Burgerville isn’t even state wide in Oregon. They are headquartered in Vancouver, WA and only go as far south as Albany.

“Ghost Cat”. It’s another name for mountain lion.

Rough outline, a woman loses her husband to violence and takes their young son to a more rural community to get away from the urban environment which has too many ghosts and memories.

Partial inspiration:

https://youtu.be/mzKEZZYTCnY

She settles into the small town, in an old house that needs work, but she needs the work to put her mind on other things. Lots of quirky locals offer advice, want all up in her business, and she’s polite but shuts them down.

Working on the house, a large, ropy, brown tail dangles from a tree branch outside the window and she’s startled to see a full grown-ass cougar just hanging out. Apparently it liked the place when it was abandoned and sees no need to move on.

She doesn’t know what to do, and throws a home made cheese ball at it, a welcome gift from one of the quirky locals. She didn’t really want the thing, or know what to do with it. The cat bats it out of the air and carries it off.

So now, she didn’t really want to talk to the locals, but has to. She wants to build a fence to keep the cat out.

She has part of it in place, and the cat leaps over it without any trouble at all. The fence wasn’t complete, it could have gone around the fence, it jumped it because it could.

Then, the town erupts. A big cat has been killing livestock at nearby farms, everyone is up in arms and they blame her for moving into the old abandoned house and “stirring up trouble.”

Locals go on a literal torch weilding mob rampage to kill the cat causing all the damage, and they kill one, so everyone thinks the problem is resolved.

But the color on this one isn’t quite… right, is it? And it’s bigger, a male, she’s certain the one by her house was female.

She gets home, pretty much revolted by the mob action, and finds an impossibly small cougar cub, asleep on her porch.

Depends on the library…

https://aspace.library.jhu.edu/repositories/3/resources/1419

Oh, shit, there was a Shrek 4?

Saw it today, such a fun, likeable film… bonus: Malcolm McDowell as the heavy… Had no idea going in.

Aerial roots. Your cactus might think it’s not getting enough sunlight:

https://www.torontomastergardeners.ca/askagardener/strange-growths-on-my-cactus-plant/#:~:text=Low light can cause the,find more water or nutrients.

Removed, Islamophobia.

Bizarrely incorrect information. Removed.

Removed, civility.

Removed, civility.

Removrd, civility.

Interesting in that, flipping it around, there doesn’t appear to be another country with as large a disparity.

Armenia is #1 with 55% women:

https://www.worldatlas.com/society/10-countries-where-women-far-outnumber-men.html

They really started going insane in the 90s with the whole “Hillary Clinton murdered Vince Foster” thing, and it accelerated with the completely ignorant “Tea Party” movement in the 2010s.

What we’re seeing now is just the logical conclusion of that insanity.

As the scale increases, it merits further discussion.

Searching “hajj” and sorting by new, the stories went 14 dead, then 300, then 550, then “hundreds” and now over 1,000.

But it’s not exactly the same story each time.

It would be like saying we shouldn’t allow re-posts every time Israel kills innocent Palestinians.

Reported as a duplicate, but I’m not seeing the original copy. Searched “1,000”, sorted by new, this is the only one I see.

Hot tub:

Kind of led me down a rabbit hole…

Looks like there’s a 3 volume DVD set of the Fleischer Studios cartoons + the Famous s Studios cartoons all in black and white.

Then there’s a 3 volume Blu Ray set of the Famous Studios color cartoons running to the end of the 40s.

So with 6 sets you get all the original Popeye shorts from 1933 to 1949(!)

Oh, well that’s DIFFERENT!

A 6th day at 40% pay? Yeah, that’s a big “no.”

OTOH… a 40 hour week, for the same pay, spread across 6 days wouldn’t be awful.

Mon - 7 hours.
Tue - 7 hours.
Wed - 7 hours.
Thur - 7 hours.
Fri - 6 hours.
Sat - 6 hours.

Or however you want to arrange it:

Mon - 5 hours.
Tue - 5 hours.
Wed - 7 hours.
Thur - 7 hours.
Fri - 8 hours.
Sat - 8 hours.

Mon - 6 hours.
Tue - 6 hours.
Wed - 6 hours.
Thur - 6 hours.
Fri - 8 hours.
Sat - 8 hours.