I say sad. Barstow is how you know you’ve made it back to California on a long road trip. You stop for gas and a little break, then get back on the 10 and stay on it until you burst out of the McClure Tunnel onto PCH.

Agreed! Except I’m a wimp about capsaicin, it makes me bleed, which is a limitation.

Have you had all three on one pizza? I like the saltiness of olives with pineapple on pizza, but I’m not sure I’m ready to go as salty as anchovies. And I like artichokes on a veggie pizza but haven’t tried them with pineapple. Would you recommend? Or no?

Maybe it’s not working for you, but it works on my phone… The lines of which the cubes are drawn are white/black. By changing the amount of each on a side, (WHITEblack whiteBLACK BlackwhiTE blackWHITE etc) in quick succession, one edge of the cube can look like it’s approaching or receding. It’s based on the way shadows would behave for a real cube, and your brain processes it as such. (The ones I made up aren’t in any order, whereas the ones in the gif are carefully synchronized)

I would have thought Feb 29 would be an extra-dark level of blue

That would give you the structure but did they do any historical research for the goings-on?

“belly up on my lap” I’d be eviscerated trying to achieve this step with the cat I have now. All our previous cats were, well, pussycats about nail clipping compared to her. I finally had to resort to a dose of gabapentin, which barely slows her down but enables me to get one claw at a time over about 3 hours, with a toothy treat after every claw, and plenty of freedom and “da bee” playtime in between to tire her out.

Remember to try to avoid using power 4-9 pm if possible. Because it’s peak hours, and the sun is setting, fossil fuels kick in to meet demand, even if you aren’t directly hooked up to them. Later at night, wind/hydro power can supply enough because demand is lower.

Just because your queerness is less easily depicted, it’s no less valid.

❤️🩷🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🤎🖤🩶🤍

On clearance? Time to stock up!

For a second I thought, “is this Loss?”

It wasn’t. That would at least have been clever.

I enjoy Earl Grey tea plain, but I can’t call it “black,” even though it’s “black tea.” Because it’s orange-ish brown. 🐈

Black coffee is much blacker 🐈‍⬛

You made points others didn’t, and your edit demonstrates another aspect of the alone/crowd response to a prompt.

Laughing with a “crowd” supports you until you realize you were alone all the time, whereas thinking you’re the only commenter frees you to share your insights, but finding you were part of a crowd made you embarrassed about it. Don’t be. We all know being first allows comments to get more points, but more slowly typed comments also add value to the conversation.

So basically winged cats

Sorry guys, we know it’s a problem for you, but you’re gonna have to carry this to term.

You can’t just post something like this without making sure they’re okay! Like either they’re being adopted or at least their mother is coming right back to take care of them, and is getting plenty to eat! And someone is going to see they all get spayed/neutered, including mom!

True, but also the consequences of living homeless in New England would force you to either come up with some kind of way to afford shelter or move south. Whereas more homeless people die on the streets in California than you might expect, but the perception is that you can live outdoors safely all year. So there’s less incentive to scrape together enough money for a home.

Add to that, very few people move to New England with a crazy idealistic view of their opportunities to make it big. If they move there at all, it’s because they have a job lined up. Dreamers crash and burn in California every day.

Or anthropomorphizing it, expressing sympathy for it, in a country with a lot of suicides and a love of robots.

The fact they’re not going to just replace it with another robot could argue for either case.

Did it, though? My 90 year old mother used it in the same way since her childhood. I think it’s always been sarcastic, probably from use by lowly soldiers. In the phrase, she pronounces and spells it as “gummint work” even though she would normally say “government.”

Well that’s gone to shit in the ensuing 10 years.