I’m sorry you are dealing with that, but they can live a very long healthy life even with ckd!

Just an FYI, the vet kidney disease diets are low protein, which is bad for obligate carnivores like cats. They do it because low phosphorus and low protein works well for humans and dogs, its just not really appropriate for cats. Cats use protein for synthesis of things we use plant sources for, so they just sort of degrade, and you end up needing to do a lot of interventions.

Instead, if you find foods that are made to be low phosphorus but not prescription, you can give a better variety and when they inevitably get turned off to one food, you can swap, or better yet feed a variety so if one stops being available its not a problem.

My cat was diagnosed with kidney disease in 2016 and the vet said even with treatment I’d only get 6-12 mths. He didn’t like the vet food so I did a ton of digging into it, and discovered common wisdom is wrong, they need protein but not phosphorus, and over the next several months of trial and error, found some low-phosphorus foods he liked (he liked weruva slide and serve and the core line, especially the tiny tasters, and they are very proud of making foods that are ok for kidneys because if is good for ckd cats, is good for all cats). I added 1/16 tsp coconut oil every meal to boost the calories, as well as occasionally giving him butter or bacon fat as a snack. I also gave him just about anything he would eat, figuring any calories were good calories (he was down to 4 lbs at his lowest, 10 at his heaviest) and he loved chicken nuggets with the breading removed.

Sadly he passed a couple years ago, about 8 years after he was given 6-12 mths. He was healthy (very relative term), active, playful, and friendly right up until he wasn’t anymore, and then it was time.

I’ve been playing cubic odessy.

Mind, I dont actually like minecraft, so idk how someone who does like minecraft would like it, but this felt like minecraft with spaceships to me.

Keeping them held snug against the body over a lifetime, reduces sagging near the end.

Interestingly, this was thought to be the case for breasts, as well, but up to a certain size (at which point support becomes necessary) its best to leave them be other than specific activities like exercise, because it forces muscles and skin to tighten to support them which keeps them from sagging longer. It’ll still happen, of course, either way.

The way I eat pomegranate is like popcorn meets sunflower seeds.

Take a few of the pearls, pop them in my mouth, break the water balloon with gentle chewing that doesn’t break the seed, suck out the juice, spit the seed. Sometimes I’ll fidget and peel the pulp off with my teeth, is not much, but it’s a nice mindless activity to occupy my brain

Pom is a flavored water fruit rather than a chew and swallow fruit. You don’t miss much leaving the pulp behind (and I’m not talking about the white rind) because theres not much of it to begin with. Its ideal for brainless time like watching movies. The prep is pretty easy, too, since the pearls tend to fall off pretty easily into a bowl, perfect for mindless snacking.

Only time I ever saw anyone’s genitals in the bathroom was because I was fucking one of the strippers (my co-worker, I was never a stripper but in some places cocktail waitresses are close! Not the places I worked, I’m not -that- bold, but she had a good time :)

I don’t think it was a mistake, I was young and that’s the sort of wild thing I was told early adulthood was about. But she offered to reciprocate and made me realize I wasn’t really into it.

Thanks for the reminder that I need to order trichogramma wasps to fix my moth problem again. Downside of keeping my quail inside; moths infest very easily. Upside, i learned years ago that trichogramma wasps (stingless egg parasites) are cheap and work like a dream on pantry moths, plus they are so small you’ll never see them (like moving sand)

Yes, but also absolutely no.

If every game becomes a paralyzing consequence nexus, some of us wont play them who would otherwise actually play a linear RPG like we’ve come to expect from the FF franchise.

Final fantasy is not the same niche as baludars gate, and they really need to not see themselves as competitors. Fewer cutscenes and more play? Absolutely. Changing the entire genre of the game? Ehh.

I genuinely dislike games where I can play multiple times and not get all the content. Im always stuck. I want to experience as much as I can for the least time investment (hated choose your own ending books for the same reason), but they are made to be infinitely replayable and I’m not into that. There are more games out there. 🤷🏻

Unsurprising that actually feeling safe increases use over “trust everyone bro, even the people who threaten you, painted lines will stop them!”

We all thought nazis were a back in the day problem too, though. Maybe better we don’t make that assumption this time.

