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[Uncle Birchy]

I still see people wearing masks. It's scary to see how thoroughly brainwashed some people are.

I saw a bum with three sweatshirts on pulling a giant a rollaway duffell bag down the street and he was Wearing a freaking Mask for gosh sakes..

Oh and when I see people driving "Alone" and still got the mask on does COVID Residue survive inside of certain makes and models of automobiles or something

 

[Fageol]

I saw a bum with three sweatshirts on pulling a giant a rollaway duffell bag down the street and he was Wearing a freaking Mask for gosh sakes..

Oh and when I see people driving "Alone" and still got the mask on does COVID Residue survive inside of certain makes and models of automobiles or something

Don't know about the sweatshirt count. But I've seen many similar denizens of Los Anchorage with masks and bottles of hand sanitizers.

 

[Uncle Birchy]

Don't know about the sweatshirt count. But I've seen many similar denizens of Los Anchorage with masks and bottles of hand sanitizers.

I heard Natives up in Alaska drink the sanitizer gel & even hairspray & Lysol fer gosh sake..

Gotta be really "Desperate" for a drink resort to those Tactics..

Around here bums seem to panhandle enough change or just outright steal booze after all in Illinois they don't even prosecute shoplifting less than a "Grand" so they just walk in stores grab stuff and run down the street and if they get do get "caught" maybe a Ticket they ain't never gonna pay anyways

 

[Fageol]

I heard Natives up in Alaska drink the sanitizer gel & even hairspray & Lysol fer gosh sake..

Gotta be really "Desperate" for a drink resort to those Tactics..

Around here bums seem to panhandle enough change or just outright steal booze after all in Illinois they don't even prosecute shoplifting less than a "Grand" so they just walk in stores grab stuff and run down the street and if they get do get "caught" maybe a Ticket they ain't never gonna pay anyways

If there's alcohol in something, not only Alaska Natives but here folks down on their luck, mentally screwed up, or jerks, grifters, incapable of dealing with our technical world, etc. will find and drink whatever. BTW, here, and perhaps in Fairbanks and Juneau, there are a bunch of homeless folks like down in America.

It's inaccurate to write that "Natives up in Alaska . . ." as from what I've seen, alcoholism extends beyond native cultures. Further, adjacent cultures tend to merge. That is seen here in Anchorage. I would bet that the range of their incomes of Alaska Natives is about the same as that of the general population. I infer the aforementioned opinion from the wealth of the regional corporation here in Anchorage, Cook Inlet Region, Inc. This corporation has footings over a billion bucks -- its summary financials are easily found. Cook Inlet Region is a corporation for people of a given Alaska Native blood quantum (maybe 1/4 or 1/8 Alaska Native -- I don't know the number) established by Congress when it passed ANCSA (the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act). I can recall that in about 1993, Cook Inlet Region sold a bunch of its broadcasting (here and down in America) holdings and gave each of its shareholders $50K. That reminds me to ask my SO about this as she's a Cook Inlet Region shareholder.

I've posted pictures of Dana. As mentioned, she's an Alaska Native (blood quantum unknown to me -- I haven't asked as it makes little difference to me), more particularly, she is an Aleut -- from north to south there are Inupiaqs or Inuits (Northern Eskimos), Yup'iks (Southern Eskimos), Athabaskans (generally interior Alaska Natives, Aleuts (from Cordova almost to Japan along the Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands, Eyaks (almost extinct ranging from Cordove into the interior of Alaska,Tlingits (from Cordova south), Haida (at the southern range of the Tlingits), and Tsimshians (who occupy one island -- the Tsimshians, the only reservation in Alaska is on their island, Annette Island which had been a Pan Am station for its flying clippers). Would you identify Dana as an Alaska Native? As mentioned, when I saw and met her that was the last thing in my mind -- one look and it's obvious that other things were on my mind. For more than 15 years I've lived among Yup'iks, Aleuts, and Tlingits. I suppose that because I've lived in so many native communities for so long my capacity to distinguish natives from non-natives became so irrelevant that I don't look for or see differences.

But in general, your statement points to one hell of a problem that I think has been brought on by the obligation of our "representatives" to care for those whom they represent as opposed to those who pay for their re-elections. In the pursuit of profit, lots of jobs that are within the capacities of many who are less capable of dealing with today's technologies are lost to Americans. That results in their costs being transferred to the general population as opposed to being transferred to those who consume the products that would have been produced had the jobs stayed here. Sorry if this sounds like creeping socialism but I think that the real cause is the "creepy need" to stay in office.

 

[quillcom]

There should be a rule on how much advertising can intrude these phone apps.

They want you so bad to buy these free apps that the advertising is getting worse and more intrusive.

