I can’t believe we progressives will ever attain our goals for a just and equitable society as long as the people making policy decisions are wealthy people who have never had to deal with the problems facing the non-wealthy. What interest do they have in Social Security when they’ll never need it? What interest do they have in providing health care when they can always afford it? What interest do they have in the minimum wage when they’ve never had to live on it?
When you think about it, which is what I’ve been doing today, there’s a single attribute the Internet shares with the NSA. They both harvest a gazillion bits and bytes every hour. Electronic storage capacities are constantly increasing.
Think about filling every inch of your house with sealed envelopes containing a note. Some of those notes are worthless, recipes or cartoons. But some are important, and some are vital to your survival.
It’s the 4th grade class from hell over there, “there” being Fox and Twitter. The right can’t seem to keep control once they have it. Increased debt, Twitter and Fox both on a downward spiral, their popularity with us average people is on the wane, a lot of Trump rats jumping ship. The only people to suffer when the fascists are defeated will be the bottom 90%. The rich guys at the top will make their money win or lose.
More people with more guns quickly lead to fewer people. Guns can’t die like a child. A rifle from the civil war could still easily kill. Find a car that lasts that long. We cherish the presumed right to kill each other. It’s a bizarre point of pride.
Once upon a time there were more people than guns. But then more people bought more guns to protect themselves from all the other people with guns. It’s between an addiction and a fetish. I don’t support unrestricted gun ownership. License, registration, and proof of insurance. Cops ask for that on every traffic stop.
This might just be the year I go from being non-religious to anti-religion. And to be clear, I’m not talking about becoming anti-the-religious. I’m talking about being anti-religion, the practices, the superstitions, the evil the institution has done to humanity. We should never give religion a pass when it disregards its own beliefs.
If our boy Tucker is considering that job offer from his friends at RT, he needs to do it now. Now is when Russians are in the most need of someone who will lie to them every night and reassure them that everything’s going to be fine. Plus he’s hot right now. He needs to get the ring before some other bastard who just got fired by their network grabs it.
I believe another “End of the World"™️ has come and gone, and they’re still here.
What if the Rapture has already happened, but only about 3 people were raptured. All the rest of those who hoped to go are just as screwed as they’ve always said we were.
I just had the pleasure of listening to The Talk Show with @gruber featuring @snazzyq. Even though I’m subscribed and enjoy each Snazzy Labs video, I didn’t realize just how intelligent and informed Quinn is. I love listening to experts discussing their field of interest. Everything these two produce is highly recommended.
Mastodon
Why are so many people upset about the demise of Twitter? There was a time before Twitter. I know, I was there. We had many means of communication. I joined Twitter in 2007 but didn’t use it much because at first there weren’t many people on it and at that time I was involved with several forums. There will be successors to Twitter. Will it be CoSo or Mastodon? Too soon to tell.
I’ll become YouTube famous once I start uploading my tutorials on how to accomplish simple tasks at home, work, and online in the absolutely most complicated, least effective way possible. My hacks will endanger the lives of anyone insane enough to actually try them. I will have survivors as guests if there are any. And it will become insanely popular.
So, it seems being 69 isn’t so bad after all. It’s only been less than a day but nothing horrible yet. At least I’m still alive, and that beats being dead. I know I’ll be dead someday, but I intend to enjoy being alive as long as it lasts.
