I’ve always had a lot of success with holding out my hand towards the cat, palm down, limp, and allowing the cat to inspect it in their own time.

I’ve heard this is also a technique from experts, but I just found it when we had a cat. It seems to work on dogs too.

It’s non-threatening, and it doesn’t put any pressure on them for a response. Just get it close enough to be just outside their personal space. If they stretch their nose towards it to sniff, you can bring it closer, and then you may just get the coveted nose bump and cheek nuzzle.

You may also get the, “what are you doing, you freak, leave me alone” body language, in which case you just have to wait and try again later.

Come brother, let us cast our bond deep in the crucible of suffering! Oh what sweet ecstasy; the intoxicating joy of combat!

Eyes ward off predators because they make the creature look like a big predator, so that’s very much the point of those markings.

Or most people who do this job can’t afford to get deliveries themselves so they never encounter the problem themselves, and they’re not paid enough to actually care about it. Their energy is spent thinking about getting to the next delivery, not doing each one perfectly.

Just share an image next time, it makes your point much better:

Okay, I think I can see it, sorry. I was tired last night.

If there’s a stand that I can’t see then yeah, I guess I misunderstood. But if not then it would be taking some of the weight. That in itself might not be a huge issue until someone or something accidentally puts undue force on the deck. It’s like looking at a glass on the edge of a table. It’s not broken now, but I’m gonna move it away.

Yes, I know that. And it’s supporting the deck by the USB port, so essentially holding the whole thing up by a handful of small solder joints on a PCB, which if they break will pretty much brick the entire thing.

I don’t know what pointing out the adaptor is supposed to change about this situation.

Cute kitty but the angle of that USB adaptor is giving me anxiety. Like you make your own choices but that USB port is how you keep the thing alive and it’s being propped up on it.

Try to see it once my wa-hay-ay.

I absolutely can hear her purring, omg. Of course I had to turn up the volume all the way and hold the phone up to my ear, but I heard it ^_^

LAP and LUNCH DESTROYED by fierce BEAST (gone HUNGIE) (not clickbait)

Huh, I actually didn’t know this was a thing, I just noticed that it works.

And a polite greeting is pretty simple. I just offer my hand limp and palm down for a sniff. If you get a nuzzle then it’s petting time, baby.

Come now, Vivian, don’t be like that.

licks arsehole

Yes, and they go pretty hard at it, and do you know whose side the gendarmes are on when people strike? There’s a reason workers’ unions don’t have solidarity with cops’ unions.

Frankly it’s pretty ballsy for French cops to protest anything given they rely on the protection of the state against the people who hate them. I guess they think all the tourists will dampen the chances of an uprising, so they’re using them as cover.

So therefore the community rallied around and pelted rocks while the fire-fighters set themselves on fire and charged headlong at them? Because the French know how to treat the cops.

I had to do something to heal the psychic wounds I got from trying to read this.

Okay, well that’s actually quite a simple summary, and would’ve fit a headline quite nicely, I appreciate it. I have no idea why this article is so infuriatingly obtuse.

Okay, see this actually makes sense of this - it’s a deeply politicised back & forth of people running smear campaigns on one another, and they’re arguing over whether either was a justifiable smear, and this article is so breathlessly relating the latest tidbits that it fails to inform the reader of any of the context in a way that can be followed.

Also as I understand it the issue she was effectively forced to resign over was the plagiarism one, not the antisemitism one.

You said she failed to say it was a “violation of school policy”. After reading into this issue, I can see a number of right wing publications wording it in this exact same way, but that wasn’t the question she was answering.

She wasn’t asked whether it violated school policy in general - if Harvard has a policy against hate speech then surely calling for genocide is against it - but whether it violated the policy against bullying and harrassment in specific. That’s a different question.

The nuance that is left out here, which both women I saw questioned attempted to explain before being shouted down by the Republican asker, is that harrassment is a set of actions, not words. If someone were to approach a specific person and aggressively say “good morning” every morning for a period of time, that could be harrassment. If someone were to call for genocide in the privacy of their own dorm room amongst other people who shared their awful beliefs, that would not be harrassment or bullying of anyone because no person in particular is being targetted by those words in particular. It’s certainly hate speech, but it’s not harrassment. If you said it to someone’s face, particularly a Jewish person, that could easily be bullying and harrassment.

In other words, it very much depends on the situation, which was exactly their answer.

Hence the overly specific question of whether it is against the harrassment policy gets transmuted into the much more general question of whether it violates any policy, and they can use this to claim she said something she didn’t. It sounds like the Republican who was aggressively grilling them on this issue chose her words very carefully to target this ambiguity so that it could be misrepresented. Similar to the plagiarism accusations, it’s not like they give two shits when their side is guilty of it, so they’ll happily confuse the issue in order to weaponise it against their opponents.