What's weighing on your mind today?

hollydolly said:
very hard... compared to Spain...
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Sorry you are going through this, @holldolly! We grew up without A/C and we had a whole house fan in the dining room that drew in the air. My bedroom was on the second floor, and I always slept with the window open. Do you have any small A/C you could put in a window? (I haven't seen your other threads on that, so sorry if someone already asked you that question).
 
palides2021 said:
Sorry you are going through this, @holldolly! We grew up without A/C and we had a whole house fan in the dining room that drew in the air. My bedroom was on the second floor, and I always slept with the window open. Do you have any small A/C you could put in a window? (I haven't seen your other threads on that, so sorry if someone already asked you that question).
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No..it has been asked many times about putting a window AC in my house... it wouldn't be possible to do that.

People often suggest a mobile AC unit but I'd still have to have a window open for the hose


While it's so hot, I just have to use the desk fans ..I do have a de-humidifier as well.. and a tower fan
 

What's weighing on my mind today, and yesterday and the day before that, is the Canadian National Anthem. It's been playing in my head for days.

I finished watching the Stanley Cup finals several days ago, where they played the Canadian and the United States national anthems before each game and it's been stuck in my head since.
 
Change. Change is on my mind.

Working lives are changing radically, and I'm unsure what the future looks like. Not only skills, but the whole relationship between business and workers is morphing. Attitudes are evolving, on both sides of the worker/management divide. I wonder where it will go, and how a looser system of responsibilities and agreements can ever support the society we know.

I've lived long enough (as have we all here) to see some of the financial cycles return, and then decline once again. I see governments that are operating on old ideas that don't seem fit for purpose. I see the tasks ahead are being overwhelming, and largely unobtainable. Not a single party speaks as though they have anything other than a slogan to offer. What's the future of democracy when the choice becomes about the color of the suit, rather than anything said?

I see wars that are festering over arguments whose roots go back generations. I have visions of Boris Karloff stumbling up the hills looking for a place to hide while a pack of angry villagers with pitchforks and torches are in hot pursuit. Except the monster is replaced by whatever is being demonized at any given moment, and the pack are driven by the drivel they consume on Social Media.

I see tech firms altering how people think, in a way they've never been able to before. I see a turn away from education, expertise, and hard earned knowledge in favor of a quick 5 second Google search. But it's the message and desire to have a captured audience who crave consumption that is really at the heart of it.

Gee, I need to lighten up.
 
Paulina said:
The fact Trump just dropped bombs on Iran. Did we know as citizens he was going to do that? No.
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A couple days ago I posted in one of the relevant threads that this would happen. It was inevitable. I've not got great insight or anything, it was simply the most obvious thing in the world. I do hear you though.
 
AnneTeak said:
"War" What is it good for? Absolutely nothing"
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the problem is...that a world war is over due to cull the population.

Over the centuries this has kept the popuation to a manageable amount, millions dying.. both serving military, and civilians ...from wars

Pandemics have done the same.. in the early part of th 20th century there was both 2 world wars, and a Spanish Flu Pandemic which killed millions wordwide... the flu killed 50 to 100 million people worldwide.. the 2 wars killed 85 million people..combined....


The closest the world has come to removing as many people since 1945, has been the Covid pandemic... and unfortunately for the world Government it didn't quite kill as many as they'd hoped.. nowhere near in fact, to cull the popualtion down to the number required as Ideal ...

Our world is now vastly overpopulated we're fast running out of resources... can you imagine if all of those 185 million people who died between 1914 and 1945, had reproduced, ... what the population would be today ...

So.. there is , as far as world Gvernment is concerned ... a need for another world war.. or another pandemic...
 
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Rakaia said:
What is bothering me is the persistent use of the term assisted suicide, if a death is not self inflicted it's not suicide.*
Call me pedantic if you wish but this is a subject that i have studied. This week I applied for employment as a suicide prevention coordinator.
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* Very well said. I hadn't thought of it that way before, but you're right.
 
medical aid in dying (MAID)
medical assistance in dying (MAiD)
assisted dying
physician-assisted death (PAD)
physician-assisted suicide (PAS)
assisted suicide

all the above are the same and require strict laws and safeguards in place. Suicide is the act of causing one’s own death
 
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