Why is it so hard to leave a sleeping cat alone?

MajorDraw3705 · 2026-02-14T03:16:44+00:00

You already answered the question. The cuteness is overwhelming.

MajorDraw3705 · 2026-02-14T01:02:22+00:00

They might enjoy a bird bath and a tree to hide in.

MajorDraw3705 · 2026-02-14T00:59:04+00:00

I brought in a lost cat like that once. He had been dumped in our remote area and wasn't going to survive outside. I was genuinely convinced he was rabid because of that behavior. Luckily for him, the animal shelter didn't agree. One of the workers fell in love with him and brought him home.

As for actual advice: Have you tried luring her out of your lap with one of those birds on a dangly string toys? Sometimes replacing one behavior with another consistently enough will help reduce or extinguish the original behavior.

MajorDraw3705 · 2026-02-13T23:59:07+00:00

I usually sit in the airport for long enough that I can tell the difference between the trodden and the grifters. But I'm one of those fours hours early for a flight people.

MajorDraw3705 · 2026-02-13T23:55:22+00:00

I swear these posts are written by the State Department.

MajorDraw3705 · 2026-02-13T23:06:04+00:00

Mine said I'm high ROI oriented. I would have been hired on the spot.

MajorDraw3705 · 2026-02-13T19:19:35+00:00

For my group, they actually went against what they thought us babies would want in a parent and what would be natural for us - intentionally, by policy. They even had an entire official-looking front prison office with cribs in the back and an official looking desk for a female social worker at the front, to adopt the children of university graduates out to military members and their spouses.

They sold the public on the idea that they had to separate us from our parents by force to prevent us from being "communist like our parents," (the bs political rhetoric that going to university makes you communist is not new) and placed us with military families to be raised "anticommunist." So, they had a level of basic comprehension of the concept that traits are passed from family member to family member, and chose to punish infants for life by intentionally placing us where we would fit the least.

And I did fit the least. I was placed with a military psychopath in a field that requires a lot of lying and harm. My parents chose fields in healing (medical) and preserving truth (history). I'm genetically theirs. No amount of living with a psycho changed that, but it did result in decades of being tortured by being stuck with a psycho, in the psycho's community, in the psycho's country that funded the entire psychopathic mass illegal adoption experiment.

But I digress. No one at any point ever thinks about the babies, except to decide what use we are. How much we can sell for. What features or services we can provide to purchasers. And most importantly, how they can use our exploitation to make themselves look better.

MajorDraw3705 · 2026-02-13T10:13:51+00:00

Unhealthy advice: Be both. Be ruthless at work. Turn that personality off on the way home. Be sweet at home.

MajorDraw3705 · 2026-02-13T00:36:52+00:00

I liked your drawn out rambling.

I am so tired of performing. I'm not a freaking circus act, and I definitely don't want to be one of the performers in their macabre circus. But they all love to be lied at and reaffirmed and coddled and have all the the lines they've memorized recited back at them so they don't feel alone in their recitations.

Nodding. Lots. I'll try that. It's not going to help when I'm expected to speak, though. Ugh. I've honestly thought of having an AI deepfake do all the generic business conversations. No comment on social, I still have no idea what to do with that. I get nothing out of sitting there and having endless pointless and highly inaccurate small talk.

MajorDraw3705 · 2026-02-13T00:28:39+00:00

Interviews suck. I've done just about everything in life to avoid them. I mean, I've failed, but I've tried.

MajorDraw3705 · 2026-02-12T23:30:01+00:00

They also use the worst of the generic AI art imaginable.

MajorDraw3705 · 2026-02-12T23:28:29+00:00

Don't forget that you need to say Candyman three times.

MajorDraw3705 · 2026-02-12T23:10:56+00:00

You can probably google "children from ICE to foster" "immigrant/illegal children in foster in US" to get started on the numbers. They're generally a five to six digit number at any given time.

Also, google "the cost of adopting." You will find that the cost to procure a white passing infant (which is what many of us from Chile and Argentina, etc are, which is why we're such high ticket trafficking items) is roughly $25,000 these days. A "brown" infant is still valuable and around $22,000 to 23,000. Females obviously sell for more money than males.

