I have had many wonderful cats in my life, and I do not currently have a cat, and I have not had one for some time.

Maybe I should get a cat.

I thought about something like that because I live in a geodesic dome home and it would be really great to be able to program my house to look like a gumdrop for Christmas, or a pumpkin or a skull for Halloween.

I’m just worried that I would annoy the shit out of my neighbors in the process.

already have one actually really like it next game on the list is Zelda a link to the past

I have never had the patience for Lego.

I remember trying to do, like, when I was a kid, and just getting really frustrated at the directions, and just making swords and other fun stuff instead.

Which is weird because I really enjoy assembling Ikea stuff, and I’m very good at it.

If you had to pick one of those for a newcomer to get into, which one would you recommend?

There is a trick.

If you’re a guy and you have a scraggly beard, and you really want it to fill out, and it’s gonna sound fucking crazy, but Rogaine.

Over the counter Rogaine, monoxidil shampoo.

Wash the area that you want to have a beard with it and in many cases your beard will grow in.

The good thing about that is, is that once your beard grows in, it will stay grown in.

Of course, be careful with it.

1: I’m just some person on the internet relaying information that other people have relayed to me. I have not done this myself, so take everything I’m saying with a grain of salt

2: You don’t want to start growing hair in places that you don’t want to start growing hair in, and Rogaine, Minoxidil, will increase the amount of hair that your body grows wherever it lands over a long enough time period, so be careful where you wash your body with the Rogaine.

A further caveat is that the area must have hair to begin with. It will not make your palms grow hair because you do not have hair follicles there, and it won’t work for everyone because all it does is prevent DHT from attacking the hair follicles, but that can be the space that those hair follicles need to get stronger and to start growing in a thicker beard.

Back when Zoom trials were a huge thing some of the law firms I worked with had the lawyers put on makeup because better looking people do better in court and it worked.

I saw a couple of firms have record settlements and judgments in their favor, in part because they were the better dressed, better looking, more well put together, side.

I’m sure the confidence boost of looking their best while being in a high stakes trial also helped.

The ancient wisdom on this topic is, “Dose is the difference between poison and the cure”.

For a fun thought experiment, try to think of something that will not kill you under any circumstances regardless of the quantity or quality of it that you are exposed to.

So far I have come up with “shade”.

I recently saw a clip of a video where a girl was working checkout at Walmart and the person just pushed their cart through the checkout and walked out the store with it and she was just like, well, whatever.

I legitimately have no problem if somebody just starts bringing hammers with them and smashing these devices when they encounter them.

I actively hope they are all destroyed with hammers.

Reaching out from time to time, initiating conversation, sending a random stupid meme, something, anything to just keep communication and contact functioning.

On the reservation I’m from, up until the late 90s or so, there weren’t enough cops.

So, if you could fight off the cop that was trying to arrest you, they couldn’t arrest you.

So most of the times, rather than fight, they would just ask the person, “Hey, do you want to come in and get this taken care of?” And if they said, “No,” they would just be like, “Alright, I’m writing it up, and it’s gonna come out of your money”

That money is not money you get for being an Indian.

Our tribe has a lot of land, and since there’s nothing else to do, it gets leased out to cattle ranchers. And so every year, many people in the tribe get a few hundred bucks, and that’s where the money for paying their tickets or whatever would come from.

So I get free stuff and laid?

like, holy shit, this is such an awesome place.

I had a GF with blonde hair and blonde pubes.

I think it’s fairly rare, though.

There’s also FLYOOBE, which will let you do stuff like uninstall a bunch of the apps that are installed by default, disable AI shit, and set some of your basic interface settings all in one relatively convenient application.

I feel like you want to invalidate my response without considering its points.

My guessing 7-10 years and you replying with “8 year warranty, but you might get lucky and it last longer” alongside, “Most EV car buyers won’t have to worry about it” explicitly overlooks the used car buyers, who are the primary driver of used car values and who would be the specific people who would have to deal with the consequences of battery degradation over time.

Pointlessly popping a gotcha that isn’t a gotcha at all doesn’t bolster your case.

Telling me I’m right while trying to make it look like I’m wrong is a terrible tactic to get me to change my mind.

I mean a car’s engine can run with reasonable maintenance for 250,000 to 350,000 miles over a period of 20 or 30 years, whereas an electric car’s battery has a 7 to 10 year shelf life until it needs to be either refurbished or completely replaced at a significant portion of the cost of a new vehicle.

I’m sure that in 25 years, electric battery refurbishment will be systematized and cost-appreciated to become an affordable quintennial service, but until then I don’t want to buy an electric vehicle that can only go 30 miles between full charges.

I don’t use it at all directly, but occasionally an answer generated on Reddit will pop up on a search I’m doing on a different site

I use Raccoon.

It’s pretty good.

There’s a lot of complexity to the settings, and it’s not exactly intuitive to find which section does what, so there was a lot of trial and error getting it set up.

But now that I have it set up, it works for me perfectly. It’s not quite where Reddit is Fun was, but it’s close enough.

The one thing that I wish could be added would be some sort of like system where posts or entire communities could be labeled with a category and that you could block or follow those categories.

Technology, music, politics, memes, NSFW, like each and every single broad topic could be a category, and then the magazines would align themselves to that accordingly.

I, for one, get all of my political news from other sources. I do not need it from Lemmy, and so I would love it if I could block Lemme’s political sections in a fell swoop.

Even though I have blocked dozens of political magazines and politics bots and posters, and bammed several key words, I still get political memes that pop up and political discussions that pop up, and I wish I could just blanket ban all of them.

I think it’s weirder that we’re all overlooking that any person that attached this to themselves, if it was actually capable of putting its rated force, would basically explode.

It’s like a one-size-fits-all instant-eunuch machine.