So, first off, I’m very happy to see that this board isn’t being deluged with threads about Trump and his supporters / enablers. I returned to Facebook after a hiatus of many years, and the wailing and gnashing of teeth over there is unbearable - not because it’s all unjustified, but because it’s coming from people who I otherwise know to be repositories of interesting information. I miss being able to pick up fascinating ‘random’ facts and discoveries from my friends, since many of them are locked into anti-right wing hysteria and just will not talk about anything else. SAD, as you-know-who would say.
If anyone knows of any interesting news or weird goings-on to share here outside of the political shit-slinging which dominates the news cycle, please post 'em here. I can use a breath of fresh air…
I guess it’s kind of ironic that at a time when things actually ARE very interesting and exciting I just totally close off. I guess if people could actually have thoughtful and intelligent discussions about stuff instead of just moronically parroting some Xeroxed taunts and ideological rhetoric we could actually get some sense to everything, or at least help make ourselves more understanding and informed. Instead I have just shut down completely and don’t talk to anyone about it or even look at news.
My mother told me that her brother (my uncle) is so upset over the Trump stuff that he is in a heavy depression. She said on a scale of 1-10 with 1 being mildly upset and 10 being ready to kill himself, he’s at an 8. A fucking 8!!! Because of our shithead leaders? This dude is a longtime hippie up in Berkeley! What the fuck happened to hippies? They’re supposed to wake up and THRIVE on adversity, but they’ve gotten so soft and have been diapered and bottle fed to their stomach’s content that and lack of fulfillment is now going to crush them?
I suspect there’s more to his depression than only Trump, but if not . . . holy fuck.
I need to get up there and help this guy regrow a dick.
I guess it’s kind of ironic that at a time when things actually ARE very interesting and exciting I just totally close off. I guess if people could actually have thoughtful and intelligent discussions about stuff instead of just moronically parroting some Xeroxed taunts and ideological rhetoric we could actually get some sense to everything, or at least help make ourselves more understanding and informed. Instead I have just shut down completely and don’t talk to anyone about it or even look at news.
My mother told me that her brother (my uncle) is so upset over the Trump stuff that he is in a heavy depression. She said on a scale of 1-10 with 1 being mildly upset and 10 being ready to kill himself, he’s at an 8. A fucking 8!!! Because of our shithead leaders? This dude is a longtime hippie up in Berkeley! What the fuck happened to hippies? They’re supposed to wake up and THRIVE on adversity, but they’ve gotten so soft and have been diapered and bottle fed to their stomach’s content that and lack of fulfillment is now going to crush them?
I suspect there’s more to his depression than only Trump, but if not . . . holy fuck.
I need to get up there and help this guy regrow a dick.
Yeah this is not at all an isolated phenomenon; the National Suicide Hotline has a [url http://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/current-events/election-2016/]special page now devoted to helping people with the “political transition”. I don’t think they identified that as a major factor in suicidal thoughts even during the “W” era, so yes things are really off the charts in a major way.
I concur with you say about hippies, and loss of backbone in the population in general. I’m seeing a lot of people just running in circles going “oh shit oh shit oh shit” when they could be doing something genuinely creative and forming the society they really want to live in, rather than just entering a Facebook echo chamber and complaining to people who already are on the same page ideologically.
You could argue that, well, the huge uptick in public protests is a kind of getting off one’s ass and doing something, but I’m skeptical - George W. Bush was perhaps the most protested human in world history, and he still mostly got what he wanted during his rule.
this is personal news. it’s riveting, so put on your seatbelt. i’ve got about 12 oak trees on my property. one’s not doing well, like major rotting at the bottom, third of the way through. and i was sitting there thinking about it before bed how it could go down anytime. got myself pretty worked up about it, i suppose. then i had a dream that night that one of my oak tress fell.
My advice is to go ahead and get it taken down. That way it’s on your terms. Had a tree fall on the house a couple years ago. Not fun.
Yeah I would agree. My folks had a very large tree sheltering their property which was similar to what you described - even though it didn’t come completely crashing down, some large branches fell off after being weighed down during an ice storm, that alone was enough to cause pretty significant roof damage. Other times falling branches came very close to braining their shepherd dogs.
Fuck trees. They are nature’s bitch. If we don’t like 'em, they’re fucked. Hey, Tree! You’re too tall, fuck you, bye. Hey, Tree, you’re drinking too much water, fuck you, bye! Hey, Tree, I’d rather have a light pole in my yard anyway, fuck you, bye. Fucking trees. So gay.
My advice is to go ahead and get it taken down. That way it’s on your terms. Had a tree fall on the house a couple years ago. Not fun.
I’ve had this happen also…a giant gumbo limbo tree in my backyard fell on to my roof…definitely not fun…I got lucky in that the way it landed didn’t cause significant damage but it was a major headache getting that thing off of there…