Many?

Source?

I know some can have milk, but that’s an experiment in giving your cat the shits to find out if you’re right or not.

If they were bigger they’d get bitten off more often in all the fights.

In case anyone was wondering:

https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/376785/why-does-this-16th-century-illustration-show-a-cat-with-a-jetpack-on-its-back

Give the cat a badge and see what portal opens.

Is this AI generated? Bad title, background looks Sus.

Polydactylism applies to ears as well as toes for kitties.

TIL.

a) it’s a made up story about kids in general, not you or how you raise your kids. I don’t feed my kids junk food like that.

b) I’m surrounded by ADHD in my family. I am well aware of ADHD and many of its behavioral effects.

Works the same way with kids.

Buy food: kid gobbles it down.

Buy again next week: kid gobbles it down. “You like that food?” “Yes, it’s good!”

Buy bulk pack of food 2 weeks later to save some cash and not forgetting to buy it next time. Kid has one more, then hates it. Now have multiple packages of chocofruitysugarbomb oatmeal that nobody wants to eat sitting in the cupboard until it expires.

Repeat for the next food item.

Humans write the story. Best power of them all.

China is already essentially an authoritarian dictatorship. There’s no big leap to fascism for them, they just need to fetishize the military and act more nationalistic than they already do. They’re already prejudicial, blaming minorities within for all sorts of problems, attempting to control speech and thought, etc.

Hmm…a certain author has elves running a car racing team, but that’s not an rpg.

That’s not how it works in many places, and even here in the US. You absolutely can be detained and charged yet later exonerated. Some places when you kill someone you are by default charged with murder because you killed someone, your personal feelings don’t determine the laws elsewhere. The public doesn’t determine whether or not someone gets arrested, and yeah, if someone gets killed I expect the cops to hold the killer for a while to figure out what happened.

Amazing arc, like watching the last 120 years in the US compressed down to a couple decades. From rural to industrial powerhouse to the kids going “fuck this shit”.

What’s next?

People being worked to death with high cost of living. No time for families, no money to have kids. Capitalism is crushing itself to death.

They don’t get a choice, do they? And comparing a totalitarian kleptocracy to mandatory service is absurd.

Isn’t it rich that all the fat boomers with their broken knees get to force young people to go fight their wars and protect their fortunes

Welcome to most every modern war ever.

Mandatory service means forcing you to work at the point of a gun.

What?

Slavery isn’t always life-long

Oh. so that’s ok then? lookit you simultaneously saying slavery isn’t THAT bad, but OMG mandatory service is SLAVERY.

You’re full of shit, that whole reply is. Maybe some countries are extreme, but it doesn’t have to be like that, and it’s stupid to paint with such a broad brush about mandatory service. If someone’s country is pointing guns at citizens to pave a road, that’s a problem with the country, not the service.

Absolutely not. Being required to perform service instead of living in your mom’s basement, unemployed, getting stoned and drunk for a few years while you concoct hyperbolic statements about mandatory service is not slavery. You are not forced into service based on sex, color, religion, economic status (sort of, as explained), or used to raise someone else’s profits while you get nothing.

Service should be paid. You should be able to fill out a wish list for the jobs you want or might qualify for. You get to leave, uncontested, when you’ve completed service. That is not slavery.

I’m not entirely opposed to compulsory service, but it shouldn’t be just military. Civil service should be included as well, anything from internship at a town planning and engineering service, to litter pickup, to the military. I could already guess that socioeconomic factors would favor the well-connected and wealthy the soft jobs of working in the governor’s office vs being sent out to pick up trash along the highways, but maybe a lottery system would help prevent that. There’s always ways to game a system, though. Unfortunately.

Mandatory service isn’t the best answer, it’s just one answer.

The wealthy have certainly reinforced growth as the ultimate metric.