My parents held a seance with a “medium” (a grifter my mom knew), trying to contact the spirit in the house named Edward (the man who built the property and lived there until he died in a fire he started while drunk).

I was 10-12 or so and it was really dumb. They recorded the session on a boom box (this was the 90s) and importantly I rested myself on it throughout the whole thing so I probably ruined the whole thing because the only notable anomaly on the tape was a heartbeat, and it was probably mine.

However, as a result of all the chatter around the supernatural, I had “unexplained occurrences” for the next couple weeks due to being attuned to that sort of thing which I’d normally have blown off. Im not religious, not spiritual, and don’t really believe in supernatural phenomenon, other than “we cant explain this but it definitely happened” sort of stuff. Many of the things I experienced the following weeks I’ve been able to explain as my knowledge of the weird natural world expanded, so…

Technically you always taste the contents of your bowels, you just aren’t conscious of it.

Your digestive system has tastebuds all up and down it, just like your tongue. Unlike your tongue, they very thankfully aren’t hooked into sensory processing parts of the brain, instead, they are used to help determine everything’s good. If they detect something is off, bacteria byproducts, spoilage, etc, they cause the purges to happen (vomiting or diarrhea depending where in the digestive process it is, sometimes both!!)

But thats basically why you can sometimes feel very spicy food move through and burn along the way.

How was it? Delicious?

This reminds me of the dude who built a computer that technically runs doom inside satisfactory or factorio (I think satisfactory).

I’m struggling to find the video now, but he wrote a ton of optimization code to make it run faster, because it’s painfully slow. I think the video was sped up 1,000x or so just to show it was, in fact, playing.

I love looking at natural older faces at rest because they tell a story about the expressions that person made most frequently throughout their lifetime. Like a little glimpse of the life that person led.

Its just wild to me how angry/condescending all the conservatives tend to look when their faces are at rest.

Probably why mar-a-lago face has become popular with them. Being a bootleg barbie beats being angry old men.

The last time I went under, I was talking to the nurses about the equipment in the room and stuff and the last thing I really remember is asking what drug they gave me, and when I learned it was fentanyl I was like “oh, this is fentanyl? It’s pretty nice. I can see why it’s a controlled substance, yeah.”

I’m entirely sure I continued to be annoying though, even if I don’t remember it. Mostly because they don’t tend to bother trying to get me to count, they just kept me chattering. Same thing when they wake me up. I tend to be… “helpful”… removing monitor pads and such and slurring my way through asking how it went, if I gave them any trouble, and when I come around a bit more, asking if they amputated the wrong limb (I’ve never had a limb removed).

Exactly what I do. I fucked up long ago and had to grind an end boss for weeks to not replay the entire game (saved with basically nothing in inventory).

Now I rotate save files, always keep stacks of consumables, etc. and absolutely never use awesome or unique items. Because you never know.

The sad part is I’m much better at games now, having had 30 more years to practice, so I rarely even need those crutches… unless theres an easy to use hotkey for it, I probably wont use them much. The situation that convinced me to be abundantly cautious has literally never happened, or come close to happening, again, and not at all because I changed strategies.

The book Cat Sense by John Bradshaw is a good read (you can probably find a free pdf thats complete, and years ago I uploaded the audiobook to audiobookbay, but this preview will do for not linking to amazon or potentially breaking rules).

He got around the problem of cats not doing cat things in a lab by just, you know, having cats at home and observing their behavior. Sure, its only a look at domestic cats for the most part, but its a great read anyway.

If you dig down about 2 foot (or several inches lower than the lowest root you find) and install a rubber barrier that goes from the bottom of the trench to up above the soil, it wont be able to spread to you anymore :)

You could use brick, stone, or cement, but if any cracks exist or form it’ll eventually find the way through, where that’s significantly less likely with a solid sheet of rubber.

Should add sunchokes/Jerusalem artichoke in there somewhere, as they are food. I don’t think kudzu is? Lets replace that one.

Sunchokes spread like crazy as long as they have full sun, and are super difficult to eradicate, but are thwarted by being planted in sunny clearings in densely wooded areas. They can’t spread into the shade.

Make the land difficult for development, but useful for the community!

The urge never went away for me, I vaped 0% for several years. It’s the habit that’s addictive for some people.