May 8, 2021
Mike Smith (KFS) echoes my current thoughts. Social media in general, and Facebook for sure, was bad enough during the elections, when lies and complaints about politics dominated things.
Now that that’s over, what comes to the surface is people bitching and moaning and complaining and kvetching about trivia.
Conversational phrases they don’t like.
Foods they don’t like.
Militant atheists complain about religious zealots, and religious zealots complain about nonbelievers.
And people who I sure hope never, ever pump their own gas or bank at ATMs are on the warpath against grocery store self-checkout lanes because automation costs jobs.
BAKE AND SHAKE. Fan Dave Rowe, who lives on the Big Island, reassured his friends today:
Last night (Sunday 20th) Halema’uma’u magma chamber caused an eruption at Kilauea Volcano (it’s already stopped), that’s about twenty miles from here, and an hour later there was an earthquake which we experienced. No damage to us or our home. The lava flow went south-west, well away from us.
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PAY THE WRITER, REDUX.
Inside the Magic, which specializes in covering Disney properties, quotes a less intransigent response to the unpaid royalty issue raised by Alan Dean Foster, SFWA, and others than the company originally gave:
BAKE AND SHAKE. Fan Dave Rowe, who lives on the Big Island, reassured his friends today:
Last night (Sunday 20th) Halema’uma’u magma chamber caused an eruption at Kilauea Volcano (it’s already stopped), that’s about twenty miles from here, and an hour later there was an earthquake which we experienced. No damage to us or our home. The lava flow went south-west, well away from us.
(2)
PAY THE WRITER, REDUX.
Inside the Magic, which specializes in covering Disney properties, quotes a less intransigent response to the unpaid royalty issue raised by Alan Dean Foster, SFWA, and others than the company originally gave: