I always forget how cursed pre-beard Riker looks 😶

My childhood cats hated their bells so much they learned how to abuse the breakaway safety clasps on their collars and get them off entirely. Sneaky indeed.

I think it might be a bell, but definitely some kind of collar accessory thing.

That was a fascinating read, thank you for sharing! The fact that Tolkien’s world can be analyzed to this degree and still make sense is absolutely mind boggling to me.

I was thinking very finely ground parsley or basil would make that color. But I’ve never seen either that powderized.

I’ve been driving myself insane for 10 minutes over this; what is the garnish?

Yeah it’s #2 I have the problem with. If I’m not there when it happens the smell diffuses out into the house and lingers even once the source is disposed of. I think half the problem is my cats make no attempt to bury it with the pellets where before with the litter they would entirely cover it. I’m surprised to hear people had problems with smell with clay litter, never noticed it myself. It was the dust that drove me to switch (plus cost and environmental stuff, but if I’m being honest the dust is what finally got me to research alternatives)

Do you have a good solution for the smell? I recently switched to wood pellets and I swear I can’t enter the room if my cat has recently used the box.

This is probably on the right track, but just wanted to add a little detail. Elastic deformation is when something fully springs back to its original shape. Plastic deformation has some spring back, but some portion of the deformation remains after the force is removed. Unless of course you bend it to the point of breaking. I’d imagine that means that in the brittle zone in the image there’s virtually no deformation, just force applied until a break occurs.

Excellent username! I needed a reminder that losing is Fun™️ this morning.

Yes, stop doing engineering and do something actually valuable for the station! Like grow hydroponic weed, or leave vials of thermite everywhere, or beat the mime senseless…

All hail Greg, patron saint of cocktails! His Manhattan matrix episode was so wild I still think about it periodically.

Something about the professional, detached tone combined with the absolute slapstick insanity of the article’s content makes this perfect comedy

If they made mystery flavored drinks like mystery flavored air heads, I’d buy them.

I bet you could Photoshop in one! Probably would be less blurry 😂

PERRY the Soong-type Android‽

Saw this predicted by many people right from the beginning of the protest talks, but it still stings to see it play out. What a sinister move.

Sure are. They really nailed the style!

Never heard of it, but a quick Google tells me it’s less than a year old, and I’ve had a version of this saved to my computer for years, so no. The article I originally found it in claimed it was actual margin doodles from an illuminated manuscript, but I think that was from cracked.com so probably worth a fact check lol. I’ll have to give inkulnati a shot! It looks pretty cool.