When I was in college, I worked at a junior high, doing noon supervision and stuff. One day I was walking down the hall when a teacher came up with a 13-year-old girl and asked me to take her to the principal’s office so her mom could bring her appropriate clothes. The girl was dressed pretty inappropriately for school, for sure, with a very revealing top and booty shorts.

So I take her there and I’m to wait to escort her back. The mom comes, and she’s very apologetic. She said her daughter wasn’t dressed like that when she left for school, she must have changed in the bathroom. She said she was very sorry and would make sure it didn’t happen again, etc.

The thing is, the mom was basically naked, She had on a tiny skirt, a translucent shirt, and no bra. I could tell the principal was completely flustered and was trying to figure out something to say, but eventually just said thank you.

Hips on B look wider, so I’ll go with that. Not sure what that separation below the rib cage is for.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Laptop and a bag of chocolate

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

Seems misleading. They didn’t have moss growing outside the station, they had spores in an “exposure” box out there for 9 months, then sent them to earth and were able to grow moss from the spores.

The thing that did it for me was several years ago when Russia disconnected the whole country from the Internet for a day and Reddit instantly transformed. Nearly all of the trolls in political threads disappeared, and discussions became nicer and way more the left-leaning.

Ah, okay, makes sense. So not an acronym.

Oh, obvious…

The article never says what NKD stands for

That’s funny, I took a similar pic yesterday

I had that poster, mounted on foam core, hanging in my room for a lot of my teenage years.

Looks delicious

Huh, I wonder if it set off the confetti anyway

Looks like the first message has an engagement ring and heart emoji