Awesome, this worked. Thank you!

If anyone knows where to buy one of these decals, please let me know. My parents bought a Tesla several years ago because of environmentally friendly ambitions and I’d love to get them one of these decals. I tried to Google it but “car logo decal” wasn’t getting me results like this meme shows.

Our girl has favorite spots in the house too. She tends to favor one spot for a little while, so she’ll spend almost all her time hanging out there but then get bored and switch to a new spot. I recently named this phenomenon “Spot of the Week” lol

Re: getting her to eat

Our 12-year-old kitty was recently diagnosed with kidney disease, and on top of that she had a kidney infection. After several weeks of antibiotics the kidney infection has cleared up, but we’ve been struggling with getting her to eat enough, especially while she was really sick.

Finding the right wet food has really helped. She can only eat kidney-approved foods right now so our options are more limited. Turns out she does not care for the paté style wet foods but she LOVES the Royal Canin options with “little slivers.” I think she prefers that she can pick up the bits in her mouth rather than licking a clump of meat lol. The Royal Canin kidney diet options are specifically designed to be appealing to cats who might have a limited appetite, and I can definitely vouch for its effectiveness with our girl.

I know you’re not needing kidney-friendly foods for your girl, but my point is, if she doesn’t like the first wet food you try, they have different options and maybe she’ll prefer another type. So experimenting might help.

At one point we needed an appetite stimulant for our girl, so that’s an option too. The vet gave us a transdermal medication that you rub on your cat’s ear (so they can’t lick or rub it off before it gets absorbed.) That might be an option for you, although probably just in the good ear right now 🙂 The appetite stimulant REALLY helped us when our girl was in the midst of her infection. She went from basically not eating anything to being so hungry that she was purring while eating her food cause she was so happy 🥹

Originally we used the appetite stimulant every day, but it’s not necessarily good for long-term use in cats with kidney disease, so we’re trying to figure out the minimum dose to keep her eating. She got a half dose about four days ago, which kicked up her appetite. And I think getting used to eating more food again is relatively self-sustaining for her, because she’s still eating more all these days later. So yeah, I can also vouch for the effectiveness of the appetite stimulant.

The brand name is Mirataz

I would Google some vet recommendations.

I tried to find the video again but I couldn’t. But I recently saw an Instagram video of someone asking a vet what they recommended as a safe method of transporting a pet on a bike. If I remember correctly - which I might not - the vet was strongly against something on the handlebars that the pet could be flung out of in a crash. I think they suggested a pet-carrier backpack style method instead.

There are already some super valuable comments on here, and I’m half commenting as a way to save this thread for myself for later.

I wanted to say that for adopting a kitten, the current recommendation is to adopt two kittens to avoid “single kitten syndrome” (aka an unruly/loud/needy cat.)

Which was not something I knew of ~12 years ago when I got my single cat as a kitten. And she is very needy and very loud (less annoying in older age but still.)

However, I haven’t adopted a second cat to be her friend because we also now have a high energy dog and another new animal would just be too much for us.

When it’s time for our next cat, my plan is to go to the shelter and sit down in the cat room and take home whoever curls up in my lap first (current kitty prefers “proximity snuggles” to true snuggling.) So probably adopting an older cat rather than a kitten. And probably also sticking with just one unless the shelter says the kitty has bonded with a friend (and adopting a bonded pair would be amazing.)

But if we ever get kittens again, I’ll definitely get two. Better off letting them terrorize each other in the middle of the night rather than me 😁

I’m so glad I opened the comments 🤣

Cool! I hadn’t heard that term (chords) before today. Do you have to press both buttons at precisely the same time or is it more forgiving, like CTRL+C, etc?

I type too many numbers every day to give up my num pad, so I’ve never bothered to research tiny keebs since 98-100% works well for me.

But aesthetically I do really like the small footprint on your desk!

I work in QA so my desk is always cluttered with hardware. I already have a separate numpad at work (after going TKL and regretting it lol) so I’ve been considering going much smaller for my next build. I still don’t think I could give up a stand-alone backspace key though 😁

How do you survive without backspace?

Way less drama and way more transparency than the current state of 196 on the blahaj.zone instance.

Zoidsberg you’re still a good mod in my books and I’m not leaving the community over this. I’ll sub to the new community too but it sounds like the comments on this thread are in agreement to stay here.

Thanks for the status update and best of luck with your partner’s health.

I don’t have the bandwidth to pick up mod work myself but hopefully you can find another volunteer who can help share the load on days where Lemmy is taking a backseat for you. All my respect to anyone willing to moderate, we couldn’t do this without y’all.

Yeah in this age of misinformation I think it’s really important to not just share the truth, but also avoid saying something that could be interpreted in an anti-science way. No the commenter doesn’t explicitly say “never use soap” but, as written, that’s what’s implied.

