There Goes The Neighbourhood

  I have read many posts on reddit about guys and girls who feel used - the other person dated them and then ghosted them and they don't understand why.  They felt it was perfect and they had a match.  They connected and fit together well, and then poof ... disappeared !!   Does it happen?  Often, but some people just dismiss it without much thought and move on.  Others maybe were ghosting the person who ghosted them and never realized they had been ghosted.  Some people have the 'talk' - its not you its me and thank you and have a nice life.  Others just disappear.  A few make it through the gauntlet of sex first then dating.  Are there others - people who do it differently and don't jump first?  Yes, but they are the ones who probably don't stock shelves with the same soda, can fix a roof in less than a week, and probably are not the problem I see so often. It's the others. In some states you can have sex at 12 (and by some a...

       I went to the market this morning to buy some cheese and bread and other bits I need, and stopped at the shelf for energy drinks.  I occasionally like Celsius ... they have a lot of flavors as you can see from the above image.  But the entire shelf for Celsius had one flavor only ...  Maybe 120 cans of that flavor stacked 20-25 across and 5-6 deep. Did they not have any other flavor?  Why?  Who didn't order the multitude of flavors available?  Or were the two workers just filling space with whatever was available first.  Why would you just put the kiwi guava flavor out and nothing else?  Maybe they didn't have more ... Except up near the front in a small cooler were 3-4 more flavors with 2-3 bottles each.  So they did have or do have the flavors ... so ... Why. It is frustrating to watch and be a part of a meltdown in the competence of the workers of:  the area, the city, the ... country.   I know - the co...

     In Italy 1930s, Soviet Union 60s, China 60s, Cuba 60s, VietNam 60s ... the state became parentus locus - the state became the parent.  It is the way of totalitarian states.  All. of. them.  You insert the state in place of parent and the biological parent is simply the birther but not the parent.  Parents become secondary to the state in power/authority over the child and in deciding what is best for the child.  In. all. cases!   Sometimes parents get it wrong, but that is the nature of parenting.  When the state gets it wrong, the state doesn't get it wrong - you're simply not seeing it correctly.  When the state educates the populace to report anyone who speaks or acts against the state - it isn't the state that is wrong, you, if you question it, are the agitator.  Always. Scientists tell us that our brains are not fully formed until we are 25.  Until then the brain is developing.  I (personally) would the...

 Are those words synonyms?   I don't know.  Sometimes. I hate lies and liars, whether it be from those on the right or left - liar liar pants on fire.  I wouldn't mind that being the consequence - they suddenly combust.  We would all stop lying pretty quick. I do not have positive feelings toward the previous president - bombastic, mean, even narcissistic.   However, the current fool is worse because he isn't bombastic or mean or a narcissist.  He is a liar.  He has always been a liar.   How can I write such libelous words ... because it is true.  He isn't like Hillary Clinton who makes stuff up and lies for political advantage - Biden does it just to lie.  He cannot discern lies from truth which makes his being president worse than having a bombastic narcissist in the White House.  Trump exaggerated and attacked, criticized - but did not lie the way Hillary or Joe lie.  No.  He.  Did.  Not....

    There are, according to World Population Clock, 8 billion 100 million humans on earth, as of 9/15/23 at 8 am. How can you be special?  8 billion humans.  Is/are there 8 billion 200 million varieties of human ... Yet, not everywhere in the world is this idea entrenched as it is in California, and the United States ... a little bit in England, a lot in Canada and that is about it.  I wonder why the rest of the world does not subscribe?  Are they all missing something or are we missing something? The concept is ridiculous.  The result is catastrophe.  You are inched along by your parents and teachers telling you how special you are and coddling your feelings and needs.  Except the Russians and Germans and Chinese and Japanese and Koreans and ... do not cater to this at all.  It weakens you.  It does not make you better or more productive or more anything except lazy. We are not productive.  We are not exceptional because we ar...