And here I was thinking it was just a bullshit crappy landlord phrase, but you’re right, it signals his whole intent.

Cool, if it’s also Art Nouveau.

I feel like that title calls for a joke but I’m too tired

Paring and shaving away all excess, leaving only the simplest way, is what Occam’s Razor does.

I would differ with the chart though, and say that if a razor is visible in the first act, someone’s throat will be slashed by the end.

They might also mean “deserving to be protected from harm” like a sacred cow, although 1. That term is usually used ironically, and 2. Plenty of assholes think it’s fine to harm trans people. But it’s well-intentioned.

“highly valued and important” and “deserving of reverence and respect” are among the definitions of “sacred” in Merriam-Webster. It’s a word often connected with religion but it doesn’t have to be.

Thanks, had forgotten “atlatl,” gonna try it in NYT Spelling Bee next time it has those letters.

I like buying local California olive oils, then I know it’s real.

You’ll still probably get better flavors when things are in season locally. Also, you’ll need to check, but often the frozen version of produce is cheaper when the fresh version is in season, and frozen is easy to stock up on.

Sell it and set the money aside for the next thing that needs replacement/repair. A '69, eh? Nice.

You need some Quakehold Museum Putty. The cats will appreciate being able to scratch their faces on the scratching tree you got them, without being startled by the noisy mess.

Well yes duh 75% is ¾ that much I got. So I guess the joke is AI wouldn’t, because it hasn’t learned to tell time, just as it’s not sure about fingers…

Wtf is 7:75? That would be 8:15. Quarter to eight is 7:45.

Or am I just super old and whooshing on the joke? Maybe it’s an AI equivalent of eight fingers or two left hands?

When it’s been a long cold night, getting colder by the hour, and finally you see the sky start to lighten and especially when that first real ray of sunlight tips over the horizon, it may not have actually begun to warm you but the hope does make you feel a little warmer. You know it’s at least not going to continue getting colder, and in most cases it will actually be warming up for several hours ahead. Maybe that hope makes your heart beat a little faster, that would help warm you up too.

As an old woman myself, I’m sorry to you and your little cat too. Sounds like you got stuck with crappy old losers. I hope you meet other old people who treat you nicer.

I am angry a lot, but it’s because as a kid I thought the world was getting better, more tolerant and caring etc. and instead it keeps getting worse, more fascistic and hateful and filthy and destroyed. Every time we take a step forward we get smacked down backwards about six. It’s exhausting. But we do still have to keep trying to take those positive steps every day.

It’s like that, disgusting and/or exposed, because your body is trying to keep you from pissing the bed. When you start to have a dream like that, wake up and you’ll realize you need to go to the bathroom. Your own clean normal private bathroom.

I’ve never had a geese-observation opportunity but now I know they eat grass and the bugs in it, so thanks!

I set a perpetual calendar reminder for cleaning the dishwasher filter every month, the HVAC filter every 3 months, the water filter every 5 months. My husband’s calendar reminders are to refill his meds every 24 days. Those days add up to one extra refill a year.

In California we’re all mailed paper ballots, which we can return by mail (no stamp needed) or designated ballot box, or in person at a polling place up to closing time on Voting Day. My ballot (in a westside Los Angeles district) had 37 items, (on about 7 pages iirc) some of which were yes/no on propositions, others of which had a choice between 2 to 15 candidates for various offices. From school board to US President. It was very clear, just needed a black pen to fill the circles, and I could have gotten it in a dozen different languages. It’s also accessible for my quadriplegic husband, who can’t get to a polling place. But it took time and thought. It wasn’t like the pictures I’ve seen of French ballots which were just a single name on a sheet of paper, take the one from the stack of your choice, I guess? So counting them takes more time. Plus counting ballots that were mailed and postmarked by the deadline, those are allowed 2 weeks to arrive.

*(A couple of edits to clarify details)

Invincible and adorable!