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To clarify, local (i.e., municipal) police does exist (generally in towns and cities with more than 5,000 citizens), and is usually called guardia urbana, policía local, or policía municipal.

There's also, as I said, the policía nacional and the guardia civil, both operating in the whole country.

And some autonomías (states, if Spain was federal...ish, which it sort of kind of is somewhat supposed to be, in theory, but effectively isn't, in practice) also have their own police force (which doesn't mean the others won't also operate there, of course).

It's a complicated country, mostly because it's really several, held together with duct tape and, occasionally, barbed wire.

Not the local police.

Not even the main Spanish police (the policía nacional).

The fucking guardia civil.

The military (despite the name) police inherited from Franco's dictatorship and somehow never disbanded.

The ones who attempted a coup back in '81 to bring back the dictatorship.

These ain't your regular local variety pigs.

There's absolutely no reason for them to have been called for a noise complaint.

Something stinks here, even more than the pigs themselves, even if they belong to a particularly stinky breed.

Horny cats might randomly bite your ankle (if male) or enrich your nights (and your neighbours') with the song of their people (if female), but I've never seen a cat trying to hump a human (or anything other than another cat).

Dogs? Sure. Endangered New Zealand flightless parrots? Yeah. Once. On video. Cats? Not once.

Is the first one a siamese..?

Extremely chatty critters, those...

Because amongst cats grooming is a show of dominance.

Cats have standards.

The triangle / circle / square (or back / home / app tray) navigation system.

I've had to re-enable it on my last phones because they come with the much less usable new gesture navigation, and I dread the day it's not an option anymore.

The classic app drawer.

If I wanted an iPhone (with their cluttered, unusable, and extremely user hostile design) I'd get an iPhone.

I don't want my screen cluttered with random icons, I want multiple sliding screens with widgets for the apps I need to be able to check at a glance, with a row of quick access apps / app folders at the bottom (slidable and hidable if possible), with an icon to access the list of less used apps on the top right, where it used to be back when android was useable instead of a cheap iOS clone.

Luckily third party launchers are still a thing.

Thor's the god of thunder, not lightning.

Indeed it is!

Only an American would assume that when someone says people they mean companies instead of, you know, people. 🤦‍♂️

The multi-bear!

60

More like three hundred (unless you mean how long it lasted).

The government parties do.

The government parties who approved these regulations..?

About 80% of orange cats are male; not as clear as one in three thousand for calicos, but stilll.

The problem is that what sounds good in German doesn't necessarily sound good in other gendered languages (romance languages, for instance), so if you know both you need to know multiple mutually incompatible lists of arbitrarily gendered words.

And if I did, you deserved it

Didn't he sort of skip all the way to this point back in 2006 at Howard Stern's when he set his minimum age for girls to have sex with at zero, sorry, thirteen..?

“Do you think you could now be banging 24-year-olds,” Stern asked in the 2006 interview.

“Oh, absolutely,” Trump responded “I have no trouble.”

“Would you do it” Stern clarified.

“I have no problem,” the future president said.

Stern’s co-host Robin Quivers then asked, “do you have an age limit or would you…”

“If I- No, no, I have no age–. I mean, I have an age li…” Trump replied.

Then, when asked to provide his “upper bracket,” Trump said, “I don’t want to be like Congressman Foley, with, you know, 12-year-olds.”

empathy should be a basic requirement for any political office in a democracy

Empathy should be a basic requirement for participation in society, period.

The whole concept of a social contract is based (and dependant) on empathy.

You lack empathy, you get put into a mental hospital to get it fixed, and to prevent you from harming others and society in general.

If your case is currently incurable (probably because it's not acquired but due to some as yet unfixable brain malformation), you get taken care of as well as possible for the rest of your life (or until a cure is developed), but prevented from ever interacting with society.

This alone would fix most of humanity's problems.

sandman

I'm pretty certain gods in Sandman work like in American Gods or Discworld, i.e., they're created by people believing in them (and die when people stop believing). See for instance Bast, who's surviving on a handful of old believers, if I recall correctly.

(That said I haven't seen season 2 of the adaptation, so maybe they changed it from the books and you're referencing that..?)

I remember that guy who did some minor parts in Hollywood (and also did some side work as a camera operator), was told he had no future in the business, became a carpenter to pay his bills, did some carpentry work for a minor producer who got him a minor role in some fledgling director's second (and first successful) film, said director liked him enough to hire him to read lines for his third film's castings, and since he turned out to be more charismatic than the guys who were actually auditioning ended giving him one of the main roles in said film... which turned on to be one of the most successful films of all time (mostly thanks to said director realising the power of merchandising). That carpenter went on to have a pretty good acting career in Hollywood after that, it turns out; he's still working now at over eighty years old.

That probably wouldn't happen these days, and Hollywood is the poorer for it.

Exactly.

What we did to dogs was monstrous.

Take a wolf and give it the brain of a neurotic brain damaged human toddler, biologically enslaved to us to the point of needing constant work and praise to avoid being a bad dog.

(And we didn't stop there; no, we had to keep meddling and turn them into misshapen shrunken parodies of themselves, living in constant pain and horror.)

I suppose it was somewhat fine back when we spent all day working together, but keeping that locked up all day in a small house or flat with nothing to do but bark at the occasional passerby is downright animal torture.

I don't need another reminder of humanity's hubris every time I get home. I have more than enough guilt as it is.

At least cats did it by themselves¹, on their own terms, and won't tolerate the kind of abuse most dogs routinely endure, if given an option.

1.– Except for designer breeds, of course. If cruel and unusual punishment had a place in society it'd be being applied to child abusers, people who talk or use their phone in theatres, and pet breeders.