Macanudo time? Macanudo time!

1. Martincito has no friends.
2. Until an imaginary person appears.
3. They say that they’re called: Olga.
4. And they have no friends either. [Speech bubble: “Hi Olga.”]
5. Now Olga and Martincito are friendless together.

1. Do you like this dress, Madariaga? (Madariaga is the teddy bear.)
2. It’s my favourite.
3. Which are your fav…
4. :O
5. Madariaga! You’re naked!
6. Fellini! (Fellini is the cat.)
7. Have you noticed that Madariaga is naked? He doesn’t wear cl…
8. You too!
9. And why would I cover this masterpiece?

They evolved. Just like they would inside your body.

…in Brazil those are sold in skewers, people call them kafta. And yes, if you don’t take care while shaping them, they’ll look, well… not really appetising.

Thanks for sharing this data - it’s great.

It actually makes sense; if cat urine contained ammonia the smell would be gone once you washed your cat’s impromptu litterbox, since ammonia is both volatile and highly soluble. And yet it keeps stinking - this hints that there’s something else there producing that ammonia by decomposition. (Probably proteins. Cats eat a lot more protein than we do.)

Note: chlorine gas is the one that leaks from an open bleach bottle, and gives it a distinctive smell. The ones created by reacting bleach with ammonia are chloramines, considerably more poisonous.

That’s one of my cats.

The other wants to be cuddled 25h/day.

I’d gladly post Batatinha’s pics if he was my dog, but my cousin would probably get annoyed, it’s a privacy matter.

But, basically: picture a huge dog. By “huge” I mean, he probably weights 40kg or so. Mostly black, with some tan; it doesn’t follow the same pattern as the Rottweiler or the German shepherd, it’s different. Short hair, floppy ears. Rather intimidating, I wouldn’t go anywhere close to that dog without my uncle or my cousin nearby.

My relatives do it all the time. On purpose. Cue to

• Átila - named after Attila the Hun.
• Batatinha - roughly “little potato”.

Guess who’s the toy poodle and who’s the shepweiler.

AI sheep.

Even if the banana is overripe (0.4% alcohol) it has ~1/10 the alcohol content of the same weight in your typical beer (4~5%).

So… technically yes, but in practice no.

How much time until this bot gets banned by “harassment”?

Let me do some maths for a typical situation:

• 125ml of wine (half cup)
• 2l of broth
• 12% alcohol wine
• cooking it for 1h at 78°C (so 25% of the alcohol remains)

The final alcohol content of the dish should be (125ml/2l)*(12%)*(0.25) ≃ 0.2%. For reference an over-ripen banana has twice as much alcohol as that.

Is that such a big deal for your friend? (Don’t assume, ask her.) If it is not, just use wine.

That said if it’s a big deal for her, I wouldn’t recommend non-alcoholic wine. It’s typically awful. Instead use good quality vinegar, as others suggested.

Yesterday morning, the side neighbour’s cat decided to take a walk on my front yard. Kika saw it and got furious, as someone invaded her territory, she had to mark it… and so she did. By peeing on Siegfrieda’s scratching plank.

The plank was stinking so I had to dismantle it, wash the rope, and the weather is wet so it takes a while to dry. Frieda is trying to scratch everything and a bit more, including my leg.

On another matter, my other neighbour’s cat passed away. She was 20 already. May the kitty rest in peace, she always greeted me when I visited them.

Ah, I finally got a picture of Frieda’s cute fang:

This is the reason why I often call her “meine Orkin” (my she-orc).

Then ask her to explain some current meme. Skibidi toilet? C’mon, do you honestly even want to know what that means? We’re too old for that crap.

🚽 😠 vs. 📺 👍. The epic of our times. It might not be what we wanted, but it’s what we deserve. 3/10, complete brain rot, I heavily recommend it.

I’m almost 40yo. I got a few good ones explaining stuff to my nephew, who’s now 16:

• The opening in my older computer case, covered with cardboard. It was a floppy disk drive that stopped working, the case predates the marriage of his parents.
• Why we didn’t simply “look it up” to know that the Mew under the truck rumours were false.
• What the fuck “paint online” is supposed to be. (Tibia, a MMO fairly popular among people in my generation, when we were at his age.)
• Weird popular names for money, like “pila” (after a politician, Raul Pilla), “cruzeiro” (old coin, replaced by the real in 1993), or “mirreis” (mil reis, after another coin).

In this context “politics” clearly conveys “things directly related to governments, such as wars, elections, or socio-economical ideologies”. It is only a subset of the definition of politics that you’re probably using, something like “things direct or indirectly related to human groups and their conflicts of interest”.

We got a whole Lemmy to talk about Israel vs. Hamas, late stage capitalism, elections etc. We could - and should - have at least one community to chill and talk about other stuff, and without that rule we won’t have it. For example without that rule 99.99999% of the content as of late 2024 would be about Trump, as if Americans didn’t have multiple communities to talk about it already.

Then there’s the self-employed equivalent of that: savage some sense of freedom by sleeping up to 11:00, lunch, then spend up to 02:00 of the next day working nonstop because you got work piling up.

I have never met a person who can isolate the moment when Tucker Carlson became Alex Jones. So, where did it come from exactly? …it’s very clear to me both are demons.

And sadly, my Twitter/𝕏 thread with the company in private message is going nowhere. 😿

Sometimes “friendly” “reminding” a company about the relevant laws does wonders, making them return such “display” of “attentiveness” in a more timely manner. (Translation: they reply faster if you threaten them with the specific law.)

In this case the Ley Federal de Protección al Consumidor, article 17, second paragraph got you covered:

El consumidor podrá exigir directamente a proveedores específicos y a empresas que utilicen información sobre consumidores con fines mercadotécnicos o publicitarios, no ser molestado en su domicilio, lugar de trabajo, dirección electrónica o por cualquier otro medio, para ofrecerle bienes, productos o servicios, y que no le envíen publicidad. Asimismo, el consumidor podrá exigir en todo momento a proveedores y a empresas que utilicen información sobre consumidores con fines mercadotécnicos o publicitarios, que la información relativa a él mismo no sea cedida o transmitida a terceros, salvo que dicha cesión o transmisión sea determinada por una autoridad judicial

Yeah. I got a leg scar from a domestic cat that I’ve raised from kittendom, who’d easily have ripped my face if she could reach it*. A wild, larger, and more powerful version of that seems like a bad idea.

*because I was holding a kitten that she never saw before. Yup. Fuck you Kika, I love you but you’re a bloody arsehole.

The orthography is OK. It spams ⟨z⟩ for the same reason why Romance and Germanic languages spam ⟨h⟩ - too few letters, too many sounds, got to use digraphs.

The phonetic and phonemic part is like your typical European language. As in, “WE NEED A NEW SOUND! OTHERWISE WE CAN’T REPRESENT THE KITCHEN SINK DRIPPING!!!”

The morphology is complicated, but the alternative is to make the syntax become a hellish mess. Like Mandarin or English. Language is complicated, no matter which one.

Then the kid installs Proton and your keikaku* fails miserably.

*TN: keikaku means plan.