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fmhilton

@fmhilton@mastodon.sdf.org

Life long Mainer, retired. Writer of various things on my blog. I love to make noise and good trouble.

I want to inform, engage, amuse and enlighten the world.

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fmhilton, to random
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If we can't stop them, we can tax the shit out of guns to the point where they become too expensive to buy.
yes, I know the federal government taxes them, but California would be the first to use excise taxes on them.
Good move!
https://theconversation.com/california-is-about-to-tax-guns-more-like-alcohol-and-tobacco-and-that-could-put-a-dent-in-gun-violence-229431?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

msquebanh, to random
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"I have something important to share with you! Just because I am open about my disability does’t mean everyone with a disability is comfortable talking about theirs. Don’t ask ‘what happened to you’ as it can make some people relive their traumas," she penned. "Instead, wait for them to share their story with you when they feel ready. And if they never tell you, that is their personal choice. Respect that. Disabled people don’t only exist to talk about our disabilities."

https://uk.style.yahoo.com/allison-lang-respect-disabled-peoples-boundaries-153058944-153058148.html

fmhilton,
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@msquebanh Good point-many people consider one 'disabled' person to be the representative of all of them. I certainly wouldn't want to talk about my disability without a damn good reason. I live with it, others do not. Respect for this is so lacking.

fmhilton, to random
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This is the ONLY reason I'll even dare watch the debate (with lots of popcorn, of course)-Trump's dementia is going to be on full display and it's gonna wreck him.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-mental-decline-2668313990/

fmhilton,
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@FaithinBones They have to or else Trump will be demolished by Biden.

Unless they're really trying to sabotage him. He's done some real damage to their party..don't count on them being that loyal.

fmhilton,
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@FaithinBones He's not a puppet, despite what everyone thinks. How do you think he got control of the RNC? By getting rid of everyone he didn't like, and replacing them with his own loyalists, and he's sucking the money out of it by the millions, leaving the RNC broke and helpless to stop him. His greed and rapacity has destroyed it. They won't like the results of this year's election.

msquebanh, to Canada
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Some provinces have recorded a rise in bodies in the past few years, with next of kin citing costs as a growing reason for not collecting loved ones’ remains.

This has prompted at least one province to build a new storage facility, while demand for surged.

The overall cost of a funeral in at the top end has increased to about US$8,800 from about US$6,000 in 1998, industry trade group estimates showed.

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2024/05/20/2003818139

fmhilton,
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@msquebanh It's getting to be that you can't afford to live, you can't afford to get sick or die, and your family can't afford to claim your remains.

RickiTarr, to random
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What is your dream road trip? Where would you start? Where would you end up? What stops would you make along the way? It can be short or long, whatever interests you!

fmhilton,
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@RickiTarr My dream road trip would be from Mont St. Michael down through Paris to the Loire Valley and all those gorgeous chateaux-stopping in each village to stay long enough to visit the chateaux and take tours. Once I did that I'd continue on to the South of France to Sospel-staying there and traveling by train to Nice, gambling (although not for long..). I'd also try to find my 'ancestral' towns along the way.

fmhilton,
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@RickiTarr To be fair, I've done this in two different times..my high school French club did the Chateaux and Paris, my father's trip did Sospel.
This would combine all of them.

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It's so weird that we are all supposed to be ashamed for burping and farting. I deeply apologize to everyone for keeping my body from literally exploding, so uncouth.

fmhilton,
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@RickiTarr Kids can burp all they want and it's funny. Adults do it and it's rude.
In Turkey (and other ME countries) it's considered rude if you don't burp.
But cats, dogs and other animals do it, and we don't shame them.
If we don't let the gas out one way or another it'll build up and explode somewhere. So fart and burp away. It's being human!

fmhilton,
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@run_atalanta @RickiTarr You have gas that has to go somewhere, and it's going to take the easiest exit.
BTW, this also goes for sneezing. My brother once told me, "Don't hold your sneezes in, you can have a heart attack." I thought it was a joke, (and he was wrong) but it is definitely not recommended at all.
https://www.healthline.com/health/holding-in-a-sneeze
Lesson: don't hold back your bodily airs and fluids..it's your body saying, "Hey, human here's my opinion of your eating habits!"

fmhilton,
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@run_atalanta @RickiTarr Also, I am the unhappy recipient of a syndrome that causes me to sneeze when I eat certain foods and when I go out in the sunlight without a hat or sunglasses.
I can't stop those sneezes because they're insistent that I let them out.
So I do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photic_sneeze_reflex#:~:text=The%20photic%20sneeze%20reflex%20%28also%20known%20as%20ACHOO,bright%20lights%20or%20periocular%20%28surrounding%20the%20eyeball%29%20injection.

fmhilton,
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@RickiTarr @run_atalanta I did not realize that I actually had a 'syndrome' until I read about it somewhere and finally discovered why I did all that sneezing all the time. It's expensive, too-I prefer to have special photosensitive lenses in my glasses. They cost a couple of hundred extra on top of the prescription.

fmhilton,
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@RickiTarr yeah, but it's worth it. It's all right to sneeze while walking, but you do not want to do it while riding a bike or driving a car. Very dangerous.

fmhilton, to random
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"Kilroy was here" was found on an ancient castle walls.
From about Napoleon's time.
Some things never change and bored soldiers with knives is one of them. Graffiti is their hobby when not fighting..
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/17/travel/graffiti-english-castle-napoleon-scli-intl-scn/index.html

fmhilton,
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@cs 🤣 it is ever thus! I bet one could even see Roman graffiti on it, because that's how old it is.
But the Coliseum has it, too!🤣

fmhilton,
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@cs he should have known the proper tense! 🤣

RickiTarr, (edited ) to random
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What advice would you give to someone just starting out in a relationship?

