But does he use a pop socket?

>You like those cute Grey Squirrels? Schedule C in the BC Wildlife Act. Can be captured or killed anywhere, at anytime as they are considered invasive and harmful to the ecosystem. Go figure, I might know a think or two about my local ecosystem!

Oh, hey, I'm genuinely glad to hear that you're doing something productive. And if rats come to you bird feeder, fair game. It's just that what you said about dogs being "useful in general" and rats being "only useful in labs" sounded really dumb. But, as always, context is good. So let me retract what I said about ecosystems. You have my full support in that regard. I'm not one to try and "win" when arguing with someone -- mutual understanding is my jam.

As to rats, I don't particularly like them. I never had one as a pet and I don't intend to. That said, I've got nothing against them either. My point is, rats are not outdoor pets. No sane person will let their pet rat go outside and just roam around the neighborhood -- with cats around, a pet rat would get killed four times over before it reached your birdhouse. It'll get lost. It'll run away. If someone lets their pet rat out of the house, they're the one responsible for the rat's inevitable death. So yeah, your visions of slaughtering "support rats" (if such a thing even exists -- I'll take your word for it) sound like weird fantasies that you air on the internet for some reason.

And lastly, when it comes to your pronoun jokes, I'm very typical in that regard. Straight cis male, very hard to offend, whether intentionally or unintentionally. And I'm not even that young, although probably younger than you. I just prefer the way young people think to how old people think. And I believe that their openness to vulnerability and willingess to help themselves emotionally is much healthier than the approach you're presenting here. If someone needs a "support rat", hell, I'm all for them having a support rat. Nothing wrong with that. And you can keep on giggling -- expect giggling in return.

I mean, you’re offhandedly ridiculing the idea of mental self-care while threatening imaginary runaway pet rats in your back yard with a BB gun.

No need for jabs. No point in arguing. All we lazy youths have to do is wait.

And as we part ways, just as a mental exercise, try to image what would happen if people with your "dogs are fine because millennia" mindset would be in charge when dogs were first domesticated. And also, please, try reading up on what an ecosystem is before you attempt to classify animal species along the lines of "good and useful because hunting and K9 squad and sheep and human friend" and "bad because disease and probably not but maybe bubonic plague and sewer". There are other things to read that Classic Car Engine Noises Monthly, you know.

Ugh, are you an old person?

You sound like an old person.

Kind of, but the way I described them was just artistic license for the sake of the joke 😀

EDIT: also, your username seems to imply that there’s more at stake here😀

Yes-yes.

Imagine you're on a cruise ship.

You step outside at night to get some fresh air and suddenly you get an alert on your iPhone.

Your sex offender locator app shows a single blip 1,5 km away, in the open sea.

Well, because I'm on Ukraine's side in this conflict and I want Russia to lose the war. The idea of straight up refusing Russian people at the border doesn't sit right with me, but I can understand why they shouldn't be just let through no questions asked (the arguments I heard and listed in my previous comment). And we as "the West" need to put as much strain on Putin's regime as we can -- some of that strain, unfortunetely, will impact regular Russians.

Also, there is a clear difference between Ukrainian refugees, fleeing bombings and attacks on civilian infrastructure in their hometowns, and Russian dudes that are trying to avoid the mobilization. Draft evasion is considered a criminal offense in most countries, not just totalitarian hellholes. You wouldn't treat a burglar escaping their national law enforcement to a different country as a refugee, would you?

"The simplified procedure is a fast-track process which allows foreign nationals to legalise their employment in Poland within seven days. It is now available to citizens of Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, the ministry added."

They’re only talking about the expedited procedure for getting a work permit, though, which implies that they’re targeting short term refugees.

I think the problem is that the majority of the Russians who leave do nothing to oppose Putin’s regime (for a variety of reasons including fear for their family, apathy, actually supporting Putin, and many more) and plan to go back to Russia and live there happily ever after when things blow over. Most of the draft dodgers who fled Russia are expected to return.

So you’re basically providing a safe hideout for Russian citizens to lie low whenever the war starts impacting them personally, which decreases social tensions in Russia and acts as a vent for Putin’s regime instead of destabilizing it.

Those are the arguments I’ve heard. I’m not really convinced by either side. It’s a complex situation.

EDIT: It seems to me that letting Russians in on the condition that they renounce their Russian citizenship would be a good solution in most cases.