They would not have been ‘neat’ if they had become an accident. The closest one I ever had that would have likely ended my life and the lives of the people I was with involved two transport trucks, a moose, rain, a rocky outcropping and beautiful northern lakes and wilderness. That would have been neat to see at the start but definitely would not have been ‘neat’ to see at the end.

I’ve missed stop signs and been in neat near accidents because I was in a car full of loud people, the radio blaring and people trying to talk to me all at the same time.

That was years ago when I was younger. If we’re on the freeway, I can talk and play some music … but as soon as I’m navigating through a town or busy area … radio and music goes off … you can talk to me but I’m not really paying attention to you.

Live stream it every time it happens … play only small segement but then set up a Patreon and set up a premium section for full volume

Also ask your dad if he’s willing to stream their activity and that everyone would get paid for it

I had to look at the date of when this stupid article was written … most sane people were saying this over a year ago.

Now the NYT is making it sound like its some new revelation?

Or they took it as an opportunity to advance our technology enough to entertain us and stunt our growth. It’s like giving monkeys an endless supply of bananas, why would the monkeys do anything else any more? They got all the bananas and there’s nothing more to do for them.

It’s an easy way to get rid of competition or an emerging civilization in the galactic neighborhood. Just throw us a bone and we’ll gnaw on it for a few thousand years.

Having to apply a new update every week

I’m Indigenous Canadian and my dad was born in the wilderness in a very traditional lifestyle in northern Ontario. His first and only language was Ojibway/Cree, he understood English but seldom spoke it as he preferred his our language only.

As a teen in the 90s I loved watched TNG and I watched it as often as I could whenever I could. I never stuck to a schedule and we only had the most basic satellite TV package we could afford at the time. I was so engrossed and loved the show so much that my dad at one point asked me … ‘It’s amazing that people are up there now that are doing all those things’

I had to explain to him that it was all just as show that was fake and that none of it was real.

To me … this is my favourite TNG moment … that the show was so convincing and well performed that it made my dad believe that it was real.

To be fair, my dad was probably the most intelligent person I’ve ever known and an excellent teacher. In his prime, he often just walked into the wilderness with nothing but a knife in the fall and came back midwinter with a stack of furs to trade and make money and then head back out again with very little to survive on. He just wasn’t that aware of what the outside world was all about.

America spent about a hundred years burning baskets everywhere until theirs was the only one left

I have a contact list of about a dozen people that I call or call me … mostly family and two friends. I have more people I know beyond that list but they all know I don’t like talking or texting on a phone. I don’t like using the phone.

The only time I get to use the phone is in watching at least one random call a week. Half the time its a telemarketer and the other time, some political or government organization wanting to ask something. Texts are usually random with people asking dumb questions like ‘hey’ … ‘where are you?’ … ‘hey frank how you doing’ … or some random thing to entice me to answer. If I don’t recognize, I delete and block.

Whew … at least there’s a chance of intelligence life in the universe

I don’t have a leg to stand on with most online debates … but I am able to walk and talk

I’m not interested in any implant devices to the brain.

I don’t mind the technology, the development or the potential for what is possible … I would really like to see where it could all go.

I just don’t trust the people who would make it, develop it and control it all

In the 20th century it morphed into a marketing gimmick to sell lawn equipment, fertilizer and products to maintain a perfect manicured lawn

“See Mr Jones next door. He is so rich that he can afford to have a perfect cut grass lawn with no dandelions in it”

This photo was taken ten minutes before the first ever rage quit in a video game to occur … the lab was set on fire and two players and an innocent bystander were hospitalized

The problem is not so much that he came into power

The problem is due to fact that monied interests wanted him in power and supported him

The problem is also that the population was so easily led into believing that he should be in power

The problem is that the same monied interests who wanted him in power in the first place also control the media and the narrative to make us all believe that it is acceptable to have him in power

Step one … revolution

Step two … don’t be nice to the people who tell you to eat cake

Step three … revolution

Step four … don’t be nice to the people who weren’t nice to the people who told people to eat cake

Step five … revolution

Instead of mass migration, they should just institute small changes to small sections or areas or groups … just slowly erode the windows userbase over a period of about four or five or even ten years. Once it reaches a critical mass at some point … then you can just cut the cord altogether and change over everything and everyone.

That’s a bad example … because in every possible outcome because it is Harold in the picture … it will mean pain, suffering and untold misery that poor Harold will hide behind a dignified smile as his world burns around him.

Write everything in digital form … use text only because it’s easier to archive, manage, organize and refer to in the future

Encrypt as much as you can and keep a copy locally and in as much safe keeping and off line as much as possible whenever and however you can.

I wouldn’t worry about having the state come after you and use the information against you … or worry too much about intelligence agencies cracking your encryption and reading all your writing … really … who cares because if the state does want to come after you, they wouldn’t care what evidence was available … a journal might make their case easier but in the long run, they wouldn’t care any way.

I would think about the journal and writing from an archival point of view. You’re not writing and creating all that content for yourself … you’re writing and creating it for future generations to see and read. Sure, it might get destroyed or erased … but it also might have a chance of being stored, shared, archived and rediscovered in the future. It would be like reading journals and content written by people before the first or second world wars and historians would gain a valuable insight into the minds of people during our time period. The information we produce now doesn’t matter much to anyone right now whether for good or bad reasons … the information we create now will mean so much more to people far into the future.

So go ahead … write, write often and write as much as you can … the more you write, the more you leave behind for someone in the future to find.