THE WRITER MUST EAT -> patreon.com/trn1ty <- | \ | | blah! |\ | `\|\ | the rantings and ravings |/ |(_|| | * of a depraved lunatic <^> 2022-06-22 Dangerous ideas Perhaps the homelessness problem in the United States would be taken care of if any domicile not occupied were given to someone who wasn't previously occupying a domicile. Is it so bad to force a child to share toys with which they never play? A mowed lawn resembles a soldier's buzz cut hair. Fine, but I wouldn't want to date an army man. I would prefer to let the lawn-spiders, the bees and milkweed, and the butterflies and things like that have a home. I deleted my /politics page because I learned people actually read it. Though it loosely reflects my current beliefs, enough that I'm not embarrassed by it, I'm uncomfortable at the thought of anyone actually caring about what I believe. Here are the good bits from it: I don't hold public office. Don't fret about my beliefs, they probably won't ever affect you. BITCHUTE I tried to swap from YouTube to this site back in 2019(? maybe 2020). The site administration has let it get infested with right-wing puppets and various other muck. Plus all my favorite channels left. So I can't really recommend it. Looks like everyone's using PeerTube now, my only concern with that is data resiliency - can hobbyists keep their instances going with the same dependability as YouTube? CEREAL The milk goes after the cereal into the bowl. Corn flakes aren't that bad, despite their origins. Cereal with coffee instead of milk is pretty good. Soggy cereal beats out freshly poured cereal most of the time. Exceptions are maybe Cocoa Pebbles and Cheerios. Life cereal is especially good soggy. The last powdery bits of the cereal are much better than the initial big bits. A lot of that powder is sugar and it sweetens the milk. Bag cereal is just as good as box cereal. Taste-wise they're identical and they're about the same effort to pour because the boxes have bags in them too. The only con to bagged is that a greater amount of cereals are boxed (e.g. there are no off-brand Wheaties where I am) and boxes have cool puzzles on the back (though now that I'm not a wee lass I do have a cellphone on which I play Konami Picross instead). WRONGSPEAK AND WRONGTHINK If you're unaffected by a slur you probably shouldn't use it, even in an educational or non-hateful context. There are some words I'd now consider hateful I used to use without reserve. Personally I don't use hateful language because I don't think it's justifiable. However, if you're okay with offending people, consider this - you cannot grow in your understanding of the world if you don't communicate with people with whom you disagree. You're really going to prioritize hateful speech over self development? If you go on my platform and say things with which I disagree, I should not have to host your opinions. Most of my regrets involving political speech involve saying either too little or too much, which is nice, because at least I didn't support some stupendously awful cause that ended up killing everyone or something. Maybe right now I am doing that without realizing, but I hope not. <^> No rights reserved, all rights exercised, rights turned to lefts, left in this corner of the web.