Notes On Kindergarten Feminism, Humor As A Coping Mechanism, Lying Liars, Llamageddon 3.1, German Sparkle Party, CrowdStrike, Brett Cooper, The Plight of Gen Z, Clown World, Dopamemes, and more....
I watched the TW growing up (ages 9-13) and I don't believe that we ever left it. Most of those TW episodes centered on some important characteristics of humanity that will never change.
Over and over you: Demi, have helped me SEE the "REEL I tee (tee off, launch, produce, create)" of this stage show we are playing within.
I thank you for your depth, and your lightness of allowing us to be at the bottom and weighted and the top of weightlessness... it all MATTERS.. Hahahaha.. get it? matter? material. We build the material world. I thank you for your seriousness to the investigation of LIFE, and at the same time, your humor and directing us to REAL EYES our OWN POWER AND PLAY within LIFE!
I’m not on Notes as much as I used to be, and have been busy with life so my writing has also been less, which makes these posts really enjoyable for me since I miss a lot of the fun discussion being had in one of my favorite corners of the internet.
The last one you did was so long tho I think it glitched the app lol.
Thanks!! Yeah, I try not to make them so long, but sometimes they come up a little heavy. If it ever happens again, open it up in a browser. It'll be fine that way. My movie list post was a little heavy like that too. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDBPq_9hKqE which was actually "a minute ago" as the kids said a generation ago. Yeah, 1967 was the release date. Mr. Green was serene then, and he gotta be pushing up daisies from underground now.
With regard to voting, yeah, I did it. I was excited enough and naive enough in high school to work for the John Anderson campaign for president in 1980 before I could vote. Also wrote the space policy statement for Jim Slattery when he ran for congress, and found how hard it is to bear hearing my words flubbed by a reprobate. Worked for John Glenn in 1984 in New Hampshire - took a train up and slept in a dorm room at Dartmouth. Didn't have a clue what he was doing to grift on the destruction of the savings and loan industry until a year later. Wasn't quite disgusted enough to refuse to vote in 1988, so I voted for Ron Paul when he was the Libertarian party candidate. And that was it.
I did go to the polls in 1990 but I had work to do and I was in the part of Harris County, Texas that made it irrational to expect enough voting booths to get the job done without committing to three hours of standing in line. So I counted the line ahead of me, worked out the delay in my head, saw the aggression inherent in the Democrat machine politics preventing voters from voting in a timely way in Republican dominated precincts, and walked out.
After what the system did to me in 1991, I never voted again. Stop filing paperwork with the people who don't own me. Stopped renewing my documents.
So I actually find it hilarious that people are uptight about having a driver licence when it is still possible to operate a motor vehicle without one. WTAF people? If you can work the controls, you don't need a licence to use your property, or the property of anyone who consents. Has this fact been worked out by people at all? I've been an expired licence and a self-made-licence driver on four continents. Whine about being stopped at someone else. If you haven't ever been arrested, you aren't really interested in freedom.
We were talking about voting. I used to vote. Got better.
My mom didn't. She was very active in the 1970s supporting the Equal Rights Amendment. She voted really hard in the 1990s, got to be an actual state delegate at the 2000 national Democrat convention, actually cast a delegate vote for Algore. And let me tell you something about her that makes me very proud. In 2008 she told me that she would never vote for Hillary Clinton. Ever. She knew Hillary was a psychotic evil piece of filth who disgusted her. She went to heaven in 2014. Miss her.
Listen, you can be as disgusted with the Shannon T.Watts of the world as you want, I get it. But she's not actually convincing. She is paid to do what she does, to write what she says, and she's useful to the Mike Bloombergs of this world. Some people walk the streets, some people are on call, and some are whores of the written word. No disrespect to her at all. The biggest sluttiest writer whore is Stephen King who has written more words on socialist media sites like Twitter promoting disgusting policies and politicians for money than he has written in all of his novels combined. And there are fools with more money than sense who pay him his word rate. I have a list somewhere of these goofs who slut for the Democrats. I bothered to block them when I got on yet another Twitter profile (thanks mElon you lying sack of garbage for the lifeless 10K follower profile and the nuked 2K follower profile). I can share it if you want. Yes, JoJo from Jerz is one. I really like her choice of name, because I speak the Spanish "H" for "J" just as much as the Dutch "Y" for "J." With things like JoJo and T.Watts and King, well, you get what you pay for. And if you aren't paying for them, you shouldn't let their misguided misanthropic paid ponderings bother you.
