mapiki

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America has lost its f*****g mind. in c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
[–] mapiki@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

F250 is super common for construction fleet vehicles.

Ford's CEO says he definitely didn't pay for that viral video of a stuck Cybertruck needing a rescue on a snowy hill in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] mapiki@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I love your thoughts here. I hadn't ever thought of ways you can last minute engineer a way for the vehicle to keep the pedestrian from being crushed rather than thrown up

FDA approves cure for sickle cell disease, the first treatment to use CRISPR in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] mapiki@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I like this - but would companies that fail (in being second) not get credit for their work? You could imagine the second place actually having a more effective product at the end.

Can't outsmart your teacher in c/memes@lemmy.world
[–] mapiki@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Penises are so weird. I'm glad no one can tell my level of arousal unless they are looking at my underwear or under it... Which by that point I probably am okay sharing that information.

Tangential note - had a fun conversation with my person the other day on how I'm used to the erect penis as "normal" and how it looks funnier when it's not whereas for him it's the opposite!

Can't outsmart your teacher in c/memes@lemmy.world
[–] mapiki@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Maybe! I had my eyes closed so didn't see what was happening until I opened them. I kind of want to experiment more.

Texas Supreme Court temporarily blocks ruling that allowed woman emergency abortion in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] mapiki@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

This explains so freaking much about how everyone is always terrified of Canadian health care when it works decently well. (Perfect? No!) But so many of their problems in accessing specialists are identical to ours. (Most common argument I hear.)

And it was just so much easier getting on antidepressants and switching up my birth control methods while I was in Canada than if I had tried the same in the US.

Can't outsmart your teacher in c/memes@lemmy.world
[–] mapiki@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I want to test this out. Let's see how it goes. Today I went skiing and I have a pet rabbit.

Holy shit. I expected at least one typo

Can't outsmart your teacher in c/memes@lemmy.world
[–] mapiki@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago (4 children)

As a female bodied person - can I get an explanation?

What the hell! Let's all just go crazy! in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] mapiki@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

As someone who regularly mispronounces this as rhyming with almonds I feel a little attacked

I also say the following wrong: Ikea, Nutella, idea. Somehow my bilingual brain just gives up.

Alabama police officer caught on video using stun gun on handcuffed man: ‘Do you want it again?’ in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] mapiki@lemm.ee 17 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Nurses deal with criminals, mentally ill, homeless, and people resisting their help for 12 hours a shift on weekdays, weekends, and nights. They don't go crazy on people.

idontwanna in c/memes@lemmy.world
[–] mapiki@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

And sleep.

GOP Melts Down As Dick Durbin Uses Their Tactics For Advancing Biden Judges in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] mapiki@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

Remember to support systems/organizations working to make changes that allow for challengers from outside the main two parties to succeed. (Like ranked choice voting where not voting democratic doesn't mean giving power to Republican or vice versa!)

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Short Term Places for a Downpayment (lemm.ee)
 

Hi all -

I need reassurance that having 60-80k in cash isn't wild if we plan to buy/look at buying a home in the next 2-3 years. We're in a DINK lifestyle in a LCOL area and are easily saving $2k+ towards specifically a down payment per month.

Currently: 8k is in a Vanguard account and has been invested in index funds for about 2-3 years now 10k is in treasury funds 5k is abroad in a high interest account that's locked for about another year from a grandparents inheritance 5k is in a CD making ~5% APY

I'm thinking that as we start building up more I'll be trying to keep opening 3-12 month CDs on a regular basis as long as rates stay at 5%

But I'm super risk tolerant and part of me sees all the cash laying around as a waste when I could add to the Vanguard account with more stocks. Mostly because until now I haven't had a real timeline for buying and it always seemed so far in the future that keeping it in stocks made sense.

Can someone help me think through what I'm giving up with both options? 5% isn't bad for now but I don't think rates are going to stay so high forever either.

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Reminder not to let your buns chew metal grates. (lemm.ee)
 

Noticed right before going to bed that Blossom managed to break off her tooth near the root and it was just hanging horizontally out of her mouth, saber tooth rabbit style. Maybe partially due to the fact that her bottom incisor has been pulled out due to fractures about a month ago and is still regrowing. (Yes, the vet is a little exasperated at us.)

She's not sedated and getting X-rays. Thankfully vet could fit her in because non of the emergency clinics had a rabbit specialist available last night and I decided she didn't look in pain and was able to eat her greens and pellets so I waited 8 hours after noticing (11 hours after it would have happened) to take her in.

... I had checked over the enemy rabbits on the other side of the pen when I realized she'd gotten out of bedroom and had access and didn't think to check her over immediately.

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Rump Scratches (lemm.ee)
 

Hello fellow rabbit people - has anyone else noticed that if they scratch on their bun's lower back that said bun starts grooming? It feels exactly like when a dog's hind paw starts shaking except she turns and grooms her shoulders. It's super strange. She doesn't seem to hate the scratches (above her tail, in a region she's always a little scruffy in because I don't know if she can reach as well back there in her old age). It's just the strangest thing and I don't know if it's a sign of something.

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Hooman creully locks balcony-loving bun inside large apartment for entire nine hours of sleep. (imgur.com)
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Ring Advice (auratenewyork.com)
 

What do you all think of this ring as a long term minimalist wedding band? I do not have an engagement ring.

My mom had a good experience ordering jewelry from this store.

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Sexism in wedding planning (lemm.ee)
 

I have a one on one with my boss every week. He's a decent guy.

But every week he asks how wedding planning is going and there's so much more to my life than that and I wonder if he would ask if I was one of the guy engineers in the office. My wedding is next summer.

Ugh. Anyone else have any similar experiences?

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