5/15/2023 ...but I want to get, like, even better
Never let 'em see that they get to you. Better yet, don't let 'em get to you. 5/13/2023 Adam Bomb
After reading over my last post about trashazon, I realized that it would be a pity to share that story and not include the email that Adam blasted through their little rinky-dink pile of bricks one evening. I guess I didn't bring it up in the original post because I had other points on my mind that I wanted to make. This way, though, that one email gets its own solo.
Before I get into that, I want to make it perfectly clear that the use of the word "bomb" in this post's title and that of the other one is purely, and always will be, metaphorical. I just don't want anyone getting any false ideas about my intentions here. Subject: On the Subject of Thievery in the Modern Capitalist Society from the Standpoint of a Species to which the Delusion that One can Benefit From Such is Entirely Foreign I'm having a little trouble understanding why we are being treated like criminals when it seems so very clear to me who the crook is here. I find it unlikely that any sane person would listen to this story and conclude that we knowledgeably donated $75 to Amazon. Now you can quote Amazon policy and legal bullshit all day long, but at the end of the day you have our money and we don't have the promised merchandise.
Though Adam came up with it completely, it was my idea to have such a lengthy subject line. I think long titles are funny. After sending it, he said, with some exhilaration, "It was almost worth 75 bucks just to be able to say that!" "Totally!!" I agreed.
Adam also recently reminded me that after having sent this email, the "customer service" agent I spoke with on the phone, who I said in my last post seemed like "a nice enough guy," when we were making chit chat, he asked if I watched football and said that his favorite team was the Pittsburgh Steelers. So yeah, either way you spell it, they stole our money, and they wanted us to know it, too. 5/10/2023 amazon dot bomb
Here's an experience I had recently with the soul-sucking cartel that is amazon.
Our original 21W Anker solar panels have been trucking with us since day one, and Adam has even re-wired one of them. So in looking to the future, we decided to order another panel. Due to the nature of our lifestyle, particularly the views that Adam is not at all shy about sharing, we thought we might try to go about it anonymously. I anonymously setup a new email address, I then created an amazon account using said email address and added the solar panel to the cart so that we could see exactly how much it would cost. It qualified for free shipping. Adam then purchased an amazon gift card using cash for that amount. I proceeded with checkout, and the first bump in the road was that, during the checkout process, the payment methods are entered before the shipping method is selected. The default shipping method was not the free shipping, so in order to proceed, I needed to provide an additional handful of money. I entered the information for a VISA gift card Adam had on hand and proceeded to select the free shipping, thus having no funds taken from the VISA giftcard, allowing the amazon gift card to cover the cost of the merchandise. The second bump in the road was that the item we were purchasing could not be shipped to an amazon locker as it was too large. We had used the amazon locker a couple weeks prior when we ordered some new battery banks. It happens that there were also some road bumps in ordering the batteries as well. Amazon claimed that there was a problem with the payment method; a payment method we had used multiple times each year on amazon for the previous 5 consecutive years. That transaction eventually went through after I called my step-father to explain the situation and see if he wouldn't mind calling the bank, per amazon's recommendation. Just step aside to think for a moment here. If you were a multi-trillion dollar organization, and I'm talking about the government here, who was trying to bring down a man, one of whose primary means of exposing your lies and treachery is through a website and the occasional forum or comment post by using a tablet which is powered by battery banks that are charged by solar panels, you'd do whatever you could to try and prevent him from obtaining more supplies that would ultimately enable him to do more than he already is, right? In order to do this successfully, it would have to be covert, right? Otherwise people might wise up to you and call for your head. It has to look like just coincidence. So you get someone, or a handful of people on staff at the outlet where you know the guy shops so they can be around to just slip a monkey wrench into the works when no one's looking. Except someone was looking. Amazon suggested calling the bank stating it was a problem from their end. The idea here is that you get tossed into an endless loop when the bank says there's no problem but amazon keeps saying there's a problem with the bank. 4/27/2023 Pattern: After the After Party
August 2, 2023 Update: updated the post with "(done)" the tasks which have been completed.
