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

@Fragglemuppet lol, thanks though from me, as I've not found Brazil nuts for sale near me so.... likely will at least get some to celebrate my next birthday, as by then I should have things fixed up enough for such a splurge.

@FlashMobOfOne I really think it's wonderful you can but at least 1/2 the year, more like 2/3rds, I can't lift over about 30lbs, which makes bulk purchase handling require more equipment, beyond space & there are millions of people like me.

My spouse would likewise need help for bulk purchasing handling.

In the disability arena it's a rather ridiculous cliff set, not just in the : SSI/SSDI vs not, but in the :need help & supervision on everyday tasks continually vs can do everything on their own to make living independently cheap

And btw - I've never ballot cast for a Republicrat in my life.

@FlashMobOfOne It is a privilege set to be able to buy in bulk, to any sizable degree. SNAP not being accepted at most places that you can order/buy bulk orders, and as soon as you get beyond spices, for the many #disabled who can't lift &/or handle in bulk quantities, even if we manage to save for said purchases, we can't do them over said restriction set.

Not to say that there aren't work arounds for some things that can work for some people but they're rare.

This is a mainstay of why I eyeroll &/or laugh at pretty much every set of "money saving tips" I see pushed by what amount to petite bougie clowns, who all inevitably include "you must buy in bulk" and thusly have all the space, equipment & physical abilities to handle doing so.

Similar to all the people in the world of "prepping/homesteading" who include this huge segment of their setups with at least $10,000 needed for their pressure canning setups alone, another $3,000 minimum on their dehydrator setups, grain storage & processing another $4,000....(Nevermind those pushing freeze driers in a pure paid ad thing.)

Glad you can do it but understand many can't.

@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.