Look at this fantastic pounce by a snow leopard! We often get videos of athleticism in domestic cats, rarely for bigger ones. You can see how that huge tail helps counterbalance the leap in mid-air. This is a great example of enrichment that encourages natural behavior, too.
ppl are so annoying “you can’t paint ur bedroom pink you’re an adult” i did not spend my entire life waiting to grow up and control my life to paint my bedroom beige
I had a sales woman in furniture store try and tell me not to buy a hot bubblegum pink loveseat because she wanted me to “think about the future”
Bitch, I am thinking about the future. I already got a hot bubblegum pink couch at home and now I need a loveseat to go with it.
when I first bought my house, I announced my decision to paint my bedroom purple. I had wanted a purple bedroom for thirty damn years, you fucking bet I was gonna have one now. My friends decided, for some reason, that I meant what one of them referred to as “14 year old girl purple” (through what’s wrong with the colors a 14 year old girl chooses, I don’t know, even if they’re not what I want as an adult). They didn’t believe me until they saw the color on the actual wall, even thought they helped me pick out paints. My mother, meanwhile, decided to get worried that if I painted my bedroom a “dark purple”, it would be “depressing”. As if, with an entire house to live in, I would spend all my time in the bedroom, which I wanted to be dark because I would be sleeping in there. In the damn dark.
I had like one, maybe two friends who were all like FUCK YEAH YOU PAINT IT WHATEVER COLOR YOU WANT, PURPLE BEDROOMS ARE AWESOME.
But when they actualy saw the finished bedroom, every single one of them was like, “Oh yeah, that’s really pretty.” (Well, the ones who supported me from the beginning were more like WOOHOO.)
And the moral of the story is: Fuck ‘em, please yourself. Either they’ll come around, or you can safely ignore every question of taste they opine about for the rest of time.
This applies to other adulting activities, too. When I was a kid, I decided that I wanted to have a wedding cake made of doughnuts. When I got older, I figured that I would be “mature” about it and get a traditional cake, which the older adults approved of. Now that I’m 25 and facing the possibility of actual marriage in the near future, I’m just like “marriage is a social construct but it comes with tax & insurance benefits, so just give me that goddamn doughnut cake.” If they don’t like it then they don’t have to come to my wedding.
There was a time when you could get the smartest people at Google to do
the stupidest things you could imagine by getting Yahoo to do them
first; thankfully that era ended – only to be replaced by an era in
which every stupid thing Facebook did became a bucket-list item for
Google management.
The peak of this was when Google set out to create a social network and
tasked every googler with making it a success. The company decided to
call this network Google+, and decided that the longstanding, widely
used plus-sign (which historically was used in search queries to mean
“must have” as in +cory +doctorow) would be unilaterally repurposed for use in its social network.
Googlers’ bonuses were tied to their ability to integrate Google+ into
every product Google offered, creating an ever-tightening noose around
Google users who had no interest in using G+.
To make matters worse, Google decided to ape Facebook’s
privacy-invading, nonsensical “real names” policy, insisting that every
user use their legal name and putting Google in the unenviable position
of deciding (for example) when a trans person could stop using their
deadname, or when an indigenous person’s name was “real” enough for use,
or when people fleeing domestic violence could use an alias.
By the time Google+ rolled out, there was already nascent discontent
with Facebook. Google+ offered all the downsides of Facebook, but with
fewer of the people you wanted to connect with.
Years later, G+ is a sad also-ran. What’s more, the company just
discovered an extremely grave bug in the system – – that would have
allowed for serious privacy violations. Though the company says it has
fixed the bug, it’s taken the opportunity to simply shut down G+ for
“consumers” (the service will persist for enterprise users, who
apparently use it).
In the product’s obituary, Google wrote that Google+ “has not achieved
broad consumer or developer adoption, and has seen limited user
interaction with apps.”
One bright spot in all this: the defect in Google+ was discovered
through “Project Strobe,” a serious privacy and security audit of every
Google product.
