Nah. Cat would be yelling like an air horn, until it had made clear its displeasure for being abandoned.

Then it would turn around and go hide and be offended until it got hungry, or heard the can opener.

I seriously have no idea what you’re going on about, but you’re starting to sound like you forgot to take some kind of medication.

Seems to be something from that SCP thing?

What does that have to do with anything?

Did you reply to the wrong post?

The what now?

Victor von Doom.

If we’re going for authoritarianism, at least let’s have someone competent in charge.

The GCU Grey Area (AKA Meatfucker) would indeed come in handy, these days…

And yet it moves.

That’s what I hate most about LLMs.

They’re syphoning away all the funding from real AI research, causing people to hate AI (when they have absolutely nothing to do with AI other than their poorly chosen marketing name), and, once the bubble pops, will keep investors from putting money into anything even remotely sounding like AI (frankly, I wouldn’t be surprised if we end up going full Butlerian jihad and banning anything more complex than a calculator).

The bastards selling this shit have probably set humanity’s progress back for centuries. Doomed us to a new dark age from which we’ll never recover (global warming will kill us first, and even if we survive there’s no resources left to start a new technologically advanced civilization. They’ve murdered us all, for short term profits.

The power to instantly, constantly, automatically, and effortlessly transmute the bone marrow of every single individual on Earth who is being harmful to humanity’s progress and wellbeing (fascists, billionaires, global warming denialists, mimes, and so on) into molten lead.

Had a cat once who loved to drop aluminium foil balls (which we threw for her to chase and play with, and ended up laying around all over the place, as cat toys are wont to) into the water bowl and then fish them out.

I have an auto-feeder.

It’s not the same, though. It tastes better when you do it.

(Bonus points if you “cook” it in the kitchen like you would your food; they’re part of the family, after all, they’ll appreciate being treated like equals. Or betters.)

If she could see the sun, or hear people moving outside, or anything like that, yeah, a smart dog can easily learn to recognise those signals.

Probably not, but when it’s an hour later than usual cats will complain, and probably get stressed. (If it’s one hour early they’ll happily eat it, but might ask for seconds and hour later.)

Yes, but cats love routine, and follow it as much as possible, like a clock.

You can train a dog to respond a certain ways to certain signals, but you can’t train it to wake you up every day at a certain specific time, unless it can recognise some signal. But cats will train themselves to do that, if they get something out of it, and are by nature well aware of the time of day, with surprising precision.

Of course, if you train your cat to wake you up for work, better be ready to be woken up at the same time on weekends, unless there’s some noticeable enough difference (like traffic noise on the street outside) between workdays and holidays and you’re lucky to have a sufficiently smart cat who can notice the difference. Cats might be quite adequate clocks, but they’re not calendars.

They do it for themselves, not the cats. The cats know when it’s mealtime, unless mealtime happens at a new random time every day.

Do something your cat enjoys at a specific time every day for a couple days, and you’ve got yourself a furry alarm clock that will make sure to remind you of the time if you forget.

If you’re going to sit and stare at something without doing anything productive you might as well sit and stare at my magnificence.
Now, get to petting.

— Cats

Cats do hate water (except when they don’t), but they love routine much more than they hate water.

Cat learnt human bath time meant cat sleeping on the shoulder time, cat will sleep on the shoulder every time the human takes a bath, water or not, because that’s how reality works now in her world.

That’s vastly insufficient even to begin planning any significant improvement, so… spend it on local businesses, I suppose. 🤷‍♂️

Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.

— Benito Mussolini (you know, the fascist dictator who practically invented the term “fascism”).

For anyone who was doubting that fascism is, indeed, an extension of capitalism.