The Cat Status Thread
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@Zerosquare they can't even tell that their differentiated experience creates at very least a unique epiphenomenon which they could call a self, the dumb animals.
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@Gribnit They are at one with the universe.
Which is to say, they think they are the universe.
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@Zecc said in The Cat Status Thread:
@Gribnit They are at one with the universe.
Which is to say, they think they are the universe.
the dumb animals
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@Gribnit said in The Cat Status Thread:
@Zerosquare they can't even tell that their differentiated experience creates at very least a unique epiphenomenon which they could call a self, the dumb animals.
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Guess this feline mostly survived on its fat reserves:
Quite amazing it didn't die from dehydration...
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This one's even better though:
- A cat appears to be stranded on a small pole sticking out of a bridge pier.
- Rescue workers take their time to come over on a barge.
- Cat is spooked and simply runs off without any issue.
- The cat then proceeds to run underneath a firefigher truck, and from there through traffic into the median.
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@JBert said in The Cat Status Thread:
The cat then proceeds to run underneath a firefigher truck,
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and from there through traffic into the median.
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@dcon As in "number of lives left"?
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@JBert said in The Cat Status Thread:
@dcon As in "number of lives left"?
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@dcon said in The Cat Status Thread:
@JBert said in The Cat Status Thread:
The cat then proceeds to run underneath a firefigher truck,
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and from there through traffic into the median.
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Running under the fire truck wasn't dangerous (unless there was a Tesla in the area) and didn't use up a life.
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I guess my posture is poor enough that thought he could walk across my slumped shoulders. Ouch, claws.
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@error said in The Cat Status Thread:
Ouch, claws.
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@error said in The Cat Status Thread:
I guess my posture is poor enough that thought he could walk across my slumped shoulders.
It's not about your posture. It's about dominance.
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@Zerosquare said in The Cat Status Thread:
@error said in The Cat Status Thread:
I guess my posture is poor enough that thought he could walk across my slumped shoulders.
It's not about your posture. It's about dominance.
but it probably actually is. The whole dominance/submission thing is a really primal instinct that all social animals share.
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@Zerosquare said in The Cat Status Thread:
@error said in The Cat Status Thread:
I guess my posture is poor enough that thought he could walk across my slumped shoulders.
It's not about your posture. It's about dominance.
cat > you etc.
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@error said in The Cat Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Cat Status Thread:
@error said in The Cat Status Thread:
I guess my posture is poor enough that thought he could walk across my slumped shoulders.
It's not about your posture. It's about dominance.
but it probably actually is. The whole dominance/submission thing is a really primal instinct that all social animals share.
It is among the gates that must be crossed. Not sure of the canonical Gates it maps to but it's definitely before Ganzir.
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@error said in The Cat Status Thread:
The whole dominance/submission thing is a really primal instinct that all social animals share.
So you're saying that even your cat has kinks?
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@Zerosquare said in The Cat Status Thread:
@error said in The Cat Status Thread:
The whole dominance/submission thing is a really primal instinct that all social animals share.
So you're saying that even your cat has kinks?
Every mammal that sits aims its genitalia according to the current social order in play and this works across species. Welcome to the morgenheutegesternwelt.
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@Zerosquare why not, this machine is more or less a burner anyway.
very detailed cat status. thank you.
one note, the dot can travel faster than light.
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@Gribnit said in The Cat Status Thread:
morgenheutegesternvelt.
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@topspin said in The Cat Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Cat Status Thread:
morgenheutegesternvelt.
fixed
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@topspin said in The Cat Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Cat Status Thread:
morgenheutegesternvelt.
I pretty much on everything he says. I think he may be a Markov chain running on Dwarf Fortress.
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@error said in The Cat Status Thread:
The whole dominance/submission thing is a really primal instinct that all social animals share.
Cats are social animals?
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@error I can't be a classic Markov chain, they construct probable responses. I could be a modified Markov chain, but then how would you explain this?
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@dkf said in The Cat Status Thread:
@error said in The Cat Status Thread:
The whole dominance/submission thing is a really primal instinct that all social animals share.
Cats are social animals?
Of course, haven't you seen how many of them have Twitter accounts?
