The thing that irritates me

[US Janet]

My next door neighborhood group, newsgroups, social media. Everybody
is complaining and whining about minor stuff. Everyone is suspicious
of the motives of others.
The worst thing to happen to the human race is the invention of the
computer. People used to have to get up off their hind end and walk
to see someone in order to complain and in most cases it wasn't worth
the effort.
Janet US

[Hank Rogers]

What are your neighbors complaining about?

[US Janet]

On Wed, 2 Feb 2022 22:34:29 -0600, Hank Rogers <Ha...@nospam.invalid>
wrote:

there's a car driving slowly past my house, should I call the police?
Or a man walking.
What is with all the jets flying so low and making so much noise
(heavy overcast at the time) We have an airport and 2 military air
fields around the city.
The people behind me have their BBQ going and the smoke is getting in
my house
Someone's dog is barking
and on and on and on
A wrongly used word can cause weeks and weeks worth of harrangue.
It's all around us these days. And I don't accept the excuse that it
is the pandemic that is causing all the hate.
Janet US

[Ed Pawlowski]

Computers do allows for mis-use and some nasty effects when desired.
Facebook and Twitter are two contributors to the downfall of humanity as
we used to know it.

[Dave Smith]

Last week I had a flyer in the mail box asking me for sign up to a app
for neighbours. It was supposed to be for people in out town. I
downloaded the app and signed up. What a disappointment that was.
Everyone was supposed to post an intro. Only about 10% of the people
were from our town. I had to wonder how desperate people are that they
would sign up to a neighbourhood app fro a town 50 miles away. I
monitored it for three days and then withdrew.

[Zebediah]

Ghe? Uhm, can you go into more detail? I don't get it

[Zebediah]

[Dave Smith]

Small towns are worse. Knowledge is power and people can be really nosy.
When we first moved here our patio was exposed to the road so I put up
a small section of fence along one side for privacy. I spent the morning
getting the lumber and putting it up. I finished by about noon and then
headed inside for some lunch. I no sooner went in through the kitchen
door when the phone rang. It was the old lady two doors down (the
neighour next door is set way back). The first thing she said after
hello was to say she noticed that I had put up a fence by the patio.

Son of a gun. She had no windows on the side of her house so she would
have had to come out and she must have been watching to see when I went
into the house so she could call. That privacy fence was a great
investment.

There was an apple orchard on the other side of our property at the
time. When that sold and a couple houses were built I put up a hedge
along the property line and an arbour and some wisteria for the other
side of the patio.

[GM]

Yup, narcissists can have a field day...

--
GM

[GM]

Digital platforms are "empowering", you can immediately post anything, it's not like
you have to go to a New England town meeting, or write a letter to the editor - which may
or may not be published, or wait to see if your vote "counts"...

I've been on some "neighborhood" FB groups, I quickly vamoosed because of the whiners...

I remember back in the early 60's, reading this futuristic prediction:

"By the year 2000, Man will finally control the weather. Homes will have their own computing
devices, and every morning citizens will input their desired weather - dry and sunny, some fluffy
Christmas snow, some rain for the lawn and garden, or...??? The majority vote for that day wins.."

Now we use computers to complain, and even *lie* about the weather... and like many of those
long - ago predictions, we still do not "control" the weather, lol...

--
GM

[Zebediah]

Yes, the filter's gone.

[Joziah]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2022 00:08:31 -0500, Dave Smith
<adavid...@sympatico.ca> wrote:

>On 2022-02-02 11:44 p.m., US Janet wrote:
>> On Wed, 2 Feb 2022 22:34:29 -0600, Hank Rogers <Ha...@nospam.invalid>
>> wrote:
>
>>> What are your neighbors complaining about?
>>>
>> there's a car driving slowly past my house, should I call the police?
>> Or a man walking.
>> What is with all the jets flying so low and making so much noise
>> (heavy overcast at the time) We have an airport and 2 military air
>> fields around the city.
>> The people behind me have their BBQ going and the smoke is getting in
>> my house
>> Someone's dog is barking
>> and on and on and on
>> A wrongly used word can cause weeks and weeks worth of harrangue.
>> It's all around us these days. And I don't accept the excuse that it
>> is the pandemic that is causing all the hate.
>
>Small towns are worse. Knowledge is power and people can be really nosy.

