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The Goggle play store offers me an app that lets you make the font any size. Unfortunately, it rearranges your regular screens. An app that took away the phone's interface and replaced it with something else was randomly downloaded on my phone when it had a virus. It was completely unfamiliar to me and impossible to use.

I saw that. I learned about it in a video and the person who made it made an argument that it would be a slippery slope like the federal income tax and would eventually tax the middle class out of their homes. I have no idea if he was right about that or not. The federal government should bring back reasonable income and corporate taxes, imo. I don't see it happening.

To ride under Porsche's (Porsches') domed roof was my childhood goal.

I did it twice.

Once with my '64 Beetle for 10 years.

Once with my '98 (2nd Generation) Audi A6 for 10 years.

Photos & Video: 2000 Audi A6 Photos & Video - Consumer Reports https://share.google/yLUkv7AHxng6L36fF

Yes, I'd buy a new base 911 in a heartbeat if I were a rich man.

I've been lucky with cars. I've had a few I liked a lot.

I can't wait to have my Hyundai.

@steve-miller and @mik This house doesn't look like it needs renovation to me.

Well, of course, in an alternate universe, if I wanted to buy it, I'd have to hire a home inspector (as well as an attorney).

Then I'd know. I don't know.

I think it's beautiful and I've always wanted an elevator.

An elevator building, here (ones with 3 stories or more have them) would be great.

I even had a dream once that I discovered an elevator in the pantry of my grandparents' house in Tampa.

It went down one floor to a basement (yes, it was nonsense).

I asked my grandmother why she never told me about it. She said I didn't need to know.

What would Jung have said? /r

Bump for wtg. I'd like a local's perspective. I could could Google it. I've only been to Chicago twice. I stayed in Rogers Park both times.

@Rontuner said:

In this endless push to create more cost-effective efficiency, (replace human workers) I wonder in the future vision for society HOW people are expected to survive and be parts of society? I know in the science-fiction world, it was often written that people wouldn't NEED to work anymore yet still had an active part and the means to follow their dreams. I'm not seeing much of that being discussed for our future..

No, no, no. The people are meant to starve to death or be serfs. There are already planned, deliberate population starving events currently (but let's not go there) and plenty of slavery, only entering our "reality" as packaged stupidity- i.e the notion of "conflict free" diamonds as a description of mining diamonds, when there is, in fact, no such thing as, "conflict free," when it comes to the topic of mining, in general, around the globe.

What? Too cynical?

A basic income is a great idea, imho, but let's recall that we're housing some few homeless in garden sheds and then engaging in rituals of virtue signaling.

It's not as if our society is setting high bars.

I wouldn't want to be in any club that would accept me as a member. Oh wait...

@AndyD said:

My parents joined a book club, and the folio society book club, and an art prints club. But each for only a couple of years. I think it was part of their being/becoming middle class, continuing education in the 1960-80's. Had a full set of Winston's autobiography, set of Encyclopaedia Brittanica for us to refer to.

We've never bothered, I guess as we were given the education. And we'd rather get exactly what we want, despite the large range offered last time I saw a book club advertised.
I used to 'borrow' audio books free from the local library.

@andyd

Your post reminds me of the history of my mother's side of my family. I can well remember the bookshelves my grandfather built and the Encyclopedia Brittanica set my grandparents bought for their children. It stayed in place until my grandfather died in his early '90's.

For myself, two things-

@jon-nyc , et. al.

1. I plan to learn to use ebooks. Everything I do is digital on my phone now and my undergraduate thesis was written on a computer.

2. The one thing I insist on for myself, on the other hand, is a printer and the ability to print what I write on paper.

I don't know exactly why I want a printer except that having a computer without one would be almost like having a printing press and there's something about being able to print that seems like a necessary compliment to me to writing with a computer.

Also, from a practical perspective, my handwriting is illegible.

Ax, I am operating under the hypothetical that your question is Socratic.

Disclaimer- I don't, in fact, know exactly how to interpret it.

In any case, here is my reply-

Your question implies that everything in your list previous to data centers drew opposition that was not rational.

The following points stand out to me-

i. It is completely rational to oppose detention centers. Studies have been done showing that these detention centers share the same architecture as slave ships and concentration camps.

The harsh reality, also, is that they include rooms where firearms can be used to shoot people, and they contain incinerators.

They, also, burden the infrastructure of their localities with demands for water and electricity use without urban planning is advance.

ii. It is completely rational to oppose data centers. Please see my last point above.

Thanks for your thought provoking question.

I messed up already! Ate a homemade spaghetti dinner and chocolate bunt cake with store bought vanilla ice cream. Finished it off with three of my ridiculous Aloha brand processed (yes) organic protein bars. Had Propel (Gatorade-- UF FTW) electrolytes added water to drink.

Starting again today.

I will not post about politics
I will not post about politics.
I will not post about politics.
I will not post about politics.

I'm sharing this, well, because I want to do that, and I'd, also, appreciate any support and encouragement toward staying the course.

I tried this earlier, and posted about it. The temptation to eat got me long before I got to a place where I knew I had reached a "re-sent" stage.

I haven't decided how long. I don't know yet.

Wish me luck!

Food for thought. Nothing more.

No comment.

@shirokuro Thank you!

Facebook report. I can't get used to the site. Not only that but it was sending me notifications every hour. I looked on YouTube for how to turn notifications off. I've turned off every notification category. I'll probably keep the app for a few months. I'm pretty sure I won't benefit from access to it after that and will remove it.

I don't know why Zorba hated it so much. I never asked him. I myself think it's very strange. As a child of the '70's we were raised in a time when you kept all your personal information and especially information about your children private. I know a lot of people like FB. I'm old school though in appreciating the function of anonominity vis a vis internet communication (socks and all that). I don't feel like telling FB to **** off but I can't get used to the idea either.