saigot

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[–] saigot 25 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Overly long nails are a health hazard, not trimming a cats nails when appropriate is neglect. An overgrown nail can get stuck and cause them to break a digit, it can make it difficult and painful to walk, it can also make the nail break off, which is painful and can become infected.

Most cats will grind their nails down themselves to some degree, not by simply walking but by scratching against something (e.g a tree, your couch), which serves the additional purpose of marking territory. A misconception you seem to have is that a trimmed cat's claws can't scratch, this is not the case, a cat is still able to hunt* or defend itself with trimmed nails. It will simply be less likely to accidentally hurt you (overgrown claws can still poke through while the claws are retracted for instance) and will have less desire to scratch at furniture.

Here is the humane societies take on it (my local and national versions of the society all have similar stuff, and my local chapter even provides free/subsidized nail trimmings).

Trimming a cat's claws every two to three weeks is an important part of maintaining your pet's health. Not only does a quick trim protect you, your pet and your family, it can also save your sofa, curtains and other furniture.

* outdoor cats hunting is a serious environmental concern and you shoudl take steps to make sure they don't catch anything, but that's a separate conversation.

P.S it is kinda a weird move to write as if SGA is not you.

[–] saigot 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

The US navy could destroy an airforce 10x our size and there is no way to change that in the short term, especially by giving the US money. We should not be investing in conventional warfare.

[–] saigot 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It's the first thing that shows up for me on cbc, posted 4 hours after your comment. I think this might have been more that it takes time to research, interview, get responses from the opposition and fact check.

[–] saigot 6 points 1 month ago

I like the treasure trail that looks like diarrhea

[–] saigot 38 points 1 month ago (12 children)

Anecdotally almost all the people who went to the states after graduating my compsci degree (about 40% of my cohort) have come back now. One guy in my cohort died in a firefight with ICE, it just isn't safe.

[–] saigot 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The application includes a legal opinion by a retired superior court justice (who did the opinion on the condition of remaining anonymous) supporting prosecuting the PM for the allegation of obstruction of justice, and possibly also for breach of trust

Being unwilling to put a name to it, even while retired seems like a huge red flag for the credibility of the claim.

[–] saigot 15 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Carney himself has said he wants to run a clean campaign and not do attack ads, I know how often politicians renege on that, but i hope Carney sticks to it, i think it will ruin the unifying atmosphere that has him polling so well. Let her crazy speak for itself.

[–] saigot 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

In common parlance they will call themselves software or network engineers, but their official title will be something else, a title my company uses is "senior software engineering 1/2/3" the -ing considered enough to change it. It's usually not a big deal unless you falsely represent yourself like this guy is doing or you're going through a legal process (I got a US work visa and the lawyers stressed that I should not refer to myself as an engineer during any immigration process unless I really was one for instance).

[–] saigot 3 points 1 month ago

Just like a curt "yes" or even "yes sir" can be seen as somewhat rude in some contexts, so to can its emoji equivalent.

[–] saigot 8 points 1 month ago

The 4 state solution. Dont mind the discontinuities, SA deserves that sliver of Egypt and Oman is basically Iran anyway (pronounced Eye-ran ofc)

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