Yeah, people like Dave Smith and Jill McQuown...

[Joziah]

And trolls, right Greg?

[Leonard Blaisdell]

On 2022-02-03, Ed Pawlowski <e...@snet.xxx> wrote:

> Computers do allows for mis-use and some nasty effects when desired.
> Facebook and Twitter are two contributors to the downfall of humanity as
> we used to know it.

What modern communications technology has done is to let juvenile ideas
be allowed to be heard. Current outrage over an idea very well might be
some teen angst, picked up by a small group, spread to a larger group
and deemed important by someone in the national media.
Then it becomes a "thing". Our society is becoming juvenilized by
allowing nonsense to influence mature minds.
2 cents

[Joziah]

On 3 Feb 2022 06:07:26 GMT, Leonard Blaisdell

Yeah, take those people who think covid's about government control. Or
people who fear Marxism in the US :) So immature.

[Joziah]

We Dutch have a saying about froggers like yoos, which is KILL YOURSELF
you loser. no friends no real job no money no sex and no hope for the
future. Loser. Ghe Ghe Ghe.

[Joziah]

Uhm Yes. Ghe Ghe Ghe :)))))))))))

[Menachem]

[Michael Trew]

I agree, this sounds like a local FaceBook group for my area. Everyone
whines about everything, and tries to be as nebby as possible. I
monitor it to catch the rare thing of value, but it's primarily occupied
by busy-bodies.

No, this didn't start due to the pandemic, it started due to social
media, which will likely be the downfall of society (or a significant
chunk of it). I suspect that the pandemic could have ruffled up some
stir-crazy people, adding to it.

[GM]

On one FB local nabe group, there were constant posts about a "really, really nice
old homeless guy", who had a story of "I've just been approved by HUD for an apartment,
and I need $700.00 for a deposit and first month's rent..."

Of course those who sympathised with him were all young white career women, they spoke of him
very highly, started fundraisers, offered to contribute stuff, etc... One young mother glowed when
she wrote that her kids had made cookies to give to this nice old guy...

Of course a little digging turned up that he had been in jail for molesting a 14 year - old girl, spent
years in prison, and was on the sex offender registry. This pretty much precludes him from
accessing any housing via "normal" channels... AND this is NOT someone you want in your
neighborhood...

This creep had been all around in different neighborhoods, using various names and telling the
same sad tale...

His criminal record was published, but some of the "SJW" - type women took umbrage, saying
that those of us who were his "detractors" were "cruel, fascist, not willing to give him another
'chance'". Me especially, despite the fact that I work in social services and have seen a million
of these con artists in practice...

At least the mom whose kids made the creep cookies was suitably appalled, but I left the group,
- so much for doing a "public service", lol...

--
GM

[Zebediah]

On Wed, 02 Feb 2022 21:44:20 -0700, US Janet <USJ...@jan6noplace.com>
wrote:

The problem with kleptomaniacs is that they always take things
literally.

