Yeah you’ll hear horror stories, but I also adopted a cat that had been declawed, and he never seemed to have any issues with it at all, even when we adopted a kitten (who had her claws).

I’d never do it, in fact we have 3 now that have all of their claws, but not every cat will have problems from it.

Yeah we’ve got a few in our house that definitely aren’t asbestos, just drywall mud or however they did it. Makes it much harder to hide a repair…

The article makes it sound like the foundation is now trying to start a new NRA-type organization, and that’s what the NRA is suing for.

I feel like they should be handling this via duel, though.

Did not know that. Thanks.

Lol we bought one from IKEA recently.

🎵Then put your little hand in mine!🎵

Who? Right Said Fred?

I can already hear a new version of the Right Said Fred song.

“I’m too sexy for Bahrain Too sexy for Bahrain …”

Oh man we used to have one of those. She was the queen. She did not slink into a room, she stepped in and grandly announced her presence.

She’d find the parts of the house that echoed the best and let fly there.

She was all of 8lbs, but she had a personality well beyond her size. We had two other cats and a 60 lb dog, but the house is still, 5 years later, extremely quiet without her. (The dog barks very rarely.)

I miss her!

Ah yes, in the same House that the Republican leaders have on indefinite recess.

Next looming manufactured-by-Republican crisis: That budget deal that reopened the government only lasts through the end of this month. They aren’t passing a budget if they aren’t in session!

I want to point out one of the failures of this administration, one of many, I know, but I think this specific example partially exists because of DOGE. Late last year, Congress passed a law, and Biden signed it, that all Chinese drone manufacturers have to undergo a security audit by December 23 of this year, or they will no longer be able to import drones or parts. The big player of course is DJI.

To date, no agency has started the audit, so the restriction a went into effect a few days ago. Once current stocks run out, we won’t be able to buy or repair those drones.

Thing is, even the (few) US made drones are affected, because the motors come from China as well.

Trump’s administration has failed to address this issue. I’m sure that the DOGE idiocy contributed by gutting so many agencies.

DJI has been pushing to get this audit started for months, to no avail. Maybe they should have created a gold peace prize drone to bribe Trump.

Bought a house like that once. Lived there 10 years without repainting. When we sold it, we had someone come in and paint it, and we left colors up to him.

It. Looked. Amazing. He did muted greens, blue, etc. I said, “Wow, should have done that years ago.”

LOL Sorry, I had to laugh. I started with Slackware back in the 90s, and I finally moved away from it in 2017 or 2018.

Installing it is easy. Where it starts to get headachy is dealing with dependencies when you install something that isn’t a standard package. (I remember, I wanted to install the Ubiquiti Unifi software, and I was just like…“I do not want to deal with this.”) Then, I’d get nervous about updates, “What is this going to break?” And that’s bad from a security point of view.

I understand they do have some dependency management now, so it might be better than it used to be.

I ran it on my desktop, laptop, and my server. The laptop and desktop got switched first, initially to Kubuntu until a few years ago, but now they run Debian. The server was last to be switched from Slackware, and for that I went to Debian. (Debian on the laptop and desktop came later.)

Don’t get me wrong, I loved Slackware, and subscribed to the automatic CD delivery for years. But Debian has just been so much easier to maintain, and more mainstream, so more things are packaged for it. It’s pretty rare that I can’t find a .deb for a piece of software.

Previous owner. Yes, she’d curl up on top while it was running.

(Unfortunately she passed away in 2020, for unrelated reasons. She was quite the heat seeker.)

He doesn’t have sole ownership.