Too little too late

Wicked!

I hope China sanctions the USA to keep their RAM and SSDs and technology in general away from the US.

My hope is that when the USA falls, it will take global capitalism with it. I’ve been speculating about the post-capitalist world on Mastodon lately.

https://kolektiva.social/@Quasit/115710698245440299

You can lie to the people again and again. And they’ll swallow it, right up until they realize that their bellies are actually empty of food.

Against real hunger, propaganda is powerless.

It’s hard as hell, but for me it comes down to this: we have to decide if they’re suffering so much that death would be a relief for them. Since we don’t have a common language, all we can do is go by what other signs and indicators are available. I don’t entirely trust veterinarians to make that decision, because in the past it has seemed to me that they tend to err on the side of euthanasia.

I’ve done it both ways. Either way, it hurts.

I’m surprised it doesn’t apply to Americans who are returning to the US!

If I owned movie theaters, I’d start making my own movies. Hollywood is a dying star, heading towards black hole status.

And at this point, a drooling idiot could make better movies than Disney or most of Hollywood. Always excepting Guillermo del Toro, of course! He’s amazing.

All I know is that I hate capitalism and capitalists.

I’d follow you here, but I can’t figure out how! I’m not seeing an option to follow on your profile.

I tried setting one up on Mastodon with Guppe Groups, but it plunked into the void and was never seen again. I should probably try a different approach. Maybe a group on Lemmy?

Well, I just wrote and posted a review of Everything for Everyone on BookWyrm.social and copied it here (and on my Mastodon account). I’m an older reader, and I preferred older books even when I was a child. So many of the books reviewed on my BookWyrm account are pre-1980 or so. That said, there are a lot of wonderful old books - including many in the public domain - which are really worth reading!

MAU

It stands for Monthly Active Users on Lemmy. Basically an indicator of the amount of activity in a Lemmy community.

How is BookWyrm doing these days?

Pretty good, but it definitely needs some of the functionality of GoodReads! There just isn’t enough social interaction there. Without that, it’s kind of stuck in a quiet place.

What was wrong with me?

If we’re lucky BRICS will declare sanctions against the US and its allied fascist regimes. Once the system collapses, perhaps China will invade and free us from American capitalism.

Android voice dictation. It just gets worse and worse every day.

I’m a super-taster and thanks to lots of childhood abuse I’m hypervigilant. So pretty much everything. If a person anywhere in the area has been smoking or in a smoky room any time in the last day or two, I’ll know it. I know what you last ate - and drank, if it wasn’t water. I can hear a woman sobbing quietly in a locked room down the hall when nobody else can.

I see beauty in the clouds in the sky at night. I smell faint smoke on the wind. Scents that remind me of long ago, when I was a child - like the smell of shrinky-dinks coming off a hot metal mold, or pastries coming out of an Easy-bake oven. Autumn leaves swirling in an icy breeze. Or the smell of something like earwax, or tar.

I often wonder how normal people live without sensing so much of the world!

Oddly enough, Emergency! (1972). There’s something reassuring about it.

Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist is very relaxing and cozy. And it’s all available on YouTube.

And, of course, The Waltons.

Is he going to start actually carrying through on his threats at some point? If not, what’s the point?

If Trump really had balls, he’d march a bunch of ICE goons into Congress and start the executions already! And broadcast it on national TV, all channels, mandatory viewing for all Americans.

He’s basically just teasing America with the fascism, at this point. I’m convinced that he’s basically in a state of dementia, and doesn’t really know what he’s doing from day to day.