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[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 65 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 43 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Meanwhile cats just showed up, said that they live here now. 10,000 years later, cats run the internet and more or less still the same genetically for the past 10,000 years.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 6 days ago

People get a dog to feel like a god. People get a cat so they have a god sitting on their chest meowing at them for food at 6 am.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

They kill rats.

Keep the granaries uninfested.

And roughly half of them also carry a parasite that rewires the brain/neurological DNA of humans via epigenetic manipulation.

Also they can be adorable.

[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I thought that parasite wasn't carried long-term by cats, only by humans?

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii

Toxoplasma gondii (/ˈtɒksəˌplæzmə ˈɡɒndi.aɪ, -iː/) is a species of parasitic alveolate that causes toxoplasmosis.[3] Found worldwide, T. gondii is capable of infecting virtually all warm-blooded animals,[4]: 1  but members of the cat family (Felidae) are the only known definitive hosts in which the parasite may undergo sexual reproduction.[5][6]

Can infect basically any mammal, but cats are their preffered hosts.

[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

more or less still the same genetically for the past 10,000 years

That doesn't stop people from trying.