That, as you implied, depends on the environment. In a safe rural setting, which are not as depopulated as one would think (would people complain of rural America for example if it was a drop in the bucket), it's more like one to three years less than the average indoor cat.
Cats still do well outdoors in rural areas. Disneyworld is proof of this. Every night, Disneyworld fills to the brim with cats, and the park decided to use this to their advantage to keep mice out. They don't live as long living their life outdoors, but it's not urgently harmful to them either.
You say that like those cats aren't just on walks around the block.
Non-casualness and lack of points of discussion aside, I wish I could help with everything. And maybe I can. But not in a casual setting. How many places have you lived? Sometimes this is a factor.
I cannot stress this enough though, the free passes that seem to be taken for granted are more like liberties exploited. Take it from someone who has made better friends with the people of the next generation than their parents who have spilled how it really is.
I'd say !casualconversation@lemm.ee does a good job. I liked the equivalent in our favorite land of the snoos, but would say the one on here easily beats it out in terms of a good time. The original community that inspired the one on here had a very frequent judgmental streak.
My two only friends (in the strict sense of the word) famously like to photobomb as one of their hobbies. Including in my own content, sometimes I surprise myself learning how far-reaching they have succeeded with this, I might be reading something that seems like it would come from a foreign country, and there they are.
I have several small ideas that seem like they'd go together in a work of fiction, but there are also so many gaps that seeing it ruins any forward thinking I might have about it.
If stray cats in a town are friendly, that means the community is friendly. If they're timid, beware the people.
Kah-muh-luh as it would be pronounced in her mind. Or Camille, if it was anglicized.
When one is deleted, are the posts deleted too?
I can relate. Even when I have things I might say, I have nothing to say because I never know what to talk about. If you ask me an open question, even one like "how are you", if history is anything to go by, the indecision would kill the conversation. And conversations about my potential BF, my job, etc. come off like I'm less a family/community member to them, at a family gathering no less. Sometimes one would rather have someone to be silent with.
People asking me if I've tried turning it off and then turning back on again, sometimes while seeming to imply next I should try reversing the polarity, inserting blinker fluid into it, and giving it a good talk like it's a homegrown tomato or something.
Not really dating per se but socialization in general. I never know what to say in a conversation, my mind is just not good at that. And then I spend too long thinking of something to say and people lose interest.
However we want. It's different for everyone of us.
Someone asked to make a rap playlist of a hundred rap tracks by favorite rappers, and me and the other person making it, both wanting to make a statement regarding our respective view on rap as a music genre, snuck in the theme song for the Fresh Prince of Bel Air to see what would happen. The listener didn't even notice until the tenth time listening to it.
Unless on usurped or deceptive pretenses, I do not encourage the act of circumventing bans, and other people in charge would say the same.
That said, if someone gives off the vibes that they're in the business of it, it cannot be enforced as if it were an exact science. It can only be dissuaded based on certain definitive details. We kindly ask if you may give the benefit of the doubt, and if people (not us) have the authority to do so, they will act.
Let people higher up take care of these matters. Do not harass people or vent at them over such matters, and report people cautiously, not based on whims. Or as a list of rules once said...
"Remember the human" is as good a rule here as anywhere. Thanking all for their patience.
I might as well ask this since I got stung or bit by a bee yesterday during America day.
Last year, when taking strolls, it was rare enough for a bee to swarm around me that I could go whole strolls without it happening sometimes.
This year, they swarm around me everywhere. Everywhere. It's like fighting your way through putty patrollers. They respawn instantly, there's absolutely no lag. Shoo one away and one comes back five seconds later. Sometimes for three hour strolls encompassing six miles.
What the heck happened? Anyone else notice this?
There's a baby possum that's kind enough to be a regular visitor where I am. Poor kid has what appears to be a wound on his/her face, almost like a cleft lip. I am no veterinarian, but a "code of honor" relevant to my hobby here casts a shadow over me and I was wondering what kind of issue the disfigurement represents so I don't feel guilty.
As video games develop more and more over the years, companies have been making them more and more realistic-looking. I can guess this is related to expectations, but am I the only one who doesn't care about graphics? We could be using the same processing power to store worlds that have as much exploration potential as the Earth itself if we weren't afraid to save on processing power by going back to 8-bit.
I've definitely shared this concept or observation or whatever you want to call it before, but recent events have made me think of it again. I should clarify first that what I base this train of thought on isn't entirely something that clicks for me, something I might not get into expressing, but it definitely makes you or at least me wonder why the implications in the train of thought aren't considered, at least outside my occupation (since I'm in an occupation designed to work around the otherwise neglect of the concept), and I thought of running this by.
Back in the old days, it was common for business people to pay their workers more honestly, as in based on what they thought the worker seemed to deserve. Often the workers would seem underwhelmed. Organized criminals would then step in and say "you'll get more out of us" and so that part of society grew. For some reason, the first thing within the mind of the people in charge, trying to assess everything, was "let's invent this thing, we might call it the minimum wage". Alrighty. So this side thinking, what do we think of it? Something happened, right?
So here is where the train of thought works into the picture. Matters of monetization are just one arena up the sleeve of bad actors. A lot of people feel abruptly socially isolated. When this happens, instinct is often to seek out companions. Social life might be dead or people might be avoidant. Someone I know is in such a situation. Along comes what might be called a bad actor. To them, they might see a potential extension of themselves with freedom of minimal effort. And voila, someone new joins the "bad crowd" or "dysfunctional crowd".
Watching this unfold myself, I think to myself. Places have a "minimum reference point" for the topic of exchange/payment/whatever the word is, so then what does the non-thinking come from to apply this thought to the whole isolation thing mentioned? Anyone here have people they know who were absorbed into a bad part of society when everything seemed dead and thought "well, it's not like anyone else was going to give them what they need"?
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It's definitely hard to miss all the people where I live pulling out of driveways in dresses and people taking pictures across all the public areas, it really lets you know it's prom time.
What's your experience with prom (or multiple proms if you went to others too)? How did everyone look? How was it celebrated? Was it good?
It's nice to meet all you. I am she/her, can speak Toki Pona and English (non-natively), and locatable on Reddit as MozartWasARed. The links at https://discord.gg/sEuSSDz6TQ and https://www.deviantart.com/triagonal/art/My-copyright-policy-and-the-impact-it-extends-into-906668443 are pertinent to me.