Look, friends, voting isn't going to change anything. Emma Goldman wrote about it a century ago, somewhat before the Palmer raids caught her and deported her to country from which she didn't originate and had never lived in. "If voting were going to change anything, they wouldn't let us do it."
It's going to get worse for a while. I used to be sorry about it, not in the apologetic sense, but in the "sorry for your loss" sense. But it is hard to see any loss to the situation at this point.
Horrifyingly evil baby torturing toddler raping cannibal demon worshippers are being exposed for the horridness they are. Systems that have been built in the last 127 years with essential dependencies on the District of Corruption are going to fail. Yes, many of those failures will be non-linear. No, they won't be nearly as easy to resolve as the recent Crowdstrike idiocy. Yes, some alternative systems, especially open source hardware, open source software, and open dev platforms will provide sustained enclaves of civility. There are whole levels of Systeme D that are being implemented now that are going to survive well, and break certain things like grid power really hard as the opportunity arises.
Yes, it is sad that a great many people are suffering. It is sad that many people are being murdered. It is sad that more deaths are on the near horizon. But it is impossible to build on shifting sands of expedience. And I have places to go that depend on building a great deal of stuff in a free market place. More than one such place would be better.
People talk about the fall of the Roman empire as if Edward Gibbon were lamenting its decline and fall in his series of books. Rome wasn't worth having. It was evil. Its evil was exposed in the province of Judea about two thousand years ago. Getting rid of its worst injustices took hundreds of years and hundreds of thousands of Christian martyrs. Its fall did not bring in a dark age because Rome was darkness. It is good that it is gone.
The Soviet empire is gone. Things are better than ever in the Warsaw pact countries, including Russia.
The empire of Mao is not gone, and things remain very difficult for hundreds of millions of people as a result.
The empire of Germany is proving to be much more tentative than the Mont Pelerin society had envisaged when they trotted out the concepts fifty years ago. It remains to be seen if this "reich" is any less deadly than the previous ones were.
Which brings us to the American empire. It is shuddering into collapse. The jackbooted thugs stomp on the corpse and some decomposition gasses are exuded, so it seems a little lively. But it isn't. And will you miss it? I won't.
After reading more about the Playing with Fire article, I just want to say thanks for confirming my suspicions about the author, AND validating/reaffirming my choice to block her after reading 2-3 paragraphs of that "sexism wearing anti-sexism disguise."
I love when someone swoops in and answers the question. Square Groupers: Genius.
Also, I would say humor is less funny nowadays because it relies on some emotional truth, and so many people are blocked. I got this from Mad Men, but I have it in my Frank O'Hara collection, Too. "snows and skies of laughter / always diminishing, less funny / not just darker, not just grey."
Thanks for letting me Mog your chat, to use a Gen-Z term, for it.
It’s a Final Fantasy character, but I don’t know if that’s where it came from, for the Mogging. As far as I can tell from seeing the aforementioned streamers, and others, maybe, it’s just totally outsizing your opponent, either literally or figuratively. Or, in this case, just outsizing someone who is not your opponent, in this case the reader, with the length of the conversation, lol!
Oh! My mind immediately went to John Candy's character in Spaceballs. He was a mog. But I thought that's probably not what you meant. I'm really terrible with any slang I didn't make up myself.
You do a great job of ensuring you have fun with it.
What is "it"?
Whatever the fuck you're currently engaged in, Demi.
Which is... and I rarely say this... WONDERFUL!
Ha!! Thank you!! And thank you for helping me make it fun!!!! :)
😂😂😂 we all love contributing.
Thank you!! :)
Waiting for the new movie: “Cocaine Shark.” C’mon Hollyweird, get with it! (My wife suggested: “ Jaws 13: Cracked Up.”)
That's it. Coke Jaws: The Twitch Continues.
lmfao
Thanks for the mention. Can't imagine the organization it takes to reference so much.
Also, thanks for the humor in all this mess.
That's so kind of you! Thank you so much!! :)
I saw someone who looked like that animal in Walmart.
Thanks for the mention, again!
Thanks for your contribution to the collective insanity!! :)
I watched the TW growing up (ages 9-13) and I don't believe that we ever left it. Most of those TW episodes centered on some important characteristics of humanity that will never change.
