Fondots

Depends a bit on what you want to consider a "weasel"

The weasel family (mustildae) is pretty diverse, we don't necessarily call everything in that family a "weasel" but that distinction is somewhat arbitrary.

It includes all manner of critters from the Least Weasel (yes, that's seriously what someone decided to call the smallest weasel) that can be as small as about 4½" in length and weigh about an ounce or so

Up to Giant Otters that can reach about 5'7" in length or Sea Otters that can weigh about 100lbs

And in between you have some things like badgers and wolverines

It's not something I'd generally consider to be one of my kinks, but I remember one time noticing a girl I know has somewhat more prominent than average canine teeth. Not ridiculously exaggerated vampire fangs or anything, definitely within the range of normal variation of the human species, but towards the upper end of that range, just a tiny bit longer and pointier than most.

And that did something for me. Like the primal reptilian part of my brain was saying "yesss, now there's a female you can go and hunt mammoths with"

It surely didn't hurt that she is otherwise very conventionally attractive, but in that moment it wasn't the great tits, ass, pretty face, blue eyes, long blonde hair, etc. that caught my eye, it was those carnivore teeth.

She's also been an on-again/off-again vegetarian as long as I've known her, and has expressed some interest in hunting, so I think her own lizard-brain also seems to have some strong thoughts on the matter.

And as these things always seem to go, it looks like it was something stupid

Despite plugging and unplugging it about a dozen times last night, and wiggling everything around while poking my multimeter at everything I can reach and scratching my head as to why the fan wasn't blowing when all the numbers look perfectly normal

I just plugged everything back in to give it one last once-over before the new motor arrives in a few hours, and the fan roared to life.

I think I'm chalking this one up to just poor contacts. It wasn't working a couple hours ago when I started fucking with it again today, and it is now and all I've done since then is unplug it and plug it back in a handful of times.

The contacts look to the naked eye about as clean and corrosion-free as any I've ever seen, but I guess they could be worn down a bit (though I can't imagine why they would be) or it's just thermal expansion/contraction doing what it does. If it goes out again I guess I'll swap in the new motor since I'll have it on-hand now, and hopefully that'll solve the contact issue if it comes up again.

Thank you for letting me bounce some thoughts off of you. Didn't really think about checking the resistance on the motor itself, and while that didn't directly reveal the cause of the issue, it is what made me unplug it and plug it back in one last time, so I guess "task failed successfully"

EDIT: Nope. 99% sure it's the blower itself again. Must've shken something loose temporarily while I was messing with it or maybe bringing it inside to look at warmed up some gummed up grease or something for it to move because it just wouldn't work from a cold start but did work again after a gentle tap from a hammer, so definitely a good thing I have the new blower coming

Its got a 2 pin connector going to it, and I got 12v across those pins, so that would indicate a good ground, correct?

I didn't look too closely at it because it was cold (and dark, I get off work at 3am) but it looked like the whole housing for the motor was plastic, so I don't think there would be any way to ground it except through that connector.

I only tested it on high, so not sure if it's varying the voltage on the lower settings, but I do believe they still used a resistor on the 4th gen, or at least all the usual sellers seem to sell something they're calling a blower resistor that they say fits

I also kind of ruled out the resistor as the cause of my problem because from what I could find on various forums and such it seems like when the resistor goes, it tends to just get stuck on one speed instead of not working at all.

I was asked to officiate my friend's wedding a few months back, I'm no writer, and I wanted to do a bit better than just a generic wedding ceremony for them

So I fired up chatgpt, told it I needed a script for a wedding ceremony, described some of the things I wanted to mention, some of the things they requested, and it spit out a pretty damn good wedding ceremony. I gave it a little once over and tweaked a little bit of what it gave me but 99% of it was pretty much just straight chatgpt. I got a lot of compliments on it.

I think that's sort of the use case. For those of us who aren't professional writers and public speakers, who have the general idea of what we need to say for a speech or presentation but can't quite string the words together in a polished way.

Here's pretty much what it spit out (Their wedding was in a cave)

Cell Phone Reminder

Officiant: Before we begin, I’d like to kindly remind everyone to silence your phones and put them away for the ceremony. Groom and Bride want this moment to be shared in person, free from distractions, so let's focus on the love and beauty of this moment.

Giving Away the Bride

And before we move forward, we have a special moment. Tradition asks: Who gives this woman to be married to this man?

[Response from Bride's dad]

Thank you.

Greeting

Welcome, everyone. We find ourselves here in this remarkable setting—surrounded by the quiet strength of these ancient walls, a fitting place for Groom and Bride to declare their love. The cave, much like marriage, is carved out over time—through patience, care, and sometimes a little hard work. And yet, what forms is something enduring, something that stands the test of time.

