We had a bob tailed void named Robert, the most loving and friendly cat I’ve ever met. Literally the only things he cared about were food and being loved on.
Only lived 5 years, congestive heart failure. Apparently he wasn’t a true bob and the mutation that causes the shortened tail can also cause other health issues. issues

I know one anecdote doesn’t invalid proper scientific research but … erections and even orgasm is not impossible on MDMA. I (a guy) have definitely had a bunch of sex on MDMA, not always to completion but sometimes.

The paper you linked states this at the end of the introduction, emphasis mine:

The phenomenological features of the psychological state induced by MDMA ** show some similarities** with features of the post-orgasmic state.
…
Here, we ** present the hypothesis ** that the impairment of sexual parameters after MDMA may be mediated by increased prolactin."

Sorry,all out of zweihander, all I can offer is a saber

Every time I see that name I can’t help but pronounce it pene-lope instead of pen-elo-pe

I got the whimsy to make a couple wooden butter knives after breaking one we got from an estate sale. Honestly some of my favorite utensils, although it’s partially because I hand crafted them

Oh man, flashbacks to an ancient meme.
TAIWAN NUMBAH ONE, CHINA NUMBAH …FOUR

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/3tu2x4/if_you_shout_taiwan_no1_in_this_game_chinese/

What’s the remade show? Samurai champloo?

Heat pumps absolutely do not need to connect indoors and outdoors, every fridge and freezer is just a heat pump connected to a box.

Ive had a ventless heat pump clothes dryer, about 5 years ago, maybe 6. Technically it made the room it was in slightly colder while it ran, but that heat from my house was just concentrated inside the box and then allowed to escape back into my house.

I also think there have been advances in heat pump technology either with the refrigerant used to transfer the heat or with cascading systems that run multiple loops with different heat capacity so that one loop takes room temp water to “warm” temps and a secondary loop takes the “warm” water to hot.

That’s not how inflation works. “Worth” is a pretty variable term, “buying power” is typically a better description.
Think of it like this, using somewhat made up numbers. In the 50s you could get a cup of coffee for 10 cents from a diner. That same cup of coffee in 2025 costs like 2.50 dollars. Is the coffee “worth” more in 2025? No, it’s the same 8oz cup of coffee but the money has less buying power

I thought I had read something that said there never was a genetic or even chemical difference between sativa and indica, just the terpenes are different. Like how there’s all these different dog “breeds” but if you compare genetics they’re like 99% the same.

https://bedrocan.com/international-research-shows-no-genetic-distinction-between-sativa-and-indica-cannabis/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-021-01003-y

settles in for story time
I don’t know why but retail horror stories are some of my favorites

Getting ready for the work day

It was a reality TV show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_World

And a grub hoe, basically a pick axe with one side a spike and the other side a flat blade. Pick to break the dirt up then shovel to move it out of the way.

Technically it’s the opposite of “I made this” because I’m removing something nature made, but I’m making progress on digging out a cluster of stumps

I love that guys channel, he does some crazy cool stuff with things you can easily source as an at home consumer.
I think my favorites are making cooling fibers with a cotton candy machine and the micro-camper build he did on a zero turn lawn mower.

We have two cats, a void and a grump. The voids full name is Robert but he goes by Bob, my wife calls him “little kitty” because he was a tiny kitten when we got him, I call him “you fat fuck” because he got up to 19 lbs before we started putting him on a diet (14 lbs now)

The grumps full name is Norman (as in Norman Bates, serial killer) but he goes by Norm (as in not normal), my wife calls him Normie and I call him “shut up you” because he’s constantly crying about something

Yeah but they can’t make other people wear it. There’s always that one person who thinks bathing in body spray is the same as actually bathing

You did the thing you just complained about by not writing out 400,000,000 (400M) in relation to the 4,000,000,000,000 (4T)

To scale that down, it’s like someone paying 400 from a net worth of 4,000,000 (4M), or 4 from a net worth of 40,000, they would barely even notice. Of course that’s ignoring all the details of revenue and profit vs net worth or actual tax rates, and I can’t be bothered to look those up.
But imagine you own some land and a house that you bought for 4,000,000 (4M) that you have to pay property taxes on, and the taxes were 400 per year. That’s a 0.01% tax rate.

Shit, now I actually want to know what the real numbers are. according to Finbox “Apple’s effective tax rate for fiscal years ending September 2020 to 2024 averaged 16.5%.” although I think that’s specifically income tax.

Per macrotrends, apple profited 180,600,000,000 in 2024, from 391,035,000,000 revenue, a profit margin of ~45%, from which they payed 29,749,000,000 in taxes for an effective tax rate of 16.5% on the income.

Relative to net worth valuation of ~3,800,000,000,000 at end of 2024 that income tax paid is 0.75% of their net worth.

I’m a locksmith, and I’m a locksmith