It is very common and safe for truckers to keep pets with them on the road. Having a pet helps truckers with stress and loneliness. I looked into this account and from my understanding these kittens were born feral and rescued by this man. He has gotten them medical treatment, and is helping care for their eye infections. His set up in the truck is good, having a little box, kennel, bed and toys.
Is there any risk of them getting down in the pedal area while the truck is in motion? Do they get put in the crate while he drives, or is there a solution I’m not seeing here?
Hello, a different trucker with a cat here:
When I rescued my little calico cat and took her with me in my truck, I was worried about the same thing. A tiny kitten can squeeze into the most unlikely of places in a truck! However, very rarely did I ever need to lock her in her crate while I drove. I had her crate tucked into a space behind my seat where it couldn’t move, and she would usually sleep there because it was a dark, safe space and she wasn’t used to the motion of the tank truck.
Later on, when she got more used to the truck moving, she would play a bit, but due to where the gear shift was located (I drove a manual transmission truck), it was easy while I had the cruise control on to set my foot where it would block her from getting underfoot and where I could feel her trying and nudge her out of the way. She learned pretty quickly that underfoot was not a place for her.
The more pressing problem I had in my new Freightliner was that when I had the truck’s Smart Idle feature on (battery powered AC that gets charged by the truck turning itself on and off) the window buttons also worked. As you can see from one of my pics, my solution was a loop of duct tape over the window button, sticky side up. I could still use the window button, but she did not like stepping on the tape.
(I was not worried about her getting out, she did NOT like the outdoors. I was more worried about my window being wide open while I was sleeping. The tape worked!)
Okay but this is a very easy, if embarrassing, conversation to have.
“I know the author of the work you are plagiarizing personally, and I have already contacted them to verify that you did not have permission to reference/quote, and that their work was uploaded long before your work was finished.”
And if the kid asks how you knew it was plagiarized, “I know the author personally”, or why you recognized the work, “it was a personal favor/ is not of your business as my student”, and literally every other question can be rebuffed in the same way.
Like, it seems like none of you have ever had to do professional level bullshitery and it shows.
Sure, its embarrassing to even alude to the fact you read fic, but just remember, the kid not only read your fic, but thought it was good enough to try and steal too.
“I was directly involved in the editorial process.”
Crazy that a lot of cis people’s idea of what a “sex change” means is (or at least was, not sure how common it is anymore) just one surgery that rearranges everything at once. And honestly it would kind of rule if it worked like that. Put me in the sex change chamber
It’s also funny to me because I can kind of see how it would seem like that from an outside perspective cause like a lot of people do just go MIA for a while and come back looking completely different. It’s like how medieval scholars talked about animals. I don’t know where birds go in the winter but I presume it to be the same place where you get The Surgery
George: thats all he would say, was “keep administering the shocks, keep going.”
jerry: so what did you do??
george: what do you think i did? i kept administering the shocks!
jerry : even though you could hear the person on the other end–
george: well what was i supposed to do!
jerry: –screaming and begging for mercy?
george: “keep going, keep shocking him,” the guy was telling me! *puts his head in his hands* he was in charge of the experiment, he was paying me, what was i supposed to do? tell him to go suck a lemon?
jerry: so what you’re telling me is, you were just following orders?
*kramer enters wearing a brand new pork pie hat with the price tag still on*
kramer: guess who just got paid to sit around in a room pretending to get electrocuted all day!
At the time of this writing there are exactly 80 days until Tigger from Winnie the Pooh enters the US public domain.
How many days until Tony The Tigger goes into the public domain though?
As a piece of corporate trade dress, the distinctive likeness of Tony the Tiger is governed by trademark, rather than by copyright; unlike copyrights, trademarks do not expire as long as they remain in active use. However, specific works containing Tony the Tiger can enter the public domain; as Tony first appeared in 1952, historical advertising media in which he appears will begin to enter the US public domain on January 1st, 2048.
