I’m taking a bit of time out for myself for the next little while … I’ve had some family loss that was very close to me and I’m taking time doing other things at the moment … it’s not anything or anyone that happened here on Lemmy or Piefed (they’re all great communities) … my life has just made a drastic change right now and I need to take care of myself for a while … I’ll be back later on but for the time being, I won’t be around much if at all.

I still love this space and everyone in it … I just need to take some time for myself right now.

During the worst of the fighting in WWII, allied ships when they could still took the time to pick up and rescue enemy sailors in the water.

So I guess, unless you are able to give a Nazi war salute to the German Fuhrer, you might have a chance of being rescued.

This is getting stupid … every Gaza headline is becoming the same … more crisis for Gaza and Israel continues siege, operations, attacks, hits, bombings, movements

When is the world going to get shocked or surprised by all this … when Israel starts using flame throwers, beating people with hammers, and poking their eyes out?

This isn’t an Israeli problem … it’s a world problem … between Israel and the US just doing whatever they want without any responsibility or being held accountable for anything … why they hell do we pretend that there is any kind of international rule of law?

The more headlines I see like this everyday … makes me think that there is no such thing as a United Nations … it’s a nice organization that makes everyone feel good but it has not function other than to assemble a bunch of politicians and representatives in fancy offices to do absolutely nothing.

Generally the fediverse on lemmy, piefed and mastodon for me … lots more out there and it’s fun to explore new branches and directions of the fediverse and the communities of people they attract.

It’s daunting, challenging, confusing and complex … but that’s the beauty of it … it feels like wandering around and exploring the early social media internet from the early 2000s and this strange feeling that its going to become a whole lot more as time goes on.

FRAH-GEE-LEH! … must be Italian!

There are still plenty of websites and even news websites that either avoid this or break reader mode to prevent people from using it.

If all you want is to read 5000 words of something you were looking for … just display those 5000 words and nothing else.

We don’t need graphics, pictures, images, blocking, ads, pop-ups, videos or any other suggestions … just give us the content, it’s all we want sometimes.

The fact that you were able to participate and still work within HOA regulations is an accomplishment onto itself.

Of all the people in the world that need or should have it mandatory to have round the clock public surveillance … it should be our political leaders

They claim to be working for the people … yet the people never really know what the fuck these leaders are doing

We did a little tour on our own into Germany one spring, about 20 years ago. It was only a few days, we didn’t have much money and we absolutely didn’t know what we were doing. We rented a car and just started wandering. It was just at the point of technology where GPS was still new. We didn’t have any so we just started driving with a shitty map and no clue.

We had done some traveling in other countries before and we had met several famously obnoxious German tourists. We had partly expected to meet equally arrogant Germans in their home country.

Instead we met the most open, kind hearted, brilliant people ever. Everywhere we stopped, we’d meet three or four locals who were more than happy to give directions, recommend restaurants, bars, tea shops and sites to see.

At one point we met a truck driver who gave us a ton of information and showed us a driving route on a big format ringed binder map book. When he was done talking, he left the book. We told him he was forgetting his book and he said we could have it as it had detailed updated map info of the entire country. It was an expensive book and I knew it, so I told him not to give it away. He insisted and said he didn’t mind.

I still have that map book on my shelf and whenever I see it, I think of that trip and all those people we met.

Totally loved Germany after that.

As a brown Indigenous Canadian … I’d like to agree with you but you’re wrong.

The greatest threat to life and prosperity to the world is billionaires no matter their gender, skin colour, race, nationality or religion.

My favorite part to that is to discover something for the first time, fall in love with it, think it’s the most amazing thing ever … then realize that it’s ten years old and everyone got excited about it a long time ago.

But it also means I don’t give a shit anymore and I just enjoy watching things that make me happy and interest me, instead of trying to chase after the latest fad.

Friend of mine in southern Ontario labels his

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+1 for Christmas Vacation

We watch it every year

When Yoda takes his regular centennial shower on Degobah, it’s definitely a very deep thought

and it also depends on your family, personal wealth, inheritance and income bracket … because even with these credentials, it can lead you to higher political office

A wise new saying I heard on a Youtube mechanic’s short reels a while ago …

“If you don’t fuck around … you’ll never find out”

https://youtube.com/shorts/GKPU8lNEAZ4

… and that without knowing it has been the motto of my life when it comes to working on things. I learn on my own (mostly because I was never able to afford higher education) and I just tinker with things and often, I will break things but it serves to help me in the future to figure out what not to do. And other times, it saves a lot of work because it made me realize that some problems aren’t so terrible and that they only needed a simple solution.

… and yet again America just looks over their shoulder, shrugs, calls it another day and keeps scrolling on Tik Tok or whatever social media feed they were looking at.

What is the deal with this orange orangutan? The rightwing conservative movement can throw him under the bus and get a new idiot to lead their movement … so why hang the fate of your movement on this moron? Seriously … they could find a younger, stronger more charismatic individual to lead them that would be ten times more dangerous than this aging orange deformed sea lion.

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