Yeah. I follow it because I’m pretty sure my adult son has both.

My mom died of Alzheimer’s, but she also had bad rheumatoid arthritis and some other stuff. When she just didn’t know who we were, it was one thing, but when every day she woke up in pain, had to have her diapers changed by “strangers,” couldn’t swallow solid food, etc., I just didn’t understand why my siblings wanted to keep her on the medication that slowed the progress of the Alzheimer’s. I finally had my brother stay with her over a weekend, and afterwards he was like, “Oh, she’s having a miserable life, what are we doing?” We stopped the medication soon after, and she died a few months later.

That’s actually pretty interesting. And I bet a lot of people are going to be interested in this bit:

The neurodevelopmental category, for example, includes both attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism, which psychiatric handbooks classify as separate conditions.

That guy is a gem

I’m an old guy, and have had lots of pet over my life. so I’ve thought about this a lot.

Years ago I came to the position that the most compassionate thing to do for my pets was to try and assess if their days are more full of joy, or more full of pain and suffering. We can’t ask our pets that, we can only do our best to figure it out. If they’re spending more time suffering than enjoying their lives, then I think it’s a kindness to put them down.

We don’t usually have to make that decision for other humans, because they can decide for themselves. Note that we do make the decision sometimes to “pull the plug” on people rather than keep the alive.

Also note that animals do sometimes go off to die when they’re sick and miserable. In fact, when dogs and cats have illnesses that are miserable but treatable, we sometimes have to be careful that they don’t go off to die before treatment is done.

It kind of looks like she didn’t see the need, but it might depend on your sense of modesty.

Shirt of that lady in the background was so outrageous that they had to remove the back of it.

It would be “sad” if it was happenstance; the fact that it was orchestrated by Murdoch and others - that half the country has been successfully manipulated by bullshit propaganda - makes it infuriating.

Yeah, he was pretty destructive. I think Trump is in the running though.

These headlines are always so depressing. “Nearly half?” Jesus Christ - on what list is Trump not in the bottom few, if not the absolute worst?

Oglaf?

Seems completely reasonable. I liked having a partner to face life with, but my wife wasn’t happy, so now I’m solo. It’s weird, but not bad.

They really do look like USB ports though. You sure they aren’t run to a box where a PC would be, and let you plug in a keyboard and mouse?

At this point, do you feel it’s your preference or just the way it is that you live alone?

The first account I made on Lemmy was on lemmy.world (same account name), but they had issues with uptime and response time for a while, so I made this one on Lemmy.ca. a nice feature of Lemmy is that you can make accounts on different instances and generally see all the same content (except for federation differences). If nothing else, it’s good to have a backup account in case your instance goes down.

I came with the mass exodus in the spring of 2023 (used a .world account for a while before making this one). The handling of app developers was just a final straw for me; I had been a pretty prolific commentor, but the experience was getting worse and worse over the years. I started thinking about finding another place after that time Russia disconnected the country from the Internet for a day and Reddit was wonderful. Political discussions were friendly, trolls largely disappeared, and the whole site became much more left-leaning. I hate the feeling of being manipulated.

Where are you on the line?

I lived alone for a few years around 30, then not at all until this year - I’m in my 60s. It’s too early to say what I think of it. I think it will be fine, though it might be different in ten or twenty years.

Laptop and a bag of chocolate

Why is there no 1 key on that typewriter?

Yeah, I agree. The reality is very interesting, so it sucks that they made it sound so much more significant.