Spot on. Cats are the OG scientists who stuck around to see what they could make us do after they discovered monkeys gave good tummy rubs.

Yadda-yadda, we industrialize food production and build awesome cozy dens to live in, yadda-yadda, they’re watching us burn the world like, “fascinating… now, can I make the monkey give me treats 2 minutes earlier than this time last week…”

Only reason they don’t have us outright worshipping them is we tried it once or twice, but things got weird.

When fines are “the cost of doing business.”

Talking point bots will blame Trudeau for this.

To add to your “for the benefit of others” explanation, this is also not a historical relic. It’s still happening.

I work with refugees and a lot of women escaping fundie warzones are living with variations of this nightmare. So much mutilation, as little girls, preteens, post-giving-birth… Infections are common, tearing is common, and sex is torture. I’ve been doing this job long enough that I recognize the walk.

Telling everyone the reason both your daughters are pregnant with your babies is because they got you drunk, or that girls shouldn’t get too huffy if it’s their own brother that raped them - also options.

Genesis 19:30-38 and 2 Samuel 13:20-22

OT, but most of my students in their 20s can barely use keyboards. It really stresses them out and they get mad about it. Papers are either copy-paste then AI filtered a few times, or speech-to-text with a quick grammerly scan. Drives me bonkers too. Just to say, I’m sorry your work isn’t appreciated.

“The Digital Native generation are technological geniuses because they can usually intuit which icon to click. Let us praise them and give them as much screentime as we can.” - All the news pieces and academic articles from 2000-2010ish

99% sure it’s the verb for putting clothes pegs on the washing line.

Butting into your conversation to leave a wee link for any film lovers scrolling by. The NFB’s a public producer and distributor, and the catalogue’s free for everyone.

You need a license to use it in class or have a public showing, but you’re right - many schools have that already set up. Buying DVDs for the classroom will cost you, though.

I think you got the right place.