some fun facts about this: the black cat started trying to get in right at the same time that the museum was hosting an exhibition of Mitsuaki Iwago’s photography of cats, and after the photos of this started circulating, the museum started to sell merchandise based on the cat trying to get in:
This is the greatest video ever posted on the internet
Fun Fact: Kittens learn to hunt their prey using their mother’s tail. This is so cute cause this tail is a lot faster than a cat’s tail but the kitten is doing their best. ❤🐈
Cute 🙂
So what I’m hearing is that training with a dog is going to turn this cat into the APEX PREDATOR
unlike a lot of angry folks, i have no real problem with people who have cultivated their assets over a few generations and have a million or two in property and investments. that’s something you can actually do with hard work, time, and enough luck that medical surprises or other misfortune doesn’t take it from you. i know actually quite a few families that could pool that much across three generations or a handful of siblings and cousins. that’s the kind of wealth that gave rise to the story of wealth being the result of hard work and intelligence – because if there are a couple doctors or lawyers in the family, or someone bought IBM stock in the 70′s, some attention and elbow grease can give you seven figure results.
which is NOT to say ‘everyone can do it, if you’re poor you’re just not trying’. there are a lot of factors that go into that, and a lucky start is the biggest one. in america, abled whites get that lucky start a lot more than everyone else, and yadda yadda you know the rest.
but the point is, people with like 1.5 million, or 4 million, can end up there by taking advantage of their luck and applying work to it over decades. if that’s what their priority is, of course. so i don’t look at someone with a lake house and an investment portfolio and instantly think EVIL BAD. i think: i don’t really agree with their priorities and we probably wouldn’t get along socially, but the instinct to grow your family’s prosperity is universal, and i’m not going to condemn them without evidence of wrongdoing.
ok, that said?
the ultra-rich?
the billionaires? the hundreds-of-billions-aires?
monstrous.
you cannot cultivate money like that. you cannot grow it as a family project. it starts with an absurd windfall, and then you grow it through crimes compounding upon crimes. crimes against humanity, if not crimes by the law. you acquire billions by making money your god, and flushing your soul down the toilet.
There’s an incredible perversion to the fact that children of colonised people will almost never get the chance to see large portion of the history of their land while the colonisers can gain easy access to our histories, going from our arts and artifacts to actual remains of our dead
the minnesota starvation experiment is SO wild, like these guys didn’t eat less than 1500 calories per day at the very lowest point and they ate that for barely 6 months and lost their minds. they were obsessive-compulsive about food, tried so many times to sneak-binge food that they had to put security measures in place to stop them, they were extremely lethargic, irritable, had no sex drive, couldn’t concentrate, and had hyperphagia (extreme eating/hunger) for months and even years after the study ended. and they didn’t have eating disorders!
considering that most people with EDs are sick for much, much longer than that, and often restrict much more severely, it’s a wonder that anyone makes it through tbh. bc it’s not only the physical chaos you have to endure, there’s an additional psychological burden that the MSE subjects didn’t have to bear (the starvation itself is responsible for some of what we identify as ED symptoms, but not all). we basically have a food phobia, and most of us have body dysmorphia plus massive anxiety about weight gain. often we’re returning hard to emotions and trauma and all the pain we tried to cope with using the ED, and we’re doing so in these incredibly vulnerable bodies that are performing triage on themselves.
starvation and refeeding are harrowing even without debilitating fears around food, body image distortions, and other mental health issues, but with them?? i hope y’all know how much you’re overcoming
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