When I was young, maybe 15 years ago, I had thought about mailing in an idea I had to Elon Musk (I feel so stupid for this now) because back then the most I'd known about him was he set aside hundreds of millions to develop ideas sent in.

I believe we should have a heavily encrypted network designed to be utilized by kids and teachers, a network that requires active licensing to access that needs to be renewed. The network would be sorta like "training wheels" for the Internet.

Apparently Jordan Peterson is creating his own "university" filled with teachers he specifically agrees with & he's doing it in - I shit you not - the format of a social media application. So, not only will you be getting a completely garbage education, but he's encouraging social growth and peer to peer networking on the platform, so he will be able to data-mine the hell outta you and your conversations, & I believe he will use it to create a self sustaining echo chamber think-tank.

@AlphaCentauri @th3j35t3r
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9274742/#:~:text=The%20injury%20rate%20for%20paratroopers,per%201000%20jumps%2C%20respectively).

That's what I thought!

I'm tentative about sharing a story of happiness with my family considering all that is going on with the world but..I've been plagued with serious depression for years and never get many opportunities to genuinely express happiness so if it's okay, I'll take it right now.
Got to do a first Halloween with my daughter. She just turned 2. We dressed up as the shark family. I'm so anxious that I might not be able to make it work with her mom but I'm trying so hard to be good enough.. trying my best

@th3j35t3r I became interested on the failure rate of those chutes...19.7/1000 😫 absolutely terrifying for someone like me who's terrified of heights...takes a lot of guts to do those jumps

@Render what are we looking at here?

@th3j35t3r I just unplug from social media a few days a week...I like what they did in the end of that movie, "Ready Player One"...I find the argumentative energy is far less affecting.

@th3j35t3r this is an amazing community, you've created an amazing community & platform...I don't get to be on here very much lately due to family issues, I've missed out on whatever it is that's happening...but I just wanted to say I appreciate all that you do.

@DJNoneYa how the heck did she become a governor?!? Last I heard she was on a podium being a bad press secretary at the white house lol

Italy is getting really cheesy with protecting their economy.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/italian-cheesemakers-microchip-parmesan-in-bid-to-fight-copycats/

This is a very good mental health hotline for email conversations.
I've used this when I was really down and out.

Not sharing this because someone just killed themselves or anything...I just think we shouldn't have to wait until that happens to share things like this.
If anyone ever needs someone to chat to...I don't get notifications on this app for some reason, but I WILL respond with care when I do see.
https://www.samaritans.org/

@JGSchaeffer @th3j35t3r and yes I went tongue-in-cheek with the channel tag inferring "F#ck U Facebook" and Bill C-18 😂

@JGSchaeffer I've decided to take things into my own hands. I'm repurposing my YouTube channel I wanted to put gaming videos on, but never made use of. "Ethically Sourced Gossip". I figure I can maybe do videos talking about current events and share it that way.
@th3j35t3r I wanted to ask your opinion on this since you seem to be an expert on social media laws. Think this would be legal?

@Sr0bi you'd think..it seems they're blocking the entire platforms.

This resulted when I used the built-in automatic share to Facebook feature

I'm not sure if this is being talked about on here, but Facebook has stopped allowing people to share news in Canada because Facebook doesn't wanna pay out on the profits they get from the clicks.

We have wildfires raging everywhere and need to share information. Does anyone here have any ideas on how to circumvent their measures? Maybe alternative link generators or screenshotting the news and sharing the screenshots?

I feel like Facebook is about to go to court.

@JKxZ I feel like maybe the gpu is overheating, or underpowered (I'm running it with a 550w PSU) since we're in the middle of a heatwave, and it seems quite hot down there. I've been monitoring everything and event viewer just shows a driver failure on 2 of the crashes, and shows nothing on the last one which happened last night. I have no idea what's wrong with it lol

@JKxZ the long and short of it, I've got a secondhand GTX 980 Ti. After the crash, windows didn't even recognize it. I figured maybe a driver update would fix it. Didn't work. Uninstalled all drivers and did a clean install with the basic one that it auto installs off the Internet when you install the card. Worked fine. Updated drivers to latest. Not recognized. Okay. Rolled back to the driver I was on prior to the crash. Works fine...for a few days. Crashed again. A few days later, again.

@JKxZ no, I was trying to get my machine to run Star Citizen again, I had no idea they stopped supporting windows 7 at the time...so in my efforts to find a fix, a website suggested a particular KB update may be necessary to fix the error I was getting trying to launch the game.
The update did nothing, I found out I couldn't launch because of windows 7, and just left it for a week.

And then my graphics driver crashed. Hard. Like, it's never done that before.