Here's what I posted in that thread. Still relevant for those who missed it:

I'm in my late sixties. My older sister and brother live alone and are over seventy. We have a group text going where we each say something every noon (they sleep late). It felt morbid at first, but it's now a nice mix of jokes and what's going on with each of us. If I ever need an app like this I think I'd move into a group home instead.

It was a smooth and easy read for me. I've seen much more awkward headlines, this is fine.

posting to destroy a mis-clicked mod. Under- and over- rated should not be next to eachother. Put them in the good or bad grouping of all the other mods!

Were these "bugs" returning TO the ISS or returning FROM the ISS? C'mon EditorDavid, this is just sloppy.

LSD and Mushrooms are radically different. There are many other psychedelics, each very unique. This guy knows he used LSD, yet he makes many statements where he generalizes his conclusion to all psychedelics. This is NOT science. He may as well test a birthday cake and then tell everybody all breads are bad for you. I do think there is something to the idea. If psilocybin actually does work in small doses (small does not mean so small you can't feel it at all, and this dose was tiny), then his sloppy conclusion will mean many people won't get a valuable treatment. I suspect bias: He wanted this conclusion.

Then this should go over really well in Brazil. I was there 11 years ago, and all the ATMs used palm readers instead of a physical card. It was really convenient to just hold out my hand and see it ask "How much do you want?"

They already own all the data on Youtube. Using other sources requires a lot of time, money, and compute power. Of course they are going to prioritize already crunched data over fresh, timely info. Those summaries take $$$ to produce, and google makes a lot of them every second. In many cases, like wikipedia, this is fine, but must always be verified, not trusted. The financial impact on the ultimate sources of data is a serious problem: The long term impact of this short-sighted profit and eyeball grab is sabotaging their trustworthiness..

I think you mean an AI bidet. At least, I hope you do.

Many hotel bathrooms of the past had an infrared spotlight aimed at the toilet. The wall switch was a loudly clicking timer. You could turn it on a few minutes before going in (lift the lid) and have a nicely heated seat. I kinda miss them.

A very cool site I regularly read covered this in more detail four days ago: check out Centauri-dreams.org.

I'm in my late sixties. My older sister and brother live alone and are over seventy. We have a group text going where we each say something every noon (they sleep late). It felt morbid at first, but it's now a nice mix of jokes and what's going on with each of us. If I ever need an app like this I think I'd move into a group home instead.

They are well intentioned. How about calling them starry-eyed young idealists, naive to the pitfalls of their utopian vision? Don't be cynical when you can be smugly superior.

I have three gmail addresses that I use for different purposes. All the "smart" devices in my homes have the address [street number][street name]@gmail.com for three different houses, so that makes six gmail accounts. If you want a new address, go ahead and register one, then set forwarding and sharing on the old account. I don't see how they can call this a new feature.

I was going to post "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." but this is microsoft we're talking about. Their codebase is pretty broken already, so, let them have at it. I'll watch the chaos with firefox on linux. I just hope my bank and the financial markets don't crash too hard if it gets that bad.There's a lot of dependence on MS products.

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