Thanks for the plug Demi. I so appreciate you 🙏
Of course, Dee! Thanks for contributing!! :)
I’m not sure how my name ended up on here but I’m honored nonetheless—keep doing yo thang ! ❤️🔥
Everyone who contributed in some way is on here - so thank you for contributing!! <3
Over and over you: Demi, have helped me SEE the "REEL I tee (tee off, launch, produce, create)" of this stage show we are playing within.
I thank you for your depth, and your lightness of allowing us to be at the bottom and weighted and the top of weightlessness... it all MATTERS.. Hahahaha.. get it? matter? material. We build the material world. I thank you for your seriousness to the investigation of LIFE, and at the same time, your humor and directing us to REAL EYES our OWN POWER AND PLAY within LIFE!
Thank you so much, Kara!! I'm honored!! I'm so glad you're getting so much depth and humor and discovery out of these!! That makes me so happy!! <3
I’m not on Notes as much as I used to be, and have been busy with life so my writing has also been less, which makes these posts really enjoyable for me since I miss a lot of the fun discussion being had in one of my favorite corners of the internet.
The last one you did was so long tho I think it glitched the app lol.
Thanks!! Yeah, I try not to make them so long, but sometimes they come up a little heavy. If it ever happens again, open it up in a browser. It'll be fine that way. My movie list post was a little heavy like that too. :)
Ahhh yeah that makes sense. I read it in the email instead, but browser makes sense too!
Thanks again for the tag and including our chat 😊
Of course!! Thank you!! :)
Thank you Demi! Another fun, and insightful Scroll.
Thank you so much, Cameron!! :)
With regard to screens:
See Mrs. Gray, she's proud today
Because the roses are in bloom
And Mr. Green, he's so serene
He's got a TV in every room
Another pleasant valley Sunday
Here in status symbol land
Mothers complain about how hard life is
And the kids just don't understand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDBPq_9hKqE which was actually "a minute ago" as the kids said a generation ago. Yeah, 1967 was the release date. Mr. Green was serene then, and he gotta be pushing up daisies from underground now.
With regard to voting, yeah, I did it. I was excited enough and naive enough in high school to work for the John Anderson campaign for president in 1980 before I could vote. Also wrote the space policy statement for Jim Slattery when he ran for congress, and found how hard it is to bear hearing my words flubbed by a reprobate. Worked for John Glenn in 1984 in New Hampshire - took a train up and slept in a dorm room at Dartmouth. Didn't have a clue what he was doing to grift on the destruction of the savings and loan industry until a year later. Wasn't quite disgusted enough to refuse to vote in 1988, so I voted for Ron Paul when he was the Libertarian party candidate. And that was it.
I did go to the polls in 1990 but I had work to do and I was in the part of Harris County, Texas that made it irrational to expect enough voting booths to get the job done without committing to three hours of standing in line. So I counted the line ahead of me, worked out the delay in my head, saw the aggression inherent in the Democrat machine politics preventing voters from voting in a timely way in Republican dominated precincts, and walked out.
After what the system did to me in 1991, I never voted again. Stop filing paperwork with the people who don't own me. Stopped renewing my documents.
So I actually find it hilarious that people are uptight about having a driver licence when it is still possible to operate a motor vehicle without one. WTAF people? If you can work the controls, you don't need a licence to use your property, or the property of anyone who consents. Has this fact been worked out by people at all? I've been an expired licence and a self-made-licence driver on four continents. Whine about being stopped at someone else. If you haven't ever been arrested, you aren't really interested in freedom.
We were talking about voting. I used to vote. Got better.
My mom didn't. She was very active in the 1970s supporting the Equal Rights Amendment. She voted really hard in the 1990s, got to be an actual state delegate at the 2000 national Democrat convention, actually cast a delegate vote for Algore. And let me tell you something about her that makes me very proud. In 2008 she told me that she would never vote for Hillary Clinton. Ever. She knew Hillary was a psychotic evil piece of filth who disgusted her. She went to heaven in 2014. Miss her.
