When her cat escapes the house, one sure way to get the cat back in the house is to bribe it with treats. Would that stop working?

People say cats are just as possible to train as a dog, but I’ve never seen one that sits and rolls over.

If her cat didn’t crave treats the way she does, would we still have bonded?

Does it still need the treats? You may have trained it successfully to be friendly.

Obesity in pets should not be celebrated. It’s a sad thing.

Absolutely.

I’ve got a couple variations in a drawer. I don’t use a lot of honey so I don’t use them a lot.

The UK needs to cut some bureaucrat middle management and allocate the funds to the social programs they’ve austeritied into symbolic existence.

Education makes a tremendous difference. Americans have mentally ill people probably at the same rate as EU, but also has ignorant people and that’s where the difference is made up. If you travel 3 hrs in USA, you’ll find the same culture. If you travel 3 hrs in Europe, you’ll be in a different culture altogether.

I agree with the spirit of the post - the tanks Americans have been taught to adore are a bigger safety risk than a small car and I love my Smart. However, the standard full size Euro NCAP are performed at speeds not exceeding 60kph. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to require that in order to travel on roads with a 50kph speed limit, the vehicle will not crumple like a piece of tissue and kill the occupants. There is the separate quadricycle test which demonstrates the risks of these vehicles.

The Euro NCAP also have the valuable pedestrian safety tests and extrication ratings.

It would be trivial to ddos, and likewise for the receiving mail server. Sounds like an amplification attack by design.

Low ABV beverages like wine and beer don’t take age well. Some wines can age in the bottle, but most volume is not made with that in mind. Beer has a shorter shelf life than many people realize. Spirits don’t age (well) in the bottle either.

It’s not milk, but it’s not a MRE either.

Paedophiles? No, that’s just a simple cover up. What they need is legal threats from the president of the USA.

Look how well it works for Orban

Indeed it does. Should it include anyone from What we do in the shadows?

Consistency in naming the actress vs the character

If you’ve got enough employees that notices are tacked to a wall, and you’re not doing a million dollars in sales, you don’t have much of a company!

Shorter theatrical release times mean I can see more back catalogue in the theatres, right?

Right?

I’m hoping to catch it later this month, only because Tarantino talks about how his movies should be seen in theatres, and they’re never in theatres.

Yeah, it’s not really built out yet. Zigbee is good enough, thread is supposed to make it better but I’m good with what I’ve got in hue - for now at least.

Isn’t IKEA’s new line thread?

The reason people suggest avoiding wifi is more than just having the isolated network. Between the protocol requirements, the possibility of network congestion, and the high probability of overlapping wifi network signals, it can make them unreliable or just a bit slower than you’d expect a light to work.

Thread enabled devices can make this better, apparently; if I was in the market for bulbs outside of my current zigbee setup I would want Thread. Zigbee is excellent so far for me

Personally, I’m very happy with my Hue lights, but not super happy with the price; I only get them on sale. One aspect that is not discussed enough, in my opinion, is the quality of light (CRI, dimming depth, colour intensity), which hue is great at imho. The new hub does some nerdy stuff for motion detection if you have multiple bulbs in a room which is interesting, though I haven’t looked into it much.

I am on lisdexamfetamine and I like my morning coffee. I feel like it wakes me up faster (ie caffeine addiction needs are met) but I think that is largely psychosomatic. I have used decaf and it’s just fine but I feel a little groggy a little longer.

I try to minimize my caffeine consumption. Being on two types of stimulants isn’t great for the body. I absolutely do not consume caffeine after noon in any format, not that I’m a big fan of Cola etc.

Well that’s the thing. We have tons of water here. We don’t irrigate. There’s no datacenter. Yet we still managed to fuck it up.

But I agree with your statement. Places like AZ and CA are crazy, growing lettuce and almonds and lawns and having bathtubs and pools is really bizarre behaviour in a desert. We’ve really lost touch with nature.

Kill the unions

Wonder why there’s nobody left to work

These retiring boomers are leaving a union position and taking a pension in many cases which is not transferred to the next generation. Management has been squeezing and squeezing.

Without the union pay and with the spike in housing costs, it shouldn’t come as any surprise that the third generation in a row that re told that blue collar work is awful is not getting on board with the least fulfilling version of blue collar work.

I in a city that is a confluence of two rivers and the next city over is known for its aquifer.

Yet, the city government has hired consultants to come up with ideas for how to handle expected water shortages in the area as a result of development. Not to get all /c/collapse but it sure does make me feel negative about humanity’s effect on the planet.

Add to the list Mexico City, which hasn’t had water for a while.