Specially, details of the actual feeders: https://streetcat.wiki/index.php/Stray_Cat_Feeders
I'm glad for Mr. Stupid Idiot :D
Go home, brown tabby that hates the poor!
Small anectode;
My wife runs a cafe in Ankara, Turkey. A week after opening a random cat walked in and claimed one of the chairs.
We started feeding him. Then another walked in... We left a large automated feeder outside and started spaying / neutering, vaccinating, deworming them. I think we neutered close to 20-30 cats. A couple needed medical intervention (broken limbs, infections etc). And 2 I had to put down because they were too far gone. This effort alone put the neighborhood kitten population in control.
The place was aimed at health conscious / vegan people so the theme fit with cats hanging around.
It is really emotionally and financially draining to do these things. I've been fortunate enough to fund everything myself but I assume it is hard when scale grows larger and there is not enough help.
Also a microphone for receiving feedback.
Not every problem needs a technical, internet connected solution Some problems are easily solved with "just going out of the door and spending some time" (which, I know, is not a very HN answer, but well)
Good start to the morning.
Or maybe there's no human interaction? I don't have the Purrr app.
Used Reolink ages ago for home surveillance and it worked well then.
There have been some distasteful incidents of online groups organizing to try and harm/kill specific cats famous through this feeder program. China lacks animal welfare laws to protect these cats, it's not a crime. So people have taken to identifying these abusers and reporting them to their employer, university etc. Abusers have been fired and expelled over such cases. Governments overseas whose citizens participate in such online abuse groups need to be doing more. Membership in online animal abuse groups needs to be criminalized.
https://www.ted.com/talks/lewis_bollard_how_to_end_factory_f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_molting
The US also has basically no animal welfare laws for the vast majority of its animals
And just like we wonder how so many otherwise morally upstanding people participated in such an obviously abhorrent system as human slavery, they will think the same about people in our generation.
Unfortunately, it turns out that social norms are extremely powerful and even recognizing one is acting purely out of those social norms in ways that would be very obviously insanely unethical if looked at even slightly objectively is very difficult.
The amount of cruel farming practices, chemicals, unsustainable methods etc that the US uses while being forbidden in the rest of the world is inexcusable.
How do you know they don't?
By all accounts dogs taste good, but there's only a small number of cultures that eat them.
So for better or worse the line is purely arbitrary, and people's pet pig being off-limit by virtue of being declared a pet is an example of that.
I don't think that's true: dog meat isn't widely eaten, but enough countries do eat it to suggest it's palatable.
IMO this is basically policing thought crimes. It worries me.
That's why we don't do that, if our systems are functioning fine.
But fine, only joining the criminal conspiracy is illegal, being a member can be legal (you always have to join to become a member).
Conspiracy is the criminalisation of association to commit a crime. Fredom of association doesn't magically mean you won't face consequences for what your association is about.
Also, abandonment is just a minuscule part of human animal abuse.
You don't even have to feed my cat for it to like you. Any human attention at all and the engine runs.
I would love a public registry of people who have been cruel to animals with a photograph of each person.