[Zebediah]

On Wed, 2 Feb 2022 23:46:35 -0500, Ed Pawlowski <e...@snet.xxx> wrote:

[Zebediah]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2022 00:08:31 -0500, Dave Smith
<adavid...@sympatico.ca> wrote:

[Benjamin]

[Benjamin]

Michael's an excellent example of American ignorance and explains how
Americans were able to vote for the Trump clown. The deplorables are
poorly educated, poorly informed, have never been out of their own
country and are easily influenced. Yet they do have the right to vote.
And there you are: Donald Trump. I can't wait for the next American
election. May I suggest Sylvester Stallone? :)

[f...@sdf.org]

On 2022-02-03, US Janet <USJ...@jan6noplace.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2022 22:34:29 -0600, Hank Rogers <Ha...@nospam.invalid>
> wrote:

> The people behind me have their BBQ going and the smoke is getting in
> my house

that'd be me. my next door neighbor has called the fire department on me
because of bbq smoke, as well as campfire smoke. they can't do anything
about the bbq, i have a legal right to cook as i wish. the campfires are
subject to opinion and command of the fire chief, i've had to put them
out a few times. now, every time i have a campfire, i hang a dutch oven
with something too cook in it over the fire on a cooking tripod. this
year when the weather breaks i'm planning a doing a beef rib roast over
open fire on a rotisserie for a family picnic. nom nom nom. the fire
department stopped coming after the neighbors got fined several times for
making nuisance calls.

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f...@sdf.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - https://sdf.org

[Graham]

On 2022-02-02 9:28 p.m., US Janet wrote:
>
> My next door neighborhood group, newsgroups, social media. Everybody
> is complaining and whining about minor stuff. Everyone is suspicious
> of the motives of others.
> The worst thing to happen to the human race is the invention of the
> computer. People used to have to get up off their hind end and walk
> to see someone in order to complain and in most cases it wasn't worth
> the effort.

> Janet US
I had a flyer in the mail the other day inviting me to join "Nextdoor",
purportedly from someone in the neighbourhood.
I wasn't sure so I googled it to find someone in the UK who had posted
the contents of the flyer there and it was identical, down to the number
of messages currently on the group.
Their experiences after joining put me off completely.

[f...@sdf.org]

it's blindingly obvious what Nextdoor is.

from the app privacy information in the Apple App Store for Nextdoor;

* Data Used to Track You: contact info, usage data, identifiers

* Data Linked to You: purchases, location, contacts, search history
usage data, financial info, contact info, user content, identifiers,
diagnostics

Nextdoor is a surveillance tool used to monetize your personal
information.

[Graham]

And, apparently, use the wrong word and you get banned for a couple of
weeks.
Regarding surveillance: I texted my d-i-l 2 weeks ago about monumental
brasses in English churches
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monumental_brass).
Two days ago I used the Firefox app on my phone to search for baking
information - usually my phone is used only for texting and phoning.
The first thing to pop up was a page on those brasses.
"Big Brother" is certainly watching us.

[US Janet]

I forgot about all those posts and the women who rush out to buy bags
of groceries, send money, loan all kinds of stuff.
Then you find out the same message is posted all over town.
Janet US

[Shimon]

[Jeßus]

On Wed, 2 Feb 2022 23:46:35 -0500, Ed Pawlowski <e...@snet.xxx> wrote:

>On 2/2/2022 11:28 PM, US Janet wrote:
>>
>> My next door neighborhood group, newsgroups, social media. Everybody
>> is complaining and whining about minor stuff. Everyone is suspicious
>> of the motives of others.
>> The worst thing to happen to the human race is the invention of the
>> computer. People used to have to get up off their hind end and walk
>> to see someone in order to complain and in most cases it wasn't worth
>> the effort.
>> Janet US
>
>

>Computers do allows for mis-use and some nasty effects when desired.
>Facebook and Twitter are two contributors to the downfall of humanity as
>we used to know it.

It's the algorithms that really ramped up the hate and intolerance.
Obviously big tech also has ideological agendas, too, but the effect
of algorithms has been devastating and something, somehow needs to be
done to counter this.

[bruce bowser]

You don't know if its a lie or not.

