I bet that I could ride a bike (MC), and lost my ability to walk properly.

Does that count? I don’t like to gamble unless my life is somehow in the pot. Money is boring.

Edit: I see that the title literally says money… so I guess the hospital bills.

What is a banfield clinic and why should we avoid them?

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I wouldn’t know the difference.

All I can know and judge on and care about is how they choose to respond, not how they feel.

And I personally trust people who tell me of their ugly emotions (after we’ve been friends for a long time) more than the ones pretending to be perfect a decade into the friendship.

People are capable of incredibly complex emotions, such as feeling both unhappy bitterness of their own lives in comparison, while feeling and displaying joyous celebrations of their friends success.

One can have both positive and negative experiences of the same event. There’s no use in trying to narrow down to either one.

I can see why you love him already!

As a new cat owner there are a lot of pitfalls (I’ve stumbled into plenty in my time). Figure out how he acts normally, and whenever he strays from that normal - go to the vet.

For example: regular advice is if cat seems more withdrawn than normal they are sick - for me cat was more affectionate than normal so didn’t realise they were sick,

Another time I was toilet training cats, and the one who got it turned out to be sick, because potty training isn’t very normal and hides changes in urine and poop schedules.

And speaking of: if you have outdoor cats, keep them inside for three days now and then to have them go in a litter box just to check that they don’t have parasites, bloody stool, pain around peeing, frequent pees etc.

If its an option, always have the insured for the vet, and better safe than sorry. Cats are experts at hiding their pain and injuries until its too late, so any change can be a symptom.

Not to bee a gloomy doomy - my current bastard is nearing 20 years old (with regular vet visits and daily medication no one guesses his actual age). They are for sure the light of your life, and I hope you have a long full life together!

I don’t know, I struggle to find a single use.

Maybe to make a quick funny thing with seven fingers to send to your friends…? But even then the downside is that these images get sort of normalised and I personally wouldn’t do it. At least not now that the novelty is way over and there are fewer funny obvious errors.

As a person who can’t draw a circle to save my life, for RPG-characters I thought I’d find use for it, but I actually prefer doing a horrible childish two-colour-crayon-sketch at the table rather than bring in a portfolio of images made artificially. My horrible sketches will become part of the lore we kaugh about.

I know that at work when we had out summer greetings sent out from the CEO, anything anyone talked about was how it was so clearly written with AI and it for sure didn’t inspire confidence or pride in the work place as it was meant to do. The same with some project image very clearly AI generated, which led to the whole project being less reputable in the organisation at a ground level and having fewer qualified people conscript to it willingly.

And any project where the creator or images are generated, I’ll trust far less than ones lacking images altogether.

I’m sorry if I couldn’t answer your question properly.

Edit: I may have to go back to gboard - at least it could spell for me…

Being jealous is just an emotion, its nothing to feel bad about. How you act on that emotion however, is how I’ll receive you.

am very aware of my weaknesses.

Personally, if I’m paid to work I don’t mind doing other type of jobs, as long as the job I’m hired to do takes precedence. So if I am done with my assignments and they’re still paying me for the time spent at work, I’ll work at whatever needs doing.

Where I feel this doesn’t work in your case is doing jobs you’re not qualified to do. You’re not trained and qualified to talk to patients about their troubles, or to train nursing staff on how to apply electrodes, and probably not to bring patients to the bathroom. All things that would be your responsibility if you were to do it wrong, as those are not under the qualifications for your position.

I would put my foot down on those, and go fetch a different/senior nurse (as fetching people IS your job) when that’s needed.

And that is the conversation I’d have with my manager - not that I don’t want to work while they are still paying, but what types of assignments I’m expected and allowed and qualified to do, and which to refer to someone else to not put yourself and the hospital at risk for liability. And to have that in writing.

If it’s possible and you’re capable to do it, then I think it’s a moral choice.

If it’s a matter of survival, health or inaccess to a variety of food, I don’t think it really is a choice one should have to make on grounds of morality.

You can select a license with attribution attached, but put in your project info that you have no plans to ever enforce the rules of attribution but will strictly enforce the rules of open availability and free of charge.

No one will enforce rules for you that you as project owner/creator does not care about.

I understand how it went down, it sounds pretty unavoidable given the circumstances. I’m glad you went and got the bites taken care of.

And I also understand why the younger cat would react you the older cat protesting, that sounds like quite the triggering howl.

It can be a nightmare introducing old cats and new cats. I’ve given up myself and will not house any new cats until my current grump passes away, it’s not worth stressing him out over it at this point (nearing 20 years old).

I hope the pheromone helps.

If they are indoor cats, are you making sure to activate them enough? Like playing at least 15 min at least twice a day with each of them, especially the younger one? I mean getting them to chase and jump and climb and bite and finally successfully kill their pray with a snack (can be part of their feeding time). If they’re tired from playing they have less pent up energy turning to aggression.

