Our parents and grandparents grew up in times of segregation. Laws banning interracial marriage were abolished in 1967. It, unfortunately, takes time to collectively change our mind.

And actually, now that I think about it, I don't ever remember seeing interracial dating represented on television in the US until the last decade or so.

Techno viking

Kagi is a search engine, but it has ways to narrow the search. One of these is "news" and it works quite well. I saw a Lemmy post about scientists tattooing a tardigrade so I went to see if I could find relevant results. I found multiple news articles confirming it. Kagi is a paid service, but it may work for your use case.

Since you're more knowledgeable, does your partner try to cat h up. Or are they more hands off and just trust your decisions?

Or rooms are reversed where my wife is more knowledgeable, but it's a regular discussion for us. And with the regularity, I'm catching up.

This looks to be exactly what I was imagining. Thanks for the suggestion!

I was hoping to find something more specific by posting here.

We drive across some pretty remote places, sometimes alone, so it would be more helpful to have a solution that periodically pings (hopefully automatically) and somehow shares with selected individuals.

Good question since I didn't specify. I would prefer periodic tracking at some configurable interval, but I actually really appreciate all the answers because to be honest I had not even considered things like sending my location in Signal or the other one shot approaches.

There once was a one-winged butterfly, Who spent their life chasing their dreams, In a circle

Weird I don't know why, but my account was flagged as a bot. I'm a real life person though.

Are you opting out of the system? I bet you have qualities someone wishes they could find.

...evolved down the wrong path, almost as if its devolution

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