All the people who poses reading comprehension skills in this thread

Lol yep tell me more about your reading comprehension skills

Jesus Christ the uninformed comments in this thread. Are you seriously saying soap is bad?

You do understand the benefit of removing viruses from your hands, right?

Washing with soap and water is one of the key public health practices that can significantly slow the rate of a pandemic and limit the number of infections, preventing a disastrous overburdening of hospitals and clinics. Source

I can only hope you were only trying to reference scalp care rather than the benefits of soap as a whole.

But either way you’re wrong.

So unlike hand soaps etc, shampoo is not trying to sanitize your hair. Washing is to remove dirt and grease, not necessarily kill microbes.

Yes sebum is beneficial to the scalp. And yes stripping too much sebum from the skin (washing too often) can lead to dryness and irritation and dandruff symptoms.

But dandruff can also be caused by fungus and bacteria, see the “Causes - > Microorganisms” section of the Dandruff Wikipedia article. The fungus mentioned here specifically feeds on sebum, so not washing enough to remove that sebum can cause that fungus to thrive.

So yes washing too much can cause dandruff, but so can not washing enough (I linked this interview with a dermatologist in another comment, they say the same thing here.)

There isn’t a one-size-fits-all answer here. But doctors do recommend washing your hair regularly - how regularly depends on a variety of factors.

Co-washing only (washing with conditioner and skipping shampoo) is highly recommended for folks with extremely curly hair.

I tried it with my largely straight and thin hair and it was a disaster for me. But different hair textures require different solutions.

Re: “all the after-products” Again, different hair types require different solutions. A heat protectant product (applied on damp hair after washing and before drying and styling) is really important if you’re using heated styling tools for straightening or curling your hair. Even moreso if you’re also coloring your hair, which can make your hair more susceptible to heat-based damage. Additionally, for certain hair types and cuts, styling products are absolutely necessary to achieve the look you’re going for. My hair won’t hold a curl without adding product to it before styling.

As I say on another comment on this thread, my hairdresser does recommend that I shampoo twice on wash days to ensure I remove all the dirt/grease/styling product. Shampooing once (with my SLS-free shampoo) wasn’t getting my hair clean enough.

So yes, including after-care products in your routine may necessitate different cleaning steps compared to someone who isn’t using the same products. But again, what you are doing with your hair and the type of hair you have also influences the types of products that are valuable for you to use (shampoo, conditioner, and aftercare.)

All that said, claiming that haircare is all advertising “with a bit of social dynamics and zero science behind it” is misleading, uninformed, and incorrect. 😘

Since you sound like you want science, here’s an interview with a doctor of dermatology.

Google tells me yes H&S does use SLS in the US, confirmed here On their US website

I did see a Reddit thread as a search result that says H&S dropped SLS as an ingredient in Europe - the thread was from 11 months ago, but I also didn’t open it to check the details. And I haven’t watched the video so I don’t know what region this guy is in.

Edit: rechecked the post and it looks like this guy stopped shampooing 7 years ago (so before H&S dropped SLS in Europe.) From my memory as a long-haired woman/regular consumer of haircare products, I would say concern over SLS started within the last 10 years. So potentially this guy in the video was making his decision to stop washing right around the time the industry was becoming aware of the risks of this ingredient. But again, that’s all conjecture based on my experience as a mildly informed consumer of haircare products lol

So admittedly I haven’t watched the video.

But it sounds like this guy has a sensitivity to SLS - Sodium Lauryl Sulfate. It’s a cleaning agent in a lot of shampoos that can lead to skin dryness and irritation - aka it can cause dandruff.

Cutting out that chemical by not shampooing anymore would help… but also these days most (more expensive) shampoos have dropped SLS as an ingredient because it’s a skin irritant for most people. So he probably could have just switched to a different shampoo.

If I remember correctly, SLS contributes to a good lather: the shampoo getting foamy so it’s easy to spread around your whole head/all your hair if it’s long. So SLS-free shampoos are a bit less foamy. My hairdresser recommended that, on wash days, I shampoo twice with my SLS-free shampoo to get a more thorough clean. However, I do not wash daily; I wash my hair every 3-5 days depending on how much I’ve exercised and whether I’m home or in the office on days 4/5.

I love him

Fixed cats live longer. Spaying decreases the likelihood of cats developing certain types of cancers.

Friends of mine literally last week had to put their cat down because she developed breast cancer and rapidly deteriorated (we’re talking painful skin ulcers here.) If the cat had been spayed at a young age, she would likely still be here.

And as others have said, spaying is the wise choice in case she were ever to accidentally get outside.

I love his coat coloring! Like the front half is tuxedo and the back half is tortie. What a cutie pie.