Every year I’m alive shocks me, I turn 40 in a few months.

I was born with cystic fibrosis at a time people with CF didn’t make it to 18, I was “middle aged” at 6. Then at 28 I died, was given new lungs and I’m now a new creation. Every year I’m shocked to still be here. I know it’s borrowed time but I’ll take all I can get.

Getting “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" (George Orwell Animal Farm) vibes

He wants to fuck that kid

Mirrored writing is typically considered its own thing

It’s what people would refer to as “ditch weed” these days

If you figure out how to do that with out dying let me know

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I agree, and is it even true if “elite security researchers” didn’t actually find these problems? They didn’t find them because they weren’t looking for them is the obvious answer but it’s still a glaring inconsistency

End animal tourism. They aren’t here for your entertainment

Entrepreneurs don’t unionize

Is Nintendo one of your hose companies that’s essentially the same price everywhere?

I think you may be experiencing bone conduction hearing? I’m deaf in my left ear, but the ear its self works perfectly, it’s the nerve connecting my ear to my brain that’s gone bad. When I get a hearing test the do both normal hearing and bone conduction hearing tests and there is a difference in what I can hear between the tests, I still have decent bone conduction while my normal hearing is 80% gone leaving me with nothing but bass tones.

That Savage Garden album with Truly Madly Deeply comes to mind

To me having the bar be some outside goal seems so strange? So if a person is disabled and can’t “earn a living” or have the ability to navigate “the things needed for day to day life” whatever that means since it’s different for everyone, remains a child? To me this is a very dangerous way of defining adulthood and anyone denied the opportunity to earn money/gain skills is subjugated to being a child? Historically speaking this would make nearly all women children until the 1970s. Adulthood is a mindset

I think it’s when you decide it, plenty of children walking around in grown bodies paying bills but also letting the whims of the world carry them with their current never taking a stand and steering their own lives. To be an adult is both a choice to be free from undue influence but also to be fully responsible for your own actions.

It think it’s important to plant this seed early, I would always joke about how the dogs are here “for a good time not for a long time” when my kids were growing up, it also encouraged them to live in the moment with our pets. Speak openly about the dog aging like you might to an adult peer, that way your child learns these scary thoughts are safe to have and you share them too so they can come to you for comfort. Obviously this is age appropriate advice little kids don’t need that last part.

I’d need more context to give you a real answer but personally:

Do it like any “we need to talk” adult talks, keep it simple explain what happened, give age appropriate details, and tell them it’s ok to cry/be mad/be sad for a long time, etc. encourage them to express their feelings in that moment and then in recovery share with them when something reminded you of the pet or things related to the pet, it seems counter intuitive but they are having these same thoughts and feelings and by saying them out loud you’re saying it’s ok to feel this and we can grieve together.

Hope this helps

The day I have to give some billionaire creep my biometrics to go to a show is the same day I decide I’m never going to a show again

If I had legs I would kick you

Just based off the title I refuse to watch it, so braindead