The cat/kitten story has to do with insistently defending Lauda's reputation - especially after Lauda had already sent her fairwell message.  I am not unsympathetic towards defending Lauda - even though Nullius took such defenses to another level.

Regarding the new mindrust... I can see what you are saying... but something seems off about whether death_wish's situation would rise to that level.. and there seems to be a different kind of lesson that comes out of death_wish's situation as compared to mindrust's March 2020 situation.   

I would say that even though several of us were suggesting ways to attempt to cover his margin bets below $30k and perhaps down to $25k, it just seems too complicated to conclude that he did a mindrust - except his mindrust might have been when he set those kinds of dumbass margin orders in the first place, and death_wish did not tell us anything at the time that he had set the margin orders, but instead told that he was in a predicament when the train was about to hit him.. so a lot more difficult to know what could have reasonably have had been done to correct a situation that was already in a very precarious position by the time that the wall observer members found out about what kind of predicament he was in.. 

It's similar advice that an attorney will give (or even an accountant) when a client comes to them like 6-12 months later than they should have come, and the train is about to hit them, and their is only so much that the attorney might be able to do at that time to either mitigate damages or to get the client out of a bad situation.  Surely a lot of people might realize that whatever situation that they are in is not a good one, and they know that they are dealing with a kind of dangerous fire that could end up exploding.. but they are in a kind of gambling situation. .hoping and praying that their bet will pay off.. but at some point it becomes quite clear that their bet is not paying off..