• Coronavirus
    Careful, there are more "jackboots" around you than you can reasonably imagine. — tim wood
    What's a jackboot?
  • Climate Change (General Discussion)
    I have a question for you:
    What am I supposed to do with freezer burnt, year old meat that is raw and I don't have a willing human to consume it.
    BUT....I was told NOT to just throw it away but absolutely make use of the energy of the meat and not just waste it.
    Waste the meat?
    Waste the energy contained within the meat?
    Waste the means to cook the meat?

    I know this sounds absurd on a great deal of levels in my mind but these younger people, who also share the ranch with us are SERIOUS!

    I had to talk them back from tossing it out into the desert because it draws more than seed eaters which are all I would really like attract since we have animals as pets.

    Suggestions on how to achieve what they are shooting for?
  • What are you listening to right now?
    One of the sweetest words to my ears in years :heart:
    Governor Andrew Cuomo resigning. :clap:
    Finally we will be able to get to the bottom of so many issues.
  • Coronavirus
    @Book273 @frank @Benkei
    I'm truly grateful for each of you, even if you differ in approaches to the details of a shot in the dark, for even I am only able to view this from a distance.
    With her son having access to her FB account, they may not be sharing all the details as one would expect.
    At the beginning of this shit show called a pandemic, I was very concerned that President Trump would not be able to cut enough red tape, around the world, to actually make Operation Warp Speed happen as he suggested he could.
    I believe it was in April of 2021 when I was eligible for a COVID 19 Vaccination and did so.
    I knew we would need boosters as it evolves but I truly expected to be sending kids to school without mandatory masks but that is not the case.

    I'm slowly losing faith in my fellow man my friends and I am starting to understand why.

    "So make the best of the test and don't ask why
    It's not a question but a lesson learned in time"
    Good Riddance by Green Day
  • Coronavirus
    ↪Book273
    I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your reply.
    I was recently in the Regional burn center and I witnessed exactly what you described about everyone leaving the room, the cart in front of the door because the patient that was medivcaed in from a remote town was Covid-19 positive. They moved me to the hall (I burned my eye with a curling iron) and I was able to hear the conversation with the staff and they announced the incoming patient's ETA with the pilots over the ER speaker system.
    A male, 65 yrs old had a burn down his throat and mouth (suspected meth consumption.
    When he arrived they were questioning him about drinking, he said yes, have you gone through DTs, yes and you know you are Covid-19 positive, yes, any symptoms, yes tightening of his chest and throat. They asked him for family they could call to let them know where you are and that you are going to be intubated, he gave his daughter's name and number.
    They got back to me and I don't know what happened to that man but I have a feeling it didn't have a positive outcome.

    I am sorry that I didn't explain that NicK who was in ICU for 23 days and intubated/tracheostomy and had the DTs was at the hospital because he had an Aortic dissection both ascending and descending May 2020.
  • Coronavirus
    @frank
    Do you have any idea of how addicts are being treated for Covid-19 in the hospital?
    I ask because my internet friend who is typing out babble from within the hospital, has a long history of Migraines and likely had an addiction to the pain meds she has been on, is not progressing the way that the are expecting.
    The only thing that makes me ask this is because the family is trying to get the pharmacy to talk to the hospital care team.
    I realize I am likely asking a question that may not have an answer....
    But I know the thinking when NicK was in the ICU, intubated and started having DTs was that they ride them out. Where 15 years ago the thinking was ICU is not the place to go through Detox.
    Any ideas?
  • What is an incel?
    ↪VagabondSpectre

    Damn Sir! Excellent education on something I am unfamiliar with until it is explained.
    I have three young adults living with us at the ranch and I have learned not to react to a topic I am unfamiliar with and work to remain open as I hear people's explanation or their position.
    Thank you for taking the time to explain something to me and hopefully I can ask you questions as I encounter them.
    Most recently has been the "imposter syndrome" and then TanaCon.
    You have to respect this new generation.
    Courtesy given, respect earned.
    Well done :up:
  • Simone Biles and the Appeal to “Mental Health”
    a strong person does not need to respect a weak person. It's the weak person that should be respecting the strong person. But nowadays the weak are all hoarding together and trying — hope

    I kindly object to your position.
    The strong are absolutely charged with respecting and caring for the weak.
    It is what the strong does. The measure of a society is based upon how we treat the weakest among us.
    Those who much was given, much is expected.

