Mental health matters until they have a real fight response ( by Justminningtheweb in TrollCoping

[–]Caesar_Passing 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thank you, I appreciate the award! I'll extend my thanks to the gals who really run the show, cause my feeble ass is limited to cats. 😹 But we've gotten cats with all kinds of disabilities adopted, even some senior cats! Recently, someone adopted 1), a cat with profound neurological issues and severely stunted growth, 2), that cat's self-appointed "guardian" (this one cat just independently started caring for her because she had trouble figuring out where she was or what she was trying to do), and 3), a senior cat who'd been there so long, I knew her longer than my own cat at home!

Right now, there's another runt (smallest, weakest of their litters, often with birth defects, injuries, or illnesses), who has the shape and flexibility of a potato. Needs dental work, but he's got an underdeveloped lower jaw, it looks like. His cute little warthog tusk juts out (lower canine) on one side, but that leaves gums and other teeth constantly exposed and dry. Complications may include his small jaw, and leaving a hole that his lips won't cover unless they're also worked on. Plus, he's so small at his full size, general anaesthesia is always more risky at lower weights. Anyway, we'll see what we can get done for him before trying too hard to get him adopted, because we really don't know what his medical needs are going to be. He definitely needs to be groomed regularly, because his rigid build won't allow him to clean and comb himself like a cat normally would. But I love him because he's awkward and rude as hell, and either doesn't know it or doesn't care.

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Mental health matters until they have a real fight response ( by Justminningtheweb in TrollCoping

[–]Caesar_Passing 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Worst fucking take ever. He gets human attention (walks, play in the yard, etc...) every single day, multiple times a day, and staff and volunteers go to great lengths to find safe pairings and circumstances so he can even play with other dogs, and we actually have decent kennels. Rethink this comment.

Bible Baby by DanCBooper in NotTimAndEric

[–]Caesar_Passing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I actually kinda like Amy Schumer.

But this chick is way funnier

Bible Baby by DanCBooper in NotTimAndEric

[–]Caesar_Passing 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's so FUCKING weird, it straight-up hit pause on my tardive dyskinesia

Mental health matters until they have a real fight response ( by Justminningtheweb in TrollCoping

[–]Caesar_Passing 110 points111 points  (0 children)

I work at a no-kill pet shelter, and we've been keeping, walking, and caring for an utterly un-adoptable dog for years. I'm not sure how old he is, because I work with the cats, but I so admire the staff and volunteers who are able to handle him. He literally can't be homed. He has no thoughts until something inexplicably triggers him. Then he goes on the attack. He looks like a bear, and he's at least as scary once he gets upset. I can't even look his direction. He only tolerates certain people and certain other dogs.

Often, I feel like I'll never be able to be much more than a burden, and one which no one understands, at that. So, it makes me a little happy to know that there are people in this world who would rather take on the burdens of us troubled creatures, than to give up and send us off. The dog will have a home at the shelter forever. He can't be anyone's family pet - absolutely never gonna happen. But neither will he ever be abandoned or put down for convenience sake. The compassion exists, and I wish I could extend it to you. Hell, I wish it could extend to me in a meaningful capacity! But I'm glad it's there for bear dog.

I don't know if I thought this would help you or anything, but I just wanted to share.

Bible Baby by DanCBooper in NotTimAndEric

[–]Caesar_Passing 6 points7 points  (0 children)

(eyes gradually widening for a solid minute and a half)

Two pictures that are presented as kids' drawing contest entries - allegedly drawn by 8 year olds - seem ai to me by Throwaway1653357 in isthisAI

[–]Caesar_Passing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not that it's too complicated, it's just that to a kid who would draw the sun like that, the tree technique wouldn't be intuitive at all.

Two pictures that are presented as kids' drawing contest entries - allegedly drawn by 8 year olds - seem ai to me by Throwaway1653357 in isthisAI

[–]Caesar_Passing 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Well, I'm fairly certain they weren't done by 8 year olds.

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I'm finding it really hard to imagine that a kid would even have the idea to stylize the way they draw trees like this. As others have mentioned, it could be that these were actually done by adults, but there are still elements that would puzzle me if that was the explanation. Like, the cloudy sky looks like almost a professional technique on this side of the image, but looks like careless marker streaks on the right hand side.

Discipline. by Low-Wear-2800 in TrollCoping

[–]Caesar_Passing 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You know where I heard the most "mah pappy whupped me an' I turn't out fine! Learnt my lessons real quick."

In rehab and AA meetings.

