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I might just do the ps5 one cuz I genuinely never use that fucking thing. I play disc games (as in wont pay for digital) and there just aren't a lot for ps5..

Both of my parents died, one in my early 20s, one a few months ago, and the day after each was just beautiful. One in early December, one in spring, but both deaths were followed by clear sunny skies after days of bad weather.

That was, the first time, the most offensive part of the grieving process for me; my world stopped, the world did not, and I paid my bills the next day because that’s what the world not stopping means. The second time it was actually nice, I’ve had a lot of time (~20 yrs) between the two to sort out my feelings and beliefs on existence. The world didn’t stop just because mine did, and that’s ok.

This oblate spheroid we call home will continue to turn no matter what we do. Life will almost certainly find a way to overcome the bullshit we are doing, we just wont be here to see it, same as we probably wont be here to see our great grandkids have their own kids.

I just hope we die out or get our shit together before we trigger a runaway greenhouse effect.

I’m voting for one in the primaries! I hope they win cuz I’d love to be able to vote for one in the general!!

Thats an awful lot of work thats going to cost taxpayer money when “move over, gramps, let the next batch have a try” is completely free.

Who cares if there are still a couple good old people? There are also good young people chomping at the bit to take over. People who aren't hopelessly out of touch with reality and the rest of the population.

People shouldn't be in government past an age where they likely wont be alive for the next decade of consequences from their actions. I’d personally lower the cutoff to like 64. They got their chance to set policy, let people who will live in the world they are making be the ones who steer the boat.

If we try that and it ends up not working, we can reassess. But until we try we’ll never know because those people aim to die in office, and burn the place down on the way out.

“Wrecked EV battery” usually actually means batteries that were in damaged shipping containers. Perfectly good and never used for anything, but not sellable for car use anymore.

At least all the ones I looked at were like that.

I’m sorry you are dealing with that, but they can live a very long healthy life even with ckd!

Just an FYI, the vet kidney disease diets are low protein, which is bad for obligate carnivores like cats. They do it because low phosphorus and low protein works well for humans and dogs, its just not really appropriate for cats. Cats use protein for synthesis of things we use plant sources for, so they just sort of degrade, and you end up needing to do a lot of interventions.

Instead, if you find foods that are made to be low phosphorus but not prescription, you can give a better variety and when they inevitably get turned off to one food, you can swap, or better yet feed a variety so if one stops being available its not a problem.

My cat was diagnosed with kidney disease in 2016 and the vet said even with treatment I’d only get 6-12 mths. He didn't like the vet food so I did a ton of digging into it, and discovered common wisdom is wrong, they need protein but not phosphorus, and over the next several months of trial and error, found some low-phosphorus foods he liked (he liked weruva slide and serve and the core line, especially the tiny tasters, and they are very proud of making foods that are ok for kidneys because if is good for ckd cats, is good for all cats). I added 1/16 tsp coconut oil every meal to boost the calories, as well as occasionally giving him butter or bacon fat as a snack. I also gave him just about anything he would eat, figuring any calories were good calories (he was down to 4 lbs at his lowest, 10 at his heaviest) and he loved chicken nuggets with the breading removed.

Sadly he passed a couple years ago, about 8 years after he was given 6-12 mths. He was healthy (very relative term), active, playful, and friendly right up until he wasn't anymore, and then it was time.

I’ve been playing cubic odessy.

Mind, I dont actually like minecraft, so idk how someone who does like minecraft would like it, but this felt like minecraft with spaceships to me.

Keeping them held snug against the body over a lifetime, reduces sagging near the end.

Interestingly, this was thought to be the case for breasts, as well, but up to a certain size (at which point support becomes necessary) its best to leave them be other than specific activities like exercise, because it forces muscles and skin to tighten to support them which keeps them from sagging longer. It’ll still happen, of course, either way.

The way I eat pomegranate is like popcorn meets sunflower seeds.

Take a few of the pearls, pop them in my mouth, break the water balloon with gentle chewing that doesn't break the seed, suck out the juice, spit the seed. Sometimes I’ll fidget and peel the pulp off with my teeth, is not much, but it’s a nice mindless activity to occupy my brain

Pom is a flavored water fruit rather than a chew and swallow fruit. You don’t miss much leaving the pulp behind (and I'm not talking about the white rind) because theres not much of it to begin with. Its ideal for brainless time like watching movies. The prep is pretty easy, too, since the pearls tend to fall off pretty easily into a bowl, perfect for mindless snacking.

Only time I ever saw anyone’s genitals in the bathroom was because I was fucking one of the strippers (my co-worker, I was never a stripper but in some places cocktail waitresses are close! Not the places I worked, I’m not -that- bold, but she had a good time :)

I don’t think it was a mistake, I was young and that’s the sort of wild thing I was told early adulthood was about. But she offered to reciprocate and made me realize I wasn’t really into it.

Thanks for the reminder that I need to order trichogramma wasps to fix my moth problem again. Downside of keeping my quail inside; moths infest very easily. Upside, i learned years ago that trichogramma wasps (stingless egg parasites) are cheap and work like a dream on pantry moths, plus they are so small you’ll never see them (like moving sand)

Yes, but also absolutely no.

If every game becomes a paralyzing consequence nexus, some of us wont play them who would otherwise actually play a linear RPG like we’ve come to expect from the FF franchise.

Final fantasy is not the same niche as baludars gate, and they really need to not see themselves as competitors. Fewer cutscenes and more play? Absolutely. Changing the entire genre of the game? Ehh.

I genuinely dislike games where I can play multiple times and not get all the content. Im always stuck. I want to experience as much as I can for the least time investment (hated choose your own ending books for the same reason), but they are made to be infinitely replayable and I'm not into that. There are more games out there. 🤷🏻