Today, we’re here to witness Groom and Bride join their lives together in marriage. In this moment, we’re reminded that love is not about perfection, but about commitment—choosing one another, day after day, even when things get messy, or difficult, or dark. And through it all, we trust in love to guide us, just as God’s love guides us through life’s journey.

Declaration of Intent

[Officiant turns toward Groom and Bride]

Groom, Bride, you are about to make promises to each other that will last a lifetime. Before we continue, I’ll ask each of you to answer a very important question.

Officiant: Groom, do you take Bride to be your lawfully wedded wife, to have and to hold, for better or for worse, in sickness and in health, for as long as you both shall live?

Groom: I do.

Officiant: Bride, do you take Groom to be your lawfully wedded husband, to have and to hold, for better or for worse, in sickness and in health, for as long as you both shall live?

Bride: I do.

Exchange of Vows

Officiant: Now, as a sign of this commitment, Groom and Bride will exchange their vows—promises made not just to each other, but before all of us here and in the sight of God.  

[Groom and Bride share their vows]

Rings

Officiant: The rings you’re about to exchange are a symbol of eternity, a reminder that your love, too, is without end. May these rings be a constant reminder of the vows you have made today, and of the love that surrounds and holds you both.

[Groom and Bride exchange rings]

Officiant: And now, by the power vested in me, and with the blessing of God, I pronounce you husband and wife. Groom you may kiss your bride.

[Groom and Bride kiss]

Officiant: Friends and family, it is my great honor to introduce to you, for the first time, Mr. and Mrs. [Name].

I pretty much just tweaked the formatting, worked in a couple little friendly jabs at the groom, subbed their names in for Bride and Groom, and ad-libbed a little bit where appropriate

I don't think it's really a schwa, at least not the way I say it

A schwa kind of comes from the back of your mouth like you're saying "uhh..."

When I say possible, that last sound feels more like it's the little burst of air from the b sort of fading into the l sound

Then again I'm no linguist so I could be out of my depth trying to really describe the noises I'm making, and I'm not very well-equipped to separate how I talk from more general American English (I'm from Philly, and we have more than our share of little linguistic quirks, after all, we pronounce "water" as "wooder")

If we inverted the last letters of "possible" to "possibel," that wouldn't really match how we pronounce it

I'd probably try to read it as something like "possi-bell"

But our actual pronunciation is more along the lines of "possi-bull" not exactly, and I feel like different dialects might maybe lean more towards the last syllable being more like bill, ball, or boll, but I can't really imagine any dialect where the pronunciation would match a "bel" spelling.

It's sort of an unintentional half vowel sound that just happens after making the "b" noise, and not really something we're intentionally trying to put into the word.

Linguists probably have some specific terminology for it, but I'm no linguist.

I'm sure kermit drew some inspiration from Lorne and probably many other people that Jim knew

I kind of think of Kermit as almost a stock character.

I'm sure someone with some sort of Clown College degree (meaning actually professional clowning education, not something goofy and useless like, you know, a Harvard law degree or what-have-you) could probably chime in about how Kermit exhibits some aspects of one or more of the stock Commedia dell'arte characters or something along those lines.

Unfortunately that sort of high-level comedic theory is beyond my education, but I'll do my best

He's the everyman, the straight man, he's you

He's the embodiment of when your friend was supposed to come pick you up a half hour ago and they're nowhere to be found and not answering their phone

Or when you're trying to schedule your next D&D session but 2 people have scheduling conflicts you're trying to work around, one guy ghosts you and you're not sure if he's coming or not, another wants to bring 3 friends and a dog for some reason, and the last one is just blowing up the group chat with his insane homebrew magical gunslinger succubus character idea and their 14 page backstory.

He's you when you're the only one who did their part of the group project and you're fumbling your way through the presentation you cobbled together on your lunch break

He's when your girlfriend is upset with you and you don't know why

Or when you look around and it seems like everyone around you is an idiot, an asshole, or maybe just clinically insane.

And he puts up with it because despite all their flaws and quirks, these are his friends and he wants to spend time with them and help them to achieve their dreams, and they all feel the same about him, and he's not perfect himself, he's got his own weird bag of insecurities and neuroses that he carries around with him. He yells, he loses his patience, he can't always get a word in edgewise, he runs around flailing his arms and screaming like we all want to do sometimes, he gets depressed and thinks that everything is fucked, but with a little help from those crazy assholes he loves he pushes on and usually things work out alright in the end, even if they didn't quite go according to plan.

