This looks onerous right now... but I can imagine something like this being incorporated into AC system or dehumidifiers, etc, especially if it gets expanded to an array of diseases...

It doesn't so much prevent disease, but it can at least help with peace of mind and rapid disease control (ie. system goes off, everyone in the area quarantines to limit spread)

Out of context fun quote: Is Baba Yaga's Hut an RV?

#ShowerThoughts

@Friendica Admins I could use some help cleaning up something on my instance.

I'm moving around the storage, and for some reason a lot of the thumbnails (not all) seem to have gotten corrupted. Regular files seem fine, but basically full size profile pictures are good but small versions are blurry.

Is there any good way to clear the storage of everything that's cached both in terms of thumbnails and data from other servers?

I live together with my sibling in a two bedroom, I'm the only one with a consistent income and doing my best to care for them. They struggle with borderline personality disorder, ptsd, bipolar, and bad anxiety. They aren't able to maintain a stable living situation on their own.

They've been in a relationship for most of the past year with someone who was great on the surface but insecure and shitty about it underneath. They kept taking their insecurities out on my sibling and isolating them, and started helping them with their meds and then stopped multiple times making their situation so much worse (and getting shitty if anyone else helped, so I wasn't even in the loop to help because he would have shit on them for even telling me about it).

The break up went catastrophically bad because he kept escalating until my sibling was in the worst episode I've ever seen and eventually antagonized them to the point of shoving him... then the cops showed up and arrested my sibling. (seriously, ACAB.)

Long story short, skipping a lot of detail elements, this has put us in the position to be a few hundred dollars behind in budget to cover rent and expenses, especially the court costs (ex isn't pressing charges, but in Texas that doesn't matter apparently). They have to get into alcohol counseling (they were in a bad way and went out with friends that night, the bar severely overserved them), as well as get back on their meds, and pay their bond... all within the next few days.

We've got leads on a lot of resources, but it's not going to make ends meet in the short term and we could really use help.

If you could send some money to help out, the best method is Cash App to $ShiriBailem (benefits of a unique name!)

If you can't, a boost/reshare would be greatly appreciated!

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Chuck Tingle is apparently OUT FOR BLOOD

#NSFW #ChuckTingle #PersonallyAttacked #Buckaroo

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This is so damn fascinating, an AI playing the game, not as a speedrun but humanlike, and dynamically monologuing in the voice of the original character!

youtu.be/QW-U8y-Dh7w

I'm really tired and at the end of my rope and could use some broad advice and help... I don't expect much...

My sibling (by choice) got arrested last night because they were in a major mental health crisis (really bad Borderline/Bipolar episode) and slapped/shoved their partner in the middle of it. I don't think that's okay for them to have done and am not remotely justifying it.

This was brought on by their breakup with their partner and the fact that they ran out of their medications.

I'm in the US, Texas to be specific. They need consistent access to medications and therapy to be remotely stable... and that just isn't available.

We moved into this apartment last year with various plans on how I would support them but all of those plans fell through. Their mother was supposed to cover their half of bills until they could get on disability, but just before move-in she basically disowned them.

They were off and on able to pick up some work initially, but were very unstable. Started this relationship with their now-ex who moved in and covered their half of the bills for most of the past year, but that ended recently and their ex is moving out.

I simply don't make enough to really cover them by myself and I can't abandon them when they're actively trying to be and do better. We just happen to live in a country and state that believes that it's better for people to just die than actually help someone who hasn't "earned it"

Just sharing a random bit of AI fun because I was bored and had a thought.

AI can incidentally translate language, but that also extends to things like converting victorian english to modern day english and even updating slang and euphamisms (though when asked for slang it'll lay it on a bit thick... but it's fun about it)

So... here's the opening monologue of Romeo & Juliet (and no, it didn't preserve iambic pentameter):

Yo, listen up, peeps! Two big-shot families, equally high and mighty,
Kicking it in fair Verona, where this drama's gonna go down.
An old beef turns into some fresh drama,
And it's so bad it gets everyone dirty.
From the messed-up love lives of these two rival crews,
A pair of star-crossed lovers are gonna do something crazy,
Their messed-up misadventures bring down a whole lotta pain,
And with their deaths, their parents' drama finally stops.
The crazy rollercoaster of their death-marked love,
And the never-ending feud between their folks,
That only ends with their tragic deaths,
Is gonna be the main event on our stage—
If y'all stick around and listen close,
We'll do our best to keep it real for ya!

#AI #RandomFun #Shakespeare