    I could go on with platitudes but I think I have made my point.
  • Simone Biles and the Appeal to “Mental Health”
    You’d better be careful. Before you know it, you may find yourself being treated as the next dinosaur whom time has passed by. Foucault would have a field day providing a genealogical analysis both of the ‘reasons’ behind the change in values at the Olympics and your moralistic outrage ar those who dont follow the new orthodoxy . It sounds like you’ve latched onto the emancipatory version of critical theory but haven’t yet made your way into thoroughgoing postmodern territory — Joshs

    Wtf does this even mean?
    Batshit crazy is the best I can come up with.
  • Coronavirus
    Internet friend who lives at the border, fully vaccinated, son is 13 w/ CF who cannot be vaccinated and is in the hospital at least a week out of every month, has typed out a string of letters that I am sure meant something to her.
    She has been hospitalized since 8/25 with COVID-19. Difficulty breathing required intubation, collapsed lung, able to be reinflated and off the vehnilator as of yesterday, hence the string of letters as she got her phone back.
    ICU Psychosis is what she is working on now. Getting her brain back online without corruption.
    Rough times for her family and especially scary for her son who cares for his Mom and is terrified of losing her.
    Remain humble my friends :sparkle:
  • Why is so much allure placed on the female form?
    Wait. Are you claiming categorically that there is not a significant (though maybe small) number hetero females who find other "attractive" females more alluring and beautiful than "attractive" males? :chin: Asking for a friend — 180 Proof
    The claim may be made but that doesn't make it true. I'm one of those ladies who fall into that small group.
    @Cobra
    Snail trails.
    Wow! How cool are you? :cool:
  • The Last Word
    Or maybe I am not seeing it right. I am so confused as to how this won't disrupt the short story submissions.
  • Why is so much allure placed on the female form?
    I really need to get back into the habit of reading the last line of the post first as it might save me a bit of time but such is life.

    Men vote Trump and women vote Biden, and the wall goes up until next till next time — Apollodorus

    I was sharing your sentiments up and until the last line.
    You are being factious right?
  • Why is so much allure placed on the female form?
    man doing such behaviors to another man is certainly perceived as gay, a woman kissing another woman at a bar is supposedly not perceived as a gay act for some reason, but it certainly is. Many of these women at these bars that kiss other women and lap-dancing on each other in clubs have slept with more women than the average man that merely fantasizes. How do I know this? Because I am a woman. — Cobra

    From one woman to another, just because I appreciate a good lap dance at a gentleman's club, does not make me anything more than a lady who appreciates a beautiful body who has dance moves that turn me on. It could be that you are not trying to include me amongst the "many" but I love a female snuggle.


    Do I think that I am, bisexual, homosexual or not heterosexual? No, not in the end and I tried. I remained open because both body forms are attractive to me and I am very connectable with any gender being around me as they are.
    As much as I love the way women care for themselves, FOR themselves and no other is HUGELY attractive to me but in the end I want a sheilding hugg. As long lasting as our layers of perfume are, as soft, smooth and toned muscles are and the creativity of two women are, I just never found it to be enough for me.

    I'm capable of opening my own door but I appreciate a man doing it for me all the same and I appreciate their Thanks when I do it for them.

    Maybe it comes with age because when I first arrived at our prior forum, I was extremely open to alterante ideas but over the years, as these ideas came to be? I felt in the end there was more consistent sexual arousal with the male.

    I am someone who compliments any gender on anything I truly appreciate. I don't fein attention and am as truthful as I can possibly be.
  • Why is so much allure placed on the female form?
    Because hairy hanging gonads aren't attractive to anyone. Let me summon a lady to confirm. — Hanover

    <Insert hurl here>
    AND a beautiful good morning to you too dear Hanny~ :flower:
    It's not even 7am here and I can tell you that it's not an attractive sight.
    Guys think about the time when you were a kid and either Dad or Grandpa bent over to get the newspaper. :scream:
  • The Last Word
    I heard about that, but they will probably have problems hiring a 68 year old. — Sir2u
    Mmmm no, you would likely be their first choice!
  • Coronavirus
    I just got a booster. I went to the Walgreens and asked for it. They said they needed more paperwork. I said I didn't have any paperwork, so they said ok, which arm do you want it in? — frank

    Thank you for getting it and for letting us know how difficult it is to stay protected or not.

