Hey - very much feel this one.

It will likely come from your kids in the future, the validation doesn’t come from society. They get to a point where they recognise what you did and say thanks.

You’re doing well, keep it up mate.

Gratitude makes you live longer, feel better, and it’s free.

Jack and Diane by John Mellencamp?

Yeah that’s kinda the point.

Yeah no. Performance, reliability, uptime are huge.

Australia, eastern seaboard

My experience with cosmos is you’re going to have a lot of cosmos, in unexpected places, a lot of the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_poisoning

It is toxic

Not sure what degrees of toxicity are measured in,like is there a Richter scale of toxicity

I tried to think of a witty measurement but it’s late and I’ve had a hard day so I’m going to bed instead.

Diffuse can be used as a verb meaning “to spread out” or an adjective meaning “not concentrated.” It is often confused with defuse, which can only be a verb. The original meaning of defuse was “to take the fuse off a bomb,” but the word now usually means “to make less dangerous or tense.”

Yes.