I’m still holding out for Motörheads

That’s true for dogs, less so for cats. It’s also immaterial since we’re talking about present attitudes toward pets.

Human/animal bonding is aided because their faces retain neotenic features that remind us of babies. So many are inclined to relate to them like children.

From that article:

Accumulating behavioral and neurophysiological studies support the idea of infantile (cute) faces as highly biologically relevant stimuli rapidly and unconsciously capturing attention and eliciting positive/affectionate behaviors, including willingness to care. It has been hypothesized that the presence of infantile physical and behavioral features in companion (or pet) animals (i.e., dogs and cats) might form the basis of our attraction to these species.

It has been hypothesized that both behavioral and physical infantile features present in companion animals might form the basis of our attraction to these animals and may bear some part of the responsibility for our motivational drive to pet-keeping and pet-caretaking (Archer, 1997).

I host a copy of redlib and then use the Privacy Redirect extension to make all reddit links send me there.

I host a number of alternate frontends. Alexandrite for Lemmy, Redlib for Reddit, Invidious for Youtube. And then I have the Privacy Redirect extension make any links to Reddit or Youtube go to my local.

Snot Flickerman was right, it’s dd. It was in the docs I linked to show the commands. It runs on anything with storage devices and an operating system. I mainly use it on Windows servers running on AWS.

It surprises me how many system utilities I use that are older than I am. I am currently initializing a disk on a cloud server with an application that was written when Ford was the US president.

Mock the Week was cancelled for revealing the truth of The Dip

I’m an 18, but I’m here to see if anyone is routinely Donald Ducking it in bed, with a 5, 10, or 15.

At this point I’m referring to all Lemmy meme storms as beans.

Not poopin’? That’s a bean.
Moths? That’s a bean.
Beans? Oh you better believe that’s a bean.

You could take a stab at figuring out what happened to Amalia Earhart, who DB Cooper was, or why Big Foot doesn’t eat at Burger King (but loves Dairy Queen). The big questions of our time.

Years ago I used to sign up for free samples of things (found on a freebees sub) using the name Freema Balczak, because then I’d know if one of them sold my info… but mostly for shits and giggles.

Once upon a time there were two types of Dairy Queens. Some were just ice cream, but the ones called “Dairy Queen Braizer” sold hot food too. Eventually they all sold hot food.

Holy crap! I just got used to thinking that its been over a year since the blackout… but that shocking realization was a year ago now. Thanks, everyone!

It all becomes normal after a while but I still stress about the things that could take it away. Treefalls during big storms and fire hazards and places where people might trip and gutter overflows and was that a carpenter ant and and and.

A now, ten years later, we’re doing some minor remodeling and a lot of those money stresses and fears of the unknown are coming back.

I stopped using a case a couple phones ago. Haven’t broken anything yet and my last phone was 7 when it stopped getting security updates and I had to move on.

My wife always uses a case and screen protector and has still broken more than one.

Not usually, but Chris Cornell hit me hard. I had no connection other than loving his music and everything he did for Seattle musicians in the late 80s and early 90s, but I still think about it.

Using Kagi you can go into personalization settings and block any site. Or boost/lower its rankings or pin it so it’s always on top if it has relevant results.

I am being a judgemental asshole toward myself because I ended up on Reddit per that flowchart.

Indeed. Careless use of the word we, there.