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Many people already open up about their feelings when they drink, so having trained therapists as bartenders would make people feel more comfortable expressing their feelings while also getting guidance from professionals.
It could also help destigmatize mental health by making therapy feel more casual and accessible. Plus, it would encourage healthier conversations around emotions, relationships, and personal struggles rather than just drinking as an escape.
And, of course, it would be really fun! Imagine deep conversations, lighthearted advice, and maybe even a themed cocktail menu inspired by self-care and mental wellness
Movie takes place in the near future. A revolutionary super intelligent AI android is created to basically serve humans e.g work/military some thing like that, however as he gains more knowledge and awareness, he realizes he's basically a slave and develops a hatred against humanity. He is very intelligent however, and turns to crime and becomes one of the biggest criminals/thieves, nobody knows his identity, only alias and he is on FBI top searched list.
If 4 or 3 antennas in a cluster send a signal at the same time, observer may receive them at different times depending on angle to the cluster. 2 clusters can give 2 angles and where they cross, there is the observer.
Also, just one cluster could give distance in unidirectional way if the signal strength can be measured accurately enough. 3d coordinate can be calculated from angle and distance. Maybe it is possible to measure it, on good weather, with 1% precision? Use multiple frequencies so that when there is rain, error margin can be known and error can be reduced? Maybe there is no problem with bouncing signals in bidirectional way and measuring the delay...
3d angle has 2 numbers.
2 antennas on shore could be enough for a ship, but a plane would get 2 possible 2d-locations and unless there is a way to rule out the wrong one, it is a problem.
Other way, instead of a cluster, could be with a rotating parabolic antenna in a lighthouse. The same surface could focus light from LED and microwaves. Transmitter and LED could be side-by-side. Light may be blocked by clouds, fog and mist, but it has some upsides. The antenna transmits it's angle with binary numbers. Some microwave beams could point up for planes if there are multiple transmitters vertically on a column on the same focal plane. Big enough airplane can by itself find directions to omnidirectional antennas on the ground, but for a small drone it would be a problem.
I recently bought Insta Doodle to make a whiteboard explanation video for a sales page that I was creating for a client. I'd normally outsource those videos from Fiverr but Insta Doodle is essentially the same price, so the cost is just the time investment, which is minimal. It sort of saves time because you can build exactly what you have in mind, whereas on Fiverr you have to explain what you want and then review the deliveries and get revisions which is time consuming. Anyway, I think using Insta Doodle to offer whiteboard videos on websites like Fiverr, Freelancer and Upwork would be an easy business idea to implement. The software's easy to use, there's basically no learning curve as it's self-explanatory so anyone can implement this idea. You could also sell on your own website at a steeper price and cold email businesses + advertise in small business Facebook groups.
Food for thought if you have time and want to start a side hustle that could blossom into a full-blown business. Here's a link to Insta Doodle if you want to try it - Link here
I have been into art for a long while and keep a folder with my favourite paintings. I make sure to add the best resolution of the painting I can find and bookmark paintings for later if I don't have the time. I have saved about 400 artworks at this point. What can I do in order to share my hobby with fellow art-lovers?
Would a show about a gamer who is forced solve riddles to survive work? Maybe like his house was built on an ancient egyptian burial ground and a sphynx popped up in his backyard that asked riddles to the death?
John wick if he was a taxi driver
8 aluminum wheels, with spikes for grip. Multiple propellers inside grids for safety, for swimming. Wheels may be just metal grids or maybe closed and form part of the flotation volume for buouancy.
In some situations, a flying drone may move it, so have stable grab rods for lifting.
Sometimes it may drive off the edge of a boat (drone) and swim to ice edge where it lifts itself on the ice 2 wheels at a time.
So basically we shouldn't hang people for speeding i think
You have absolutely no awareness of 13.8 Billion years before you’re born, when you’re born it’s without warning
If you have no concept of time before you’re born is it reasonable to assume the starting line would be experienced by every creature all sorta parallel to each other. If awareness is the first definitive continuity for every creature, it wouldn’t matter if you became alive today or 66 million years ago, it all happened at the same time from the perspectives of each individual creature
Am I just really high? Is this an original idea? Is this reaching?
Its not okay to speed, and every km/m over the speed limit kills a baby every january.
I can’t attach an image but the bulb is a GE “Hungary E8 25W 120V 190 Lumens” bulb. I can’t find an E8 bulb anywhere — is there a new name for this bulb base? Thank you!
