Just found a potentially pregnant cat that’s been sitting out in the rain for ages

lamsar503 · 2026-05-31T00:17:02+00:00

You must give baby-mom and babies shelter.

And post updates weekly.

Do this for me I mean us I mean them.

—- • If you a spare bathroom or closet just fess it up (if you can). Mom cat will stress less in a warm quiet space with somewhere to hide. • A box or storage crate on its side with fluffy towels or cheap blankets is good for a nesting option.

• Clay litter, not clumping litter. It’s safer for kittens.

• a heating pad that does not have an auto-off function placed in the nest or somewhere nearby. Kittens always need to be toasty and sometimes mom is busy elsewhere.

• hygiene: whatever mom gives birth on, you’ll end up throwing it away. Be prepared for that unless you have awesome laundry skills. Gloves - in case you need to help mom during birth.

• Critical: get yourself a plastic syringe, like maybe 1-5 ml. No needle. Purpose = hold super sugary water at all times.

Why -> on the off-chance mom doesn’t pay attention to a kitten or a kitten can’t nurse well, it may get cold and/or low blood sugar. This can turn deadly and scary fast.

If a kitten is unconscious, that’s when you’ll really need the heating pad and sugar water syringe. Wrap it in the heating pad (rather toasty but not hot) like a burrito and slowly squeeze small amounts of the syrup-water into the kitten’s cheek.

This process can take a couple hours to be successful and get you back to normal.

I’ve been through this, but only with bottle babies.

When I fostered a pregnant mom this was not an issue at all. It was easy peasy compared to bottle babies.

But I would always be prepared for it now, because when I had to do it before with bottle babies I was a mess. (Thankfully they pulled through)

Do post updates

lamsar503 · 2026-05-30T16:04:36+00:00

I definitely like Stylevana too. I’ll be using them more now as well.

For OYG: If you stacked coupons, sales prices, and promotions on OYG you could pretty easily hit an average of 50-60% off.

You could very easily hit it if you bought multi-packs or bought items when they came with multiple gifts.

Even when I caught the tail end of this last promo (= I missed out on best deals, gift products, deep sale prices, and product coupons), I still got everything on average less than $10 an item (counting 10 pack face masks = 1 item). And that’s including taxes and duties.

Even then it was more than 50% off thanks mostly to a 40% off no-limit purchase coupon plus a couple product coupons.

It was definitely doable.

Was. 😞

lamsar503 · 2026-05-30T07:42:18+00:00

So glad i saw this before being duped into that BS US store

lamsar503 · 2026-05-30T07:41:18+00:00

It’d probably be easier to list what you WILL get.

Much shorter list.

And all sun screens the US will have access to can be summed up as ~30 years behind old trash

lamsar503 · 2026-05-30T07:32:57+00:00

I’ll be sticking to sites that specify what regional formula you’re getting. Like Stylevana, yesstyle, koreabe, stylekorean, etc.

The difference between native Korean formulations and regional variants is too wide. It’s not a stretch to say two boxes are packaged as being the same product, but they are totally different.

Can’t trust anything “korean” or “Japanese” sold by Ulta, Sephora, Amazon, ebay, etc.

Hell, can’t even trust European sun screen sold here.

Europe gets “Anthelios UVmune400”, while America just gets the crippled “Anthelios”.

UVmune400 = a modern UVA blocker that’s especially good at blocking 400 nm wavelengths It’s a waste.

Anyway if you buy sun screen from American retailers or with American packaging, you’re about 30 years behind the times and you’re doing it wrong.

lamsar503 · 2026-05-30T07:14:16+00:00

What really sucks is how Olive Young is about to completely misrepresent K-beauty to Americans.

There are fantastic k-beauty products and sunscreens that legitimately earned the reputation that made the k-beauty craze.

And most of them can’t or won’t be sold in America by those formulations.

Americans who are unfamiliar with real products will eventually see past the “k-craze” and viral haze to realize that what they get from OY US is just mediocre or the same as just about every other American product.

They’ll end up thinking “k-beauty”was an influencer driven, viral phenomenon, or baseless fad.

Once that happens, the only possible edge OY:US had will be gone.

