Notices by highly principled invertebrate (brahmabelarusian@todon.eu)

@Fragglemuppet Take my spouse's hand & let him know we're going on an adventure, hoping he'll come willingly again, if he doesn't that's where the mystery in my response comes...

@FlashMobOfOne

Much of why it's not effective in what it pushes as "correct guesses" is because at best those guesses are built via messes of studies, with the same degrees of obvious flaws as this one https://assemblag.es/@theluddite/114101071020285137

So it's definitely tracking/data mining you but as ridiculous as the modeling is, there's not much of a chance it'll ever give you something you actually want.

*I'm among the majority of this trend with you btw, as amongst the most common add pushes I get is for "discount airline tickets/travel", international mostly when I've never had an adult passport & doubt I'll ever go on an airplane again (it's been over 20 years since I've been on a plane).
#Technology #Privacy

@Fragglemuppet *nods* same with other search engines I use, I skip all the ads.

@Fragglemuppet Tov & Dr Prager's, unfortunately my area doesn't sell much of either, (my main requirements being they be kosher & not have msg nor mushrooms in them) which is why within the next year or so, I'm going to build a setup to make my own frozen & reheat meals in the summer & fall for the mostly winters I use them in.

@Fragglemuppet bluejays & robins being amongst the most common songbirds I hear & see in my front yard...windchimes most commonly heard when & with most of the walnuts falling, September & October...

But I've also got 1 flock of chickens in my basement now, probably will have 2 within the next year & as such being able to hear what's happening helps maintain safety.

@Fragglemuppet there's also often a specific song that hens sing when they lay an egg, and as such, if they're close in timing, I can collect them in a more timely manner.

@Fragglemuppet *nods* I've at least a dozen, more specifically black walnut trees, one being so close that if I left my bedroom window open during the right time of year, there's a very real possibility I could get one blown to the foot of my bed.

@Fragglemuppet it's a really strange yet common thing for me to see pushed in the realm of home repairs & improvements --- these things called "sound proofing" & "noise reduction" because in as much as if I lived in a big & densely populated city (as I once did for a few years) that would make at least a little sense, where I am now it just doesn't, because there's rarely loud noises that don't mean some type of trouble & thusly I want to be able to hear what's happening.

@Fragglemuppet yes and it's fine if it's the fairly consistent sounds of a flock of chickens too or even fish moving around a pond/tank with it's pump running.....I need something otherwise I basically jump with every movement heard & as sensitive as my hearing is...that can be a walnut falling to the ground 200 feet from my house, in the backyard.

@Fragglemuppet now I'm going to have Fraggle/Doozer songs playing in my head for at least the next month! (*this is a good thing.) #fraggle_rock

So another round of the same accounting manipulation set that repeats every now & then --- budget resolution- has allowed a flashy & emotional headline set to spring up from it....

When you vow you'll not gain more than 90% of the weight, that you did over the past decade & then you in fact gain that 90% - you won't tell anyone that you "lost weight" but that's exactly what these "cuts" are .....and as such I'm not "angry at the #GOP for cutting my #Medicaid" & not just because I'm not likely to even use it more than once over those years over lacking trust in medical care providers either....but because the odds are just as with the weight "loss" nothing in medicaid benefits will actually be cut in this!

https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/american-southwest-airlines-challenging-wheelchair-accessibility-rules/

The title is a little misleading as this isn't just about wheelchairs but rather about all mobility aides & thusly protection of those of us who use them.

This change in rules, if enacted, would change my chances of at least considering airline travel from under 1% to about 20%, because it'd demand that if my devices were damaged/destroyed or lost, the airline would at least cover some of those costs, because now they don't and as such paying for hotels/motels on long distance trips where I'd drive is cheaper than my paying for said destruction.

*The other part of why I don't use planes being the assault committed under the auspices of "security", body scanner or hands on not mattering much to me, they're both completely wrong.
#DisabilityAccessibility #MobilityAidUsers #ATF #AirlineTravel

@aral oh I've given a few similar impromptu "talks" lol ... So much of what I've been involved in through the years having been so messily organized....

Pretty typical day & week so far for me, which is to say nothing in sensation in my hands, wrists, feet nor most of my lower legs during said week, which is why I'm looking forward to warmer weather, knowing I won't really get it for a while yet.

No, the people who are cheering on the trade wars of tariffs that are going to drive up building supply costs, aren't my allies, as this mess is going to harm people like me, who don't have the money to hire contractors for much if anything & thusly are buying the supplies direct for our use.

I don't give a rats anus if this hurts or helps #Trump or #Biden , I care that it'll delay my home repairs & improvements!

#TradeWar #Poverty

@big_louse #AntiWork is also fighting #ableism and their hierarchies & caste system that makes the oxymoronic system we now have, where 20-30% of the global human population has at least one disability, most live in places with govt provided disability aid programs for disabled who can't do what's considered "work" and yet over 99% of disabled people do work,even if it's only the hundred's of hours of added tasks needed to continue to "prove it" ("it" being that we can't work by their extremely narrow definition).

At this point until #Guilds and #unions alike expand into the vast majority of people being members of at least one of them & gain sizable power, I don't even see how the rights of #disabled who don't & can't do any paid work, will ever gain real & full rights.

I know the focus is pretty much always on unions & how they've largely vanished but guilds are needed too, now more than unions, as we keep getting more & more decentralized overall... As guilds aid independent contractors/sole proprietorships which keep gaining in % of the real economy.

@aral oh lovely, so the biggest company in it's affordability at invading the privacy of people & within this making #DisabilityAccessibilty in tech get dragged backwards by decades is now pushing itself into the #OpenSource sphere.

I don't even want to guess at the specific costs of fixing things anymore, as supply costs & tools keep rising, but minimally we'll need $10,000 to even get this house in decent shape again. Help if you can, a #disabled married couple, of a #Jewish woman & #Wiccan man.
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@xenophora @FlashMobOfOne going to 2nd the suggestion of a CW, as I rarely boost things without them, because I'm mindful of my own & that of others in getting overloaded &/or trauma triggered by political chatter.

@mook *nods* I don't plan on ballot casting for 3 main reasons
1. I believe the machines will rig away my & other people's choices in counting

2. I don't believe that the person listed as POTUS is even in real authority anymore & even if they were, anyone I'd actually want wouldn't have enough people in the house & senate to push through any public policy changes I want.

3. With how difficult physically standing in the lines, filling out a ballot & putting it in for scanning is on me, I don't really find, what small odds remain of my getting something good done with this, in risking myself for said mess set.

*Ideally I'd like a combo of ranked choice voting, publicly hand counted paper ballots & going back to the system of whichever candidate came in 2nd automatically becoming VP --- then I might have a chance of getting my "dream team" or similar of a Libertarian as POTUS & Green as VP for 8 years before that'd flip- then in 24 years we even might have a decent political setup...🙍