Wooo! You can do it buddy. I’m routing for you!

I’ve been using the Finch app with a few of my friends for about a year now. It’s kind of a virtual pet that grows as you meet your daily goals. Mine are small things like brushing my teeth twice a day, taking meds, going outside, lifting heavy things, ext

It also has a lot of built in activities for journaling and breathing exercises.

You can encourage and motivate your friends with it. It doesn’t show you their goals or personal info. It’s a great way to express gratitude or just let them know I am thinking about them.

I don’t get it. Why then should the NPD step aside for a Liberal party that votes against fair elections?

I’d use the open source ones but I haven’t found one that handles transit schedules in my area yet. I’d be open to suggestions on that.

Cool. I don’t sympathise at all. They could stand but they choose to bend a knee to tyrants. It’s no inconvenience to me to use alternatives to their products, as I’m sure it’s no inconvenience to them that I do so. It’s a peaceful solution all round.

I picked up one called HERE WeGo. It seems ok so far, it gives me transit route options and such. Really all I need and it knows how to spell Mexico.

You can check out the FMTA if your new to renting they offer a lot of free courses on what your rights are no membership needed.

What’s an LLM?

This idea is probably easier to market (therefore better). I just wanted to play a video game with a cat. But realistically most I met would just sleep on the screen. Human vs human is a bit more playable.

I might hold back on the weapons thing though. I’d want the player to feel helpless. The advantage for player 2 is player one can always see them either. Thick smoke or ceilings might make it hard for them to tell where player B is. If player B needs more of an advantage you could limit the potential paths player A can take so that player B can try to block the easier ones or make them more difficult.

It’d be player vs player vs environment.

You could have it balance that is player B is too destructive the environment becomes more hostile as missiles and stuff attack them and slow them down. Though this can harm player A as well it will give them more rubble and smoke to hide under.

Lots of potential. Though I definitely do not have the time to make a game like this. So if anyone out there wants it then go nuts. (Maybe leave a cat mode though lol)

Just keep her away from the juggolo’s and things will be fine.

Heres the links so you don’t have to open the article

https://mummymeegz.com/ https://thevegancandyman.com/

Hardly seems like a priority, I’m a bit disappointed to see the NPD wasting efforts on road. We need more tracks and trains.

Though if they are certain it’s a worthy concession to get swing voters then it’s got to happen. I just think the next time the conservatives take power they’ll just sell it again.

Classic Loading Ready Run. Still a fan of their sketches.

I’m the system admin of a non profit myself. Honestly there’s a lot more we can do to cut cost. But theres a cost in cutting cost.

For example. Sometime prior to COVID, and prior to me working there, my organization needed a “common digital service” (being purposely vague here for privacy). In order to build oversight reports to our ministry we needed a separate reporting service so the ministry could get the data they wanted in order to keep paying us. We also then needed a third service to store all the data since the other 2 didn’t want to do that part.

So our “Common digital service” was now composed of 3 systems. Issues grew pretty quickly after the initial set up. Despite these systems being “partners” every time an issue came up they’d endlessly blame each other and refuse to fix the cause of the issue. They would offer to correct the data for a fee. Since we were legally mandated to maintain the data they’d often pay the fees. It was like these big companies came along, and collaborated a scheme to extort money out of this non profit. No one there was tech savvy enough to notice.

When I came there I figured this out. Mostly because I was previously employed at one of the companies involved. Legal action wasn’t an option. But I found a company that does all three parts of the system. They can’t do the blame loop thing and they were way cheaper overall. Easy fix right? Nope.

As a non profit we are required to hire a third party requisition organization. The process of even getting the new system contract took well over a year. This is required so non profits don’t just take bribes and such.

Then comes migration. The slow process of taking data from system A and putting it on system B. They used very different structures so it was a lot of manual work for a small team. We can’t just hire new people or even temp staff so it’s tonnes of overtime.

So consider all the extra cost in this story, things moved way slower, extra services had to be hired, overtime had to be paid. It is a lot of bureaucratic stuff that private companies don’t have to deal with. But that extra cost is the cost of preventing corruption. The only way we could fix the broken system was to get a huge initial investment from the ministry to fix things.

I’m saying I agree or disagree with this but that’s how things work. And if an organization is dependent on donations alone it’s probably got a lot of overhead like this. Things they cant fix untill they can afford to fix them.

Not my idea. But happy to spread it.

After 1.5 years I’m following over 20 channels and a few podcast. I still get surprised like “oh that one is here too”. Though it really depends on your interest I wholeheartedly blame Nebula for creating new ones for me. I’ll mention my follows in no order. Also providing my own synopsis of these don’t hate me if I am wrong.

• I love the city! - The creator of not just bike is trying something more comical and short format. It’s new and still finding its stride I think but it’s worth checking out

• City Nerd - I’m new to this channel but I like the vibe.