How many times a day do you personally go pee? Is 4-5 times really that excessive? I think that's probably on the low end of what I normally do. I wouldn't expect my dog to go much less than that, especially since there's often a pretty long stretch when we're at work where she doesn't get to go out.

Walking and taking your dog out to pee is part of what you signed up for when you got a dog, and you need to do that a few times a day.

On top of just the basic biological needs to pee and for exercise, you also need to consider the sort of social aspect of dogs marking their territory. That's part of being a dog.

Honestly at 6 years old he may even start needing to go more. Just like humans can get incontinent with age, so can dogs, and your boy is approaching or already well into middle age depending on his breed. And he's probably pretty set in his ways at this point, he's used to going out 4 or 5 times a day to pee, it's going to be an uphill battle training that out of him. Not impossible, but difficult.

I take my girl out a minimum of 4 times a day, and if the weather's nice and we're not busy it might be 2 or 3 times that many, some of those might just be a quick potty break and not a full walk, but no matter how many times I can pretty much guarantee that every time she goes outside she's going to pee.

I suggest investing in some warm slip-on shoes and a jacket that you keep by the door with his leash, and maybe make your walks longer when you do go out.

Yes, but his heightened senses borderline on superpowers

He's also usually considered to be a street-level hero, he's mopping up the gangster and ordinary (by comics standards anyway, around hells kitchen, but usually doesn't go too far beyond that (varying by writer, storyline, etc. of course, nothing is absolutely so in comics)

His villains, overall, tend to be relatively run of the mill gangsters, assassins, etc. just dialed up to 11 because that's what sells comics. Kingpin isn't really out to take over the world, he's just out to run a criminal empire. The hand is mostly similar with some magic thrown in. They're not the biggest existential threats to earth or the marvel universe as a whole, daredevil is mostly just dealing with whatever crimes are threatening his part of New York.

Arguably, he does just as much good with a wider impact as a lawyer given the types of clients and cases he takes on.

I don't think either are particularly exciting and I didn't take pictures, but I'm proud of them.

After years of putting it off, I've finally cobbled together a gaming PC, it's not a powerhouse, most of the parts are about 10+ years old salvaged from my wife's upgrades over the last few years, and I still need to find a keyboard and mouse I like

I don't really have space in my home for a desk, the spare bedroom/office is home to my wife's computer and don't really have room to squeeze in another, so I built it in a HTPC case, and it's pretty damn cool playing on the 70inch TV with surround sound and the hue lights synced up to it

The other is the cabinets above our fridge. We got a new fridge that's a bit bigger than our old one, and there's a bit of a weird bump at the top that prevented the cabinets from swinging open fully.

So I moved the hinges to the top of the doors instead of the side, and added some gas springs so they stay open, they have enough clearance to open that way.

The measurements the springs came with to tell you where to mount them are total bullshit. Took a bit of trial and error to figure that out, but my cabinets now have DeLorean-style gullwing doors.

The general concept of Facebook I think is fine

I don't have any problem with the idea of a website where you can go to share things with your friends, family, coworkers, etc.

For me, the biggest problem is that there's way too many opportunities for you to interact with people you don't have any real connection to.

Unless you have mutual friends, you shouldn't see anything someone else is posting, sharing, liking, or commenting on. The only thing you should see from them is a name, profile picture, and a short bio when you search for them.

There shouldn't be public pages for businesses, celebrities, etc. Everything you see on Facebook should be there because someone you actually know thought that it should be shared with their friends.

And if, for some reason there must be public pages, then you should only see what your friends are commenting on those pages, not complete strangers.

There shouldn't be public groups that just anyone can join. Groups should be limited to people you're actually connected to in some way. Not that you necessarily need to be friends directly, but you should be able to trace a clear line of mutual friends connecting any two people in the group together. There shouldn't be a public "we love bowling" (for example) group that anyone can join, but if you started a bowling league and wanted to start a group for it, you might start with Jeff, Walter, and Donny who all know each other, then Jeff adds his friend Smoky who also wants to join, and then Smoky adds his friend Liam who adds his friend Jesús, etc. Jeff may not be directly friends with Jesús, but they're connected by actual people so they can be in the same group. And Jesús and Jeff wouldn't get to see anything each other do outside of that group because they're not friends and don't even have any immediate mutual friends. Their entire relationship is through the bowling league.

Want to talk to, follow, and share things with strangers? Go join a forum, get on Lemmy/reddit, use Twitter, start a blog, publish a book, send an op ed into the local newspaper, etc. That's what those platforms are for. Facebook is for talking to people you know.

Friendica and other Facebook like platforms don't really solve those problems, but since they're smaller and less businesses and such are on them it kind of feels like they do.

That's my 2¢ on the matter anyway.