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  • Rhaedas@fedia.iotocats@lemmy.worldNo issues here
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    8 hours ago

    If they’re caught in the act, sure. A great cat training tool is a spray bottle of water. But from the story it sounds like the cat wasn’t doing anything at the time, so even if it is a nuisance animal, no correlation is made with an act and a punishment. Not true on the kid, he got something right when he did his malicious action, so if he has any intelligence he might connect the two and not do it again.





  • The Republican argument is that there is rampant voter fraud and so some type of proof of who you are is needed to allow voting and curtail all that fraud.

    The truth is there is very little fraud at the voter level. They want to make voting difficult for certain groups of people who are more likely to not vote for them, and this is one route they take. Other methods are gerrymandering districts to favor their side more, not allowing more times and places for working people to have a chance to vote, and actual physical intimidation by their groupies near voting areas.

    So this is just a problem invented in order to solve in ways that will help the right wing. Nothing more.

    Now, there is a trend of repeated voting fraud, but it’s not at the voter level, but at manipulation of voting counts through lawsuits, or outright alterations or loss of mass numbers of votes. Guess what party those votes tend to be leaning towards?





  • Rhaedas@fedia.iotoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldYep
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    I’ve always loved the word “sonder”. Knowing that people have their own lives and thoughts and usually they aren’t centered on you at all is liberating. I wish I had run across this as a kid, to realize that the peer pressure I thought was there giving me anxiety was totally self-inflicted and I could just be myself.







  • Yes, after the fact you can’t just dump what you have and get something else unless you can afford to lose the money. I was referring to when some were out looking for an EV, especially back when Tesla was the name everyone was talking about. Now there’s much less of an excuse since other brands offer decent alternatives.