More Random Thoughts as the End of the Long Holiday Approaches

I would love to see these sort of leaders, like Trudeau for example, think and respond seriously to the question of the absolute lack of trust that a huge portion of the population has for them and for the institutions that they run; as well as for the institutions that support them.  But they of course won’t, they’ll use words devoid of meaning in their answers, as well as ad hominem attacks.  They’ll say: not that many… democracy… racism… conspiracy theorists… fascists… the science… misinformation… disinformation… we must work together… climate crisis… MAGA… Trump… Putin… Populism… so as to shirk the question.  And it is because you’ll never hear a politician say they made a wrong decision or had a wrong idea and that people had a right to be angry at them.

I know it is hard to imagine government leaders like Trudeau and Biden being capable of serious thought.  But we live in a world where the leaders are either stupid or evil in what they do, and so we have to find out which it is.

YouTube shorts allows my videos to get some views.

Streets are quiet in my part of Wuxi on account of it being Spring Festival.  So my part of Wuxi is the best place to be during Spring Festival.

Please say three Hail Marys for my family, relatives, colleagues and students.  This is my favorite kind of tweet on Twitter.  Bless the people who do them.  They redeem social media.

I am a person who likes to listen to podcasts  about movies and TV series.  In fact, I like listening to podcasts about movies and TV series more than actually watching movies and TV series.

I’ve spent most of my life believing LHO assassinated JFK.  Since Covid, I have listened to many podcasts where  it is assumed LHO didn’t.  But I still assume that the best theory is the LHO theory though I will now admit that there are plenty of reasons for many to believe that this theory is wrong.  The killing of LHO was suspicious.

Bad as social media is, it is my only way of interacting with the world.  With the locals, I don’t speak their language well enough to have a conversation.  And if I speak in English with them, the conversation is as dull as dish water.  

But for many reasons, I like to delete people on my social media accounts.  A lot of the time, it is because they ignore me and I end up sending them nonsense so that it is just as well that I delete them and forget about them and stop being a nuisance to them.  Other times, the others are a nuisance.  Other times, I have forgotten who the people are.  Other times, I am succumbing to an impulse.

I have to admit, I am addicted to getting likes and view numbers.

Wordle 588: Hat Trick #8

 

Some End of the Long Holiday Thoughts

Every time, I have problems finishing off a crossword puzzle, I put it down for an interim.  When I return to it, I can finish it off in one or two minutes.  It’s uncanny.

Is it being lazy when you are fretting about being lazy?  Really laziness is being too lazy to fret.

TDSer:  Trump is so bad.  If he wears briefs, I’ll wear boxers.  

Chinese drivers are bad.  Four million years of civilization supposedly; and you’d think they know enough to look both ways before making a turn.

TDSer:  Even the things Trump did right were wrong.

TDSer:  Trump is so bad that I get deranged thinking about him.

Weeeeeeeeee!!!  What fun.

I must be boring when I talk to people.  People coming to talk couldn’t get away fast enough.  It hurts, but what I can do?

Good to see that Trudeau has mobs screaming at him when he goes in public.  It’s his just desserts.

Twitter can be a bore, but I do like getting responses to my tweets.  I like getting likes.  I also appreciate push back.    The “you suck!” ones with plausible reasons are good.

Democracy is the tyranny of the side that wins elections?

I should add Halsey English to my list of Internet thinkers I like.

Lots of elevated roads in Wuxi.  Also, lots of skyscraper apartment towers.  I was reading in the blog Founding Questions (Look at my Twitter feed @wuxiandis and you’ll find links to it.) that Soviet worker housing and American inner-city housing projects were built with the same impulse: to produce a stupefied population.  I get a feeling of stupefaction when I look at Wuxi suburban skyline.  And when you on an elevated highway seeing nothing but apartment towers, you feel you are in a dystopia,

Goddamn Car Charging Stations

 

AKIC & Mother-In-Law

 

Heading Towards The Hui Shan Tunnel

 

Two Wedding Rings

 The silver ring is my wedding ring. 

The golden ring is my father’s wedding ring.  I got it from my Mom after his death.  

I have always worn the two rings ever since.  My ring stays on the inside; Dad’s ring stays on the outside.  One day, I hope to take off that gold ring and give it to my son.  Perhaps it can be his wedding ring.

As it is now, the gold ring always reminds me of my Dad.

A Nighttime View of the Jiangyin Big Bridge

 Here is a video of its traffic:

Photos of My In-Laws Compound