I’m in a group chat with a bunch of friends I’ve known for years. One day I see a message pop up asking if anybody has seen or heard from me. I hadn’t messaged or spoke to any of them in over 6 months.

It was nice to know I was thought of but trying to explain why I often don’t reply or join in was difficult.

Maybe an age thing? When I was a kid nobody cared untill be got an expensive new carpet. My mum still doesn’t care. I take my shoes off at the door and she says I can leave them on if I like.

I’m way out of my area of knowledge here. Places like Indonesia have very complex batik patterns and not designer prices. I know he would have tailored, so that side, what is different here?

That’s about the same time my “troubles” started.

I’m glad to hear your coping. I’m on the opposite end. I don’t do pets and I do have a child. At the end of the day it’s whatever keeps you happy given the circumstances. Everybody is different.

Sorry in advance, unexpected brain dump inbound. Sadly, evolution doesn’t factor in happiness or anything apart the ability to procreate and survival of a species. We are living in a time where we way outlive our need to be here. No wonder suicide rates are higher after “mid life” and crazy biological processes happen like menopause. Survival in later life is irrelevant from an evolutionary point of view. But here we are.

Child or no child. Dog or no dog. Let’s all do what we can to be happy and support those who we can support on the way.

I listened to a podcast about aging and statistics. Your highest survival chance is just when you hit puberty. After that your risk only keeps going up. There’s no evolution benefits with age.

That dog is going to leave a massive void once it expires by the sound of things.

Totally agree. And it isn’t just about accepting. It’s about being there for them, paying attention and supporting. We have a few “difficulties” with our son but as parents it’s our responsibility to do what we can to support and help him.

Yes. But, I hope this experiment shows how easy social media in general is becoming untrusted.

It is treatable, and financially? I don’t know this is worse or better than what I said.

And the parents thought it was ok to buy a toy like this for their child.

And mental health. When I was unemployed for quite some time when I was younger it’s a horrid hole to be in. The “why bother with anything” mentally easily takes over.

Yes the vet said it’s probably treatable but she couldn’t do it. She’d have to refer him to some other vet and it would have been insanely expensive.

A friend of mine had a cat which had kittens. It was a few weeks when he realised, after watching one try to take a dump and fail, it didn’t have an opening for it’s anus. He said it was bloated and abdomen was hard. The vet said they had only heard of this and never witnessed it themselves. Thing had to be put down.

Like and onion or a cake?

We have a 22 year old version of RedHat 4. It works fine and is reliable but has problems with out dated security.

Oh yes I’ve just found that. The article seems consistent with the Xbox email I received. I’m guessing the article is weirdly spinning this from a Minecraft perspective when it’s probably it’s Minecraft and every other game on Xbox.

Other than being required to have an Xbox account I don’t use it. I’m happy not verifying if it’s only Xbox which is limited.

I can’t find any reliable information about this. I have the email which they sent to my second account (which I let my son use while supervised)

The email I got was about restricting communication on the Xbox app such as unknown players, discord, steaming, etc. but I don’t have any email specifying what changes will be in Minecraft itself. It said games will function as normal but the restrictions are specifically on Xbox.

The articles I find online seem to be quoting parts of the Xbox email. If anybody can find an article refeerencing a solid source please do share.

I could be way off here, but I assumed it was a dig at Trump who keeps using drug cartels and supply of fentanyl as reason to murder and invade.

And how orange his face is compared to his hands