He left out the important bit that anyone from communist countries knows about. Not only will your neighbors shun you and deny you aid out of fear of association, they and even your relatives will rat you out or even make up lies about you just for a little bit of extra handout from big brother and a tiny bit of temporary breathing room from the boot on their own necks. View quoted note →

I remember the alarming thing I would hear from people several times a day when I was doing outdoor art festivals. “I love your art and would love to buy it but we have all our money spent on our house right now.” This started happening about a year and a half before the Great Recession became too obvious for anyone to ignore anymore. People with real wealth tend not to fetishize the showy trappings- those things just naturally become part of their lives and they don’t think much on it. It took me far too long to decide not to date a guy who worshipped his run down older model (insert name of any expensive car here). It wasn’t me being shallow, I just finally figured out that his priorities were skewed to value it and other materialistic stuff he could not afford- over a real human being. Folks like that will throw you under the bus without blinking if it means getting more shiny stuff. Now I realize I’d rather live in a van down by the river (yay fish!) than spend one night in any of the fussy new overpriced, poorly built “people farms” or “human rabbit hutches” being built so fast around here. #priorities #exitthesystem View quoted note →

When you hear “lets just agree to disagree” or “it’s now a time for healing” or let’s just move on” it’s basically an indicator of the guilty party trying to hide their bad faith actions. View quoted note →

Here’s a surprised thanks to fellow Nostriches for the Giggle-Snorts I did while following the #penisbutter meme flood playing out. I can’t remember the last time I giggle-snort-giggled like that. Been way too long.

So, do any of y’all tech smarties know what really went on with the recent outage of CashApp/Square? There are folks I know who coached me to use CA to acquire Bitcoin so maybe that makes me a bit paranoid when something Bitcoin adjacent goes poof.

Really? More than half of the folks who I know grow and eat their own beef seeds are women. I’m noshing on some of the recent batch out of my dehydrator which is about 8lbs of beef jerky. I’m learning to cook & eat wheat I shoot- beef is still a big part of my diet. How accurate are the things people say in polls anyway? And, how accurate is the spin (rhetorical question here) put on data from said polls? Like that meme says “those are rookie numbers.” View quoted note →

Well, another hurricane’s gone through and I’m still here. Been lucky so far. Still got some big blows coming through now and then. I spent a long time just sitting on my porch swing with my coffee & letting the wind push the swing while it woo-ed through the screen door and watched the weather happen. Gonna drive around and spectate like all the folks that aren’t too scared to step outside, then the big cleanup begins. Lost count of how many hurricanes/tropical storms I’ve ridden out now but they’re all so different. That’s something few speak about. And all of them have been way different that what you see on tv- but most folks here on Nostr know how that is with most anything these days. MSM serves its own ends and reality isn’t so much a priority- if it ever was.