as something of a nun or Priestess myself i think they are based and i hope they retain their social access and the people they need and trust for help in their advanced age; if they want to use social media to reach out to the world- regardless of the content; i think thats a good thing and it will probably keep their minds sharper for longer they by far arent the only nuns using instagram; i follow an account run by Sisters on youtube and they have pretty good content for their audience; im very far from christian but i appreciate their dedication to kindness and trying to show the benefits of a deeper commitment to spirituality can have for people if i could believe in abrahamic stuff i'd probably have tried to become a nun; but ive never been able to believe in any of that- i found my own way to spirituality through my goddess over the past nearly 20 years; my wife and i are unfortunately the only believers in the world in our tiny faith; but we're very grateful for the happiness and love our goddess has brought us through eachother; and the changes she has brought about in ourselves

and the reverse beeping and flashing keeping people from sleeping i would lose my mind and have to move; but most people cant just up and do that waymo needs to sound insulate all the machinery; install multistory sound walls (that will unfortunately also block sunlight ans view from those apartments; and get a legal carveout on autonomous driving regulations so that the cars can not beep at all at night when reversing; or beep much more quietly so you can only hear it from a few feet away those people should not have to suffer for waymo's taxi operation better yet these cars should all be in a actual heavily sound insulated fully enclosed parking garage anytime waymo wants to put them within 1000ft of any dwelling of any kind; outdoor lots should only be allowed in commercial areas; theres plenty of strip malls with empty corner parking areas they could put this kind of thing and not have it disruping people trying to sleep; theres a good chance those people arent too well off either; atleast let them sleep when they have to slog away at low wage jobs and live in 50yr old apartments

microplastics anyone?

we have as much right to exist and be safe; welcome; and understood as anyone else does

ai age estimators have rated me as low as like 13 before; usually id get mid-late 20s i am 39 (tho i was more like 36 at the time) and my hair is full long natural silvery already (had a very stressful life of poverty; disability; and horrible heartbreaks/loneliness/agoraphobia- the hair all turned in a span of like 3 years im happier now that im married to my soulmate wife but im still disabled by my spine fractures and joint problems and its all very painful everyday

i think the most important thing is to instill and foster genuine curiosity and enjoyment from learning and allow for far more elective learning in far more fields than what the education system provides if learning is only a chore and is too repetitive; boring; unengaging; and doesnt encourage collaboration and working together; its a big waste because that kid- especially if their parents could care less; is probably not going to be capable of caring about learning about things certain kinds of learning and activities and freedom need to be provided at different times; and i think homework outside of long creative angled projects should be abolished; children are not gaining independant social skills because they are worked like slaves on reading things they had no choice in i think much of school should be a choose your own adventure kind of process; where you pick atleast 1/3 of of what your learning is related to; and focus should be on group projects to build social skills; while having strict antibullying protections and also some time where kids work alone more at their own pace; learning to research and understand and critically think and figure out; not just copy cotations to get a grade i feel we invest so little in education i think elementry and middle and highschools should be just as important and well funded of cultural institutions as ivy league universities are; and maybe it would be good for kids to give them more control and say in school policies and how various things ae handled; they can work with teachers and staff and researchers to reshape the mould of school to better fit the modern needs and there should be no such thing as a kid who cant afford lunch or school supplies or anything else; no such thing as a bad home environment- maybe we should just have schools be built as part of housing developments and if you go to that school your family can live there in a good safe area for as long as your a student almost like a boarding school but without being away from your core family sorry i just wish there werent so many stories of kids whos families cant provide for them or worse yet dont really care i wish i had had a better situation and more opportunities growing up; im a highschool dropout; and i would not have graduated highschool even if i hadnt dropped out; i went thru all my school years depressed by heartbreak and loneliness; i cant care or think about academic frivalities when my reason for existing- love- is not to some degree fulfilled or atleast hopeful and its not like i had no relationships; i had one of the most intense loves of my love at just 11/12yrs old; i always improved academically when my heart was not aching so much sorry ill stop rambling

what cfpb? its alive in name only afaik at this point; the right likes vulnerable americans to remain vulnerable to predatory scams and unfair contracts they hated it from the start

