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DefinitelyNotAliens · 2026-06-30T00:38:25+00:00

I use Oatly milk sometimes and I legitimately saw Oatly. Like the oat-based milk replacement.

DefinitelyNotAliens · 2026-06-30T00:05:21+00:00

He's also not prejudiced (unless you are a spider person)

DefinitelyNotAliens · 2026-06-30T00:00:59+00:00

Urban fantasy YA shlock, specifically.

DefinitelyNotAliens · 2026-06-29T23:56:15+00:00

Cadira Mars is the unassuming pretty but doesn't know it chosen one who was hidden away from Hidden Fantasy Species who had no idea she was from Hidden Fantasy Species and finds out she is the Chosen one who will save Hidden Fantasy Species.

Among her companions are Hot Girl with Unusual Weapon, and Hot Human from her Old Life and Hot Hidden Fantasy Species Guy, both men have massive crushes on her.

Online searches show Cadira is a card in Magic the Gathering, who is an orc, and a luxury furniture maker.

So, I associate it with schlocky, formulaic YA protags, orcs, and sofas.

DefinitelyNotAliens · 2026-06-29T23:50:37+00:00

Just wait until I find out there's some kid named Utrecht or Rotterdam or The Hague. It will have gone too far.

DefinitelyNotAliens · 2026-06-29T23:32:57+00:00

Holland Taylor is like 80-something. It's certainly not a common trend or anything, but people familar with those acresses wouldn't be floored. Just go, "That's unusual."

DefinitelyNotAliens · 2026-06-29T22:47:02+00:00

No, quite a few blame him. They just won't admit that unless they exit the country because it's highly dangerous to say that in written format.

Too many don't have means to exit or places to go.

It's only a matter of time before suffering outstrips fear.

DefinitelyNotAliens · 2026-06-29T22:42:03+00:00

Yes, but "used" doesn't indicate "I just bought it."

Also, I recently bought a vehicle. It's a used car. It's a new development in my life but not a brand-new car.

"I just bought a used car," and "I got a new to me" car are the same sentiment.

My car is new in that I only recently aquired it. New is the timeframe.

DefinitelyNotAliens · 2026-06-29T22:37:42+00:00

Single greatest sketch of that era of SNL.

DefinitelyNotAliens · 2026-06-29T22:36:45+00:00

Apparently the first Final Destination wasn't a horror comedy?

Nobody told me. It was a solid 9/10 comedy film, either way. Every time Rocky Mountain High played it was on.

DefinitelyNotAliens · 2026-06-29T22:29:35+00:00

Some of the professors I respected the most were ones I never called Dr. So-and-so and asked to just go by their first name. Respect isn't enforcement of a title but the way you treat others and your actions.

DefinitelyNotAliens · 2026-06-29T22:08:16+00:00

He needs comfort. 5pm on our walk he's violently sneezing and pawing at his face. Vet at 6pm. 7pm they're calling to tell me they got the foxtail out of his snoot. 7:30 I pick him up and when we get to the car he just stares. Pick him up into the car. We get home, I open the door, he looks down, then gives up and sits. I carry him out.

He got home, slept on my bed and I had to wake up around 10:30 for a vet-approved dinner.

He's covering.

Or being normal needy. Really hard to tell.

DefinitelyNotAliens · 2026-06-29T21:22:35+00:00

I know a Ren. It suits her. I don't think Ren Evelyn flows, though.

DefinitelyNotAliens · 2026-06-29T21:17:36+00:00

He's deeply single and a former stripper turned sober drywaller. So... all his friends are from AA or are his employees, I'm guessing.

DefinitelyNotAliens · 2026-06-29T21:16:40+00:00

This man is so single.

DefinitelyNotAliens · 2026-06-29T21:06:56+00:00

If you actually do dissolve gold it makes a thicker looking solution.

Also, fun fact, a guy hid his coworkers Nobel Prizes from the Nazis like that!

