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My brother had 2 jobs in high school. One was delivering the newspaper 🗞️ in the morning, BEFORE school, so like before 7 am.

Sometimes, he couldn’t do it, so I had to learn the route and do it as a young kid.

Unlike entitled, spoiled kids these days — especially those PRIVILEGED kids born into middle class and up family — neither of us were lazy!

joiestylotus 2y ago

Is it possible to OD on 🇨🇭Ricola (made with NATURAL herb plants like peppermint, elder, wild thyme, horsehound, hyssop, sage, linden flower, lemon balm) cough/throat drops cuz think I’m pretty damn close to it, for many days now! 😡

joiestylotus 2y ago

Incompetence! 😡

Where the hell is my Sunday NYT 📰?!

Still feeling terrible and it’s very painful to swallow. 😡

Replying to

AK 👸🏻

I don't usually ski on weekends because that's when the tourists come in droves. Some weekends though I head to the slopes before the sun peeks over the mountains. They're all in bed missing this magical glow.

https://v.nostr.build/MQEv.mp4

joiestylotus 2y ago

Sorta like avoiding Times Square if live in NYC!

joiestylotus 2y ago

🇬🇧Kenya Grace - “Strangers”

Very good DnB song and gorgeous voice! 🎹🥁🎧

Sometimes, I can tell within listening to the first minute of a song, that I like it!

https://youtu.be/S2TaAcwC_zI?feature=shared

joiestylotus 2y ago

Btw, I know at least 2 people (irl) who know Anna Wintour, one 🇫🇷French man and one a VIP Lovely Wealthy Man of Integrity!

So the FAB soirees WILL BE ACTUALLY HAPPENING!!

Replying to

UNCLE ROCKSTAR

no, I advise you to find a way to walk away, so you get to environment in which everyone is 100% honest

joiestylotus 2y ago

I agree but don’t think it’s realistic for a person to be 100% honest.

A little white lie occasionally to not hurt someone’s feeling is ok, like if they ask for opinion on a hat or something.

But 99% honesty is definitely doable!

But lying on major issues is NOT ok.

joiestylotus 2y ago

Sometimes, I can tell within 5 minutes if I am into something (or occasionally, a person.)

QUALITY! And I am rarely wrong! INTUITION.

If I am wrong about a person, bye bye, they get filtered out!

I am NOT a People Person but VERY LIKABLE (do NOT care if people like me!) and make friends easily!

joiestylotus 2y ago

Another reason why most of my friends are guys:

Girls = CREATE TOO MUCH FKING DRAMA, usually cuz they’re jealous and being (figuratively) Backstabby Jealous Bitches!

ICK!

Most girls FAIL the VERY VERY SUPER SUPER High Filter Bar to be my girl friend filter test I set up in my 20s after one particular NOT PRETTY JEALOUS (short) BITCH, who also tried to intentionally interfere in the romantic relationship of a well matched couple, who are STILL HAPPILY MARRIED!!

I hope her husband found out what kind of woman he actually married and DIVORCED HER ARSE!

Nice guy but CLUELESS about her!

She needs some major KARMA thrown her way for her behavior!

joiestylotus 2y ago

Actually, I can do 3rd-degrees-of-separation-link to Prez Barack Obama via 2 other people.

The three people do NOT know each other.

And YES, I will definitely be fking MOVING to another country where I actually like the people hella lot more and there aren’t so many asshole jerks!

joiestylotus 2y ago

Personal Fact: I can do 3rd-degrees-of-separation links to both former Prez Bill Clinton (via a 🇬🇧British person met irl obvi via 🇬🇧Neil Gaiman) and Prez Barack Obama, whom I really like, respect and admire via a wealthy woman met at a small soiree in 🇫🇷Paris, hosted by lovely excellent love ❤️❤️matched friends’ parents.

Replying to

UNCLE ROCKSTAR

stop being honest with people

that are not honest with you

it's not you, it's them

there is nothing you can do.

the attention

the loyalty

the effort you put in

are all pointless

they have made their choices

and those choices do not include you.

so, move on

stop the talk

and

walk the walk

journey the journey

to find where you truly belong.

joiestylotus 2y ago

So you’re advising lying to them? Cuz I rarely lie. Instead, I will just filter out the people who lie to me!

Replying to

🟠 isolabellart

Footprints in Snow and Birch Trees, 1920

Svend Rasmussen Svendsen

(Norwegian/American, 1864–1945)

#art

joiestylotus 2y ago

I really like 🇳🇴Norwegians! Such peaceful and lovely people! My guy friend in Oslo is a Photographer and his Dad, an Architect. A random meeting while he was on holiday to visit his best friend who also used to live in Oslo 🇳🇴cuz of a girl. Both men have good music taste. Apparently, all my friends do.

