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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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While I feel for the people involved, isn't it time to get rid of the monarchy altogether? It's a vestige of a bygone time when empires were standard. Now all the royals do is open health care centers and make speeches about nothing at all. They can be dispensed with-they have enough money to live off. They don't need any public money. They're the 1%.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/23/uk/kate-princess-of-wales-cancer-reveal-analysis-intl-cmd-gbr/index.html

RickiTarr, to random
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Sometimes something is so stupid you just want bang your head on something.

At one point, someone rightly said, Hey, we are giving the police an awful lot of power, they should probably have some kind of oversight.

The police: Sure, we'll get right on that, we'll create Internal Affairs.

The people: Oh, yeah good idea, who is going to run that?

The police: Ummm...well, us.

The people: Hey, that's probably not enough, you can't really police yourselves!

The police: Okay fine, you can make a Citizen Overwatch Committee.

The people: That's sounds great! How much money will we get to run this, and what kind of power will we have?

The police: Ohhh uhh, you're going to have to get volunteers, and you can make suggestions... to the most powerful, and well protected union in the world.

The people: You're at least going to enthusiastically support other people's rights to a strong working Union, right?

The police: Well, the thing is...

fmhilton,
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@RickiTarr @elverkonge I am not fine with it, but many people are. Also most people are damn stupid.

RickiTarr, (edited ) to random
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Mastodon is what happens when well-read children and compassionate thinkers grow up, and congregate in one place.

fmhilton,
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@RickiTarr Well, I'm sort of grown up. At least I've reached an age where being old means you're perceived as being wise, just for the fact that you've survived long enough..

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Silly Story Time:

My husband has always been scared of spiders. If a spider needed removed I would be the one to deal with it, as I've always admired their work. For whatever reason, spiders love our Bathroom, and there always seems to be one or two in there no matter what hubs has tried to keep them out. So, I started naming them, I called one Henry, and I told hubs that he was really social, because every time you'd sit down on the toliet, he would pop out of his hole and just sit by your feet until you were done, then he'd crawl back. Another one would crawl out by the wall when you'd shower, and I told him that was Henry's wife Helena, and she was kind of a pervert, because she liked seeing people naked, but Henry didn't mind, because he liked them freaky. Whenever we would come out of the bathroom, we started giving updates about what Henry and Helena were up to. One day they disappeared, and we were both kind of sad, but last night hubs comes out of the bathroom, and says, Come look! He points to the wall by the toliet, and there is a little spider, and he says, Henry, he had a son! We are very excited about this development!

fmhilton,
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@RickiTarr Spiders are cool, but how can you tell it's Henry & Helena's baby spider?

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Listen memory foam, I don't want you remembering my body, you pervert.

fmhilton,
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@RickiTarr In my case, at least it does remember what my body feels like!🤣 I can't!

RickiTarr, (edited ) to random
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This is probably my worst poll, but I'm curious, for science:

I have/had:

fmhilton,
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@RickiTarr My parents did not totally suck, but they weren't great-mother had a lot of issues, Dad took over in many ways, including cooking. We felt loved in spite of it all, and we knew we were lucky that my father did not 'cut and run' even if he had a damn good reason. He was an honorable man who did not desert his family just because he could. Thank goodness for that!

ParadeGrotesque, to random
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Today's 3h meeting could have been a resignation email.

My resignation, to be more specific.

fmhilton,
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@ParadeGrotesque I'm happy you got out of the rat race. Hopefully you'll find something better.

RickiTarr, to random
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Writing Prompt:

Write the saddest sentence you can think of.

fmhilton,
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@RickiTarr

The last 40 years of the relationship was a complete waste of time.

arisummerland, to random
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I almost died out there yesterday because somebody needed chicken fingers RIGHT THE HELL NOW.

This big pickup crossed two travel lanes from the left then stopped sideways in front of me when they couldn't get into the right turn lane bc other cars were in it.

Glad my habits of careful driving and paying attention on the road paid off.

I drive with the assumption that everyone else is likely to do spectacularly stupid things, and, well, someone did.

It could have been really bad. ☹️

fmhilton,
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@thepoliticalcat @isotope239 @arisummerland
Even as people are saying, "It's nothing to worry about." Yeah, frig that! I'm still isolating, masking and getting shots. I'm planning a long cross country trip to Alaska this summer and I'm terrified of the implications.

fmhilton,
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@isotope239 @thepoliticalcat @arisummerland But I'd like to know why everyone is so hell bent on 'just live your life as you did before' notwithstanding 1 million Americans have died from this 'flu" (not my word)-I believe it's being pushed for the corporate interests that do not like having people scared or worried. "No Money, Bad!" "Profits before people!"

fmhilton,
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@arisummerland @cavyherd @thepoliticalcat @isotope239 Interesting discussion. I tested my ability to plan just the last 24 hours-and I was amazed that I put a complicated travel itinerary together that looks workable and good. I've never done this before, and I'll be traveling alone for the first time in my life at 69 to Alaska and back again to Maine. So I'm reassured that my executive functioning is good. I'm sorry when it is affected by outside influences and disease.

