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One of my favorite things to see is random people trying to interact with unfamiliar outdoor cats. Just standing there with a hand out, making kissy noises, maybe meowing at the cat while it ignores them. Mankind at its best and least dignified

combeferret

#stop calling me out

jumpingjacktrash

if you want to interact with a cat that doesn’t know you, sit down not facing it. glance at it occasionally and make an inviting noise, but mostly just play with your phone or whatever.

the cat will almost certainly come over to check you out sooner or later. it’ll stay out of arm’s reach because it doesn’t know if you’re a jerk. offer your hand and let the cat sniff. wait. if the cat wants pettins, it will indicate that by noofing your hand, flopping on its side, or coming in close.

the cat may want to be bros but not get pettins. in that case, it will sit or lie near you but out of reach. this is friendly! the cat is saying, you’re a person in my neighborhood! hi neighbor!

of course, it’s possible that the cat is a great big cuddleslut and will come love all over you. that happens too. but if it doesn’t, that doesn’t mean it’s an unfriendly cat. be chill and let the cat choose how close to get, and you’ll find most cats are pretty friendly.

alittleflare

The only information that matters

stephendann

A regular cat PSA. Cats are social critters, and like humans, cats have their boundaries and preferences. Many a cat will want to say hi to newcomer to welcome them to the cat neighbourhood, and some will want to just acknowledge a visitor. Respecting the boundaries of friend new cat will help the next person because the cat will know peoples are capable of being good peoples.

vr-trakowski

Occasionally you get one who has never met a boundary. I was crossing a housing development in England once, a place I had most definitely never been before, and I heard an urgent meowing. A fat fluffy fellow was coming at a rapid pace across the lawn, yelling at me to make sure I waited for him so I could pet him. Lots.

I told him he was foolish, I could have been some kind of cat serial killer, but he was purring too hard to listen.

feministfuture

alisonzai

justclosetedthings

how i sudelly flirt.

ihateboys-deactivated20240714

i’m sorry but a well loved teddy bear or stuffed animal has powers beyond what we can comprehend

animedads-deactivated20210108

folks, I’m just gonna say it. I don’t think it rains for long enough periods of time. it rains hard, it sounds good, I’m comfortable inside, but within 5 minutes the jig is up. the dream is over. I think it should rain for longer periods of time than it presently does

theweirdwideweb

ewaneneollav

holy fucking shit people simulated the 302 neurons in a worm’s brain with software, put it in a Lego robot and it behaves like a worm

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/weve-put-worms-mind-lego-robot-body-180953399/?no-ist

explodingbat-deactivated2017072

upload the nematode

asocratesgonemad

upload the nematode / lock it in a box / keep it there for fifty years / then see if it talks!

brazenautomaton

but, like, it’s a worm. its behavior isn’t that complex.

if it’s not accurately behaving like a worm, how would we tell?

asocratesgonemad

^ an important point. IIRC they don’t even really have a complete characterization of the worm’s nervous system, so C. legogans here is at best a preliminary test. Still pretty cool, though.

animatedamerican

I looked at the article, and to my mind the significant thing here is that the lego robot demonstrated consistent behavior with no programming. They didn’t program any stimulus-response behavior into it. They just gave it their best approximation of worm neurons, and it made up the behavior.

I may be misunderstanding some aspect of this but to me that feels kinda huge?

crocabit

They made an artifical reactive set of neurons with consistent observable behaviors. Yeah, this is a big deal. It’s the first step towards ‘uploading’ minds.