Mine might sound kind of dark in relation to the question, but here goes:

People change, and they should, it's part of being a person. Some people are lucky, and they change in the same direction, but some don't, and that's okay too. There's no shame in leaving a relationship or changing the nature of a relationship that no longer serves you. We are all taught that every relationship, whether romantic or friendship, is supposed to last forever, but nothing is forever, and forcing something that no longer works, just ends in anger and bitterness. Knowing when to let go is as important as knowing when to hold on through a rough patch, and how to know either of those things is the most cliché advice of all, COMMUNICATE.

fmhilton,
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@RickiTarr when you said 'relationship' of course the default is the 'romantic' one. i think the handiest way to go by is to remember this quote "When someone shows you who they are the first time, believe them." because if you don't and they betray you, it's not their fault for your ignoring the signs. I've been guilty of this like anyone has, and it goes for both friendships and romantic relationships. Never ignore your instincts. Don't accept the unacceptable.

msquebanh, to Birds
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People who complain about wild #birds singing so hard in the morning - are not my friends. I'm DELIGHTED about early morning bird songs!

Their bird calls YellTell me - We are happy in our habitat here! It's another day we are alive!

Their early morning bird songs, remind me of the importance of feeling #gratitude of being able to enjoy another morning, another day, to relish in the fact I'm still alive & able to receive many opportunities that the dead no longer have.

#Nature

fmhilton,
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@msquebanh I love bird songs-all except that rooster that used to go off every half hour. That was annoying. The rest of them are fine.

fmhilton,
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@msquebanh Indeed! OMG, he was very annoying! I guess he became someone's dinner or something..haven't heard him in a year or more..

fmhilton, to random
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@RickiTarr The absolute truth of our society is that there are several social classes-the very rich, who never have to work, the upper class, which constitutes the managerial and business class, the average blue collar worker, and then the poor/disadvantaged/homeless. You're born into one of those classes, and if you at the bottom, it's goddamned hard to ever break out of it. That's why homelessness is so 'out of sight'. It's the people who aren't seen.

fmhilton,
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@RickiTarr Because it works to the favor of those who own property and have money because they prefer to have an underclass they can exploit. Re: an article on day workers in Southhampton NY who are homeless but they work for the rich.

fmhilton, to random
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These people are clueless. They believe that by blowing up or else damaging electrical power stations they're going to trigger a race war.
Where the fuck do they get these ideas from?
They're stupid, too. They got caught by talking to a FBI informant...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-69012594

fmhilton, to random
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"Moi Aussi" is now hitting the Cannes Film Festival and it's been long overdue.
The men of the French film industry are very, very frightened. As they should be.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fear-grips-cannes-film-festival-as-france-finally-has-its-metoo-moment?ref=home

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay, since I'm on laundry today, a little story.

When hubs and I first got married, we were very much enjoying our little Honeymoon Bubble, and we were being lazy as Hell. We didn't do many chores, but the laundry we really let go. We weren't wearing many clothes at home anyway, so why bother. Anyhow, after weeks we finally reached the swimming suit bottoms situation, and decided it was time. It was loads and loads of laundry that needed done, so I had my husband back the trunk of the car up to a window of the house, then he popped the trunk, and I started tossing laundry out of the window into the trunk. We went to the bank, got about $30 bucks in quarters, and found the emptiest laundry mat we could, and did it all in one fell swoop. We folded it all and loaded it back into the car using those wheeled laundry carts. We never let it get that bad again, and decided it was time to be adults, and do regular chores, but it still makes me laugh imagining what the neighbors and the laundry attendant thought.

Feel free to share your own laundry story, if you feel like it, I love hearing people's stories!

fmhilton,
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@RickiTarr When I was much younger, I lived with 2 other people-one of them being my husband (ok, I had a menage a trois, except the other woman didn't know it..) and we did not have a washer. Because we didn't have a nearby laundromat, we used to wash our clothes in the bathtub and hang them out to dry either in the bathroom (which was as large as a regular room) or on a line outside. In fact, I didn't have a personal washer or dryer until 9 years ago when we moved into my present house.

RickiTarr, to random
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I'm going to ramble a bit, but it will hopefully come around to something. When I was growing up, I read a lot of older historical book series, a big one would be the Little House On The Prairie series. While I really enjoyed it, there are some very obviously negative portrayals of Native Americans and African Americans. I remember being angry about it as a kid, and my Dad telling me, that part of learning about history is that we have to acknowledge the people we were, and still are. But because Little House on the Prairie is only semi-autobiographical, I still have mixed feelings about this. I do think they are well written books by a female author, an interesting perspective on early American life, and as an adult I can see and acknowledge the issues with the text. If we try to get rid of every author with racist ideas there wouldn't be much left to read from the 20th Century, and it also feels like being dishonest about who we are. So, I'm very mixed, how do you all feel about it? Do you think children can handle books with racial issues like this if it's explained to them? What is our responsibility here?

fmhilton,
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@RickiTarr Children are naturally curious about all kinds of books (if they're book readers, that is), but that being said, many parents are not, and do not encourage children to read, or read widely.
I was fortunate to have parents that not only encouraged my reading, they did not limit it, either. Parents should give children background on books with racial overtones, but one book that should ALWAYS be allowed is "To Kill a Mockingbird" as a starter book. I didn't read Huck Finn, either.

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