Depends on the cat and the relationship you have with the cat.

Dominance is also shorthand for the threat/wariness and manipulation thing that is part of the cat nature. Cats have a quick and very reactive nervous system. If a dog is a sedan or a truck, a cat is a two seat sports car. Cats are also manipulative as fuck. They’d be quite sociopathic if they were human.

I love cats (and dogs).

Now, that’s pretty funny.

Nuke a godless communist gay baby seal for Christ!

I miss that T-shirt, I think my mother and ex-wife conspired and burned it.

You can get concentrated permetherin, mix with water and apply with spray bottle to cotton clothes/socks. It bonds to the fiber and keeps the ticks off. Lasts several washes, longer if you don’t dry clothes with heat.

Much cheaper to buy the concentrate instead of the premix.

Spray outside, allow clothes to dry outside. Stuff is pretty much harmless to humans. When still wet or in concentrate, it is absolutely deadly to cats. After it has bonded to your clothes, it won’t hurt the cats. Doesn’t work if you apply it to your skin, the skin oils or something deactivate it.

Haven’t had a tick in years since I started using it.

I appreciate the in-depth response. I was really just having some fun trolling engineers. You’ve been around the block so you understand the arrogance inherent in pretty much anything technical. It’s totally immature but it also makes me grin.

I was amusing myself. Trolling engineers can be pretty fun and this is a target rich environment. I’ve seen a lot of bad engineering over the years and sometimes it’s just plain cathartic to make fun of them.

My bad, not design authority as that’s a specific thing. They are allowed to design and the guy rubber-stamping often doesn’t catch much.

Ultimately, this is a religious issue. Engineers are heathens that should be burned at the stake. Occasionally, you meet a good one who’s been housetrained by the people that actually do the things.

Yup. Thing is, it’s known that ‘machinists’ coming out of trade school aren’t worth a damn for years. The same is true of enginneers, yet they turn them loose on CAD and they create designs that make everyone miserable.

This is one of the big problems with SpaceX/Blue Origin/Firefly. The designs are piss poor because the majority of their engineers are green.

Engineers shouldn’t have design authority until they’ve spent a few years manufacturing.

Only thing dumber than a mechanical engineer is an electrical engineer trying to design a housing.

You want to understand the deep magic, talk to electricians and technicians.

All hat, no cattle. Too much truck, not enough dick. Just like jacked up stupid trucks, it’s suburban men cosplaying. They’re imitating a culture they aren’t a part of and don’t understand.

Yup. There’s also McDoodles, Booger King, Taco Hell…

Depressingly acurate.

Alfonso Ribeiro will always be FADDER!

SPEAK UP, WE CAN’T HEAR YOU.

Memory unlocked.

I learned that furries were a thing in 2000. Was acquaintances with a guy that hung out at Wiffle Horse late at night.

Friend of a friend social group stuff. He was always in a booth sketching.

We were all on so much drugs.

My mind was blown that he was selling pictures of cartoon rabbits in football gear and that he was doing it over the internet. His stuff was totally queer. I remember him explaining yiff and how hard we all laughed that he was actually making fat stacks on it.

Thanks for reminding me of that!

I reckon a friend of theirs was looking for something real hard.

Hindsight is always 20/20.

I’m pretty okay with Duggar snark and Sister Wives snark. My girl follows all of it. Anything that spotlights the abuse inherent in fundamentalist Mormonism/Evangelicalism is mostly a good thing, in my book.

No clue about the particulars on this. Never heard of her before.

That’s a great Fitzgerald quote. I had to look it up. Written after The Great Gatsby but published shortly before, The Rich Boy is a novelette. From 1926.

1926. I fucking hate knowing history. I fucking hate feeling like Cassandra.

Sometimes a DIY icepick lobotomy doesn’t sound like a bad idea.

I thought Ghislane was the Mossad contact, wasn’t her father actually in Mossad leadership? Epstein was the ‘party’ boy, gag, and Maxwell was operations?

I’ll go with you.

I’m still going to want to have a hard talk with God about why She allows cancer babies and such…