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the techy in me is greatly impressed that can do this.

the libertarian in me is greatly annoyed they can do this.

It's actually not really something impressive, brewster did some napkin calculation that estimates a cost of about 30 million USD per year. That's nothing. https://blog.archive.org/2013/06/15/cost-to-store-all-us-pho...

Please don't politicize civil liberties. If progressives and libertarians can come together on anything, it's this.

Maybe Shivetya doesn't have any progressive in them. If they did, perhaps it would be annoyed too.

“All cats are libertarians. Completely dependent on others but fully convinced of their own independence.”

Good joke, but sort of backfires!

Aren't cats notoriously good at surviving in the wild? Both feral and domestic cats (if they have to).

Not around here. Cats are great meals for coyotes, foxes, birds of prey, feral hogs... The list goes on and on. But don't tell a cat that and burst their bubble!

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