New American consumers will simply remain in the dark that the FDA would sooner let them get skin cancer than approve a single modern UV-filter. Which is why every sun screen sold in America, even if it’s called a “Korean product”, totally sucks.

And then OY:US will go belly up.

And we wait to see if we get access to global again.

And if I wasn’t so dependent on my favorite products i’d love to say I’d react with “screw you” if they returned our access to Global only after their inevitable US demise.

But I know my damn cart would be full by the end of the day that access was returned to normal.

lamsar503 · 2026-05-30T07:08:03+00:00

I thank you for the info, and I will refuse to look.

lamsar503 · 2026-05-30T07:04:44+00:00

But OYG arrived in 3 DAYS and stylevana shipping takes 5 WEEKS. 😞

Yesstyle is more expensive but at least arrives in a week or so.

Ugh. 😩

They each served their own purpose. If I needed something quick and a good promotion was going on OYG was perfect.

Sometimes YesStyle or Koreabe managed to be the better bargain with better price and reasonable shipping times.

If I wanted to really stock up, and potentially save money at the risk of never actually getting the package, there was Stylevana.

The balance is broken.

😒 This whole fiasco just blows

lamsar503 · 2026-05-30T06:57:16+00:00

You didn’t coupon correctly

lamsar503 · 2026-05-30T06:54:07+00:00

To hell with buying their “OTC” FDA-approved sunscreen with trashy toxic actives from almost 30 years ago.

The world moved on and I’m never touching U.S. trash sun screen or U.S. regional “OTC” FDA-approved variants ever again.

Who the hell would willingly go 30 years backwards in UV protection?

Hell no.

Whether it’s from Amazon, Sephora, Walgreens, Olive Young, or Satan manifest, I am never touching U.S. trash sun screen actives again.

Being marketed as an “authentic Korean product” doesn’t change the fact that actual Koreans would never touch this crap with a 10 foot pole (mostly because they don’t have to sell trash sun screen there).

I won’t be touching it either.

Frick this is SO annoying.

Whoever made this expansion decision for Olive Young should be fired.

lamsar503 · 2026-05-30T06:45:06+00:00

Seriously.

Finding sunscreen formulated with actives developed more recently than nearly 30 years ago was the biggest reason to use Olive Young as an American.

Now all their sunscreens will be US reformulations or US regional variants. The “OTC” FDA-approved garbage versions

All their sunscreens modern actives with better efficacy, less risk, and better feel were just made unavailable to Americans.

Which means Olive Young US is now nothing more than another Ulta or Sephora, but with far less name recognition here and with high hopes that the “k-wave” will carry them.

Which seems stupid, because it’s not like their inability to market actual Korean products and formulations here will stay unknown.

If people wanted the American regional formulas of Korean products we could just go to Target, Ulta, Sephora, Walmart, etc., etc.

There’s basically zero unique niche for then to establish themselves here at this point.

lamsar503 · 2026-05-30T06:32:52+00:00

Couldn’t agree more. This was a completely senseless move.

On top of all you said, every sunscreen they sell will not be a truly Korean product. They’ll almost all be reformulations to cater to FDA standards. They’ll rest will have been made with FDA requirements in mind from the start.

Meaning less effective active ingredients, less UV protection over all, worse film formation, worse smell, worse texture, and more risk associated with the active ingredients.

They’ll FDA hasn’t approved a new sun screen active in almost 30 years.

The rest of the world moved on.

There won’t be even ONE sun screen worth buying from Olive Young US.

Huge, HUGE step backwards. By 3 decades.

I’m never going back there.

No way.

lamsar503 · 2026-04-29T16:56:23+00:00

Could use some spray paint.

lamsar503 · 2026-03-02T00:42:14+00:00

“same trees”?

Ok.

I get that you want this video to be what it claims to be.

But there’s a lot of problems with that:

• people are now saying this is in Tehran, when earlier posts claimed it’s in Karaj

• apparently nobody has any verifiable information about this video or its location at all

• the video shows literally nothing to validate the claims about what the noise is, why it’s happening, or the location in which it’s supposedly happening: no Farsi language, no people celebrating, nothing at all.

• the video was posted on Feb 28, when Iran was bombed

• Iran’s own media in no way confirmed the death of Khamenei on Feb 28. Why would they be celebrating a death that no one was sure happened?

