All my pets are under 10 pounds.

[conuly]

My bed is a queen. So how is it that any ONE of those animals is capable of taking up the entire bed, forcing me to edge around the sides if I want to sleep? They all are inexplicably too heavy to budge once they're settled, too.

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Comments

[angelofthenorth]

My bed is a superking
We have one (1) cat who is 5kg.
He can take up the entire bed. It's cat physics, I'm sure.

[wpadmirer]

They are both experts at spreading themselves out, and being a complete dead weight.

Racism in Medical AI

[dewline]

The AI is being taught this. That's the thing, same as with human children.

Tibet vs. Han China

[dewline]

Wang Yang's rhetoric reminds me of Trump and Putin. Not in any good way. The same kind of thinking is behind such rhetoric, for a lot of the same reasons.

[affreca]

Crinoid fossils are common in the limestone around here, but are shaped like beads or Asian coins (discs with holes). They've been on of my favorite fossils since childhood. I don't know if I've ever found any as star shaped as those in the link.

[conuly]

We also have three cats, one of whom has finally started coming in my room again these past few months. (She avoided the place after we got the dogs, which really annoyed me because she's my cat, not a family cat, but she's loosening up. So long as the dogs aren't in it.)

Re: Racism in Medical AI

[conuly]

But how?

[cellio]

Cat gravity is real. It is a phenomenon beyond known science. And I guess cat hyper-extension is part of it too.

I don't know if it's the same for dogs. They seem to have a different thing going.

[adafrog]

lol I totally hear you.

[baranduin]

Yes, it is known. One seven-pound cat sleeping in the exact middle of my bed is immoveable. Until early morning when she wants her breakfast and sticks her paws in my face and lies on my nose until I get up.

[malinaldarose]

I have Been To This Party. It is one of the reasons why I started closing my bedroom door when I still had cats.

[gale_storm]

I think it has to do with the number of legs an animal has. The more legs they can splay out, the more space they have to themselves. Then again, I could well be wrong: it could be cat or dog physics.

[captainsblog]

What, you don't know about cats' secret mattress mode?

They lick a switch immediately above their ass and their mass immediately increases to 800 pounds so there's no way you can move them.

The scientific term for this is "Schrödinger's fat."

[pwcorgigirl]

Our bed is a king and my husband and I are side of the bed sleepers, so there's a vast expanse in the middle. When little Lily Dog, who is a dachshund-chihuahua mix weighing 22 pounds (the chihuahua did not have much to say about how she looks) sleeps with us, she takes up the whole space in the middle. When we try to pick her up to move her, she becomes heavy as an engine block.

We joke that her superpower is gaining mass to become immoveable. :-D

[conuly]

scritch scritch scritch scritch scritch scritch whine whine whine howl howl howl howl howl omg no the humans have abandoned me forever scritchscritchscritch!!!!!

[conuly]

What you're saying is that I should never adopt a friendly pet tarantula.

[malinaldarose]

I was firm. I hardened my heart. They stopped eventually.

[conuly]

Our poodle has severe separation anxiety. It took him months to accept the idea that if we left for a few minutes, that didn't mean he was abandoned forever. Months in which when he started howling he wouldn't stop, even if you came back.

I don't want my heart that hard.

[conuly]

Is that the dog?

[pwcorgigirl]

No, that's an old drawing of a Welsh corgi. Lily looks like a long-haired red dachshund with shorter ears.

[gale_storm]

Awww… Why not? They’re furry and sweet and will happily curl up in bed with you at night! Hee!

Although, if it’s a baby tarantula, perhaps you should adopt a pair.