Just A Thought

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  Remember if you are not wearing any pants, don’t stand up and walk away to get anything. 

 Certain Republicans need to not be assholes and punish the people of California because they are a blue state.  Our country is in trouble if the question of whether or not people are helped in disaster situations depends on the politics of their state.  This is not the way America and American politicians are supposed to operate. 😡😢

 So if Mr. Trump Saves TikTok in America, does that mean that things will be warm and fuzzy between the USA and China? OK, enough about TikTok before I have little cuckoo clock rhymes stuck in my head.  Except I just had one more crazy TikTok thought in my head.  What if saving TikTok would actually be a good thing?  I am reminded that I could be wrong in my own opinion.  If divisions are to be mended in American and its democracy, this is something that we all need to keep in mind and not rule out as a possibility.  The story of Mr. Trumps second term of presidency is not yet written.  Opinions should always be malleable and open to direction from new information.  I cannot rule out the possibility that Mr. Trump could do a better job in his second term and give some more hear felt consideration to the American people all those who established lives within our borders.  And people who reside outside of our borders when the actions of the Uni...

 Greenland.  “Oh yes Mr. Trump.  We would love to be the 51st State of the United States Of America.”  🥰

 I’ll take $20 of Peanut The Squirrel. 😂 🐿️ I accidentally purchased a month of Coinbase One after neglecting to cancel the account, so I may as well make use of the no fee trades and have a little fun with the dip before Trump. 😂

 A new story from The Damage Report. https://youtu.be/7l58q2SMRTE?feature=shared I am addicted to watching both the damage report and The Young Turks because it is important to me to hear the perspectives and opinions of people who I believe actually understand things and make sense.  No one understands and gets everything right 100% of the time, but I do believe that they are intelligent and rational people who see things for what they really are and care about the well-being of other human beings. 

 Christmas Island.  I just learned, at today years old, that the Island Kiritimati, also know as Christmas Island, is in the UTC+14 time zone which is the world‘s first time zone and the first part of the planet to be greeted by each new day.  So I of course then needed to give some contemplation to what it would be like to live in the world‘s first time zone.  Then it dawned on me that the answer is a no-brainer.  They would experience days and nights and sunrises and sunsets like every other place on the planet.  It still might be cool though to lead the world in moving into each new calendar date.  They would also be the first place in the world to experience New Year’s Day.  💕🌲 🏝️. 

 I have never read any of Temple Grandin’s books, but I watched this movie today and thought it was really good.  It is definitely worth watching. 😄👍. My brain is nowhere near to having the intelligence of Temple Grandin’s, but I can definitely relate to thinking and focusing on things to the beat of a different drum.  Temple Grandin had an amazing amount of determination to push forward despite facing many roadblocks that other people would just have walked away from.  I find it ironic that the thing that she struggled the most with pushing herself through was to walk through automatic opening and closing glass doors.  It really goes to show how much neurodivergent people can struggle with things that to other people are nothing.  

 The subject of the California fires was being discussed at my DAR meeting today.  People always invariably comment that material possessions are only possessions and that lives are what matter the most.  I completely agree with this, but at the same time, I’m sure it would be a really shitty experience to lose your home and everything you have.  Just now I have found myself once again thinking of material possessions.  I guess I was wondering how I would feel if I had that experience.  One thought that came to my mind is that I would be thinking “Crap, why did I spend so much of my life‘s time focused on needing, wanting and acquiring things only to have all of these goals, work and efforts prove to be pointless?” I feel like I should have all the most important things that I would want to save, in case of a natural disaster, together in one spot.  I guess this is how we all need to start thinking now that climate change is having its effect and disas...

 What are higher selves?  I believe that higher selves are higher aspects of ourselves that exist in some mystery location outside of our own bodies and brains and they seek to always grant us self love and belief in our own value.  I think they are also the granter of new thoughts to ponder.   Oh dear, I guess I’m in a philosophical contemplation mode.  At least I make an attempt at this anyway.  How much success I achieve is another story.   Update:  One additional thought that I am having today is that my higher self believes me to be a serious butthead.  Oh wow,  what am I to do with such a piece of information?? 🫨 The next message from my higher self is that if anyone ever calls me gullible they will be shot.   This is what is called humor because obviously my higher self would not promote gunshot violence. 