Replying to

HoloKat

Dang

https://v.nostr.build/GOWe.mp4

joiestylotus 2y ago

Ugly design, to me. I think the CEO of company has bunch of lawsuits filed against him for creating a hostile environment for POC employees?

Replying to

Zach

Our society is not well. There are a lot of things contributing to that but and many places we can see the evidence for it, but I’m thinking about the future and where it goes from here.

The idea of national unity or shared vision or direction at a scale of millions is pretty much out the window. We had a flavor of national unity for about 5 minutes at the beginning of covid before it devolved into tribalism. The Internet, social media, algorithms, and rent seekers mean the chance for shared vision is gone.

We see cultural decay everywhere. In the absence of religion we see people trying to bootstrap religion ether explicitly (seeking spirituality or something similar) or implicitly signing up for pseudo-religions (like wokeness or red team versus blue team politics).

When I read national news it seems like the country, and the world for that matter, is a dumpster fire. Of course, it’s not. That’s a distorted sample of the most click worthy stuff. But there’s enough signal in the noise to pick up the trend line.

There is also evidence of this decline in my own community. The culture wars have not missed us and neither has the crisis in meaning, the death of the stable family, or the opioid crisis (all of which is connected anyway).

However, when I consider the future I believe that small communities will become more and more important. People “out there” seem crazy, but when I walk around my community I see people mostly just trying to struggle through life. Trying to make a living, raise their kids, and find some enjoyment in life.

This is why I’m increasingly skeptical of the federal government and more focused on state and local government. We need to be allowed to build systems that fit our communities without interference from forces wildly disconnected from them. Especially when those forces are loaded with rent-seekers and narcissists driven by greed and power.

The rub, obviously, is that even if we all decide that we’re going to focus on building healthy local communities, there are countless forces that will transcend those boundaries, ranging from pandemics to global military conflict to environmental disasters.

I guess I see two approaches for individuals concerned about the future of our society or, put simply, the world our children and their children are going to inhabit. We can either focus on the large scale, trying to solve problems through things like national politics or “winning” the national (global?) culture war. Or we can try to focus on our local communities first, devoting proportionally less energy to systems which are increasingly disconnected from us.

Of course, it’s not a simple dichotomy. However, we can choose where we set the slider. While I recognize the allure of being part of something much bigger than yourself is ever-present, I think too many people have set the slider to the former. And I’ve little confidence that the latter will succeed at a massive scale. It would require a radical change in where most people spend their energy (and there’s a reason that so many people don’t right now – it’s difficult). But I am certain that the former approach will fail and in fact is currently failing spectacularly before our eyes.

I’d encourage you to take an audit of where you spend your energy. Is it shouting into the noisy nihilist void? Or is it developing yourself, your family, and your community in such a way that they grow and develop into something greater than they were before?

#plebchain

joiestylotus 2y ago

Or you could just MOVE to other countries where there aren’t such divisions created by the BIGGEST COMPULSIVE LYING INCOMPETENT GREEDY UNETHICAL ASSHOLE SCUM and assholes living in that society!

They exist! I know for a fact!

joiestylotus 2y ago

Feeling TERRIBLE, especially my throat —VERY VERY PAINFUL — cuz of covid!

Pissed off that I got it cuz of STUPID, IGNORANT people who obvi were not vaccinated!! 😡😷

They are a PUBLIC HEALTH HAZARD making OTHER people sick, who the hell knows how many people they may have spread it to?! 😡😡

I personally know a woman who died from it and she was only in her 30s-40s! It was a shock when found out!

STUPID ASSHOLES!! 😡

joiestylotus 2y ago

I have NEVER called another girl friend a “bitch”, and I certainly wouldn’t do it cuz of some guy.

Please! 🙄

joiestylotus 2y ago

A friend or two may be getting downgraded and losing their BFF status soon!

joiestylotus 2y ago

I guess the solution to the Jealous Girl “Friend” problem in which she in actuality turned out to be a JEALOUS Bitch — which I have had to deal with since my 20s - now, year 2023 = find NEW girl friends who are much prettier, smarter and nicer than me so there’s NO contest.

And a woman who is fully confident and secure with who they are as a person so that they don’t feel the need to compare themselves against a friend.

joiestylotus 2y ago

Anyone know the name of a Sony Heir who went to NYU and had a beautiful girl friend (not girlfriend) named Joanna, who was also very nice & stylish?

Just wondering!

People tend to remember really (physically) beautiful people, even after many years!