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[Junkenstein]

And sincere condolonces Nigel, Alzheimer's  is fucking horrible.

I console myself by thinking that in a few hundred years whats left of humanity will mock this era mercilessly for spending so much time, money and effort on say, sports, compared to dealing with, for one thing, diseases. 21C - Advanced enough to know better, still too dumb to bother.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Through grim experience, I can tell you that "gently" isn't an option at a certain point. With shit like that if you're thinking it, it already needs to stop. It's better to have a huge argument and lay down the law than let them potentially injure/kill themselves or others.

It sucks, but by the time they're able to admit it to themselves, damage has already been done. Just to their vehicle, if you're lucky. If you're not then you've got a whole heap of shit to sort out for someone who can't deal with these kinds of consequences.

This. There's a reversal needs to take place where the previous parental authority figure needs to be handled as if they were a toddler. Hum and haw too long and you'll find them chewing on a toaster cable. Dementia is watching the people you love become bits of the people you love. Not sure about alzheimers but we've got one in suspected early stages so I'll probably find out soon enough.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

In the last 2 1/2 hours, I had a nice walk, Made fettucine alfredo, and took a shower. I feel like I was sufficiently adult and good about it. Yay.

Acting adult is hard.

There comes a point at which you get so deep into it that you have the realization that there is no way out, and no one to adult for you if you should find yourself unable to adult. There is no back-up plan. Just you, being the adult.

It's terrifying.

It's even worse when you have to adult for the peop;e that used to adult for you at the same time as adulting for a tiny human.

It's knackering AND terrifying. And you don't even get a fucking "thank you".

More likely, yelled at. My dad's Alzheimer's is advancing and we may need to move him in with us. It's fucking horrible. At least my spawn are old enough to help.

Oh man, my dad and his brothers are trying to figure out how to gently tell his parents that maybe they shouldn't drive.  They're in their 80's.  That and trying to get an alzheimer's stove that auto shuts off when you walk away because well, grandma has attention issues and grandpa is getting into this weird grandma needs to always cook and automatically know when he's hungry thing.

My dad is totally not supposed to be driving, but he drove himself over here Monday morning.

If we do end up having him move in here, we will be putting a kitchenette in the basement with one of those stoves.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

And sincere condolonces Nigel, Alzheimer's  is fucking horrible.

I console myself by thinking that in a few hundred years whats left of humanity will mock this era mercilessly for spending so much time, money and effort on say, sports, compared to dealing with, for one thing, diseases. 21C - Advanced enough to know better, still too dumb to bother.

No shit! We are fucking IDIOTS. One of the most infuriating  things is that there is some evidence that Alzheimers may have a root that is strongly influenced by human behavior, but we don't know what it is. Because humans are pretty much barely above dog-level intelligence, it is hard to get funding to study anthropogenic roots of disease.

[Don Coyote]

And sincere condolonces Nigel, Alzheimer's  is fucking horrible.

I console myself by thinking that in a few hundred years whats left of humanity will mock this era mercilessly for spending so much time, money and effort on say, sports, compared to dealing with, for one thing, diseases. 21C - Advanced enough to know better, still too dumb to bother.

No shit! We are fucking IDIOTS. One of the most infuriating  things is that there is some evidence that Alzheimers may have a root that is strongly influenced by human behavior, but we don't know what it is. Because humans are pretty much barely above dog-level intelligence, it is hard to get funding to study anthropogenic roots of disease.

[Don Coyote]

I can't remember if I mentioned I've been writing RPG shit on my RPG blog. I've been regularly writing shit for 3 weeks now. I forgot that it actually feels nice to just write.

[Junkenstein]

And sincere condolonces Nigel, Alzheimer's  is fucking horrible.

I console myself by thinking that in a few hundred years whats left of humanity will mock this era mercilessly for spending so much time, money and effort on say, sports, compared to dealing with, for one thing, diseases. 21C - Advanced enough to know better, still too dumb to bother.

No shit! We are fucking IDIOTS. One of the most infuriating  things is that there is some evidence that Alzheimers may have a root that is strongly influenced by human behavior, but we don't know what it is. Because humans are pretty much barely above dog-level intelligence, it is hard to get funding to study anthropogenic roots of disease.

