Oh, with a denim apron and lab goggles, I look like a bootleg Jesse Pinkman. But that kind of makes things a bit more fun in its own way.

I think so?? Some of it depends, I think, on the variety of onion (e.g. I’ve always found sweet onions to be gentler compared to white onions). I don’t always cry without them per se, but it still feels noxious.

“I work best under pressure.”

Great for a five-night stand.

Man, you really need to have something to back it up when you say shit like this; it’s just good practice. This is the quote.

Based on those pupils, that cat at least understands that they’re about to kill you.

Yeah, several factors converge to make a bunch of daily posts (even well-meaning) a bad idea to allow; among them:

• The threadiverse is small enough that basically anything with even tepid reception shows up on ‘All’. So users who are lukewarm on the community but don’t want 5 million posts per day are incentivized to just block it altogether instead of whack-a-mole problematic users.
• It crowds out posts from other users, propagating a monoculture.
• It incentivizes the poster to value quantity over quality.
• It’s much harder to properly moderate.
• It dilutes discussion around a bunch of posts instead of in-depth commentary around a handful of posts.
• It causes ceaseless arguments that can even dominate the community (hell, even leak out of it) when one or two users get way out-of-hand.

I think we already tried this.

(;＠‾＠) dlǝɥ ǝsɐǝlԀ

Yeah, Field of Dreams 2 was a bit of a letdown.

Email wall* to be clear. Meaningfully different from a paywall – and imo also shittier since I’m paying with my spammability rather than my money that supports the journalists. But easier to negotiate with a sock email.

I don’t trust them either given they explicitly disobeyed rules before (which I’m sure hundreds of people pointed out to them, e.g. about post limits), but I can promise you I’ll be keeping an eye on what they post here. They won’t get the same leeway again, and I think it’s a reasonable olive branch by jerkface given that they are able to post good material here when they stick within the rules – and, in my mind, so that the catalyst of the mod transition doesn’t steal the spotlight as a singular reason for the transition. This isn’t just “/c/comicstrips but beep isn’t here”, and I think that conveys that message while giving beep plenty of rope, so to speak.

We’ll keep them in check, and it won’t be a problem again. Rehabilitation where it’s possible, and I think it’s possible here.

I agree, but I’ve never seen something like this where the pedal sits directly upright. Do you use it like a badass motorcycle pedal while leaning forward onto the horse? Do you tap it forward with the tip of your foot?

And what the fuck is that foot pedal supposed to be doing on the bottom left? The world’s most awkward flushing mechanism? (Kind of floating just off the horse’s thigh too.) And why is the sink blocked by the toilet/partly obstructed by the toilet paper holder? And what the hell is the lighting? And why is one rear leg longer than the other? And and and and…

“The investors are simultaneously strong and weak.”

No, Mozilla has seen the future of computing. (CS/CE/IT, don’t watch if you don’t want to be frustrated.)

I wouldn’t presume to say; I’ve never had personal experience with that feeling, but it’s valid, I empathize, and I’m sorry you had to deal with this loss – let alone so close together. The best I think I can say is that there are still sweet, innocent animals just like your kitty and good people just like your best friend who are still with us and who still feel the weight of the world. Like before, I think the best way to honor those who’ve passed is to hold onto the memories you shared together and to use those as your rock while you do good to others like you would’ve done for them and they would’ve done for you. I can’t say for certain you have the power to change your community online and off; I can say you always have the power to do your best.

I hope things get better in your world and in our world, and I’m sure both of your companions would’ve understood how hard things are right now. There are psychological models that deal with “I feel a way, and I don’t want to”, but I’m not a psychologist and never will be, and frigid regurgitation of clinical models at you isn’t, I’m sure, what you or anyone outside a classroom needs.

Just remember at this point that you’re likely to experience a flood of regrets: “I didn’t spend enough time with her”, “Maybe I could’ve saved her if I [convoluted, long-shot scheme you had no way of thinking of]”, “I treated her too harshly”, “I didn’t give her a good enough life in some way”, etc.

Discounting the possibility out of hand you have some serious skeletons in your closet, none of this is true. You’ll want to feel agency over a situation you couldn’t possibly have controlled to any meaningful extent, and when the inevitable is in sight, the only way you may see to express that is to look backward – and when you didn’t do anything wrong, you have to make it that way.

If you experience that, what you might not see in the moment – looking at a present you have minimal control over and a bygone past – is that there is another direction to look. You can look toward the future – to honoring the love, comfort, and companionship she gave your life and sharing that with and finding that in the pets and people in your life going forward.

She knows she’s lucky, and she knows you’re lucky for having had her. You did a good job.

While we were distracted with Iran, Washington and Oregon joined Canada and allowed their army to begin annexing into SoCal. Western Washington/Oregon was cool with it for social reasons; Eastern was cool with it for gas prices.