Apparently there's no actual evidence to suggest cats can see them. Lame
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Even if cats could talk, and could definately see the stripes, I'm convinced that they wouldn't tell anyone.
They'd gossip about them with other cats behind your back
"Kevin's stripes make him look like a moron"
\ Kevin whistling while sweeping the kitchen oblivious to the fact that he has stripes let alone stupid looking ones and that cats can talk
Don't fucking ruin it Gary.
Their name is Steeve.
I know it's the wrong sub for this opinion, but that's a fucking annoying way to post.
It's convenient for mobile users, I can see how it would be frustrating for people with landscape/horizontal monitor though.
I am using google chrome and I found that opening the post's image in a new tab, clicking on the image once to zoom in, and then adjusting the zoom setting to 250% made the image easier to view and scroll. I hope that helps.
As aliens describing us? Or a large screenshot?
desktop here, was easy as hell lol
If cats can see them, then surely we can make tech that converts those wavelengths to one's humans can see, so we can admire each other's stripes.
The only actual use for Apple's Vision Pro headset
And open whole new untapped method of racism
not sure i can follow, but is this true or some collective trolling/joking/pranking or something of the sort ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaschko's_lines?wprov=sfti1
At least the pattern part seems true.
This should be at the top.
I believe "bruh" is the appropriate gender neutral pronoun.
How do you do, fellow striped humans?
My Charlotte after I asked her to tell me what kind of stripes I have:
You guys are twins!
Huh?
Just a little joke that you both have similar markings
Fair enough, but that's not me lol 😁
Theeee fuck?
Anyone know whether we can see these stripes in some way? IR cameras? Ultraviolet spectrum?