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.
I was looking at my story stats page after a recent story post and noticed that the collateral traffic bumped too. Daily hits on the few other items I have posted here wiggled. What an interesting side effect.
That previous blog post has slid below the fold. So maybe it is time to ask for a refresher?
Fictionmaia still does not seem to like Firefox any more. Does anyone know if this is the new normal and I just need to accept it? Or is there any activity on the Fictionmania community that is considering the topic?
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 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.
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.
Carlos Maza posted a video a bit ago about dealing with things that can't be controlled. I found it cathartic if not exactly helpful. Maybe you might too.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJaE_BvLK6U&t=0s
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.
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.
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."
I know that it is not appropriate to use this forum for political statements, I have to say that we have lost a hero to us all.
I'll understand of you choose to remove this.
What is this about? I hear you. I hear you asking. I hear you saying "What is Crash writing about?" I hear you saying "Is Crash crazy again?" I hear you saying "Crash is crazy again."
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.
So. I'm getting up the gumption to post a story of my own. It's been long enough and the directory where I write is getting full. Maybe it is time to leap over this chasm into the, what do we call it? Into the amateur tg fiction publishing universe. I have a couple questions:
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.
I was once working with a team that was hiring new members. We put out ads in all the right places and contacted a bunch of recruiters and over a week or so we got a few dozen resumes for people who wanted the position. Daunted with the prospect of going through each of the resumes to try and find the best candidate one of the managers proposed that we simply throw half of them away. We were all aghast at this proposal. But he persisted.
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.
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