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By Lydia_R · Posted
Thanks for your thoughtful reply @RaineOnYourParade. I totally understand and agree with what you said. I'm in no way proposing a law to decrease population. It must be done on the demand side. My role in this is simply to be highly visible and inspiring on many different levels and cultures from around the world. We tend to focus on changing laws and that is addressing things on the supply side. If we make a law to tax a type of business to try to steer the economy, we are changing the supply side. People don't think of politics as a demand side thing, but our leaders should be inspiring us to change our behaviors. Like the motto I was taught in the Navy "lead by example". Although I could have tried to do this all with my music, I was not going to be successful with that. It's reasonable to try to have a career as a highly visible politician to lead like this. I never had any children that I know about. I've had a pretty fabulous life. Lots of ups and downs. Lots of adventures. Because I wasn't watching TV and I wasn't having children, I had to fill my time with something. Although I am super ambitious with this political thing, all I really want to do is cook a nice curry dinner and have an intimate evening playing music for/with a partner and/or a friend or two. And of course I enjoy cleaning the house and doing some writing, math and things. I try to give back to society, but I'm not one of these people who just wants to serve. It's very encouraging what the younger generation is doing in my opinion. It's rough around the edges and I feel we could be more intentional about things. Since population is declining, and I'm suggesting it to decline even more, we'll have this problem of there not being enough young people to take care of the old people. I'm very strong on protecting our younger generation from having to babysit old people. There simply aren't enough of them to do it like it is being done now. I think this population reduction stuff is so important and this younger generation is just inheriting all these realities that I want to totally get them out of the business of taking care of older people. The idea is to get medications mailed to them. Make doctor visits very short and sweet. Get old people staffing old folks homes. I think we have a huge problem with mental health treatment in this country. I think our economic realities from greater automation and income disparity have lead too many people to fall into despair. We have to do something with our time and if we get rid of jobs with automation, and we stop making making housing (a decreasing population doesn't need more housing), then we still have to do something with our time. I was successful at fighting addiction with relatively low carbon emitting work. I make apps on the computer and record music in my living room. I don't own a car. I've been working part time from home for 12 years. I actually work an excessive amount to do politics like this, but I have had periods of downtime. Totally! I think that humanity is just going to go in reverse here and these rural areas are going to be popular with younger people. Set them up with some wind turbines. Adjust to not having power 24/7. Plenty of space to grow food. Keep up the roads well enough to truck in some grains and other supplies. As long as climate change doesn't cause some kind of environmental or insect problem, I think these rural places are going to be great. I think we'll have to pick and choose which ones to continue supporting and which ones to abandon. There are always details to work out. I think in a world that is aging with declining population, people who are more unhealthy are going to be moving towards the cities and people who are healthier and middle age will move to the suburbs. The suburbs are OK places as long as you are strong enough to get around by bicycle. As someone who is 53 and physically fit, I groove on the idea of those big houses in the suburbs becoming house parties. Perhaps I'm just dreaming though! LOL! @awkward-yet-sweet is making some interesting points here. My first wife did concrete work on the freeways in Chicago. They do that up there because the extreme cold cracks the asphalt. Those freeways are annoying with all the bumping between joints, but the roads last a long time. But it takes a lot of industrial heat to make concrete. Yes, humanity got along without the paved roads before and we can do it again. We all inherited this world the way it is. Sure, us older people contributed to it as well, but this whole industrialization/globalization thing has been going on a long time. Perhaps we will avoid the horse and buggy thing and do a lot of mountain biking? -
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By VickySGV · Posted
Sounds like time for a new Body Technician hopefully one that is actually a Doctor Of Medicine, this one you describe is short of that mark. -
By Ladypcnj · Posted
Hi Lydia, I had McAfee before on my other computer and it allowed over 19 viruses to come in yikes lol -
By Ladypcnj · Posted
I've been seeing my new treating doctor for quite some time now, whenever I'm advised to make an appointment. When it comes to seeing a new treating doctor, hard part is starting all over again building trust between patient and doctor. On my first day seeing my new treating doctor, before I could say anything else to her, she explained to me I needed to be completely honest with her. I kind of expected that type of patient profiling response from her, since she doesn't specialize in intersex care. Anyway, I sat down in the chair as I explained to my new doctor, I don't have all of my hospital records, certain records from my childhood and teenager years are mysteriously missing regarding a surgery. After my examination was over, she disregarded or showed no interest in searching for my missing medical records, but instead she blamed me for how I take care of my health today. -
