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Cake day: 2023年8月5日

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  • Maybe it’s because I’m in a particularly vulnerable state but honestly your post changed my mind on this. Previously I believed the typical way of doing things was correct. Who would want their pet to be in needless pain, right? I guess I just never thought about it any deeper than that. I love my cat more than anything else in existence, almost more than life itself. I like to think he feels that same way about me, he certainly acts like it. How could I ever make that choice, to cut short our last moments together? And I realize I couldn’t. I could never.


  • This is huge for the potential of literal “pre-historic” civilization. Of course it’s completely hypothetical, but this discovery gives it at least some actual potential. Just kinda incredible to think what could’ve existed. Plastic degrades in roughly 600 years at the long end. It’s a tall order to make a building that will last for 10,000 (doomsday seed vault). What was lost in the library of Alexandria? How much of our own history did we actually know in the past?

    Unfortunately I think these questions and similar ones (impossible without an answer) will haunt me until the day I die.


  • There is a Staples in St John’s; I used to work at office depot, some of my coworkers came from there and I’ve been told the companies operate pretty similarly. When chairs go on clearance via style discontinuation, or an open-box 30-day “i just don’t like it” return, the prices are often cut by 30-70%. The longer it sits, the deeper it will be discounted, since the store manager will want to free up the floor space. This can equate to a $40 chair in some cases. We didn’t always have clearance chairs available, but sometimes we had multiple. It depends, but this time of year is actually prime as fuck for this. Why? Office purchasers and employees with WFH furniture budgets (lots of those where I’m from) trying to use the last drops before the end of the fiscal year.

    That particular store may run things differently, the whole clearance thing and any related decisions was ultimately at the SM’s discretion, not a result of policy. But given your current situation, it’s probably worth a call. (edit: they may not be willing to give pricing over the phone, hopefully they are, but they should at least tell you if they have chairs on clearance or not. When I worked at office depot it was one of my primary duties to take calls and run around the floor to answer questions like that.)

    If that avenue doesn’t work, here’s a list of thrift stores from the chamber of commerce. Myself and a friend have both previously got chairs from thrifting that were decent enough, just make sure there’s no smoke smell. Mesh see-through chairs are my personal favorite for many reasons, that one included.

    Hope this helps, it really sucks to be without proper back support.






  • Sorry to hear that, I empathize with you there. The process of friend selection can be a tough one. Sucks he only wanted your research abilities, but that means they must be pretty good!

    But yeah that would drive me insane. Feeling ignored or silenced is one of the shittiest things, I wouldn’t keep someone like that around either.