tygerprints

No. I didn’t much like Reddit but I have never had so many problems with a social media site as I have with Lemmy. Right now there’s 17 comments in my notifications page, but no way to access them because it just says “404 - page not found.” And there’s no way to view or erase them.

Lemmy has tons of connectivity problems also. On a scale of 1 to 10, I’d have to rate it minus 100. I’ve left Kbin and actually am no longer even using Lemmy but once in a grand while. I’m looking for other sites that will work better.

Every time there’s a solar eclipse, a blood moon, a super moon, or any other astronomical phenomenon, we never can see it here in Utah, it’s always far too cloudy and too overcast to see anything. Same with this Monday’s eclipse, though even if we could, we only would see a portion of it anyway.

A good mile-high Rueben with lots of sauerkraut and cheese. Or one of the big sloppy pastrami burgers at Crown Burger.

Hmmm, only half control of the Universe would be only half realizing my ambitions. It would be going at it half-assed - and I wanted to use my WHOLE ass this time!!

Guess I’ll have to buy more shares since I must control not just Earth and Neptune and Jupiter, I want Uranus as well. (!).

I get it, I was banned from Reddit for saying that being progressive was a good thing. That was just dandy. I consider it a badge of honor to have pissed them off so royally.

I feel the power surging through me, TOTAL CONTROL OF THE UNIVERSE IS WITHIN MY GRASP!

Ahh well in that case, it makes perfect sense. I’ll take 4000 shares.

Now why, (me doing a Jack Benny impression): why, ya see - why would I go and buy stock in a company that hated everything I ever posted, and then banned me for saying that progessive thought is a good thing. I ask you.

I totally agree, anything that takes people’s eyes off the road is not a good choice to put into cars. Cars may have more safety features than ever, but let’s face it, drivers are still too easily distracted and too careless. Here in Utah we have so many highway fatalities every day, people driving the wrong way on freeways, and speeding around school buses with their stop signs out. There’s no good fix for “stupid.”

I used to (love flipping people off) but the older I’ve gotten the less ‘good’ it feels. Partly because, as you get older, you develop a really good thick hide that things slide off of more easily - I mean nothing really bothers me the way it used to. That’s one benefit of getting older.

I like your post. I agree in every way, I have never thought of weapons as being a basic human right. And I’m especially against weapons of death (guns and AR rifles, etc) being considered someone’s basic right.

The truth is, people do not buy these things to defend themselves. Oh they tell themselves that’s what their doing, but then they turn around and use them to kill schoolkids or shoot at people on freeways because someone at McDonald’s got their order wrong (this has happened several times here in Utah).

The truth is, humans are temperamental creatures prone to seeing other people not as human beings, but as problems. They can turn something quite otherwise harmless inanimate objects like baseball bats or crowbars or almost anything into a weapon, and they often do.

So a people who use anything at reach to hurt others should never be given access to weapons designed to kill. That is just a total recipe for constant disaster, which is what is happening every day in our country.

All I can say is I truly embrace the fact that I’m a human and an omnivore. I don’t deny there are ethical horrors with the way animals are raised for slaughter, it’s quite disgusting in fact. But I ALSO can’t deny that I love eating meat off the bone - chicken wings, spare ribs, steak, you name it. When I’m eating meat I’m very happy indeed. And I don’t try to pretend I can justify it as somehow OK with regard to how the animals are slaughtered.

I’m a walking contradiction in many regards. I don’t try to reconcile my love of meat with my love of animals. I have both, and they sometimes are in conflict. I eat all kinds of things, veggies and grains and all kinds of stuff, but my primary love is meat. I don’t deny it, and I don’t justify it. It is what it is, and so am I.

Everyone is coming from their own unique set of experiences. And really, as long as I still get my coffee at the coffee shop, and someone is holding an elevator door for me, what does it really matter in the long run. In less than a century, all of us now will be dead and gone, and no one will recall if were liberal, convervative, happy, sad, mean or nice, or even remember that we were here.

Keeping that in mind I try to help other people when they need it and be more sympathetic - life is struggle for everyone.

Not so much that people aren’t intending to harm me but just that they are self-involved and don’t intentionally mean harm most of the time. Yes they’re still idiots, but to them I am also. We all are, really.

I don’t think anyone gets to decide what a person “Should” be doing, who are these “should-ers” that get to make these decisions?

It’s like putting a dead cow in a museum and calling it art. SHOULD it be art just because it’s there? Or SHOULD there be some explanation or clue as to what the “artist” who put the cow there is trying to say? It’s something I’ve thought about in relation to what constitutes art, and what doesn’t.

My point here is just that in my view, it’s helpful to have some more input rather than just a link when it’s not apparent why the link matters or might be significant.

I think it’s a sign of intelligence to be able to recognize the potential flaws and fallacies in your own thinking, and to acknowledge that your ideas are just opinions based on your OWN experience, not necessarily the same for everyone across the board.

Walt Whitman said, “If I contradict myself, then I conradict myself; I am large, I contain multitudes.” I like to use that as a motto, because often I realize my own opinions can be contradictory, and that they change from circumstance to circumstance. That’s not to say one can’t have a cohesive set of moral values, but rather that change and dialogue are important inputs and require the maturity to accept that you always have room for new ideas.

I think in growing up I’ve become less prone to looking at everyone else in the world as an idiot. You know how when you’re in your 20s and 30s, you’re driving around flipping everyone off because you think everyone around you is an idiot and a know-nothing.

The older I’ve gotten the more I realize most people, most creatures in fact, are just bopping along trying to survive and get what they can from life. I guess I’ve gotten less judgmental and more empathetic, seeing most problems as a process problem, and not necessarily the result of a confederacy of idiots out there trying to ruin my life.

I use it on hot dogs and hamburgers, but only a tad because I like ketchup more - but somehow a corn dog needs both.

I think my username says it all. I’m kind of aloof and independent anyway so, being on my own is how I survive best. And nothing really gets me down, I don’t own anyone else’s sh#t and I just do my own thing and then I’m off on some other pursuit. I think it’s sort of an ADHD but I love it kind of thing.

It looks like the carpet between the kitchen and my library. My commute is all of 100 feet or so down a portrait-lined hallway to the computer. And that’s it. And I work for myself, (a part time writer) so i don’t really have to struggle with the daily grind of cars, buses, trains, etc.

But - we do have a pretty nifty Trax system here in Utah for commuters going cross town or from downtown to the University. I’d probably use that if I was still working.