You could get halfway to this now by hiding a camera on the cat and watching the recording. Not being in direct control of the cat would make it trickier, though...

Hardly a radical idea—I'd say it's even the modern norm—to want get to know a person first. Literally being the cat, though, is a unique chance to see the see the suitor off guard, as they probably don't expect the cat can understand them or judge their thoughts or words.

I want to hear some hard metal polka now, please!

Here's hoping for no cancer.
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I feel like I ought to have seen this one coming... And yet.

Nice! Reminds me a bit of Miles Vorkosigan (longtime protagonist of author Lois McMaster Bujold) being urged to "Unpack, Miles!", as other characters looked at him sideways for leaving out the obvious-only-to-him details.

As I sat here and pulled it up on my phone, it had the audacity to say "This character is terrible with technology and doesn't know how to use a smartphone."

I LOVE the sign that says "IMPEACH Musk and the FELON".

See, that one I like! That one is uplifting, encouraging. I want a cookie to make me feel hopeful, not guilty!

In the moment, since we'd talked about responsibilities in relation to living through Big Bad Bullshit, it felt like it was trying to say "accept some responsibility". Whether that meant for its coming about or for fixing it wasn't clear but, either way, it was not what I wanted to read just then.

Right! I mean, I think they meant it to be like the classic adage, "The first step to recovery is realizing you have a problem." They just broke down the concept of realization into two stages—first awareness of the possibility of a problem and then acceptance that a problem genuinely exists.

Yeah, I was actually kinda grumpy about that first one. We'd already been having an unlovely conversation about The Current Political Climate, and then I opened a cookie and it hit me like a Scroll of Truth.

This experiment brought to you by KFC, who gave me a quart of their absurd version of cole slaw instead of a quart of mac & cheese last night, and me, who failed to consider checking the bag before getting home.

One of the funniest parts of this for me is realizing there are people in this world who do NOT immediately go there with that phrasing.

I initially read that as "Dormant"... Which is possibly more accurate.

I also want a Most Interesting Man in the World–esque ad campaign based on the slogan "WHO IS BENEDICT McGRIDDLE?", because that just sounds absurd and hilarious.

Okay, now I want a Benedict McGriddle, and that not a thing I ever imagined I'd say.