I live in a gated community where everybody is a dog owner, they all roam free most of the time. It’s pretty awesome. We also have a whatsapp group with all neighbours, so when we want to know where they are, all it takes is a quick message into the group and the current food dispenser of choice will let us know.

The best thing about that is that we can also just travel for a week or two without bothering. Our dog prefers to sleep in our house, so the next door neighbor will open the door at night & then let her do her thing the next morning.

I don’t think I ever had popcorn around my cats, will give it a try. Don’t have a microwave though, but I’ll just pop some kernels in the pan.

My cat hunts mice and birds, occasionally snakes and lizards, and corn. She’ll murder a whole cob.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/17/politics/how-to-spell-volodymyr-zelenskyy/index.html

If the title is a question, the answer is no.

They are attacking civilian vessels. They do fuck all to stop genocide.

I think you’re doing pretty well in that regard without outside help.

This is not a “China bad” article. You might want to read it, for a change.

That keeps getting cited in western media, but it’s really not the case. The obsession with bloodlines is true; however it is illegal here (I live in China, my wife is Chinese) to reveal the gender prior to birth; and punished severely. It’s still possible to find a doctor and bribe them, however the risk is so high that not many are able to pay up. I’ve heard numbers of up to 30k USD (!) going around (and that’s in today’s money), which is easily 2-3x the annual salary of a local worker.

So while the top ~10% or something could have afforded it, it was in fact much easier to just have a second kid and just hide it with some relatives in a village who’d pretend it was theirs. All the good it did to enforce the one child policy was to have a ton of unaccounted offspring running around in the countryside.

Current statistics show that 48.99% of Chinese are female vs. 51.01% male, while the global statistic is 50.49% male vs. 49.51% female. (That’s the global figure including China, so it’s a bit distorted, but not by a huge margin).

TL;DR: While there are a bit fewer women in China than the global average, it’s not really a relevant concern.

My condolences.