We had a cat when I was in high school named Clyde. Great indoor/outdoor cat. Every night when my mom wanted him to come home she would open the front door, step out onto the porch and yell, “Where’s My Pussy!” and "Here Puss Puss Pussy! Only neighbors semi-close by were a sweet old couple who thought that was hilarious.
“We’re gonna need a bigger boat”
The momma lion making the decision to walk away and leave her paralyzed cub behind. Having him crawl after her, crying in despair was heart-wrenching
Destroy every factory making glue traps, every fur farm, Palantir, NGO group and the like and maybe tunneling through K Street in DC at high speed
Kinda both: Boxer briefs
We need many more Luigis (allegedly)
Maybe not full-on “cry” but I have gotten teary-eyed more than a few times over the decades when a favorite (and unarguably world-class) musician dies. Eddie Van Halen, Neil Peart and Jeff Beck come to mind right off the bat
Just wondering if this can do something that VLC cannot
…yet
The trump family grifters and all their sycophantic (lookin’ at you Lindsay Graham) enablers
David Gilmour (hopefully with a quick jam session as dessert)
It is not, at all, eugenics. Nothing in my unpopular opinion has anything to do with genetic traits
I laid out some bare minimums: knowledge about how to take care of and raise a healthy human child and the financial means to do so.
Eugenics is trying to erase particular traits from a genome which is not, at all, what I stated in my unpopular opinion. I just would like people who are wanting (or whoopsing) a child into the world to have the bare minimum knowledge and tools to do the job “correctly.”
I am not worried about helping people poop better
But you can start them off on the right foot by making sure they have the knowledge and the means to do the job correctly
Becoming a parent is not a right, it is a privilege (I guess). You need a license to get married, drive, hunt or fish, your dog needs one. There should be some sort of class and background check you must pass before being allowed to procreate. Just the basics like: this is the level of care and support this small helpless mammal needs to be healthy and grow to maturity. This is how much, minimum, that quality upbringing will cost and do you meet that bare minimum level of competence and income to raise a healthy baby.
I carry a second phone with nothing on it but pictures taken with my “real” phone and some GPS/Travel apps to look “legit.” Some might think it a bit of a PITA but I bulk edit the EXIF data of photos to say they were taken with the “decoy” phone before transferring them over. Granted, I only cross the border between US/Canada and US/Mexico and turn off and hide my “real” phone before entering the border queue. It has only been an issue once and they took the decoy away for all of 15 minutes while I waited in my truck and then brought it back and said “Thank you for your cooperation, have a nice day” and then I immediately factory reset then wiped it again and installed LineageOS to clear any spyware they might have put on it.
The salmon seasons on the US West coast have been essentially non-existent for a couple of years. The Abalone season has been suspended for over 5 years. Both of those meats are absolutely amazing, especially when you prepare and eat them the day you caught them. I miss those two the most.