    I went to the grocery store and wore a mask because NicK hasn't gotten his vaccine. I also had a heart to heart talk with the store manager.
    I told him why I am wearing a mask but I in no way want his staff to go back to mandatory masks because of my position. He explained why he was wearing one and said he doesn't want it mandatory either. I told him I thought that his staff deserved compensation for working through the pandemic. He said they had been. I said it sounded like it was being handled the way I would want it to. I also told him that he knows that I shop there because of their staff and they are still sanitizing their carts, one chain of 4 I used to shop at and the staff. I told him if you mandate masks again you are going to lose your best employees. So if you hear that it is coming down from "corporate" please let me know and I'll let my thoughts be known. I'm not afraid of advocating for employees, who have been loyal as fuck, especially at a place that I spend tens of thousands of dollars every year.
    The manager appreciated my concern and assured me that if he needed customer's requests he would reach out to me.

    I am not sure what is the right way is a other than everyone doing what they think is best for them.

    Is that being part of the problem?

    Have you come across this Lambada variant?
  • Stuff Thread
    ↪Wheatley
    I want your Avatar!
  • books for free
    ↪Linda Reid
    A very generous thought Linda.
    Where in the world are you located?
  • Loneliness?
    Hiya @XFlare
    Welcome to The Philosophy Forum!
    I think you will find some commonality with some of our members.
    In a quick read it sounds like you are experiencing a good case of exestential angst. It is something that many of us have experienced especially at points of change for me.
    While I realize that I rolled my eyes when I heard this advice when I was in my 20's, I actually found a bit of truth to it as I got closer to older (I am 51 now). You are only able to control yourself and your reactions to life. While your healthy approach is keeping you from hurting others, you might inadvertently be walling off love as well.
    Do what you love, do it honestly and the rest will follow.
    Again, welcome :flower:
  • 'War' - what is the good of war ?
    Wonder how he felt - relieved tinged with guilt ? — Amity
    I don't think he ever felt like he should fight in many ways. My Dad was a devote Roman Catholic and went to church daily for decades, just to light candles for his prayers up to coordinating the living Manger each Christmas.

    Did he survive ? — Amity

    Absolutely he survived and served 33 years to the USA Army from Vietnam to Desert Storm. My Uncle is a language specialist (7 languages the last being Spanish) and as a Master Sergeant he would be called up to be part of a mission and essentially creates the relations with the locals where they would be based. The only gun he ever had was his issued sidearm that was never fired in deployment except for one time when he managed to shoot himself in the stomach. No Purple Heart please!
    His most soul touching memory was his first day in Cambodia. On his first day he held a baby boy, with distended stomach and very ill from starvation who sadly died that night in my Uncle's arms. He was crushed. The next morning he was brought to a clinic where he was able to hold a new born baby. I have never met someone so adamant of not letting any piece of food go to waste.
    Amazing man who wishes to be buried at Abraham Lincoln Veterans Cemetery in Illinois, second in size only to Arlington.
    :flower: :heart: :flower:
  • 'War' - what is the good of war ?
    @Amity @Sheps
    This song is so popular amongst the Italians and Opera goers but beyond that I don't know because I grew up with this song being used as a lullaby by my Grands who came to America from Italy.
    My Dad wanted it to be sung at his funeral, another promise I was unable to keep.
    He was a family man and got out of the draft because of college and flat feet. My Uncle (his brother) quit Loyala medical school before his senior year and left for Vietnam.
    The irony for me personally was impactful.


