3 minutes ago, viii said:

I don't think I'd find it understandable if it was me. I'd side-eye my sister if she didn't attend my child's funeral, especially knowing how deep the grief is. I would hope that my sister would be there for me, since she would be able to relate the most. 

I understand how some trauma can be triggering, but I also think there comes a point where we need to be there for loved ones. If Joy had just lost her daughter within the last year, that might have been a different story. 

It's a fine line between protecting yourself and supporting loved ones. 

I don’t know. I think I’d understand if it was just too much for her to handle. Everyone is different. And it’s not like she doesn’t have multiple other sisters and her mom there. As well as brothers, in-laws, friends, etc…..If Joy was her sole support it might be different. 

It also might just be that Joy had the stomach flu or some other normal reason. Or a kid had to go to the ER for a fall , or one of the kids was having a meltdown cause they were scared of balloons so she took them somewhere else during the release,  I think with that huge a family it would be difficult to get everyone in one spot  for anything. Especially when so many have little kids. 
 

52 minutes ago, tanba said:

If I was implementing this, I would be blurring before putting in the database. Now I’m also very doubtful that it can’t be unblurred, at least enough to reconstruct recognizable things, but blurring is also likely to save space, so even from a database and systems design perspective, I would be surprised if they saved the original images somewhere permanently, also due to legal liability. 

There was one case with a pedophile (given the name "Mr Swirl" in the news) who had posted a manipulated image of his own face online and it took like...one guy with Photoshop who was like, "Uh, yea, that can be undone."

Some reports suggest it took a little too long to find this one guy and perhaps the confidence of said pedophile made them thing the manipulation algorithm was more than it was but it was really...literally like the spiral twist function.

I am mostly doubtful CE owns or bought any sort of interesting blurring algorithm. If we can pick past the diffraction of light with STORM...well. It just struck me as such an outlandish claim. 

This sounds like Rachel had her baby. Or am I reading it wrong?

I saw Michelle standing next to Jill in one of the pre-balloon release photos.  Also spotted a front view of Israel standing next to Derick. 

Izzy, Sam and Freddy all wore pink polos and tan pants, presumably for Isla which I thought was a very nice touch. 

9 hours ago, dawn9476 said:

People on Reddit think Joy wasn't there, which is understandable since she went through something similar. Going to something like that would probably just bring all that pain back up.

I don't think I'd find it understandable if it was me. I'd side-eye my sister if she didn't attend my child's funeral, especially knowing how deep the grief is. I would hope that my sister would be there for me, since she would be able to relate the most. 

I understand how some trauma can be triggering, but I also think there comes a point where we need to be there for loved ones. If Joy had just lost her daughter within the last year, that might have been a different story. 

It's a fine line between protecting yourself and supporting loved ones.