The new Pokemon Go meetup group is here: https://discord.gg/KgaDbrmcf and here: https://cmpf.re/qpKF0y Note that this group is greatly an online group as many area people are busy with jobs, online, and in-person school in the area. I am super busy with all of these things most weekdays and weekends yet I like the meetings a couple of days a month. #2026PokemonGoParkMeetupChesterfieldVA
Many thanks to the dog Bootsie for helping me visit the Pickleball court and bike 5 miles at the Pokemon Meetup today.
Part of why I am not going to Saint Patrick’s Day events this weekend is the high gas prices. Here are some funny jokes I saw about it online. It is strangely comforting to know I am not the only person cancelling plans due to high gas prices.
I feel music festival envy in spring as Mardi Gras and SXSW are in Louisiana and Texas in February and March. People are desperately trying to get to New Orleans and Austin areas I used to live in, and my timeline is filled with fun photos making me desperately home sick while Virginia is completely garbage.
There is a famous documentary called “Who Killed The Electric Car?” available on IMBD here: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0489037/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk plus is for sale on Amazon. I had to write many papers on this documentary in extension certificates classes at University. I made A grades on the paper, and in the classes. The famous documentary makes the point that the conflicts and wars generated by fossil fuel profits are not a natural condition. Governments and corporations are intentionally destroying alternative transportation to fossil fuel using cars and trucks. It is not natural and inevitable like the sunrise or ocean tide it is a man made problem that is causing wars, abuse of women, car wrecks, and pollution as a start to the problems. How many women who were going home from work were desperate for a car ride home in the rain, and got far more than they bargained for when they had to be alone with a violent man? When massive profit is only in fossil fuel rich areas violence will follow.
*P.S. Complaint messages made me take this old poem down from Instagram, but I still hate Virginia with all my soul. *Note that seeing Trump get away with with rape crimes has aggravated the nightmares to a far worse state as I had to go to therapy for being drugged and beaten many times in the military back in 2005. Now seeing military men glorified in the mass media this week has made the nightmare completely worse on every level. A few military people will be worth praising, but many will misuse the power to torture women. Google the phrase “military rape” and you will see that I am not alone as a female in this situation. Therapy does not un-rape women, and only blames the victim for their pain as clinics attempt to shove drugs down their face with deadly side-effects. I found the pin I bought as a kid, and it is still true today. Note that many stores sell merchandise protesting the unpopular oil wars. If the middle east had no expensive oil would the military be there? No.
I found the pin I bought as a kid, and it is still true today. Note that many stores sell merchandise protesting the unpopular oil wars. If the middle east had no expensive oil would the military be there? No.
Every alien show says humans could not build large monolith buildings so aliens may have done it. They never mention many cultures had HUGE workhorse animals by the hundreds. Some even had trained elephants hauling wood and stones. Due to lack of antibiotics and food large human cities had only 50 or 60 people in most cultures 200 years ago or more. Each man could usually only lift around 200 pounds so HUMAN labor could not move things. However, huge stables of tamed horses, deer, elephants and other donkeys and llama existed all over the world humans could get animals to drag stones with large harnesses and ropes. Alien shows are fun to watch for pretty camera images, and pretty photos of interesting tourist destinations. I wish I could travel more frequently. I also think the government has been caught being less than truthful about many things, and we live in a time of caution and paranoia. I have watched a few alien shows, and I always detect the logic flaw of “only high tech can move things” which is never addressed. Without fossil fuel technology far more work animals were used in the past. With leverage, fulcrums, rope wheels, wooden rollers mixed in with the construction monolith stones could get moved, and they never mention this idea at all. Work horse transport had a second advantage, and there were few fatal wrecks. Horses have instincts that make them avoid running into other horses, and cars have none at all. With war being a modern problem with fossil fuel I almost envy times when loving furry animals for transportation was a social normalcy and not pollution making gasoline guzzling cars.
Old breeds of work horses and elephants are super huge and can lift large objects.
Sad, funny, and true jokes on the Internet this week. Funny in a social commentary way. I bought a “life is too short to die for oil” button as a kid, and it keeps being more true every year.