Objectively intelligent.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

This year has been hard? I suspect I’m not alone in feeling like it’s been challenging but also enriching and satisfying. I kinda feel guilty because it’s been lower stress, and it’s caused everyone to re-examine less efficient practices in which we wasted time.

I like the destruction of rituals. Travel seems the only loss.

Just a few posts after Hank discussed the pain of his father-in-law dying without having a last opportunity to see Hank’s wife, you say that travel seems to be the only loss.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Just a few posts after Hank discussed the pain of his father-in-law dying without having a last opportunity to see Hank’s wife, you say that travel seems to be the only loss.

Right. Except I wasn’t responding to that thread. I was responding to Adder, who had written something discrete.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Right. Except I wasn’t responding to that thread. I was responding to Adder, who had written something discrete.

Nobody’s buying what you’re selling.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Nobody’s buying what you’re selling.

If you want to write in riddles, don’t write to me. If you’ve got something to say to me, say it.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

If you want to write in riddles, don’t write to me. If you’ve got something to say to me, say it.

I don’t accept any of the limitations you are attempting to place on when and how I can write to you.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

If you want to write in riddles, don’t write to me. If you’ve got something to say to me, say it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jl4iL6hCqs

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

I don’t accept any of the limitations you are attempting to place on when and how I can write to you.

I just pray Paigow never comes back and sees how far her mentee has fallen{sad face}

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

I just pray Paigow never comes back and sees how far her mentee has fallen{sad face}

I’ve always hated you and revel in the pain of those connected to you, which is best channeled, I find, through replies to Adder.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by pretty little flower

i don’t accept any of the limitations you are attempting to place on when and how i can write to you.

хорошо

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I’ve always hated you and revel in the pain of those connected to you, which is best channeled, I find, through replies to Adder.

Your embarrassing yourself.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Your embarrassing yourself.

I was fixing to do the your typo on FB at T. Now I can’t, but kudos.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Your embarrassing yourself.

There bonds I don’t miss.

[Pretty Little Flower]

This morning, I was speaking with a financial advisor for my father, and he shared with me that he had also lost a parent, his mother, who was infected with COVID in the early days of the pandemic. Her health went downhill so rapidly that he did not even have a chance to say goodbye to her, and of course he could not visit her, so she died alone, and likely afraid, in a Boston hospital surrounded by others who were dying alone and afraid. I expressed condolences and he mentioned that it has been such a difficult year for so many. I responded, “This year has been difficult?” He seemed taken aback by the question so I explained that, while there have certainly been challenges, the year has also been enriching and satisfying. For some, the pandemic disruptions have actually lowered their stress levels. I suggested he focus on the extent to which the pandemic has forced us to reexamine inefficient practices that had previously wasted our time. And also to enjoy the way the pandemic has contributed to the destruction of meaningless institutionalized rituals. In fact, I said, in some ways, it seems like the only real loss this year is travel. He did not come right out and say it, but I’m pretty certain he agreed, and that he appreciated my positivity and glass-is-half-full attitude.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

This morning, I was speaking with a financial advisor for my father, and he shared with me that he had also lost a parent, his mother, who was infected with COVID in the early days of the pandemic. Her health went downhill so rapidly that he did not even have a chance to say goodbye to her, and of course he could not visit her, so she died alone, and likely afraid, in a Boston hospital surrounded by others who were dying alone and afraid. I expressed condolences and he mentioned that it has been such a difficult year for so many. I responded, “This year has been difficult?” He seemed taken aback by the question so I explained that, while there have certainly been challenges, the year has also been enriching and satisfying. For some, the pandemic disruptions have actually lowered their stress levels. I suggested he focus on the extent to which the pandemic has forced us to reexamine inefficient practices that had previously wasted our time. And also to enjoy the way the pandemic has contributed to the destruction of meaningless institutionalized rituals. In fact, I said, in some ways, it seems like the only real loss this year is travel. He did not come right out and say it, but I’m pretty certain he agreed, and that he appreciated my positivity and glass-is-half-full attitude.

I just learned that our neighbor of ten years died in early July. She had had pneumonia for many years, and rolled a little oxygen tank around with her. She and I had arranged to have the trees between our house trimmed, must have been just before she died, and she was always on top of stuff like that. I guess she was having what seemed like complications of her pneumonia, but the paramedics who came out assumed she had COVID and took her to that ward of the local Kaiser hospital. Her family wasn't allowed in to see her for several days, and her daughter (who worked at that hospital) said she was threatened with arrest for challenging those restrictions.

I started worrying about her when I saw the FOR SALE sign in front of the house, but she'd been dead for a few months by then, so I guess the joke was on me.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas...=1000500063446

At 6:19, Scott Galloway had the temerity to say, "You don't like to say this out loud, but... If you're blessed with good relationships... if you're at a point in your career where you're on the back nine as opposed to the front nine, you're living your best life... For a lot of people, Covid-19 has been an inconvenience vastly overweighed by an increase in wealth... more time with Netflix, more time with kids, less time commuting..."

He said he takes no pride in saying any of that, and fully recognizes Covid-19 is not a glass half full moment for many. But he said it.

And he's said this in numerous podcasts. He should be canceled for it.