carabiner

trupanion

Ya, one of my cats has had nothing wrong with him. The other got into some pills I left on the counter and had $8k in vet fees to treat poisoning, thank god for pet insurance.

Huge variation in cat food costs. Cheapest food can be under $100/year, most expensive can be 10x that.

Definitely noticed a difference in getting a cat on heating requirements in Seattle. I got two cats now, and my heat is turned off year round.

I wish it was more like 6 years ago, or whenever the Match buyout was. It's become hot people clickbait like all the swipe apps now. The entire internet is being optimized to either outrage you o…

Let me remind all citizens of the dangers of magical thinking.

There's the old saying, It's Probably Overpriced. Not just tech stocks, not just Airbnb.

@dang, fix typo in headline? Faceboo o k.

Epic's "trap" seemed terribly tonedeaf. This will not end well for them.

memes considered memeful

With #1, someone told me 90% of K12 education is supposed to help you get over this. School is supposed to train you to focus on and produce work on subjects that you have zero interest in. I was pret…

The most successful kid/adult/human is the one who loves others and brings happiness to them, while being loved himself. It doesn't matter if he's a Nobel laureate or a Walmart cas…

This is a mountaineering / rock climbing expression that is slowly finding its way into popular recreation lexicon, by way of Instagram/vanlife culture. Sort of like "just send it"

1. I have a lofted bed which frees up like 100 sq ft. This is vital for storage/other space. 2. I sanded outside on my small balcony and wipe the dust with a rag. Cutting the wood was tricky. I p…

I built a desk and was amazed at how quickly a simple piece of wood on metal legs became. What kind of wood? There are a billion types. Ended up with baltic birch from a specialty lumberyard. What siz…

It ended up costing ~$50k (not counting labor) and took a year to build, and they sold it for $115k. The cabin looks phenomenal. I wonder how a tinyhome would compare in cost and features?

Let's say I'm a different landlord. If the other landlords are raising their rents, I know that by not raising mine, I can attract more tenants and increase my occupancy rate. Maybe I'm…

"N crashes prevented due to automation" - A headline that will/can never be written. Net result is that automation saves lives.

We have these with Predator drones etc. These were mature at the time when the DARPA Grand Challenge had robot cars crashing in the desert.

To get more responses to your surveys, make your surveys shorter. The massive response rate will make up for the loss in granularity; most of the granularity is not actionable anyway. The tricky thing…

The 5k units is due to COVID affecting battery manufacturing, there's no question this is circumstantial and nothing inherent to the vehicle itself. They say 20k vehicles for the next year. With…

Just move to the midwest or New Hampshire or Boise. Get a 4-bedroom house for $200k close to a lake. If the nearest city has a Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, and REI, that will probably indicate a po…

RAV4 Prime - hybrid motor + battery - 500 mile range on gas hybrid, 40 mile range on battery - AWD Commute to work during the week without touching gas, then on the weekend take roadtrips to the mount…