I've seen an arthritic goat hobbling around in agony.

With nature, you don't generally peacefully breathe out your dying breath, even if there are no predators. You live until life as it is is torturous enough that you no longer live.

There is no alternative to life, and death is compulsory and often painful. We, as humans, are lucky enough to be capable to, at times, make that process quick, and, at times, painless.

Predation is not wrong. The quality of life is what matters - and because of that, death is necessary.

Life offers joy, but can dish out misery just as deeply. If life gives you joy, it lasts as long as it can. If life gives you misery, the depth of it is limited by death.

You've been savagely attacked by an internet monster.

Absofuckinglutely.

Toxic positivity leads to omnipresent, convoluted negativity. Just feel what's there. Let the thoughts run their course.

Of course, actually discovering that this is viable is kindof a dice throw of readiness. But at least if you don't have the necessary experience, you live the necessary experience.

Day 4 assuming the egg is at chicken body temperature.

That is, you could be at day 14, and the egg is still fresh and fertile, so long as the eggs haven't been at chicken temperature.

As soon as they sit at chicken temperature, they start to develop.

A chicken can lay eggs in the same nest for weeks, then start to sit on it, and they all start to develop once she sits on them.

Healthy in the sense of 'being a thriving entity', not in the sense of 'being particularly good for your health'.

I have a friend.. ..as much as one can befriend a monster, anyways.. ..who intentionally let a botfly larva grow in his.. ..arm? thigh? Anyways, after a good long time, he started getting Stockholm syndrome and got fond of the evil fucker, because he had been through so much pain with it. Eventually, though, the pain was too much and he caved and got it removed.

There are some times when it's just better to listen to the pain.

...he said, as he locked eyes with me, casually hitting the bong and slowly, calmly fucking a shark

A tiny heater running all day would do that.

1kw is a small heater. 0.8kw is a tiny one. 0.8x24 is 19.2. Assuming they have other basic appliances, that's already more than enough to account for their usage.

Son/daughter would be like "ugh, this is lame, I want to play real-world games with peoples' lives. ..like, corporate wars, or screw-the-smallguy."

Kids never handle the inheritance right, and passing on the experiences they need in order to do so is hard as fuck.

Easy-peasey to rig. Worker co-op isn't a bad idea.

I vote that as a second to finding a successor, and giving the whole thing to them, sans whatever kickbacks to family etc that he wants.

• get in
• get keys into hand
• the abyss gazes also into me

Both are right. But, the 'gods' already broke the non-interference pattern, and the lesser-developed species has already been impacted. So, at that point, it becomes a judgment call - will further involvement be beneficial or detrimental?