© Former Flyer
(posted by permission)
30.3.21
The scream-yourself-to-death shot
b1-66er: Vaccine today.
I'm the tiniest tiniest bit nervous about it.
Special K: Understandable. Can you identify why?
b1: 1. It's out in public, which I don't do. If you're in Scorpion Manor, you don't get Cv.
K: 1. Yeah. At our vax site, I was around more people than I'd been around in a year.
b1: 2. There's the SMALL chance I could react to the vaccine (if I don't jab chemicals into my body, nothing happens -- I've proven that EVERYDAY for YEARS ... and you better believe they haven't cross tested it with obscure MS oral meds).
K: Yes.
b1: 3. It means I'm going to have to actually quit acting like an expert on every goddamn thing and live a real life...
K: You're good at that.
b1: {was good at it, mmmmaaaayyybe.}
... So:
Get a passport and license plates and fix the kitchen floor and arrange to see my mom and rebalance my retirement accounts and learn a foreign language and start gathering my writing and begin more seriously reading and get the exercise bike fixed and figure out why I'm leaning so heavily to the right when I'm walking on my cane and go to the dentist to repair the two chipped teeth and set up an appointment with my GP.
All this giving me less time to meditate and clear my mind.
That kinda stuff.
K: Oh yeah. I definitely hear you on all that kind of stuff.
29.3.21
Put your plug where your conscience is
b1-66er: From Special K--
"VW to plug electric car shift with new name: Voltswagen"
Suttonhoo: The Economist thinks VW may have it over Tesla, which is interesting
And all because they're monumental liars and had to promise to spend money on sustainable tech
I hate them and I really want that new electric SUV, goddammit
...Nothing to lose and nothing to prove...
K-pi: Blixi, my ex-half sister, posted this pic of her and Billy Idol back in the day...
b1-66er: Super great.
You better believe Billy wasn't dancing with himself THAT night.
pi: Oh-oh-uhoh!
How it looks depends on the size of your nas...
b1-66er: My brother sent this to me just now.
Mr. Peachy: Big Nas would have never worn satan
28.3.21
Oooo...sea can you say?...By the dawn's early light!
b1-66er: "...Microsoft Flight Simulator mod features the cargo ship stuck in the Suez Canal"
Special K: Smart.
b1: Do you have the ability to fly a bomber in FS?
I've got a LOT of time to spend with 'ploding stuck cargo ships in the Suez---
...I do it for the good of World Commerce.
K: I don't know if you can. But I appreciate your dedication and conscientiousness.
b1: Sure. Nothing sez World Unity like a fully engaged International Commerce system...
... Unless it's the occasional shipping container hurtling over some random piece of the African desert.
All in all you're just a...
b1-66er: Great ground level pic.
Special K: Tune in again tomorrow.
b1: So much for
IT'LL BE GONE BY THE WEEKEND•
K: They said that about Cv too.
b1: From my brother--
I look at that photo and think Legos. Then I think each brick weighs 50000 pounds. Then I think you are just looking at the above deck bricks. Wow.
Here's the crazy thing about the 21st century that people don't understand...
There is no one "right answer." It's biased by your proclivities and point of view.
Having a search engine at your fingertips doesn't make you a genius.
The ability to pull all information out doesn't give you the ability to process it.
Having enough information to make a decision doesn't even begin to tell you what the 'right' one is.
K: I couldn't agree more. And that's the best I've ever heard it said. It's the plague of our times. It's the flipside of having all this knowledge at our fingertips.
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