Pi is Infinite

(^ this is in response to my tags worrying about Pangur's reaction)

Pangur's actually pretty good with dogs! she doesn't love them, but she doesn't get too stressed out by them either (even when she probably should).

my parents have a 120lb Leonberger named Rusty Nail, and Pangur likes to follow her around and make evil chittering noises. and because Rusty doesn't react, Pangur gets to believe that she's won these encounters.

Having limited or no empathy doesn't automatically make you a bad person.

What matters is that you value other people and how you treat them. Not your emotional capacity.

Plenty of people who struggle with empathy go the extra mile to try to understand others and treat them well.

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and everyone is posting their 4th of july manis

except this year its very few american flags and red white and blue and stars.

and a LOT of pond scum inspiration

"After they overheard that ICE was at the courthouse to arrest someone, they improperly accessed court databases to determine who was not born in the United States," a DOJ detention filing says. "They then snuck every suspected illegal alien who was at the courthouse out a back door, where ICE, who was waiting in the parking lot for their target to leave the building, could not see them."

HOWEVER some things I would personally change is sandwitching the fresh fruits and vegetables between the shelf stable aisles and the refrigerated/frozen goods because they are also prone to easy damage of you don't place them in your cart strategically in the very fucking beginning. I understand they do it because the fresh fruits and veggies are colorful and invinting but I remain unimpressed.

Same goes for bread and other baked goods I would prefer to have the bread in the back next to the frozen goods as a soft loaf of white bread or baguette should go on top of other items to prevent squishing. Normally I combat this by hitting every aisle first and skipping the bread aisle and once I have my shelf stables and perishables as I'm going back up to the front of the building for checkout I swing by the bread aisle and grab what I need.

Now like I said I'm insane and I fucking hate shopping so if you really want to optomize your shopping so you can get in and get the fuck out as fast as humanly possible here's what you gotta do: Products are usually assosiated into their various aisles but then those aisles are broken up into 4 foot sections, every four feet of a shelf will be marked with a small sticker typically located either at the top of the shelf or on the foot at the bottom. Typically the shelf mods will be marked, example: F1, F2, F3 etc. Different stores have different lingo but I worked at a Walmart for two years so I'm gonna call them mods. That particular product will almost always be found on that specific mod. Sometimes it gets moved up ir down a shelf or two but it rarely strays from the mod itself except for special occasions like a sale or a holiday depending on the product. The only true worry is a major aisle lauout overhaul which is usually done around inventory season, but it depends on the store.

For every staple on your list mark down the mod number. Your first time doing this will be a slightly lengthier process but I promise there's a payoff. Go through your shopping then when you get home look at your list again and write all of your staple goods in the exact numerical order they're found in the mods. (personally I like to arrange them in an order so I can move from aisle to aisle in a weaving zigzag pattern so i don't have to go thru the same aisle more than once.)

Once you know where everything is you'll be able to locate your shit ten times faster becauae you can break apart all the visual noise, you can pick a pattern that goes well with your sensibilities and foot traffick and you'll be able to note quicker when an item is NOT on the shelf. And from then on you'll require only minor edits to the grocery list here and there.