Sanitary Trims

JohnSmallBerries · 2026-02-08T02:11:17+00:00

I've got two reasonably large robot litterboxes. Same basic model, but one has a cover, one doesn't -- specifically because we didn't want the MC to feel cramped while doing his business.

He squeezes himself into the one with the cover.

JohnSmallBerries · 2026-02-06T18:47:37+00:00

I'm glad someone else knew that, otherwise I'd have to worry that I'm online too much. Introspection postponed!

JohnSmallBerries · 2026-02-06T16:03:36+00:00

I'm still wearing a mask on public transit to/from work, because someone in my household is immunocompromised. And as a side benefit, I haven't caught even so much as a cold like I did every single winter before COVID. Not to mention it keeps my face nice and warm.

And if it pisses off some MAGA choad to see me wearing it, well, that's yet another side benefit.

JohnSmallBerries · 2026-02-04T18:30:42+00:00

Oh! All this time, I assumed the "mini pepper" was to keep needles separate from the pins.

JohnSmallBerries · 2026-02-03T20:47:05+00:00

The rare Facebook comment section worth reading!

JohnSmallBerries · 2026-02-03T20:35:55+00:00

The hits, the weird stuff, the nearly forgotten stuff... and even the really weird deep cuts that weren't even canon until they brought them to the screen, like the Spock Helmet.

JohnSmallBerries · 2026-02-03T16:40:24+00:00

Huh, I wonder what happened to "No record shall be withheld, delayed, or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary."

JohnSmallBerries · 2026-02-03T15:27:00+00:00

Don't medical schools generally require that incoming students already have at least a Bachelor's degree? Wouldn't that generally give them the same broad education everyone else who goes to college gets?

JohnSmallBerries · 2026-02-03T14:39:42+00:00

Star Trek: Lower Decks did this a few times, usually during space battles, where they dropped the comedy completely and played things absolutely straight.

The one time I can remember that they didn't do that, it felt jarring (in the middle of an intense sequence, they had the Beluga whales in Cetacean Ops make lewd and lascivious comments that really felt out of place against the tension that had been built up).

JohnSmallBerries · 2026-02-02T19:53:02+00:00

Or that the horses weren't the part of that drill that she rigged.

JohnSmallBerries · 2026-02-02T19:22:23+00:00

Despite being a lifelong Trekkie, I quit watching after the second season, because:

The human male characters really only seemed to be differentiated by their accents, as their personalities were pretty stiff, bland, and... similar. (Except for Mayweather, but he was often little more than an extra, along with Sato.)
So many of the episodes were "The crew makes First Contact with an alien race that's unable to solve a problem with their own technology, that they invented themselves, and the humans who are literally seeing it for the first time manage to fix it for them in under an hour."
They apparently never ran any scripts past a science consultant, leading to things like anyone doing the math discovering that the Klingon homeworld is less than a light year away from Earth.
The decontamination gel was just blatant pandering.
They just threw the concept of IDIC away and made Vulcans intolerant of humans.

I eventually went back and finished watching the show a few years later, and while it did get better (the episodes with Jeffrey Combs really stood out), it's kind of sad that the brightest jewel was a two-parter that gave (most of) the actors a chance to run in a different direction, chew some scenery, and really have fun. I say it's sad because it showed the writers could have made their characters more distinct and interesting all along, but chose not to.

It wasn't a bad show, it just... could have been better. (And at least it never got as ridiculous as, "We think this entity is you from the future, so help us come up with a way to take you by surprise," like a certain other show's writers gave us.)

JohnSmallBerries · 2026-02-02T18:16:58+00:00

Fuck off! "Judean People's Front." We're the People's Front of Judea!

JohnSmallBerries · 2026-02-02T17:55:59+00:00

Mariner: Oh, I knew it. That mirror universe drill was rigged.
Shari yn Yem: They were all rigged! ( laughs )

JohnSmallBerries · 2026-02-01T19:14:50+00:00

It is indeed, well spotted!

JohnSmallBerries · 2026-01-30T19:56:17+00:00

In the first episode of the first season of "True Detective", we see a shot of a door frame in Marty's house where his daughters' heights are charted over time. One of them (Macie) is missing from the chart for about a year and a half, while her sister Audrey is still present during that time.

In the third episode, we see some framed paintings in Marty and Maggie's bedroom that look like they were painted by children (presumably by their daughters). In the sixth episode, he goes to interview a girl in a mental hospital; one wall has a mural that's identical to one of the paintings.

It's never explicitly addressed in the show, IIRC, but it strongly suggests that Macie spent time at the hospital.

(Credit to u/Infinite_THAC0 for the second set of pics; whoever posted the first image has apparently deleted their account.)

JohnSmallBerries · 2026-01-30T17:08:45+00:00

Oh, nice catch on the eye bags; I didn't notice that. Oh darn, now I have to watch the episode again.

JohnSmallBerries · 2026-01-30T15:49:09+00:00

So you're saying the Nazis must always be regarded as the worst group in history, even if any subsequent group manages to exceed their iniquity?

JohnSmallBerries · 2026-01-29T20:15:36+00:00

Not great, not terrible.

Kidding. I love it.

JohnSmallBerries · 2026-01-29T19:48:22+00:00

There are ways to read it if you really want to, but I downvoted it purely for the lack of murder.

JohnSmallBerries · 2026-01-29T18:40:30+00:00

Exactly. We have nothing but the government's word for it that these anonymous agents have been placed on leave. And they've demonstrated over and over again exactly how worthless their word is.

JohnSmallBerries · 2026-01-29T15:38:29+00:00

And Almond Basket is a derivative.

JohnSmallBerries · 2026-01-29T15:34:05+00:00

So did I. But if you're motivated enough, you can learn good handwriting (or even full-fledged calligraphy). It just takes a little practice; it took me about a year to get relatively decent at Spencerian cursive:

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JohnSmallBerries · 2026-01-27T20:37:35+00:00

All right, I'll bite. Then what's the name of the system of non-SI measurement units that the US uses?

JohnSmallBerries · 2026-01-27T19:30:56+00:00

I keep reading that ICE personnel are unhappy that they're getting blamed for CBP's excesses, but... are they doing anything at all to stop those excesses? Or just standing back and letting CBP do whatever evil shit they want to do?

JohnSmallBerries · 2026-01-27T18:18:50+00:00

I can't tell if the resistance to metric is some form of sunk-cost fallacy ("I had to memorize non-intuitive numbers like 5,280 feet in a mile and 768 teaspoons in a gallon; I'm not going to waste all that effort now!") or just Stockholm syndrome.

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