There's nothing like the ride to Vashon, Orcas Island, or Victoria on a nice day.

Plus, I used to commute from Vashon Island to college three times a week and it was cheaper back then, but worth it to work/live on Vashon and see the Orcas swim by.

If you have ever set up ads in an big system like Amazon or Google you can see exactly how it works - the more you pay the more your ad gets seen. The more you refine your demographic audience, the more specific content targets them.

Are the websites complict? No, because they get paid to unbiasedly post content that is paid for using their pay scale and the customer's algorithm. And their job is to rank and sell for who pays them and we have to realize that.

And yes, because as corporations they have an image and overall agenda they are allowed to promote as private entities, not journalistic entities. So if they allow content contrary to their corporate mission that allows attacks to their interests, they have to deal with the consequences.

Thus, why any search or shopping website or social media site is NOT a journalistic entity and simply a place to pay for advertisement of your product, content, or website.

We all know a little post traumatic stress can vastly pivot success factors just as much as being raised with a lack of resources, lack of parental contact, and and mental illness factors.

You can throw a embryo with a potential high IQ into 10 different environments/cultures and get 10 different outcomes entirely.

Kids with privilege are raised by nannies and boarding schools. Poor kids by family, grandparents, foster care, or relatives.

Either one can turn out to be a success or a criminal.

Or maybe volcanic activity underwater?

It is good we have proof of aliens, but the fact stands, if they wanted to contact us publically and intervene beneficently in our human affairs, wouldn't they already have?

Or if they are, they learned that most of humanity would descend into chaos if they didn't work behind the scenes?

Or they simply look at it like an anthill and see no benefit in bothering with the ants but to study them and on occasion their young like to barnstorm earth for shits and giggles.

We all know the research and development is driving the gamer bus toward Deep Dive VR that functions by accessing our dream states and sleep states in order to channel time compression into learning applications, work applications, and gaming applications.

Honestly, the fact is we've been using our imaginations as our VR engines since the internet was invented and we started doing online roleplay via games like Second Life, Everquest, NWN, and so forth.

That first wave of MMO addiction and the MMO lifestyle that bloomed from it is pretty much what will happen the minute we go from hardware peripherals to plugging in tech to our own brains and participating in virtual worlds in real time with real physical feedback through near seamless haptics of all five senses.

So say goodbye to keyboards, mice, and even screens, and hello to supportive VR pods that allow a user to suspend themselves, control their bodily functions, feed/hydrate them, and keep them healthy WHILE living half the time in a virtual world if not all the time whether for game or work.

(And you gotta face it - we are talking tubes. We are talking rubber attachments. We are talking about climbing into a VR setup that will feed you, clean you, and keep you alive. Unless of course we have a system that wakes you up so you don't pee yourself or reminds you to get up and feed yourself. And believe me - having a health real-life relationship or parenting like this...it won't be possible.

And we learned that from the parents who neglected their kids or let their kids die during the first MMO wave or the people who literally stopped eating and sleeping to play MMOS and died of exhaustion. We are talking a whole new evolution of people who live online most of the time and while they might donate genetic material to help make kids, won't be raising kids. It is wild when you speculate on it because all the signs and signals of human behavior are already manifesting in current culture.)

I've been contemplating how long would modern solar cells and their infrastructure last off the grid with people of limited tech skills maintaining them? And without out a global communications system you'd be limited to instructional manuals and troubleshooting what you downloaded offline or printed out.

It is easier to maintain a hydroelectric generator and even easier to maintain waterwheel/gear "power" systems as well as gravity fed water pumps because they don't require computers or a storage system for the momentum them produce.

I say this as a warning - I found out I couldn't get pregnant around 27 and when I did want to get pregnant it was too late. People change. Pandemics happen. Wars happen. And there is a big fad of child-free people getting sterilized early. People change their minds. I'd hate to be subject to my choices at 20 when I am 40.

We have a World Seed Bank, why not a cryo-storage of human and animal embryos as back-up somewhere near the arctic circle?

Think of them as "back up humans."

More reason to bank your reproductive materials at a younger age. You could save future humanity or just give a nice couple a baby.

https://www.myolympicpark.com/park/history/the-lady-of-crescent-lake/

Ask them about the Soap Lady of Crescent Lake.

Happy Halloween!

Google spina bifida and dwarfism. I worked with a young woman who has it and her life was a living hell. She had great support but was in constant pain and needed others to take care of basic needs.

If we can save children from this...please do it!