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Cats can have a little salami

We’ve done it, everybody! We’ve got an actual Cat Facts subscriber!

That’s really incredible stuff, especially given how not-fun that part of the game was 😅

It probably is still legal, but it’s not something I’ve looked for in like a decade. We do have products that use ground kernels, but those aren’t good to use on skin–the milling process doesn’t produce uniform particles and the pointy bits tend to compromise the barrier skin provides with very small tears.

I completely agree that plastic isn’t necessary for good soap, I just like it. I would definitely buy soap made with ecologically responsible plantstic at least once.

More importantly, using safer, scalable, completely biodegradable, algae-based polymers opens up so many more options for single-use products while simultaneously improving environmental quality. Farming algae and seaweeds removes a lot of contaminants from the ocean, like agricultural fertilizer and solid waste runoff. If we can truly scale up ocean farming responsibly, it’ll be its own “teal cascade” in which the benefits multiply with each step in the process.

1. Farming algae/seaweed doesn’t require the use of inorganic fertilizers when you grow them alongside shellfish like oysters, clams, and scallops

2. Increased protein production through shellfish reduces reliance on agricultural livestock for meat (which is incredibly damaging to the environment)

3. Algae/seaweed can replace fossil carbon in fertilizers and plastics, and reduces cattle methane emissions by 20% or more when added to their regular feed

At each step, we can take more and more petroleum out of the equation just by using methods that are better than sustainable, they actually remediate existing harm.

Plus, I get my scrubby soap back.

I cannot possibly be the only person who misses the soap with the plastic bits in it. If they could do that without the environmental damage (I’m looking at you, Great Lakes ecosystem), I’d be into it

Part of me agrees with you; part of me is yelling, “Yeah? Many? Name five!” (Admittedly, that’s the American part and it’s kind of an asshole.)

I feel like IT could yell at OP for a little bit, but would ultimately have to stare the fact that they allowed non-privileged users to just change the operating system square in the face. Like holy hell, 500 employees and anybody can just be like, “Hey, maybe I’ll make a major OS change today because why not?” What else are they letting happen?!

Yeah. Cats are really, really good at making it clear they understand when you’re calling for them and they’re choosing not to respond. I figure it’s fair; there are plenty of people I wouldn’t cross a room to talk to, either

I interned with a hematologist who was incredibly excited to show me a slide of hairy cell leukemia, the one case he’d seen in his career (like 20 years by then). That was just a microscope slide, I can’t begin to imagine how bad the loss of research samples would be on someone.

The failure was in supplying nitrogen to an array of 16 freezers. Unless samples were split and stored in different arrays without the same coolant source, they’d still have lost everything.

It would be easy enough to create multiple sample sets to be stored that way, but it’d add an extra variable researchers would need to account and test for in their work as well as reducing sample capacity by at least half. A place as mighty and prestigious as the Karolinska Institute probably has a ton of graduate researchers, too, and everybody knows those people just graduate and leave all their shit behind without clearing out old samples.

The whole thing is heartbreaking.

I’m happy that researchers are publishing their data on this, but I wish they’d include discussions of some of the bad faith antics organizations are pulling while pretending to push return-to-office (RTO). This goes way beyond reasserting control over their employees, like the firms owning those buildings and expecting rent from same-site retail businesses that need the higher foot traffic RTO could bring or wanting to do a round of layoffs without paying for severance.

Immortals: Fenyx Rising is on Steam sale for $6 standard/$10 with the DLC. It’s a story with the Greek pantheon providing most of the characters that doesn’t take itself seriously–it starts off with Prometheus telling Zeus a story, and Zeus is the world’s worst audience. The movement and combat are satisfying, and it’s a ton of fun so far.

What time zone are y’all in, and what hours do you typically play?

Let’s do Elsevier next!

Mario and Luigi are great games! I put so many hours into the first one. :)

There’s going to be an updated and remastered Super Mario RPG released for the Switch next month, and although that’s not a patient gamer choice for a while yet, the original game is still solid and can be played through an SNES emulator.

Valid, but I have yet to catch her in her pre-leap state. She’s too quick!

Hahaha this face is one of my favorites that my cat makes. I am delighted to see pictures of other cats doing the same thing.

I <3 pudgy cats

Yeah! Libraries here in the US can be really great, too. There’s an interlibrary loan program that allows people to request materials from any other library, and the information they carry isn’t limited to books, reference information, and magazines–they do movies, music, and video games, too, and some of them around me have 3d printers available for people to use. I used to live in a rural state, and I still had access to a global network of libraries out there. It was wild!

Libraries are entirely about the free sharing of information, and supporting everybody’s ability to access it. 👍🏼👍🏼