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RE: Random Thoughts
November 24, 2025 at 1:07 pm
It was on the decent end of the bad spectrum.
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RE: Random Thoughts
November 24, 2025 at 2:44 pm (This post was last modified: November 24, 2025 at 3:26 pm by Nanny. Edit Reason: indicated )
(November 21, 2025 at 6:25 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(November 21, 2025 at 4:39 pm)Nanny Wrote: I was raised with Star Trek/Roddenberry and, clandestinely due to my catholic upbringing, Uncle Carl Sagan. Broader perspective and an optimistic one for our species. Pale blue dot stuff. No one is coming to save us from ourselves.

These ideas are mostly dead now. They've been replaced by likes and clicks and views and other vapid reasons. We're not serious. We're a culture of memes

That's here. That's home. That's us. A mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

I’m weirdly impressed - that was depressing and lyrical at the same time. Good stuff.

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Roddenberry and Sagan provided an alternative from the noir of the 50s and 60s, seeing technology as a beacon for our species. We no longer think that big. We're programmed by influences that simply don't matter. We're a species distracted by technology, not enabled by it.

Roddenberry and Sagan saw a future where human differences were overcome, and we strove for expanding our understanding. That is no more Difference is the main point now. Devolution.

ETA - Technological pursuit is still a noble cause, but one pursued by the more higher classes economically, and financed by the elite.


I'm fully a hypocrite here. I am in the innovation economy. I recognize the difference of viewpoints.
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RE: Random Thoughts
November 25, 2025 at 9:43 am
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RE: Random Thoughts
November 25, 2025 at 11:31 am
I had a dream that a lobster clamped onto my hand and wouldn’t let go. If I were a Freudian, I’d interpret this in a sexual context. Since I’m not, I’m going to interpret it as ‘lobster for supper’.
 
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RE: Random Thoughts
November 25, 2025 at 7:41 pm (This post was last modified: November 25, 2025 at 7:42 pm by Nanny. Edit Reason: plural )
Chilidogs (plural) two days in a row is not advisable.
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RE: Random Thoughts
Yesterday at 9:24 pm
Wrapping Christmas gifts is laundry folding’s more annoying cousin.

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RE: Random Thoughts
Yesterday at 9:54 pm
(Yesterday at 9:24 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Wrapping Christmas gifts is laundry folding’s more annoying cousin.

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Yeah, we have gift bags set up for that. My wife can unwrap a gift without tearing the paper. If I could staple that shit on, I'd be good. But then, I can veneer a nice wood box. Different skill sets, for sure. I'm sure your luthier skills have generated beautiful instruments.
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RE: Random Thoughts
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(Yesterday at 9:54 pm)Fireball Wrote:
(Yesterday at 9:24 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Wrapping Christmas gifts is laundry folding’s more annoying cousin.

Boru

Yeah, we have gift bags set up for that. My wife can unwrap a gift without tearing the paper. If I could staple that shit on, I'd be good. But then, I can veneer a nice wood box. Different skill sets, for sure. I'm sure your luthier skills have generated beautiful instruments.

Jaysus, I haven’t built an instrument for yonks. I should probably make one before I lose the skills. Smile

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