That's not fair! This government excels at printing money then setting it on fire. All governments are capable of murder on a scale unsurpassed in history and do it with alacrity. All governments can out-thug the best organized crime syndicates. And when it comes to doing nothing, have you looked at any entrenched bureaucracy? People there can sit on their hands for eternity.
this brings to mind the very early Musk looking-into-offices : the employees could not mention 5 things they did in their job that week, and several had not even opened their work Emails. The govt is VERY good at catching money, filling pockets, lying... to name just a few.
This is unfair to rats! I had a rat living in my house for six weeks, and it did plenty of work: drilling holes in walls and cabinets, plugging up traps with insulation that it pulled from the walls, dragging potatoes across the kitchen counters, eating my aloe plants, etc. Eventually it left, probably because it ran out of jobs in my house and needed to find a better work environment.
Interesting. We used to have a visiting wild rat who was particularly interested in our aloe (we thought it was just individual preference). Although there are multiple studies suggesting aloe might be carcinogenic to rodents, there’s also this:
I thought that merely being alive was carcinogenic to rodents. We had pet rats, and they were little tumor factories. Luckily the vet gave my young son a discount.
Yes. There are several strains and varieties of lab rats genetically predisposed to tumors; unfortunately, undocumented offspring of those have interbred with fancy rats. Plus there are other factors, such as rapid metabolism and cell reproduction.
So relieved I’m not the only one who has had very busy visiting rats. They moved in to my tiny apartment in Mystic CT while I was away for 3 months last year. Counted 8 holes while we had to renovate the whole apartment. I still haven’t recovered from all the washing I had to do. But that’s how I got to be friends with this rat because I was quite miserable and very angry with rats but Rat (capitalized, it’s this one we love!) made me feel so OK about rats in general. Which is a good thing because Mystic was actually built over the Mystic River, on WHARFS if you can believe it and these now famous wharf rats have been living here for a couple of centuries! They are much smarter about real estate than we are so it’s unlikely they’ll ever be eradicated! But I’m as relaxed about it now as if I were in my own lawn chair with a lovely cocktail (also plentiful in Mystic!!)
A long time ago I had a pet rat. He was named Whitey and I got him in a rather odd way. I had a pet snake (a ball python) at the time named Sydney. Every few weeks I had to go to the pet shop and have them pick out three live mice to feed Sydney. I never did it.
This one time though this little white mouse stayed in there for like three days. Usually Sydney gobbled them up within 45 minutes. I put another little mouse in there, which the snake ate immediately, and then decided whatever made the snake not like this little mouse, it had won its freedom.
It grew into a gigantic and very fat white rat, who I gave baths to and who frequently slept under my pillow. I gave Whitey to another friend when I went off to college but I heard he lived to a ripe old age for a rat.
Somebody told me later that the pet shop had probably made a mistake as most snakes won't touch rats: they sense that somehow. But based on my natural observations, if snake is government then rats do seem quite opposite. Carry on!
Enjoyed the Sydney and Whitey story—I always wanted a ball python. I had a couple of five-foot bull snakes, and would scavenge food for them – under bridges for baby swallows that had fallen out of the nest, collecting dead mice from traps. Everything I read said not to give live mice to a pet snake because the mouse could fight back and injure the snake.
That's not fair! This government excels at printing money then setting it on fire. All governments are capable of murder on a scale unsurpassed in history and do it with alacrity. All governments can out-thug the best organized crime syndicates. And when it comes to doing nothing, have you looked at any entrenched bureaucracy? People there can sit on their hands for eternity.
this brings to mind the very early Musk looking-into-offices : the employees could not mention 5 things they did in their job that week, and several had not even opened their work Emails. The govt is VERY good at catching money, filling pockets, lying... to name just a few.
This is unfair to rats! I had a rat living in my house for six weeks, and it did plenty of work: drilling holes in walls and cabinets, plugging up traps with insulation that it pulled from the walls, dragging potatoes across the kitchen counters, eating my aloe plants, etc. Eventually it left, probably because it ran out of jobs in my house and needed to find a better work environment.
Interesting. We used to have a visiting wild rat who was particularly interested in our aloe (we thought it was just individual preference). Although there are multiple studies suggesting aloe might be carcinogenic to rodents, there’s also this:
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/apr/16/study-aloe-lets-rats-live-longer/
I thought that merely being alive was carcinogenic to rodents. We had pet rats, and they were little tumor factories. Luckily the vet gave my young son a discount.
Yes. There are several strains and varieties of lab rats genetically predisposed to tumors; unfortunately, undocumented offspring of those have interbred with fancy rats. Plus there are other factors, such as rapid metabolism and cell reproduction.
So relieved I’m not the only one who has had very busy visiting rats. They moved in to my tiny apartment in Mystic CT while I was away for 3 months last year. Counted 8 holes while we had to renovate the whole apartment. I still haven’t recovered from all the washing I had to do. But that’s how I got to be friends with this rat because I was quite miserable and very angry with rats but Rat (capitalized, it’s this one we love!) made me feel so OK about rats in general. Which is a good thing because Mystic was actually built over the Mystic River, on WHARFS if you can believe it and these now famous wharf rats have been living here for a couple of centuries! They are much smarter about real estate than we are so it’s unlikely they’ll ever be eradicated! But I’m as relaxed about it now as if I were in my own lawn chair with a lovely cocktail (also plentiful in Mystic!!)
I remember looking up "rats aloe" and seeing articles saying that aloe was bad for rats. But my rat loved aloe, and didn't seem harmed by it.
A long time ago I had a pet rat. He was named Whitey and I got him in a rather odd way. I had a pet snake (a ball python) at the time named Sydney. Every few weeks I had to go to the pet shop and have them pick out three live mice to feed Sydney. I never did it.
This one time though this little white mouse stayed in there for like three days. Usually Sydney gobbled them up within 45 minutes. I put another little mouse in there, which the snake ate immediately, and then decided whatever made the snake not like this little mouse, it had won its freedom.
It grew into a gigantic and very fat white rat, who I gave baths to and who frequently slept under my pillow. I gave Whitey to another friend when I went off to college but I heard he lived to a ripe old age for a rat.
Somebody told me later that the pet shop had probably made a mistake as most snakes won't touch rats: they sense that somehow. But based on my natural observations, if snake is government then rats do seem quite opposite. Carry on!
Enjoyed the Sydney and Whitey story—I always wanted a ball python. I had a couple of five-foot bull snakes, and would scavenge food for them – under bridges for baby swallows that had fallen out of the nest, collecting dead mice from traps. Everything I read said not to give live mice to a pet snake because the mouse could fight back and injure the snake.
Indeed, many unwholesome situations in life are caused AND solved by laziness, also known as "strategic empiricism".
Rat and Cousin are my spirit animals. I’m living the dream of a lifetime by accepting their lifestyle.
I’ve upped my game. It don’t take me all day to do nuthin!
A harmony the government doesn’t understand .