In our house, we call that the FLOOF

The guitar one made me physically cringe because it felt the most damaging. The camera and eyeglasses can be cleaned; the orange juice could be thrown out and replaced. I suppose you could restring the guitar but it just feels like there’s a potential for further damage somewhere on the bridge or the other parts I forget the names of.

Yes! Pretzel buns are the superior bun for holding a burger in your hands. Definitely needs moisture from the other ingredients though. Also they have great flavor. I’m personally not particularly fond of the overly sweet brioche buns.

I still have mine (need it occasionally for work, I’m tied to the work account) but I deleted the app from my phone several years ago and not having it there has really helped me not check it. I never check it. Every once in a while I’ll log in to do something for work, see that three parents from my kids’ school sent me a friend request, accept those, and then split. I’m not sure why I bother; guess I don’t want them to feel shunned but it’s not like they’ll reach me there.

He was an old-school republican and honestly pretty liberal overall. He’s still far from MAGA as far as I know.

Also still accurate for a lot of people, sadly.

I have one of those too. Due to lack of space, my desk is next to the tv and couch, and she gets pretty demanding when she thinks it’s couch time but I’m working.

That arm looks way too long for its body in this photo. Is your cat particularly long-legged?

It’s funny; I live in a Tesla hotspot and I actually notice slow teslas more than aggressive ones, maybe because I’m surprised they’re being so overly cautious. I guess it’s because everyone seems to have one here. Or… maybe it’s because they’re distracted. Yeah, that’s very possible…

(Full disclosure: I also drive one.)

Your hotdog buns have more structural integrity than mine.

Hey, that’s good data! There are always outliers, right? My 12yo meows the most and definitely sounds a bit like an old lady; I’m trying to remember if she always did. One of my 4yos has a super girly high-pitched voice. I struggle to imagine what she’ll sound like in 10 years.

Oh yeah, the tilt would make it. I’m fond of wild birds so a bird on my tree made sense. Also, to quote Portlandia, “put a bird on it!”

Gotta admit, as an agnostic who was raised gently Christian, that’s part of the reason I’m still comfortable putting all this stuff up in our house. Took a while to figure out a tree topper I liked but one year a saw a dove and that feels less religious to me.

Ours is connected, and the one reason we like that function is for trips. We hook up a camera to point at it, and then if it seems like it has a fault or something, we can force it to reset or cycle. Worst case scenario is that we turn it off and then on again from the app. So far it’s always managed to fix it, all remotely. We have one very prissy cat (out of three) which is why we got it in the first place, so if we know the person checking in on them won’t be coming soon, it’s nice to know that they won’t arrive to a mess from a pity party.

All that being said, the price is still a gut punch. Even with the privilege to afford it, you’re still spending an obscene amount of money on a computerized shit receptacle.