I lived in a triple decker back when I was in college and those featured sleeping porches for the summer time. We would drag a futon out there and sleep in the open air with the cool night breezes. Worked well most of the summer (except for rainy/stormy nights and the dog days of August). We did not have AC, just fans. (there were some people who had window AC units in their bedrooms in some of the units). But we lived in a city so our jobs mostly had AC and we would go to the pub, mall/stores, movies, library after work and just hang outside at weekend festivals etc.. all AC or uneeded AC places. Frankly, it was just not hot enough here in the summer long enough to warrant a unit and the increased power bill. Once Labor Day came around it was Fall. In the winter we used electric blankets, long underwear, sweaters etc.
It is very generational. Sorry to be part of the helicopter parent generation. However, as an early GenX I was a free-range parent and the local neighbor parents did NOT APPROVE. I had to search for people that had my same heart. It was wonderful to find an adult willing to let me drop our boys off at the movies and then she would pick them up at the end. They figured out how to purchase snacks, find their seats and how to get out the right entrance.
You could also petition the city for public toilets to be available for homeless people. I mean, every construction site/ public festival I see those aqua blue porta potties. I bet they would rather shit in one of them since no public facility/business will let them in to do that. Everyone poops. Even dogs, pigeons, rabbists, racoons and deer.
It has been a choice since the Reagan years (both parties actually) and even before with the redlining etc. I just finisihed reading "There is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America" (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Brian Goldberg. There are walking saints in this world and one of them is a person featured in his book "LA Pink." He focuses on some families in Atlanta. I highly recommend. He covers from about 2019-2022 so pretty recent. I feel it is really a bruise/scar on our nation that so much of this stirring of human misery/exploitation on the poor (working poor) is so prevalent and seems to never end. Remember the stories from The Jungle, the Tenenment Slumlords who were millionaires, the Triangle Shirt Factory fire??? They are still doing the same shit but making it legal. There is some fucking Heritage Foundation stooge either taking apart the proposed legislation or putting in these loopholes to allow the wealthy to fuck over the poor every time. There has been a class war going on from the beginning, they just don't like when we fight back.
I work in healthcare as a nurse. I can't see AI doing this. Esp. with ACA satisfaction scores. I still have patients with old flip-phones that don't really know how to turn them on or make a call.
Remember the Unabomber? He was an evil homicidal dog killing genius. He hung himself (interesting btw, his father shot himself after getting terminal cancer) -- that family did not play.
Microslop OneDrive wants $20/m for 1T. However you slice it, we pay for them to back stuff up on a cloud that we used to just back up on our own physical storage. This also gives them access to all our info/pics etc to scan for their AI bots.
I liked Google Circles. Was sad it went away. It definitely made sure that my interactions/upvotes on Aunt Nancy's account wasn't seen by MIL who hates her guts and deems my interaction with her a sign of betrayal.
In order to sign up at the SS website on my laptop so I could get an updated statement, I had to use my phone to take pictures of my ID and myself. It kept failing/dropping. It was a giant PIA. Finally got it to work but I had to attempt a couple different days. I don't know how someone who has no experience with a smart phone and laptop or tablet manages. I think I heard that about 25% SS employees were DOGE'd as well as many field offices closed and it can be incredibly difficult to get an appointment (some are just not staffed), especially if you reside in a rural county. I have to help my husband get signed up on the website and I dread it. He has a very thin frustration threshold with tech he can't get to work. I foresee his phone flying across the room.
So it has been pointed out to me that I inappropriately text people. I am sure it is d/t ADHD (of which i have not been diagnosed). I get insomnia sometimes and may send a text about an idea or something I found interesting. Not because I want anyone to read it immediately, just because a. I don't have their email or physical address to write a letter or b. I just assume they are a asleep and can choose to see it later or respond at a time they feel like it....
I grew up analog and do not have a phone obsession, frequently leave it home or forget about it when I am off work... just, the tech on there is available to go DND or block people (and yes, I realize it is available to time when the text is sent, a skill I am planning to learn even though, I think just avoiding the texting is probably a better idea).
Oversharing... and being seen as rude online too... I think that was something more tolerated on the early internet message boards/BBS/ but get you kicked off/banned permanently now. Conversely, it could be I have less of a filter in my older age.
I lived in a triple decker back when I was in college and those featured sleeping porches for the summer time. We would drag a futon out there and sleep in the open air with the cool night breezes. Worked well most of the summer (except for rainy/stormy nights and the dog days of August). We did not have AC, just fans. (there were some people who had window AC units in their bedrooms in some of the units). But we lived in a city so our jobs mostly had AC and we would go to the pub, mall/stores, movies, library after work and just hang outside at weekend festivals etc.. all AC or uneeded AC places. Frankly, it was just not hot enough here in the summer long enough to warrant a unit and the increased power bill. Once Labor Day came around it was Fall. In the winter we used electric blankets, long underwear, sweaters etc.
