• marsza@lemmy.cafe
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    19 hours ago

    70 could live 10-20 more years. You can see a tree grow in several years. If was kind of a duck comment

    • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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      17 hours ago

      Yeah, I don’t know mom and maybe she deserves it or it makes more sense in context, but to me that comment sounds like “you’re old and you’re going to die soon.”

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        11 hours ago

        The saying, “Society grows great when old men plant trees under whose shade they know they’ll never sit,” is pretty well known. Unless you’re (mom) looking to pick a fight over some ‘bitch, that’s a whole new sentence’ interpretative inference, SOP’s statement can’t be taken as ““you’re old and you’re going to die soon.””