They haven’t released his diagnosis but he had been struggling with paranoia and delusions prior. Also a long history of mental health/police contact and very recent calls from his family to hospital to get him help. This was entirely preventable if the mental health supports were adequately available.

Severe, severe mental illness. He wasn’t drunk or old.

He wasn’t. I’m not going to post his name or race here, but he has been charged and his name made public.

Put scratching posts (both vertical and flat) near the areas where they are doing this. Redirect when you see them doing it in the wrong spots, and you can get sprays to make certain areas more/less attractive for scratching. They also might want more play time. Scratching is normal cat behaviour but there are ways to give them healthy ways to practice it.

Too many people put math into their search engines and not their calculator.

People are doing what now? fr? There’s a whole ass app for that.

Hey at least they fired the guy. How many US cops do you think have been accused of sexual harassment and not been fired? (It’s a lot, I bet)

Bless project managers. The ones I’ve seen in IT seem generally better off because programmers and engineers seem to be better at getting their work done, but outside of IT, it’s like herding cats trying to get people to do their shit. I do not understand how any of you can do it full time.

I’ve done my fair share of project coordination and have had people tell me I should go into project management officially but quite frankly I’d rather chew glass. Y’all are saints.

“Gutted” gets every single time, but for the most unfunny and fucked up reason.

I was at a bar and a guy was describing how his pet got hit by a car and he found it kind of split down the belly, then he said “I was gutted”, describing his reaction. But his pet was also quite literally gutted. I didn’t laugh or anything but it was just such a dark thing to say it was almost funny.

If anyone ever needs to understand why sex ed is important, I’m gonna send them here.

Yeah the conservative thing has been so wild to me since I never saw my immigrant parents or millenial friends gain a ton of wealth or get more conservative. The political ideology is very clearly tied to wealth but I’m seeing even wealthier parents of friends not buying into it because they see how badly the economy has been fucked for their children and grandchildren.

But it IS normal for a girl to think “of course I’d rather be a boy”, right?

Right??

I’d like to point out that you’re in this mess because the US system has failed its citizens so badly that addiction is rampant and there is little to no social support for mental health or people experiencing poverty. Not to mention that your government provided those guns to the mexican cartels AND played a huge role in causing drug addiction in the US in the first place.

I have said it before and will say it again, the demand for drugs comes from WITHIN the US. Fix your social support systems and stay the fuck out of everyone else’s business.

My family calls him Mickey. My aunt doesn’t speak English and couldn’t quite get his name right so now he’s just Mickey, like the mouse.

Other than the crippling economic crisis it’s putting us through, I really like that things in the grocery store are better labelled to show they’re local or Canadian now. I’ve always preferred to buy local because it’s better for the environment, now it’s easier.

Lululemon is Canadian, but you’re right about most of the products being made in various Asian countries.

But also their CEO is a piece of garbage and nobody should be buying their overpriced shit anyway.

Have we seen the Canadian airline companies jack up national flight prices like how the big grocers are jacking up Canadian product prices or nah?

In Canada we see a lot less of that due to rules around news and reporting on social media, but there’s a push for better regulation still. I worry it’s not enough to keep us clear of the conservatives this election.

I really hope you’re right. I’m actually very scared that they’ll take over our social media this election season and we’ll get fucked as well.

I am Mexican, I deem you honorary Mexican so you may share the joy of having a not so shitty president.

I mean, I don’t live in Mexico so she’s technically also not my president but if you want I can also deem you honorary Canadian.