In eastern Canada, ever since 2020, restaurant owners realised that it was more expensive to pay workers at night than to lose out on the night clientele revenue, so it's really hard to find open food spots after 11 PM.
I've always understood sentience as the ability to sense oneself, i.e. a being's capacity at introspection and awareness of one's own existence as a separate experience from other beings.
Many mammals and birds tick this box, some more than others.
I grew up with it, at school we would use the CMS keyboard but at home we had ANSI keyboards, so all my homework was done on that keyboard using an fr-ca layout. You just eventually re-map the keys in your head.
I'm French Canadian. I just use a US keyboard and learned where the French keys are on the frca layout and I don't need to look at the keyboard. I've gotten so good that typing on a CMS keyboard is awkward for me.
Walk harness. Cats should be taken on walks outside, on a harness, like dogs are.