Category: Family News

  • Facebook Emotional Contagion Study

    Facebook Emotional Contagion Study

    By Andrea Menzies

    How are so few people talking about the about the Facebook Emotional Contagion Study where about 700,000 people had their posts manipulated with lies by Facebook, and courts said it was okay due to terms of service saying they can conduct research? I am taking night school classes. Part of the homework was to take the ethics class online at the CITI Program on Social and Behavioral Research clinical section. Some parts of the certificate discussed the Hippocratic Oath and medical privacy which made me want to study healthcare really badly. Some of it discussed unethical practices in clinical research and one part was “Internet-Based Research-SBE” by Alejandro Martinez with a section called “Facebook Emotional Contagion Study and considerations it raised for future researchers and IRB” saying it was lawsuit worthy unethical. I passed the class with all A grades.There were so many lawsuits about lies on Facebook made by Facebook. Why are so few people talking about how Facebook is killing people as lab rats? It is written into their terms of service that they can just manipulate people for research whenever they feel like it. They received no consent from users to do research other than information buried in the terms of service. I quit Facebook before, but I went back on because several of my Texas friends got sick in the hospital and it was the only way to say get well soon. Now I am limiting my posts again because people are highly underestimating how evil Facebook truly is daily. If your phone goes dead there are few printed maps, and no phone books as people have traded most all paper printed information for the digital print. Is that really such a great idea? Before Trump people thought the lies were no big deal. It is becoming lawsuit worthy daily.

    https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/06/30/326929138/facebook-manipulates-our-moods-for-science-and-commerce-a-roundup

    Studying hard at night school.
    Facebook is trying to manipulate people daily.
    Before Trump people thought the lies were no big deal.
  • News Jokes

    Andrea M.

    News jokes are telling more truth than CNN these days. Where are the pesky kids when you need them?

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  • Many Thanks

    By A. Menzies

    Many thanks to my friends and family that helped me pay my medical fees this week. I am feeling much better after getting medication for extreme body pain. I had to be hospitalized 8 times my first year when I was a baby for problems even when I was tiny. Due to a paper work glitch my insurance was cancelled right as several medications were due for refill. Other countries with less money than the United States have Universal Healthcare for all citizens as they don’t make people jump through hoops doing paperwork to stay alive. I think about that daily.

  • Health USA

    Health USA

    By Andrea M

    Countries with far less money in comparison to the United States have Universal Healthcare for all citizens. When people are sick they can NOT work a lot of hours so having health insurance tied to a job guarantees you will lose it when you most need it. I am dealing with this gem of a logic flaw this week.

    Meanwhile the billionaires have seen record profits this year. Also they have record tax breaks.

  • A Nightmare Poem About Virginia

    A Nightmare Poem About Virginia

    By Andrea Menzies

    Many times I have woken up from screaming nightmares to post emotional things about my hatred of Virginia and the rapist beaters populating the Fort Lee military base. I chickened out and deleted many of them. Not because they are not true, but because people in Virginia would rather torture me than understand the truth that rapists and beaters populate the Fort Lee military base in Virginia. This one I will not chicken out on, and I owe it to my constant nightmares to post it freely. Here is a simple poem about the constant anger I face as my family has tried to trap me in the garbage-pit that is Virginia. My phone was lit up like a Christmas tree with friends calling me, being nice to me, and inviting me to parties when I did not live in the disgusting pit called Virginia. In Virginia all I have known is anger and pain as they torture me daily for refusing to be a rape slave to military men. My only dream of joy is to go to enough night school, and make enough money to travel coast to coast, saying Virginia is the rapist beater pit I forever hate the most.

    A Nightmare Poem

    Rapists All Fort Lee

    Rapist Rapist human sewage all Fort Lee,

    Rapist Rapist my tortured eyes did see!

    Military men disgust me,

    every branch of military men disgust me,

    they are all rapist beaters,

    they are all sewage beater.

    That is all I ever-ever saw with my eyes.

    All of Virginia rapist-hole sewage-hole,

    All of Virginia rapist-hole hate it so.

    Have not had one single happy memory in ya

    Ugly, ugly, sewage-sewage hole called Virginia.

    Sewage-rapists All Fort Lee!

    Hate them all eternally!

    Rapists, rapists all Fort Lee!

    Nightmare, nightmare, human sewage.

    They said they would train me

    said they would give me a job.

    They gave me no joy

    soul and dignity they did rob.

    I’m going to travel from coast to coast,

    saying Virginia is the rapist pit

    I forever hate the most.

    My only dream and goal,

    is to drive screaming from the nightmare hole,

    hate you forever Virginia…

    Hate you forever Virginia…

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  • Xymox Show Baltimore

    By Andrea Menzies

    I got tickets to Xymox a band I have two records and countless songs from on CD! I would like to thank the Baltimore Soundstage for putting on this great show of the band I have loved since I was a kid. Too bad it was almost too expensive to do, as corporations have made going out an expensive nightmare. The Xymox band are a big hit amongst Siouxie and the Banshees band fans as they are a famous European band.

    I have also seen the Sisters of Mercy play at Baltimore Soundstage on September 17 of 2024, and VNV Nation April 1, 2024, and Depeche Mode September 7, 2017 in the area so I know it will be a good show. All the above listed bands are top 40 popular bands from Europe. Virginia only has horrible garbage music playing so I know I will have to get an apartment near Baltimore to hear any good music.

    Full review https://www.FH7publishing.com

    See Patreon link.

  • 2026 April Vote

    2026 April Vote

    By Andrea Menzies

    Yes I have voted. I got nine letters of spam mail a day for weeks. I get it, they are reminding me the Virginia election is important today.

  • Smart Ironic

    Smart Ironic

    By Andrea Menzies

    There is no such thing as a person who NEVER makes mistakes even if they make few mistakes on school papers and tests. It is always ironic that people good at school are called “smart” people. The professor on the TV show Gilligan’s Island could make an energy plant out of coconuts but he could not fix a five foot hole in a boat. How weird is it that no one noticed that as the show was on TV for many years? The Far Side has a famous cartoon of a kid at an honors gifted school pushing a door that says pull. Many people have noticed that school work and perfection are far from the same thing. I am starting a new class for a Master’s Degree program tonight, and the irony of learning is really powerful every first day of class.

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    Could not fix a five foot boat hole.
    Could not stop pushing the pull door.
    School uses up a life time.

    You must use time in a wise way to make good grades.

  • Easter Bonfire

    Easter Bonfire

    By Andrea M

    Alexandria Menzies, and Anne Brockett, and I went to the Easter Mass at Saint Augustine Church. They had a bonfire, candles, and holiday music for the event. Then we ate Chinese food. I was having a bad spring break holiday due to pneumonia and needing to go to the hospital. I could not travel or see music with that going on. At least I was able to go to family dinner by the end of the break.

    Easter Saturday night service.
    Sunset on the way.
    Bonfire before the church mass.
    Bonfire before church on Easter.
    I have been there more often than 6 times but don’t always have photos.
    The bonfire lit candles and people walked to seats at mass.
    Alexandria got the first candle of the group.
    Chinese restaurant after the music.
    Latin Market restaurant as well for holiday dinner.
    Me making “ohh” noises at amazement due to huge crowds.

    Me helping Anne sit for mass at Easter.

  • Honors Meetup

    Honors Meetup

    By Andrea Menzies

    I am Andrea Menzies and I got into a new honors society for making all A grades in 2025 and 2026 at a new University. I am also the Pokemon Go player Poedaughter7. The orientation is the same day as the park meeting today so the park thing is cancelled.