[Yasser]

[Virgil]

[Sqwertz]

On Wed, 02 Feb 2022 21:28:49 -0700, US Janet wrote:

> My next door neighborhood group, newsgroups, social media. Everybody
> is complaining and whining about minor stuff. Everyone is suspicious
> of the motives of others.
> The worst thing to happen to the human race is the invention of the
> computer. People used to have to get up off their hind end and walk
> to see someone in order to complain and in most cases it wasn't worth
> the effort.
> Janet US

Social media is great for making mountains out of molehills and
rallying others to help you build that mountain.

It's not computers. Computers are very important for things we
don't realize/consider - they're not just a convenience for banking
and manufacturing (etc...)

It's social media that The Curse. It evolved too slowly and
flippantly. If social media were just invented *today* we'd have a
chance to set expectations and standards (such as "no
whining/rallying allowed"). But that would all be based on
hindsight having already HAD social media. Imagine instituting a
"No Whining/Rallying Petty Shit Allowed" rule across ALL social
media sites these days.

-sw

[Sqwertz]

On Wed, 02 Feb 2022 21:44:20 -0700, US Janet wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Feb 2022 22:34:29 -0600, Hank Rogers <Ha...@nospam.invalid>
> wrote:
>

>>US Janet wrote:
>>>
>>> My next door neighborhood group, newsgroups, social media. Everybody
>>> is complaining and whining about minor stuff. Everyone is suspicious
>>> of the motives of others.
>>> The worst thing to happen to the human race is the invention of the
>>> computer. People used to have to get up off their hind end and walk
>>> to see someone in order to complain and in most cases it wasn't worth
>>> the effort.
>>> Janet US
>>>
>>

>>What are your neighbors complaining about?
>>
> there's a car driving slowly past my house, should I call the police?
> Or a man walking.

WITH A CLIPBOARD! Taking NOTES! <gasp!>

Nextdoor is THE WORST of them all. I don't know how they breed such
irrational lunacy. I couldn't delete all my posts on Nextdoor, so I
changed my name to something ridiculous, and that changed all my
posts. And then I quietly "deactivated" my account (it's
"automatically reactivated" again when I log in <sigh> Duh.)

> What is with all the jets flying so low and making so much noise

Helicopters are our thing.

Give up Nextdoor.com. I was torn between calling everybody out as I
saw it and getting banned, or just walking away. Can you believe I
actuality chose the later?

Only because every officer of the neighborhood association, the mods
of the local nextdoor.com, the admins of the facebook group, AND the
guy that runs the mailing list - all are separate people - all live
within 6 houses of me in a subdivision of 800.

And several of them want my house as all but one of them live on the
"Park Place" side of the street while I'm on the "Boardwalk" side.
And two of them are residential realtors who own at least 2 homes
each in the neighborhood. And all of our homes went up about 280% in
the last 6 years (not in valuation, but in actual sale prices). And
about 620% in the last 30 years when all homes were new.

And the hate is mutual and kinda well-known. Except for the mailing
list guy - who probably does hate me but hides it well enough. And
I do kinda respect him and his wife - he's the workhorse for the
Association, all the others are genuine snakes.

No. I'm not just a Virtual Keyboard Kowboy in RFC. I'm an asshole
(to some) in real life, too!

Back to the point: Seriously - GIVE UP NEXTDOOR.COM (but stay in
RFC? I guess that is kinda ironic, eh? :-)

-sw

[Sqwertz]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2022 00:08:31 -0500, Dave Smith wrote:

> Small towns are worse. Knowledge is power and people can be really nosy.
> When we first moved here our patio was exposed to the road so I put up
> a small section of fence along one side for privacy. I spent the morning
> getting the lumber and putting it up. I finished by about noon and then
> headed inside for some lunch. I no sooner went in through the kitchen
> door when the phone rang. It was the old lady two doors down (the
> neighour next door is set way back). The first thing she said after
> hello was to say she noticed that I had put up a fence by the patio.
>
> Son of a gun. She had no windows on the side of her house so she would
> have had to come out and she must have been watching to see when I went
> into the house so she could call. That privacy fence was a great
> investment.

