Oh, definitely. Those 90s per stores were absolutely awful, and people thought they were trustworthy, because why would they lie? :(

I haven’t been on the hamster subreddit, but I absolutely loved the guinea pig subs. Such good info. Animal care subs in general were amazing.

I like Lemmy, and I genuinely hope it succeeds at dethroning reddit, but I believe the way forward is to bring back individual forums like we had back in the day. Way more organization options with a forum. Be could if we could use a Lemmy like front end to browse many forums at a time, while maintaining the individual actual forums, where each one can many sections and threads within those sections. That, I believe, could get us to unseat reddit and let us have our amazing communities back like the animal care subs.

That was way off topic, but I’m currently swollen and on meds and my brain has never thought in straight lines anyway. Lol

Of my childhood friend group, I am the second smartest, and the poorest at the moment (aside from the ones that are in prison), the smartest is the wealthiest among us, but only because she was smart enough to utilize her intelligence into a degree and a higher GS grade in a government job. None of us are wealthy, but she’s doing the best. Buying a home, and can pay her bills, and has about 200 bucks per paycheck to put into savings. We all came from very economically disadvantaged backgrounds, but she had the advantage of both of her parents being in the military, so while we lived in the same neighborhood, she lived in a much nicer home, whereas the rest of us lived on roads her parents told her never to walk down.

I am currently attempting to follow the path she did, just 15 years later.

Yeah, Clyde deserved better.

I wasn’t there for the per store interaction, but I assume it was a kid working retail following directions off a tag on a cage. That’s been most of my experience with pet stores prior to decent information becoming widespread on the Internet

My phone stays in do not disturb mode. I have several people as breakthrough exceptions, but my phone stays on vibrate so even they don’t get full ringers. Notifications for everything but calls and texts are turned off.

I am not hiding anything other than myself from having to deal with humans

We fed em, Bonnie was just evil. Clyde showed up one day on my mom’s porch, during a period in which I had been kidnapped (familial kidnapping) and brought a lot of comfort to my brother and mom during that time. The guy at the pet store (this was 90s, pre Internet for us) told them he needed a companion, and to keep them in separate cages and only let them interact supervised, so that’s what they did. They got Bonnie and set everything up, but Bonnie despised Clyde and everything about his good, sweet, and pure little hamster soul. Shortly after I got back, Bonnie committed her ultimate crime.

I had two hamsters. Bonnie and Clyde. Bonnie ate Clyde. Chewed through her cage, crossed a bedroom, chewed into Clyde’s cage, and ate him side first. Ate through her final cage, his ribcage.

You are not a ne’er-do-well with a hamster sidekick. You are a poor, manipulated human under the spell of an evil hamster.

Exactly what I came to the comments for!

Mmhmm

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If they take commissions, I have nowhere near enough money to afford one, but when I win the lottery…

Okay, so, I’m I am on (obviously righteous and correct) Dean Pelton side of this war, but… Where does one order this from?

Stone the nonbedeaners!

I sincerely hope this awakens something in you

Grew up in a neighborhood with twins, I didn’t really know them, just had met them a few times. Boy and girl, Violet (girl) and Azure (boy). Boy’s name might have been Azul, one or the other.

So many things would be better suited to the grocery store having large hoppers of the item that you fill your own containers with. Either the hopper counts out how much is fed through, or you sit the empty container beneath the hopper on a scale, zero it, and then fill and get the weight printed on a little sticker. We have this technology for jelly beans and coffee grounds, but apparently it’s far too advanced for anything else

For real? Well now I gotta go find some clips!

God, I would love to see that

Someone posted “we’ve had beans and jeans, why not deans?” And then people started posting The Dean. Which is, to date, my favorite Lemmy trend. Sadly, us Deanfearing, good, kind, and deancent Dean Pelton posters are at war with the sick, godless, heretical Dean Winchester posting heathens. It’s very sad. Deanversion attempts are being made, but I fear we will have to eradicate them, lest their inDeantrination corrupt the youths.