People that are like “climate change is worsening and all of humanity is going to deserve it” should realize how kind of evil and insane of a thing that is to say
Like, no actually, the masses of people in the world that are impoverished, homeless, poor and working paycheck to paycheck to survive, plus the masses of indigenous folks, POC, queer and religious minorities trying to survive the trauma of generations of industrialization & colonization DON’T deserve to go extinct over the actions of a few dozen oil executives and an economic system we have no control over, especially when we’re doing all that we can for a safer healthier planet wtf
The lives of 7 billion humans do not deserve extinction over the actions of very few oil companies destroying the planet, don’t say shit like that.
its the fault of like 100-300 people who can easily be googled. personal accountability for climate change is a red herring to distract from the fact that its only a handful of people.
The idea that housecats are baby-talking at humans when they meow is based on a misunderstanding.
Yes, it’s true that, amongst themselves, adult housecats generally only vocalise to communicate with kittens, but the particular set of vocalisations that adult cats use to communicate with humans is distinct from, and largely non-overlapping with, the set of vocalisations that they use to communicate with kittens.
Your average adult housecat has anywhere from twenty to fifty distinct vocalisations that are basically only used to communicate with humans.
Cats meowing at humans is less baby-talk and more your cat learning a whole second language.
Can confirm. Between themselves, cats usually use body language which is very subtle. Meowing is very unsubtle—- it’s obnoxious, in the cat world. It attracts far too much attention, which isn’t ideal for small predators.
but they know that we don’t get their body language, so they meow instead.
it’s more akin to cats learning a second language which is comprised of yelling.
So it’s like they are learning German
Even cooler, it’s basically a secret code between cat and owner. Studies were conducted where owners would listen to recordings of cats vocalizations and try to determine what the meow meant. Owners could identify what their own cat wanted (food, attention, help) based on the meow they heard, but couldn’t for other cats.
Your cats aren’t just learning a new language, they straight up invent a secret code that only you understand.
Human as a Second Language
Meowing is a trade language. It’s a pidgin.
It’s also idiosyncratic: unique to that particular cat and that particular human.
So it’s more like
Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), or like the home sign communication that Deaf kids raised in isolation in a Hearing family come up with, on their own.
had a dream once that Nickelodeon did a big crossover of all their cartoons and the main villain was Zim trying to conquer all the earths and when he got to the Fairly Oddparents they tried to wish him away but it didnt work so they checked Da Rules and Zim had scribbled in there (with permanent marker!) “Zim can do what he wants” so they couldn’t do anything
the only other part i remember is Dib was explaining the situation to the other characters and the fact that people like Jimmy Neutron and X-J9 and Timmy Turner automatically just accepted that Zim was an alien made him so happy he broke down crying
One of the best things about the Avatar universe is that one of our first introductions to the rules governing the world is “It’s not magic, it’s water bending,” and then throughout the series it’s revealed that actual ass magic also exists alongside the totally not magic bending.
angry spirit shoots lasers at a house? magic. a guy disappears into a parallel plane, body and all, for a day or so? absolutely magic. the moon exists as a living being on earth and brought a baby back to life? totally fucking magic. face stealing? magic as shit. your sister makes water levitate sometimes? how dare you sokka that’s not magic it’s martial arts.
Honestly I don’t know where I was going for this except that it’s fucking hilarious that this show has two separate and distinct systems of magic, but you’re only allowed to call one of them magic because the other one happens too often.
Its actually a really great bit of worldbuilding. The mundane and the mystical magics. I like it.
spirits arent magic either. the only real magic was the fortune teller being able to know the future
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