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Thank you 😊 I feel blessed to have him with me

He’s actually really well behaved lol. Today was the first day I’ve had to scold him in a while because he snuck out of the house when I cracked the door open to leave. But he generally sleeps at the foot of my bed right beside or on top of my feet.

But for the most part, he’s very obedient and kind to me. I taught him as a young kitten to not bite and to instead “ask” for pets. He was an extremely violent kitten! He would always bite. I started scolding him and he would stop and would instead start to just lean in slowly for a bite because he didn’t want to hear me yell and when he would do that, I would scratch his ears or under his chin since his face was already near my hand, which is his favorite place to get scratches. I love touching his paws and he hatesss that. So that was the perfect teaching opportunity, whenever he would lean in to bite, I immediately scratched his chin and he began associating discomfort with redirecting me instead of resorting to biting me. So when he would get those urges to bite, even the love biting, he now just leans in for a scratch and I give him a good scratch under his chin and he goes wild with purring. I also unintentionally taught him to use his paws to grab my hand to ask for pets too, so he does that instead of biting too and will try to get me to not stop scratching his chin. I think that came from me touching his paws and he associated that with scratches so he does that to “ask” for scratches. He often reaches up with his little paws to demand scratches while I’m working from home even in meetings.

He bit me on my foot once a few months ago but I could tell it was because I was petting him with my foot and he wasn’t enjoying it and in hindsight, I think I wasn’t paying enough attention to his warnings to ask me to stop. I can’t remember the last time he tried biting me before that.

He was declawed many years ago by my parents when I lived with them, so scratching hasn’t been an issue. That’s the reason I’m very strict about him being outside because we have owls and coyotes and other cats and he can’t defend himself from them like other cats can. I take him outside supervised for a little while each day which has helped our bond too. I can tell he trusts me a lot and will go in when I tell him to even though he loves being outside. So I think he doesn’t want to bite me because of the bond we have too.

I think my cat knows it’s a game when I put my hand under the blanket and swish around on the sheets. He especially likes it when the hand reaches over the side of the bed and he can see it move partially and hears that sound of hand swishes across a sheet.

His eyes widen up and he slouches down in attack mode and waits for the kill. But he’s gentle when he goes in for the kill, only grabbing on and then letting go. I give him some scratches and grab him up to hug him close as I scratch him all over his head as a reward.

Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got here.

Glad they have their priorities in order. I was really bothered by that G I never pay attention to.

I meant like when there’s a random song playing from shuffle, I used to be able to tell Siri “play this album” or “what album is this song from” and she would play the full album or tell me what album the song came from. No longer knows how to do that and tells me something about not knowing how to do that.

Seriously. I used to actually use Siri.

I realized this yesterday when I went through the manual process of unlocking my phone and looking for another LLM app to ask a question.

I don’t even trust Siri anymore to open an app.

Don’t get me started on music. I used to be able to say “Hey Siri, play this whole album” or “play that song” and it would play the whole album.

She’s absolutely useless.

i was going crazy over this so I asked AI lol

Here’s the answer it gave me:

What the Evidence Shows

•  Star Trek Cereal Promotions in the Early 1990s: Cereal promotions tied to Star Trek were common, especially with brands like Kellogg’s, General Mills, and Shreddies. For example, Canada’s Shreddies cereal in the early 1990s offered unpainted starship toys, including the Enterprise-D, Klingon Bird of Prey, Romulan Warbird, and Ferengi Marauder, which came with stickers for decoration. These were small plastic models, not spoons, but they align with your memory of Star Trek-themed cereal prizes.

•  Spoons as Cereal Prizes: Cereal box prizes in the 1990s often included plastic spoons, especially themed ones. For instance, Kellogg’s offered lightsaber-shaped spoons for Star Wars promotions in the mid-2000s, which were popular and memorable. While no specific Star Trek ship-shaped spoon is documented, the concept of a themed spoon as a prize was common, so it’s possible you’re recalling a similar item.

•  Other Star Trek Collectibles: The early 1990s saw various Star Trek-themed food-related collectibles, like the 1989 Kraft “Marshmellon Dispenser” (which included a plastic spoon, fork, and belt ring as a mail-in offer) and Weetabix’s 1995 Star Trek Generations cut-out display scenes. However, none of these explicitly describe a spoon shaped like a starship.

•  Memory and Confusion: It’s possible you’re conflating a Star Trek toy (like the Shreddies starships) with a spoon-shaped prize from another promotion. For example, Nabisco’s 1958 “Spoonmen” figures, which sat on spoons, or Kellogg’s Star Wars lightsaber spoons might have blended in your memory with Star Trek imagery, especially if your grandparents had Star Trek memorabilia around. Additionally, the term “spoon heads” (a derogatory reference to Cardassians in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) might have created a mental association with spoons, though this is unrelated to cereal prizes.

I’m willing to agree with this that it might have just been a plastic, unpainted Star Trek ship I am remembering but it was shaped like a spoon so my mind mixed the two up.

Even better is when they expect you to watch an ad to watch the ad on a site like YouTube.

I swear I remember one cereal having a spoon like this that came in the box.

Should be “unalived”

The one I got off Amazon for like $25 is only slightly more difficult than replacing your toilet seat. Remove the existing toilet seat, screw this one in, put your toilet seat back on, connect to the water inlet the toilet uses. About a 30-45 minute job in total.

There’s no electronics because it uses the water pressure to push the water through, so it’ll work even with the power out.

Especially good for renters because it’ll be just as easy to remove and leaves no permanent change.

You could go all out and get a more expensive one with heating and other features too, but this has worked for me. Saved me a lot in money.

It makes me feel gross too. Glad I’m not alone.

That looks amazing. Now I want vanilla ice cream lol thanks a lot OP

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I was thinking the same thing. But if this was a survey specifically for social media, there wouldn’t be a N/A option except at the beginning to make you not have to continue further and waste your time and theirs. (Survey for getting users’ input on social media use, etc.)

But definitely agreed on other. There are so many social media sites out there.

I wondered about this. Would they be in violation if these were mods made by them that they received no additional payment for? Does it matter if it’s released officially or by individual accounts of the devs?

Thankfully Nintendo can’t do shit about every day modders.

Here’s one of the more famous ones people know of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_City_Studios,_Inc._v._Nintendo_Co.,_Ltd.

To summarize, Nintendo was getting sued by Universal Studios because of Donkey Kong’s likeness to King Kong, name and the fact they’re both gorillas.

Ironically, Nintendo chose Universal to make the recent Super Mario movie.

probably on par with North Korea’s Linux OS.

As if I needed more reasons not to like Nintendo.

Truly turned into the bad guys they had to fight against in their early days in the video game industry over frivolous lawsuits.