By April Marie · Posted
Saturday night @ 9PM Eastern. PM @Susan R to be added to the list. -
By Mmindy · Posted
Yes, I will be volunteering at my city's PRIDE EVENTS, and attending several other events in the communities around my area. Mindy🌈🐛🏳️⚧️🦋 -
By KymmieL · Posted
Had a customer bring in her Subie for struts. I ordered fronts. later yesterday, the boss called me into the shop. the proceeds to say I ordered the wrong ones, the fronts instead of rears. Then today I got looking I did order the right ones the first time. All the paper work that I have says front even the last work order said fronts. I told the other boss. So, Have I gotten a sorry from the boss. Ha, ha, not yet. I am doubting I will ever get one. Oh, well. life goes on. Kymmie -
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By RaineOnYourParade · Posted
While I agree with a lot of the campaign personally, I don't think a government-mandated reduction in childbirth is really necessary. As a young person, I hardly know anyone who wants to be a parent in the future. I think a lot of people will either be waiting a while or not having kids at all, meaning that the number of kids being born will probably decrease. Overcrowding's also mostly an urban issue -- plenty of places in rural America have plenty of space for both people and growing food. Of course, everyone sees things differently, so I won't necessarily say you're wrong. I just think my generation is a lot less inclined to the family mindset than some that came before us. -
By awkward-yet-sweet · Posted
To me, it sounds like a solution searching for a problem. I believe in the Russian perspective, that oil is abiotic and likely under every part of the Earth's surface. There's plenty. "Peak oil" and "climate" are excuses for government control. As for roads, we use asphalt because tar and bitumen are a byproduct of fuel production, not the other way around. Asphalt is not a great material, really. It can also be recycled somewhat and used again. Notice how road crews grind down existing asphalt into powder? Concrete is a better material for roads. But in areas like where I live, very little of our roads are paved. Gravel is a luxury, and a lot of roads are mud. Same in many "developing" nations. Pavement is better for transport, but its not like we would die without it. Lack of pavement might actually be a good thing, as people might stay home more and food might be grown locally instead of relying on transportation. It would stop this wacky idea of growing everything in California. I believe the big crisis we face is globalism and government control. Proposing some scheme to control our families? That's just more of the same. Even if folks managed to get enough votes (or rig enough elections) to get the power to do that, it won't be as VP or president of the USA in its current 50-state form. -
By VickySGV · Posted
The months of June has already been planned out for me with only minimal time for sleep between the Trans Chorus Of Los Angeles and the various communities around me that are in the service area of the LGBTQ Center I was on the Board of Directors of that are having Pride Events, both LGBTQ Pride and Trans Pride stand alone events. -
By Justine76 · Posted
Very cool. I've been clumsily navigating the world of makeup so this may help. Some of the tutorials on YouTube are so advanced, they may as well be speaking Klingon :P -
By Lydia_R · Posted
I've realized that our laptops are using much less plastic than they used to. They are smaller devices that use less raw materials and are easier to ship and hold up better in shipping than bigger computers with removable parts. They seem to have gotten rid of the overheating/fan problem for the most part, but there is a performance hit for that. I use a 10yo desktop computer with a moderate level gaming video card to run 3 monitors. I'm a producer though and most consumers have no need for that. I really haven't watched TV since the 80's. I spend some time researching on the internet and then I spend a lot of time meditating on the objects in my environment and on the streets. From living on the streets for a year, I've learned that people can say anything and can control you, but the laws of physics and mathematics are outside of that and really even transcend time itself. After people would not support my music, I built my life as a software engineer based on mathematics and engineering. I've had a moderately successful career with that and have written code for many different industries. The problem with stopping oil usage is that if we still need the bitumen to pave our roads and shingle our houses, then what do we do with the gas when we refine it? There are natural deposits of bitumen, but you know, with so many people out there, demand is huge and we are using this stuff up. If you grow corn for corn syrup, then what do you do with the cobs? We've shipped coffee and bananas all over the world. We took material from those environments. What do we do now? How long can it last? -
By Mmindy · Posted
@Lydia_R I know you're doing the best you can, and I wish you the best. Hugs, Mindy🌈🐛🏳️⚧️🦋
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