Listen, you can be as disgusted with the Shannon T.Watts of the world as you want, I get it. But she's not actually convincing. She is paid to do what she does, to write what she says, and she's useful to the Mike Bloombergs of this world. Some people walk the streets, some people are on call, and some are whores of the written word. No disrespect to her at all. The biggest sluttiest writer whore is Stephen King who has written more words on socialist media sites like Twitter promoting disgusting policies and politicians for money than he has written in all of his novels combined. And there are fools with more money than sense who pay him his word rate. I have a list somewhere of these goofs who slut for the Democrats. I bothered to block them when I got on yet another Twitter profile (thanks mElon you lying sack of garbage for the lifeless 10K follower profile and the nuked 2K follower profile). I can share it if you want. Yes, JoJo from Jerz is one. I really like her choice of name, because I speak the Spanish "H" for "J" just as much as the Dutch "Y" for "J." With things like JoJo and T.Watts and King, well, you get what you pay for. And if you aren't paying for them, you shouldn't let their misguided misanthropic paid ponderings bother you.
Look, friends, voting isn't going to change anything. Emma Goldman wrote about it a century ago, somewhat before the Palmer raids caught her and deported her to country from which she didn't originate and had never lived in. "If voting were going to change anything, they wouldn't let us do it."
It's going to get worse for a while. I used to be sorry about it, not in the apologetic sense, but in the "sorry for your loss" sense. But it is hard to see any loss to the situation at this point.
Horrifyingly evil baby torturing toddler raping cannibal demon worshippers are being exposed for the horridness they are. Systems that have been built in the last 127 years with essential dependencies on the District of Corruption are going to fail. Yes, many of those failures will be non-linear. No, they won't be nearly as easy to resolve as the recent Crowdstrike idiocy. Yes, some alternative systems, especially open source hardware, open source software, and open dev platforms will provide sustained enclaves of civility. There are whole levels of Systeme D that are being implemented now that are going to survive well, and break certain things like grid power really hard as the opportunity arises.
Yes, it is sad that a great many people are suffering. It is sad that many people are being murdered. It is sad that more deaths are on the near horizon. But it is impossible to build on shifting sands of expedience. And I have places to go that depend on building a great deal of stuff in a free market place. More than one such place would be better.
People talk about the fall of the Roman empire as if Edward Gibbon were lamenting its decline and fall in his series of books. Rome wasn't worth having. It was evil. Its evil was exposed in the province of Judea about two thousand years ago. Getting rid of its worst injustices took hundreds of years and hundreds of thousands of Christian martyrs. Its fall did not bring in a dark age because Rome was darkness. It is good that it is gone.
The Soviet empire is gone. Things are better than ever in the Warsaw pact countries, including Russia.
The empire of Mao is not gone, and things remain very difficult for hundreds of millions of people as a result.
The empire of Germany is proving to be much more tentative than the Mont Pelerin society had envisaged when they trotted out the concepts fifty years ago. It remains to be seen if this "reich" is any less deadly than the previous ones were.
Which brings us to the American empire. It is shuddering into collapse. The jackbooted thugs stomp on the corpse and some decomposition gasses are exuded, so it seems a little lively. But it isn't. And will you miss it? I won't.
Thank you for the shout out! We both got blocked by Shannon. THIS is solidarity 😂
I think she blocked every single one of us!!! Hahahahaha!!!
Hahahahaha!!!
After reading more about the Playing with Fire article, I just want to say thanks for confirming my suspicions about the author, AND validating/reaffirming my choice to block her after reading 2-3 paragraphs of that "sexism wearing anti-sexism disguise."
I love when someone swoops in and answers the question. Square Groupers: Genius.
Also, I would say humor is less funny nowadays because it relies on some emotional truth, and so many people are blocked. I got this from Mad Men, but I have it in my Frank O'Hara collection, Too. "snows and skies of laughter / always diminishing, less funny / not just darker, not just grey."
Thanks for letting me Mog your chat, to use a Gen-Z term, for it.
Thank you!! :)
What is mog?
It’s a Final Fantasy character, but I don’t know if that’s where it came from, for the Mogging. As far as I can tell from seeing the aforementioned streamers, and others, maybe, it’s just totally outsizing your opponent, either literally or figuratively. Or, in this case, just outsizing someone who is not your opponent, in this case the reader, with the length of the conversation, lol!
Oh! My mind immediately went to John Candy's character in Spaceballs. He was a mog. But I thought that's probably not what you meant. I'm really terrible with any slang I didn't make up myself.
Hey, you could be right, technically they’re called “Moogles,” in the games, but I think Mog is another word, for them.
And a Moog is a synthesizer....
I don't know.
I would need to consult Ye Olde Urban Dictionary.
Synthetic Mog.