    Ave Maria (Schubert) (With Pavarotti)
    Bono

    Bono:
    Ave Maria
    Where is the justice in this world?
    The wicked make so much noice mother
    The righteous stay oddly still
    With no wisdom
    All of the riches in the world
    Leaves us poor tonight

    And strength is not without humility
    It's weakness and untreatable disease
    And war is always the choice
    Of the chosen
    Who will not have to fight
    Ave Maria

    Pavarotti:
    Ave Maria
    Gratia plena
    Maria gratia plena
    Maria gratia plena
    Ave ave Dominus
    Te cum

    Bono:
    And strength is not without humility
    It's weakness and untreatable disease
    And war is always the choice
    Of the chosen
    Who will not have to fight

    Bono and Pavarotti:
    Ave Maria
  • Coronavirus
    SYDNEY — Thousands of people took to the streets of Sydney and other Australian cities on Saturday to protest lockdown restrictions amid another surge in cases, and police made several arrests after crowds broke through barriers and threw plastic bottles and plants. " -- NPR

    Plants?     — frank

    Oh hogwash!
    @Banno
    Has been clear that it is a three day lockdown and then they get on with life.


    It sounds like NPR might not be in the know.
    Fake news? Only Americans are that naive.

    Muttering.....
    As we go back to facemasks for the "fully" vaccinated.

    I am really getting tired of those saying that Americans did ABC wrong but we (insert desired county other than the USA) did it right!

    My position has not waived on this why I say
    "Remain humble my friends."

    Rant over :sparkle:
  • What Are You Watching Right Now?
    I am watching the rain in the pool~
    :flower:
  • Working Women Paradox
    I see you've got your confidence back. On to the next chapter of bitchology! — baker
    Okay I'll bite.
    What do you mean "you've got your confidence back."?
    Where did I lose it? Did someone take it?
    And what book am I supposed to be writing the NEXT chapter of?
  • Poll: The Reputation System (Likes)
    Would anyone be interested in cookies if we make cookies in July again? :eyes:
    If so, pm me your address and I'll see what I can do to make sure you get a dose of love from my ranch to yours. :hearts:
    International is included on this unless it's cheaper for me to fly me there with the cookies. There might be a sur charge on that one. :flower:
  • Poll: The Reputation System (Likes)
    Noted, but what do you think of the reputation system? — bert1
    I do apologize for the delay in my response to you, I just saw it now.
    As far as what I think of the "reputation system"?
    I think the spirit of the idea is genuine but I am uncomfortable calling it a reputation system. Social scores only tell me who knows how to game the system and has cheerleaders around them. Much like President Trump and @Hanover there are always people who bet for the horse to win while betting the horse will lose in the same race. They could each be right but I have doubt about them both winning the race and I definitely would stay away from the trifecta.
  • What Are You Watching Right Now?
    The monsoon rains on the parched desert.
    The smell of hot, wet mesquite trees is intoxicating.
  • Working Women Paradox
    Mainstream feminism conveniently forgets about the realities of socio-economic class, and tries to blame on gender issues things that actually have to do with socio-economic class. — baker

    Did you want to keep painting with a worn out brush that no matter how big you spread the bullshit the streaks of reality keep shinning through? :sparkle:
  • First marriages.
    The human being gets used to whatever it's doing and tries to autopilot everything and reach a state of equilibrium again this is why the first time to do anything seems like the best time and anytime after that is bittersweet — MAYAEL

    Hmmmm, I have been married for 26 years, faithful for 30 years to the same man, so I am not sure how to feel about what you said.
    You are either spot on or talking horse hockey.
  • Medical Issues
    You are most welcome. I don't know if this is a new 'feature' but gotta love the '22mReplyOptions' in the quote. Where did that come from :smile: — Amity

    I think it's how many minutes have passed since you posted and I responded. Maybe?

