My extra dumb brain initially read that as “any dumb iranian” and was momentarily infuriated.

I was definitely still drawing/writing on my walls in high school, and I’m not even “artsy”.

I find both avatars and display names annoying and distracting. If they’re enabled by default, I turn them off.

Foster! I got in real deep and about a week ago had 12 kittens from 4 litters, ranging in age from 2 days to 2 months. Finally found other foster homes for half of them, so I’m back to just 6 kittens from 2 litters now. Cats of all ages need foster homes! Some for just a few days, others for months, and most organizations will allow you to “foster fail” if you fall in love.

I was dual booting, distro hopping to figure out what I liked & didn’t like. After a few installs, I got cocky and thought I had the hang of things, and instead somehow deleted the bootloader, or something like that. Couldn’t boot up at all to any OS.

All good! I do a lot of lurking, so you gave me the perfect set up to actually participate! I do a lot of kitten fostering, so I spent A LOT of time reading up on their genetics to try and make sense of things and guess what the father(s) look(s) like. New fun fact: kittens from a single litter don’t all necessarily share the same father.

Your fun fact is only partially correct. Calicos and torties are almost always female because the black/brown/grey(dilute) and red/orange colors are both located on the X chromosome, so in order to have both colors, they have to have 2 X chromosomes. Male calicos & torties have some genetic abnormality such as XXY or are a chimera. Red/orange females are much less common than red/orange males, but not all that rare, because they have 2 X chromosomes and therefore have to have 2 copies of the red/orange gene to be solid red/orange, while males only have 1 X chromosome, so they only need 1 copy of the red/orange gene to be red/orange.

Another fun fact: All domestic cats with red coats are tabbies. Through selective breeding, some reds exist with a coat that appears solid, but they’re still tabbies with the agouti gene, just very low contrasting in the striping.

They changed that a couple years ago, right? I think that was when I quit.

I’ve used Pixel phones since they were called Nexus, and it was fun for a minute, but I had too many unexplained issues with RCS and eventually just disabled it. Nowadays, the people I text with most frequently are on Signal. For a variety of reasons, I’ve shifted to giving people my Google Voice number rather than my “real” number, and Voice doesn’t support RCS. So even if I wanted to use RCS, it’s not even an option for most conversations.

What sweet kitties! One of my foster kitties was recently sitting on my chest, meowing at me, and pawing at my face, all before 7a on a Saturday.

I got banned from Tinder. Possibly because I refused to give my real email and just kept entering temp mail addresses, or possibly due to a photo I included that was taken from behind at an outdoor (public) body paint event.

Same, but lying on my left side, so the mattress?

I see some good suggestions from others, but where is her litter box? Are there any other pets in the household?

Huh. I don’t really drink much soda these days, but when I did, Dr. Pepper was my favorite, and I’ve always enjoyed blue cheese. I’ll have to try that. 2 of my recent-ish favorites:

• Water cracker + soft blue cheese + hot honey
• Ramen + blue cheese

Hey! I know some of those words!

I also most definitely heard about a similar experiment years ago using lipstick.

Hahaha. Humans are so silly! My preference is the exact opposite of yours, but the reasoning behind my preference is the same. I strongly prefer a cashier over self checkout because I prefer to bag my own stuff, and find it easier to do that while someone else scans.

Very few of the places I shop lately even have a bagger, so I don’t usually have to ask anyone not to help. I find most self checkouts frustrating because there’s no space for scanned items to sit before bagging them.

I also usually plop my card down on the card reader once the cashier starts scanning, so I don’t have to bounce back and forth between bagging & paying.

Yeah, I really don’t understand what changed or why. By the time I was in high school, pretty much everyone had a cell phone, but they’d get confiscated if they went off in class or we were caught using them during school hours, and that included all break periods. I remember a teacher threatening to take my phone away when I was using my phone to call my dad for a ride home after I had finished my exams for the day. For high school kids, I could see arguments on both sides for whether they should be allowed during breaks, but definitely not during class periods.

Things were a little more flexible in college, but they were still expected to be silent, and some professors would ask you to leave the class if your phone went off or was otherwise causing a distraction.

Did it do the trick?

Starting at that dosage does seem a bit much, but that’s exactly what it took to tame my own cat’s vet anxiety. He was still hissy, but finally just barely manageable.