This page is just a placeholder until I am able to compile the written instructions (done), put together some charted instructions, draw up some diagrams and other visual aids, create a photo gallery (done), and get that all into a .pdf for distribution. I hope to have the pattern available by the end of Summer 2023, but that's a lot of work, and I'm not holding myself to a specific deadline. My goal of "Summer 2023" is really just arbitrary. If you are one of the three people who chose to take one of my samples from the food pantry where I left them, and you have come to this page from there, thank you for your interest in my work! One last tip about wearing the scarves: watch out because they catch easily on tree branches, bushes, and likely jewelry as well. Just a fair warning. If you have come to this page and are interested in the pattern, you could bookmark it and check back starting in June or July to see if I've been able to publish it yet. There's a lot of work ahead of me, but I'm looking forward to it! :-D If you scroll to the bottom of this page, you should see a word bank of categories where the word "Patterns" should appear. If you click the word "Patterns," it will bring up all the blog posts for my patterns. Feel free to peruse those, as well as the rest of the website. 4/17/2023 mindfff-bread
I once conceived, staged, and performed in a concert dance-art piece in which I sat in a chair and ate my dinner, which consisted of nothing more than a chunk of bread, whilst other dancers in the same show danced around me having been instructed to take their improvisational movement inspiration from little scraps of paper, randomly torn, by me, from a notebook I had been writing in for some time. Mind you, I was instructing them as I was tearing the paper scraps out of the book, and they had only volunteered when I asked them maybe 3 or 5 minutes prior. The instructions were basically: "take your movement inspiration from whatever you see on this scrap of paper, and feel free to vocalize in any way you see fit by stage-whispering to me as you dance around me. Meanwhile, I'm going to sit on a chair in the middle eating this bread." The whole thing was very last-minute, impromptu.
The overarching show was the last show a certain choreographer was presenting in Columbus, OH before he moved to New York City, and I was performing in it. This dinner incident was in a little showcase immediately preceding the performance on one of the nights that the show ran. The artistic director (who was also the show's choreographer) had invited us to present work in this little showcase. Ever the opportunist and full of wacky ideas that just might work, I went, "okay." with a casual shrug in my head. And so it was that I came to be eating bread that I had baked, probably that day or the night before, onstage in Columbus, OH one evening. The thing about the bread in this art-piece is that it was simply a point of pragmatism: it was only ever about satiating my hunger. I didn't have any ideas or anything "in the works" when the original offer to present something in the little showcase was made, but like i said, I was an opportunist, and generally speaking, I thrive and feel my most competent when I am forced to improvise, especially if my improvised idea works out to my liking. Still speaking generally, I'm sure that's how it is with everybody and that I'm not unique in this. When it came showtime, I guess the whole idea developed around and because of the bread. Otherwise, the piece may have, and in all likelihood would have, been different were Adam and I not starving. We were about 20 pounds each less muscular and bone-dense as we are now, now that we eat pretty much every day, sometimes too much. I had been dancing after college, and those were the days of the $0.53/hour gig that dragged on well past very nearly every last millimeter of my epidermis had been exposed in public, on a stage, in a bar, with or without great security, hair and all. I remember one morning during those days when I barfed from having drunk a certain quantity of whiskey the night before. I've never had whiskey (nor bourbon, if you please) since. That's beside the point. 4/16/2023 YouNazied States of America
Now, I'm not saying that I condone communism or whatever Russia's politics are, but I thoroughly agree with them when they say that Americans are Nazis. From the Wikipedia article on Eugenics in the United States:
The Rockefeller Foundation helped develop and fund various German eugenics programs,[117] including the one that Josef Mengele worked in before he went to Auschwitz.[15]
So, I guess I'm just saying: here it is in black and white that Americans directly informed and inspired the genocide that took place in under 100 years ago in Germany. It's not like it's a secret either. I already knew that Hitler loved and was inspired by America. Eugenics programs were popular in America well before Hitler came to be elected. Earlier up in the Eugenics in the United States article, it talks about the origins of the popularity of eugenics here and how the anglo-saxons and nordics believed their genetics to be superior to that of any other race, naming specifically the jews to be among those who were inferior.
These proponents of eugenics often cited studies to justify their claims of the superiority of one race over all others, but what seemingly everyone is ignoring or just doesn't care about is the fact that these "studies" are just based on these peoples' made up personal preferences, and they're passing them off as fact. So, not much has changed in science, I guess! Most of the people who were being sterilized were being operated on either against their will or without their knowledge. One example is that the people signing papers to be sterilized were illiterate. Also, black women in the south underwent what is known as a "mississippi appendectomy" in which a black woman going to the hospital to give birth or for other medical treatment is unknowingly given a hysterectomy so that after returning from the hospital, she is "mysteriously" unable to bear another child. Other groups that are targeted for such sterilizations are latinas, native americans, asians, and immigrants. |
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