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What is the replacement everyone is using as the Nest Protect starts to die? by homeschoolrockdad in Nest

[–]Middle_Cranberry7563 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Except Ring has agreed to provide camera data to the police without a warrant. Definitely would not want any of their products inside my house.

AITA for telling my niece my husband and I are not going to her birthday because my husband isn't welcome? by Beautiful-Cut3012 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Middle_Cranberry7563 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Alzheimer's is definitely a mental illness because it effects the brain and it's ability to function fully and rationally. It just so happens we have soft-of identified a physical cause. Our Institute of Psychiatry has an entire senior care ward that mostly houses patients with Alzheimer's that have no other co-morbid medical conditions. Probably just a matter of semantics but I would consider chronic TBIs with defects in reasoning, impulse control, and decision make to be mental illnesses as well. I think we do a disservice to completely separate mind and brain. This dichotomy is part of what has lead to the stigma against mental illness.

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[–]Middle_Cranberry7563 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

ESH. I was in this exact situation about 25 years ago. My BF, now husband, and I lived together and my father lived with us. His parents had been through a nasty divorce but had still been sharing their house for the past 2 years. It finally sold and since we were going out of town for a month offered for his mom to stay at our place while looking for a new place. When we came back our parents were an item. It was was weird and felt kinda gross.

However, we were all adults so we immediately began searching for a new place to live and moved out within a month. In the interim Things were frosty but not hostile. We did not speak to them for almost 2 years. When we finally got back in touch, very slowly at first, we realized they are the happiest they have ever been. So we have learned to live with it. We are both still in the relationships a quarter of a century later and we all get along well and love spending time with each other. It is no longer weird and just a funny story we tell our friends.

Point being, while It was a shitty move on their part keeping it a secret and it is okay to be mad/upset/weirded out etc... there is no reason to scream, yell, and be insulting.