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Some people say that there are no stupid questions, which is blatantly false. Of course there are stupid questions, and if you have one, you had better ask it, before you go and do make a stupider mistake. Stupid questions are more important than intelligent ones. I’m willing to bet more people die because of stupid mistakes than because of intelligent ones.

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I have suddenly noticed a bunch of zoomers online saying "classical" when they clearly mean "classic" (to be clear: the Metamorphoses is classical literature, Huckleberry Finn is not). Feels kind of like a hypercorrection, like "classic" also has an informal meaning and so people are tempted to upgrade to "classical" to meet the intended register.

Anyway. Stop doing that.

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AH. i think i figured out how i want to say it. pardon for the passive aggressiveness this will have please

"haha now that we've identified that the patriarchy is a major source of oppression in society we're going to dismantle it by dismantling the beliefs around it and teaching people about how hurtful it is right? we're not going to conflate a system with an entire category of people right?? we're not going to prescribe morality to inherent traits right??? right???"

i think a lot of people conflate reinforcing the patriarchy with being a man, in other words. scapegoating.

exactly

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Literal definition of spyware:

Also From Microsoft’s own FAQ: "Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. 🤡

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Why do you hate straight people

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i’ll answer your question when i recieve payment :) thank you so much!

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We know cats keep track of their blood related relatives more than outsiders, such as aunts and uncles and view them as family. Do they also view the mates of those aunts and uncles as family as well? Like would Firestar view Frostfur as an aunt because she was mates with Lionface, or she a clanmate who just happened to be the mate of his late uncle in his eyes?

Interesting question! I think, within the Clans, at least, in-laws are more distant with each other. Frostfur doesn't see Goldenflower as her sister-in-law, she just sees her as the matriarch who happens to be related to Frostfur's mate. Families are present and important, but a Clan cat would tend to consider a "complete" family to be a litter of kits and their parents, with the parents' siblings having their own "complete" families separate from each other. Those two groups are connected by blood, but they aren't required or compelled to have the same closeness that a human would with their cousins and nieces and nephews. They can, of course, they're just usually more friendly with each other in the way Clanmates are than family members.

I will note here that this is not a universal constant. Oakclaw would have been very close to his niece's kits had he lived long enough for them to become apprentices, for example. I think it's largely dependent on how much of the family is left. If you have both parents with their kits, they're a complete unit. But in cases like Ravenwing, where all he has left is his grandfather and uncle, the unit would be comprised of those three (ideally, if Darkstripe wasn't a twerp). This would include in-laws, but more rarely.

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I laughed so fucking hard at this

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How far back does the matriarch track lineages? Is it just to grandparent or even further? Also, are second or third cousins allowed to have kits together or is it if they share a common ancestor then it's a no-go?

The generation above the elders is about the cutoff point for relevant information to a matriarch's duty. So for modern Thunderclan, the next matriarch would be learning Halftail and Leopardfoot were siblings, but not who their own cousins were. Third cousins would be considered distant enough to have kittens (especially if they can't remember that far back), second cousins would generally be pushing it but might be encouraged in very rare circumstances (but if it happens, the matriarch makes a note to encourage any daughters produced from that litter to find an outsider sire), and the Clans are uniquely knowledgeable of the potential dangers in letting cousins produce litters.

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For half-clan kits, do the matriarchs get together to go over the lineage of the father's family (or the mother's in a rare instance where she gives the kits to the father)? Like, say Bluestar gave her kits to Oakclaw to raise; would Goldenflower then go to RiverClan's matriarch and tell them that there's a history of mental illness in Bluestar's family and so the kits probably shouldn't be paired up with a cat who has a similar history? Or is it a sort of "this is no longer my problem" kind of thing?

Rarely, if ever, does this happen. Given that cats don't really get marked out of the gene pool if the matriarch can help it, and it's poor manners to tell another matriarch what to do with kits that aren't your business (and especially if she's your senior, good god above...), once a kit of any origin enters a Clan, that kit is that Clan's business. Granted, a good matriarch is concerned with every kit, not just the ones in her territory, but RiverClan's kits, halfClan or not, are RiverClan's kits. I think the only time a matriarch would go to another Clan and tell her fellow what to do is if one of the kits is actively disabled, and that would just be to share how the original Clan handled the issue.