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[Caz]

I don't have access to any shops that would sell pet carriers

A cardboard box can act as one for a bit.

Box works fine. Just make airholes smaller than kitty paws, and use LOTs of tape. You'll find out why when you're in the vehicle.

[wierd]

Kitteh eyes are open.

You should be playing with them now. Dont be aggressive or anything, but having them sit on your chest while you type, or things of that nature. Handling and play at this stage, is important for well socialized adult kitties.  Be sure to give them back to mom during mealtime and naptime but you can hold and gently pet them now.

In another week or so, they should be actively playful.

[scriver]

I just want to hug all the cats.gif

[delphonso]

Databend the cat photo.

[methylatedspirit]

That's sad.  It is not normal to leave your pets over semester break. At least not without getting someone to give them food twice a day while you're away.
If you'd do that over here in the Netherlands, people would call the police. Animal neglect is a criminal offense over here.
Since about 8 years, the law has even been changed for that. It used to be misdemeanor (you'd get fined, but no criminal record), now it's criminal offense punishable with up to a maximum of 2 years in prison for excessively terrible neglect.

Huh. Jot that one down under "cultural differences I'll have to keep in mind if I go to Europe", then. I'm a bit culture-shocked, honestly. Hear me out, though:

The uni's not gonna be completely empty during semester break. There's cleaners, there's essential administrative staff living on campus. It's not totally empty. They just leave food out for the cats to eat, and I know it's something they do every single day. It's more than enough; I've never seen the food bowl empty, even at midnight. Hell, I'm not even feeding Catto myself. She's just eating off what's been provided by one of the staff members. I'm not sure about the kittens, but I know that Catto herself is gonna be perfectly well-fed under the care of the staff here.

[LordBaal]

Oh. That is nice. But is not normal to leave your pets alone for extended periods of time. At least if not ilegall is morally questionable in my book.

Ask the staff about the kittens. If you could chip in with some food for them it would help? Cats are fine pets because they are so independent and Im sure the kittens will be fine, however they could also leave the premises to never return, so...

[Frumple]

You also think better when your brain is cooler, so it's working to make your brain function better when you're trying to stay awake or think better.

I wonder if that means if students tend to do better when learning and taking tests in air-conditioned rooms than fan-cooled rooms, just by virtue of lower temperatures. Now, how'd one test that hypothesis, I don't know.

There's been studies with regard to temperature variance, at least, and while I forget the exact details (there's obviously going to be a lower bound, and complicating factors like length of test or physiological variances, and so on), from what I recall it's been a pretty consistent finding that test scores rise as temperature lowers. Don't consider recall the testing being very complicated, it wouldn't take much more than more or less peer groups testing in different rooms cooled (or warmed) to different temps and comparing average results or whatever. Dunno if they've checked general information retention/learning, though.

Any case, it's basically not controversial that folks' brains work better when they're on the cooler side of whatever's comfortable for them, at this point.

e: Oh, and yeah, it's totally not normal to abandon your pets on campus over a break, not even stateside. Not criminal in most places I'm aware of, but yo' family be lying to you when they say it's normal

Now, if they're straight up strays you feed occasionally, that's one thing, but a proper pet you're actively caring for... nuh uh. People be looking at you side eye if you say you just ditch your pets on campus over a month long break or whatev'.

[LordBaal]

Oh ffs I just yawned two times again. How is that possible?!!! You sorceress!

[Frumple]

Hey, neat trick from the article, though: If you want to drastically reduce the chance of catching a yawn, put an ice pack (or equivalent) to your head. Drops the odds of a yawn to like sub-10%, iirc. One of the things they tried while testing to confirm it's thermoregulation.

[methylatedspirit]

So, deep moral quandaries aside, I was forced convinced to be in a Tiktok video. Fucking hell, I'm not cut out to be a Tiktok person at all. It just reminds me of marching all over again; a long series of large instructions I can't properly execute in the required time.

[methylatedspirit]

Databend the cat photo.

I'll databend all 3, then. At the original 48MP resolution they were captured at, because I like pain, apparently. Did you know that 8000x6000/6000x8000 pictures in RAW format are 132MB in size each? They're also absurdly long imported as 44.1KHz unsigned 8-bit PCM, 54 minutes and 24 seconds each. I have the PNG "masters" on my disk; these are JPEG, because Imgur won't let me upload 50 meg PNG files for some reason. I'll provide both the original images and the databent ones at full quality on request. Imgur compresses anything above 5MB.

I used Paulstretch at the highest Time Resolution Audacity would allow without modifications (Audacity is 32-bit), accurate to 1 second: 538 seconds. It turns out that if you make Audacity Large Address Aware, you can go even higher. 2352 seconds, in fact. Now, if anyone would like to make (and compile binaries for Windows, x86_64) 64-bit Paulstretch, be my guest. The source code's on GitHub.

Lord, forgive me for what I'm about to do to all your internet connections and probably your computers. These are all at 48MP, compressed to just under 5MB each. These are in order of how the originals were shown.

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[Egan_BW]

*squints*

Yup that's a cat all right. Clear as day.

[heydude6]

You can see a faint outline of the eyes and ears of a cat in the first photo, second is incromprehensible, and I think I see a very faint outline of a rabbit's ear of all things in the third photo.

WTF is wrong with my imagination.

[martinuzz]

The uni's not gonna be completely empty during semester break. There's cleaners, there's essential administrative staff living on campus. It's not totally empty. They just leave food out for the cats to eat, and I know it's something they do every single day. It's more than enough; I've never seen the food bowl empty, even at midnight. Hell, I'm not even feeding Catto myself. She's just eating off what's been provided by one of the staff members. I'm not sure about the kittens, but I know that Catto herself is gonna be perfectly well-fed under the care of the staff here.

Ah. Well yeah, in that case I suppose they'll be fine. Might still want to give a heads-up to the cleaning staff about the kittens though.
Still, it's not a very nice thing to do to leave them alone. You'll miss quality bonding time with the kittens, and that mom cat has adopted you and will be distraught when you are gone.

[hector13]

The first one is the Cookie Monster, the second one is Kermit T. Frog, and the third one is an OG cacodemon from Doom.