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21 hours agoA little of both.
You tend to do what the people around you do. If I’m in a religious person’s home I’m going to act differently than I would in a rowdy bar.
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4·21 hours agoOf course they don’t want the people in deep Red States to have access to new ideas.
4·21 hours agoGot my aunt’s rotary phone in the closet.
I have two. Ginger beer tastes great, and it’s helpful if you’ve got a cold or stomach ache.
It’s a ‘soft drink’ only because it doesn’t have alcohol. Manhattan Special Espresso soda. I’d see the old Italian men drinking it when they played bocce. Three bottles have enough caffeine to give you heart palpitations.
I’ve decided that I’m going to fake left, then go left…
They’ll never see it coming.
You’re preaching to the horse’s mouth!
[stole that one from ‘Angel’ TV show. Spoken by Harmony, the dumbest vampire.]
Don’t burn your bridges until the chickens hatch!
I just got to a point where I couldn’t handle the abuse from family, being betrayed by my ex of 7 years, serious health issue, and noone wanted to help me through it regardless of what kindness I showed them in the past.
Have a good night.
Let’s break it down.
First, what kind of ‘peace and security’ are you going to have without other people? Even if you manage to amass a vast fortune, you’ll need some kind of caretakers.
Second, you act as if every single person you interact with is out to get you. You had a lousy family and apparently one adult relationship that floundered after 7 years. That sounds about average, tbh.
As for your health issues. Have you looked for support groups of people with the same problem?
Interacting with people is like any other skill. If you don’t do it badly at first, you’ll never get to the point where you can do it well.
I was an isolator who got a job where I was dealing with everyone in a public health facility. By ‘everyone’ I mean everyone from doctors and police to homeless schizophrenics.
It was sink or swim, but I got the skills.
16·9 days ago[off topic]
“The Whore Of Mensa” A private eye goes up against a escort service that provides lonely men with intellectual conversations.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1974/12/16/the-whore-of-mensa
The Stonewall Riots occurred in 1969. Star Trek’s controversial interracial kiss was a big scandal a few years before. The movie “The Legend of Nxxxxr Charlie” was shown and advertised all over the country. The movie “Midnight Cowboy” got an X-rating with zero nudity and one off screen man on man blowjob.
Sorry, I think you’ve got it backwards.
otoh, people in both eras used gas powered cars, telephones, telegraphs, and manual typewriters. They could both go to movies, ride trains, and take ocean voyages.
A person from 1903 would need a few days to adapt themselves to 1969 technology.
But someone from 1969 coming into 2025 would be lost. Most people in 1969 didn’t use credit cards, and had never seen an ATM. They used rotary phones and antenna TV.
Work isn’t a panacea.
I was a shy introvert and got a job in public medicine. I learned how to interact with a broad variety of people, ranging from senior staff doctors to homeless folks.
I went from being a shy introvert to a glib introvert.
7·12 days agoWhen do you think tax cuts for the rich are going to start ‘trickling down’ to the rest of us?
When Reagan came into office, ‘middle class’ was still one Union job supporting a family fo four. In those days, $1 million was a vast fortune. By the time Bush Sr. let office, ‘middle class’ was enshrined as two jobs to run the house, and $1 million was what a rich guy paid for a party.
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“Halt And Catch Fire.”
TV show about a Texas electronics company that starts making computers, circa 1983.
My guess is that the Dems will give him plenty of support and he’ll lose to the GOP candidate in a landslide. New Yorkers elected Bloomberg and Giuliani and will elect another GOP even if they hate Trump.
He’s being set up as a sacrificial lamb to the idea that Progressives can’t win.
3·24 days agoSo, the socialist won, and you’re saying he couldn’t win??
2·24 days ago[off topic]
“Zero” by Seife. Fascinating history of the mathematical concept of ‘zero.’
“Of course all these girls are over 18 and none of them are being coerced in any way.”