It's common for many foreigners to change their name when registering in the U.S.

Asians have completely new names because Americans can't pronounce their native names.

I think so many films and books describe the rise of fascism and authoritarianism because it's inevitable in a capitalistic society.

Nothing magically appears. It all starts somewhere and grows.

The signs have been there for a very long time.

I don't see any downvoted posts in your history except a double post in comics.

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Thanks for the advice. I keep worrying about it so it's best I just take him in.

It's definitely more prominent on the right side. Like maybe 2x the size as the left.

Maybe it's sort of "hiding " on a fatty area and making me think it's just fat. But it's an abscess or something.

The injury he had was a pretty nasty bite. It's actually why I took him in. He was half starved and had a big gushing wound on his backside and it was still pretty cold out. So I felt like I had no choice. That he wouldn't make it outside.

Fur didn't grow back over the wound area for a pretty long time. Maybe 5 months.

I managed to get a better photo of this mysterious lump. After he stood up it disappeared.

I feel like I'm being gaslite by it. It's there. Gone. Was it really there. ?

I still think there is something weird going on. I'll have to take him in and have him checked.

When he had that teeth cleaning 2 weeks ago they also took X-rays of his chest because he has some chronic breathing issue that we haven't figured out yet.

So I'm also still following up on that issue. Might be nasal polyps or something.

But they said his heart and lungs looked good. Idk if this area was in the X-ray or not. Can't hurt to ask. 🤷

Quality of life is important to me. Even if it's something untreatable, there are always things you can do to make the cat more comfortable and reduce pain. And prepare yourself for euthanasia if it comes to it. So I agree it's still worth knowing. Even if it's something incurable.

I mean Fiv isn't curable either. But knowing he has it means I can catch problems earlier and improve his quality of life. And lifespan.

Yeah he is urinating fine as far as I know. I clean the litter box every day because , even though I have 3 boxes out for my 2 cats, they both use the same one. So it gets full every day.

I wish they would use different ones so I could tell if one of them is having a problem.

It feels soft like fat but is very rounded. Sometimes I see it. Sometimes it seems to disappear. Like even a little after taking this photo I could no longer feel it. But I did when I took the photo.

I keep thinking .... Hold on. Did I actually feel a lump. No. Yes. Idk. Maybe it was just caused by the way he was laying ?

Maybe it's just like a fat roll.

It's not a solid feeling "lump". It's big. Soft fat feel. If it's a medical issue I'm betting swollen lympnodes.

I'd just feel embarrassed to take him in and the vet says "yeah we already told you he needs to lose weight".

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These fatty areas have been there for a while. I keep questioning myself if it's really a lump or just fat.

Surely they would have noticed a problem there when I had his teeth cleaned and full exam done. (2 weeks ago).

But maybe not ?

Idk why brown people or women even try to run Republican.

Like... Your party hates people like you. It ain't gonna work out bro. No matter how many pro-pedos you align with.

The mask looks like a corpse face.

They should have had the actor wear a fat suit. But it's decent.

Two pairs of pants make the most sense.

Two sets of legs.

Fun fact. I had to take a neuroanatomy course where we dissected real human brains.

A human brain smells very very similar to raw chicken fat.

Like. I couldn't eat chicken for months after taking that class and a few classmates told me it also turned them off chicken.

Also they are bigger than I thought and weigh quite a bit.

I don't like body horror though so generally my curiosity was satiated within 15 min and I remained grossed out the rest of the semester.

I think I actually became increasingly repelled by the brains. They smelled worse over time we kept them in some preservation fluid. The more we cut them up the more mushy they got.

Also. Holding a brain upside down ,.. Yeah so because it's symmetrical and all the little extra bits are symmetrical, it can cause pareidolia. It looks like , idk. Things start to look weird. Really weird.

Circle of willis on their own look like a little alien creature on your brain base. It's weird and creepy.

Other structures make it look like weird faces or something.

I didn't like the class much.

I thought my curiosity would win out over the disgust. But it did not.

I was able to view on "reading mode"

Honestly it's a very short article that doesn't say much.

It’s a time of apocalyptic worldviews in Silicon Valley. The latest AI doom cycle is driven by effective altruism (EA), a philosophy that has lurked around the fringes for years but recently burst into the mainstream because its adherents are embedded across the AI industry, from Anthropic to newly appointed AI safety watchdog METR. EA is a utilitarian approach to charity premised on doing the most good for the most people over the longest time, and EA advocates see halting an AI-induced doomsday as critical to saving as many humans as possible.

But EA has an important and equally apocalyptic rival in the crosscutting cosmologies of the tech titans — a strain of Christianity best represented by Peter Thiel, who believes EA will bring about the Antichrist. It’s an issue on which the billionaire techno-capitalist is a self-styled expert, and, somehow, Thiel has become America’s most provocative and visible Christian theologian.

Thiel’s current fixation on the End of the World as We Know It is in theological language called eschatology, the study of the “last things.” His specific bête noire is the Antichrist, the villain of these end times scenarios. Thiel’s riffs on the Antichrist began a little over three years ago, first in a 2023 talk at the Catholic University of America but then, starting in 2025, only in closed-door, invitation-only, multipart lectures out of San Francisco. While that secrecy is frustrating for those of us interested in how uber-rich and politically powerful tech titans see the future of our world, it’s also rather savvy — no surprise from the guy who started hugely successful ventures like PayPal and Palantir.

And probably people Who were just confused about registering to vote.

I bet they got their driver's license renewed and the DMV clerk offered to register them to vote and they agreed.

Probably something like that.

He should make a lot of videos thanking trump for weapons. Jets. Intelligence. And all sorts of things. And keep making them.

And then let's see how Russia responds. Bet they get less friendly.

Good luck someone breaking in and finding it. Even I can't find it most of the time.

Pretty sure it's not healthy to abstain from ejaculation.

Have you all heard of aipac? Musk is just one of the many pouring money into Republican candidates

Pretty sure that's the same percentage as it was when he took office.