I wish my daughter could meet her and know her, to have an understanding of what it means to be a true force of good in this world.

I’ve been thinking about this more and more over the past ten years. And I don’t mean to diminish the importance this person had in your life and the life of others.

I believe most of us look up to people like her and Jimmy Carter for example. The mistake I believe most of us tend to make is we do not view ourselves as a positive force. To put it another way, we believe that we could never live up to all the good things these people have done. Basically, we beat ourselves up for not being like these people.

Generally speaking, we all can be a positive force in this world. It’s just all the little things that we can do, in an entire lifetime, that adds up to a great deal of good. For example, when I’m out at the local grocery store I smile and say hello to random people. I engage in friendly conversation with the cashier. And then I say goodbye and have a great day.

I’m sure that we all can think of hundreds of other examples that seem small. However, when you do all of these little things over a period of many years it adds up to a lot of goodness and positivity.

Agreed and thanks!

Enshittification

There is a ton of news coverage on this. Here’s an Axios article with a decent summary.

@Penguincoder@beehaw.org Is there any way to set this up?

I’m sorry that you’ve had to deal with loneliness…I hate that feeling so much. Hopefully, it’s only temporary and things turn around for you.

I am having a wonderful day and thank you for asking!

I hope you find many more days of enjoyment here at Beehaw.

Take care.

This dropped today:

Our family loves the PS5. As the article points out, the only thing we don’t like is Playstation Plus when compared to Xbox’s Game Pass.

I’m very happy for you.

I’ve had several experiences that I would label ‘mystical’ or ‘otherworldly’. Those experiences changed me and continue to do so. I, also, learn a great deal from others that have had similar experiences. For example, the following from neurosurgeon Eben Alexander:

Those memories began in a primitive, coarse, unresponsive realm (the “Earthworm’s Eye View” or EEV) from which I was rescued by a slowly spinning clear white light associated with a musical melody, that served as a portal up into rich and ultrareal realms. The Gateway Valley was filled with many earth-like and spiritual features: vibrant and dynamic plant life, with flowers and buds blossoming richly and no signs of death or decay, waterfalls into sparkling crystal pools, thousands of beings dancing below with great joy and festivity, all fueled by swooping golden orbs in the sky above, angelic choirs emanating chants and anthems that thundered through my awareness, and a lovely girl on a butterfly wing who proved months later to be central to my understanding of the reality of the experience (as reported in detail towards the end of my book Proof of Heaven). The chants and hymns thundering down from those angelic choirs provided yet another portal to higher realms, eventually ushering my awareness into the Core, an unending inky blackness filled to overflowing with the infinite healing power of the all-loving deity at the source, whom many might label as God (or Allah, Vishnu, Jehovah, Yahweh – the names get in the way, and the conflicting details of orthodox religions obscure the reality of such an infinitely loving and creative source).

Fortunately for us, my wife is the sole bread winner and uses her 4-wheel drive SUV to get herself out and onto work. I just clear the snow at my own leisure. But yeah, the situation you described is very common and understandably very annoying.

Our family loves our PS5!

It should be noted that MATRIX is a different entity from the secure open-source, decentralized, real-time communications protocol with the same name, which is perfectly legal to continue using.

From the article that @badcodecat@lemux.minnix.dev mentioned ITT.

I agree. One of my sons doesn’t want to use social media (he tried several and didn’t like any of them). My other son only uses Reddit to find interesting things and information in niche subjects (he rarely interacts with anyone on the platform).

16yos aren’t going to listen to their parents’ advice.

That’s why I started and continued to talk to my two sons about it from a very young age (5 years old). Now they are teenagers and don’t have any online problems.

It’s somewhat funny how most Lemmy mods seem to discuss things on Discord or Matrix, rather than Lemmy (based on the chatter, though I am not a mod here so what do I know, really?).

Most of the time we need real-time chat (Mods on Discord) or real-time secure chat (Admins on Matrix).

A “Fraunhofer Society” refers to the overarching organization that manages a network of applied research institutes, while a “Fraunhofer Institute” is a single research unit within that network, focused on a specific area of study like materials science, healthcare, or digital technology; essentially, the Fraunhofer Society is the umbrella organization, and the Fraunhofer Institutes are the individual research centers under its governance.

They are credited with the creation of the MP3 format so maybe that’s where these supposed lawsuits are coming from?

It is. I just turn on a podcast and start coloring.