"Sweet kibble from Heaven! They just materialized food and a bag for me to play with out of thin air! Truly the bipeds are deities!" - Mr Whiskers
RadicalEagle
joined 1 year ago
My cat saw me as the one who can open doors to unexplored lands.
There are multiple housing problems and they're all probably way more complicated than anyone wants to acknowledge. The highest priority "housing problem" right now imo is that there are people who don't have a safe place to sleep at night.
In order to solve that problem you need
- Safe housing to provide to those people
- A system for assigning those people to the housing.
Building/acquiring housing costs money. If the government isn't doing its job and spending money to solve this problem we need to
- Hold them accountable through voting
- Take matters into our own hands as a community and attempt to contribute to a local solution in whatever capacity we're able to contribute (donations, volunteering, organizing). Once we have legitimate trustworthy organizations that are doing a good job solving the problem then we can hopefully proceed by driving more support for them.
Creating a system to assign individuals to housing is probably the more "difficult" part because there needs to be some sort of consensus on the mechanics of prioritization. I personally think we should prioritize housing for individuals and families with children, but after that I don't know who we should serve next.
Specifically the most acid trippy chapter of the Bible that describes the end of the world.
That's super cool, I've wanted to do something similar like this but never have had the opportunity.
This is what it feels like to grow old.
It's not so bad being the worst player on the team. Just means you have a lot of room for improvement as long as you're willing to learn. Honestly it's one of my favorite situations to find myself in. "Oh I suck. How can I get better?"
Hot take: All criteria used to classify ideas and objects into distinct categories can eventually break down. The only reason to pursue the creation of classification systems is to facilitate communication. If we get to a point where we start throwing chairs at each other I'd argue were no longer willing to communicate, and so arguing about whether something is "this" or "that" is no longer a priority. The priority should become attending to the mental and emotional wellbeing of the individuals in the absence of labels.
I don't think solid state batteries provide as much benefit in smaller devices.
Pachycephalasaurus has always been on of my favorites.
maybe I probably killed him
You didn't kill him, the cancer did. You were there supporting him.
I was on morphine duty when my grandpa died two years ago and it was rough. I gained a massive respect for hospice workers and the mental fortitude they have in order to work in that environment.
My grandpa had ptsd nightmares from the Korean War his whole life and my biggest fear was that while he was dying he'd be trapped in one of those. I drove myself crazy trying to interpret his twitches and mumbles as some sort of actionable message he was sending.
I stepped outside for a bit and imagined what he would say if he were conscious, and I'm sure it would've been something like "Who cares if I'm having a nightmare? Even if I am it's not your responsibility to fix it. I'll just ride it out and it'll be over." And so I went back in and just sat there quietly, occasionally making remarks or observations, talking about what I might be doing in the next few weeks or months.
I'm really glad your mom got to have that moment. Whether or not he heard her and was responding, I hope the timing gave her some peace.
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Ah, so that’s what they mean by “the road to hell is paved with good in tensions”