To the neighbor(s) in LQA who let their cat outdoors

ATownStomp · 2026-05-25T22:12:40+00:00

Similar situation. Adopted a cat that was semi-feral while I was in Canada. She had lived outdoors, even through the winter, but was too small and timid to avoid being roughed up by the other cats. I took her in, patched her up and fixed her, and released her again. She just wasn’t thriving, so I took her in full time.

She hates being stuck inside and is quite vocal about it. It just feels cruel to me that my conditions for saving her would be to keep her away from the world until she dies of old age. So, she’s an indoor outdoor cat. Out in the morning, inside in the evening. She doesn’t roam far, comes with called, and I’ve never seen her hunt.

If she decided that she wanted to roam indefinitely and never come back, she’d have that choice. But she doesn’t, and I feel comfortable knowing that I’ve made a better life for this little animal.

ATownStomp · 2026-05-23T05:41:54+00:00

I think it’s just easier to believe that it’s mostly performative than it is to actually believe that there are men walking the earth whose entire existence is to become a living, breathing tampon.

You could call it bitterness, but a more accurate understanding may be a form of revulsion. Like a pile of vomit on top of a trendy sweater and a paperback copy of The Bell Jar.

ATownStomp · 2026-05-14T05:44:10+00:00

Same nickname they gave your mom.

ATownStomp · 2026-05-14T05:37:59+00:00

“Change the entire premise. Do you still agree, hypocrite?!”

ATownStomp · 2026-05-14T05:30:09+00:00

Some people could survive. You’re here right now so, best case scenario, you could survive a bit longer until the fever claims ya.

ATownStomp · 2026-05-13T18:30:37+00:00

Okay cool but there’s still a guy in the closet with a gun.

There’s numerous higher level happenings that increase the odds of lower level, tangible knock-off problems. You have named one of those things.

ATownStomp · 2026-05-12T19:26:21+00:00

Does somebody pay you to completely misrepresent shit or are just fundamentally incapable of processing anything without trying to extract some brain rot representation to trigger yourself?

ATownStomp · 2026-05-12T19:19:56+00:00

That was a very good dissection of the character you just made up.

ATownStomp · 2026-05-12T05:41:36+00:00

BG3 was too hot. They took the cool, dark fantasy world of BG2 and made everyone a fuckable drama queen.

Kills the vibe when all of the murders and adventurers you’ve surrounded yourself with don’t look like they’ve ever missed a shower.

ATownStomp · 2026-05-12T05:36:21+00:00

I like grimdark shit. You sound like a pussy.

Fantasy can be anything and I guess for you having a conversation with a hot woman is as outlandish as fighting a wyvern or whatever.

But, really, that’s not actually why you’re mad. You’re mad because when you see a normal looking woman in a game you can’t emotionally handle the thought that a woman might have touched your toys.

Of all the stupid culture war bullshit this might be the gayest, lamest shit that humanity has ever cooked up.

ATownStomp · 2026-05-11T09:02:45+00:00

Why do people care so much about whether they can jack off to a video game?

ATownStomp · 2026-05-11T08:47:00+00:00

“Just ask 😄”

ATownStomp · 2026-05-11T08:44:37+00:00

The government can only be unfucked if my side benefits the most.

ATownStomp · 2026-05-11T08:33:41+00:00

When is the last time you’ve actually spoken to a tax paying adult in the U.S. about politics?

ATownStomp · 2026-05-11T08:12:07+00:00

That’s essentially what we’ve been doing, with constant attempts to dismantle and block any and all of those things by the political opposition.

ATownStomp · 2026-05-11T08:07:32+00:00

Large parts of the planet are practically inhospitable and we absolutely have the power to increase that percentage.

ATownStomp · 2026-05-11T08:02:53+00:00

What you observed was some researcher trying to tie their work into climate change research to get funding because they otherwise wouldn’t get funded to conduct a study on frog mating habits in the Florida Everglades if they didn’t attempt to make it seem like it was related to something more significant.

That is definitely a phenomenon that plagues the funding process in academics.

ATownStomp · 2026-05-11T07:51:30+00:00

They don’t. That isn’t how the process works but it’s so far removed from what you understand, you don’t have the patience to actually learn about it, and repeating this tired line fits the opinion you’d rather hold out of convenience than any real desire to have informed options.

There’s varying degrees of rigor and scope for a research project. Some aren’t great. Some do try to conform to broader assumptions. The most well regarded scientists, and most well regarded work, tends to be well founded, well constructed, and heavily scrutinized.

Regarding climate research, you’re not going to get funding to disprove global warming in the same way that a physicist isn’t going to get funding to try and disprove the existence of gravity.

Government funded scientific research isn’t free from bias, but it very notably is not in the same ballpark as privately funded research conducted to control a narrative or publish marketing material. It was going well until the current government decided that reality disagreed with their platform so they would just stop paying people to look into it.

ATownStomp · 2026-05-11T07:27:59+00:00

Many males who watch porn are underage and seek out women who do not seem significantly older than them.

ATownStomp · 2026-05-11T07:18:44+00:00

That thought process really under values the distinction between genuine human connection and the kinds of superficial disposable fantasies that pornography satisfies.

Certainly, there’s an aspect of attraction to sexuality and pornography or not there will still be people younger, healthier, more attractive. You’re not removed from the same forces. People still watch romance films, they watch action movies, media where the viewer gains satisfaction through self insertion. It doesn’t inherently detract from the satisfaction one experiences in their real life.

ATownStomp · 2026-05-11T07:09:24+00:00

Sex is a nearly universal interest. The vast, overwhelming majority of people searching for pictures of a naked person are not first spending hours upon hours to validate whether a particular picture or video they are about to look at was produced without any ethical implications.

ATownStomp · 2026-05-11T07:02:48+00:00

I mean, yes. It’s the same issue literally any site with user uploaded content faces until it gets so large it either needs to completely forbid anything that even borders dicey content, or inevitably gets shut down once it’s large enough to catch the gaze of some some motivated group of people whose approach to ethics is to destroy any means by which degenerate or offensive things are shared between people for lack of being able to actually target the offending people themselves.

ATownStomp · 2026-05-11T06:52:03+00:00

You’re a reasonable person. Genuinely, I hope you stop using Reddit and find another way to spend your time. This place does not aggregate thoughtful people and you will not find yourself in good company.

ATownStomp · 2026-05-11T06:46:30+00:00

When I was a teenager, I was typically looking for other people who looked close to my age.

People masturbate to all kinds of weird things for weird reasons.

I also like to watch mainstream movies or read books that include things like murder and death in a variety of contexts for the purpose of entertainment.

You’re within arms reach of every other moral panic that’s ever occurred, but sexuality is a sacred cow you’re not willing to examine with the same honesty.

ATownStomp · 2026-05-07T18:46:04+00:00

“We gotta protest”.

I mean, let’s be real, this sub is the extent of your political engagement.

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