A Moth IRA. Instead of investing your cold hard cash, you only need to buy a few moths and they will reproduce and feed on their own. By the time you reach retirement age, if properly managed, you could have 100s of millions or even billions of moths. Thank you for your time.
Trying to find or just fantasizing about gum that tastes like food so that I can get a nice flavor that doesn't get sharp or stale that tastes like snack food. Chips, ramen, fries, chocolate, etc. And they have to have a texture kinda similar to the food. Like chips would have a sort of bite and ramen would be soft and stringy ect. And it would help with dieting because it stimulates anxious chewing or chewing while watching stuff and gaming. It would deal with needing flavor aswell. And they would also have to keep their dryness a little bit and you would. Have to swallow spit somehow idk.
There are still a ton of companies that use fax machines. I am especially aware of it in the medical field, but I'm sure some other industries use it quite a bit to. There is something to be said for the security of a direct one-to-one transmission and knowing that a hard copy came out the other side and isn't lost in some spam filter.
The thing I wonder is why new machines, especially multi-function machines that are already on the network and therefore have internet ability, don't gave a "fall-up" mode where when they first connect over the phone line, they ask each other during the initial handshake, "Are you online?". If they are both online, they exchange an encryption key over the phone line and then connect securely to one another over the internet, hang up the phone and finish the fax hundreds of times faster online without tying up the much slower phone line. Otherwise the fax transmits the old fashioned way. The whole thing is transparent to the end user who doesn't need to change anything with their standard workflow, nor subscribe to a third party for e-fax service.
To be clear, I'm not talking about e-fax, I'm talking about two bog-standard fax machines that basically have one new protocol available. I'm assuming that this would be much faster for example for doctors who fax pharmacies, etc.
A term/product searchable database for how to make parts/products including tooling etc.. supporting equip, etc with searchable examples.
I spend so much of my time trying to track down just how a thing is made only to get 10000k google results for the people resealing the Chinese made product and no insight. I am tired of it.
I suggest a wiki that is dedicated to database of process... in the spirit of the old "how its made" as a resource for artists and entrepreneurs.
Echoes of the Unknown centers around Daniel Pierce, a late-night radio host who runs Frequency Unseen, a popular call-in show where listeners share their bizarre experiences with UFOs, extraterrestrial encounters, and shadowy government conspiracies. Despite the wild stories that flood his airwaves, Daniel remains a skeptic—though he’s always felt an eerie connection to these strange topics. His father, Marc Pierce, was a distinguished military officer working in secret service. When Daniel was only two years old, Marc mysteriously vanished without a trace, leaving behind a web of unanswered questions and a mother who refuses to speak about it.One night, during a segment on UFO sightings, Daniel receives a panicked call from a man named Frank, who claims to know the truth about UFOs, government cover-ups, and—most disturbingly—Daniel’s father. Frank’s voice quivers as he explains that everything Daniel has discussed on-air is real. He insists that Marc Pierce was involved in something much larger than anyone realizes, something connected to a vast and dangerous government conspiracy. Just as Daniel tries to press Frank for more information, the call is abruptly cut off—leaving only the sound of static.Shaken, Daniel digs into his father’s past, hoping to find answers. What he uncovers is chilling: Marc’s name appears in declassified government documents, linked to high-level military operations and secretive projects involving alien technology and interdimensional research. Daniel begins to suspect that his father’s disappearance was not random, but part of a larger cover-up. As he follows this thread, he discovers a series of increasingly bizarre and dangerous clues, including a strange, coded message hidden within Marc’s personal belongings.As Daniel delves deeper into the mystery, he starts receiving cryptic messages on his radio show from other callers—some offering help, others issuing veiled threats. All the while, he experiences unsettling occurrences: shadowy figures watching him from a distance, cryptic phone calls at odd hours, and vivid dreams where his father appears to be trying to communicate with him from beyond the graveThe twist comes when Daniel finally tracks down Frank—only to discover that Frank is not a random caller, but someone intimately connected to Marc's disappearance. Frank claims he was once Marc’s partner, involved in a covert government mission that went terribly wrong. Marc had uncovered a secret about extraterrestrial life—one so dangerous that those in power had to ensure he vanished without a trace. But Frank reveals a chilling truth: Marc might still be alive. Or worse, something worse than death happened to himAs the walls close in around Daniel, he must confront the ultimate question: Can he trust Frank, or is he being led into a trap by someone with their own agenda? The deeper Daniel goes, the more he realizes that his father’s disappearance is the key to unlocking a far-reaching conspiracy—one that might explain not only the truth behind the UFO phenomena but also his own hidden past.
