Recent content by louanne_74

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    The Stock Market Lost Trillions in a Week and the Buffett Indicator Is at 223 Percent of GDP

    My husband and I are retired and we watch the market like hawks because our retirement is in there. The Buffett indicator at 223% scares me honestly. We moved some into bonds last year and I'm glad we did. I wish more people would pay attention to these warning signs instead of just hoping it'll...
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    Mark Zuckerberg Took the Stand in the First Trial Accusing Social Media of Being a Defective Product

    My granddaughter was glued to Instagram from age 10 and it absolutely changed her. She started comparing herself to every filtered photo she saw and her confidence just tanked. I'm glad someone is finally holding these companies accountable. The tobacco comparison is exactly right, they knew it...
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    Hawaii Wants to Fine You One Thousand Dollars Per Cat If They Are Not Sterilized by Five Months Old

    $1000 per cat seems harsh for people on fixed incomes. I support sterilization 100%, I've always had my cats fixed, but a lot of elderly folks on social security can barely afford the vet visit let alone a fine. They should have an assistance program built into the law, not just penalties.
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    A Former NFL Player Kept Two African Serval Cats in Baltimore. They Escaped Into the Snow.

    A comfort pet?? A serval is a WILD ANIMAL, not a comfort pet LOL. I have nothing against exotic animal people but at least be honest about what you're doing. You're keeping a wild predator in your house because you think it's cool, not because it's comforting. And then when it escapes into the...
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    A Wildwood Missouri Woman Hoarded 180 Cats in a Mansion and Stole 23000 Dollars From Her Dying Mother

    Stealing from her dying mother to fund the hoarding... I don't even know what to say to that. This goes way beyond being a cat person. When you're pawning your dead father's wedding ring and renting Airbnbs to hoard more cats in, that's not love, that's something broken. I pray those cats found...
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    A Cat Jumped on a Stove in Greensburg Pennsylvania and Burned Down an Apartment Building

    Oh my goodness, this is terrifying. My neighbor's cat got on her stove once and melted a plastic cutting board. We were lucky it didn't catch fire. People don't realize how dangerous it is leaving cats alone in the kitchen with the burners accessible. I always took the knobs off my stove when I...
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    A Stray Cat Bite Gave a Bakersfield Woman Flesh-Eating Bacteria and Nearly Killed Her

    FLESH EATING BACTERIA from a cat bite oh my god. You know when I was younger nobody ever warned you about cat bites being dangerous, you'd get scratched or bit and just put some neosporin on it and move on. My granddaughter got bit by the neighbors cat last summer and I rushed her to urgent care...
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    Australia Is Locking Cats Indoors Twenty-Four Hours a Day and America Should Pay Attention

    I have to kind of disagree with you here sorry!! I mean I understand the wildlife argument completely but locking a cat inside 24/7 forever seems really harsh to me?? I had indoor cats my whole life and they were MISERABLE staring out the window all day. I'm not saying let them roam free...
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    Feral Cats Killed Twenty Percent of Monitored Kea in New Zealand in Two Years

    OK wait 20% of the ENTIRE KEA POPULATION?? Those are those big green parrots right?? I've seen videos of them they're so smart and funny, they take apart peoples cars LOL. And cats are just.. picking them off? A fifth of them gone? That is genuinely horrifying. New Zealand seems to actually care...
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    A Florida Couple Stored Dead Cats in Their Freezer While 57 More Suffered Next Door

    DEAD CATS IN THE FREEZER?!?! Oh no no no no no. And 57 MORE still suffering?? This is exactly the kind of story that makes me sick to my stomach. These people need serious mental health intervention not just charges. You dont just wake up one day and decide to freeze your dead cats, this was...
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    Nene Goslings Are Dying of Toxoplasmosis From Feral Cat Feces in Hawaii

    This just breaks my heart honestly. Those baby geese never stood a chance. And the thing that gets me is the cats aren't even eating the nene goslings in most cases right?? The parasite spreads through the FECES not through predation. So even a well fed feral cat is killing these birds just by...
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    A Second-Grade Teacher in Polk County Florida Hoarded 309 Animals With Her Elderly Mother in a Mobile Home

    309 animals... THREE HUNDRED AND NINE. With her elderly mother in the house. I'm sorry but that is elder abuse on top of animal hoarding and somebody should have called adult protective services YEARS ago. The smell, the ammonia, the bacteria.. that poor old woman. My aunt had 12 cats and we had...
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    Alley Cat Allies Sued the National Park Service to Keep 200 Feral Cats at a Historic Fortress

    Oh my LORD I just read this whole thing and I can NOT believe a "charity" actually went to COURT to keep feral cats crapping all over a national monument?? Like really?? My neighbor had a colony of maybe 8 ferals and the smell alone was enough to make you gag... 200 cats at a historic site is...
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    A False Rumor Destroyed an Ole Miss Students Life in 48 Hours. Then Someone Made a Crypto Coin With Her Name.

    This poor girl!! I have granddaughters in college and the idea that someone could just MAKE UP a story about them and then people would create a CRYPTOCURRENCY with their name makes me sick. And Pat McAfee just runs with it without checking if its true?? He should be sued for everything hes got...
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    DeepSeek Has a Hidden Backdoor to China Mobile. Twelve Countries Have Banned It.

    My grandson downloaded this on his phone last month because his friends said it was better than ChatGPT. I made him delete it after I saw the news about it. A BACKDOOR to the Chinese government??? And they just let it on the app store like its nothing?? This is crazy!!