It really is magical.
I read to my wife sometimes, since she enjoys it and it seems to help her migraines for some reason.
But it doesn’t have to be a partner even.
Back when my body betrayed me and I had to quit working, i was depressed as fuck. My best friend would sometimes just sit and read to me. We got through the entire narnia series eventually. Ngl, it was part of what kept me alive through the early stages of it all
Read to your homies, folks
Aight, ima weigh in because I want to, not because I need to.
But I didn’t write my first piece of fiction for myself until I was in my thirties.
I didn’t write the first the public to read until I was almost 40.
The first two kinda sold, but didn’t. Like, I had a publisher, and it flopped because zero marketing, and mid tier writing. I never said it was good, just that I did it.
Since then, I’ve finished another novel, am partway into the sequel, have a short story collection I’m editing for self publication, and I still haven’t made more than twenty bucks on anything published.
However, like Tolkien, that first story I wrote for the public was after years of writing stuff in general. Custom fiction, little stories for individuals in my life, that kind of thing that wasn’t for me.
So, if you expect to crank your first story out at 45 and have a hit, keep dreaming because you’d need a shit ton of luck and connections. But from 45 to 50 (my age), you can get a fuck ton better, and have fans, if you choose to share your work.
It’s never too late to start. It might be too late to get good, and even if you do there’s no guarantee it’ll sell, but don’t let that stop you
Well, yeah, but you’re a DUMBASS, so what do you expect?
!it’s their user name, don’t give me shit!<
Yeah, but I’m offing myself when I hit 70, so the clock is ticking
I love the typo because it covers so many things at once
Queue as in they’re lining up to do it; cue, as in that’s their cue to be stupid; and que (spanish for what) as in what the fuck are they thinking?
Yeah, there’s always a lot of flex in social movement. The harder you push, the further you get; but unless the system resilient enough to most adapt, it snaps, or it rebounds. Neither of which is a reliable form of change.
To me, once lives are no longer on the line on the big scale, it’s better to ease up and push for change gently from the bottom up rather than forcefully from the top down.
It doesn’t fix problems as fast, but once they get fixed, the populace’s inertia will serve up keep the changes as the status quo. Since the kind of changes that Francis was making were the kind that work from the bottom up, despite him being a power, I look at his changes as the result of the work already done, rather than something that was supposed to be the vanguard of change.
But, like you said, moving slow means that there’s going to be people getting ground down by the system as it exists. Even once you get past the point where people are dying frequently by way of violence or gaps in the system, there’s still going to be death, and suffering, until things change completely. But if you don’t slow down once that goal is met, the serious enemies of humane change will fight harder and nastier.
You end up with a worse situation overall by pushing until a system breaks. You get the crazies making desperate moves instead of being gradually worn away.
No worries, I totally understand where you were coming from.
I mean, I did say for a pope there.
And it’s possible to be flawed and still have compassion. Should he have done better? Absolutely. But he was better than the pope before him, and the one before that, alllll the way back.
It’s okay to recognize the good in a person while also recognising the bad.
However, this is c/lemmybewholesome and it wouldn’t have been appropriate for me to bring up the bad in a top level comment.
It’s fine in child comments, imo, but if a community is geared around things being uplifting and positive, a top level comment should stay focused on those things. It’s one of those things where if I have to say something that drags down the overall thread, I shouldn’t say it at all. So I focused on the good side of things.
And, again, I did say that he was decent for a pope. I acknowledged that he had flaws indirectly in as friendly a way as possible by phrasing things that way
Yeah, he really was decent for a pope. And I think he might have been more decent as a pope if he had his way entirely. He really seemed like he wanted more compassion and change than he was able to make happen.
I mean, if it gets solved, leaving it up would be better, particularly if the reason for it is something that might happen to someone else
Mastodon on my pen name.
Piefed for the hell of it.
Used to use one of the “key” forks, but the instance I was on shut down, and I never went back.
Haven’t really bothered with the rest because they don’t fit any needs, and tend to be based around things that aren’t my personal interests enough to use regularly. Peertube, I’ll never put videos up, but I use it when other people link to it.
That’s really it. I don’t want/need the kind of services friendica is for, nor whatever the name of the Instagram clone is, and loops is totally not my thing.
I don’t have anything against them, mind you, I just don’t use those kind of platforms
Yeah, the optimistic people in the field might have the rosy outlook to say in about a decade currently, but they’ll usually kinda start mumbling if you try to pin them down on it.
Only person I know that’s keeping up with the various attempts to regrow or replace teeth as a professional has said we might see the very first wave of it around maybe 2040ish, if everything goes well, with early trials sometime after 2030ish. And even getting them to be that predictive was with the promise to never quote them by name because “there are so many steps between what’s going on and human trials that could fail or go wrong, shit is still science fiction to me”
The fuck did anyone expect?
Eh, I get the rule. On the surface, it seems stupid because the subject of rom options is pretty integral to privacy
However, discussion of roms tends to always devolve into what amounts to fanboyism at some point. You end up with a lot of “yeah, but” and “but they are/aren’t” that covers the same ground every single time, and users have to wade through the bullshit to get to anything useful.
It’s the same conversation every time, so you reach a point where it’s better to just outright ban rom/os so that other issues aren’t drowned by that.
It’s damned if you don’t damned if you do, there’s no good choice, so you make the choice that’s less hassle on average
Ahhh, the gICEtapo goes high tech
So, sundar pinchai can be added to the list of CEOs that suck?
Because a lot of the time, it’s weird that when the company does nasty shit, nobody names him as the head asshole in charge the way that other companies and ceos get handled.
The dude has been in the driver’s seat for pretty much every major deterioration of Google/alphabet for years.
I tell this story a lot because I miss the hell out of her.
In 2007 I brought home a corgi. She still had floppy ears to go along with those stumpy little legs. She was being house trained, and the fastest place to take her was in the side yard.
One day, a canine buddy saw me and came jogging over. This fella was a pittie, about knee height to me. Big, brawny pooch. He was also as sweet as he was big.
My little Luna love did not know this. She catches sight of him gallumphing our way and almost jumped in front of me, between me and the ghostly white beast. She was barely taller than my ankle
Her hackles rise, and this puppy growl starts unzipping through the air.
She’s a mouthful for him, if he was that sort of dog.
But she was going to take him on if need be. He, however, sat down, cocked his head and just looked back and forth between me and her.
I take a knee and get her redirected, then calmed down enough to introduce them. Didn’t take long, since the big doofus did a play bow and snurfled her, and she switched immediately to fun mode.
So, we go in the back yard where she can be off leash, and they romp until she’s exhausted enough to fall asleep between his paws. Took all of ten minutes. He gives her a bath while I’m petting both of them.
Eventually, she wakes up, and we go in, while the hephalump meanders home.
Best friend for over thirty years :)