EXactly this!

It’s a street’ arms race!

Agreed

Agreed

Fact!

Fact

Similarly so.
It wasn’t even difficult to boycott it: I generally don’t get anything from the ‘big box retailers’.
Groceries? Actual grocer.
Clothes? Actual clothing stores.
Cooking equipment? Actual cooking store.

… And that’s not even AI slop! 😄

Well said:

It’s one thing to succeed in an election. . . and another to follow through.

Why invest in this way?

Ecological restoration:
--provides jobs
--robustly develops community
--provides adolescents education & involvement
--acts locally, thinking globally
--improves local health (physical and psychological)
--is immediately visible
--gets people outdoors (all the benefits)

National Parks have reduced staff, due to federal governance shutdown. Such a critical element of preservation, these parks, yet remain grossly underfunded.

Were we to make America great again, one big step : invest enormously in fully funding National Parks and ecological restoration.

Fully agree.

This same thought occurs frequently due to seeing ads (forced upon us in YouTube, Amazon Video, Hulu, etc) that capitalize on this phenomena.

Agreeing with Ellen.

I knew nothing about Reagan, as a child during his tenure, but later learned how awful his administration’s policies were. . . and largely (seemingly) due to both his idiocy (lack of education) and his gerontology (decline of mental faculties).

Trump shares in the latter.

Agreed.

This is also why I -loathe- surveillance: it -seems- helpful until it (like soooo many other tools) is used against oneself (and falsely).

YES to holding them accountable!

ESpecially so for folk living in Bellevue, Sammamish, Redmond, and Issaquah (they whine sooooo much)

Never underestimate the impact of being able to freely roam . . .

Fully agree.

. . . and not just Democractic-party leaders.

Alllll state leaders.

Fact

Tend to think ‘transforms’.

I think the same occurs in governmental representation, teaching, and medical fields: a want to ‘reform from within’, yet cannot help being influenced by ‘the group mind, that is culture.’

All of these career fields share a commonality: overworked individuals.

Agreed

Are we attracted to superpowers (flight, telepathy, etc) out of a substitution for control?
In the sense that, when we feel so powerless in different situations, thinking ‘if I just had powers, it would solve my problems’. . and then using superpowered entertainment for that unattainable fantasy?

CBS news : ‘keeping their head down’
. . . (But will then use extreme rhetoric elsewhere ‘for balance’ <vomits>)

Something frustrating:
as a species, we’ve been fully socially function for several thousand years. . .
. . we’ve developed vaccines
. . . we’ve developed solar power
. . . we’ve developed sustainable agriculture
. . . we’ve developed diplomacy
. . . yet we still fight each other?

Both ‘radiate’ a strong sense of persistent decomposing.
As though, collectively, humans are in ongoing denial that ‘this is a reminder that several systems simply don’t work and are unsustainable.’

Atlantic City?

Memphis?

First two that come to mind. . .

Nailed it

Agreed

Agreed

It’s almost like grocery stores knowingly benefit from the false illusion of scarcity…🧐

He seemed 'balanced' and informed when running for office. . .now he just comes off deranged <sighs>.