paying to not have to be the one to wait in the taco bell line is worth it at 7pm on a cold night; especially when im disabled and its difficult and painful for me to get ready to leave; though thats gotten easier lately i have doordashed most of my food for 5 years; i cant drive and im too disabled to cook anything more than a frozen dinner or maybe some ramen or a quesadilla of all the convenience things that the app economy and smartphones have brought; i am most grateful for easy (usually) quick (sometimes) food and grocery delivery from anyplace i want for most of the day and evening im also grateful for quick amazon shipping and their standardization of efficient easy web ordering of anything i need; i do still like to go to stores sometimes but walking and standing is hard for me and my little electric wheelchair is a pain to deal with and im not very good at driving it; and also its noisey and embarassing; id prefer to walk as much as i can manage but after about 25 minutes my fractured spine cant keep up anymore and the pain gets exponentially worse; im only 39 its better now that i got married last year and my wife takes good care of me and we eat at home about 2-3 nights a week though its usually something fast and simple like tacos or pasta; maybe after our upcoming move we can try a meal service i liked the one i tried in 2021 these modern conveniences are a big help for people who are disabled or have limited time available for shopping i literally would have starved in 2020 after my mom had a stroke if it werent for doordash; i did go out shopping in uber a couple of times on my own but i cant carry barely anything because my spine; with someone bringing it right to my door it helped alot; and i had the most amazing beautiful thing i ever tasted: royal rose boba tea i hope i can have it with my wife someday but rose tea is rare; ive never found one nearly as good as tea4u's

how do they de-identify people asking about things where they live and their health conditions and personal beliefs and interests that arent shared by anyone else how would this not absolutely egregiously violate HIPAA? you cant really anonymize what someone tells it; about factors of their life and personality that are unique to them

they should have just built a Midgar clone; a floating supported city that was say 50 stories off the ground; with some nice transit system where cars arent needed and are only even supported in certain arteries like freeways that ring it and make some flower pattern thru the inner areas and the train or monorail etc lines could have dozens of stops all around; big slyscraper at the center core that extends up from under the foundation below the upper plate; with everything the city needs fully integrated within the circle on the lower or upper later plus a big basement for insmfrastructure and various layers of streets and parks and stuff up above it would be alot more doable i think and alot more practical to show results in phases and probably cheaper too because its mostly just existing megaproject tech; theres no reason you cant properly support a kilometer or so radius plate with huge concrete pillars and arches and a kindof web of suspenstion cables going at every degree to multiple points i think that makes more sense and would be far more practical and impressive at the same time but what they should really do is give me a couple biion so i can build a 30 story temple for my goddess

should they perhaps rename their little organization to Umbrella.org?

these people are not on the side of the average population

what exactly does that even mean here? does it apply to microtransactions of gacha games? just transmission of data itself? in any case it seems bad to start tariffing such literally ephemeral things?

could not some of these shortcomings be due to long term budget cuts? or poor allocation thereof towards important security measures for the most famous irreplacable artifacts on display in the world? cyber or not- many things could and should have been improved after a decade+

i guess with so much of high end graphics being fully programmable now with really low level api's; theres bound to be edge cases that -should- work to spec but yet somewhere something isnt handled right in the driver and it causes a graphics render problem or wasted performance in this specific situation with how new game F is doing something; or maybe some update breaks something in game Y or a new dlc for game Z adds some new system that has problems on some of the various gpu models- a studio cant test *everything* it might run on for example Infinity Nikki had lots of problems on amd 890m integrated graphics on my laptop when it launched about a year ago; but when i ran it on the dedicated nvidia 4500 it was fine; but then when a later update added dyeing of outfits and co-op; there were tons of bugs for many players- thats definitely mostly on the studio but sometimes some low level thing in the driver needs a little tweak to fix it and my guess is that games cant always access those things or there may be undocumented stuff at play; so they presumably go to amd/nvidia/intel and explain what their users are saying and their understanding of the behavior; plus users propbably report problems to the gpu makers too- and things get rolled into drivers to fix this or that game or support its raytracing or something else properly im no developer but thats my understanding of things from reports ive read about problems with various new demanding games over the years