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I can buy any scent of soap I want. I can choose between a million different black eyeliners. I can choose one of thousands of styles of glasses for prescription lenses.

So, why are all the disability aid devices ugly as sin? Why can't my mom buy a stylish wheelchair or rollator? Grab bars with pizzazz?

Make disability aids stylish! There is no good reason to make disability aid devices depression gray or ennui eggshell.

What's my cat's favorite cat food flavor?

Theft.

Doesn't matter if he's got the same food as or other cat or not. It tastes better stolen.

In the past month, he's earned some new nicknames:

Ranch Bandit aka rancho bandito
Prosciutto Thief
Counter pirate

He's old enough that he's been put on a kidney health diet and is now in his yolo era

Excuse me while I cannot feign outrage at Trump bringing back the firing squad for state executions.

If the State is going to execute people, which it shouldn't, it should absolutely be by firing squad.

The other options are far more gruesome and painful. The electric chair is torture and was phased out for lethal injection *which is an awful way to die*

Legal injection is for the benefit of the executioner, not the human being executed. Often, the cocktail involves a paralyzing agent so the prisoner is immobile while in excruciating pain. Due to the Hippocratic oath, medical providers will not participate in this brutality, so the doses are not always correct or administered correctly. States that use this method often have to rely on the black market because legitimate pharmacies won't help them. Drugs could be painless (like how veterinarians euthanize animals), where the person goes to sleep and never wakes up, but that goes against the Hippocratic oath.

Hanging requires a specialist who can do the proper mathematics to make the drop snap the neck for an instant death. Leaving someone to dangle while the oxygen in their blood depletes is grotesque and cruel torture. Hanging a heavy person can result in unintentional decapitation.

State executions are psychologically damaging to the executioners, which is why executions are done with a squad rather than one person with a gun. Not every squad member has a loaded gun when they fire so none of them knows who fired the fatal shot. This reduces the psychological harm. Death by firing squad is usually instant (unless you have piss poor shooters), and therefore less painful.

If you must have state executions, firing squads are the most ethical of the available options.

That said, no one should give the state power over life and death for any reason.

Quantum Fiber, I have turned y'all down every time. FOMO doesn't work on me for freaking Internet service providers.

I miss the Internet as a public utility mindset that the town I grew up in had. Paid it with your power and water bill and free Wi-Fi all over town. Then Republicans ruined it.

I research everything before I change things, and I do not make decisions on my porch.

Well, I'm glad I got fed up with buying sponges years ago and switched to homemade crochet 100% cotton dishcloths.

https://mstdn.social/@primonatura/116289701485683274

Crochet seems to hold up better than knit even with the same yarn. Use a smaller hook than you normally would for that weight of yarn.

I use solid colors for the kitchen and multi colored yarns for the shower. You can do squares for the kitchen and circles for the bathroom. Whatever works for you.

Ideal starter project for learning crochet. It doesn't matter if it's a bit wonky, you're using it to scrub the beans off a plate, not hanging it up for display.