Not if cats are non native to that environment and (often) don’t eat their kill. Bird killing is fun for cats, regardless of ownership or hunger

Did you do the evil thing and insist that, because it fell down, it was free per the advertisements conditions?

I can never bring myself to call out the fast food worker on a policy like that, like the McDonald’s ‘window to food in 30 seconds’ nonsense they pull out sometimes or the ‘if we didn’t ask you about wanting fries, get free French fries’ shit. Don’t make customers into inspectors/watch dogs.

It’s happened so long in my life that I’m mostly unfazed. The ice cream is thick and the cup they use holds it well to the sides so it can stay upside down (unless the machine mixed it wrong, but I’ve never seen it fall) for a few seconds before any real budging.

Still don’t like it, though

God I tried SO HARD to like that book. Liked the show growing up because Legend of The Seeker is campy and weirdly ABC channel sexy (blond leather ladies touching you with Pain Dildos, essentially) but it was just trash.

The main character, by all means, should be the least knowledgeable and probably the least ‘wise’ character, but in comes Richard educating the Men of Mud on proper government structures and how their primitive tribal society was stupid and the way they made decisions was dumb.

And you’re right, don’t get me started on the confessors and how anyone with eyes wants to get bent over the table by the protagonist within minutes of meeting him.

…still like the shitty CW show though.

Please detail me a protest that disrupts the rich that cannot be cleaned up by the Rich’s employees/servants/serfs

Yeah I’m reeling at the phrase ‘MAGA lesbians’. Just a wild concept that, unfortunately, doesn’t surprise me like it used to. My dad went from a pro-union man who moved out of West Virginia and despised the coal mines and their benefactors to sucking MAGA hose water by the gallon. Used to roll his eyes at trickle down economics and called my mother a moron for voting for Bush.

I wish you the best and hope the cult ends with a peaceful and disappointing fizzle (and anyone in charge/positions of power or authority gets the old testament treatment they’ve been begging for others) and that everyone gets their loved ones back that want them back

Thank you for this comparison. That’s a fun one and one that’s made a little more ‘subtle’ in the US if only because of how common that language is among the populace in regions and how pervasive protestantism is in advertising/messaging.

It keeps the naturally predated-upon Sushi safe from the, although diminutive, aggressive Wasabi who’s, known for a solitary nature when in the wild.

…can we talk about Kidneyfoot Jenny, or do you think they were just trying to differentiate between her and Mexican Jennie?

But why do you despise it? I’ve heard criticism for Americans taking ‘American’ when there are many many more countries in The Americas and have yet to see the term above until now, but it doesn’t bother me any.

Why is it that if he’s a dumb young 20 he can’t gain any intelligence? Why is the line I keep seeing from people “well he didn’t know at the time, and that’s damning enough”, like, do you know anyone who has ever signed up for the military at 18-25 to bd ‘smart’ or informed?

Thank you for this. I gave it a good (confusing) read, they could stand to type in less capitals.

I can see the regulations outlined, but not that he was turned away for it being a known nazi symbol or anything based on that description, it sounds like he got a tattoo without clearing it or reporting it on his paperwork and chose not to appeal, based on his words there in the reddit post.

I appreciate you finding that for me, it was hard to parse all the google garbage

Thanks anyway! Yeah military jargon and acronyms out the ass go hand in hand and any manager that’s a vet I’ve worked for just tosses them around like ‘sentence enhancers’.

If you know about MARADMIN, can you elaborate on what he means? I looked it up and understand it as a kind of code of conduct, but don’t see what changed in 2007, just that he said a USMC based tattoo was what prevented him.

Can you give a source on that or a general direction on where to look? I’ve heard about the tattoo and looked into it during the initial controversy and did not find that information at the time.

I disagree.

Low millions, like your net worth in your 60s when you own a home, potentially two cars, and a retirement fund. 1-4 million? Sure, not rich, well off by most standards.

Closing in on thay double digit millions? Yeah you’re rich. Hell, in most of the US, having a net worth of 7 million dollars is the ‘eccentric millionaire’ level for most of rural America.

I don’t know, psychopathic tendencies run all over the Reynolds family.

Lack of empathy, a pattern of manipulating others, persistent antisocial behaviors (the DENNIS system, most of the gang’s plans), an innate immunity to stress (like when he just willed his stress away in the ‘mental health day’ episode)

Man’s a psychopath

What got me through the rat sudies in college was three things my statistics professor (who ran the rat studies) telling me three things.

They have better Healthcare than you do. They have to be healthy and cared for and all the shots and vet visits possible

Like you said, they do get born for this and are ethically killed

Their life use has to be calculated, scrutinized, debated, and approved by boards designed to keep the horrors of unchecked science at bay. If you want rats to do cocaine, you’ll need 30 pages of explanations and forms and approved methodology and proposed scientific benefit, and then they decide if it’s worthy or not. Then when you’re done, if ANYTHING goes wrong with those rats it has to be documented and explained and accepted or you’ve just got an absolute rain of hell falling on your tenure and future prospects in animal testing.

In this instance they were looking into the concept of learned helplessness, where they taught ‘nothing can be done to fix your situation’ to one group, and then removed the obstacle stopping them from leaving the shocking room, and found that, after they’d learned helplessness, they were not inclined to seek the not-shocking floor even if the door was wide open for them to move.

It’s sad, and I genuinely don’t know of the ethics behind the study, but the research itself was sound and led to further studies attempting to see if this effect applies more generally to other animals. Behavior is important to understand and study, and watching the little lab mice get PTSD in college was not a fun day, and still makes me sad (i adopted two rats, after) but the tests one can run on lab mice with PTSD is really useful for understanding the human brain.

We don’t ‘punish and make an example’ out of children in civilized society.

We educate them, allow for reform. Until the child has a mostly formed prefrontal cortex, they shouldn’t receive ‘adult’ type consequences. They literally are not developed enough mentally to grasp all of life’s rights and wrongs. That’s not to say they don’t have a gauge of morality, or some concept of what they think Right is, it’s just not all the way fleshed out and their poor stupid neuron-developing brain doesn’t fire the way it’s going to later in life.