Yeah, they more like swat at their ears. I’ve seen an adult cat do this to another when they did something they didn’t like.

Dang, you keep quality snacks on hand! I hope we’re all invited to the next party at your place!

I’ve been told it’s acceptable to flick a cat’s ears (gently, obviously) because that’s what a mama cat does to her kittens when they do something dumb. Any opinions on this?

So you’re saying that one’s a bug-hunt, and the other’s a stand-up fight?

ooh then don’t miss !garfieldism@lemmy.blahaj.zone and !imsorryjon@lemmy.world…

Is there like a specific instance of her doing something?

I’ve read the following arguments:

• her humor is bland, Cathy-level stuff. I like !garfield@lemmy.world so I’m not exactly an expert on humor, but fwiw I like her art style and I find her strips funny more often than not. That sort of thing’s subjective anyway.
• she had reddit comics-strip mods delete any critical comments about her. Yeah, reddit sucks, that’s why we left, I dunno if it’s fair to blame her for that.
• she supported reddit during the API protests. I kinda disliked her for a while because of this, HOWEVER since then she’s done a lot of anti-MAGA comics (most recently like this, this, and this) so I think she’s cool bc that’s a far more important issue, and I’m not gonna be hung up on reddit forever.
• in her strip she sometimes makes fun of people who criticize her. I see this kinda like a stand-up comedienne dealing with hecklers, i.e. it’s part of the show, and good on her for not taking shit from people. But some people apparently think this is inappropriate. Others assume that her “hecklers” are sexist, insecure, etc and that creates even more defensiveness. Not sure if there’s an easy solution to this.

Those cats were all mortal enemies until they were brought together by catnip.

here you go:

Lemmy is like a cafe, not like a stadium.

There are a couple abilities involved:

• knowing something
• modeling a learner: understanding someone else’s current level of knowledge and the nature of their lack of knowledge such as misconceptions.
• instruction skill: having the ability to remedy the learner’s misconceptions and build upon their existing knowledge to transmit the knowledge/skill

The last two are nontrivial. You ever told someone the answer to something and they just didn’t get it? Even though it was stunningly obvious to you? The last two are why.

Anyway, to your point: a lot of times the best action is just to point someone in the right direction.

ikr sounds like that thing where Socrates’ wisdom was realizing that he was not wise.

Socrates then sought to solve the divine paradox—how an ignorant man also could be the wisest of all men—in effort to illuminate the meaning of the Oracles’ categorical statement that he is the wisest man in the land. After systematically interrogating the politicians, the poets, and the craftsmen, Socrates determined that the politicians were not wise like he was. He says of himself, in reference to a politician: “I am wiser than this man; it is likely that neither of us knows anything worthwhile, but he thinks he knows something when he does not.”(21d).[15] Socrates says that the poets did not understand their poetry; that the prophets and seers did not understand what they said; and that the craftsmen while knowing many things, thought they also had much knowledge on things of which they had none.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apology_(Plato)#Part_one:_The_defence_of_Socrates

best? I don’t think it would turn out how you think it would…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Argentina#Infamous_Decade_(1930–43)

I’m pretty sure he was kidding about the elves. In the article he says:

“I work for three hours, and then I get stumped, and I’m not making progress. So I quit, and I go and work in the tunnel. It takes me an hour or so to dig four inches and put in the 4-by-4s. … Then I go back up and work some more.”

It’s a common technique when dealing with a difficult research/creative problem.

• gain a good understanding of the problem (even if you’re stuck on how to solve it)
• go do something unrelated work (preferrably physical, like gardening or housework or… working on your basement apparently.)

I think it gives your subconscious a chance to work on the problem without your conscious mind interfering.

here are some ways to find communities:

• !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl
• !newcommunities@discuss.online
• !newcommunities@lemmy.world
• !communities@ponder.cat
• !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
• !findacommunity@lemmy.ml
• !lemmy411@lemmy.ca

also:

aw, be nice. OP might be a kid, might not have a lot of money for a vet, might not realize that cats can be in a fair amount of pain before showing it, etc.

Not sure if this’ll help or hurt, but here’s a video of him playing Lenin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsiU0P-swYE

Jesus is HUNG.

fam, Easter is this weekend… show some sensitivity… _/jk

Why is Jesus grabbing that guy’s neck with one hand, and his own crotch with the other?

Just to play cat’s advocate: if humans don’t think the table is clean when they sit down to eat, they are welcome to wipe it down, to add placemats, or to cover the table between meals. All of these are minor inconveniences compared to the unrealistic expectation of denying cats access to one of the room’s main furnishings when it is not in use.

because with cats it’s always “what’s in it for me?”

My guess is that it’s a resource-sharing thing.

• To a cat, it makes sense that you shoo the cat off the table. Clearly you may want to use the table if you are there, so the cat should make way when you are around.
• To a cat, it makes NO sense that you want the cat to NEVER use the table. If you’re not using it right now, why shouldn’t the cat use it?

So, I think:

• A human believes that because they obtained an item, they have a right to forbid a cat from ever using it.
• But a cat believes that they have the right to use any item in the house that is not currently being used by the human.

I gotta say, it’ s not obvious that the human is right…