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@dkf said in The Cat Status Thread:
@error said in The Cat Status Thread:
The whole dominance/submission thing is a really primal instinct that all social animals share.
Cats are social animals?
Cats are keenly aware of animal behavior, probably as a happy accident of T. gondii
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@Gribnit said in The Cat Status Thread:
@error I can't be a classic Markov chain, they construct probable responses. I could be a modified Markov chain, but then how would you explain this?
It’s more like Douglas Adams‘ infinite improbability Markov chain.
But at least it’s got very high entropy.
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@Gąska said in The Cat Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Cat Status Thread:
Douglas Adams‘s
FFS it's not that hard!
But it is. It really is. Because his version was correct and yours, , is not.
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@Gąska said in The Cat Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Cat Status Thread:
Douglas Adams‘s
FFS it's not that hard!
Eh, as with everything English, I’m sure there are different style guides preferring one or the other.
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@topspin said in The Cat Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Cat Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Cat Status Thread:
Douglas Adams‘s
FFS it's not that hard!
Eh, as with everything English, I’m sure there are different style guides preferring one or the other.
But only one is correct (as measured by currently representing the majority of published usage (on a given day))
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@topspin you think I didn't check before posting? Of all the widely accepted style guides, only one allowed omitting "s" after apostrophe in the possessive form of a name ending with "s", but even this one style guide only allowed omitting it for biblical persons only. I'm pretty sure Douglas Adams didn't appear in the Bible.
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@Gąska said in The Cat Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Cat Status Thread:
Douglas Adams‘s
FFS it's not that hard!
Actually, it is, kinda. According to thesaurus.com, most but not all experts say
's
is correct for both common and proper nouns, even when they end withs
. However, some, such as the Associated Press Stylebook, disagree and say only'
should be added. Many style guides make exceptions from whichever style they generally prefer for biblical names, names/words of one syllable, whether a proper name is a collective plural (e.g., a single band with a plural name: the Beatles), and/or whether the following word begins withs
. Therefore, both versions are right according to some people and wrong according to others. More agree with you than with @topspin, though.
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@Gąska whatever, it doesn’t make sense since there’s already an s there an you’re not pronouncing any further s unless you’re a snake, which is the reason that for plurals
’s
becomes’
. It’s not like I omitted the apostrophe or wrote “Adam’s” or anything like that.
Also, “I looked it up” doesn’t go too well with “it’s not that hard”.
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@topspin said in The Cat Status Thread:
Also, “I looked it up” doesn’t go to well with “it’s not that hard”.
The rule is not that hard. Verifying that there exists not a single stylebook in the entire world that disagrees with me is what required a lookup (as you know, proving a negative is quite tedious).
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@Gąska said in The Cat Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Cat Status Thread:
Also, “I looked it up” doesn’t go to well with “it’s not that hard”.
The rule is not that hard. Verifying that there exists not a single stylebook in the entire world that disagrees with me is what required a lookup (as you know, proving a negative is quite tedious).
Irregardless, you've taught us all to look for styles with which you disagree.
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@boomzilla said in The Cat Status Thread:
Irregardless
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@topspin said in The Cat Status Thread:
@Gąska whatever, it doesn’t make sense since there’s already an s there an you’re not pronouncing any further s unless you’re a snake, which is the reason that for plurals
’s
becomes’
. It’s not like I omitted the apostrophe or wrote “Adam’s” or anything like that.
Also, “I looked it up” doesn’t go too well with “it’s not that hard”.My position is that the second
s
should not be written, but should be pronounced.
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@Gąska said in The Cat Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Cat Status Thread:
Also, “I looked it up” doesn’t go to well with “it’s not that hard”.
The rule is not that hard. Verifying that there exists not a single stylebook in the entire world that disagrees with me is what required a lookup (as you know, proving a negative is quite tedious).
Well yeah, you missed the AP stylebook.
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@topspin said in The Cat Status Thread:
it doesn’t make sense since there’s already an s there an you’re not pronouncing any further
I and many others say something like Harrises or Rosses or Thomases or Roses, rather than what sounds like “Thomas staple gun.”
@boomzilla said in The Cat Status Thread:
Irregardless, you've taught us all to look for styles
withwhich you disagree with.