My boy cat died five years ago. I still sometimes wake up in the morning to find myself petting a lump of blanket that is the same size as he was. My girl cat died last summer and when I plop down in my recliner I still leave room on the footrest for her to jump up. I can’t bring myself to get another cat yet, although I hope for the sake of other cats that I can eventually do it.

My favorite quote from this movie was “first rule of leadership, princess: everything is your fault!”

I’m pretty certain he went on to become a staunch supporter of Hitler

The exact opposite is true.

I prefer his “jeweled self-dribbling basketballs” to “elves”.

Thompson had a “focus on keeping premiums low,”

Lol premiums are literally their entire source of revenue. The CEO of an enormous publicly-traded company had a focus on keeping revenue as low as possible? If this were actually true, the people most likely to have killed him would be everybody on the board and everybody else in the c-suite.

That is difficult to believe.

This is libelous. The Russian penthouses are in NYC.

I was riding on a two-lane road a couple of years ago. I heard a car approaching from behind, and he went really wide into the opposite lane to pass me. This was thoughtful of him except that there was a white van coming the opposite way which had to get almost all the way over to their curb to avoid hitting the car passing me head on. The driver of the white van stuck his head out of his window and yelled at me “YOU’RE GONNA GET SOMEBODY KILLED!”

Lol I’m a school bus driver and a number of my colleagues vape on the fucking buses. They imagine they’re being super-secret about it - they’re somehow oblivious to the giant cloud of smoke each hit creates. Never underestimate the power of nicotine addiction to force people to relentlessly push the boundaries of where and when.

It has to completely ruin the taste of whatever you are eating

Smoking really destroys your tastebuds so it’s not like smoking while eating makes a huge difference anyway.

a freaking huge industry to kill all the whales in the sea

One of the wildest aspects of this was that they did it from fucking rowboats. I’ve never understood why the whales didn’t just leisurely swim away from that bullshit.

There was a movie called Inside Job or Inside Man or something like that, where the lead organizes a bank robbery where he ends up secreting himself in a hidden room inside the bank itself, and then emerging with the cash a week later and strolling out. It would be pretty hilarious if this guy hid himself in Manhattan in similar fashion and then emerged into this lookalike contest to make his escape.

Brian Thompson looked pretty well-marbled for a CEO, to be fair. Cook 'im low, cook 'im slow.

That’s crazy talk. Your teeth aren’t part of your body or anything!

Coyote playing with cat.

I actually really like short-format videos for recipes so you don’t have to watch somebody chopping onions for ten minutes. Also, Ronaldo highlights set to Brazilian phonk are kinda cool. Other than that, the format seems pretty worthless.

one of the primary motivators for a woman to be with and stay with a man

I think you meant “female” lol.

I love reading Melon Husk’s claim that he works 100 hours a week. He’s the CEO of five companies, which means even if his claim is true, being a CEO is a 20-hour-a-week job.

arcing in the walls

Yeah, when I rebuilt the kitchen/living room wall, I found the stud that had held one of the original outlets and it was scorched black where the box had been. Kind of amazing the house was still standing.

I did reuse the scorched stud. 2x4s are fucking expensive and these ones from the 1940s were perfectly straight and completely knot-free.

making millions of peoples lives harder

And literally killing some number themselves. Denial of coverage for treatments can and does lead to death in some cases.