I just saw a YT clip about how the 25 y/o McMansions are all falling apart.
Yeah, I have tried to keep my central AC off as much as possible. My power bills over the past year have been insane.
It is very generational. Sorry to be part of the helicopter parent generation. However, as an early GenX I was a free-range parent and the local neighbor parents did NOT APPROVE. I had to search for people that had my same heart. It was wonderful to find an adult willing to let me drop our boys off at the movies and then she would pick them up at the end. They figured out how to purchase snacks, find their seats and how to get out the right entrance.
You could also petition the city for public toilets to be available for homeless people. I mean, every construction site/ public festival I see those aqua blue porta potties. I bet they would rather shit in one of them since no public facility/business will let them in to do that. Everyone poops. Even dogs, pigeons, rabbists, racoons and deer.
It has been a choice since the Reagan years (both parties actually) and even before with the redlining etc. I just finisihed reading "There is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America" (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Brian Goldberg. There are walking saints in this world and one of them is a person featured in his book "LA Pink." He focuses on some families in Atlanta. I highly recommend. He covers from about 2019-2022 so pretty recent. I feel it is really a bruise/scar on our nation that so much of this stirring of human misery/exploitation on the poor (working poor) is so prevalent and seems to never end. Remember the stories from The Jungle, the Tenenment Slumlords who were millionaires, the Triangle Shirt Factory fire??? They are still doing the same shit but making it legal. There is some fucking Heritage Foundation stooge either taking apart the proposed legislation or putting in these loopholes to allow the wealthy to fuck over the poor every time. There has been a class war going on from the beginning, they just don't like when we fight back.
I just don't want OneDrive. Can it stop refusing to be deleted?
How did Noem ever have the legal power to render a pardon???? Oops. forgot she was a state governor. I was thinking of her DHS role.
Now I want elderberry jam on my toast.
That podcast office he works out of must be a bank vault/bunker to keep people from coming in and impacting his throat.
Oh yes, the golden shower of riches that don't manage to find themselves in banks in Panama or the Bahamas.
I work in healthcare as a nurse. I can't see AI doing this. Esp. with ACA satisfaction scores. I still have patients with old flip-phones that don't really know how to turn them on or make a call.
Or all the water in their state (see Utah) or raising the temps so high their power bills are the size of a mortgage.
I know someone who refuses to buy insurance and insists on negotiating with the hospital. He is an attorney so maybe they are afraid he will sue them.
Remember the Unabomber? He was an evil homicidal dog killing genius. He hung himself (interesting btw, his father shot himself after getting terminal cancer) -- that family did not play.
Well, we will at least have a whole new sequel plot for a new Fight Club.
Microslop OneDrive wants $20/m for 1T. However you slice it, we pay for them to back stuff up on a cloud that we used to just back up on our own physical storage. This also gives them access to all our info/pics etc to scan for their AI bots.
I liked Google Circles. Was sad it went away. It definitely made sure that my interactions/upvotes on Aunt Nancy's account wasn't seen by MIL who hates her guts and deems my interaction with her a sign of betrayal.
In order to sign up at the SS website on my laptop so I could get an updated statement, I had to use my phone to take pictures of my ID and myself. It kept failing/dropping. It was a giant PIA. Finally got it to work but I had to attempt a couple different days. I don't know how someone who has no experience with a smart phone and laptop or tablet manages. I think I heard that about 25% SS employees were DOGE'd as well as many field offices closed and it can be incredibly difficult to get an appointment (some are just not staffed), especially if you reside in a rural county. I have to help my husband get signed up on the website and I dread it. He has a very thin frustration threshold with tech he can't get to work. I foresee his phone flying across the room.
So it has been pointed out to me that I inappropriately text people. I am sure it is d/t ADHD (of which i have not been diagnosed). I get insomnia sometimes and may send a text about an idea or something I found interesting. Not because I want anyone to read it immediately, just because a. I don't have their email or physical address to write a letter or b. I just assume they are a asleep and can choose to see it later or respond at a time they feel like it....
I grew up analog and do not have a phone obsession, frequently leave it home or forget about it when I am off work... just, the tech on there is available to go DND or block people (and yes, I realize it is available to time when the text is sent, a skill I am planning to learn even though, I think just avoiding the texting is probably a better idea).
Oversharing... and being seen as rude online too... I think that was something more tolerated on the early internet message boards/BBS/ but get you kicked off/banned permanently now. Conversely, it could be I have less of a filter in my older age.