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  • D&D and autism

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  • Good old Leon...

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  • Traffic-based Driving Analysis aka Spying on you

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    wtgW
    Yep. It's why I decided to skip the State Farm deal for ADT security. Free basic system and installation and a reduced rate for monitoring. But you have to allow ADT to share your data with State Farm. I was like....wtf? We did do the State Farm Ting deal for the gizmo that monitors your home electrical system, but as I recall, the privacy notice said Ting does not share any data with other parties, not even State Farm.
  • Consumer prices for August

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  • Asian Lantern Festival

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    MikM
    I worked right by there in Old Brooklyn but never made it.
  • There's a subreddit for everything

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    DougGD
    I feel like this is what the Internet was invented for.
  • Traditional Done Well

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    wtgW
    Ha! Finally a no-paywall version: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/1904-waddy-b-wood-house-on-the-market-for-nearly-4-million/ar-AA1pHFRJ Eta: oops...I see I already posted that free link.....
  • The future of tennis

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  • A black child raised in a white supremacist cult

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  • Supercitizens

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    I find that once you start volunteering the opportunities to volunteer more just pour in. I’m the board chair of our Foundation with lots of volunteer roles under that, I’m on the Public Advisory Roundtable of the American Thoracic Society, I’m co-director of a public-private partnership between Industry and the FDA advancing drug development tools in my rare disease, and I sit on the data safety monitoring boards of two different NIH studies. All this five years after first getting involved. But I wouldn’t call myself a ‘supercitizen’. Those seem like more local community star volunteers. When we moved to my suburb a decade ago I had thoughts of getting involved locally. That doesn’t seem likely anymore. In my particular case my experience is better focused on beating this disease.
  • Neuroarchitecture

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    ShiroKuroS
    @wtg said in Neuroarchitecture: So many restaurants seem to be total noise machines. Tall ceilings, hard floor and wall materials, and loud music. I've had trouble talking to people at the same table. Most unpleasant. Yep, I dislike that immensely. I really don’t get the appeal. And it seems like restaurants with this problem are increasingly common too. There are restaurants we’ve gone to and they were so loud, we just never go back, regardless of how good the food is.
  • RIP James Earl Jones

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    ShiroKuroS
    I saw that. He was such an icon. RIP
  • I designed a Kamala t-shirt

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    JodiJ
    Excellent!
  • Spiders of paradise

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  • From little shoots

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    Sweet!
  • This keeps happening

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    wtgW
    • Suspect will be tried as an adult: Colt Gray, who is being held at the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice, is slated to remain there while in custody until he turns 17, Glenn Allen, the agency’s spokesperson, told CNN Thursday. Under Georgia law, a juvenile aged 13 to 17 who commits a serious crime is automatically tried as an adult.. https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/07/us/apalachee-school-shooting-georgia-saturday/index.html
  • The debate

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  • Branzino

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    Big_AlB
    It's regularly on the menu at Cafe Notte, a restaurant on Ohio River Blvd. (PA Route 65) in Emsworth, PA outside of Pittsburgh, Their menu describes it as"A Mediterranean sea bass, pan seared and served over creamy Asiago risotto & and broccoli." I agree that it's a very tasty fish. Big Al
  • Yellow 5

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  • Aging at Home is Expensive!

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    AxtremusA
    On average a person works 40 hours a week, but "round-the-clock in-home care" means 24x7=168 hours a week of dedicated labor, more than 4x of the typical 40-hour work week. IOW, it takes four people's labor to provide for one person's "round-the-clock in-home care." Of course it's expensive! At scale, few societies can ever afford this with human labor. It will be a long while before robots become advanced enough to be competent caregivers. May take longer still to transfer our consciousness into machines so we don't have to age in decrepit biological bodies. Interim solutions are centralization/statistical multiplexing like nursing homes and having most people dying quickly as to not need round-the-clock care for long once they started needing "round-the-clock care. Centralization/statistical multiplexing means giving up "in-home" care. The "die quickly" option also has its shortcomings. From a public policy perspective, support legal euthanasia to make the "die quickly" option more palatable, especially if you want such on option to preserve some dignity.