Okay so there are several things being ignored and forgotten with this statement. First of all Amtrak does run electrified rail on the NEC and Keystone Service. Second, Amtrak is unable to begin electrification projects do to barely receiving any government funding to do capital investment projects. And finally even when we want to electrify corridors we are unable to because Freight Railroads will block any electrification as it hurts their bottom line. Also Diesel trains still are more environmentally friendly than a car. The very simple fact is that German Railroads are nationalized meaning intercity services don’t have to fight to survive and are able to do large investment projects
I wiiish the German Railroad would be nationalized but they are private with the little add that, IF something is seriously broken that the government will found them. Which makes the best capitalist conclusion… never repair something until it breaks and abandoned as many railroads as possible and than cry around that you just can’t get more trains because.. there are not enough rails???
+ our minister [Volker Wissing] for transportation etc is a huuuge fan of cars. He would rather end all funds on public transportation or bike friendly cities than give up the millions he probably gets from the car industry
I would add some articles but I don’t know if they are translated to English.. but if you want some @amtrak-official google translation is our best friend
(Seriously I found your tumblr and I’m in loove. It’s so hilarious and I just loove to connect about “hate against governments that doesn’t fund public transport correctly) @amtrak-official
I really need to learn more about international rail systems, thank you for this sad information, you gotta hate mid 90s politicians for their terrible ideas like privatization and deregulation
Hiroo Onoda is a famous name among WWII history buff circles. He was the soldier who disappeared into the Philippine jungle at the end of the war with three other soldiers, and ended up being the last to surrender after 29 years fighting a “guerilla war” until he surrendered in 1974. For at least twenty years he fought with one other, Kinshichi Kozuka; who was killed by police in 1972.
The article was about one woman named Mia Stewart, a Filipino-Australian, who’s trying to get the funding to finish a documentary she’s been working on for about 20 years.
The documentary she’s making is trying to shed a little more light than the fascinating “lone samurai” legend that has been built up around Onoda. It very pointedly asks one thing – what is this “guerilla war” he was fighting for 29 years? Who were his opponents? Who was he fighting?
Onoda (and Kozuka until his death) were killing, sometimes in very gruesome ways, almost exclusively Filipino civilians. Innocent people who were just living their normal lives – who couldn’t fight back. One of their victims was Mia Stewart’s father, when she was barely two years old.
The article essentially asks, “war hero or serial killer?”
Those civilians he stalked and killed or stole from for nearly thirty years weren’t ever asked their opinion before the Filipino president gave a blanket pardon, Onoda was welcomed home a hero, and he gained worldwide fame. Their side of the story entirely forgotten as some nebulous force he was fighting “guerilla warfare” against.
It was genuinely kind of enlightening because even I have kind of looked at the Onoda story as a, “wow that’s crazy” and never really gave it more thought of “who exactly was he fighting?” I figured he was shooting at cops, if anything. But no, it was nothing as simple as that.
On some level I think if I’d just given it any ounce of thought I’d have gone, “who was he fighting actually?” But instead I just assumed he spent nearly thirty years fighting cops… not doing what the IJA did best and mutilating helpless civilians. But I bought the popular narrative entirely and didn’t give an ounce of a think at the question of who was he fighting in this ‘guerilla war.’
“Actively fighting a war… against who?” is a question that just straight up never came to my mind.
i’d always assumed he was just, like, surviving and waiting for orders or something, not randomly murdering people.
so some news about AI. It seems Discord is apparently just. going to unconsentually add Clyde AI to servers in a slow roll out. The way they are doing this is rather than how we initially suspected he would show up as an option via the integrations tab on server settings, it appears that he is apparently being added into servers as a user who is part of the server that the admin would have to manually kick. He cannot be banned, but we can kick him repeatedly. The issue is it’s unclear if there will be a greeting message for when Clyde arrives into servers and he will attempt to infiltrate again and again. Small servers this is easy to spot, big servers this is an obvious issue of sifting through who is in your server.
if you see this man in your server kill him
Important to note this has only been seen so far in a friend server and I have only seen it in one server so far. Community servers might be different it is simply something we do not know yet.
Here is an article from Discord about this thag updated about an hour ago
Aside from that I was able to go into permissions and make it so nobody in my server could interact with Clyde. I still do not know what information Clyde and by extension OpenAI has from what it might have taken from my server to “make Clyde better” there was no warning and no message despite how discord had pitched this. It says in this article that it will notify users but Discord did not do that at all.
Fuck AI
Another update! You can only kick Clyde in mobile if you are a server mod and you have to go through server settings and then members and click on clyde and then block!
