You’re assuming that whatever they’re talking to is capable of giving only good advice with awareness and consideration of their living situation.

Sex education is beneficial if done well, but there is zero evidence suggesting AI can do anything well.

Gonna go with the wildcard here and suggest Walkscape. It’s still in beta, so access requires a one-time patron sub ($4.50, then cancel) or a free written application through their portal (may take like a week to approve)

It’s a classic runescape-style RPG where all actions cost “steps” walking. It’s designed to keep screen time to a minimum and walking time to a maximum.

Character management is generally pretty passive and 1-handed. Definitely much more casual by nature, but encourages much more active participation.

Tried a few public instances and it seems like the only way to not get rate limited by the big players is probably to self-host.

Trying to wrap my head around how to self host and still keep it anonymous. Anyone have experience hosting a “private” instance that’s web accessible? Are tokens sufficient to keep others off it? Can you still get results routing through TOR?

Not all disabilities are visible.

What? Even if you take the argument, which is full of shit, at face value, tons of people are citizens to countries other than their birth county. Born or married into a family that grants you citizenship rights? Moved somewhere and changed citizenship?

It’s up to India, not China, to determine who gets Indian passports, and it’s China, not India’s, fault for not issuing a Chinese passport to this woman if they view her place of birth as Chinese territory.

Cats are remarkably capable predators, and cat owners are remarkably irresponsible.

Letting your cat be an “outside” cat is bad enough for the environment. Not spaying/neutering said “outside cat” is how we get feral cats everywhere.

That said, I dont love the vague “eradicate feral cats” language. Would greatly prefer a broad spectrum spay/neuter/tag program to naturally reduce their population.

Predator-free NZ was always destined to ruffle some feathers though.

And, as with any standardized hardware, it’s a lot easier to ensure games and services (like Proton) perform reliably.

Time will tell if this sells enough, but it could become the new standard for industry benchmarking/testing.

You could do PR with the ballot of potential Reps distributed by district. When the election is settled the district Reps are assigned starting with the highest-skewed district. E.g.:

Overall vote: 60:40 (red:blue)

D1: 80:20
D2: 40:60
D3: 70:30
D4: 45:55
D5: 30:70

You can go randomly, round Robin, or winner-first to divvy up the districts, but essentially you would expect D1, D3, and D4 to be assigned their local red Rep (even though red “lost” in the close D4 race) and D2 & D5 to go blue

With more parties, random or round robin are a little more “fair” for the third party - winner first allocation could result in 3rd party getting the “whatever’s left” district where they didn’t actually get any votes.

It’s not perfect, but neither is the current system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation

Windows Vista would like a word.

In terms of utility for the average person, statistics >>>>> calculus.

I work in an engineering field, and can count on one hand the number of times I’ve had to do an integral in the last year. But I run into glorified statistics problems virtually every day both in personal and professional situations.

Having to constantly remind people of error bars, statistical significance, and the difference between correlation and causation, it would have been nice if those things were hammered home more thoroughly in school.

In theory you could lease your server capacity to the big AI players, but then they would have to trust you -a noted crypto grifter - with their data.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/privacy/privacy-pass.html

When you enable Privacy Pass, instead of logging in with your Kagi account for each search, you use special cryptographic tokens. These tokens prove you have the right to use Kagi’s services without revealing who you are. This means your searches can’t be linked back to your account or to each other, providing an additional layer of privacy.

Obviously you lose some of the customization, but otherwise still a great service.

I enjoy it. They have a 100-search free trial so you can test it out for yourself. Between them down ranking sites full of trackers and allowing you to put your own preferential ratings on sites, I find myself getting the results I’m after so much quicker.

Then I have great news for you! Kagi accept bitcoin, does not validate email addresses (so you can register as fhhdsbgwg@hrjesbgwgw.com if that appeals to you), and they implemented privacy pass tokens that fully anonymize your searches. They also allows searching through tor!

You are paying for search, just differently.

https://proton.me/blog/what-is-your-data-worth

https://wallethub.com/blog/bad-google-results-for-0-apr/157511

Ahh, the 'ol 1-day-old account here to troll in the comments.

Also YSK:

Generally speaking you aren’t limited to just what’s at your nearest library. Other nearby libraries (or even those you pass by on travel) may have better/different offerings and will generally welcome folks with open arms.

What can you even do on an un-networked fridge screen? Play bejeweled while contemplating suicide?

Angus King of Maine