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It's Still Winter To Me...

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And it's been one of those days when I've just about had it. Partly due to 
recent news about Facebook I'm considering leaving it, but that would mean 
trusting people I want to stay in touch with to stay in touch with me. 
Which was the reason I went there after the practical death of Usenet in 
the first place. And as for my "rants," would anyone even keeping track of 
my posts on this relic platform, even through Google Groups? I don't 
really want to start a mailing list, which for one thing would subvert the 
voluntary nature of being informed of what I'm doing & thinking at the 
moment: I really don't want to be a pest on a personal level. Nor do I 
want to see how few people care about me at all or how little those who 
do do. 

Maybe I'll stay on Facebook in an almost-read-only way, doing nothing to 
indicate my presence there except to post URLs to my latest "Google 
Groups" posts. Practically speaking, given how slowly I type with one 
finger and how my attention span works, this would mean spending very 
little time on Facebook. We'll see.

But then I have very little of substance to say anyway, because it won't 
do any good. (You. People. Just. Don't. FUCKING. Listen.) I thought back 
in 2004 that America had doomed itself by re-electing G.W. Bush, but the 
absolute low was electing Trump. All I can say is I'm glad that under the 
existing rules I still get SSI & SNAP (formerly known as Food Stamps) and 
that I'm lucky enough to live in a place where the cost of living is low 
enough to allow me to live indoors all by myself with my own kitchen & 
bathroom, and that I have just enough bipedal and four-footed friends here 
to bind me to this place: there's no real need to kill myself yet. 

But maybe I should stop paying attention to "current events" entirely for 
the sake of my sanity, given that most of the news I see about my country 
and my planet is bad. Do I really need to know how stupid most people are 
and how badly they're treating themselves -- and by extension me? Would it 
be better for me to cocoon myself in my own personal life, to ignore The 
Big Picture as thoroughly as I ignore TV? I can trust people who don't 
turn off to keep me informed of happenings that affect me directly, such 
as plans to kick people like me off SSI; otherwise maybe I'm better off 
ignoring things that don't affect me directly and/or those I can't do 
anything about, such as restrictions on abortion rights in the USA or the 
latest massacre anywhere. I've only kept up on that shit out of 
schadenfreude, and a sense of moral obligation to people I care about, 
anyway. "Doctor Doctor, it hurts when I do that!"

(To be continued...Perhaps...)



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It's Still Winter To Me... <thedavid@sdf.lonestar.org> - 2018-03-21 05:15 +0000
  Re: It's Still Winter To Me... Cujo DeSockpuppet <cujo@petitmorte.net> - 2018-03-21 12:41 +0000
  Re: It's Still Winter To Me... pataphor <pataphor@gmail.com> - 2018-03-22 14:42 +0100
  Re: It's Still Winter To Me... Fergus <fergus.capewrath@yahoo.com> - 2018-04-04 07:14 +0100

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