I've said for a while that if 10% (FFS, even 1%) of football transfer fees or Hollywood film budgets was mandatory to be put to medical research/care, the average life expectancy would probably be past 100 by now. And that's just looking at the past 30 odd years. Instead we let this shit continue because big explosions and paying morons millions to kick a ball is apparently a better use of resources.

Dog level seems generous. A lot of people I encounter wouldn't rate above a fucking goldfish. Hells, more than a couple of posters here would lose a battle of wits against your average carp. You know who you are. Actually due to dunning Kruger you probably don't, you fucking idiots.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

And sincere condolonces Nigel, Alzheimer's  is fucking horrible.

I console myself by thinking that in a few hundred years whats left of humanity will mock this era mercilessly for spending so much time, money and effort on say, sports, compared to dealing with, for one thing, diseases. 21C - Advanced enough to know better, still too dumb to bother.

No shit! We are fucking IDIOTS. One of the most infuriating  things is that there is some evidence that Alzheimers may have a root that is strongly influenced by human behavior, but we don't know what it is. Because humans are pretty much barely above dog-level intelligence, it is hard to get funding to study anthropogenic roots of disease.

I've said for a while that if 10% (FFS, even 1%) of football transfer fees or Hollywood film budgets was mandatory to be put to medical research/care, the average life expectancy would probably be past 100 by now. And that's just looking at the past 30 odd years. Instead we let this shit continue because big explosions and paying morons millions to kick a ball is apparently a better use of resources.

Dog level seems generous. A lot of people I encounter wouldn't rate above a fucking goldfish. Hells, more than a couple of posters here would lose a battle of wits against your average carp. You know who you are. Actually due to dunning Kruger you probably don't, you fucking idiots.

Goldfish do at least have rudimentary problem-solving skills.

But seriously, dog problem-solving and reasoning can be estimated to range from about 60-85 on an IQ scale, taking into consideration that dogs have almost none of the cortex that predicts future outcomes and so can't plan ahead at all. IQ is based on a normal distribution with a human average of 100, the distribution mean. Below 85 is considered cognitively impaired, above 115 is considered intellectually gifted. That's one standard deviation in each direction. Most of the people here are one to two standard deviations above the mean, as far as I can tell, with maybe a couple people who are more than two.

Roughly 78% of people are within one standard deviation from the mean. That's what we're dealing with. Not to sound like an elitist prick, which is an easy hole to fall into when discussing reasoning skills, but the general lack of intellectual reasoning ability in the majority of the population means that we will probably never, ever get even the small fraction of funding for science that could significantly improve the lives and health of everyone, because sportsball is fun.

[Junkenstein]

Well. That's rather depressing.

There's not much I can add to that really. It's almost enough to tempt me to start hitting the bottle.

[Junkenstein]

On the plus side, I suspect with a bit of mangling and expansion between our comments there, there's a decent big words to be had.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

On the plus side, I suspect with a bit of mangling and expansion between our comments there, there's a decent big words to be had.

I could definitely see this being massaged into something readable... but I'm not sure whether it would be particularly inspiring. It would be nice if we could create something that inspires people to put their trust in people who are smarter to them and have dedicated their careers to making life better for everyone.

[Junkenstein]

As a kind of dialogue piece it may work both ways, I'd push disdain against your optimism kind of thing.

If I could request a split from a mod that can be bothered I'll see what I can do, if that's OK with you?

[Meunster]

Its always akward when you are awaken by a paramedic jabbing his thumbs into your chest.

Roomate thought I killed myself, cops kicked down my door and eveything.

[Roly Poly Oly-Garch]

Its always akward when you are awaken by a paramedic jabbing his thumbs into your chest.

Roomate thought I killed myself, cops kicked down my door and eveything.

Just a heavy sleeper, orrrr.....?

[Freeky]

I just got on a bike for the first time in almost 20 years.

Some thoughts:
-Riding a bike may be a skill that you never forget, but it's no less nerve-wracking and harrowing.
-Potholes.
-Stopping is hard because my feet don't touch the ground.
-Potholes.
-If I can relax my grip for a few seconds, it's really pleasant.
-FUCKING POTHOLES ARE TERRIFYING.

I didn't fall, but god damn there are a lot of potholes in my neighborhood.