I don’t think you can decide in the abstract and I don’t think there is a one-size-fits all answer. Every pet’s (and person’s) decline is different. You may get to a point where you have to make a decision, but the specifics of that point are always different, and being in the situation is not the same as trying to imagine it.

I’m taking a moment to appreciate it right now.

Perhaps you could build some sort of large Fresnel lens to place in front of it that would correct for it.

I think two things that are common causes of sibling bad feelings are differences in treatment, and handling of sibling conflicts, both of which can create feelings of unfairness and resentment.

I don’t have prescriptions for those things. Kids are different and necessarily need to be treated differently. But one should be aware of how this can feel unfair to one sibling. And be aware of how your need to end conflicts and restore order can again wind up being unfair to one sibling.

I think the hardest thing is being able to see things from their points of view.

Stainless steel can be plenty nonstick but you have to get it good and hot. Seasoned cast iron is a little more forgiving, but heavy. Carbon steel may be the best of both world because it’s similar in weight to stainless, but takes a season, but I don’t have enough experience with it yet to say for sure.

I would take the error message at its word: “The server encountered a temporary error, Please try again later.”

In the morning, coffee. Throughout the day water, maybe a tea once in a while. In the evening 1 alcoholic beverage, usually wine or a cocktail but maybe beer. This time of year it’s often something hot (hot toddy, mulled wine, mulled beer, old man’s milk, etc.).

If they were asking 10 zipped individually vs a single zip, I didn’t get that, because that’s not what their phrasing actually said. But you might be right, that would make more sense to ask.

Wouldn’t trying it out and seeing how much it saved be about the same amount of work as typing in this question?

Maybe she likes older guys but not the kind that are looking for younger women.

That is true, but I didn’t say anything about their styles.

Ha! I am no different than she wrt things like my neighbors cars!

It frequently amazes me what people don’t absorb or remember, like whole sentences of a 4 sentence email or text message. I’m not under any illusion that I am exempt from this, but what we see and others miss is of course more apparent to us.

This is really fascinating to me. Do you mind my asking, with no intended disrespect, how intelligent your wife is? And did she have any kind of unusually isolated situation for much of her life?

Some times people do things a way that takes longer because it avoids having to think. It avoids the effort of using the brain, in favor of spending more time doing something simple and easy.

This is one of the dangers of AI. The mental equivalent of getting out of shape because you drive everywhere and never walk.

Haven’t read either of these two authors, but by “cut away stories” do you mean stories within the story? If so there is a long tradition of that, going back to the 1001 Arabian Nights, post modern authors like John Barth, etc.

I’ll just offer one particular situation. I have a door to my kitchen that is metal and glass like a sliding door but swings on a hinge. More mass than a typical wooden door and it swings on the hinge very freely, no resistance to slow it down. So it swings with pretty much the velocity you give it, and it requires a decent amount to make it latch.

Commonly I go in or out with stuff in my hands so I can rarely close it slowly and carefully. I end up giving it a little shove, often with my foot. If you get the force just right, it will latch with out being loud, but it has to be just right. Any less and it doesn’t latch. Any more and it slams pretty loudly. It’s really hard to get right, an not slam it more loudly than you intend. And I’m sensitive to noise so it’s not like I don’t care. But with this particular door it’s hard to avoid.

A lot of advice is like medicine. Whether it is good or bad for you depends on what you are or aren’t suffering from

The Family Circus cartoon (and probably other old newspaper cartoons that never die). I saw a video analyzing how they reuse the same cartoons over the years with small changes to keep them from looking too out of date, but increasingly lazily.

Weren’t the original Hardy Boys slop from the start? It’s been a while since I read about it, but I think I remember reading that they were kind of cynically churned out by some paid hack, and occasionally revised to keep them from getting too dated. (Human slop generating practices have gotten worse over the years, tho)

Sorry, my bad. Desktop Firefox and spinoffs has this but not Android.