Cockroach Milk: Yes. You Read That Right

Oh that’s the best food culture I could imagine.

I hate it when people overvalue food. I have chronic gastric issues and I’m just so fed up with people trying to feed me or tell me how I’ve not eaten enough.

It’s a suggestion, not a command. And a bad joke it was yo suggest it. I had way to much hard liquor yesterday.

https://youtu.be/PWrZCkL8Kqs

Why not tho. If it’s just because of money, I won’t protest in the slightest for those morons wanting to

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Oh sure, I’m not saying it’s just judo or martial arts or anything.

My point is that I’m thankful my mom made my 7-year old ass listen to someone who taught falling safely, as I fell quite frequently. And for some 20 years I did not realise just how strong the effect of the conditioning had been. Which was very good.

I’m sure you’d agree that someone just reading the instructions even if they’re perfect, would have a hard time achieving doing them on the first time. That those kind of things, tucking your chin and exhaling on impact, really only become familiar once you’ve drilled them again and again and again and again. I don’t exactly like repetition, and that judo course as a kid is one of the only things I’ve ever repeated before I was like 27. (Nowadays I do rewatch a lot of shows, I didn’t used to do that)

I survived because mom made me take judo at like a rather early age, I think I was like around six or seven. But practicing falling down safely. Ukemi.

Ukemi (受け身) refers to the art of safe falling and breakfalls in Japanese martial arts, such as judo and aikido, literally translating to “receiving body”. It is a critical skill for absorbing the impact of throws or takedowns, protecting the head and body, and ensuring training safety.

Like I didn’t even know I had that skill, but since these electric scooters and bikes and whatnot have come super popular and I’ve owned a few myself, I’ve been in way more falls and crashes than I was as a kid. Even somewhat serious ones.

But I never hit my head, and just found myself on the ground slightly winded.

In one I apparently made it sone 3m into the air, I remember seeing a car drive in front of me and then ground-sky-ground-sky-ground-sky. Luckily the dude wanted to call the cops (as he was blaming me for his wannabe tuned bmw got a bit smashed). Cops came and noted how it wasn’t my fault. The other dude had to pay a few hundred euros to me for ribs and whatnot.

Anyway how I’ve survived, literally, is intuitively shielding my head and falling the right way. Without even knowing it. I just realised after like a half a dozen crashes that it can’t be luck.

I should really start wearing a helmet.

No no, Big Library just isn’t Big enough to stick it to Big IP, so that’s why it seems like it even though I know librarians are still much the same.

I’m not saying they’re not, or that the librarians are any more capitalist than they were in the 90’s. I’m just saying it feels like they are.

I think she’s actually talked about how she’d have been trans if she had been born in a more trans-friendly age.

Like you also theorise, maybe that’s what making her so mad, other trans people getting to have lives outside the closet when she was too afraid to.

Oh wait you had that in there

She has even said that she wished she was a boy.

My bad read it too fast

And apparently Gene Roddenberry wasn’t an entirely perfect human being either.

I mean, yeah, sure, I guess that’s a decent solutions in terms of modern IP shit.

But like, we all know you’re not returning anything and if you wanted, you could also copy it for yourself.

I just dislike how it feels like when it was actually books, they had actual reasons to everything. There’s a queue because there’s limited copies. You need to return it and if you’re late there’s a fee, because it’s from other people’s time, etc. Nowadays that all feels like larping just to protect large companies IP’s essentially. Because digital copies don’t actually get returned.

Like when I was a kid I would’ve never thought a librarian would say “you’re not allowed to read that anymore”. Or that I couldn’t copy a thing down at home from one of their books. But now as your tokens to ebooks expire, it kinda does feel like that.

Mattress thickness aka the height of the sheet.

But yeah that is the issue. For me it’s the other way around as I’ve a large single and the mattress is essentially built in. So I just have a mattress topper (actually two) on it and the fitted sheet on that. And the sheet is way too high for just the mattress topper. Or the mattress topper isn’t thick enough. Same thing, really.

But makes fitted sheets run around like crazy.

How do you return a borrowed ebook…?

Yeah, that’s what they all say when the facts arw inconvenient.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534720300100

Or perhaps more your level:

https://www.wayofcats.com/blog/did-cats-domesticate-themselves/33813

You boldly offered me to ask if I wanted to know more, then refused to elaborate when actually asked.

Then say you won’t reply anymore. Sure thing, babe. ;>

Edit oh, right; “feel free to enjoy your belief system”

Fucking rofl. You have brain parasites which refuse to allow you a singles critical though towards cats.

Yet you’re talking about me being unrealistic.

Fuck off. There are literal dogs of war, just like there are war-horses. And pigeons. Because those all have a use and can be trained. Aside from killing vermin on ships, cats really do not have a use and you simply can not condition them to follow orders like domesticated animals.

Because they aren’t domesticated.

Feel like I’m repeating myself here, but that can’t be, since you’re definitely not ignoring facts for your feelings and then projecting I’m doing that. Definitely not. Even with all those sciency links in my comment and not even flimsy articles in yours, even though you claim there’s “legion” of cats having saved people.

Betcha you started desperately Googling after my last comment and couldn’t find one that didn’t fit the explanation I had, so you got mad. Reality hurts when you’re that wrong, eh?

Pfff. That’s simply not true. Not even remotely.

Oh no way, a gross oversimplification on the Internet? Who would do such a thing.

examples of kitties saving humans are legion.

No they’re not. Examples of dogs saving people are myriad. Cats? They exist, but they’re definitely not “legion”, despite the size of the world. You can see a lot of videos of cats “defending” people by attacking snakes or bears or whatever. But that’s the natural response the cat would have anyway, at least for what they consider their kittens. (And cats think people are just large non-hostile, inept, cats.

Oh hey here’s one where the cat isn’t attacking anything. https://www.pethealthnetwork.com/news-blogs/a-pets-life/hero-cat-saves-abandoned-baby-freezing-death

But it’s defending a baby, which has heightened characteristics of young’uns that cats recognise in us, like larger eyes and large head and whatnot. They’re pretty common in mammals. (Elephants also consider us babies afaik, because people keep large heads and large eyes in adulthood.)

But a cat doing a comparable stuff to dogs, which are actually domesticated and mysteriously adaptable. (We still don’t quite understand how there’s so much variance in dogs without any problems to crossbreeding)

I’m not trying to put down your relationship with any felines you might be friendly with, but I am pointing out that dogs are literally domesticated by people, whereas cats domesticated themselves.

It’s kinda how you could go to the worst prison imaginable and still pick up good deeds even violent offenders have done. And comparatively, you could go to a first grade class and the chances of finding violent offenders would be low, but obviously not zero. The violence would be rather different though.

Although that’s sort of a very strawmanny analogy, but it’s not for an argument, so it’s not a strawman. Especially because I very well recognise that some breeds of dogs are more violent than even a weirdly aggressive average-ish cat. That’s just because of the superb adaptation dogs have and the asshole people who practiced bloodsports.

So while some cats may have saved a few people, I just don’t see them being as capable of the type of love Sam has for Frodo. (And I’m not talking fanfics here.)