Penny for penny the billionaires outnumber us. But person for person? The Majority is all of us. Do we benefit from the money hoarding, super duper upper class? They don't work, create jobs, save farm land, build anything you can touch (WTF is AI anyway?) Fair taxation is my point. TAX the RICHEST.

You know what? When a man /asks/ if you can start a DM, I have enormous respect for him. No, I'm not into trying to find new friends here; I can't keep up with the ones I already have in real life. But I gotta say - that is mad respect. And I'm flattered. Girls, they DO exist.

This avid feeder was in my yard today; looks like a white with blue swallowtail, but I've never seen this butterfly before. Anyone got a clue? Taken in central Costa Rica.

So here's a truly first world complaint: why has Hollywood decided that nearly all action sequences should be shot so damn dark you can't tell what's happening? I get accommodating CGI and etc, but it's stupid to not know what occurred until the lights come up. Shit, I do that every morning.

The USA is losing its superpower status. That may be a good thing; it depends on whether '3rd world' countries can form strategic alliances to prevent Chinese taking over.

How much corruption will it take for people to push back against kleptocracy? I'm not holding my breath, but if the POTUS can say "impose a tariff" and it happens, that indicates that there aren't any real constraints on this admin. Guess there has to be even more pain before the tides turn.

Some days I'm convinced we are all living in purgatory. It makes no sense that so many human beings are subjugated to such miserable conditions, just so a tiny handful of people can be rich beyond reason. People should have control over what they need to live, and they don't, so is this hell?

I am dog sitting a puppy, with my existing pack of five rescues, and their dynamics are fascinating. Dogs growl and back off. Humans? We show teeth and escalate. Maybe the next round of civilization can be dog based, since we humans haven't figured out basic social interaction. Or we forgot it.

When I think of what could be done with the cash currently hoarded by billionaires, I get choked up. Money is an abstraction of value, either from control of resources, like land, or from the labor of working people. When that wealth circulates in the general economy, average folk benefit.

When the world accommodates the weakest, the strongest are also protected. Strong policies that uplift everyone carries benefits throughout society. Do you want to be rich and isolated from a suffering population, or be a bit less rich and part of a thriving country that is happy to include you?

Can we please elect more Mamdanis? More young people with a future they want to fight for, and share with their peers? I get age and wisdom, but let the elders be advisors. The folks who need things to happen so they can see their grandkids should be in charge. Vote young, blue, and often.

Russia gets the fuck out of the country. Returns stolen children. Pays reparations. Apologizes. Russia Getting the Fuck Out of Ukraine is the /baseline/ for negotiation. Because if historical control was the reason for the war, then the USA should give the country back to Native Americans, and etc.

The war on Gaza continues. There is no ceasefire. Nothing has changed. I don't care if Hamas still exists, killing noncombatants is genocide. Full stop - Killing Innocent People en masse is Genocide. I hope karma speeds up in time to save some Palestinians. They don't deserve this.

Dumbass fascism. They pushed too hard, fast, and incompetently. The billionaires are gonna find out it's easy to buy a gov't but way harder to buy a population which is smarter than they thought. Plus they choose a nakedly avaricious moron as their figurehead. BOYCOTT. Tick tock, you rich idiots.

I am very thankful to be alive. For the past twelve or so years I've lived with a loaded gun pointed at my chest. Close calls, oh yeah. But I'm alive, I live in a great country, my volunteering is effective, and our immigrant community kicks ass. I'm lucky and grateful. May all beings be blessed.

Watching Mr Mercedes. Damn, I am so tired of sexual relationships between people with a big age gap. Screwing an old man is not easy. Most of them need so much fluffing that by the time you get to tab A in slot B you're bored, exhausted, or ready to do it yourself. Experience talking here.

Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Strengthening unions and fighting for higher wages. Medicare for all, paid family leave, universal childcare... This is the progressive populist agenda we need in America.

I am amazed at the stupidity of the mega rich. They are willing to destroy the very system that allowed them to become billionaires. Maybe that class needs to be told the Goose that Laid the Golden Egg story a hundred times over.

