I'm A Winged Cat. Now, I Know For A Fact There's Others, But Only Met One Who's Type Works Similarly

thanks, german translation, for showing once more how there's no heterosexual explanation for these two. that's like, the least subtle you can get short of having them kiss on screen.

they are so fucking gay for each other, it's incredible

Pearl calls Marina "her beauty" in the german translation of suffer no fools. I feel like all of you should know this.

>First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, that’s about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.

>We also discovered that every link on Twitter was blocked. This was solved by whitelisting the https://t.co domain.

>Once out browsing the Web, everything is loading pretty much instantly. It turns out most of that Page Loading malarkey we’ve been accustomed to is related to sites running auctions to sell Ad space to show you before the page loads. All gone now.

>We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so I’m happy enough with that.

>The primary source of distress came from the habitual Lemmings player in the house, who found they could no longer watch ads to build up their in-app gold. A workaround is being considered for this.

>The next ambition is to advance the Ad blocking so that it seamlessly removed YouTube Ads. This is the subject of ongoing research, and tinkering continues. All in all, a very successful experiment.

>Certainly this exceeds my equivalent childhood project of disassembling and assembling our rotary dial telephone. A project whose only utility was finding out how to make the phone ring when nobody was calling.

>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!

>Lemmings problem now solved.

>Can confirm, after small tests, that RTÉ Player ads are now gone and the player on the phone is now just delivering swift, ad free streams at first click.

>Some queries along the lines of “Are you not stealing the internet?” Firstly, this is my network, so I may set it up as I please (or, you know, my son can do it and I can give him a stupid thumbs up in response). But there is a wider question, based on the ads=internet model.

>I’m afraid I passed the You Wouldn’t Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.

>Should I feel morally obliged not to mute the TV when the ads come on? No, this is a standing tension- a clash of interests. But I think my interest in my family not being under intrusive or covert surveillance at home is superior to the ad company’s wish to profile them.

>Aside: 24 hours of Pi Hole stats suggests that Samsung TVs are very chatty. 14,170 chats a day.

>YouTube blocking seems difficult, as the ads usually come from the same domain as the videos. Haven’t tried it, but all of the content can also be delivered from a no-cookies version of the YouTube domain, which doesn’t have the ads. I have asked my son to poke at that idea.

animator vs animation goes crazy because it looks like an episodic series of shorts for babies meant to generate massive amounts of ads revenue and then you click on one and it’s the episode where the torture victim is physically abusing her ptsd-ridden brother because she wants to kill the real-life guy who is also her creator god and who also also murdered her almost 20 actual literal years ago. so then you go and click on one of the minecraft ones because maybe those will be less serious and it’s the one where it’s revealed that the purple guy was extremely traumatized in their childhood and constantly sabotages their own friendships so that they can pursue the approval of a father figure who they believe will only love them if they are able to be useful. and then you click on another one and it’s the one where they all play league of legends. which is also plot crucial

I want huge fucking teeth. I want sharp canines capable of tearing muscle from bone.

looking at moon's situation, I think it's possible. at least to an extent.

with her umbilical cable being completely severed, her having been mostly reduced to her puppet, etc.

the issue with the whole freedom thing is that the puppet needs at least some connection to the can to survive. if moon's can were dead, or her puppet entirely disconnected, she wouldn't be there.

but she is alive, despite the severed cable.

so I think the explanation and solution here is the weak wireless connection she seems to have with, yk, the rest of herself. so, hypothetically, a freed puppet would be able to roam however far that connection reaches (as long as power isn't an issue, and they're taking a few neurons along with them).

well, that's if they're happy with either crawling around like some sort of feral creature, or tediously learning to walk on feet that weren't made for it, and can accept that they may be unable to directly communicate with their can ever again unless they're able to reattach themselves.

I don't think the arm would be much of an issue. with the functions it seems to have, they could just as well be performed by something else.

and that's that. but there might be a completely different way, that technically doesn't even involve getting out. some advanced drone shenanigans, perhaps.

hey

hypothetically

for no particular reason at all

how do you think an iterator would Actually be able to Go Off The String. because as fun as it is to imagine them just prying off the umbilical learning to walk and wandering away, i don't think the puppet would be able to survive without the umbilical (power source and whatnot)

so How Would It Be Achieved

go wild as long as it's like. even slightly plausible. i'm lookin for raw ideas

overstimulated and anxious at the zoo until I looked up and saw an angel dancing in a beam of light

See also, "We're in a drought; conserve water!" Meanwhile, bottled water companies and golf courses for rich folk empty the aquifers.

NPR

A discovery in the muscles of long COVID patients may explain exercise troubles

Long COVID patients can experience severe energy crashes after physical exertion. New research provides clear evidence that there's a biolog

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By taking biopsies from long COVID patients before and after exercising, scientists in the Netherlands constructed a startling picture of widespread abnormalities in muscle tissue that may explain this severe reaction to physical activity.

Among the most striking findings were clear signs that the cellular power plants, the mitochondria, are compromised and the tissue starved for energy.

"We saw this immediately and it's very profound," says Braeden Charlton, one of the study's authors at Vrije University in Amsterdam.

The tissue samples from long COVID patients also revealed severe muscle damage, a disturbed immune response, and a buildup of microclots.

"This is a very real disease," says Charlton. "We see this at basically every parameter that we measure."