Babble 1

I feel very lonely today.

Not in the sense that there are no people around, but I’m that way that feels like a mass extinction.

Like, “in a rescue ship looking around at the desolation but also kind of bored with it all” lonely.

There’s been so much desolation and destruction for so long that the very bleakness of it all has lost all meaning. A hopeless kind of lonely. One of those passing sadnesses that everyone has sometimes.

The world feels in turmoil. Everything seems scary af.

I’m scared of the diseases being allowed to run rampant through the world right now. “What the fuck is even going on???”-levels.

You people all said you’d know what to do in case of an emergency. You all said you had supplies for everyone. People gave you money to buy supplies.

All these food shortages are because people didn’t really purchase and correctly store the basic supplies for their people.

The pandemics are showing a history of gross negligence.

Where did the money go? Where did the supplies they’d already gathered go? What the fukk are rich people doing with their money???

Your company should be able to provide supplies to their own workers. Why else are you taking “insurance” money out every month?

In a time of crisis, people should be able to receive basic supplies from the company. It would be more beneficial for worker happiness if they received monthly “gifts” from the company (loaves of bread, blocks of cheese, fresh produce, watermelons, turkeys, single-serving and family-sized ready meals, gift cards). It shows an acknowledgment of all that metadata they’ve gathered.

For reals: If you don’t know whether someone has food allergies, ask.

And for goodness’ sake, tell people what ingredients are in your products. They don’t even force you to be all that precise! (Though you should be, come on.)

I believe in the USDA. I want competent and hard-working health inspectors on the job. People that are REALLY making sure the people that make and package our food are cleaning their equipment and using licensed food-safe kitchens.

There are some things we might wish less oversight for, but not food safety.

For reals yo: The food you eat should be your last concern.

You should be able to open a food package and know that it is safe for ingestion or use in recipes.

Like, I don’t want to grow botfly larvae in my body. I don’t want to see any wriggly worms or about a million other things. No thank you. Hard pass.

I want experts to make sure I’m not going to poison my family using questionable ingredients. There needs to be some form of oversight

I would like simple explanations for simple things.

The world is on fire. How do we stop the burning?

And people are given clear answers about what THEY can do.

• recycle
• try to compost
• provide cheap or free home testing kits so the public can test water and soil at home
• tell people what kind of habitats animals and beneficial insects need to survive * how to deal with everyday life conundrums

For reals: If evolving insects can’t become beneficial to humanity, they at least need to evolve an instinct to evolve somewhere else.

I feel like these predatory insects are popping up because they’re the result of the ones who can’t change breeding together and producing hyper-aggressive offspring.

We the public would like to know what we should do if we come across various nests of things.

When the summer is hot and dry, we get a ton of wasps and flies. They burrow in the hot sand of a nearby lot. And then their babies grow up and go in search of food and mates.

There’s nothing like clipping an overgrown yard and having a dozen buzzing aggressive things rushing at your face.

So even suggestions of what to grow to attract bees but deter wasps would be wonderful.

I wish there was a Horrible Histories-type show that explained everyday things. Because I am finding that there are a lot of people that don’t know nothing out there and it’s causing me to question my own handle on things.

I miss Mister Rogers. He could have explained the world today to the kids and we’d have more people living longer healthier lives.

As it is, we are all scrabbling in the dark with only grifters and zealots to “guide” the way.

Tell me how to lift this stain! And explain why the regular household ingredients are performing their magic!

TEACH ME SOMETHING.

That’s my approach to movies and TV.

I’m getting angry at all the misinformation.

Yes, Helen Keller was blind and deaf. Yes, she learned to sign by touch. Yes, she went to school. Yes, she had a full life.

And yes, her life was used as proof that deaf and blind people have a right to exist. That they have lives to live.

The atrocious treatment of people with disabilities was used as an excuse for the development of eugenicist ideals.

“Well, if that was me…” mentality is the modern eugenics. But back in the day, they REALLY believed that there was nothing to be done for children with disabilities. And as a result, a lot of corporal punishments and caging tactics were used.

Children were treated like violent animals and kept caged by their parents. They were handed off to questionable facilities for examination and housing (in a time when there were no time limits on straight jacket use or really any oversight).

There needed to be some governance on the situation.

There needs to be governance on the situation.

There should not be so many documentaries about real life “camps”/training centers/academies where children are sent to be abused.

Parents are trusting their children to the kinds of camps that believe in “tough love.” Run by the kinds of people that believe violence against a child is okay as long as it’s in the pursuit of changing a basic facet of their identity.

I don’t want to get deep…

But yeah, there needs to be some oversight over the various shady programs out there. Because I’m tired of listening to the accounts of traumatized people.

Is there no licensing requirement to run a children’s camp?

I remember as a kid, they’d take the whole school out into the field and there’d be all kinds of educational or exercise-related games. Some games were by grades, but there were ones where you’d play side-by-side with an older kid. And everyone was just able to have fun.

There would be lessons for the whole grade. We’d all gather somewhere and learn about fish and sharks and leaves and we’d do various projects.

I don’t know when children stopped getting that fun kind of education. The plays willing to visit a school gymnasium. The snake handler willing to volunteer his time. The people teaching historical songs and giving accurate history lessons.

