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  • I agree. However, they do make kid safety stuff that prevents drawers from being opened, which might prevent this. Problem with cats is that you won’t know you need something until after the first time this happens.

    The one we like is basically two pieces of plastic secured to a surface using command strips with a ratcheting strip connecting them. Not too expensive, removable, no holes left behind, easy to install and use.



  • Some of my women friends have shared that they definitely felt a need/pang/drive to have kids. Not all of them listened based on the other things they decided to do with their lives or their bodies’ ability, but it doesn’t mean the feeling isn’t there. I wouldn’t conclude from my anecdotal information that that drive extends to all women, but I would guess that many women feel it given how prevalent the discussion is.

    The choice of whether to have kids at all is important, but doesn’t rule out the presence of some evolutionary biological drive. Although, it’s possible it’s not some genetic instinct and is instead some cultural thing that becomes more powerful during certain hormonal shifts that occur across a woman’s life cycle. I’ve never studied such things, but I’m open to different possibilities.


  • ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.worldtocats@lemmy.worldTrue
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    15 days ago

    My kids often don’t listen, struggle with lying, have no regard for consent of others or personal property, and a host of other issues. Expressing love is not one of them. My kids (still young) show me they love me (and my wife) nearly continuously. The rest they’re learning.


  • My neighbor’s cat is mostly deaf. Because of this, he is so loud when he meows. When he’s outside, we occasionally hear him meowing. He’s seeing who will come and entertain him. The first time I heard it, I went to make sure he was okay. He was just chilling. He didn’t want me to pet him, but he also didn’t want me to leave.





  • I’m replying regardless of what I do or don’t believe just to engage with the premise.

    If Jesus is the son of God and Heaven exists, he might do it to help us. He went through it once to help us. This time at least he’d know what he was getting himself into. If we are using the Buddy Christ universe from Dogma, the first time he only learned of what was to happen shortly before it did and those years were a struggle for him and went undocumented. Now he would have 2000 years to prepare for it. Regardless, if your torture and murder could makes lives better and save the souls of millions or billions, you might consider it. We’re told he did once. The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.


  • I was young, white, and male with a good support system. So, my life was close to best case scenario. I was too young to vote in 2000, but I voted against him in 2004. I was naive to the importance of elections outside of the general election. I’m not sure why my parents didn’t educate us more on that. My kids are more than a decade from voting and we are already discussing how we look up information to inform our votes. We vote in every election and we get the kids excited about it (they love the voted stickers!).