Notices by Urban Hermit (urban_hermit@mstdn.social)

@mekkaokereke
Remember the Epicureans (the philosophers during the fall of Rome):

Good food, with pleasant company.

Make love with great friends.

Enjoy your garden. Wall off and tend your source of happiness and independence (hobbies, especially low cost sustainable ones).

Travel if you can afford it. Be open to new opportunities or relationships, even ones that might involve relocating.

Mt. Saint Helens at sunset, from Rocky Butte, Portland Oregon.

November 7th, 2024, 4:59pm

@tayfonay I think he might be insufferable on many counts, but this particular thing might be due to living in an insufferable culture where there waa a vast difference between how you treat the people who paid you, vs the people who were paid by you.

We get better, but even now when I see that cashiers at the grocery store are forced to stand all day just to not look lazy, when their real job is to help me, not make me feel superior, I am shamed by the system that thinks this is a service.

@broadwaybabyto no, but this was on a Friday and I was sick by Monday & off work for two weeks before coming back. He had to do my job (which was quite awful) for the 2 weeks I was gone.

Then I came back with a chronic cough, and the other two guys in the office complained to HR and I had to do my office work from an empty cubical farm upstairs, while all the engineers were working from home. So he was still stuck doing some of my sorting work.

I saw the look in his eyes, I think he suspected.

@broadwaybabyto the thing is that he wasn't a guy who was refusing to mask, he was a guy who showed up to work sick and got sicker during the work day. He got a supply of masks from some charity and was trying a new one out for the first time. I believe he honestly believed that his deep, concerning cough was from breathing in the little fibers from the mask. That is what he said was causing it.

That work place had 250 employees and worked 100% through the pandemic.

@broadwaybabyto In our office, across from the main employee restroom on our side of the building, we heard people who came to work and were coughing up a lung (so to speak) multiple times a day. That's the reality for most workers, go to work sick or go homeless. It is amazing that I - constantly masked and vaccinated as early as possible, got Covid only 3 times. It just happened to be that the third time nearly killed me. I quit after 3 weeks still coughing and went home to get better or die.

@broadwaybabyto by the way, since I didn't mention it before in this thread, I went home and continued to cough for 4 months. Sometime during that I realized that my body wasn't maintaining body temperature and I had to use the heat in my apartment to make sure that I could get up and digest food. Very early, within the first two weeks, I had a very painful, very cold, empty place in my lungs directly over my heart that ached constantly for 9 months.

@broadwaybabyto
And even after two years my body was not responding adequately to temperature changes. I was too cold in winter and I wasn't sweating enough in summer. That hadn't gotten better until 1 1/2 months ago when I started taking magnesium for other reasons.

I was really lucky that I had been saving a lot of money up for years for a big purchase, but even then had to withdraw all my retirement when I found getting a new job more difficult than I expected.

No matter how crazy and hateful Trump gets, remember that he is so popular with the hard core Republican base & culture war pastors that the GOP handed everything to him. The really rich polluters, monopolists, and 'free speech" crime enablers would tolerate any number of conspiracy loons if it makes their party popular enough to demand even more tax cuts and less regulation.

Half the crazy Trump is rambling is their propaganda talking points. They're making him sub for Rush, Bannon, & Jones.

Rush Limbaugh is dead. Steve Bannon is in jail. Alex Jones is out of control of his network and drowning in debt. ALL RIGHTFULLY SO!!

Donald Trump, consumer of so much crazy, is the only popular mouth piece for GOP propaganda left.

And Trump too belongs in jail.

It's hard for the GOP to find unethical mouth pieces that don't also participate in other crimes.

@lovelylovely

The conservative message in America: "Everyone is on their own, even when they are failing and pleading for help. It is okay to judge them badly without understanding and do nothing. After all, if you try to help, to make any change at all, you will be next and we will watch you lose everything too."

Not 'weird' at all - thumbs up for the cameras at Arlington National Cemetery.

Picture posted to Xitter, by Utah Governor Spencer Cox, who notably kept his hands behind his back, as he and several others off to the sides did not participate in a thumbs up while standing amongst the graves.

Credit to Donald Trump - two small girls were able to stand within feet of him and not spontaneously combust, likely because they are too young to understand what he has done to and for women of the future.

Some of you are not getting the "weird" framing.

Weird is not just a bad name you fling at people you don't like. Weird, the bad weird, is when somebody says or does things that show that they don't understand other people at all. Since all people are modeling others on how they think, it suddenly tells you that they don't think at all like other people.

An obsession with others masturbation, controlling women, obviously worthless NFTs - don't normalize it because they are rich.

@HamonWry if Donold had dropped dead at some point previous to this year Melania could have stood to inherit half a billion dollars...

...she still never, for one second, ever, looked like it was worth it.

🙀😸

@grishka @eloquence I want, badly, to see screen shots of Mastodon, posted to Xitter, then posted back to Mastodon w/ a flummoxed, wrong, or bewildered reply.

I would follow a bot that posted Mastodon to Xitter, then posted the result back to Mastodon.

Troll trolling? Troll fishing?

Could it go wrong, could it attract their attention? Sure, probably, but when they think they are going to swarm they have to pick a server, create an account, make some friends because there is no algorithm, ...

@Tharpa @glennsills @cynblogger @Dave_Goldsmith @Nazani @stevebenen that is why he desperately needs a friendly crowd of weirdos at his next debate. His rambling nonsense can only stay on track, roughly, based on crowd reaction.

Imagine if they had an audience for the next debate, but only let in people who passed a politically neutral IQ test, which was a fact not leaked in advance. Even if the "pass" was average, he would be looking at a stone faced and horrified crowd, with 2-3 "yeah" guys.

@Tharpa @Dave_Goldsmith @andytiedye @glennsills @cynblogger @Nazani @stevebenen at this point Trump doesn't even have his own popularity, he defeated the other Republicans by name calling and now he is riding the coat tails of people who have been fighting "The Culture Wars" for 2 decades. They have given 20% or more of their family life savings to defeat the gays, woman's lib, and equal rights people and they will support a rapist if that is what it takes to "never have to vote again".

Weirdos

@Nazani @stevebenen this is what a life time of lying gets you, he doesn't even know the difference between the truth and a passing 'hallucination'.

@TanekRune @Lesliesez I was right on the edge of listing all the positive traits of being autistic with none of the negatives. What is not said was, "I can do this job and nearly half of any others you might have better than it has ever been done. I am not perfect, but I have tested above the 98th percentile in EVERYTHING. I play strategy games on my phone for fun where I am in the top 400 in the world. Now give me this fucking job before I am fucking homeless!" - definitely not said.