Appropriate cat staff behavior. Carry on!

Shoulder perch best perch

It's true. "Casinos," plural. CASINOS PLURAL, EVERYBODY.

Ohhh, oh no! We need your tourism toonies in Las Vegas! We had no idea just how much Canadians spent on American stuff like bourbon and vacations! Ohh no, we're so sorry for those silly things we said, like threatening your sovereignty and being all condescending and dismissive.

Echoing your sentiment from the middle of America. Get fucked! Begging for visitors like that before doing anything to make amends, ugh.

"It's important to have a job that makes a difference, boys. That's why I manually masturbate caged animals for artificial insemination." -- rando convenience store customer in Clerks, 1994

Please don't stop there. We need people to witness this and do like the boycotters abroad are doing.

It's about bullying and exploiting other countries with really high tariffs.

It's about our full support of Israel while they commit a genocide.

It's about our failure to uphold the deal we made with Ukraine to get them to agree to nuclear disarmament.

It's about deciding not to honor contracts made during the last administration, saying that they no longer apply, and allowing the people who benefited from USAID abroad (and tons of federal, formerly dependable paychecks at home) to fall off without even an acknowledgement of wrongdoing, while yelling that anybody who isn't hand-over-fist greedy isn't American.

I've been saying this since he first started campaigning: STOP GIVING HIM STUFF. HE GOES AWAY WHEN YOU STOP LISTENING TO HIM AND GIVING HIM YOUR STUFF.

Isn't that how it's supposed to work? Parents preferring live children to dead ones in world that constantly throws weird bullshit their way?

Congratulations on surviving the flaying!!!

Looks like a sturgeon, maybe? I'm no fishologist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence in English that is often presented as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated linguistic constructs through lexical ambiguity. It has been discussed in literature in various forms since 1967, when it appeared in Dmitri Borgmann's Beyond Language: Adventures in Word and Thought. The sentence employs three distinct meanings of the word buffalo:

• As an attributive noun (acting as an adjective) to refer to a specific place named Buffalo, such as the city of Buffalo, New York;
• As the verb to buffalo, meaning (in American English[1][2]) "to bully, harass, or intimidate" or "to baffle"; and
• As a noun to refer to the animal (either the true buffalo or the bison). The plural is also buffalo.

A semantically equivalent form preserving the original word order is: "Buffalonian bison that other Buffalonian bison bully also bully Buffalonian bison."

And the subsequent, "You know, this would've been a lot faster and less painful for everybody if you'd explained what you were going for six months ago"

It's interesting to watch someone try to blame the Democrats for trying and failing to enact solutions to the problem that killed her father, point out that she's the only Republican she's met advocating for bike lanes, and still not see how important it is to talk to other Republicans about maybe building more fucking bike lanes.

Shit, some of them charge the authors to publish.

Pff. Americans should be the first people to boo that guy. Dissent is the most patriotic act one can undertake

Right? What happened in his civics/U.S. government classes, he just thought the voting rules didn't apply to him? All the other people who moved to the States from Mexico by the time they were four, yes, just not him.

There's at least one Himalayan goose out there keeping a tally of climbers they've honked off the mountain. It's not just me who thinks so, right?

Do I upvote? Do I not upvote? Oh my god, it's so awful, it's perfect

Not off the shelf smartwatches; wrist-worn tracking devices issued by ICE.

"The device was not an ordinary smart watch made by Apple or Samsung, but a special type that US Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) had mandated the woman wear at all times, allowing the agency to track her. The device was beeping when she entered the hospital, indicating she needed to charge it, and she worried that if the battery died, ICE agents would think she was trying to disappear, the hospital workers recalled. She told them that, just days earlier, she had been put on a deportation flight to Mexico, but the pilot refused to let her fly because she was so close to giving birth."

What a fucking dystopia. The only thing that gives me hope for America's future is knowing that this is part of our established pattern: we'll never do a right thing without trying all the wrong things first, and we'll only get there kicking and screaming the whole way. This is part of that wrong-things-first approach, and we've got a good deal of kicking and screaming already.... I really hope we get to the right-things-last part soon.

It's strange how there's inadequate flood warning systems in place for an area where they keep voting against taxes and doing everything they can to avoid paying them.

Right now, first class mail to homes in the Chicago area is taking two WEEKS to arrive due to holiday increases. I don't think it'd be this bad at tax or voting deadlines, but it's good to know what kind of variability you can expect, especially with all of the changes made to the US postal service since 2017.