TAX the rich - recognize that the ability to manipulate the system to extract maximum wealth is not the same as producing value. Billionaires should be satisfied with being rich in a rich country, instead of being cancerously rich in a poor country.

Want to live in a world full of sick, unhappy, poor people? Keep giving money to the people who don't care if you die, have peace, or can pay your bills. TAX the rich - recognize that the ability to extract wealth is not the same as producing value.

When you use cash, the banks aren't using your money. Banks float your deposited money all over the place, and they charge interest when people use it on credit. You don't get interest for keeping a positive balance, so take out bills. Use cash, it stays in the local economy.

Cash is hard to track. Inaction is not monitored. Nov 26th to Dec 3rd, BUY NOTHING. USE CASH. Don't stream or buy any media. Avoid posting if you can; some cannot for biz or family reasons. Prove to them that they need our $ more than we need their greedy BS. BOYCOTT. I'm on a list, I don't care.

PSA. BUY NOTHING Nov 26th to Dec 3rd. If you must buy, purchase from local small businesses. Use cash. Your $ at the corner store for gum goes towards buying the kids' shoes, then paying a worker, then out into the 'hood. Credit goes to the BK and they charge the local biz. STARVE THE BEAST.

Does anybody know what "the medical model" of disability is? I'm too pissed off to go do research right now. All I know is that people are people, with unique problems that need to be addressed in varying contexts. Apparently that is somehow...bad for disabled people?

So Zucker has a new algorithm that flags...I'm not sure. They were gonna down my account in 180 days if I don't let them take facial recognition data. Which I did, with some bug eyes thrown in for shits and giggles. The Powers That Be want a central database with everything but our DNA in it. WHY???

I am a charitable person, but I only help people and organizations that I have a personal relationship with - a local orphanage, e.g. I would rather give $20 to a homeless person standing right in front of me than to Goodwill, which spends most of its money on administrative costs and CEO salary.

Reminder: BLACKOUT the system Nov 25th thru Dec 2nd. NO BIG BOX buying. Don't buy media. Don't go to McD's etc. Buy from Local, small business, from a Black lesbian in a wheelchair ideally, but you get the drift. Prove to them that our participation is conditional on their good behavior.

Replacing people with AI means: shittier nonintuitive customer service. Diagnoses made on the basis of only what is presented w/out delving deeper. Crappy entertainment and ads using avatars. Your FB account getting flagged for nothing. A surveilled life to the least detail. Fuck the tech overlords.

Are we ALL going to BOYCOTT the Big Box Billionaire Businesses from Nov 25th to Dec 3rd??? DO NOT BUY FROM BILLIONAIRES, only shop locally. Starve the beast. And when the dragon comes to your village, well, you know what to do...those implements of suburban destruction are multifunctional, y'all.

Remember the 100th monkey theory? When 100 monkeys do the same thing, it spreads to every monkey in the environment. Like this 3.5% of people need to protest metric. Why try to quantify how much it takes to change? Let's just keep pushing for the change we want to see in the world until we see it.

Once upon a time we said "lookism" as a way to refer to the prejudice of judging someone by their appearance - of course women, but men as well. If you fall in love the right way, like the forever way, you fall in love with a soul. A personality. Don't matter the package, it's the contents. Yes?

I follow any young woman that follows me. Some may be bots, and I don't care. If a woman has a pic with thick hair, a pretty face - what the hell difference does it make? Ask: what other currency is available to her? She still has a mind, a soul, and ambitions. I want to know this person.

Cookies. Sounds innocuous; I think TollHouse. But cookies on the web; I deleted mine recently as part of routine computer hygiene (educate me if you can) and FaceBuK now demands a video, like facial recognition, or it will delete my account...in 180 days. Can I get on my account until then? WLYK.

Fucking Zuck Book is requiring FACIAL RECOGNITION or it will delete my account in 180 days. Anyone else have this pop up on that platform recently???? Gods damned corporate overlords and their insistence on intruding into every tiny aspect of our lives. Bout damn ready to disconnect. I can text.

