ADKSilence

Really depends on what I eat. Beans? Mediocre, the kind of fart that you know exactly what to expect and it’s entirely mid. Brocoli? Might as well call Greta Thunberg, because those one’s are probably cleaner than the air I breathe.

Now clams? Hoo boy. Those are the kind of farts that not only am I proud of, I want to forcefully share that pride with others.

I’ve always had cats in the house, even as a kid. Our family has pretty much always followed the “They get breakfast when we get breakfast, and dinner at dinner time” so that’s when they get a portion of “wet” food, with dry/crunchy available to “free feed” on throughout the day if they get snackish as well as a few different sources of water.

While that can lead to cats being overweight, we generally let the cats outdoors or now more recently, give them free reign of the house and attached garage. The garage is basically just a building shell, so critters like rodents and birds can still come in which in turn gives the cats something to do and keeps them active which is the key. As long as they’re burning off the extra calories and maintaining a healthy weight, the “how” becomes somewhat irrelevant.

The general advice that seems to be prevalent though is to intentionally restrict their diets a bit to keep them at a healthy weight. So the “free feed” idea may not be the best advice.

Saw this post, saw L.L. Bean on the list. Felt the need to comment “Yet another reason to say FUCK L. L. Bean”.

A once great company driven into the ground through corporate greed and poor policies. And that was before all of the current political nonsense. A damned shame the state of Maine holds that company on a damned pedestal.

The only good thing about Bean depends solely on whether the gentleman with the big Newfoundland hounds still frequents the area, because those dogs were/are awesome.

-edit- Quick edit to add that we should probably look at who the parent companies are. For example “Marshall’s” is owned by the same company that also run “TJ Maxx” and “HomeGoods” if I recall correctly. And companies such as “Wow Cable” and “Boost Mobile” rely on infrastructure/deals made with larger companies (Spectrum and ATT, respectively). Figured if people are going to avoid companies, it’d be more impactful to avoid the ones the money ultimately funnels to.

I hadn’t thought about the Kofi banner thing, and this is anecdotal though my experience, but upon seeing that mentioned my mind immediately jumped to the Steam Workshop; at least with some of the games I play, it’s very common to see some form of “Donate”.

Setting that aside, the thought occurred to me of somehow tying something we’re all used to seeing and interacting with - usernames - into something that if one were so inclined, could interact with somehow to pull up something like a QR code to their “donate box” of choice.

I have no idea how it’d be actually implemented, but it doesn’t seem impossible that something like that could allow for both traditional fiat payments, crypto, or even links to “Yoder’s Rent-a-goat”. I mean, I’d work for a goat as payment, so why not.

QR codes themselves are pretty visually meaningless, and that physical step of the user having to scan it would be that “fully intentional” aspect that’d keep things from being somewhat predatory (thinking in-app payment type stuff).

<shrug> I have no skin in this game, so just thinking out loud on this, is all.

On the one hand, people should be able to make a living.

On the other, places where every Tom, Dick and Harry has their hand out expecting payment for the most inane things (i.e. tipping culture, states where billboards are allowed…) turn pretty crap pretty fast.

Something to remember is that advertising on the internet was a slow-roll at first… until all of a sudden, everyone has ads and popups.

Yeah… despite the local Wal-Mart having quite the selection for the garage chemical enthusiast, I’d rather not publicly outline terrible ideas that could lead to others being severely hurt or killed.

Though I will throw out there that the access for the fire suppression/sprinkler system is usually fairly easy to access, and covers the entire store when it goes off, conveniently aerosolizing whatever liquids might be in the pipes…