Carrot cake is hard to light.

13, probably (rescue, hard to know for sure, but we’ve had her for like 8)

Gary the snail

Cat choose their pets wisely

Rotten potatoes. Not good.

Because I’m a cat?! I knew it!🐈 Meow.

This is not flirting. It is socially maladjusted behaviour. Just because it has worked before doesn’t mean it is a good idea.

Pickup artists do all kinds of stupid shit that works that isn’t socially acceptable either.

You’re arguing about word choices and message. It’s about as useful as “thoughts and prayers”. Go lobby politicians for UBI, or volunteer for Habitat for Humanity or whatever your local equivalent is. Do something real. Have a nice day.

Playing games with language doesn’t solve poverty. It just makes you feel holier-than-thou.

Pro tip: when you find a comment by someone you find interesting or insightful on a topic you wish to see more about - click on their profile and see where else they’re posting. It’s a great way to find additional communities.

Furthermore, lemmyverse.net is amazing for finding communities.

The pendulum has swung too far. Come back to the centre.

Daaaad

Amazing!

Try giving them catnip

We had to wager our houses to get the initial loans during startup. Loans are almost finished.

If I’m frugal, about a year. But I own a small business and this would only occur if my business is bankrupt. In which case debtors might chase my personal assets.

I actually locked the D&D community on lemmy.ca that I created once the ttrpg.network D&D community took off. I recommend that one. I could reactive the lemmy.ca if someone went sideways with that instance.

I also recommend the lemmyverse.net website for finding communities to subscribe to. Copy and paste the community name – should look something like [email protected] – into the search box and then subscribe.

Also, try to subscribe to communities that aren’t on lemmy.world, even if one exists on lemmy.world. Let’s avoid putting all of our eggs in one basket ;)

Before the enshittification took root, reddit was where I interacted the most with people online. You could buy a subscription to get an ad-free experience. It came with a bunch of Reddit gold you could hand out. Basically, help pay for server time, and get an ad-free experience without adblocking.

The amount of time I spent on Reddit I would compare to a Netflix subscription or similar.

In the ramp up to their IPO when they started to fuck with everything, my goodwill evaporated. I stopped moderating and abandoned my subs. Whenever I had new content I wanted to post, I instead post to the fediverse. So, there ya go 😅

Request for info to be added to fundraising page: which fundraising payment options are processed by American companies. If they’re taking fees, I’d like those fees to go to Canadian firms.

Fuck it, sending an e-transfer. ;)

E: sent $100. The equivalent of two one-year reddit subscriptions. I cancelled my subscription to move over here. Good luck with the fundraising :)

Right.

A lobbyist with access to federal politicians in Canada with actual portfolios is like a quarter million per year as a minimum. Maybe a million if you want to fund a “think tank” and publish “studies” and do press releases trying to get the news to bite on some of them, so you can use the news as your excuse to bring issues up.

If you’re doing it yourself, then $5k might get you a plate at a gala where you hope to run into the appropriate politician for a minute. Would you pay $5k to hope to have a one minute conversation where 45 seconds of it is pleasantries and you might get one sentence in? And you have to use that sentence to explain who you represent… And someone is tugging their elbow leading to another table and they’re gone. Well, hopefully the people at your table were interesting conversation.

Storytime: I am small business owner. We pay a few thousand dollars a year to throw industry drinking events primarily for networking. Personal invites. Sometimes I can get the provinical Minister of Mines to attend with his handlers, but only if I promise no lobbying. I might get about five minutes of their time (as host) and try to honour my commitment to no lobbying at the event (their handlers will remove them if they feel it is a lobbying event). My payoff is a direct communication line, which I try not to abuse. Then the government changes (elections or cabinet shuffle) and I have to do it again. I’ve failed to get a direct line on the current minister for almost two years. But this is small potatoes Canadian provincial politics. I’d have to spend 10x that amount to attempt get face time with the federal minister.