I thought for sure you were going to say that she was informing you
that fences aren't allowed on that section of property.

We aren't allowed fences in our front yards. Fences can only start
about 5 feet back from the front facing of the house and go towards
the back. Unless you live on a corner, then one side of the house
may have a fence that extends to the ROW. and this is pretyu common
city code in many places except in select older neighborhoods (3-ft
chain link max in front).

So what was her point in her calling - "I noticed you're building a
new fence". I would have said nothing and let the awkward silence
speak for itself.

-sw

[jmcquown]

On 2/4/2022 7:56 AM, Sqwertz wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Feb 2022 21:44:20 -0700, US Janet wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2 Feb 2022 22:34:29 -0600, Hank Rogers <Ha...@nospam.invalid>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> US Janet wrote:
>>>>
>>>> My next door neighborhood group, newsgroups, social media. Everybody
>>>> is complaining and whining about minor stuff. Everyone is suspicious
>>>> of the motives of others.
>>>> The worst thing to happen to the human race is the invention of the
>>>> computer. People used to have to get up off their hind end and walk
>>>> to see someone in order to complain and in most cases it wasn't worth
>>>> the effort.
>>>> Janet US
>>>>
>>>
>>> What are your neighbors complaining about?
>>>
>> there's a car driving slowly past my house, should I call the police?
>> Or a man walking.
>
> WITH A CLIPBOARD! Taking NOTES! <gasp!>
>

It's exactly like that on the local Nextdoor (Beaufort) group. Someone
saw a woman driving a *Mercedes* through her neighborhood taking
pictures! should I call the police? <gasp!> The replies came back:
likely a home appraiser taking pics for comps. DUH

> Nextdoor is THE WORST of them all. I don't know how they breed such
> irrational lunacy. I couldn't delete all my posts on Nextdoor, so I
> changed my name to something ridiculous, and that changed all my
> posts. And then I quietly "deactivated" my account (it's
> "automatically reactivated" again when I log in <sigh> Duh.)
>
>> What is with all the jets flying so low and making so much noise
>
> Helicopters are our thing.
>

Like Janet, we have the Marine Corps Air Station and Parris Island
(Marine Base) in the area. There's also a small airport for owners of
small aircraft. There's not a thing Nextdoor can do about it.

> Give up Nextdoor.com. I was torn between calling everybody out as I
> saw it and getting banned, or just walking away. Can you believe I
> actuality chose the later?

Yep. Nextdoor is a waste of time.

Jill

[Ed Pawlowski]

On 2/4/2022 7:56 AM, Sqwertz wrote:

>

> Nextdoor is THE WORST of them all. I don't know how they breed such
> irrational lunacy. I couldn't delete all my posts on Nextdoor, so I
> changed my name to something ridiculous, and that changed all my
> posts. And then I quietly "deactivated" my account (it's
> "automatically reactivated" again when I log in <sigh> Duh.)
>
>> What is with all the jets flying so low and making so much noise
>
> Helicopters are our thing.
>
> Give up Nextdoor.com. I was torn between calling everybody out as I
> saw it and getting banned, or just walking away. Can you believe I
> actuality chose the later?
>

Why? You used to be such a fun guy.

>
> No. I'm not just a Virtual Keyboard Kowboy in RFC. I'm an asshole
> (to some) in real life, too!

> -sw
>

Good to hear. Some people ask for it and nice you accommodate them. .

[Sqwertz]

On Fri, 4 Feb 2022 06:56:26 -0600, Sqwertz wrote:

....

> Only because every officer of the neighborhood association, the mods
> of the local nextdoor.com, the admins of the facebook group, AND the
> guy that runs the mailing list - all are separate people - all live
> within 6 houses of me in a subdivision of 800.

