Honestly, a lot of these examples fall under “did you not read anything you signed?”
But yeah, it’s a pretty big problem that banks are just allowed to go “Nah, we don’t want to deal with you”. It’s a problem entirely caused by political choices though, and the UK population have repeatedly shown what they want to happen by their shitty voting actions.
To run it in a circle is the same as leaving it to sit stagnant in a bowl except with extra dust collected from the air.
Some cats will genuinely drink more from moving water. Other cats love water with some waterplants in it. And yet more cats would rather lick from muddy puddles than drink fresh clean water.
Regardless, these fountains usually have filters.
Rig up a constantly dripping faucet and maybe your cat’s kidneys will stop failing after a few years.
Cats as a species have weak kidneys. Cat kidney failure is kinda like human cardiovascular disease. Older humans get, the more likely their cardiovascular system gives out, and the older cats get, the more likely their kidneys are to fail.
Dust in water is not a contributor to kidney failure unless you work on a lilly farm or aspirin factory or something.
Not at all. I’m saying you should interact and stand behind your interactions.
For example, you downvoted my post, which is fine. You also replied, which is also fine. Why is it bad that one isn’t on your profile (but it is public) and the other is openly visible in a list on your profile?
Interactions are by default public, otherwise there’s no point to interacting. I’d go one further and say that having the voting information public but not visible by default is by far the worst option.
i find it concerning because this enables creating a very detailed profile of a users interests, political alignment, medical issues, sexual orientation etc. Even if they never post anything!
So don’t interact. What you read isn’t stored, but if you interact, it should be public.
For example I accidentally upvoted a really disgusting NSFW post misclicking on my phone.
I agree that it’s dumb you don’t have a “my votes” page where you can remove that. But you can go to said post and just remove your vote.
Why is that concerning? The whole system was meant to be transparent
If you value stuff like safety and the environment, there’s also regulations.
Walk? In the snow? I have people for that.
Kittens and older cats can’t always clean themselves properly. And sometimes cats just do something incredibly dumb and need rescuing…
Holy shit, that’s some alternate history right there.
Ahhh, posted by a .ml account, of course
This aid tracker says otherwise, but maybe it changed since the last update…
Nah, it’s not satire, it’s just brainwashing.
The alternative was not expanding NATO’s sphere,
NATO didn’t annex anyone, countries ask to join. Like Sweden and Finland did after Russia’s imperialist actions got a little too close.
We shall see how it evolves.
Well, Russia already gained two more NATO neighbors thanks to your aggression, so I wouldn’t exactly call it a roaring success so far.
The alternative is living in Russia and fighting for Gazprom
This has strong “look what you made me do” abuser energy.
Russia is attacking because they’re in an imperialist war against ukraine, not because of Zelensky
The US hasn’t sent a single cent worth of aid to Ukraine since January 2025. Trump can’t drop Ukraine any further.
Europe stepped up for a bit, but then let the aid sent drop to a much lower level again. We’re still helping, but not nearly enough.
The examples you’re naming are all carefully controlled, very narrow-aspect groups that are generally protected from their surroundings.
I can sketch you a big problem with turning, say, a university anarchist. Yes, in theory, you can get a greater range of ideas, but in practice the stressors will tear it apart due to human nature. There is always a limited amount of funding, so how do people work out who gets what? Unlike with food or shelter, it’s ALWAYS useful to have more funding. Why should I get more than you? Well, obviously because my history department is much more important to literally everything than your maths department.
So now what happens? Do we only cooperate with those who wish to cooperate? Sure, lets split up. Of course, from the remaining funding, my area of medieval history is much more relevant than that guys’ area of ancient history, and if we can’t cooperate we shouldn’t…
You can, of course, run a department, or a specific niche in an anarchist way. A specific research group, or a knowledge-sharing system would benefit, but that’s because those specific groups don’t really experience any pressures.
So she devises a world where the anarchists invent a new language to correct and remove “egoist” ideas.
And here’s the problem with anarchism: It requires fundamentally changing the human species.
think of how wikipedia editors work
Wikipedia is not an anarchy though. There is specifically a hierarchy in types of accounts.
At the core, anarchists seek to minimize the degree to which another group can oppress them by concentrating decision making among the small groups of people who will actually be effected by those decisions.
Right, but small groups of people are severely limited in the level of civilization they can maintain. You can’t develop antibiotics without massively investing value into specific people and groups, who will then (shock) be more valuable. That will create a natural stratification unless those people are all saints.
Anarchism falls apart when faced with outside stressors like scarcity or competition. It only works if quite literally every single person buys into it fully.
Yeah, turns out most of our CO2 emissions comes from fossil fuels which power most of our heating, manufacturing and transport, as well as form the foundational material for most products.
Who could have guessed that the things we do the most are the things that consume the most energy.
I remember when steam launched, and we all fucking hated the “always online” requirement because be all had dialup and switching steam to offline mode was a damn annoying hassle.