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Cats are Healers (mander.xyz)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

So what you are saying is the more cats I get the richer I will be?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago

Yes that's exactly how causation and correlation work, go for it!

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

And more feminine

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago

You don't have to convince me, I was already sold.

[–] CrazyLikeGollum 8 points 2 weeks ago

But I'll get cat hair on my programmer socks!

[–] BradleyUffner 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

But I still have lots of cats, right?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Scientists have discovered that having more cats reduces the risk of heart attacks and increases wealth with no upper limit*

*study sponsored by toxoplasmosis foundation

[–] Aceticon 7 points 2 weeks ago

Correlation and Causation are just fancy-pantsy words used by experts to lie to us common folk!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No but cats are correlated with wealth, I’m not implying any sort of causation, unlike the post lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Because they’re famously expensive to keep?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Gotta sell them all