• real science - neat animal facts

• realLifeLore - War Room - this one is a Nebula exclusive it pretty much summarizes the last month of every major global conflict. It’s terrifying but it helps in understanding just how bad things are and why they are happening

• TierZoo - if you ever saw the world as a video game this guy has all the stats on the animal world and provides detailed break downs of all of the builds.

• Practical Engineering - this one is a bit over my head but still very fascinating. The presenter breaks down engineering concepts very well.

• Archeology quest - this was a Nebula exclusive. It was awkwardly presented as a reality tv show. The 2 contestants learned a bit about early human history and should need to create tools, forage, “hunt”, to earn points. Though it’s an interesting concept It didn’t work for me. The learning parts were neat though.

• RM transit. - he’s recently announced that hell be ending the Channel. But I learned a surprising amount about my local transit system from this channel.

• Half as Interesting - one of the Wendover channels. short format interesting fact videos. Primary logistics I think

• The octopus Lady - neat facts about sea creatures, and marine biology.

• Polymatters - another geopolitical channel. This one typically looks at things from alternative angles then the other channels I watch and looks into prospective issues as well as current ones.

• Wendover - the main Wendover channel it’s like half as interesting but more serious in tone coving logistics issues and economics.

• becoming human - this one I loved. Another short Nebula exclusive focused on early human history but presented as a documentary.

• realLifeLore - the main channel of this creator as many of the other ones are exclusive to Nebula this is the stuff that isn’t I think. It’s the same topics as the other channels that focus on current or recent conflicts and geopolitical events.

• Liam Triforce - I’ll admit I haven’t watched a lot of his stuff yet, but he’s frequent collaborator of a streamer I like so I’ll get it someday.

• chubby emu - weird medical cases presented as dramatic reenactment. He doesn’t spare the science. My roommate has a shirt from this guy so a frequent watch here

• realLifeLore modern conflicts - I didn’t realise how many channels this guy had untill writing this. Anyway as the name implies it deep dives into modern conflicts. This one is also exclusive.

• Extra History - the series that actually got me to subscribe. I’d been following this channel for years back when it was just extraCredits. I really love their methods for teaching.

• ExtraMythology - same as above just with mythology.

• Stewart Hicks - you will never look at buildings the same again. He talks about architecture, but not just the engineering, he also talks about the history and artistic values behind things.

• Legal Eagle - sometimes I just need him to explain the law of the US too me so I can understand why it’s so insane down there. For Nebula viewer his videos will end with his personal thoughts on the topics so they are more valuable then the YouTube ones.

Podcast

• the urbanist agenda - it’s not just bikes, in podcast form.

• that’s absurd please elaborate - providing scientific answers to the questions you’d be too embarrassed to ask.

• it’s probably not aliens - as someone whose parents got really into that ancient aliens nonsense this is providing some balance to my life.

Good luck. Let us as a community know how we can help you.

I was in elementary in Canada early 90’s. My school was weird. There’s a large Mennonite community in the area where I grew up so a large percentage (more than 50%) of the kids in this school were Mennonite. For those unfamiliar, these are similar to Amish. Such farmers with strong religious views, most of them were “old order” meaning they grew up in homes with little to no electricity. They also finish school at age 12 regardless of progress. This meant that they were exempt from a lot of the classes my tiny public school had to offer. No French, computing, or Sex Ed. A lot of them were also in special Ed. I’m not going to sugar coat this. It’s forbidden from them to marry outside of their culture and only like 4 families came to the area. So there’s a lot of disabilities as a result of inbreeding with that community.

All this to say that my school had absolutely no clue how to deal with my undiagnosed autism. But they seemed to have decent funding due to the much higher needs.

I was in special Ed via French exemption status. This means I never learned french. I’d instead be placed in a room with all the Mennonite kids often in a corner trying to read. Eventually I was put into some kind of program. A neurologist should come by and do experiments on me. Nothing weird, just testing my fine motor skills. They (falsely) diagnosed me with “elementary tremors” a pediatric doctor upped this to a “retardation caused by mild down syndrome” (extremely wrong) after years of that nonsense they decided to use this crazy new fangled technology to give me a leg up with writing. I was given a Macintosh computer. I had a desk with tiny wheels and my 4th grade self had to wheel this from class to class (including “portables”). Of course this was pretty obsolete tech even for its time. My parents got me an Alpha Smart which was way better. By 6th grade I had a personal support worker to help get me caught up. I failed grades 3-6 but was ‘placed’ into the next grade anyway and never made to repeat anything.

Highschool was very different, no Mennonite, so way less funding. It was still a French exemption class but there were only about 5 other students in the class. It seemed to be less about education, or assessment of my condition. It was some watching videos and doing some analysis. It was mostly just a time to catch up on homework. Often there wasn’t even a teacher present.

They do corrections videos annually. But yes as with all fact, documentary, history, science and other educational videos it’s good to get other sources. In the cases of these logistics based videos it’s pretty easy to get all this data as the details would be meticulously documented and most places are open about that data.

https://youtu.be/aBa82NCdLoc a half as interesting video on this topic