PostmodernPythia

If you link to suicide hotlines, mention which ones can send cops (under the guise of EMS) to your door without your consent. (For instance, I’d never suggest 988 because of this.) That way, users know you know what’s up and that they can trust the group’s info. And given cops’ record of shooting mentally ill people in crisis, it’s pretty important.

Some search engines and social media platforms make at least half-assed efforts to prevent or add warnings to this stuff, because anorexia in particular has a very high mortality rate, and age of onset tends to be young. The people advocating AI models be altered to prevent this say the same about other tech. It’s not techphobia to want to try to reduce the chances of teenagers developing what is often a terminal illness, and AI programmers have the same responsibility on that as everyone else,

Yeah. Not being legally required to abandon principles in favor of short-term profits for shareholders is tight.

“Data” is a mighty broad category to be “driving” anything.

Also, there’s not a large, well-funded far-left movement in the US fighting to radicalize people.

People hate exercise, too. Not doing it will shorten their lives, but they hate it.

Child sexual abuse

They can open a pdf, or their Legislative Assistants can. That stuff is performative, making sure we don’t expect them to regulate huge corporations because they’re so incompetent. This is the stuff they’re interested in regulating, so they do.

The key is defining terms like “false” and “violent.”

Thanks. Might give it a shot. Don’t usually track my reading, but if I do, I won’t be feeding that data directly to one of the Frightful Five.

Scattering a few 5-minute resistance band exercises into my day. They’re easier, more convenient, and less dangerous than weights, they can provide a workout in small spaces, and they offer feedback that can help improve proprioception (which is an issue for me). And by doing a set here and a set there, I don’t resent working out, because I never have to spend an extended chunk of time bored af. I’ve never been evangelical about an exercise before. I have disabilities that can make working out difficult. But given my recent expeiences, I think government-funded resistance band sets with QR codes for free online instruction videos should be available at every public library in the country on request.

TL; DR: Resistance bands build strength and improve health with minimal risk of injury, and their convenience makes it easy to spread workouts over the day to avoid boredom and resentment.

Thanks. I spent the last 6 years working in public libraries. 😉

ETA: Some services may be informal, so be sure to call as well as checking the web.

I strongly suggest getting them to check out their local library. Library staff often have knowledge and practice working with older people who may have skills deficits. Even if there aren’t formal classes, often, someone will be willing to help. Sometimes, branches have a dedicated tech staffer. That can spread the workload out a bit, and allow them to have someone local to help, as well.

Wut? Mind. Blown. Fr.

Yep. The difference is emotional, not material. Zuck, like most billionaires, seems happy to sleep on his pile of Scrooge McDuck money and fuck people over. Muskrat does all that, but he asks something more of us than our money and our lives. He wants, maybe even needs, us to love and respect him while he does it. And that sets rage-fires in the brain-parts.

“Look, I made a pigeon-rat.”

If you have a small space and don’t print a lot, I love my thermal printer. It’s the size of a sturdy, old-fashioned 3-hole-punch. Portable and battery-operated. There is no ink. The special paper’s kind of expensive, but it doesn’t dry out or send you codes saying you can’t print when it obviously can. And they make BPA-free thermal paper now.

I see. I suppose I just can’t concieve of using the term “morally lazy” that way about someone other than myself, because I don’t know their morals or their barriers? So my thought in terms of the statement was solely “Is it morally lazy of me?0

I support you doing this, but I have physical impairments and no car, so I’m choosing between dystopias already.

A better way to put it might be “If you value FOSS and have the technical know-how to use an alternative, it’s morally lazy?”