Had to have out cat put down yesterday, after weeks of vet visits. I'd say the joke is accurate only in certain circumstances. Glad your baby is doing okay now. Hug 'em tight.

So handsome. We had to have our tabby boy put to sleep yesterday and my wife and I are a wreck. These moments are treasures. Thank you for sharing.

I showed up once and never got selected, just went home after a day of reading a book in a very uncomfortable setting.

I imagine that for some, it represented a significant financial setback. I work with people now who go to work sick as a dog because they need the sick hours for taking care of some medically needy family member.

Civic duty and all that, but a check for $15 is kinda bullshit for what they're asking.

You showed up once, that was the mistake. Now the courts are a like a flock of seagulls that know you have French fries.

Don't ever lose that hope. There's already more than enough doomerism to go around, and we'll never get anywhere without at least a little bit of hope that things can get better.

In the convenient storage slot next to the built-in man scaping kit (including mustache comb, beard oil dispenser, and straight razor in the shape of an assault weapon)

Just piggybacking on this comment to shout out Alex Gray.

The tacticool crowd is ripe for exploitation. You can make anything "tactical" and then boom, they're in it.

Imagine taking something really cheap like ground coffee (and let's be real, this is gonna be some cheap shit) and then you put it in a black bag with an all-caps stencil font and a silhouette of a gun, and some people will pay you premium price for it.

Business goes tits up? Slap a sticker on the bag with some floral designs and a picture of an amethyst crystal and now you can recoup it with the crunchy new age health crowd.

Does that akinetopsia* ever come with any other physiological effects, like a slowed or rapid heart rate, dizziness, feeling feint, anything like that? Or just the visual aspect?

I had a similar experience once, then suddenly passed out (only time in my life), after being given a "THC" vape at a party. I've never had interest in Delta 9 or any other processed THC and that experience made me extra weary.

You shoulda seen the look on the client's face when I told him the name of the software I used to enlarge and tile his image for a print project was "The Rasterbater."

It's not completely open source, but Photopea is a free web app that looks and works damn near identically to Photoshop, and it's been around for over a decade. It can open and save-as several proprietary formats. [Github]

With rare exceptions, the venn diagram of FOSS software and software names with broad mass appeal is two circles, a billion light-years apart.

I don't know what kind of a political brainwashing the republican party needs to do to get the republicans to support Vance.

I hope you're right, but if the last 20ish years have taught me anything, it's that no matter how dumb you think they are, you're giving them too much credit.

Fair enough. If you can't get a phone with the aux jack, then I'd recommend the Anker Soundcore P31i. Got them for around $30 on sale. Comfortable, active noise cancelling, the battery in each bud can go all day, and the case has enough battery to keep recharging the buds for weeks. I've only plugged them in two or three times in the 6+ months I've had them.

They fucked around and we all found out.

I used to agree; but I haven't had to deal with cord noise in the same amount of time as has passed since the headphone jack went away. Inexpensive Bluetooth earbuds are a dime a dozen now. Besides having to charge my earbuds in addition to my phone, I'm struggling to find the inconvenience here.

Why are you buying new earbuds over and over when you shouldn't have to? I've got a pair of Skullcandy Dime 2's that cost around $25 and I've been using for at least four years now. My wired earbuds didn't last any longer, and it was usually the cord that would get messed up first.

Been a lot of "demon" talk from him lately. Tucker's literally turning into Alex Jones before our very eyes.

Every time. Show me angry writing on a piece-of-shit car riddled with grammatical and/or spelling errors, and I'll show you a Republican voter.

Ensure you're registered to vote, vote, and encourage others to vote!