Putin holds the US responsible for the collapse of the Soviet Union, and wants to see the US collapse. How would you collapse the US? You’d divide the country against each other so neither side (red/blue, both politicians and civilians] trusted the other. You’d alienate all their allies. You’d make the people distrustful of experts, of science, of news media. You’d sow distrust of the government, then make the government unstable. You’d destabilize the financial market. It should take a lot of subtle effort at the start, but once there’s momentum it gets a lot easier.

If you look at things from the point of view that Trump is a Russian asset, it makes a lot more sense.

There were all those corpses for the ?Qatari? World Cup, tons of people still went. :(

Ford warned Trump may use tariff threats again

Will use them again, will.

The pause follows Canada’s concessions on border security and fentanyl. Prime Minister Trudeau pledged new enforcement measures to ease tensions.

Goddamnit, I’m so. fucking. tired. of people giving him wins, or things he can claim are wins.

If not tradewar, then why tradewar shaped?

He’s scared because stocks were down a bit this morning, he’s been fielding calls from panicked CEOs all weekend, and someone actually stood up to him. Good on you, Canada!

Edit: FTA:

we’ve noticed is that Mexicans are very, very serious about doing what President Trump said

Ugh, sorry, Mexico!

this is going to be one of the biggest supply-side positive shocks that we’ve ever seen

I don’t think that word [positive] means what you think it does.

Feline infectious peritonitis. Usually treated with remdesevir, which is a backup drug treatment for covid.

The criminal ring later blackmailed and attempted to extort six parents, threatening to report the students to police for drug use.

Oh, okay, that’s the piece I was missing!

Is anyone surprised? It’s always been a land grab and Lebanon doesn’t want to be genocided.

A disease called trachoma has turned his eyelids inwards, causing his eyelashes to scar his corneas so badly that one has already turned opaque.

Okay, that makes more sense now.

Palestinians in Gaza rejoice in streets In Tel Aviv, hostage families express joy Israeli PM says some items unresolved

And he’s already prepping his get-out clause, whatever “issues” he decides are “unresolved”.

If you threw away the cheese, it’s clearly not yours anymore, why are you depriving them?!?!

The drawer grippy things are often still slide-able when momentum is applied, which is why I went with a cut-down bath mat.

[Obi-wan Kenobi voice] Daily Galaxy. Now that’s a name that I haven’t heard in a long, long time …

So, are they any more reputable than they used to be, now that they’ve been acquired by a venture capital firm, instead of being more focused on the fringier edges of science?

Ours is an old carrier. The interior dimensions are 16 inches tall, 14 inches wide, and 24 inches long. Our cat was maybe 14 inches tall, but of course she wouldn’t want to stand fully upright and either bang her head on the roof, or constantly brushing her ears against it. Plus the bath mat and towel ‘raised’ the floor a bit. And sometimes when you scream, you just want to throw your head back and let go!

I like the bath mat because I can suction it to the bottom of the carrier, so neither she nor the towel slide around like they would on plain plastic or metal.

One cat would yell for a while, then settle down. When she was older, it took longer for her to settle down, until she was just yelling constantly for hours. I finally gave up and let her out of the carrier - the only time I’ve ever done that, and we were an hour from home with no traffic and no stops needed - and she stopped yelling immediately, just stood on my lap, panting.

At which point I realized that, as large as our car carrier was (it’s one of the largest ‘carryable’ ones I’ve seen), it wasn’t quite tall enough for the cat to stand completely upright and she was in pain because of her arthritis. We’d been torturing her, for hours! We made some changes after that!

For people who have carriers with a smooth or only slightly rough bottom: your cat may be yelling because they can’t keep traction and are unexpectedly sliding a bit on curves and turns. We got one of those non-slip shower mats and cut it down to size, to reduce slipping, then added a beach towel for comfort. Everything is still washable (use white vinegar to get rid of the smell of cat urine), but the cat is much happier!

It’s not “sampling”, it’s quality control!

Disagree. Kitten!

This image makes me smile :)

What a handsome kitten!

It depends on what the medication is. Mostly I just crush it up and mush it into a Churu or their food or something. If they need to be on an empty stomach, like if I need them to have some gabapentin before a vet visit but they need to be on an empty stomach, I’ll dose their water.

Depending on the cat, you may need to look into a different medication, especially if it’s one of the ones with weird flavors, like cherry Clavamox; I’ll see if I can get an abx injection instead.

Worse comes to worse, you can try getting the medication compounded into a different form or a different flavor. The one thing I absolutely insist on getting compounded are appetite stimulants: the cat doesn’t want to eat anyway, and me forcing something down his throat is going to make him more likely to try to avoid both me and the food. I get transdermal ciproheptadine (mirtazapine can make some of them agitated, and I’d rather be certain that any weirdness is their illness and not the treatment). You just gently rub some on their inner ear and an hour later they want to eat :)