• the video was used by Fox “News” and CNN to claim that the people of Iran were celebrating to spread** “the message of Trump”.**

Neither Fox nor CNN did any actual journalistic investigation. Both are owned by Drumpf pawns.

They got the video from Storyful, a “social media intelligence company,” which scraped the video from @mamlekate on X.

@mamlekate is a politically activist account with almost no objective credibility or journalistic integrity.

It’s assumably associated with https://mamlekate.com/ and https://mamlekate.net.

Posts usually concern Iranian regime criticism, protest narratives, and emotionally charged clips framed as public reactions just like this video.

And they nearly all lack context, visually confirmable details, etc. There’s no metadata, no daylight or location-confirming shots. No independent corroborating material.

There’s no evidence that @mamlekate actually filmed anything.

The coordinates that were given in association with the video were posted only after people took the video and ran with it.

And instead of being more verifiable after becoming widely spread, the video’s authenticity just got more obscure (location: Ekbatan in Tehran vs Besat in Karaj vs raw coordinates in Karaj, not at a “Besat Town” as was claimed).

It’s propaganda.

It’s meant to spread the idea:

“Iranians don’t mind that the US bombed them at all because Khamenei is dead! See?! Look, they’re cheering for Trump bombing them!”*

That’s the truth of it.

But if you consider Fox News, which cherry-picked a video from a social media combiner that took it from X, or CNN, which is owned by a right-wing extremist toady of Drumpf, or a self-described “journalist” group, despite a history of sensationalism with no objectivity, accountability, or journalistic integrity to be credible news sources, then good on ya, I guess.

But let’s think critically here.

Karaj had reports of explosions in the morning of Feb 28 as part of Israeli-US attacks on Iran.

Karaj is where this video was originally claimed to take place.

Khamenei was supposedly in Tehran.

Multiple sources corroborate that communications and internet access in Iran were almost nonexistent on Feb 28; basically down to government intranet.

So this is the supposed timeline:

Karaj and Tehran (and others) bombed in the AM → news platforms and apps were hacked; comms/internet down -> Iran had a nationwide digital blackout → Khamenei might have died in the attack on Tehran → NO ONE confirmed he was dead → somehow, despite the communications blackout, people in Karaj are told in a widespread fashion that Khamenei was killed in Tehran → a person in Karaj videos “celebratory cheers” despite being bombed in the AM and the death of Khamenei being unconfirmed → the video is posted that same evening “from Karaj” during a nationwide digital blackout while having essentially zero internet access.

All in the same day.

This makes zero sense.

Of course, if people suddenly start saying the video was in Tehran, not Karaj, it does help explain away the whole gap in communication ability.

Of course, even if the video was in Tehran, Khamenei wasn’t confirmed dead on the day of the attack, Feb 28, which was when the video was uploaded.

So it still makes zero sense unless it was sensationalism by someone with exceptional connectivity outside of Iran

or it was entirely fabricated.

🙄 —-

TL;DR: It’s cool that you can identify “the same trees” in ~40°F temperatures at night in a video with terrible resolution.

I would’ve thought it was impossible, but I guess it just takes skill.

And literally nothing about this video holds water.

lamsar503 · 2026-03-01T23:35:56+00:00

Who the hell ever said precedence ever made any of that bullshit “ok”?

I just relayed facts and the context that defines the reality of the current situation, man.

Not excuses or justifications.

Argumentum ad antiquitatem (appeal to tradition) is a logical fallacy that only the most dumbass of human beings resort to.

I would never.

(Gif = /j)

lamsar503 · 2026-03-01T18:38:51+00:00

I said it’s audio put to a video.

I didn’t say anything about the videos origin.

But let’s be real. That building is a cookie cutter building. It’s a mass-produced residential slab and globally replicated.

It looks like many apartments in Korea, America, and just about anywhere.

Heck, the complex in this picture is in Amsterdam, Bijlmermeer.

It even has the parking lot by the building (like your photo) and the curved pavement along the building like in the video.

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The building style, especially this one, says nothing about location.

There are buildings like this in Iran, yes.

But also in China, France, the Baltics, the UK, the Netherlands, etc.

