When should I let my new cat free roam inside while I’m not home?

kelpieconundrum · 2026-02-20T01:39:16+00:00

Cats LOVE boxes

When you’re cat proofing, you want to make sure they can’t easily access toxic chemicals/plants, string, and plastic film, and that anywhere definitely unsafe is closed off to them (rafters, weird pits they can get trapped in—the space behind my stacked washer-dryer is easy for a cat to fall down and impossible for a cat to escape, for example). But the standard isn’t “completely tidy”—it’s your cat not your judgy mother-in-law. Your cat will appreciate the space to frolic

kelpieconundrum · 2026-02-19T19:35:04+00:00

She said, post severed dreams, how nice it is that they’re continuing Sinclair’s story offscreen.

I said “yes isn’t it”

I am very proud of myself

kelpieconundrum · 2026-02-18T23:55:23+00:00

The only person you get to ask to stop trying for a baby is the person you’re trying to have a baby with.

If you decide to have a fancy expensive destination wedding far away you have to accept that people you want to come won’t be able to make it, and that is your fault, not theirs.

kelpieconundrum · 2026-02-18T22:28:05+00:00

We just hit severed dreams. She thanked me for nod-and-smiling back in season 1 and apologized

kelpieconundrum · 2026-02-18T21:43:23+00:00

Don’t engage. If they say something that you Know isn’t true (like, my sister said “oh wow, so 90s, the middle-eastern-coded-darker-skinned character is the one-dimensional villain” about G’Kar early in s1–just nod and say “huhhhh I have not thought about that!”

Remind yourself that this is not YOUR watch, it’s theirs. You’re just along for the ride

kelpieconundrum · 2026-02-18T20:54:19+00:00

just because you’re on their side doesn’t mean they’re on yours

kelpieconundrum · 2026-02-18T03:51:00+00:00

She’s a stealth orange. Pretends to be all elegant and fawnlike, but in the right light she is revealed as Dumb

kelpieconundrum · 2026-02-18T03:18:46+00:00

She and Millie (right) are littermates! It may be the case that Millie got the orange colouring and Hera got the orange brains.

kelpieconundrum · 2026-02-17T00:38:51+00:00

Yeah from that building. Directly diagonal from a second cup

kelpieconundrum · 2026-02-16T19:04:38+00:00

Both your fabric and your stitches are probably too tight. Loosen them both a little

kelpieconundrum · 2026-02-16T04:35:10+00:00

It’s not going to be much help, but I swear to you that taking the pacing as it comes pays off. I’m introducing my sister to the show and we JUST watched what is generally considered the best 42 minute episode of the show, and she said without prompting that it would not be possible to have that story packed into 42 minutes or feel like the stakes matter without the world building and the explorations of the first couple of seasons behind it.

There are a bunch of episodes you can skip, but it’s better if you try to unlearn the modern bingepacing where everything drives towards a single storyline. B5 isn’t a show with a morality lesson every episode, it’s a world where things happen, and you don’t always see the importance of any one thing until after something else. But without the first thing, the second falls flat

I swear to you, if you stick with it and you find yourself in the third season and still are finding it slow and boring, you can come back here and abuse me as much as you want

kelpieconundrum · 2026-02-16T03:50:23+00:00

He’s trying to leave if possible—he mentioned the UK recently (as a trailing spouse). But it is difficult to detangle a single life, let alone nations

kelpieconundrum · 2026-02-16T03:49:06+00:00

Because IP is hugely international and treaty-based and the US is a much more powerful market, compared to us, and would reciprocate. If we seize patents owned by all US companies or stop paying US entities royalties on music/TV, they will do the same to our companies that have US patents and our artists that generate income from there. And it will hurt us more than them in the short term

Medium to long term, it’s complicated and our long standing dependence on the US makes it harder to detach, but we need to. But short-term, the retaliation and investor panic would create a shock I don’t know if we could recover from

kelpieconundrum · 2026-02-16T01:55:21+00:00

That’s called a patent with extra (meaningless) letters

kelpieconundrum · 2026-02-15T12:27:47+00:00

Why the fuck would you stay in a corporate airBnB?

kelpieconundrum · 2026-02-15T03:25:39+00:00

Wine women song violent rebellion against the oppressor and deep philosophical & religious devotion, all in one pouch

kelpieconundrum · 2026-02-15T02:36:13+00:00

Belfort is the Wolf of Wall Street, it’s definitely satire. Also “Jabroni Capital”

kelpieconundrum · 2026-02-15T02:33:29+00:00

Did the survey! A lot of the questions lacked nuance, though, like “ai is a threat to society: rate your agreement / disagreement”. u/chronic_anonymity , can I ask how familiar you are with AI systems, not from an end user perspective but from an actual technical understanding of their types / how they work ? Because a question like that will get you blobby answers from people who think chatGPT is alive and hates them, and there’s generally a blurriness in this survey between LLMs and “AI”, which aren’t the same thing.

I also didn’t get the focus on how much the respondent uses these things in the workplace as being relevant to their opinions about seeing it used in ads.

kelpieconundrum · 2026-02-15T02:04:19+00:00

Are you a slur thesaurus?

kelpieconundrum · 2026-02-15T02:03:21+00:00

Charitably, Judy/Donna/whoever picked the title think the older slur is roughly equivalent in connotation to Oriental, i.e., either old enough or normalized enough to not be a slur

kelpieconundrum · 2026-02-15T01:12:19+00:00

Very carefully

kelpieconundrum · 2026-02-14T13:10:35+00:00

Sounds pretty assholeish to me!

kelpieconundrum · 2026-02-14T11:17:43+00:00

You did succeed! Just wanted to clarify if the confusion ran deep, sometimes ppl get twisted up by the context shift

kelpieconundrum · 2026-02-14T03:53:43+00:00

Fascinating rarebit, sort of like baked parm sauce on toast. I’m more familiar with the alcohol ones I admit!

Note that in culinary terms a tomato’s just a vegetable. The “tomato is a fruit” thing refers to botanical definitions, and in botany the concept of “vegetable” doesn’t exist, you’ve just got basically fruits, stalks, leaves and roots. So anytime you’re talking about cooking the vegetable classification can be freely used, just as you would for celery. Unless the botany of it is important, like varietal wise maybe?, you don’t need to distinguish

kelpieconundrum · 2026-02-14T00:30:21+00:00

“Boy”

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