I noticed Ann Other's new story, The Bartender. And noticed that it does not seem to have a "comment" link. Was just wondering if that was a feature or a bug. Or perhaps a personal problem.

Awaiting with anticipation
Crescenda

It's surprisingly hard to describe how we pick and choose who to believe and whom to mistrust. What is true and what is not.

I hate to see friends fight. Especially over made up problems created to keep us distracted.

Americans largely agree on nearly all of the large important issues. Most of us want to be left alone. We want to be safe. We want to make a good living, have an opportunity to thrive, trust our neighbors. We want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and all that. In the end we have way more in common than not.

When a man goes on a date he is wondering if he will git lucky. When a woman goes on a date she wonders if she will survive.
Transwomen and the LGBT+ community are at even higher risk. Yes, the absolute rates are low but they are much higher than for cis men.
And of course non-physical assaults are higher than physical assaults.

Societal acceptance is the real solution. And maybe in some long future utopia that will happen. But that is not true today.

I saw this product advertised: https://www.shesbirdie.com/

I just had to post another video link. Here is Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield making an on point statement that is completely off topic for their You Tube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM51gL5gLfI

I know that we have been pushing more political commentary than is probably appropriate on this forum. Still we all share a set of interests, experiences and perspectives, as well as some level of activist spirit.

About a hundred and seventy thousand people died across the world today. Each one was a mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, friend, partner colleague, comrade. Many were loved, Many were good people. Many will be missed. Some died surrounded by their loved ones. Others alone. Some at peace. Others in pain.

Long story short, I decided to give bitwarden a try

OK, First world, whiny bitch time. I'm worse than an out of touch, entitled, suburban house wife. I'm a sometimes wanabe, out of touch, entitled, suburban house wife. Just call me Karen. Go figure. Here goes anyway. See ya on the other side.

If this boy identified as a girl would it be a violation of the code?
https://www.esquire.com/style/grooming/a35025053/trevor-wilk...

Probably my favorite movie.

Sita Sings the Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QkYOqI3jSM

Peace, Love, Grace

I suppose that there has always been a past. That every thing we live with has a history and that we we all have to deal with the consequences and the compromises that that past brought. There's an old aphorism that I learned from one of my more memorable mentors: "Yesterday's solution is tomorrow's problem."

How long does it take? How long can I make it take? Another four years?

SamanthaMD commented on a different blog post, "Google is not always your friend." Of course she is right. And I'm using that prompt as a launching point for this little rant. Thanks for your indulgence.

It's a tragic consequence of our modern world that your identity is pretty much up for sale. Here in the US at least our corporate owned government pretty much ensures that anything you do on line is either at risk or has been compromised. Simply connecting your computer to "the net" more or less guarantees some degree of compromise or at least risk of compromise.

This got too big to be a reply to a reply in a blog. I hope I'm not breaking too many rules by breaking it out into a new blog entry.

In reply to another blog entry Eric points to game theory research about getting a good solution in reasonable time rather than the best solution on longer time by limiting the problem space. Eric's advice is sound. Most problems are complex, searching a subset for a good enough fit is better than searching the whole list for the best solution. Most of us do this without even realizing that we are.

It's been days and days. So now it seems like as good a time as any to drop more free association text. Sorry if I sound confused and uncoordinated. I guess it's the times we find ourselves in as much as anything else.