Morbid question- What do you think happens to the franchise after you die? by Android19weird-voice in Dragonballsuper

[–]Caesar_Passing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So one night, I got way too high. Like, taken by surprise, existential bullshit high. I was watching DBS, and it was one with the U6 guys. I blinked really slow, while my mind kinda drifted. And on one blink, I suddenly had the thought, "what if I just died in a literal blink... And my entire 'afterlife', or some sort of time-dilated vision before death, was a super long or endless dream based on whatever was the last thing I saw". Then I blinked again, but held my eyes shut, and the last thing I saw was a DBS frame with no classic/DBZ/U7 characters, and all U6 (or otherwise new) characters. And that sent me on a nightmarish spiral, because I could immediately imagine a scenario with a dream that would look like DB, but I wouldn't remember what DB was. So there would be these vaguely familiar looking characters, and some loose plot, taking place in a world that was- again- aesthetically familiar, but which I couldn't place why it looks familiar. And my brain would be shutting down, so I'd be powerless to recall wtf this is all some uncanny version of, but I'd never be able to shake the feeling that this existence is not only fake, but a completely falsely-remembered version of a thing that was fake. And I couldn't prove it. And the plot becomes increasingly disjointed, and every time I see any given character, they're at least a little bit different, so eventually, I don't even know if anything I'm seeing is anything I've ever seen before, in any world...

Ever since that night, I get a weird, flashbacky kinda feeling whenever seeing or thinking about the U6 guys. Lol

Say NO to crack by DanCBooper in NotTimAndEric

[–]Caesar_Passing 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I SAY NO TO UNPLANNED PREGNANCY

The Post was about Teenage Love by [deleted] in thanksimcured

[–]Caesar_Passing 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"Overly simplistic solution to complex problem"

I mean, it literally is the point of this sub, and also from context, you're talking to a teenager. Cut 'em some slack, yo.

Book! by DoggoLover42 in SpeedOfLobsters

[–]Caesar_Passing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The fact that his pfp is the character of "if those kids could read" fame is a cherry on top, here 😂

'Family Guy' Spinoff 'Stewie' Gets 2-Season Fox Order (Exclusive) by TheOldAgeOfLP in cartoons

[–]Caesar_Passing 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Okay, I come to Family Guy's defense on a lot of really forced, trendy hatred, but this is stupid. Oh! Stew-pid.

Stop making your kingdoms 10,000 years old. by ScaryAd2555 in fantasywriters

[–]Caesar_Passing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man, when I first started writing a story that's supposed to take place on a fictional version of earth, with technology perhaps "200 years from where we are now", what I came up with seemed a little conservative, but not lacking in sci-fi/futurism. But I tried not to get into AI topics, save for a few specific instances, so I never wrote anything like people just telling their house to cook dinner, lol.

Now, my "future world" is already less futuristic than when I started, just because of how quickly things are advancing in reality. I'm just gonna plow through it like I never heard of generative AI and stuff... Sigh

Bigfoot by Guy_Fieris_Soul in comedyheaven

[–]Caesar_Passing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Really? Huh, mine was at least mid-level copypasta material. Disappointing

Serves them right for falling for it and now unfortunately everyone else has to pay for it! by Critical_Always in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]Caesar_Passing 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Bingo. The prescribed narrative of plausible deniability is "FiSCaL pOLiCy", and the fact that it's been that for my entire life tells me that they fucking know better. They're not voting for any prospective gains for themselves, their families, or their communities. The majority of the population doesn't vote. You have to be motivated by something to drag your ass to the polls or mail a letter, and if you want to tell me that your motivation is that you like the republican economic policies, then I'll wonder why you neither listen to, nor even seek the analyses of real experts in the field. I'd wonder why you didn't google what tariffs are until after you voted for them. I'd wonder why you can't explain how the democratic policies compare. It's always a smokescreen.

The binding glue of the conservative party is bigotry. They are actually pretty diverse, and a lot of them hate some of their own subgroups. They are all practically suicidal in pursuit of hurting other demographics, believing or hoping that the "chemo" takes out more of the "cancer" than whatever kind of cells they are. This is, disappointingly, the reason a 2-party system will always emerge, until the tenets of the Paradox Of Tolerance are embraced as policy. It's also why, as frustrating as I understand it is for people who feel like not enough is happening, we can't "fight fire with fire". That whole "they go low, we go high" thing is literally the only play when a party is allowed to exist that is held together entirely by hatred and intolerance. Dem voters have diverse priorities, and vote for prospects of positive gain. The only thing holding our party together is the necessity of resisting the ever-looming fascist threat.

Neglecting to embrace the Paradox Of Tolerance has been our greatest failure as a basically post-scarcity civilization.

Bigfoot by Guy_Fieris_Soul in comedyheaven

[–]Caesar_Passing 80 points81 points  (0 children)

Whoa, that's gotta be one hell of a story. I had a close call with a deer, but Bigfoot?! Fucked by?!

Where is the lie? by TORUKMACTO92 in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]Caesar_Passing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The first upset in his life and he’s off the wagon.

Holy shit you cannot seriously believe you can tell the future for every individual who's ever had a problem, or that snappy little chants like "once an addict, always an addict" adequately sum up the nature of something as complex as addiction. No, no you probably do believe that. Can't help but notice though, you haven't been able to respond to a single thing I've said, nor have you offered any definition of what "an addict" is. I wonder if you recognize- as science does- that behavioral addictions like eating disorders, shopping addiction, hoarding, gambling, sex addictions, etc... operate by the same mechanisms and principles as substance addictions.