If we’re successful, then we’ll see an influx of spam and corporate influence. We’ll have to make filters and blocks easy and effective, and in some way automated.

If we can meet that challenge, we’ll thrive; if not, we’ll whither and die.

I don’t think the zip-lock got stronger, I think the bags got thinner and weaker. But either way, they do tear more than they used to.

I printed this quote by Sister Chan Khong and carry it in my wallet:

If we just worry about the big picture, we are powerless. So my secret is to start right away doing whatever little work I can do. I try to give joy to one person in the morning, and remove the suffering of one person in the afternoon. If you and your friends do not despise the small work, a million people will remove a lot of suffering.

So I try to spread a little joy and remove a little sadness.

I saw this on Tumblr and thought of this thread. 😃

I watched cartoons on Saturday morning and Davey & Goliath on Sunday.

It’s not nearly as much fun to collect things. There’s no thrill of the hunt-- if you need a stamp for your collection, just go online and buy it.

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Reddit has subreddits for 4chan and Truth Social. You’d be getting a curated snapshot, but it would let you view without making an account.

Well, before doing something stupid my motto is, “Oh, what the hell.”

But what I actually strive for is, “Everbody’s suffering, so give them a little grace and maybe a smile.”

This is a little one, but: fix the post office.

Trump got a bug up his butt about mail-in ballots, so he put a postmaster general in place with a mission to destroy it. He pretty much has: the service is slower, more expensive, and less reliable than it used to be.

Biden was either unable or unwilling to remove him, but his term is about to end. Kamala will have an opportunity to put someone good in place who can rebuild what has been destroyed.

The reason I left Reddit was because the top comments-- no matter how serious the topic-- were dumb jokes and snide remarks. So in that context, no.

But I have a friend who sort of reminds me of Cliff Clavin from “Cheers,” and he can be fun.

One of the two presidential candidates has five children with three different partners. The coverage of that fact would be very different it it were the female.

The people who loudly proclaim that they “don’t care what anybody else thinks!” almost always care a great deal what other people think. The ones who truly don’t seldom announce it.

I don’t care what Big Dictionary has to say about it, “literally” does NOT mean “figuratively.”

If “literally” means “figuratively,” then we literally have no word for “literally.”

Right-wing extremists nearly always identify as “centrist.”