Comment on Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds

• IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  Somebody call SPCA!

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• Lennny@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s not even a challenge, one drop of rogaine will brick any cat. App you have to do is touch them with it.

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  • Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    oh my fucking god. is this why when I was a kid my friend’s cat went from super healthy to extremely sickly and died the next morning? his dad definitely used rogaine

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    • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh goodness, that’s really sad and probably.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m unclear, and I’m not going to do this, but what does that do? Is it poison to them?

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    • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It contains an enzyme their body cannot process and it effectively poisons them to death. I believe it attacks the nervous system.

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      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh. Damn. Good thing I found this out.

        I mean, I never have actually touched rogaine, but this is kinda like when I was 4, and I was going to feed a dog a piece of chocolate. The dog wanted chocolate, I wanted to share, suddenly I’m getting my hand slapped and yelled at.

        Like c’mon! We JUST watched a seseme street last week about how good sharing is! Now my wrist hurts!

        THEN she tells me dogs can’t have chocolate! Like I’m just supposed to just KNOW a dogs digestive system! I’m still learning colors and shapes, and you’re asking me to know biology of dogs!

        So, no dogs have died from chocolate from me, and now I know if I lose my hair, and have a cat, I can’t have rogaine. Because I assume I’ll be sleeping, and you just KNOW my cat is gonna be the weirdo cat who licks people in their sleep. Suddenly I wake up with a dead cat.

        So good thing I learned now.

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• uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A clamp (padded, preferably) on the scruff of the neck will temporarily brick a cat.

  Try this only with familiar cats with whom you have rapport.

  Don’t leave them for too long. A few minutes at most.

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  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why would you try that with any cat, especially one that you’re close to? The fuck.

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  • IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What The Fuck?

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    • pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s where the term “catatonic” comes from, or so I’ve heard, and it’s a reflex because mother cats carry their babies by the scruff of their neck. From what I understand it’s totally harmless.

      Someone who actually knows these things can correct me if I’m wrong of course.

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      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        As the owner of various cats over 50 years it does nothing to adult cats. It will hurt an adult cat because their weight is too much for the skin to hold. As a kid I tried it many times because I heard the myth and it only made my cat more angry.

        I don’t believe kittens are affected other than being physically unable to do anything. Sort of like if you were put in a half-Nelson hold. You wouldn’t be catatonic, just unable to fight back.

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      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Poisoning your cat so it’s in a coma before it dies is not where the word catatonic comes from.

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