sense

Thank you 💙

@asparagoid Not reading all that but definitely a cat owner

People have argued cats VS dogs forever, but I've always been unimpressed with the arguments both sides put forward Cats are far superior I'll explain exactly why. Cats sit at the exact optimum of pet-ness because every attribute they have stops before it becomes a problem Cats possess the exact amount of intelligence that is useful in a pet. They can understand where to pee/poop. They can feed themselves. They can avoid danger and distinguish humans. They can learn to communicate a small number of specific needs That's enough. Beyond and under this, animal intelligence becomes progressively more useless and annoying For instance, parrots require a lot of active mental stimulation. They can learn language, hold grudges, but the counterpoint is that they can also be a complete nightmare or get depressed (literally plucking out their own feathers in an act of despair) without stimulation. Conversely, certain small animals are so insanely stupid that they pee everywhere, eat everything and cannot be trained Dogs are a little more intelligent than cats, but it's focussed in an extremely demanding way. Their intelligence makes them able to learn a huge about of tricks, but it also makes them demanding, stubborn, conscious of power dynamics. It gives them a desire for exploration, companionship and stimulation Cats are absolutely content exploring 1 house and garden forever without needing the owner to do anything or create a curriculum of daily activities and stimulation Yes, dogs are more affectionate than cats, but it's not at all obvious that maximizing this attribute makes an optimal pet. Dogs move past affection into dependence, which means they experience severe distress in your absence, need a great deal of reassurance and their mood is either made or broken by the presence and active attention of the owner. Anyone man who has dated a BPD woman understands the extreme inner suffering they experience when you temporarily focus attention away from them. Dogs are highly similar in this regard Cats occupy the exact point before affection becomes an essential duty. Yes they seek out physical touch, warmth, like you and want to be around you. But they can also tolerate hours or days of absolutely nothing. Actually, most cats are even content just glancing at you from across the room, without the need for you to direct your own attention at them. This is the optimal amount of love, without dependence, if you actually want to have a high functioning life with a pet, and aren't a loser who is making your pet the child you never had In terms of exercise, dog walks must become a permanent 1X or 2X daily task in a humans calendar regardless of the weather or how the human feels. If you work out the total amount of time wasted across a lifetime, it amounts to years of opportunity cost spent walking in bad weather and scooping up poop. Cats exercise themselves with zero time obligation. Easy win here Size wise, cats are optimally sized. They're large enough to feel substantial and warm when held with both hands, but small enough that they can be easily moved or thrown around. Pretty much all cats are in the same weight range, but even the fattest ones are easily handled The spread of dog sizes is way to wide-ranging. Some are way too small and ridiculous (handbag dogs, etc). Some can easily take the lives of unarmed men, and require a huge amount of control maintenance capable of attacking them/others or pulling them into oncoming traffic. Likewise, even relatively small dogs can be extremely strong and dangerous to women or children Evolution wise, another way to see this is that domestic cats found an optimal size and just stayed there. Dogs are still experimenting wildly, showing they haven't managed to optimize In terms of communication, animals need to communicate some needs, but overcommunicating is incredibly annoying. Cats effectively only communicate hunger and the desire to go outside, then stop when the request is fulfilled. Dogs usually relentlessly monitor and loudly respond a huge multitude of pointless events, like distant cars, footsteps, far away animals, random noises, people outside the door, etc. Pretty much all of this information was already known to the owner and having a 2nd external creature alert you about what's already happening is both totally pointless and in the case of barking, incredibly annoying For washing / hygiene, cats need nothing. They lick themselves regularly and if trained well, bury their own poop or cover it with litter. Dogs have to be taken outside, scooped up after and also require proper washes by humans. In essence, a cats body is its own responsibility, whereas a dog hands over basic self-care to the human, despite having even greater intelligence than a cat In terms of emotions and sociability, dogs are like resonant tuning forks reflecting the general atmosphere of the home or environment. Sometimes this is okay, but mostly it's annoying. If the owner of a dog is stressed, the dog will get stressed, necessitating the owner now inheriting the task of comforting the dog In the same situation with a cat, the cat usually either doesn't care, or just leaves the room. They rarely require any direct comfort due to others states around them, nor do they ever get truly destabilized unless you actively chase them nonstop or pursue them with a water bucket. Cats have their own emotional rhythm, which is extremely useful if you already have a full life or high stress. It also means they can be a direct comfort to you when it matters, rather than a needy dependent child If you look at individual traits, you could argue that dogs are "better" than cats. But when you look with specificity at these exact traits, you will find that they each create far more obligation for the owner. Whereas no cat trait ever exceeds the point that it becomes burdensome So cats aren't particularly high IQ, nor particularly obedient, nor that social, nor energetic, nor are they maxxed out on any particular trait. But what they do have is the optimal level of every single one of these traits, stopping right before the point it would become annoying. If you shifted any attribute up or down slightly, it would quickly become a problem But as they are, cats sit at the exact balance point of optimal pet-ness