A toothy grin is a social signal for mammals. Could be submissive, inviting, nervous, or aggressive. We're too complicated, because depending on context, culture, etc the meaning varies. People may smile or grimace when they get bad news. We're a weird species. And don't point, some find that rude.

Use cash. A dollar spent to your local store for gum gets passed to someone as change. That dollar gets spent on lunch at a local eatery. Then it goes to paying a waiter's bills. Use your card, a fee is extracted that feeds the beast, and the beast don't like you. USE CASH. Cash stays in your hood.

You can't cure stupid, but you can cure ignorance. If you're dealing with someone with inadequate information, you can provide them with facts. Maybe they'll change. If someone is so stupid they can't reason past their next Big Mac, save your time and effort. Pearls, swine, math...

Read a really good article outlining the problem of people who Do Not See Reality and how it is impossible to include them. When someone literally doesn't see the world as it is, in fact, then they are a lost cause. You can't compromise with mentally ill people; all you can do is medicate them.

Okay, I've had interactions with stupid people. And I've interacted with mean people. But honey, when you get stupid and mean combined, the shit show is blockbuster level horrible. Stephen King couldn't write something more dystopian than our current reality disconnection. "Alternative facts" FFS.

I am amazed people are focused on the economy as it impacts them personally, but the majority don't seem to give a flip about the blatant corruption and disdain for law. The utter arrogance of this admin is stunning, like Marie Antoinette levels of fugk off and die. Why isn't everyone mad as hell?

"The cruelty is the point." Duh, the oppressors of people are /always/ cruel. It's to be expected when humans with enough avarice get control - nothing counts except what get them more $ and power. Don't be surprised; get pissed as all hell, and use that anger to fight. The greedy don't see people.

One thing about living outside the USA - you get another perspective. In CR, we aren't insane about politics. People live their lives without ever thinking about 45.5, or anything that doesn't impact their lives directly. Basically, a whole lot of the world doesn't care or thinks y'all are crazy.

We are living in an authoritarian takeover backed by billionaires, now what do we do? STARVE THE BASTARDS OUT. Don't buy shit from them. I don't care what your kids are demanding this season, talk to them at a level they understand. Don't support oppression. They need your $ and labor or they die.

Greed. The endless need for MORE. I'm sure it's in the DSM somewhere, under hoarding or OCD or something we should classify as pathological. It is not normal to crave total wealth and power. That is anathema to human progress and prosperity. We MUST share to thrive as a whole. Greed is the #1 sin.

I'm a happy widow. I have five dogs, no men to take care of, and while I hate it when someone fails to shit on the pee pad, it takes a minute to clean that up. Fixing your mommy issues and doing your laundry, cooking, etc - not so much. Not a crazy dog lady, but men are more work than mutts.

BOYCOTT the big biz boys from Black Friday until after Cyber Monday. Blackout the economy. Remind these billionaires that their wealth depends on OUR spending, watching, ordering, and above all WORKING. Call in sick. If you can't, ok, but BUY NOTHING except what you absolutely need from LOCAL shops.

The counter to lies is truth. The counter to disconnection is friendship. The counter to thinking someone looks down on you is to include that person in your social gatherings. We need to get outside our bubbles and be with people who are *gasp not like us. And BTW, BOYCOTT Nov 24 to Dec 2.

I'm friends with conservatives. I think they are blind to certain things they haven't directly encountered, but I understand the perspective. If you can talk with people without being hair triggered judgmental about certain topics, you actually will find common ground. The division is manufactured.

Male loneliness. Dudes, talk to us like we're one of your gang. Maybe leave out the how hard you hit that ass shit, because that isn't very appealing. But just talk to women without the dick in puss goal, and you'll find out that women...actually like men when they aren't pushing towards a nut.

No work, no product. No work, no profits. No work, no consumer based economy. Wake the hell up and realize the people you're oppressing are the base of the pyramid, and if they go, you tumble to the ground because billionaires have NOTHING without us.