^lmao XD

yass thats kind of a myth modern cats are utterly useless when it comes to pests (well my cat will eat a spider every now and then) when compared to dogs theyr far less effective unless aboard a ship or in a barn on the other hand domesticating them has led to the extinction of many bird species now cat domestication to my personal feelings was a good thing cause i love them, but environmentally its a bad thing (also toxoplasmosis) what i ment were the exotic animals, like many, many reptiles simply do not enjoy human contact and many humans do not treat them as they should be treated many collectors and breeders keep them in small plastic drawers with little to no enrichment on newspaper because "sneks are happiest in dark places where they can lay" if your going to have an exotic animal i think its unethical to not give them the most enrichment as possible (preferably in bioactive vivariums) personally, my theory is that animals like humans is because humans care for them like parents, and so they have a parental attachment to humans (like how cats will kneed on humans when theyr happy as they do with their mothers) and reptiles many times do not bond with parental figures just a theory, though i have seen monitors that enjoy the company of humans and like petting though, so who the shit knows

Welcome. Hope you find what you seek. I too dont have many otaku friends as well and have found this site maybe a few months? So, good luck.

I think one thing a lot of people need to made well aware of when investing now is what went on with the split into Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash(BCH), because they are now very much two different things. Without diving into all the history and censorship, pretty much BTC is no longer focusing on being a peer to peer electronic cash system, but rather crippling the network by not allowing the blocks to get bigger (hence the insane transaction fees around the holidays) so Blockstream can push their second layer solution Lightning Network, which may end up turning into the banking system 2.0. Bitcoin Cash is staying more in line with the whitepaper by scaling the blockchain as it should be, and it's working great as the transactions have been really fast and cheap. BCH was all about preserving Satoshi's vision before it was too late. I feel like this should be noted because there's a lot of bashing on the internet trying to make BCH look like a "scam coin", when it is in fact technically more bitcoin than BTC is now. That being said, I'm not confident enough in anything to put all my eggs in one basket, so I've been holding at least some of both since the hardfork. I just want to come out alright if a big flip happens. One coin I've been really hyped over for about a year now is nano (previously known as raiblocks). The transactions are near instant and the fees are ZERO. All sorts of good info here: https://nano.org/en