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Under current guidance you should be getting colonoscopies starting at age 45. It was reduced about 10 years ago due to the increased prevalence of colon cancer in younger adults.

Hopefully it’s contained, because if we get another pandemic conservatives are going to do everything in their power to make it kill as many people as possible.

Most of mine are feral so they have unusual behaviors even for cats. Same girl howls like a black metal vocalist at night, first time she did it we were sure there was a wild animal in the house. There was, of course, she just chose to stay.

On of my girls prefers to poop on the floor in front of the litter box. We don’t know why, but it’s like half the time. Asked the vet, but nothing’s wrong with her, it’s just her preference. Tried changing the litter, giving her a different box, different location. No difference. Half the time in the box, half the time in front of it. No idea. Cat is crazy.

Big talk from President Donald Mexico.

90% of ferals don’t want you to touch them but might rub against your leg as long as don’t make sudden movements.

That last 10% though is weird. I had a female in the colony i managed who was afraid of humans until we trapped her and got her fixed and vaccinated. Then she became lovey-dovey with humans and would climb in our lap. Still didn’t want to be picked up or taken inside though.

Three of my current cats were ferals. One fully self domesticated (which is good because lil dude has a VSD). the other two pretty much only trust me but I can pick them up and occasionally pet them if they are in the mood

I love torties, such adorable balls of chaos.

The last time I had kittens their mom (a neighborhood stray) stashed them under my car. Getting the sharp, squirming lil tykes out of the engine block in Texas summer heat was a memorable experience.

I have two females, 14 and 4, and the older female tried to passive-aggressively groom the younger one into moving out of the spot she wanted but the younger one was like ‘jokes on you, I’m into this’ and now she constantly bugs the older one to groom her face. This has gone on so long they defaulted to being best friends, even if the old lady is a bit of a curmudgeon.

Most giraffe sex happens between two males.

TURN UP THE FEED, YOU WIGGLY MEAT THINGS! THIS IS THE NET! NOTHING’S REAL! YOU HAVE NO HEAD!

Yeah, my cat just wants effusive praise when she does this, she doesn’t want me touching her.

I mostly agree, but if my sister were fleeing the fascism here in the US I would recommend she pick a safer place, since the trajectory of the UK, while different from ours, still doesn’t look great.

I’m guessing none of these Americans are trans.

My old lady cat is very sensitive to my emotional state. If I am having a really bad depressive episode she needs to be in my lap and if that is not helping she pushes her nose under my chin or chews on my stubble.

If I am destructively ruminating she gets upset and bats at my feet and pulls on my pants cuff with her claws while angrily meowing.

I think this warrants additional investigation. I am unfamiliar with Lisa Voldang so I don’t know how to evaluate the veracity of the material.

I think we all had ‘Unjustified War with Venezuela’ on our bingo cards.

Mine is the rotator cuff - and I already had arthritis in that shoulder so now I am a human barometer. Fun party trick. I am punished for not doing my dailies but I do different stuff every other day. I suspect I will never regain full mobility in that shoulder - and it’s my dominant arm too. Wear and tear, I guess.

Been in PT for the last 4 months due to my inability to remain 28 forever so I will let you know when I figure it out.

We had a fundamental disagreement regarding the role of technology in business operations. In my view, technological change in an enterprise exists in tension between the business desiring a solution that perfectly fits their process and the flexibility of a technology package to approximate the business requirements in a cost-effective way. Ideally, technology should fade into the background so that you don’t even notice or think about it as it facilitates your work.

Microsoft seemingly disagrees.

My specialty is telephony, a space that Microsoft has only recently ventured into with a competitive and cost-effective, if feature-poor, offering in Teams. Telephony is a complex topic and the way telephones are used in business today is varied from people who barely use their phone (but want it when they need it), to people who depend on specific telephony functionality to do their work.

The meeting I had was in a beta-user group for new tech in that space, it was me and about 40 other admins from a variety of large businesses and a team-lead in Microsoft product house. Basically, it was a group of customers becoming increasingly exasperated at the arrogant ignorance of someone in charge of developing telephone technology at Microsoft who didn’t only have limited experience with enterprise-level telephony, but insisted that business units conform their processes to fit what Microsoft was willing to develop, and I want to emphasize here, that the audience was more than willing to meet the vendor halfway here, it was Microsoft insisting that people didn’t really need basic things like busy-indicators.

I spent about an hour getting more and more angry to the point where I just wanted to get rid of everything Microsoft, but I couldn’t torpedo Teams at work, so I went home and installed Mint on all my PCs (and later switched to Garuda).