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I guess RK's referring to this. The order itself, anyway. Haven't read it, because I'm both too sleepy to think straight and probably have no idea what the wording entails even without that. Someone else can dissect it

A pox on you fqllve! Were you but a moment slower, this would have been appropriately timed.

"I have one final…detail to show you. I hope it will not change your decision, but you do deserve to know. I am…well, let me just show you."

With that, Naruto kicked open the hatch and fell out. A rather inelegant introduction to the students he'd trained for the last two years.

His students, who were fairly unflappable, looked aghast. Some boy had just climbed out of their sensei. What was going on?

Absurdity, I love you so.

Moral of the story?

It may sound cold, but don't get so many pets.

Executive decision, not my own, and many of the cats were strays of varying stripes or descendants of older cats (getting cat fixed is expensive, bluh.). I've personally chosen, captured, and housebroke one animal, and it was ultimately lost (after a year or two) when other domicile resident let it run off while I was living elsewhere for a bit

I do miss You, she was a beautiful black cat and very loving once fixed of being feral. Would sleep on top of me. Caused some trouble with breathing, but very warm.

Condolences Phantom. The emptiness will pass, eventually. Mostly.

You all... you all seem so lucky. Sounding like only lost one or two dogs you were close to.

Have lost over dozen in life time, I think, with similar number of cats. Have buried two dogs m'self (which, let me tell you, skirting heat stroke when emotionally distressed does nothing to help situation), and two cats. Had one dog die with me beside her (simple old age); two cats (One snakebit -- watching an animal die to neurotoxin is pretty fucking horrible. Just sayin'. Other kitten, just didn't make it. May have been multiple of those, actually.). Day woke up to kitten bits spread around living room was particularly horrible; almost killed dog that did it with bare hands Wasn't really dog's fault, t'be honest, but we got rid of dog shortly after.

Most kicked it to cars. Still cannot express emotional reaction to that without vulgarity. Incidentally one of the other reasons I have a frothing hatred for people who speed through residential areas.

Anyway, down of the day. Too many lost pets. Dogs, cats, birds, fish, turtles, rabbit, chicken (Oh gods... that last two They did not go prettily.). Not even carelessness that causes it all, it just... happens, and then bad luck of having some fucking bastard going 70 through 35 zone not looking where going. Good thing there's not many kids on my street, I guess

Or ants eat them alive or they run under a running lawnmower or something. Poor chicken. Poor rabbit. Such a mess... wish was joking. Not joking.

Actually, I think we have a way around the problem, assuming FTL data transmission exists (given teleportation, it should): Upload your consciousness to a computer, transmit it to the destination, download it into the body of a clone. Your consciousness is intact at all stages of the operation.

Flip side of that, though... if we can digitize our consciousness (whatever the hell that ends up being), why in blazes stick it back in silly flesh bag? I'll take my world-destroying giant robot plzkthx.

Let's start with brain or head transplants first, I think. We've got that (the latter, anyway) to work in monkeys, need to do it to a few humans and see if they still think of themselves as themselves with the brain swapped around. Then we'll have isolated whether a human is their brain or their body; go from that to digitization (if it's just the brain, well, full simulation of brain. Huzzah, consciousness.) and ohgods the religious backlash would be hilarious. Where is your soul now, eh? This flash drive? Mweeheehee.

I... shouldn't be in the rage thread? I'm... I'm not sure...

That said, what the hell Texas. It's not exactly surprising but g'damn seriously, what. Election year, yaay, let's strip off the health care of >100k voters, wheee. No way that can bugger up, no sirree

I'm curious how the governor's going to try to to spin this in a positive (for him, anyway) light, though. Article did a bit of a "Ohey let's attack Obama" thing but Obama was just like "wtfd00d I got nothing to do with this, all on you bro." And in the mean time, 100k+ low-income women's health care goes poof. Along with whoever else the program supported.

Gods alive, I hope none of this bull malarkey hits Florida. It makes my brain huuurt.

T'be honest MSH, that's almost worse than having 'em being completely on top of it. Means that it's only going to be used selectively, not universally, and gods only know the extent to which things like that get abused already. This'll just kick it up to the next notch, most likely