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You can always spot the most contentious part of a Wikipedia article by the number of sentences that begin "Oh yeah well" or whose subject is "your mom".

@xelene @rbreich What is the point in socialism for businesses which failed precisely because of the deregulation they demanded? If they wanted the government's help they should have accepted regulation. Can't have it both ways.

@isaac32767 @Popehat More like a limited engagement ship or even a tiff boat or a snit dinghy

@JohnShirley2023 Well it's not as good an ending as being crushed by God with a rock so big even He couldn't lift it, but it'll have to do.

@JohnShirley2023 Ah, but is there, somewhere in the multiverse, a universe in which there isn't a multiverse?

He was getting up on a shelf in the dining room where I left a bag of birdseed. So I removed the bag, placed a trap there and scattered birdseed inside. He'd just nibble the bits he could reach without going in, and leave the rest.

But since I can get him to climb up there, I may try the "tippy ruler with bait scattered on it that causes him to fall in a bucket" trick. The question is will it be a bucket, or a fine new mouse home where he won't, as I say, get all ate up by owls.

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My wife made bread this morning, from dough she'd prepared the night before and left in the fridge. She was telling me about the various mistake she'd made out of sheer sleepiness. I've just had some of the bread.

It's f***ing amazing; some of the best bread I've ever had. I've asked her to write down everything she thinks she did wrong so she can do it again.

@SonofaGeorge
Yeah, I'm less than a mile from the Columbia River, there's plenty of wild places for them to live. (And plenty of owls and raptors to eat them.) I took a few rats out there before I figured out how they were getting in.

So we still have a mouse living in our kitchen. I managed to herd it into a humane trap once -- and then didn't move it far enough from the house -- so he's not falling for that again.

I've even mounted a motion-sensing camera on the kitchen ceiling -- I have cameras lying around (work-related) and already had a power-over-ethernet connection from a former ceiling mount wireless AP there -- so I have any amount of video of the critter darting around. We also occasionally spot it personally. It's ridiculous how cute it is.

By the time I work out how to trap it again we're going to be so fond of it that we're not going to want to consign it to the wilderness to be eaten by an owl. Trying to decide if a wild mouse would be happy as a pet in a comfortable and well-appointed terrarium.

@JohnShirley2023 At the risk of sounding glib, that's kind of the entire point of a corporation: to insulate its principals from liability, including the consequences of their own actions.

@JohnShirley2023 Wow, it's like having a fact-finding team and cutting them because you didn't like the facts they found.

@freemo @realcaseyrollins I don't think it's a character, I think it's a spell for tattooing your nipples.

RT @kenklippenstein
Weird how all the concerns about government assistance contributing to inflation disappear into thin air when the beneficiaries are rich people

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