mriswith

Yeah, I was more referencing how cats basically showed up and were all "become more domestic, and we'll move in and keep you safer".

For reference, you can get from the center of town to the other side of the border in about an hour on a bike.

Cats as well.

If you store grain you get mice/rats, that's true even today(don't eat raw flour), which leads to cats.

Humans realized that fewer mice means more grain and left cats alone. But one theory is that families who let the cats hang around their home more had fewer instances of diseases carried by rodents, which further led humans to want cats to be around.

Jason, is that you?

Some sort of hybrid system. On a large scale it's almost impossible to go full communism, capitalism, etc. without the minor flaws compounding and causing issues.

So don’t ever tell self-diagnosed people they don’t know how their own body works.

And that's where you lost people.

Stop bringing up facts and figures, I have wordly experience!

-The average conservative voter

I'm guessing you've never look inside a physical newspaper before.

It's part of a series of articles called "Kindness of strangers". Specifically highlighting interesting events where someone was helped and that changed their outlook on life, but isn't some major event.

Here are some of the other headlines:

• a woman lay on the road beside me, holding my hand until the ambulance came

• I pulled over in hysterics – then a passing driver saved me from the spider

• when my cat died, my dance class pooled their money for a thoughtful gift

Sad fact: American police training involves teaching them to shout "drop the weapon" or similar after they shoot someone. Specifically because it sticks in the mind of witnesses and makes it easier to get away with shooting unarmed suspects.

I don't want to go all conspiracy theorist, but there seems to have been a serious push to villify Signal over the last year or so.

If Musk fully crosses Trump, I wouldn't be surprised if suddenly starlink and spacex were labeled as threats to national security.

^Alita

Although an Akira crossover with Alita could be fun.