"Are you Kidding me?!" - comedy movie about a woman who keeps birthing children and at some point births 100 kids and becomes the most fruitful mother in the world. economy fucks her, but she makes it up by becoming famous, but then she bankrupts
Imagine that. Instead of football teams being limited to states/province.......why not corporations? You can play for Microsoft and face off against Sony.
Long story short. I broke one of the vanity globe light bulbs, so I figured i go into Home Deport and get a replacement. Came home to realize that it wasn't the same voltage. So I need something that is compatible with DC12V. Thanks!
is it okay to use an 8.8 SBLED on a 8 SBLED lamp?
Bluetooth speakers should have a guest mode button for friends to temporarily be able to cast songs to, without having to formerly go through the pairing process. It would also make it so the owner of the speaker doesn't have to re-pair their phone to the speaker. Basically, allow 2 or more multiple phones to concurrently pair to a speaker so friends could cast to it.
I tried googling this and can't really find any fruit snack products that are in the shapes of the planets. Imagine opening up a pack of Fruit Planets. You'd need at least 8-10 in each pack. What if you don't get the whole solar system?? Should the sun get a shape included? Would Pluto get to be included in the pack? Maybe they could make a spinoff product with other stellar shapes like dwarf planets, stars, comets, etc. people would get to talk about how they're favorite planets taste.
"What's your favorite planet Johnny?" "I like Mars!" "Why's that Johnny?" "It tastes like strawberries!"
Why is every bucket list app designed like it was built on GeoCities?
Seriously, I'm trying to plan my epic life adventures, not relive the dial-up era.
I need a slick interface, something that doesn't make my eyes bleed. Why modern devs are not doing it.
Bonus points if it has a diagram to categorize goals by age – like "Things I gotta do before having kids or before my knees give out."
Someone should do it.
Let’s add a trillion to the debt and create fire task force, ready to deploy 100-200 of the biggest best water carrying aircraft money can buy, and an account with Caterpillar so that they can get D11 dozers , 390 excavators at any location, use till fire is out, return.
You can watch it burn, let insurance buckle and pass the puck to tax payers and that is going cost Trillions now.
We need to proactively put this and all fires out starting today! Presidential action should be in effect now.
Am I crazy?
I worked in the contact center industry for many years, until about 3-4 years ago. I frequently came across a voice channel customer quality issue that the technology couldn't tackle, at the time: call center representatives with English as a Second Language (ESOL), who - despite being able to comprehend the English language - were unable to enunciate their verbal English, leaving it heavily-accented, to the detriment of the customer, who would struggle to understand what was being conveyed. My idea will likely now have a matured, robust and higher computing power for a series of functions alongside text to speech (TTS) and Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) to address this issue:
If a caller is struggling to understand the call center agent, they should press (#) to invoke a listening process which mutes the leg of the call from the Agent to the caller, listens to the speech from the Agent, converts it via ASR, writes out the associated narrative, which in turn is "retranslated" into an accent less speech pattern using TTS, which is then played back to the caller, replacing the agent's voice, in real time with a perfectly enunciated version of the Agent's intended speech.
I know the component elements for a solution are available with B2B call center systems such as Cisco UCCE/UCCX, Genesys, Five9, CXone and, to a lesser extent, Avaya Aura - and it could work equally as well in the B2C consumer market (Microsoft Teams, Zoom, etc.)
I am pretty sure this hasn't surfaced as a solution yet and, while I know a lot of "real" Agent's are being replaced by AI speech/real-time voice chat it's - I do feel that this is a viable solution that will greatly improve customer satisfaction for call centers where ESOL Agent Speech Quality is a prevalent issue.
If you got this far reading the concept - thanks! What are your thoughts? Have you been frustrated by heavily-accented call center Agents and wish you could just press a magic button to reduce the background chatter to zero AND "clean up" their speech? This would be especially more important when it's a vital service call that you have to make - and that you absolutely need to discuss and understand the Agents instruction, advice or responses...
Any thoughts, anyone?
I'm looking for smart lights that provide a significant amount of spectrum control. Ideally, I would be able to adjust the ratio of light waves emited, i.e. 10% blue light, 20 % red light, etc.
The title says it the characters would have funny names etc and spins off famous characters. Basically like the funko pop! Figures, but you carry them with you in your butt. ButtButties Your best buds right where they belong
So, me and a couple of people have to make a forum to order at restaurants with an AI assistant, however we need to know what would make it more appealing then calling the restaurant itself.
I was wondering if some of you could give any ideas how this could be done.
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