[-] drail@fedia.io 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I had a bad flea infestation after taking in a stray puppy for all of 1 day before I got it to a rescue. I went from noticing one flea to noticing a couple to seeing them everywhere in a manner of days, about a month after the puppy left us our present. It was a pain in the ass and made me hyper paranoid, so I learned how to handle it the proper way.

I agree with what others have said as a first step: Flea Bath and/or nitenpyram to remove the fleas on the kitty, flea preventative to keep them off. Wash all the fabrics and surfaces, especially near your cat's hangout spots, and dry on high heat.

Vacuuming daily is a triple threat at reducing the numbers: Sucks up the eggs/larvare/pupae/adults, the vibration and warmth tricks pupae to emerge (they can be dormant for up to 6 months and their shell acts like velcro, making them hard to remove) which speeds up the cycle and reduces the risk of reinfestation, and cleans up the grime that the larvae feed on before pupating. Just make sure you use a bagged vacuum or seal the vacuum waste somehow before tossing it. If the infestation is minor, keeping up to date on the preventative and regular vacuuming should be enough.

If you find more, especially down the road a few months, it probably means an infestation started under your nose. If you can afford it, a pest control pro is the best solution. If you can't, the best flea killer spray for whole home infestations is Precor 2625. It is a whole home premise spray that kills the fleas at all stages, both on contact and by disrupting their reproductive cycle. You'll want to either kennel your kitty for a day to apply it, as the contact kill chemical can make cats sick, or at the very least quarantine them and do the spray over a couple days away from them. Get a coverall suit, N95 mask, and spray all low surfaces, all fabrics that can't be dried on high heat, under couch cushions, all corners and crevices around the floor and your bed, literally everywhere below knee height and anywhere your cat might like to climb or hide.

The preventative is supposed to last 7 months, slightly longer than the longest normal pupae duration, so that multiple flea generations will be affected. I do recommend a second spray 1 month later, just to be safe, and continue daily vacuuming over the entire premise for at least that first month to expedite the lifecycle as much as possible.

[-] drail@fedia.io 33 points 2 weeks ago

My mom had an inspirational sign in one of her bathrooms that said, "Embrace this moment, for this moment is your life." perfectly matched to her decor. She knew exactly what she was doing.

[-] drail@fedia.io 57 points 1 month ago

I am half way done with mine, which means I only have 3/4 left to write, then I will be 90% done.

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Despite a mediocre game 1 and an abysmal game 2, the Nuggets arrived at the Target center on a mission to silence both the Minnesota Crowd and all chatter about a sweep. Beating the Wolves by 27, the Nuggets controlled this game from early on, determined to set the tone in Minnesota. Between the stabilized play of Murray and Jokic and some clear adjustments from Coach Malone, this series clearly still has the potential to be the all-out slugfest that everyone anticipated at the outset.

Go Nuggets!

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Despite holding a leading score over the Nuggets for about 70% of this series the Lakers were unable to seal the deal, going down 4-1 against the defending champions. They managed to avoid the clean sweep by winning one at home, but the Nuggets 2nd half offense proved too much for LeBron, AD, and the Lakers.

Here's how the offseason is shaping up for them:

Projected Cap Space with Cap Holds/Accept Options: -$82,925,096

Maximum Cap Space (i.e. without Cap Holds/Decline Options): $30,685,215

Cap holds and roster options

Draft Picks: 2024 1st round (The pelicans own LA's 2024 1st round pick, but can choose to instead take the Lakers' 2025 1st round pick instead.) 2024 2nd round (own)

Outlook (summarized from this BR article

The Los Angeles Lakers find themselves at a crossroads after a disappointing early exit from the NBA playoffs. With uncertainties swirling around LeBron James' future, the team faces a critical offseason. Currently, they could have significant financial flexibility, with the projected $141 million salary cap, potentially falling below the $172 million luxury tax threshold or surpassing it.

A pivotal factor in their financial planning revolves around the decisions of LeBron James and D'Angelo Russell. LeBron, with a hefty $51.4 million salary on the books, may opt for free agency, especially considering Bronny's eligibility for the NBA draft. The younger James could either enter the draft or return to college, influencing his father's choice. Meanwhile, Russell, owed $18.7 million next season, is likely to seek a significant raise in free agency following his impressive performance, averaging 18.0 points and 6.3 assists.

Despite these uncertainties, there are some positives for the Lakers. Most of their rotation players are under contract for the 2024-25 season, with only reserves Taurean Prince and Spencer Dinwiddie, and Max Christie not contracted for 2024-2025 . However, the main narrative centers, as always with the Lakers, on whether they will pursue another star via trade. If so, they must be prepared to part with a combination of players such as Rui Hachimura, Austin Reaves, Gabe Vincent, Jarred Vanderbilt, and Jalen Hood-Schifino.

Adding to the intrigue is the potential involvement of DeMar DeRozan. At 35 years old and never having played in an NBA Finals, DeRozan might consider joining the Lakers as a low-cost option in pursuit of a championship ring and a return to his hometown, having grown up in Compton.

[-] drail@fedia.io 11 points 2 months ago

This was a game winner to win the nuggets first round playoff matchup, which is always a big deal, but there are three things that are particularly impressive here:

  1. Jamal Murray was injured coming into this game, so the fact that he held strong through the game, played great basketball, and hit the game winner is impressive.

