Past a certain age, cats tend to develop that specific physique as they lose muscle tone — usually around 17 or 18 years old. By that point they probably also have arthritis making grooming more difficult/painful, which can contribute to the “mangy” look of their fur. Of course, age itself also affects the fur in various ways including thinning and changes in luster/texture. It’s also very common for senior cats to have some sort of kidney disease, which can lead to dehydration that further affects the fur.

To be fair, that is a pretty funny prank.

“Oh, you wanted comedy? Here, have this harrowing tale about genocide and the great depths of human suffering instead!”

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Hear hear!

It’s time to stop taking any CEO at their word.

Edit: scratch that, the time to stop taking any CEO at their word was 100 years ago.

I don’t think Midgley really did anything to increase the amount of carbon in the atmosphere — just the amount of lead and CFCs.

This community desperately needs some better moderation…

Environmental historian J. R. McNeill opined that Midgley “had more adverse impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth’s history”

Ouch.

die USA

NSA has entered the chat

I hate to break it to you, but our meat brains don’t even have continuity of consciousness. We become unconscious all the time. The only real constant is the “hardware” our consciousness emerges from, but even that is always changing.

I’ve been getting a lot of ads for Ground News lately in other media that I consume, to the point where it makes me think most of their revenue is going right back into marketing.

I would not be surprised at all if they’ve tossed some money at the mods here for the purpose of boosting their signal even further.

Which, when presented without a shed of evidence, is equally dangerous (as these last few weeks have very clearly demonstrated).

This comment has big “Haitians are eating cats” energy.

I don’t have any proof, but just think about it, man!

Really? Back in the day even Charon took his cut.

There’s a state park in Kentucky called “Big Bone Lick”

I feel like this could create some pretty toxic incentives.

Like, imagine if the moment a person dies all of their works immediately go into the public domain… What’s to stop a company like Disney from just straight-up assassinating people who create promising IPs? They paid 4 billion dollars for Star Wars — but why not just have George Lucas murdered for a fraction of the price?

It will certainly be gratuitous…

That’s for courts to decide ignore, peasant!

In scientific terms? An absolute fuck-ton of football fields.

In very next line, it says the distance is 4.37 lightyears away… which is also wrong, lol

For anyone wondering, the actual correct answer is about 4.25 lightyears or about 40 trillion kilometers.