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Jay@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•Minnesota politician shot and killed, another injured in "targeted political violence"English30·28 days agoThe country is in the midst of a “second American Revolution” that will be bloodless “if the left allows it to be.”
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts (Project 2025) https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/04/leader-of-the-pro-trump-project-2025-suggests-there-will-be-a-new-american-revolution-00166583
Jay@lemmy.catoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•Trump is creating so many jobs with this parade (This is satire)English38·1 month agoSad part is although the ad is fake, Fight fight fight LLC is real and it’s one of two entities that owns the $TRUMP meme coin.
All I know is if my house were to ever catch fire, the first thing I’d be doing is busting a window and tossing my cats out of the house. Then maybe my stereo… time permitting.
Jay@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•LA protests live updates: Marines will be deployed in response to immigration protestsEnglish19·1 month agoJust to point out it doesn’t matter how white you are if you say something they don’t agree with.
Jay@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•ICE Won’t Rule Out Retaliating Against Immigrants Who Testify in Free Speech CaseEnglish22·1 month agoThey can literally lie about anything, but if we speak the truth? Now that’s a paddlin…
Jay@lemmy.cato memes@lemmy.world•Not like anyone wants to shoot up in the bathroomEnglish20·1 month agoI live out in the boonies. It’s cheaper here, but not really when you factor in the costs of travel to get literally anything. Your money is just going into different pockets.
Jay@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•OOPS: Trump Trade War Has U.S. Automakers Looking to Move Manufacturing to China, Per WSJEnglish15·1 month agoThat Trumps entire purpose was to destroy the US?
This right here is a wasp’s idea of heaven.
Jay@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•FEMA staff baffled after head said he was unaware of US hurricane season, sources sayEnglish17·1 month agoI’m not confident that they’re competent enough to find anyone more incompetent than they are.
Jay@lemmy.cato Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that the actor for McGruff the Crime Dog is in prison for drug-/weapons-related charges.English9·1 month agoSo terrible dangerous of him…(Clutches pearls) Someone might have gotten high off all that devil’s lettuce!!
Jay@lemmy.cato Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL the term 'blockbuster' came from a time when blocks of ice in front of a fan were used to cool movie audiences. A large audience required more cooling thus "busting" the block of ice.English35·1 month agoSeveral theories have been put forward for the origin of the term in a film context. One explanation pertains to the practice of “block booking” whereby a studio would sell a package of films to theaters, rather than permitting them to select which films they wanted to exhibit. However, this practice was outlawed in 1948 before the term became common parlance; while pre-1948 high-grossing big-budget spectacles may be retroactively labelled “blockbusters,” this is not how they were known at the time. Another explanation is that trade publications would often advertise the popularity of a film by including illustrations showing long queues often extending around the block, but in reality the term was never used in this way. The term was actually first coined by publicists who drew on readers’ familiarity with the blockbuster bombs, drawing an analogy with the bomb’s huge impact. The trade press subsequently appropriated the term as short-hand for a film’s commercial potential
Jay@lemmy.catoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Why would anyone want to parallel park. I'm going to bed.English406·1 month agoIf I can learn to parallel park a semi with a 53’ trailer I’m pretty sure you can learn how to park your Mazda.
Ya that sucks to be in that situation, but I know it’s very easy to fall into that trap. I’ve put up ads for homes in the past for these guys, but it’s hard to find homes for many of them when you live in the boonies. Despite spending a lot of money on them (it’s over $220 plus tax alone just to get a female fixed here, plus I blow about $200 a month on food and litter) I give them away for free when I can.
I’ve wanted to upgrade my 15 yr old pc for awhile, but to me this is more important. (I would have bought some upgrades this spring but a $750 vet bill took care of that.) But if I didn’t do what I’m doing, there would be at minimum 8 more litters of cats around to deal with, or a lot more dead cats.
Isn’t that most pets? (aside from goldfish and those hairless critters)
Honestly if it were up to me I wouldn’t have had any cats. I’m more of a dog person, my last dog died of cancer a few years ago. But I do love these little assholes and want to help the best I can. When I do find a home for one, it makes me a little sad to see them go, but very happy someone else loves them and that I did my part to help give them a normal life.
Ya I get it. I really do. I’m sure there’s nothing I can say or do to change that opinion, but here’s my choices…
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ignore the strays and let them die. (I live in Canada where the temps regularly go down to -30 to -40c. We have found other cats in the area that had frozen to death, the most recent being just a few months ago. That’s a long story all by itself, but someone has been dumping kittens out here in the area. 5 more kittens were just found abandoned nearby several weeks ago, but a neighbor found a surrogate mother for them, and they’re doing well)
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Bring them to the closest vet clinic (30 miles away in the closest town) where they will be euthanized.
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Help them and potentially find them homes if possible. (We are here) I have spent several thousand dollars getting them fixed, medication etc. Several that we’ve taken in have found new forever homes, and two I have now will also have a new home soon. (The people that want them are moving this summer but can’t take them in just yet.)
Aside from my original 5 that I don’t let outside, most of them can and do go outdoors, weather permitting. (Ya I know, but they’re basically farm cats) I live in a rural area and have a heated shed for them if needed.
If that makes me a crazy cat hoarder, then I guess I am.
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Jay@lemmy.cato United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•Elon Musk is leaving the Trump administration after leading effort to slash federal governmentEnglish12·1 month agoI’m calling bullshit. He’s just trying to hide because of the backlash, but his grubby little mitts are still gong to be all over everything.
… and it’s already flooding apparently.