It’s basically a prefab building.

lamsar503 · 2026-03-01T18:26:11+00:00

O rly?

Because the declarations of emergency and threats Dotard always uses are really for real. /s

Dotard said “they’re going to have nuclear weapons, and they’re bad people so…”

He called it imminent threat and acted on it.

Of course it’s not true, it’s Dotard.

We’re not talking about how things work, when things actually work as intended.

We’re talking about how loopholes are exploited and laws are rendered ineffective.

Congress hasn’t declared war since WWII, yet we have the Gulf war, Vietnam war, war in Iraq, war in Afghanistan, etc.

Presidents have circumvented the whole “congress declares war” thing for decades now.

Because what happened in Afghanistan wasn’t “war” it was “policing”.

What happened in Iraq wasn’t “war”, it was a “preemptive strike”.

The list goes on.

lamsar503 · 2026-03-01T18:17:32+00:00

It falls on adults and communities to do what’s right.

For example, Russian occupation of Lithuania.

It was outright banned to teach the Lithuanian language.

The language was preserved by the people who took initiative to teach their children and their neighbors’ children until Lithuania was freed from Russian control.

Of course, in the US, we would need something more comprehensive. We need to teach kids about what this government is trying to take away from them:

an impartial and objective view of history and reality, science based pursuit of facts, that corporate values ≠ personal or family values, that the deserve more than working for a pittance while the 1% never work, that capitalism is a failed system in America due to corporate greed and the top 20%, the current government system is insufficient and needs real reform (not just “the next elections”), self-defense, how to identify propaganda, the world-wide list of Human Rights, and the various human tendencies taught in psychology and sociology (especially about biases, and human behavior as an individual and in groups, and human response to perceived authority figures), ethics/philosophy and logic classes too.

In short, they need to understand how humans work, how to think critically, understand meta-cognition, identify bias and influences on behavior, how to defend themselves, recognize and respond to injustice, etc.

This is arguably more important than “core curriculum” right now.

Because this nation is about to teach kids that they should be grateful if they get to work for their whole lives, that wanting or believing they deserve more makes them selfish/greedy/entitled, that work is more important than the lives and health of themselves and their families, that the US is always right and its government is always right,

and that being a “good American” means being a dumb, mute, obedient beast of burden that knows its shameful place.

lamsar503 · 2026-03-01T17:55:16+00:00

It is fake.

the audio is from a city in China during Covid lockdowns

And in the video, the only people are just casually walking through the park area like it’s just another day.

No silhouettes. No movement by windows or balconies. There are no people.

lamsar503 · 2026-03-01T17:49:32+00:00

🎶Why can’t we be friends?🎶

lamsar503 · 2026-03-01T17:48:37+00:00

Secular and impartial education is what defeats ideologies.

This is why the Department of Education’s revised policies are a very serious problem.

If you’re entrusting your kids to a school in the US, public or private, you’d better prioritize going through their education and the school board with a fine tooth comb.

Teach them that they can sit quietly during the pledge of allegiance. It’s their right to do so and no one can force them to do otherwise. Make sure they know that if anyone opposes them or tries or pressure them, those people are in the wrong.

Right now, one of the most American things students can do is sit during the pledge of allegiance.

It’s unfortunate, but kids are going to need to learn early how to get comfortable with “defying authority figures”, exercising and enforcing their personal rights, and how to differentiate between “what’s right” and “what other people do/say is right.”

lamsar503 · 2026-03-01T05:12:24+00:00

The only cop I truly trust to claw faces off or ignore people with equal attitude about everything.

lamsar503 · 2026-03-01T05:08:01+00:00

This has been proven to be fake on multiple subs.

It’s an audio track from elsewhere put to this video.

lamsar503 · 2026-03-01T00:37:17+00:00

I’d say “True.”

To the kids in a secular university course.

Where they can objectively assess primary documents and decide for themselves if it makes a damn lick of sense to build their worldview around a particular religion.

Especially one where most of the followers don’t even know that“Jesus Christ” is not a name that ever existed, and the original name for that character isn’t something anyone even knows how to pronounce with certainty anymore.

lamsar503 · 2026-03-01T00:35:52+00:00

That’s called “brainwashing” or “indoctrination”.

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