Yes.

That was my thoughts - this is no way to teach them about dispute resolution. OP seems to be focusing in the wrong thing (as everyone deals with things different) and they need relationship counselling.

Perhaps they meant “brush against thighs”.

I have also since this post purchased MMwave sensors. But they’re worse for picking up the cats.

You can fine tune some and the Aqara FP2 seems to do a good job ignoring pets.

I ended up making binary sensors for each room in Node Red. Did I leave the room? Who else is there, nobody? Ok mark it clear…

Why not use mmWave presence sensors?

Keelhaul the offenders, oh Black Pharaoh¡

Lots of people love to cuddle dogs as self-care and by golly, that’s just as wholesome as it gets.

This message is about as wholesome as it gets.

Who doesn’t love cuddling a dog? I bet even cat people wouldn’t say no.

That’s fascinating, thanks for the information.

I suppose a hand doesn’t naturally have much fat in it, so using fat to bulk it out can have odd side effects.

Brian Blessed once sent me a Christmas card with “GORDON’S ALIVE” in big letters across it. My username is from Flash Gordon, not Star Wars or Warhammer.40k.

It’s been my nickname for 30+ years, so I went with it when I started out online.

Gone are the days of vast conquering armies and conventional military confrontations between two parties.

I’m sure they thought the same before the outbreak of WW2 as The-War-To-End-All-Wars had been so destructive.

I’ve heard other analysis that suggests the current state of play in the world resembles that in the run-up to WW1 and WW2. It would only take something like North Korea escalating aggression for the Trilateral Axis/Axis of Evil to become emboldened by the hope that the US is too distracted elsewhere and they could make their play for Taiwan, the Baltic states and/or Israel in the hope that they can radically change the status quo into one that better favours them going forward, shifting the balance of power away from the West. That could get messy very quickly.

I sometimes wonder about setting them loose just so we can ask them questions like “so you are a fan of having sex with headless, limbless torsoes… How long have you been a serial killer?”

And one I am glad we Admins got first… crack at.

Has anyone else encountered ad bots in their signup applications?

Yep.

It hits me every now and then about how to do things though, like, say I’m cooking all day on Sunday then need to take the trash out. I’m assuming it’s change shoes

It depends on where your bin is and the ground conditions. After long enough not wearing shoes the soles of my feet are like leather, so it’s no great hardship nipping outside in bare feet. I did once step on a snail while tripping and that was one of the most unpleasant sensations of my entire life.

I don’t wear my indoor clothes when out and will usually wear something different when out in the evening, compared to the day. So quickly putting some boots on is no great extra hassle.

Exactly! The Internet is built from such can-do spirit.

Definitely, a faux pas. A correct answer would be: “try it, film it, share it.”

It sounds like you are a sociable introvert who other-thinks things. I know because I am one.

I’ve thought about it quite a bit (obviously) and I think the issue arises from the tension between enjoying company but also needing your own space to unwind. That’s all compounded by the over-thinking as you chew over what people might think or what is expected of you.

For the last few years I’ve been free of responsibilities and realised that if I wasn’t entertaining myself, no-one else would. For example, I’d avoided going to the cinema on my own (I thought people would judge me for not having company) but all that meant was I wasn’t getting to see the films I wanted to watch.

The solution is a form of mindfulness (or running out of fucks to give - however you want to pitch it to yourself to make it work). You worry less about what people think, because, largely, they don’t care (the exception might be going to animated children’s films on your own - you definitely get some odd looks then). I now have a few WhatsApp groups were I let friends know what I am doing and if they want to tag along that’s great. This has the bonus of events getting bogged down in negotiations and actually seems to result in note group events - for my birthday I just booked a bunch of tickets to a stand-up comedy tour and let everyone know. I had takers for them all within a day.

Relationships are trickier but if you can find someone who also likes company and their own space that would be ideal. It is a tricky balance to strike.

I wonder if we will go back to the model of webrings and human aggregated with a mix of user generated links search like yahoo used to be to combat the AI wasteland that is current search. With a web of trust model.

That definitely seems to be the way to go. A human-curated (likely bot-assissted) collection of links with a range of ways to find content wouldn’t return as many results but how many do we actually need?

I remember when Google launched and the idea of getting 10 million search results seemed very impressive but, for most searches, we aren’t even going to the second page of results and we may not bother scrolling down beyond the first handful.

We need quality not quantity. The early search engines’ pitch was that humans couldn’t possibly index the web and we all went along with this. However, it’s now clear that, partly because of the influence of Google and the desire to game the system no matter the outcome, the Internet is increasingly shit - it’s content generated by machines to fool other machines into showing it to humans.

That’s heartbreaking but not an uncommon story - it does seem like Google has the power of life and death over websites and it seems very fickle and opaque.

Have you thought about restarting it on the Fediverse?