well there you go, someone was wrong about what cats need to be happy.

You’d think a vet would be more worried about all the heal problems they pick up outside but I suppose it’s more work for them if mr fluffypaws needs surgery or whatever.

Balls vs literally thousands of wildlife. What a hard decision?

Letting a desexed cat roam is literally hatred for this land. Do you want more feral cats? desex pets, it’s again basic responsibility.

I guess you’re not able to care for cats then?

why is their mood worth more than all the wildlife they kill or terrorise?

Benefits for cats: No FIV infections, no car injuries, safe temperatures, no fights, no parasites.

Benefits for wildlife: no murder, fewer vectors, no loss of habitat to cats

Benefits for community: no roaming cats triggering sensor lights/setting off other pets/damaging property with claws, no toxo transmission, no digging up poo while gardening/losing plants to cat piss

Cons to cats: Keepers must provide entertainment

Cons to keepers: Exercise the level of basic responsibility every other keeper of pets is expected to, or parent with children.

Issue: Controversial???

Is that from the swan princess or something? I feel like I recognise that character from one of the films my little sis watched on repeat when like 8.

Some carnists are so awful they can’t even be satisfied with their almost complete hegemony. They have to come into our spaces to explain why we’re actually dumb dumbs who changed huge portions of our lives and isolated ourselves socially without really thinking the basics through.

Fuck the fucking fuckers. Swearing as much a part of human communication as cadence is.

Puritans can fuck themselves with a pineapple. It’s as ridiculous as finding full stops offensive and insisting the rest of the world bow to them by using double commas or something.

it’s just such a pathetically juvenile way to describe politics. “mr big punches women in face man going to tackle mr hires assassins brutal dictator of maybe the third most powerful country in the world man”. Uh huh, I bet he is. As we all know politics is about how much testosterone you can smear from your glands on each other while wrestling and not a largely redundant performing into being of relationships between people orchestrated by thousands.

It makes me think of the awful time when Australian news became obsessed with “shirtfronted”. Shit like this makes a little piece of my brain die every time I remember it.

The real jokes were the posts we made along the way.

whack. I usually only see that opinion in usaians and teenaged to early twenties boys who’ve never been in trouble and needed help.

You from the usa?

Maybe my post is a joke. Maybe you’re a joke.

Italian nationalism around food had fascit roots. It’s fictional and stupid. Grow up.

No. Like this ideology of putting yourself first is a bit stupid. you can’t come up with univeral rules (at least ones that can be expressed in a small picture) for human interaction.

If you feel anxious but your family member needs a lift out of a sketchy party then yeah, you’re a dick and should feel guilty for that. If you would have debilitating panic attacks while driving maybe not, but you’re also shit if you don’t call a taxi or something. We have obligations to each other. “we live in a society”

it’s a version of field theory where the rules aren’t all properly explained?

Literally lol, that’s the funniest thing I’ve heard in a few days. I do remember studying physics and getting a bit like “ok but wtf are numbers cause this is a mess?” and studying sets in my own time, then a bit of field theory and going “Oh yes, this actually makes sense now” although I was only ever at the level of amateur dabbler.

I burned out of a physics PhD (funniest thing I’ve heard that referred to is “I have a post mortem in X”) but even by the time I started it I just wished I could go back and choose pure maths, it’s not like there are jobs for physics anyway :P (unless you want to make bankers richer, or build weapons which both indelibly mar the soul). Algebraic topology is something I will understand one day. I just need more time, and to move closer to a uni. Even if I’m like 70 and wasting state money I’m gonna study it some day.

Riemann spheres are awesome, I just want to be careful with my language in a space where people don’t even know what a field is, generally.

Yeah it’s reasonable, I guess I don’t want people just thoughtstopping at “you can’t divide by zero” and never thinking there’s anything deeper to it instead of maybe going “well, what is division by zero why can you do it sometimes and not other times? why do we sometimes pretend we can do it in systems where we can’t?”. At the end of the day I think we’re on the same side of “maths is cool and people should learn more of it’s nuances” but worry about people taking different things from the same trivial remark haha.

Good luck on getting back to it! I hope you do better than me at your studies. It’s such a fun little world of order and puzzles.

Ok I suppose that’s fair, most people probably are taking division as meaning in the sense it applies in what is it even called, default maths? real analysis or whatever, and while people call the operation division in other systems it’s sort of a homophone for a rather different thing that shares characteristics.

People should still learn about the Riemann sphere though and it’s a sensible operation under that. We do it all the time in quantum shit mwahahahaha.

mr zero is sometimes cool but often a bit of a drama llama. Seems to have difficulty letting go, something I’m so no users of this instance share ;).

I wasn’t talking about limits. Read the stuff about extended real lines etc. There are some (2 or 3? idk not many) systems where we do define 1/0 as infinity.

I do think your right in the framework of ring theory though, but I haven’t done much of that. It’s a framework for analysing a lot of algebra and the maths we usually do but I don’t think it’s the universal truth of all mathematics which is possible. Am I wrong there?

Haha yeah… I’ve never been diagnosed but a number of psychs have been like “have you thought about assessment?”. Idk what it would change, people are difficult and something said with a smile and an earnestness becomes cold hostility rendered in graceless machine fonts.

And yeah I would agree, mobs can do horrific things but public humiliation is a powerful force for social cohesion.

I often feel (flippantly, this isn’t my ideal) that a day in stocks would probably be better for non violent antisocial behaviour than the fuck up life -> torturous confinement -> perpetually marked pipeline most “enlightened” justice systems do :p