Chapo0114

life will beat the egotism out of you

I've met way too many mediocre (mostly)white (mainly)men who think they know everything to believe that.

I heard (could be mistaken) that there is a group in Texas that has shown up, armed, several times when tent cities were going to be torn down and averted their distruction, at least temporarily. Should def be a nationwide movement, but there would need to be a way to identify when the pigs were going to roll in.

Wow, I'm taken aback at a person actually coming onto the internet with an open mind. Good on you stranger, you're kinda my hero.

The first time I realized I was, for lack of a better word, different than the people I grew up around is when one of my high school buddies just casually said we should "just glass the middle east and get it over with". Glassing is a term we got from Halo which means to incinerate an area with such a high heat the surface turns to glass. His proposed method was obviously nuclear bombs.

No one else thought it was an outlandish thing to say, much less a truly abhorrent one.

My cats origin:

1. A momma cat showed up pregnant and had her kittens under the trailer we were living in. The rest of her kittens disappeared, and she was a feral, but we took the remaining kitten in, our bestest baby boy.

2. Adopted from shelter so #1 would have a friend. It didn't work, he only likes humans lmao. Fortunately for her, a few months later...

3. We heard what we thought was a injured bird outside our apartment in the middle of the night. Turned out to be an oil covered baby kitten. She was adopted by #2 :)

Not on his whims though, he can't just go outside alone. And before we had a yard it was on leash only, which is something most people could do if their cat did show antsy behavior.

I have three cats. Only one ever showed interest in outside, so we got him a harness and leash. He loves it, the best treat in the world. Now we live somewhere with a fenced in back yard, so we let him out with no leash on supervised play times, and one of his sisters has shown an interest so she comes with us into the yard. When we can't be with them as supervision, they stay inside. Not so different from a small child.

We also play with them all daily and are currently building an elaborate climbing wall to keep them entertained better during the sweltering heat of summer. At no occasion do they need the opportunity to murder in order to be happy.

I'm disengaging.

Curious, as the person who you were originally responding to deleted their comment. Is that per year or a one time expenditure?

Also, 36k is still literally 44-80% higher than your initial claim.

Apes of the State have a cool sound, will have to dig more into them.

Data instead of anecdotes?