    @Baden
    Maybe you can tell us what the '22mReplyOptions' stands for?
  • Medical Issues
    Good questions, Tiff. I think it is always best not to be hard on yourself. Terms like weakness are not useful and I think it is helpful to know your own limits and boundaries and triggers. That's a good thing and insightful. If you don't want substances around you that's totally legitimate and for many this is at the centre of their recovery. You know better than anyone what it is you need and it's perfectly ok to go about working to make that happen. Just accept that, unfortunately, people around you may not understand or they may be callous on occasions. That's their problem, not yours. Do what you need to do to stay in control. It's worth it. — Tom Storm

    Tom, Thank you for your time and understanding, you don't realize how valuable your input is on this as it is a very personal struggle but I have to remain strong to my boundaries.
    I have never thought of it as being the center of my sobriety just one that is so absolutely toxic that for me it needs to stay away from me and me from it.
    Every addiction I have slain, I have done solo and never really believed in any 12 Step program for myself though I understand it's power for others.
    A journey indeed :flower:
  • Working Women Paradox
    Theoretically men can breastfeed, though it may require hormonal injections of some kind. — praxis

    I stockpiled my milk so I could return to work at 8 weeks after birth and our baby had 6 months of my milk.
    Yes the milk is a supply and demand function.

    And let me just say that we found out that my pregnancy was going to be induced on a Tuesday, my husband NicK worked my two remaining shifts of the Thursday and Friday before. :strong:

    Oh and we never used child care outside of our immediate family. My boss allowed me to bring our son with me to the office two days a week and my husband did two days at his office and the last day was picked up by a Grandparent.

    If you are good at what you do and are loyal, you would be surprised how accommodating people can be. :flower:
  • Working Women Paradox
    Of course, this is not specified on a person's employment contract or paycheck, it's a cultural assumption. — baker

    ~pounding my head against the wall :shade:

    After all you said in your above post, it is fully cancelled by your last line, which is often a summary of the point.

    Up until now I didn't like the "cancel culture" to the point I would debate it's impact to the nth degree, much to the dismay of my offspring but I will be dipped if you didn't just score a BIG old point for them. Well done :brow:

    What does the word "assumption" also mean?
    Anyone?

    Let me put it more clearly: my adult children are just as interested in "paternity" leave as they are maternity leave. In fact one of my boys fully intends on being a stay at home parent.

    I am amazed at the old school of thought being as present as you suggest in today's workforce but then again I am only on my way back onto the highway that pays in dollars and for me: sense.

    :cheer: :clap: :sparkle: To the youth and beyond :100:
  • Medical Issues
    Stay strong. Be good to yourself :flower:
    22mReplyOptions     — Amity

    Thank you so much for your response :flower:
  • Medical Issues
    Take care :sparkle: — Amity

    If I may be so bold as to share what I feel. For the second time a core family offered me Opiates for an injury I sustained three weeks ago. I was stunned and asked them if they realized what they were doing in offering a recovering Opiate addict a supply? Their answer was after 15 years sober that I would know when to say yes or no.
    Ownership, I get it but I have been very clear with my tribe to please not tempt me.
    Don't leave it on the counter or anything like that, please.
    So am I being weak and should be able to accommodate Opiates being around me?
    Or am I reinforcing a bold boundary that I know I have failed to be able to self control and the consequences of it?
  • Dog problem
    I think it's illegal even if you have no morals about fornication with animals.
    Just a warning shot across the bow, stay out of my paddock and barn. :angry:
  • Medical Issues
    Isn't this all about how we cope during life crises; how we view life, illness and death.
    How we might be helped by others' insights ?
    No wonder I can't stay away...
    :sparkle:     — Amity
    :flower:
  • Medical Issues
    This kind of thread ties us together simply by sharing very intimate and personal issues.

    Respect :cheer:
  • Working Women Paradox

    1. Nobody wants to work

    2. Women want to work (to close the gender gap)

    WTF? :chin:     — TheMadFool


    I am a woman who willingly left the workforce to raise our family when my husband said if I stopped working he could double his income.
    At the time it was a no-brainer as he was already making double what I was in money but deficient in other meaningful ways. Ways that I can not put a price tag on but in ways that are also drawing me back into the workforce today now that our youngest has graduated college.

    So maybe it has to do with what each gender considers "wealth" at different stages in life?

    I graduated Spring 2021 with dual Associates Degrees and am continuing onto ASU for my bachelor's degree. I began my college degrees in 1988 and will demand a higher income when I graduate.

    And may I reflect back to those on this thread that suggest that women want to be treated as equals.
    I am the lady who opens the door for either gender who also appreciates it opened for me.
    But when it comes to equal pay?
    I don't expect for mine to be equal to my male counterpart, I plan on making more than him.
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