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.

I was thinking that an LLM probably did write it.

No, because to be naturally immune, you have to get sick. A vaccine lets me become immune without getting sick.

I love him

I’m thinking onions

I watched this video of Jack Antonoff showing how he created one of his songs - I think it was “I want to get better” - and it was fascinating. I copied the link so I could show my wife when I got home, but when I went to use it I got a 404. Searched like crazy and was never able to find it.

Did you find that on the lawn?

You know, I’ve seen houndstooth, but it’s always been really small. This is the first time I saw it large like this.

Not sure what ginham is

Apparently it’s a lot of things. Maybe why such a popular pattern.

That’s awsome

COVID/flu symptoms are the same symptoms as a lot of things, so hard to say anything about what they have based on those symptoms. If their doctor is decent, your best advice is to just let them do their thing. You’re not going to get a useful diagnosis from the Lemmy community.

I should stop there, but I came here to answer the title of your post. Yes, my dad died of something they never figured out. Was very strange.

Good info for the five cat owners who don’t already know this.

I’m not sure I completely understand the question. It sounds a bit like “How do you enjoy a nice meal” - there’s no way to instruct someone how to appreciate or enjoy something, you just have to take a moment.

The thing with the “before it’s gone” part is that we don’t always know which things are temporary, so you just have to cultivate an attitude of appreciating things in your life, including the people in it.

Maybe it depends on where? I’ve lived here all my life and the water quality has always been excellent. But my understanding is that, because the county is so huge, different parts get their water from different sources. So maybe I’m just fortunate to live in an area that’s good.

Not true - I live in LA county and the water where I am is excellent - pretty much no benefit from filtering.

As an aside, a thin coating of vegetable oil in the pan is going to be a pretty negligible day intake.

Oh, sure, I understand, but yarn is a different story. They don’t even have to scratch it to snag it - just takes a claw sticking out a bit, or them making biscuits on it.