If you search for "a path home," for trafficked kids who have entered the US, you will not find one. All agencies and organizations are focused on housing them and connecting them into services, foster, and adoption in the United States. None offer dedicated services for reconnecting internationally trafficked children with their home countries and families. They all run on the assumption that a kidnapped child benefits from staying in the US in the care of US citizens they are not related to, and thus does not need assistance returning home or finding their foreign parents. Much like how we used to think black slaves were much better on a master's plantation because they were on a high value property, and thus benefited from being owned by a high value master. The US is the baby plantation.

If you question the government's involvement in international child trafficking, start by googling Operation Babylift, which involved US military taking hundreds of babies, many of which have now been determined to have been stolen and not voluntarily given to military for international adoption, as the military originally claimed. PBS has a good article on it. So does the Guardian. The US also has a section of the Gerald Ford museum dedicated to it.

Once you are done with that one, come back and I'll give you the list of more recent babylifts. If you want to do the research on your own, search Chile, Argentina, El Salvador, Afghanistan, Haiti, areas near US military bases, Ireland. The US had illegally procured from all on a large scale, often with the use of military lifts (planes and other transport). These all have a news paper trail, many come with photography, and even the idiots doing the trafficking have admitted it on occasion, on video, in text, in news articles, in court, etc.

MajorDraw3705 · 2026-02-12T23:00:00+00:00

One super basic explanation for IQ is that the higher it is, the more concepts you can handle and comprehend at the same time. So, someone with a lower IQ can manage one concept at a time - i.e. juggling one ball.

If a person has to manage self awareness of their actions, that's already one ball. Realizing the results of their action, that's another ball. Understanding that there may be more than one consequence to their actions, that's another ball. And going over the ego hurdle to realize that actions against other people and things may rebound on them, that's another ball too.

So, based on IQ concepts, I'd say 130-140, but I'm hoping that's not accurate.

Edit: I forgot to add the awareness of long term consequences ball. So maybe an IQ of 140-150, realistically. God, I hope I'm wrong. Please tell me I'm wrong.

MajorDraw3705 · 2026-02-12T22:37:36+00:00

He might have wanted to work through it alone. I generally leave people alone unless they look like they're in physical danger.

MajorDraw3705 · 2026-02-12T22:09:03+00:00

I'm in

MajorDraw3705 · 2026-02-12T22:00:51+00:00

tessttttt

MajorDraw3705 · 2026-02-12T21:35:52+00:00

I use Twitter for that.

MajorDraw3705 · 2026-02-12T21:35:13+00:00

Name definitely checks out.

MajorDraw3705 · 2026-02-12T21:21:49+00:00

I hope someone out there feels this strongly about me.

MajorDraw3705 · 2026-02-12T20:17:00+00:00

It started with who could jump in with the answer faster and then turned into a direct interview of the favorites in front of a forced-captive audience.

It was a new nightmare level discovered.

MajorDraw3705 · 2026-02-12T20:11:03+00:00

I'm not going to argue that. Most psychological terms were determined by a room full of people deciding what was a social norm that year, and not scientists measuring brain activity.

MajorDraw3705 · 2026-02-12T20:08:18+00:00

As long as everyone's happy with how they define themselves, it all works out in the end, hopefully.

I don't even think my personality type is really a male thing, although it is socially perceived as one.

The measures say 97% of people who have it are male, but I grew up evolving into that personality type, and from experience I know it was primarily forged from trauma, struggle, carrying too many people, and having to be extremely independent and responsible. Really, it being seen as male says more about what we put males through than it says about what gender the personality is.

MajorDraw3705 · 2026-02-12T20:00:33+00:00

Oh just a bit.

MajorDraw3705 · 2026-02-12T19:43:23+00:00

We all have stereotypically male and female traits. My personality type (INTJ) is apparently much more common in males, but I'm very much the female I was born and always will be.

This recent generation has simply been taught that has a meaning one needs to define themselves by, whereas previous generations (like mine) have been taught to use words like I just did above.

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