Not OP but I wanted to thank you for the quality of your comment. It’s insightful, seems comprehensive and pragmatic.

We are lucky to have knowledgeable lemmynautes sharing what looks like very good advice on this topic.

I’m also considering taking a second indoor cat so I’m grateful I could read a detailed and well thought out post on this.

I personally have a female cat but I feel a bit bad she could feel lonely or “bored” during my absence when I’m at work. I’m probably projecting human feeling on my cat but I still think she would appreciate a cat friend to play with when I can’t do so. Also my cat has always been very scared of humans (except me that she completely feels safe with). Which means that essentially she will hide for hours if any other human being visits me. My probably naive idea was that she would gain trust when she sees another cat much less afraid of humans and accept the fact that most humans are not a threat. Obviously this is not the main reason that motivates me to get another cat. But it will certainly be more comfortable for my cat to feel less threaten by any human visiting my place. And as a bonus I would also get another furry friend :)

I will continue to ponder that decision for a few months anyway but I’m really appreciative of your comment and the great insights on a complicated question.

I think stand up maths did a video getting stung by bullet ants and showed it’s not as insanely painful as coyote seemed to imply.

So I indeed think he is over-dramatic most of the time…

Hmm you immediately think it’s greed but it’s not obvious.

They could maybe just want the message and life of their daughter to better reach people. They could even have mistakenly thought it would be a perfect recreation of her voice.

So I don’t have much sympathy either but I wouldn’t assume the parents were greedy necessarily.

Just a shootout to the French team at Point De Contact for not leaving anyone behind no matter where they come from. Makes me really proud to be French when an association like that does the impossible and goes put of their way to help even though you could argue it’s out of their “jurisdiction”.

And best of luck to Liu for solving that issue.

I keep up with US news for years by now and I’m some French dude who shouldn’t care about it. The US is a preview of the next issues my country will encounter so I think it matters to follow some American news.

I think it doesn’t matter really why American elected Trump twice. It just raises the question on what can we do to change that. And there is nothing else really to do that trying to reach out and convince the other side.

My main philosophical question out of this is what can you do if your country decides unequivocally and democratically to be racist or Xenophobic or commiting war crimes?

It also doesn’t really matter as to why a large group of human beings can agree to be racist but I think it definitely says something about humanity. In some way it makes climate change more “acceptable” in my mind. Maybe we do deserve to go extinct if after all this progress and intellectual collaboration all we get is deciding to become racist or discriminatory, to morally fail, to prey on the weak and powerless.

That’s how bad the US looks for me right now. It’s depressing in general about us humans and not just America. It’s a testament to our ability to be evil and to collaborate to be evil or mean to others.

We usually get one or two people saying to look for the helpers in time of crisis. There is no helper for this crisis. Good luck living in a dictatorship I guess.

Turn left to wreck your car

I have played something like 50 hours of deadlock a few months ago and IMO it has strong MoBa elements. I actually think it’s more Dota but in TPS rather than a TPS trying to Dota.

The same aspects of Dota are strategically important in Deadlock IMO. You need to farm, you need to support, map control is very much relevant… I think it’s very close to Dota in what it requires from a player in terms of skills.

I would even say that you probably can be a very good deadlock player without good aim because the strategy is absolutely crucial. Also I have both seen experienced dota players and people with 0% experience in that genre discovering Deadlock and it makes a big difference in the learning curve. Dota players will be confused by the TPS aspect but are very fast in getting good in itemization, strategy, teamplay… They know what to do but are just not sure how to do it in a weird TPS form.

A noter que DDG est basé aux États-Unis ils sont donc à mon sens fondamentalement incapables de garantir le respect de votre vie privée.

DDG peut être forcé a donner vos informations au gouvernement américain et vous ne le sauriez probablement jamais.

Je n’ai jamais compris pourquoi une entreprise dont la vie privée est le slogan commercial voudrait s’installer aux États-Unis.

Alors je n’ai pas vraiment d’autres options à proposer mais au moins vous saurez à quoi vous en tenir.

Pareil j’ai écopé de bien 1 an de Qwant et c’était très difficilement utilisable. Au final je m’en servais comme “proxy Google” avec le raccourci &g ce qui faisait perdre le peu d’intérêt qu’avait le moteur de recherche.

C’est juste nul comme moteur.

No, just upgraded from a working computer to an up to date not working computer.

To protect people outside the fence obviously.

I think it will be very hard for another MOBA to challenge the competition…

LoL, Dota2 and even Deadlock? They better bring something very innovative otherwise this project is doomed.

A great game for sure. Probably my most awaited game release.

Only issue is that I need to finish factorio before that release and I wasn’t expecting the factorio DLC to extend the game by like 3x…

Anyway Manor lords was my most played single player game for 2024 in its rather barebone build and it was already a blast. Something that brings back when I was playing Settlers as a kid but with modern graphics.

One single French company and that’s it :(?

I thought we had some great AI researchers in France but it seems they are long gone if all we can muster is one startup?

Moi je pense que tu retires une Valérie Pécresse de la vie publique tu as une hausse de la démographie. Je préfère ma solution.

Oh I’m sure Adobe has the greatest of intentions on this. Such a reputable company that has a stellar past.

I’m sure they won’t gatekeep this digital human signature in some atrocious proprietary standard along with an expensive subscription to have the honor of using it.

Don’t listen to Adobe on AI or even better don’t accept any “idea” or solution from Adobe.

This may be obvious but maybe not moving furniture after the surgery and maybe planning ahead and rethink the way furniture may be suitable for her. For example if a sleeping spot is a bit hard to reach maybe get her used to some easier route to it.

I have no experience with blind cats but I would think it would help. Cats have a very good ability to memorize their space but it needs to stay the same for a blind cat.

Just an error that targets only one side of the political spectrum. Of course.

I know you wanted to be sarcastic but you ended up not making any sense.

Also we only see the past since our vision has a bit of “latency”.

So I guess we never see reality but just a delayed representation of our environment as interpreted by our brain.