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Same. This pic has been helpfully living in my memory for probably a decade.

That's generous, some clergy actively participated.

Miroslav Filipović also known as "Brother Satan" was a military chaplain and Franciscan friar. He was expelled from the Franciscan order during the war for his participation, but it didn't stop him wearing the robes, which he even wore to his execution. He was the Chief Guard of Jasenovac concentration camp, the third largest in Europe, which killed up to 100k people. It was run by the Ustaše who were very involved with the Franciscans. There were forced conversions too in the camp, even if the local Bishop didn't approve and actively had participating priests arrested. Even the Nazis thought Jasenovac was too cruel.

The Pope later gave the Ustaše leader protection at the Vatican and helped him to flee to Argentina. He knew. They all knew. The Vatican was even sued in California for it and the looted gold the Ustaše took to the Vatican is probably still there too.

More info on the Catholic Church's relationship with the Ustaše

I swear I'm not affiliated with Jackson Galaxy but he has a video on just about everything cat-related troubleshooting. 6 Reasons Why Your Cat Over-Vocalizes - maybe there's something in there that will help.

Compression springs on the feet plus the anti vibration pads? I'm thinking something like these but with sturdier springs. Or these but possibly less hardcore

Edit: obviously make sure the bed doesn't rest against the wall too, but he'll, if you have to, put springs there too!

This is with 2 pounds extra? He's definitely a pretty lanky boy then. I'm glad to hear he's doing well, and I hope the vet thinks so too!

I do it as a service. The more chronically online I am, the fewer people are hurt by being distracted by my irresistible in-person allure. I'm sure you relate.

This is the flow-on effect of the association of STEM hobbies/toys/interests with males. The toy aisles in shops are better than they used to be, but toys marketed to boys are still heavily STEM labour-oriented stuff while the girls get a lot of Homemaker and Caregiver and aesthetically-driven stuff etc.

Even if you give your kids both, they still interact with other kids at school who primarily get the gender role toys, and make the gender/interest association. By the time they hit teenage years and are starting to engage with the internet, the learning and interest gap is there.

And when you do get girls who start exploring STEM stuff individually, they stumble into communities that are mostly male, everyone assumes everyone else is also male, and they very quickly feel like an outsider and a piece of meat. The constant mention of hentai as a "hobby" is one weird manifestation of this on Lemmy, and the amount of porn featuring heavily-edited thin young women. For anyone going to one of the main instances right now for the first time, there's a good chance that's a large portion of the feeds.

The endless transphobia is also a huge contributor right now, for cis or trans women. So many people commenting about how they define a woman to be from the male perspective. Written as though they're talking about a hypothetical group of others, instead of asking the women who are definitely already here for their lived experiences.

tl;dr huge multifaceted cultural problem that is unlikely to be solved by lemmy alone. If you want to help, try not to assume male defaults, post content and mod communities that women have historically engaged with online, and tell your boys and girls that anyone can play with the Lego and trucks and fashion dolls and cooking sets. Actually, do one better and play with your kids with the toys you didn't get as a child because of your genitals and explore something new together.

Scandalous! Content should be marked as NSFW!

My cat was not a trauma victim, we got her quite young, but she sometimes still jumped out of her skin while doing nothing - because she got an itch. You'd see her skin twitch in a spot, and then she'd jump out of her skin to dash off to somewhere else just to scratch it. It was just the sudden unexpected unpleasant physical sensation that triggered her, so it's not always a trauma thing. Admittedly she was a rather flighty cat, despite her leisurely safe flea-free existence.

However, for a new rescue, they're definitely going to be extra jumpy for a while. I hate his format, but Jackson Galaxy gives solid and practical cat behaviour info. He doesn't go into trauma and memory anywhere near enough but here's a perspective on cat memory you might find useful. Maybe your cat remembers a smell from a cleaning chemical at the rescue place?

The dangers of engaging with content based on title and thumbnail, a case study. Even the first sentence of this is trash.

You're a vision in a t-shirt! Your sunnies are so chic! What a stylish spin on... appropriate clothes for a warm sunny day. How do you do it!?

The US this year has launched airstrikes in Syria, Somalia and possibly Yemen. That is not somehow better, just because they're not a European country. And even if it were better, another country doing really shitty things is not a good argument for why a separate country can do maybe-less-shitty-but-still-shitty things.

Cuba has been under full trade embargo by the US for over 60 years, after the US Bay of Pigs Invasion failure. Russia only has sanctions and embargoes by the US on some products though, despite invading a European country. How does that happen?

Audio and video, I promise you both are good ideas!

Have you received your first purr yet? Did it feel like you'd won at life?

How's little Scooter holding up after his latest surgery? I hope he's doing better and that he can enjoy adding a couple of pounds on.

It was. Rich people just don't hold other rich people to account until their association brings them negative publicity and potentially reduces their incomes. It's all good times and easily dismissed when you're partying with the rockstars though.

I wish a lot more of the people who are employed by pieces of shit like this would leak information to the tabloid media. Maybe the demographics of those at the top of the social hierarchy might start reflecting the demographics of the rest of us if they get enough public shaming.

I wish they would call it the fentanyl crisis instead of the opioid crisis. It's making pain management globally more difficult.

Fentanyl is usually between 75 and 100 times stronger than morphine, which means a fully grown adult can overdose on something that's only 1 or 2mg. For visual reference, a single drop of water is usually around 50mg, now imagine how little could kill a 1 year old. It's also extremely cheap to make, which is why sketchy producers are adding it to just about any pills, even if they're labelled as something much weaker. But even if they're labelled right, fentanyl is extremely volatile in potency, especially when another drug is involved.

More high-potency drugs of different varieties are going to be synthesised in the future, this time it is in the opioid class. Next time it might be a class of drugs you're legitimately prescribed and rely on. And then the media will paint its broad catchy name brush there too, stigmatising the medicine you take, you, and your medical condition along with it.

Actually they should probably name it "miserable people in poverty are desperately trying to escape their pain in any way they can" crisis. Or the "bad social policy is driving people to turn to the black market and use unhealthy coping mechanism" crisis. Or if you need something catchier, the "dystopia" crisis. Because that's what is going on here.

People don't leave their kids in the care of addicts so they can work because anyone is enjoying that situation. People don't take recreational opioids because they're already happy and pain-free. If people weren't being pushed to their limits already, they wouldn't be risking their own lives and their children's.

I understand what you were getting at, but I still think 'having the numbers to insist' is not something that will happen. 7000 people arrived on one of Italy's islands in the last 2 days seeking refuge. Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya was established in 1992 but today holds 200k people. On the other side of Kenya is Dadaab camp which holds 240k people right now. On average, people spend 10-15 years in those camps.

Sadly, the world will leave them to rot, as it always has. This will only be more true as people in richer countries begin to feel greater cost of living pressures - xenophobia is a typical response when people are angry that they have nothing.

Either way, I'm opposed to dumping billionaires as punishment. Exile is not really feasible like it used to be. I say seize assets and garnish future income, like they're someone trying to avoid paying child support.

I'm not sure if you've noticed how warmly people from equatorial countries are currently being received as refugees, but, let's just say that's a remarkably optimistic outlook.

My mistake, I misread this:

The members elected by districts represent 15,000 to 17,000 residents each, and all Metro Council members serve part-time.

She represents under 20k people, which is a lot of people. So that's cool.