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True, we don't know what goes on behind the scenes, and perhaps I'm projecting a little. I had two friends that were best friends and had been since elementary school. So they had years of deep, solid friendship. They were both in each other's weddings, etc. Friend A got pregnant and Friend B threw her a massive baby shower. Everyone was so excited. Friend A gave birth at 39 weeks to a stillborn daughter. Entire friend group was devastated for her and did everything we could to support her. Two years after the loss, Friend A went on to have another child, this one a boy. Friend B threw another baby shower (this time after he had already arrived) and everyone was so happy. Two years later, Friend B gets pregnant. Friend A starts to get a little cagey. Doesn't know if she'll come to the shower, let alone throw it. Friend B finds out she's having a daughter and tells Friend A before the shower so she isn't surprised by it. Friend A is furious that Friend B is having a daughter and cuts her out cold turkey. Never speaks to her again. Removes herself completely from the friend group and tells everyone that we weren't supportive of her loss and it was incredibly insensitive for Friend B to have a baby shower for her daughter when Friend A never got to raise her daughter. Soooo.... I understand situations like this can be tricky. I understood Friend A was hurt but I also thought Friend A was a bad friend for not being happy for Friend B for something she can't control (ie the sex of her unborn baby). This is what I mean by it's a fine line between protecting yourself but also sometimes having to put your own issues aside to support a love one.

She's just as good of a source as wacb

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

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.

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.

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've seen this happen elsewhere with self-important wealthy but not as smart as they think they are people. You'll explain something to them, they'll pick up on one word from your explanation, and start using it incorrectly like a weapon. Me to former terrible boss, who was complaining about the photo quality in an ad we ran in a magazine: "Well the image is fine, I've checked it and we ran it elsewhere with no issues. It looks like the color range somehow got flattened a bit along the way somewhere making it look posterized." Boss screaming on the phone to the poor person at the magazine "You POSTERED IT!!!!!!"

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.

I retired at the end of March so every day feels like the weekend

I don't think it's a genuine MCM. I think it's an imitation. A $6000 piece of forniture in perfect shape is not sold for $500. Yes, sometimes this happens, but I suspect Abbie is lying to appear as the smartest buyer. She is noot overspending, she is nooot spoiled, she is investing!

And for most of the day yesterday I was thinking it was Thursday.

This is an astoundingly brilliant take on Trump: “President Trump” is essentially a fictional character played by a criminal conman.

Um, interesting topic for the co-chair of the RNC.

Prosecution exhibit number one:

I wonder what dirt Putin has on Barr.

The state of the GQP in 2024:

It's likely something the smear had overheard his attorneys talking about and decided it would make him appear smart if he used it himself. I myself heard the term used while in law school and while I was working at a large law firm. In school I asked a classmate if we could pair up for a group project. Because she was a bankruptcy paralegal at the time, she said she couldn't as she was conflicted out.

I think she just lied. She didn't want to admit that she hadn't even opened the cabinet and cleaned it out so she blamed it on the boys. They'd have no reason to put bread in there and, honestly, it didn't look like bread crumbs. Abbie was so excited over her latest ugly find that it hadn't occurred to her to clean it up first.

Looks like it's going to be Cheseboro.

I think the little boys just get up to lots of shenanigans because Braggie refuses to supervise them.

Which of course is a smart move in my opinion.

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.

Sounded like a pretty big crowd? Ifonly more people would join in!