I've been with this one free app for years and now instead of just closing a pop-up every few minutes, now they're popping up 2-3 times a minute.

And now they're like double ads, where you close one window and another ad window replaces that.

Plus that little "X" that supposed to let you close-out is delayed by a 10 or even longer second count down clock .

And it use to be the ad just covered a part of the screen, but now it's like the whole screen and whatever you were doing is blocked.

Just saying.

 

[Duck]

There should be a rule on how much advertising can intrude these phone apps.

They want you so bad to buy these free apps that the advertising is getting worse and more intrusive.

I've been with this one free app for years and now instead of just closing a pop-up every few minutes, now they're popping up 2-3 times a minute.

And now they're like double ads, where you close one window and another ad window replaces that.

Plus that little "X" that supposed to let you close-out is delayed by a 10 or even longer second count down clock .

And it use to be the ad just covered a part of the screen, but now it's like the whole screen and whatever you were doing is blocked.

Just saying.

Or there simply is no "X" and if you tap the screen anywhere at all, even the bottom like you're trying to close the app, it clicks the ad and your browser opens up or it opens up the Google play store to some stupid game app to download.

 

[Uncle Birchy]

Or there simply is no "X" and if you tap the screen anywhere at all, even the bottom like you're trying to close the app, it clicks the ad and your browser opens up or it opens up the Google play store to some stupid game app to download.

The new thingy is they make the "X" so tiny ya cant hardly see it & impossible to tap without touching ad and opening anyways

 

[quillcom]

The new thingy is they make the "X" so tiny ya cant hardly see it & impossible to tap without touching ad and opening anyways

Or how bout the hidden x that is practically the same color as the background so that you can barely see it.

 

[quillcom]

Or there simply is no "X" and if you tap the screen anywhere at all, even the bottom like you're trying to close the app, it clicks the ad and your browser opens up or it opens up the Google play store to some stupid game app to download

Or they'll give you a back button that takes you yet to another app ad.

And they will give you the same ad pop-up twice In a row !!!!

It's ridiculous

 

[Uncle Birchy]

Or they'll give you a back button that takes you yet to another app ad.

And they will give you the same ad pop-up twice In a row !!!!

It's ridiculous

We got nobody to "Blame" but ourselves..

If people weren't so embracing of technology Big Tech wouldn't have nearly the Power and Control they hold over us.

Most people hate Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg....yet most people willingly shop on Amazon and post on Facebook "further" Enriching them giving them even more $$$ to further find ways to "Disrupt" our lives, keep us in a State of complete & utter confusion while making "Billions" more off of it...

So Cry Me A River

 

[389 Hood]

I routinely shop on Amazon, AFTER researching prices online at the other stores that I have in my 'hood'. Amazon isn't always the best.

That said, I refuse to put myself on any of those social media places. I do however utilize them for what good they might be. YouTube has great instructional videos made by people who do much of this work day in and day out and you can get some great shortcuts in a job.

F*ckbook, has the Market Place, which lately is a haven for scammers. Twatter and TikTok aren't even worth mentioning. They are mostly idiots wanting their 15 seconds of fame.

 

[quillcom]

If there's alcohol in something, not only Alaska Natives but here folks down on their luck

I'll never forget as a youngin' our new neighbor coming over begging for some mouth wash of all things.

We thought it strange but my dad finally said go ahead and give him some.

While he's waiting on the front porch I pour him a cup full, come out and hand it to him
and as he's walking away you guessed it...

Chug chug chug all gone.

 

[Fageol]

I'll never forget as a youngin' our new neighbor coming over begging for some mouth wash of all things.

We thought it strange but my dad finally said go ahead and give him some.

While he's waiting on the front porch I pour him a cup full, come out and hand it to him
and as he's walking away you guessed it...

Chug chug chug all gone.

According to a message from one my daughters a couple of minutes ago, that "chug chug chug" thing is happening at her house. She and her (then) husband and father of their daughter, now live together. About 3 weeks ago, they found that they lost their only child to drug addiction. She was found dead in a bathroom in San Francisco.

I didn't even bother to try to drink my wife out of my skull when I lost her. But her husband is trying to drink his now dead daughter out of his mind. And that never happens. Despite at least 3 major attempts to rehab her, they lost their imaginative, smart, and pretty 27-year-old daughter and I lost that imaginative, smart, pretty 27-year-old granddaughter.

One has to wonder what goes on in our brains and bodies to abuse ourselves in that (or any) way. Here's a pic of the imaginative, smart (but no common sense) granddaughter I lost.