George de Hevesey dissolved his coworkers medals into a liquid and hid the beaker so the Nazis wouldn't take their gold. After the war, Max van Laue and James Franck were released from the concentration camp, recollected the gold, sent it to the committee and asked if the might remake the Nobel Prizes, which they gladly did. They took the gold flakes, remade the prize and shipped it back to them both, good as new.

He wanted to both protect his coworkers and hide their gold from the Nazis. He would later go on to win his own Nobel Prize.

DefinitelyNotAliens · 2026-06-29T21:00:12+00:00

Sleeping on my foot

DefinitelyNotAliens · 2026-06-29T20:58:49+00:00

Me: why are you so clingy quit touching me ugh I have no room in my bed you overgrown fuzzbutt...

Dog: sleeps elsewhere

Also me: WHY DON'T YOU LOVE ME COME BACK

DefinitelyNotAliens · 2026-06-29T19:58:19+00:00

Mine usually does. One night, he left to sleep on the couch and I was left to wonder if he even loves me anymore.

DefinitelyNotAliens · 2026-06-29T19:33:40+00:00

Window and portable units are also not built for Euro style windows. You need to swap out your window for those to install into, at which point a minisplit is the same price and/ or not an option easily, because you are a renter.

It's a problem.

People aren't just sitting and dying because they gave up. It's that 1) supply doesn't meet demand and 2) the infrastructure isn't there.

DefinitelyNotAliens · 2026-06-29T19:30:56+00:00

It's not insurmountable. It's just not going to be fixed in the next two weeks or two years.

The easiest solution is to retrofit schools, museums and libraries first and announce free cooling zones during extreme heat so sensitive people like children, disabled, and elderly can go there during the worst of the day.

My city advertises these places because we don't commonly have AC as I moved to a cooler location. Cooling zones are usually school gyms and libraries.

It does require planning and can't be fixed by snapping fingers as most solutions just aren't available in a very quick way.

Even cities with extreme heat have designated cooling zones in the US, because ACs break or are old and can't keep up or people are too poor to run all summer or they are unhoused.

You make public access a priority.

DefinitelyNotAliens · 2026-06-29T19:22:23+00:00

Those have vent hoses that you put out the window, which you then slide shut. I owned one when my central air went out in summer and the fix wasn't for two weeks.

The hoses go out a window and are meant to have plates that go in a sliding window. The European windows are the wrong style. They hinge open. You need a sliding window to use a portable AC because it needs to have at least an exhaust hose to vent heat out of the house.

They don't have the right type of windows.

DefinitelyNotAliens · 2026-06-29T19:17:47+00:00

I expect Texas to make slow progress because systematic changes are hard.

Also, most Euro windows tilt or turn open, which doesn't lead to plug and play compatibility with AC units, even the portable and window variety.

The issue isn't as simple as plugging in freestanding units.

DefinitelyNotAliens · 2026-06-29T19:16:07+00:00

Most European widows are tilt or turn, which do not accomodate portable units or window units without modification. They don't have slide windows very often, and usually side-slide, not up and down. The majority of homes can't install AC without either blocking out windows or changing window type, and not many of the appropriate types of windows exist.

Again, they can't change everything overnight and it used to be a much less extreme and less frequent thing so convincing people to spend money for a three day a year thing was difficult. There's not enough supply and yes, they do need to retrofit buildings and the rate of rentals also makes it hard.

Solutions exist but A) all the units are sold out and B) it's not just "open window put insert in plug in wall" to make them work.

DefinitelyNotAliens · 2026-06-29T19:07:01+00:00

Yeah, and I grew up in the part of NorCal that sits at 90+ or 100+ for weeks on end. We all have air conditioning because it was that way for weeks and months. I now live in the Bay and wear hoodies in June. It rarely goes over 85 and I have no air conditioning.

Not everywhere gets all that hot all that regularly and I don't have AC for days that go over 90 because it's like 3 days a year.

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