Random Thoughts XIV: Pizza, Pomegranate Juice, and Shreddies

I am sorry for your loss. Some teachers settle close to the heart.
 
My first thought when I saw this image was r16.

Perhaps it is not a new one here? It is hilarious however, and I've already managed to confuse someone by "accidentally" leaving it in a screenshot I sent to them :)
 

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Less than 300 words left to go for a NaNoWriMo win this month. I'll finish today, and keep going until midnight on the 30th, to see how far I get.

Joining a fanfic group on FB and a writing forum have resulted in some weird stuff lately. Yesterday someone asked about vanity tables in strippers' dressing rooms, and thanks to what I learned from working backstage on Gypsy almost 40 years ago, I was actually able to answer her questions. :ack:
 
do not fall for American propaganda . Dick Cheney was just a wannabe when he scared Ronald Reagan after misquoting some random Lockmart side project . Of the Star Wars stuff , only the T-47 was found feasible and whatnot with its popping in and out aerodynamic control surfaces . No lazers as of then , absolutely no use for the harpoon gun . As such , America does not and will not have AT-ATs . That's why there are tons of memes that show A-10s brrrting them . Let us say them Warthog pilots will be in some surprise , and cursing a lot , if they don't end up walking home first .
 
I'm currently ID-less. I sent in a passport renewal application a couple weeks ago and just got my provincial ID renewed today. Which means I have neither document for now, since the province doesn't give temporary cards anymore (for whatever reason). Hopefully there is no sudden need for me to use either for at least the next week or two. :D

I don't actually know if the passport application went through. They took the money and nobody's called me, so I'm guessing it's being processed and I'll have it by mid-May. The wait times at the office are 3+ months and have been ever since COVID reared its head, so I went with mail-in. It felt like a bit of a racket, as the government website says nothing about needing to mail it a certain way. I decided I'd get expedited tracking, which domestically is $12 for an envelope. But according to the post office, anything going to the government needs to use Xpresspost, which is $32. A bit of a heftier fee, innit.
 
When things are important, don't opt for the low prices.
 
With Canada Post, it's which way is less likely to be lost. That's why I tell people to never use SIN cards or financial documents for their voter's ID if doing it by special ballot (actually you shouldn't use those even in person).
 
The tax agency threw a grenade into my life, so I'm now overtaken by panic-fueled motivation to get through my backlog of to-dos and make yet another effort at trying to revive my editing business. Finally doing things is a rave, but everything else is a rant. I compromise by putting it here.
 
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Google is getting even worse for independent sites

HouseFresh’s search traffic has fallen by 91 percent.
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An article in HouseFresh, a site dedicated to air quality, hit a nerve in February: it outlined how independent publishers have been gradually bumped out of Google search results, with big media companies taking their place. Months later, the situation has only gotten more dire, according to a follow-up published by HouseFresh.
In February, HouseFresh managing editor Gisele Navarro called out publishers like BuzzFeed and Rolling Stone as some of the culprits that publish content about air purifiers despite a lack of expertise — but Google rewards these sites with high rankings all the same. The result is a search results page filled with SEO-first content, designed to do not much more than rank highly on Google.
In a piece published today, she says HouseFresh has “virtually disappeared” from search results: search traffic has decreased 91 percent in recent months, from around 4,000 visitors a day in October 2023 to 200 a day today.
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“This drop in Google search traffic has affected our income, our capacity to sustain our team, and our plans for the future,” Navarro writes. But HouseFresh seems to be going down swinging: the outlet promises to “uncover scam products” by reviewing the products that big publishers are recommending in product guides.

“And if Google doesn’t want to rank our reviews, we’ll use their own broken results against them to get our takedowns in front of people before they waste their money on an overpriced, overhyped product.”
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It's getting impossible to find ANY legitimate results when doing a search. I couldn't even find the login link for my own telecom last night when I needed to check something in my account.
 
Okay, I'm missing something. The snail made itself an umbrella, so suddenly the humans want to kill it, rather than help it?
 
So it was suicidal? :(
 
I think the snail was just building itself an umbrella. It didn't know that the umbrella made it look like a roach.

For me, the point of the cartoon is that humans (somewhat unaccountably) find some creatures cute and other creatures disgusting. Passers-by see a snail and they want to help protect it from potential danger. Passers-by see a roach and their first thought is to kill it.

Edit: strike all of that. The sniffle says that it is sad. So yes, it wants to commit suicide-by-pedestrian, but the first two pedestrians instead work to protect it. So it has to take an even more extreme measure to get someone to step on it.

(But it can, as above, count on humans to be cruel to the right kind of thing.)
 
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