I need to know if these cats are being sold into the the pet trade or not
Nope! These little kitties are from black jaguar white tiger foundation, a big cat rescue and sanctuary, and the man in the video is Eduardo Serio. He regularly gets orphaned cubs and cubs rescued from the pet trade, when the zoos don’t have enough room. He doesn’t normally socialize with them like this but the margay and jaguar cubs here had already imprinted on humans and can no longer survive in the wild, so he’s been raising them
1. Right now there are maybe seven billion people in the world, and no doubt there is a lot of leeway in the estimates we could make, but let us say that a hundred million of those people are fucking. That is a lot of fucks. I do not give any of those fucks.
2. Consider also the bears, doing in the woods what bears have done in woods since time immemorial, which is to say fucking. Or the squirrels, or the wolves, or those little brown fuzzy creatures that live in holes, or anything else for that matter that has got down to it in the cosy, pine-scented dusk. I do not give their fucks either.
3. You know when you see fucking dragonflies float past, happily oblivious to the world? Also not those.
4. In fact the sum total of insect fucks are fucks I do not give. Chitinous beetlefucks? Nope. Fluttering butterflyfucks? Nope. Double-dotted ladybirdfucks? Nope. There are insects in the world undiscovered by humanity whose fucks I do not give.
5. They say that in the city you are never more than ten metres from fucking rats. The quiet, homely fucks of these rats in their rat-niches are also fucks that I do not give.
6. This fuck, that fuck and the other and so on. These happy fucks that I will keep in my memory and treasure, taking them out from time to time to admire. These fucks are mine and I am definitely not giving them.
7. The slowest, loudest, most zoo-patron-embarrassing tortoisefuck.
8. Alien fucks, all across the Universe, comprising: oddly mundane fucks beneath triple stars; the fucking of beings identical to humans but for their oddly lumpy faces; those of a nature tentacular, spectacular and strange; fucks barely comprehendable; those romping through ammonia oceans in the sixteenth dimension; the void-spanning fuckery of intergalactic space narwhals; and others.
9. Then there are various fucks of a metaphorical nature, for example: the fucking of the populace by politicians; the fucking of the planet by humanity; the fucking of humanity by fate. I do not give any of those fucks either.
10. And also all other fucks. Which means, alas, that I am all out of fucks to give.
so the thing about my family is that we have two ancestors on my dad’s side who were buried in france, where I currently live. one died in the spanish civil war, and one died prior doing…we don’t know what. but he somehow managed to get buried in père lachaise.
so anyhow, my gran sends me a message like “pls put flowers on ur uncle samuel’s grave because he’s gone over a century with none and it will make the ghost mad if he hasn’t already” because my family spends time in europe but never long enough to go all the way to père lachaise and give ya boy samuel jr. his death rites. so im like “ok gran I can do that” bc im a good grandson and you do not fuck with gran she doesn’t DESERVE THAT
i figure out which plot he’s on and ask someone specifically where you can find uncle samuel jr. and they tell me where and so I arrive at the junction and.
HE GONE.
WHERE DID YOU GO UNCLE SAMUEL.
*celine dion’s smash hit “my heart will go on” playing in the distance*
in other words either someone stole my entire great great uncle samuel or he has risen again, ready to party in paris for all of eternity.
You’re pretty chill about a corpse disappearing.
My guy, my dude, he’s been dead since 1851. He could be anywhere. He does what he wants.
You know, it’s almost like that was the fucking problem in the first place you stupid bastards
the absolute need for every online video platform to become just like cable tv despite the fact their success comes from not being like cable tv is just overwhelming
Netflix: Alright guys, we have a fantastic model going! Piracy is down, subscriptions are up, everyone’s making money with these contracts for your show’s streaming rights, and viewers are getting a ton of great content they enjoy. Everybody wins!
Morons: But what if we had our own streaming service just for our content?
Netflix: …I mean in-theory that would work at first, but if everyone’s content was suddenly 100% exclusive and you have to get a dozen subscriptions to a dozen proprietary streaming services just to watch three shows, that defeats a lot of the val–
Morons: And we could charge more than Netflix and Hulu too! We could make even more money!
Netflix: Well at a certain point you’re going to start charging more than people are willing to pay and you’ll start losing more money than you’ll gain. We’ve been doing this since 1997 so we have a pretty good idea of–
Morons: *create streaming sites for every single fucking studio that all charge more money than their content is worth, saturating the market with too many options, almost all of which have too little content to justify their price*
Consumers: Yeah fuck this
Morons: I knew streaming was a dead-end. It never could’ve worked
Netflix: But we were making money! It was working before you fuckers killed the goose laying golden eggs!
Morons: Yeah, but when we wanted more money, it stopped working, and we’re too good at business to make bad decisions, so clearly it was streaming itself that wasn’t working. It’s not our fault the goose couldn’t keep laying eggs after we ate it!
Netflix: What the fuck is wrong with you people
Everything is wrong with people
The free market?? Sabotaging itself??? More likely than you’d think
This is kind of the problem with video games too to an extent. I used to pirate games but once I got Steam I completely stopped because I had access to most of the stuff I wanted at a reasonable price (thank you discounts!). But now with Ubisoft and EA and whoever-else-wants starting their own services and diluting the market… it’s just tiresome. I’d love to play the entire Mass Effect series but I seriously don’t have the energy to juggle my attention between Steam and Origin and to deal with all those bullshit DLCs and let’s not forget that Origin has some shady things about it going on and… I just gave up. I waved Mass Effect goodbye and don’t even try to play it.