I seem to be having trouble responding to some comments.

To answer a few points, my mother is in her 90s. She is not suffering from dementia, but she doesn't deal well with not getting her way. She throws tantrums in public. So it is easier just to go along with her wishes. One of my sisters had the police called on her for elder abuse once because my mother was throwing such a fit about how mean her daughter was to random strangers. Edit: if you've seen the episode of Malcolm in the Middle where Lois's evil mother comes to visit, and they call the police on her when she refuses to leave, and she plays the pity card to the cops and almost gets Hal arrested? That's my mother.

This trip was the first time I had seen her in 2 years. I took her to the casino with the agreement that I would wait outside, but of course she pretended to be looking for me in the casino, security called me thinking she was lost, and when I went in she insisted we go eat there rather than heading back to the vacation rental. I couldn't exactly leave my elderly mother there and go back to the vacation rental without her.

I got home a week ago and don't plan on calling her for a while. I am still pissed off.

I'm shocked by the content I've seen over there. I know quite a few reddit users IRL and none of them support what spez is doing. I think you are right about AI being involved in some if the posts.

Its tough. I take massive amounts of meds.

If my mother wasn't 93 and acting like a toddler, I'd have left her there alone.

I'm here for this, and appreciate the r sub making a stand.

I do hope the wiki can be set up here. I'm an old woman and I need a lot of support whilst sailing the high seas.

She has a stomach like cast iron, and wanted greasy fried food.

The weird part is, she's from Italy and is a big food snob, but when she comes to the US she wants to eat gross food.

Definitely when Bender eats one fat free potato chip and a pile of bricks fall out his ass. Fry never comments on it.

Olestra was a fat-free "oil" manufacturers were using in potato chips, and there was a bunch of press about it causing diarrhea.

I'm weaning myself off of reddit, regardless of what the sub mods do. Glad to find a books community here.

Kiss my shiny metal ass!

I don't mind the aesthetic posts when the sub is new and small, but eventually I would like to read more about people living with less junk.

Gabapentin. Miracle drug.

She's a narcissistic bitch, and I try to limit my exposure to her as much as possible.

This is stupid, but I thought I'd invented a shape of cup bottom that wouldn't accumulate water in the dishwasher, but that was still stable while standing upright. Found an existing patent for my exact design after working on it for months.

I fall asleep to an Italian dub of the show. I like to think it helps me learn the language.

Mine is Beck. He really made playing himself comedic.

I hope you're feeling better.

It's so irritating when people pull this religious BS on sick people. I was diagnosed with three forms of cancer and facing surgery and an uncertain future. The number of people who told me "I'll pray for you" was shocking. Like, I need someone to do my laundry or bring me some groceries, not sit on their ass and feel bad.

I used to hear a man's voice in my head. Clear as day, like he was standing next to me. He'd say things to warn me, like "slow down" right before I tripped and broke my arm.

Haven't heard him in about 10 years, but I wish I still did.

I think it's pretty timeless in its humor. As long as there are science fiction fans, it will have an appeal. My Boomer ass has always loved it.

I am on some really tiny subs that I would like to see here. R/biathlon is a big void in my life right now.

I also like to see some of the bigger Subs like 2x chromosomes, troll X chromosomes, and witches versus the patriarchy.

I'm hoping we can make this the new community. It's one of the only R subs I miss.

Same here. Hoping infinity makes it, but Lemmy is here to hold me.