I don’t know anything about blade runner, but since utopia is a positive dream future (as opposed to dystopia that are negative nightmare futures), I’ll take that.

It probably depends on where you’re from, but you for example couldn’t do military training or become a pilot with a diagnosis, and you needed a doctors note that you were reliably medicated for a long time to be allowed a driving learners permit. Some things have changed since then though, since this was decades ago.

Pretty crazy that they used to encourage people to stay undiagnosed and unmedicated to go into dangerous careers, rather than the other way around.

I don’t know, but if you put some more effort into remembering people’s names you don’t have to get into these situations in the first place. I say this as someone who’s terrible at remembering names, but I have gotten better at it, and so can you.

Also, most times it’s fine to just say “a coworker” without specifying who it is unless people ask.

Some companies have started selling period panties made for swimming, see if you can find some and maybe she can swim comfortably going forward.

There are other ways to play with water, like running through a water spreader, water balloons, water gun fight. She can do all of these with whatever her protection of choice is currently.

You can make popsicles by putting decarbonated soda or lemonade or juice (I like mine a bit watered down) in the freezer. Mini ones with icecube trays (and tooth picks?) or larger ones in trays bought specifically for the purpose (or home invented).

Staying in shade and having a fan for cooling off also helps, but isn’t as fun. Going for a bike ride down a fairly flat and shaded park or forest trail could be more fun way to get some wind.

Only if it actually matters, or if very little time has passed, and only if I have previously demonstrated that I’ll also go back unprompted and admit to being wrong. And I’ll prefer to demonstrate good behaviour and pointing out when I’m being wrong multiple times before pointing out when others were wrong.

Others need to know I’m not going to be a dick about it and I’m just looking for truth in either direction, so they don’t feel personally attacked or defensive.

It also depends highly on the topic and my relationship with the other person.

Of course mistakes happen, but I think it’s pretty rare so you do notice when it happens.

Have you seen live translations? It’s really cool how they keep up. Maybe nowadays it’s done with an LLM, but at least back in the day subtitles could be written live if they didn’t have an interpreter for the hearing impaired. My guess is it was made with some shorthand-keyboard.

Translators can either go strictly translating the sentences, or change them quite a bit to make a joke, double entendre or clue still work in the context of the movie. The latter can feel jarring if you know both languages but I think are actually the better made translation, because they take the whole piece into consideration and not just the words.

Something I find rather funny is when they translate a title from english to english. For example Miss Congeniality is translated to Miss Undercover, Miss Detective, Miss Agent and Miss Secret Agent in different countries.

Better safe than sorry, or as in this case: both safe and sorry!

If you were bit at all you also need to go to emergency care for a shot and taking care of the wound. Cat bites are really nasty, like losing a limb or worse. They heal quickly on the surface so it may look fine, but they go deep and push a lot of nasty bacteria that gets trapped under the surface healing.

The next time, throw a glass of water into the fight or slam some pot lids together to make a scary noise to interrupt the fight. Don’t put your hands in between them. Use a broom or some other barrier if you absolutely want to get physical with it.

And in the longer run, make sure your cats are both neutered to make them less fighty, and that they have someplace to retreat to avoid a fight (like high shelves in every room with an entry way on both ends, pull the couch and other furniture out so theres always always a differentexit from where they entered). Give them multiple high value places like beds, toys, water, food, scratching posts and litter boxes far apart from each other so they don’t need to fight over resources. Especially look these things over for spots where they get into conflict.

Good luck!

Edit: perhaps you know all this already…but better safe than sorry, lol! Maybe someone else reading doesn’t know.

I think washing your undercarriage and pits goes a long way. If you can get a handheld showerhead or bidet you can do it without even taking your too clothes off. Just a tiny bit of soap between the ass cheeks and sometimes on the hairy bits, then rinse all of it with water. With a bidet you can do it while on the toilet, otherwise pop a squat in the shower after the morning pee/poo and rinse off.

For the pits you can use a tiny towel or washcloth and soap and water, and even do it fully or partially clothed. I like wiping off the neck and underboob at the same time to feel cleaner.

With this I think a full body shower including hair washing isn’t necessary more than once or twice a week (for some even less) depending on your lifestyle, age and body composition. It’d be good to recruit a friend or family member to do a smell check occasionally (when you have access to a full shower) and ask them to be truly honest on if you need a shower or hair wash. Your body changes over the years, and your funk levels changes with it.

A bathtub might suit you if possible, or at least a shower chair.

Shorter hair means quicker showers, if that’s something you’re considering anyway - go for it. Otherwise dry shampoo (or just flour for blondes or cacao powder for darker hair) can push a shower another few days.

You could also attempt to do the opposite and shower as cold as possible, at least for a set time period (I had no hot water for 6 weeks, it was torture, but also enlightening in how i could change my shiwer habits) - just to try to break your dependency on overly hot showers. It’ll also save plenty of water because you’ll naturally turn it off when soaping to not stand in cold water unnecessarily.