 

[Hillbilly Canuck]

According to a message from one my daughters a couple of minutes ago, that "chug chug chug" thing is happening at her house. She and her (then) husband and father of their daughter, now live together. About 3 weeks ago, they found that they lost their only child to drug addiction. She was found dead in a bathroom in San Francisco.

I didn't even bother to try to drink my wife out of my skull when I lost her. But her husband is trying to drink his now dead daughter out of his mind. And that never happens. Despite at least 3 major attempts to rehab her, they lost their imaginative, smart, and pretty 27-year-old daughter and I lost that imaginative, smart, pretty 27-year-old granddaughter.

One has to wonder what goes on in our brains and bodies to abuse ourselves in that (or any) way. Here's a pic of the imaginative, smart (but no common sense) granddaughter I lost.

The fella I worked for at my last job lost his oldest to that at 26 last fall. She would come in and outwork most of the labourers but she had this boyfriend that just had a way of dragging her back down whenever she got out of it for a while. Anybody can see it cracked him right up. He'll probably never be right again.

 

[quillcom]

According to a message from one my daughters a couple of minutes ago, that "chug chug chug" thing is happening at her house. She and her (then) husband and father of their daughter, now live together. About 3 weeks ago, they found that they lost their only child to drug addiction. She was found dead in a bathroom in San Francisco.

I didn't even bother to try to drink my wife out of my skull when I lost her. But her husband is trying to drink his now dead daughter out of his mind. And that never happens. Despite at least 3 major attempts to rehab her, they lost their imaginative, smart, and pretty 27-year-old daughter and I lost that imaginative, smart, pretty 27-year-old granddaughter.

One has to wonder what goes on in our brains and bodies to abuse ourselves in that (or any) way. Here's a pic of the imaginative, smart (but no common sense) granddaughter I lost.

Oh I'm so sorry to hear that, yes she's very pretty. I hope you stay strong for her.

Yeah its like the mind just wants to forget the bad things and to release endorphins which makes us feel good; yet we use something bad to do it i.e. alcohol. Its a vicious cycle

 

[Fageol]

Oh I'm so sorry to hear that, yes she's very pretty. I hope you stay strong for her.

Yeah its like the mind just wants to forget the bad things and to release endorphins which makes us feel good; yet we use something bad to do it i.e. alcohol. Its a vicious cycle

No doubt. The body-brain connection is yet a great unknown.

The fella I worked for at my last job lost his oldest to that at 26 last fall. She would come in and outwork most of the labourers but she had this boyfriend that just had a way of dragging her back down whenever she got out of it for a while. Anybody can see it cracked him right up. He'll probably never be right again.

The same with my daughter. A fellow addict who could hold a job worshipped my granddaughter. But his love and care just weren't enough. It seems that in time she (Mackenzie) would have dragged him into worse addiction. That's so screwed-up.

 

[Uncle Birchy]

According to a message from one my daughters a couple of minutes ago, that "chug chug chug" thing is happening at her house. She and her (then) husband and father of their daughter, now live together. About 3 weeks ago, they found that they lost their only child to drug addiction. She was found dead in a bathroom in San Francisco.

I didn't even bother to try to drink my wife out of my skull when I lost her. But her husband is trying to drink his now dead daughter out of his mind. And that never happens. Despite at least 3 major attempts to rehab her, they lost their imaginative, smart, and pretty 27-year-old daughter and I lost that imaginative, smart, pretty 27-year-old granddaughter.

One has to wonder what goes on in our brains and bodies to abuse ourselves in that (or any) way. Here's a pic of the imaginative, smart (but no common sense) granddaughter I lost.

Probably because of Opiods or Fetanyl..

And our streets are "over flowing" with this garbage and record numbers of overdoses all over the nation because Barrack O "Bunghole" refuses to "Secure" our Borders

 

[Duck]

A former member of this forum recently told me that his neighbor's grandson died.

He was a good kid, but he bought some kind of pills, and it turns out, he didn't know, but the pill had been sprayed with fentanyl.

Fentanyl is extremely powerful. It's dosing is measured by the nanogram, which is a millionth of a gram. A milligram is a thousandth of a gram.

 

[quillcom]

Fentanyl is extremely powerful. It's dosing is measured by the nanogram, which is a millionth of a gram. A milligram is a thousandth of a gram

I just heard the other day that just a few tiny grains of fentanyl is enough to kill ya.

 

[Uncle Birchy]

I just heard the other day that just a few tiny grains of fentanyl is enough to kill ya.

Watch a Waukesha County Sheriff's Deputy "OVER-DOSE" during a Vehicle Search along I-94..

Thankfully a Highway Patrol Unit showed up as "Back-Up" had one of those kits "reverses" Opiods and "Saved" Her Life .