15 hours ago, SoSoNosy said:

Probably.  She showed a big picture of the balloon release but I didn't look closely.  I was just glad that the family gathered around her when she needed it.  The lady's name was something like Tuff Decisions.

She's just as good of a source as wacb

1 hour 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. 

We don’t know what goes on behind the scenes. Joy may have had a conversation with Jill on the phone discussing why she might not be able to attend and offer her condolences that way. Maybe even with a promise to get together soon in a more private manner.

My brother suffered a devastating family loss. Most of our other family members went to the funeral. I was unable to attend due to extenuating circumstances. My other sister was out of town. When she returned a couple weeks later. she, I and our husbands took the three hour trip to visit Brother taking huge amounts of food and spending all day with him. It was very meaningful.

55 minutes ago, Mama Mia said:

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 
 

Definitely a possibility. I was thinking what if her kid(s) had pink eye or something.
 

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?