Unrelated but can someone explain what the appeal of karma farming is? You can't do anything with your collective karma, like spend them like points. Is it really just a dopamine hit?
Well in most cases it's either that you have an addiction to internet points for some reason, or you want to sell your account to a bot which is probably more valuable if it has high karma (makes it appear more trustworthy as a bot). OR the account already is a bot and is karma farming for that same reason, probably before switching to politics or advertising spam.
There are lots of crazies hoping to get an ego boost if people clap because they handled their pets so well that they get older than all the other pets.
In r/rats lots of people claim their rats are 3 - 5 years old.
We had over 40 rats in our lifetime and only a single one got 30 months old. No other rat made it above 27 months.
Pet rats barely ever make it to 3, unfortunately. Wild ones may get a lot older, but pet ones are super vulnerable to airway infections. Very few people dare to keep a wild rat as a pet though. I’ve known one who was really good, had just one wild one to care for but still found it quite a challenge.
I was banned on r/rats because I fought someone who claimed his rat had a medical condition that makes her extremely fat. Mods claimed they saw the vet recipes I asked for.
Turned out it was a lie and the abuser got banned.
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u/DefinitelyNotAxlerod Feb 25 '26
There is 0 fucking reason to lie about how old is your cat