 Wow.  Weren’t there already enough of a plethora of videos to be lured into watching on Instagram and now we have an additional plethora of AI generated videos. 🫨

 When I think about people from the past, I find it rather amazing to think that they could not have imagined lives and lifestyles that differed vastly from their own.  Their world and existence at the time was the only reality there was.  There is a show on my television right now that I wasn’t watching but it is about the pioneer wagon train settlers.  They could never in their wildest dreams have believed that the long, difficult, and risky journey that they took to cross the country could be accomplished in just a few hours by traveling in a contraption that flies through the sky.  This doesn’t of course mean that life is a piece of cake for people of the 20th and 21st centuries.  Every time period has its own unique challenges.  I heard recently that teenagers are using some apps that turn photos of people into naked photos and they are using these to create and share fake naked photos of their classmates. 😳😠

I saw this video on Instagram.  I wonder what apps are making the best AI videos that are now being shown?   https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCSrBSjI63R/? igsh=bmFvdzM5ZTV3amti Could the baby Trump giving some kind of address be any cuter?!

 There are always lots of news stories about the British royal family at Christmas time and on other special occasions.  The royal family does intrigue me.  It is not so much that I care about the fairytale idea of there being people who are born into royalty and set apart from others by being royal.  What intrigues me is wondering what the experience of being born a Royal family member is actually like for the royal family.  The British people clearly do love their centuries long tradition of having a monarchy and a royal family.  They are attached to their fairytale fantasy of it all.  They are the reason why royalty and the royal family are made real.  When I see photos of the royal family members, the question that is in my mind is how they feel about it and what the experience is like for them.  I would really like to be able to just get inside their heads to know how they feel about it all.  What in the world is it like to be a mem...

 

So El Salvador got a billion something deal from the IMF to not continue with its plan to allow Bitcoin to be used as a national currency.  So now if countries all over the world start buying up Bitcoin with the intention of it being used as a national currency, will the IMF keep striking up billion dollar deals with them not do this.  Have they set a precedent now for what other countries could expect from such an endeavor?  Could the IMF have foreseen such a thing happening.  Could they have crafted a plan for such a situation?  Does this have a world is comic book story vibe?  I evidently like conjuring up crazy stories.  A “Food For Thought” thought just found its way in into my head.  It is food for thought for myself.  Surely there are others in the world who have greater foresight and intelligence than Mr. Trump and Elon Musk. I guess I like coming up with crazy stories of what the future holds for humanity.  The battle of intelli...

 My new approach to living is that a to-do list is a life plan or course of action.  It is not something that must be completed or prioritized over time spent just taking time to smell the roses, so to speak, or just enjoying life in general.  If things on a to do list are completed then great.  If they cannot or do not end up being completed when we had hoped that they would, then this is ok also.  Some things are more important than whether one’s house is perfect or whether all of one’s holiday ideas and plans come to fruition.  This is true for life in general be it a holiday time or not.  Yes, we all must prioritize what needs to be done and accomplish the most important things but some things are less important than our happiness and joy that we are able to find in living.  I think the notion that things don’t have to be perfect is a good attitude and example for others.  Being happy, assisting others when we can, and sharing our own joy...

 Yesterday I heard the news about astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore now being stuck in space with a return date of late March at the earliest.  This is terrible.  It was bad enough when there was the news that they would be stuck until February.  I can imagine that they must feel like they might never set foot on planet earth again.  How frustrating for them. 

We’ve got nations committing serious and violent acts of aggression against other nations including civilian locations.  This is the thought that my contemplations about drones was interrupted by.  And it is like our whole world is being hit with a tsunami of chaos.   And I’m reminded again that people in other nations are actually living the stories and lives that I hear as world news.  And I know how lucky I am to be living a privileged life as an American. And I will turn my attention back to the drones because they are another crazy development and thing taking place in the United States of America which is my home and where I reside. And now for a more whimsical thought tale.  Mr. Trump is mister grinch.  He is just whitish/yellow instead of being green.  I wonder if there is any possibility that he could become a real world transformed grinch whose heart begins to grow in size.   With the level of crazy that seems to be afflicting our planet...