@based16z The amounts in this are retarded but the idea is right

“Yes I would like a nice apartment or house near a cool city or town” “Ok that will be 8 million dollars” “Ok how much does the best job pay out of undergrad?l “Around $400k pre tax” “Ok so it would take me 40 years to get it if I spend no money?”

@MoneyPrinter0x It just still felt like too many people saying cashcat to a billy before this recent move.. hopefully just a little bit lower needed

with that being said imo spot > perps

tripled cashcat position @ 0.06 average nfa dyor

@tombogert @PaulTenorio discovery rights are idiotic and the mls sucks, let teams be individually owned and stop holding back soccer in the US

BREAKING: Inter Miami has signed Brazilian midfielder Casemiro BUT the league has opened an investigation over tampering charges in the process. LA Galaxy had Casemiro's discovery rights. MLS is now looking into if the team broke rules. w/ @PaulTenorio nytimes.com/athletic/74638…

@AdamSchefter Will it be able to host wc games though?

The Kansas City Chiefs have released the first renderings for their stadium that is set to open in 2031.

@CL207 has a lot to do w/ the fact that most of spain team plays together at club level as well, and came from barca academy, much stronger core than other teams have

spain squad may not seem star packed but many of them are press resiliant a simple turn that expose space in midfield, spiking cortisol of their opponents, demoralizing further press busquets was one of the best at this, high recommend watching his games and highlights

@DCinvestor This is like when parents of a 1 month old start giving parenting advice brother

after squatting and deadlifting for a minute it made me realize that most people in their daily non-lifting lives have no idea how to sit down, bend over to pick something up off of the floor, or squat down on the floor in a way which minimizes the risk of injury no one ever taught them how to do it the result is deteriorating mobility as you get older

Tomorrow.

someone just aped $1M in $CASHCAT in 5 txs what do they know?

@goodalexander 15 yr old boy mentality

What if the purpose in life is just to get rich, jacked and have fun without accumulating weird spiritual or political views in the process

@RobUsry they want to play with Messi not on your bum team buddy

Free marketing idea for MLS: More good soccer players allowed on rosters that aren't Inter Miami

@lichthauch “Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.” - C.S. Lewis

Parents who raise their kids on realistic content are performing a kind of soul circumcision without anesthesia, and they do it proudly. they buy the little books about sharing and recycling and how divorce is okay, sensible books, vetted books, books approved by some committee of childless phds who decided that dragons are psychologically destabilizing. and then this denuded little creature grows up and wanders out into a world that is absolutely crawling with dragons, real ones, humans who feed on humiliation, women who collect men like scalps, landlords, banks, algorithms, addictions, each one an ancient monster. and the kid has nothing, no stored narrative of the small weak thing prevailing, no memory of stones becoming bread or dead girls waking up. his parents gave him nutritious facts and he stands there starving in front of his first real giant with a stomach full of information. meanwhile some other kid whose grandmother filled him with absolute garbage, nonsense talking wolves, magic beans, boys made of wood, walks up to the same giant and something old activates in him. he knows somewhere deep in the meat of him that giants are a problem with a known solution, that has been handled before, by smaller people than him, with worse weapons

@tomhasideas generally if the mayor says something, its probably not true man

it’s a shame this stadium will put on this kind of show and render these kind of moments and memories only to be abandoned in relatively short order

@JensenHuangry lmao sorry brother, you got it

@JensenHuangry I like what youre saying you fat fuck

@SportingKC If being back means dropping 20m+ on a transfer im in

WE'RE BACK THIS WEEK 🤩

@inversebrah Sunday

did vlad say someting bad

@CL207 I mean.. fifa is corrupt and soccer is the sport with the most notorious reffing scandals.. so it’s not that crazy tbh

how is there so many fifa truthers now that finds a frame of the most ridiculous thing possible and just be like "yah its totally rigged" is this some government ops testing their algo strength or what