#catgap — Public Fediverse posts

🐱🚀 In an epic saga of internet's least thrilling adventure, we journey through the mystical realm of user agents and robot policies, because why address the 'cat gap' when there's a thrilling T400119 quest awaiting? 🤖✨ Spoiler: it's less about cats and more about tech folks pretending to have a sense of humor. 🙄
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_gap #internetadventures #useragents #techhumor #robotpolicies #catgap #HackerNews #ngated

Cat Gap

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_gap

#HackerNews #CatGap #CatLovers #TechNews #Innovation #AnimalBehavior

Did get to visit the #BurkeMuseum before falling ill and learned about the cat-like #nimravids that precede the #CatGap. They lived 35-23 mya--tens of millions of years before true cats evolved--and weighed in at a sizable 300 lbs.

They are different from true cats due their more primitive skulls, flat-footed walking styles, and single-chambered ear bones. Many species did have elongated canines, and probably filled an evolutionary niche that true cats stepped into as climates changed.

@natecull @jk According to that Wikipedia article, the #CatGap was in part caused by global cooling. Now that we're in an era of global heating we should be experiencing the opposite of a #CatGap. And I think we call that "The Internet"