  2. The degree of difficulty on that shot was massive. Going left and shooting right requires perfect balance, focus, and contortion to get the shot off properly. Murray used this to catch the Lakers' Austin Reaves off guard and get a clean look, leveraging a difficult shot against an even more difficult to defend attack.

  3. This is the 2nd game winner Jamal Murray has hit this playoff series, both of which were highly difficult shots. Big time shot maker making big time shots.

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#nba #nbahighlights #nbahighlightstoday #nbaplayoffsJamal Murray hits insane game winner vs Lakers to eliminate them from playoffs!! Los Angeles Lakers vs De...

[-] drail@fedia.io 31 points 2 months ago

To be fair to the post, it is describing how to tell people who wear all black apart, not categorizing them goth subtypes. Punk is also not goth.

[-] drail@fedia.io 23 points 3 months ago

It seems like a great way to send ~50% of the babies birthed out in space. Just remove the net, speed it up, and tilt it 90°, then you have a coin flip chance at space babies or crater babies.

[-] drail@fedia.io 43 points 3 months ago

I pitched this exact idea to my fiancé a few days ago (and have no clue why it came up). she didn't think it was a good idea, but now I can tell her that it was good enough to patent.

[-] drail@fedia.io 24 points 3 months ago

Twice, both related to my Crohn's Disease.

The first was in preparation for my first colonoscopy, where I was told that I was only allowed clear broth, clear soda, coffee, and water for 24hr before taking the colon prep solution. I didn't think the diet would give a mile-long headstart before the prep solution, so I enjoyed copius amounts of clear broth and coffee, which ran through me like a river, resulting in the mishap. The bathroom was only 10ft away from me, but it was still too far given the rapid pressure buildup.

The second was during an insurance conflict about my Crohn's Medication, resulting in a flareup and multiple weeks of gut agony and loose stool. It got to the point where no flatulence was trustworthy, and I took a gamble because I was so tired of getting up to run to the restroom every time I felt something bubbling (10+ restroom visits a day, each at the slightest sign of stomach rumbling will do that to a motherfucker).

It is always humiliating, even when I am home alone, and I am hyper concious about the possibility, even when in remission. It fucking bites.

[-] drail@fedia.io 24 points 3 months ago

You smoking chicken dick if you think I'm frying fried fuck

[-] drail@fedia.io 14 points 3 months ago

My two cents is that multiclassing should be driven first and foremost by what seems cool or fun, then looking at story consideration, and finally looking at optimization. Rogue is one of the best classes for MC, it has endless synergy with basically every other class, so I don't think there is a wrong answer in terms of viability. Rogue/bard is super fun, allowing for a super versatile character in terms of being the face and skillmonkey, rogue/fighter is a potent martial combination, and warlock rogue has neat RP potential and some nice interplay between invocations and roguish abilities (darkness, mask of many faces, etc.)

How has you character been played so far? A dashing trickster would lend itself to bard (swords, whisper, or lore), a deadly and efficient assasssin would lend itself to fighter (BM or echo knight if allowed), or a curious seeker of secrets would lend itself to warlock (hex blade is the best choice for a mixed martial imo).

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[-] drail@fedia.io 52 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Physics is a mixed bag with this stuff. Gell-Mann came up with the name quarks after a line from Finnegan's Wake because Joyce referenced them as coming in three. It was a nonsense word inserted just to rhyme with Mark, Park, etc, so its pronunciation in physics isn't even correct, but it was fun and physicists were just having a good time with it.

Three quarks for Muster Mark! Sure he has not got much of a bark And sure any he has it’s all beside the mark.

Then we got the strange/charm and top/bottom (which was originally the beauty/truth, so bullet dodged there) so the quarks really got all the fun names. Strong Force physics in general gets the good stuff: Axions were named after a detergent because they helped "clean up" the strong CP-violation problem of the standard model. Fantastic, no notes.

Neutrinos (my field of study), had so much potential for fun, stupid naming that was squandered. The neutrino was originally proposed with the name "neutron" by Pauli, but then the actual neutron was discovered and observed first, so the name got pinched. To remedy this, the electron neutrino was dubbed "neutrino" or little neutron (they didn't know that other flavors of neutrino existed). Meanwhile, the muon neutrino was originally supposed to be the neutretto (before they realized that the neutral leptons were related by the different particle generations), so we could have had a world where each generation of neutral lepton was just another combination of neutron + diminutive italian suffix.

  1. Neutrino
  2. Neutretto/neutronetto
  3. Neutrello/neutronello

Then, when the mass eigenstates were confirmed, we could have diversified and gone with big suffixes to indicate that neutrinos have mass.

  1. Neutroni
  2. Neutrachione/neutronachione
  3. Neutrozzo/neutronozzo

But noooooo, particle physics decided to just give neutrinos the lamest possible names, electron/muon/tau neutrinos for flavor states and m_1/m_2/m_3 neutrino for mass states. I am ashamed of my predecessors for what they've done.

Don't even get me started on the J/Psi debacle...

[-] drail@fedia.io 24 points 3 months ago

As one of the most senior grad students in my dept, holy fuck this hits hard.

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