolls. No.
---beef stews. With potatoes. No.

wtf is this. Yes yes I could adapt such recipes. Still ... Google fail.

...although my main problem is more that I largely only want soy sauce based sauce Asian flavors + very spicy. And I still dislike most vegetables. And low carb beans. And so on. Sigh.

Edited October 24 by LadyCrimson

[majestic]

So, what did I do today? I got up, grabbed a coffee, and checked my YT feed. This was in it:

Now,  let me translate this simple math problem for you. It reads:

A child weighs 16kg (feel free to use half the weight of King George's belt, or whatever pounds are defined as, it is not relevant to the problem anyway) plus one quarter of its weight. How much does it weigh?

Now, as the thumbnail suggests it is not a trick question, hence 16 is crossed out, and it is also not 20, because clearly it cannot be twenty. A quarter of 20 is 5, and 20 - 5 is very clearly not 16.

Any of you wanna weigh in here? Yeah, I'm getting my coat and showing myself out.

Spoiler

The answer is, of course, 21.3̅, as 16 are three quarters of the total weight, meaning you multiply with the inverse of three quarters, which is 1.3̅.

That alone would not be enough to post about it, but there's an untold number of people in the comments insisting that 20 is the correct answer. Let it never be said that the German education system is any better than the US'.

[Bartimaeus]

This is what I wrote out in Notepad++ before looking at the answer:

Spoiler

x = 16 + (x / 4)
4x = 64 + x
3x = 64
x = 21.33

I sort of remember how to do 6th grade (ages 11-12) algebra, which I guess qualifies you as a kind of genius compared to most YouTube commenters, . Just using the inverse fraction (i.e. 4/3) is an admittedly much smarter and more efficient way to get there that I should've also thought of, but hey, at least I eventually got there!

Edited October 26 by Bartimaeus

[melkathi]

My solution using 5th grade maths in Greece

If 100%=X

and 75%=16

Then 100/75=X/16 | multiply both sides times 16

=> 1600/75=X

Edited October 28 by melkathi