Because they missed out they deserve a fun show aimed at teens and adults that explains things in a clear and concise yet entertaining manner.

And maybe some of us out there need a recap or a reset if they were fed false information.

A fun edutainment show to watch would be helpful to a lot of people.

• bleach and ammonia = no mix
• too much spinach is unhealthy, so substitute something like kale, which takes longer to cook

• don’t eat lizards

• basic law
• copyright law
• privacy laws
• “This kind of behavior results in public censure” lessons

I’m a simple person. I want simply to be provided with useful information. Thank you very much.

Pax

I believe that entertainment media should also add something of value to a person’s life. Like, all the fun and the "Oh noes!" are there, but also a bit extra to make people pause and think.

Imagination food that hasn’t been pre-masticated by other minds.

Entertainment

"The Color of Magic" is available on Freevee.

Rincewind becomes a tour guide for the "tourist" Twoflower. Adventure ensues.

It’s a good introduction to the Discworld movies (when I started the books, I read "Pyramids" first).

Watching "The Color of Magic" makes me want to search out the rest of the movies. While wishing that they would make more (Please!)

If you haven’t read the Discworld books, you should. If you have read the books, you should watch the movies. If you have watched the movies and books, you should watch and read them again.

Terry Pratchett was an amazing writer. And the Discworld novels are brilliant. (Pyramids, Mort, Equal Rites, Sourcery, Hogfather, Small Gods, etc. etc. of brilliance upon brilliance.)

If you’ve never experienced the Discworld, do yourself a favor and familiarize yourself. You will become a much better and happier person.

And a lot less likely to be scammed by grifters.

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I don’t think some people are truly understanding the horror of the situation.

"Euronews Green: @euronewsgreen: Last night: ‘"Rainwater is no longer safe to drink anywhere on Earth, scientists say ‘Forever chemicals’ have been found by scientists in rainwater in most locations on the planet, leading to concerns over the safety of consuming rainwater.’"

People are being like "Oh no! I won’t be able to collect and drink rainwater anymore!"

Fuck you!

Why are the bees dying? Why are there less birds and animals? Why wasn’t there any fruit on the trees? What does it mean for someone’s dog when they let him stop and drink from a bucket of rainwater? When cats lick their feet after being outside?

What does it mean for the water table? For people growing crops straight in the ground? For people taking showers and walking in the rain to get places?

WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO TO FIX THINGS?

Some blasé "Don’t worry about the future" nonsense isn’t going to protect us from dying.

You drink that water now, and you won’t be having kids in the future.

"Well, that’s not a thing."–Okay dude, look up the aftereffects in Japan of nuclear bombs being dropped on them. The rises of leukemia and other cancers. The children of survivors that were born with serious birth defects.

It’s time to stop clowning around and get serious about the future.

If every person in every country set up a little rain collector that was able to filter out the chemicals… which could then be collected by scientists for study… we would at least be doing something.

A little bit done by a lot of people = A LOT.

They want to tell you that your small little bit means nothing. Because they want you to sit by doing NOTHING.

They want you to feel helpless and small so they can suppress a sense of community. They don’t want workers to realize that banding together makes them powerful. That the bosses are in the minority–which raises the question of why they make so much money. Which makes people wonder why there aren’t worker protection agencies that prevent things like wage theft, mismanaged worker retirement funds (like, you lost my money boss. The company should STILL have to pay full retirement benefits to EVERY worker; that money was not your money to play with), and the way they refuse to give raises to workers while management gets raise after raise.

As a means of suppressing workers, they fund network executives to produce shows that promote negativity. "Your vote doesn’t count… you’re only one person." "You can’t do anything, you’re just one person." "Why are you caring about this… nobody else cares… don’t you know it makes you look pathetic to care?"

As a result of their negativity mongering, we have societies that refuse to take any responsibility for climate change or the future.

Like, if the answer to filtering deadly forever chemicals out of the rainwater is to stretch some kind of mesh to catch and sift the water before it hits the ground…

Tell us.

There are people with money wasting it "On the environment: research to fix the problem charity banquet $10,000 a plate," and the "charity" organizer is only legally required to use 10% for the purpose advertised.

Grifters and shysters and just plain evil people are gathering up money that should actually be going to FIX THE PROBLEM. They’re lining their pockets with the lives of animals and humans.

Come up with commonsense answers.

Do the science. Figure things out. Pass out kits in schools.

Tell the people at home how they can help solve the problem.

Because we are not helpless. We just don’t know what to do.

~Harper Kingsley
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P.S. It’s like, if there could be home kits made that people pool their money to purchase for the public, and the public at home can set things up and actually help DO SOMETHING… that would be great.

Because I love nature. I love birds. I love animals. I love bees. I love butterflies. I love fruits. I love vegetables.

I don’t want the whole world to die because greedy assholes are going "YOLO!" and living their best lives at our expense.

Our politicians voted No to a $35 price cap on insulin.

WHILE putting in laws forcing people to have children.

Because they are lining their pockets with pharma-bro money.

Because they have stock in pharmaceutical companies.

Because they are such hardcore capitalists that they don’t see "affordable insulin = living children/adults." They see "expensive insulin = vacation to Cancun for me and my family."