ICE is still not out of Minneapolis-St. Paul, but I’m willing to say that we are no longer under •siege•. The Eye of Dumbass Sauron has moved elsewhere. Now it’s more an ongoing threat, usually background-level but sometimes not, that continues through normal life. You know…like the supposed criminal gang activity they used to justify their mass attack on immigrants in the first place.
It’s not over, but it’s not just MSP. It’s the whole country’s problem.
/end
Our walk along the seafront got rained off but she did very well in her first dog-friendly place.
It helped that a few people fawned over her and gave her treats.
I am taking the plunge and removing the sun screens from the windows. The 90+ temps in the 10-day forecast are gone again. It's just a pain getting them back up without accidentally electrocuting myself with aluminum foil. I have a UPS in the wrong place.
It also appears that the downtown Weather Underground station was moved to a less hot location. The temps are no longer up to 10F hotter than all of the others, lol.
Hell is not a place.
It's trying to schedule a meeting with people from Australia, India, East Coast and West Coast USA all in it.
A question that comes up often in my writing is, "Why do we live like this?" Or rather, "Why do we put up with this?" And the answer is usually: "Because you end up alone and outside of society otherwise." Assuming there is an "outside" in the first place.
It's like anti-capitalists calling people "suckers." Like, look, I've got bills to pay if I want to eat tonight. I know it sucks. But we either work together to make a better world or we each die alone in the private prison cell in our heads.
@whitequark I dunno if this is bait but here goes (bcs who knows?)
IMO, sarcasm is a mechanic to grow over the sad depressing feeling, that the expression of facts/opinions build up in the first place.
It's a coping mechanism while metaphorically painting a black picture in the hope to find lighter speckles that can be enlarged. Or at least to find a time spot of solace.
Sadly this PoV can also be attached to pictures that aren't fully black but to every image and that might pose a problem in itself
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