fmhilton,
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@arisummerland @isotope239 @cavyherd @thepoliticalcat i have written up a preliminary itinerary so that I remember what days I'm supposed to be traveling-I haven't even bought any tickets yet-the Alaska Ferry isn't taking advanced reservations yet, either. May will be the time when I do all the billing and such. My poor credit cards will be very tired..

fmhilton,
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@isotope239 @arisummerland @cavyherd @thepoliticalcat Yup..but: this is after having cleared the decks of those 3 credit cards from over $ 7,000 worth of charges over 4 years. By myself. On my job and widow's benefits. I had to become very stringent with my money for this to happen. Good exercise in frugality and planning. PS-it only got this way because my husband chose not to tell me about it. I found out after he died...quite a shock. No money, either.

fmhilton,
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@cavyherd @isotope239 @arisummerland @thepoliticalcat I hope not-because I was not blameless in that problem. I spent some of it, but I should have asked questions, of course. Being poor sucks. However, he did have the sense to keep the accounts in MY name so that I could restore my own credit. I was just foolish to let it get that bad. I hated credit cards until i could get my cards cleaned. he was a spendthrift, and I was clueless about it. Not all the bad guy..

fmhilton,
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@cavyherd @isotope239 @arisummerland @thepoliticalcat Oh, I had a bank account-I just didn't have any money.As I said, being poor is a not a good lifestyle. Many reasons for it, nothing inherently sinful or bad about about it. Just the way life works. But my finances today are 100% improved. I control them, nobody else. there's a lesson in there...

thomasfuchs, to random
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Remember 10 years ago when the tech industry promised we’ll “3D print everything from food to houses”?

Now think about the promises about AI.

fmhilton,
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@thomasfuchs Yeah. what happened to 3d printing?
Don't hear about it any more. Guess that was a brief moment in time. So much hoopla, so little result.

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That's cool-the comeback kid has just won his first Oscar: Robert Downey Jr.

fmhilton, to random
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@RickiTarr As for whether what I'd grow up to be? I didn't think about it honestly-I just wanted to be happy. I never wanted kids, and husband was all right, but I'm not missing anything now. Besides, can't do much about it now. Done and over. I'm the person I am, and that's all there is to it. I'm the best me I can be.

RickiTarr, to random
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Are you the person you always thought you would be?

fmhilton,
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@RickiTarr I'm the person I grew up to be. Whether or not I thought I would be a different person is a completely different question.

RickiTarr, to random
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Why do you think so many people are obsessed with murder?

fmhilton,
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@samhainnight @notroot @RickiTarr That series is totally awesome! Here's a page of how many books are in the series, (sorry for the Amazon link): https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/no-1-ladies-detective-agency/
I was so heartbroken when the author died.

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Y'all ever have a really dumb moment?

I sent this picture to a friend with the comment, "This would make a really good movie!"

And he replied, "It is, it's called Glory, it has Matthew Broderick in it."

I'm dead! LOL But to be fair, I was right!

fmhilton,
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@RickiTarr Don't feel bad, sometimes people can't tell the difference between reality and movies.
They'd rather watch the movie before reading a book : https://parade.com/54012/brianpalmer/the-true-story-behind-the-movie-glory/ It was based on these books:
"Lay This Laurel (1973) by Lincoln Kirstein and One Gallant Rush (1965) by Peter Burchard and the personal letters of Shaw. The film depicts the soldiers of the 54th from the formation of their regiment to their heroic actions at the Second Battle of Fort Wagner.""https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_(1989_film)

fmhilton, to random
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@LeftistLawyer Checked out that site-nice of them to be whole sale plagiarists.

LeftistLawyer, to disability
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Houston, we have a …
Is there a doctor in the house?

fmhilton,
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@buermann @glightly @LeftistLawyer We won't even talk about the people with jobs that died and those jobs went unfilled.
" Johnson took excess deaths and COVID deaths by age and applied labor force participation rates by age. And he got 300,000 workers who died as a result of COVID. Add that to the long-haul workers, and we’ve lost 1.9 million workers — or 18% of currently unfilled jobs."
https://www.marketplace.org/2022/01/24/how-much-labor-force-has-been-lost-covid-19/

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This space is open for discussion on factors influencing elevated ratios.

fmhilton,
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@LeftistLawyer It's pretty much the south and Midwest is full of them. I guess that Utah, being full of Mormons (and run by them) isn't what you could call 'evangelical Christians'.

fmhilton,
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@LeftistLawyer
The 'coming apocalypse' that they're so worried about was brought on by everyone, including them. Climate change will destroy them and us, and the rest of the world.
And we brought it on ourselves for thinking we were the only animals to rule this planet.
Sorry, I get carried away when I'm confronted by religious dolts. It goes without saying that I am not one of them.

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