I think some of them like to be handled a little rougher than we give them credit for, in short bursts at least. Our cat always gets ecstatic if I’m a little rough while scratching his head

Vance wants sick kids to die.

Show me anything Greene has done to benefit the people she’s harmed. Talk is cheap.

Overturning Citizens United would go a long way.

Yes, but at least a septic system is underground and functioning most of the time. They’re living with it literally just pumped outdoors. It’s basically an automated chamber pot that’s getting dumped outside.

Is that its parietal eye visible?? Cool pic!

Now he’s got to do more polygraphs to figure out who leaked about the polygraphs. And then he’ll have to do more polygraphs after someone leaks that he ordered a second round of polygraphs. Endless polygraph cycle.

I’m confused why people read my pessimism as saying don’t vote

Because American politics have become so extreme that simply expressing that there are problems with a candidate or party that need to be addressed means you actually support the other candidate. Most of the time there is fuck all you can do to convince partisans you’re not a conservative even when you’re criticizing from the left.

Can you tell I love it here?! 😒

Stationary is so beautiful until I try to do something with it, then it becomes a child’s scribblings! Let’s not speak of what happened with the washi tape…

Not meeting arbitrary goals for the sake of it is fine, but personally I’m uncomfortable with not wanting to accomplish or do anything. It doesn’t have to be constantly, and I don’t have any illusions about anything I do being permanent or renowned, but I at least want to try to make a difference for the people and things that matter to me.

20 years pass without accomplishing anything

Shit.

Birb flavored

That focuses on predation without examining the threat to native wildcats through hybridization, territorial competition, and disease transmission from domestic cats, which the IUCN cites as risks to wildcat species. If no outdoor cat ever killed another prey animal again, that still wouldn’t solve the threats they pose to wildcat species.

housecats and African/Eurasian wildcats aren’t separate species.

They absolutely are, I’m not really sure what you’re talking about. Domestic cat: Felis catus, European wildcat: F. silvestris, and African wildcat: F. lybica. Hybridization with pets risks their genetic diversity, outcompetition, and disease transmission: https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/60354712/50652361#threats

the UK where cats have been around longer than humans

Cats entered the UK around the same time humans did, via Doggerland during the Holocene. It should also be noted again that this is the European wildcat (specifically the Scottish wildcat subspecies), not domesticated cats, which descend from African wildcats. Domesticated cats only reached Europe a couple of thousand years ago. Their population density in comparison to wildcats and the advantage they have in access to human spaces and wild spaces means they reproduce more, which is part of why the Scottish wildcat is critically endangered.

It’s fine to have cats, it’s not fine to just invent facts about how they don’t actually harm the environment.

I’m sure it’s not the way the manifest is meant but as I see it: You can either have no army, which would be nice but unfortunately that’s not how this world functions.

Costa Rica says hello.

The major part of the soldiers are people with normal lives waiting for them after finishing their duty. Do you think those people would engage in a meaningless war? Or turn against their own if someone like Trump wants them to?

Are we memory holing that the National Guard was deployed against multiple US cities within the past year?

I’m not reading all that because it’s clearly written by someone who has completely forgotten what grass looks like, but this bit:

National service should be a universal duty

Go to hell, you can throw me in jail before I do anything to help the military.

Chattanooga is a better tourist place to visit if you must go to TN, IMO.

Because democratic voters are the ones that care about it.

I wonder what the AI use policy on writing those essays was? Did the students know when they signed up that AI would be affecting their GPA?

If anything he’s worse, because he believes in nothing and will sell you down the river the second the tide turns.