Oh, I forgot a "kicker": I was pre-banned from the neighborhood
Facebook group. The creator of the forum (Carlos) looked me up and
barred me from the forum right after he created the group. I
couldn't even SEE the forum existed. I only found out about it from
somebody mentioning it on the nextdoor site. And sure enough, I can
see the forum exists if I log into Facebook using my facebook
alternate account(s), but not under my real name account.

That fucker still insists and saying hello to me when we're outside
and I just ignore him.

I saw a silent drone outside my 2.5 story bedroom window one day
hovering there. I whipped open the window and starting taking out
the screen so I could throw shit at it and it booked off over into
the wilderness park area. On a hunch (I had seen Carlos's facebook
page which is all VR stuff), I went over to the empty bedroom and
peeked out the slats in the Venetian blinds and there's Carlos two
houses away in his backyard wearing his VR glasses and holding a
controller. A minute later he's landing that drone.

Yeah, next time I don't ignore him there will be "words". And it
won't be "virtual", it'll be real.

ObFood: Cheeseburger (pepperjack) on Martin's potato roll with
smoked pork butt mac & cheese - as soon as I can find the phone I
took the picture with. Those Tracfone idiots sent me a free Galaxy
A21S with 5 cameras on it - 64 megapixels on two of the lenses -
those bastards! :-)

-sw

[Dave Smith]

Maybe it was just to remind me that she knows everything that goes on. I
doubt if she had any idea how good she made me feel about erecting that
fence. It paid for itself within minutes of completion and confirmed
that I was not paranoid, that the neighbours really were nosy.

The same neighbour a few years later was bitching and whining about my
septic tank baking up to year yard. I told her that was impossible. I
mentioned it to another neighbor, a long time resident and he sad she
has no septic bed. There was a tank and a line to a big bed of gravel.
It was her own sewage that was the problem. When sold the house the new
owner had to install a new septic system. .

[Dave Smith]

On 2022-02-04 9:02 a.m., Sqwertz wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Feb 2022 06:56:26 -0600, Sqwertz wrote:
>
> ....
>
>> Only because every officer of the neighborhood association, the mods
>> of the local nextdoor.com, the admins of the facebook group, AND the
>> guy that runs the mailing list - all are separate people - all live
>> within 6 houses of me in a subdivision of 800.
>
> Oh, I forgot a "kicker": I was pre-banned from the neighborhood
> Facebook group. The creator of the forum (Carlos) looked me up and
> barred me from the forum right after he created the group. I
> couldn't even SEE the forum existed. I only found out about it from
> somebody mentioning it on the nextdoor site. And sure enough, I can
> see the forum exists if I log into Facebook using my facebook
> alternate account(s), but not under my real name account.

Well done. I was banned from the local leash free dog FB page. It's
admins were a little cabal of tea party tyrants who kept making rules
they had no authority to make or to enforce. For instance, one of them,
who I used to call the Princess, wanted to have a time for old dogs who
are too old to play or dogs who don't get along with other dogs.

I mocked their ideas and openly defied them. They decided on 10-11 am
Sundays for the old dog time, so I made a point of going at 10 every
Sunday. The princess would be there and then leave as soon as I showed
up. She complained about me to one of the other users and he told her
that my dog was old.

I ended up getting banned. Someone vouched for me to get in under a new
name and I lurked for a while. Then when they started whining about
people moving the picnic table under the shelter I agreed that it made
a lot more sense to have it out in the middle of the park so people
would not be able to sit there when it was raining or too hot.

>
> I saw a silent drone outside my 2.5 story bedroom window one day
> hovering there. I whipped open the window and starting taking out
> the screen so I could throw shit at it and it booked off over into
> the wilderness park area. On a hunch (I had seen Carlos's facebook
> page which is all VR stuff), I went over to the empty bedroom and
> peeked out the slats in the Venetian blinds and there's Carlos two
> houses away in his backyard wearing his VR glasses and holding a
> controller. A minute later he's landing that drone.

Would a shotgun be appropriate for that?

>
> Y

[Desmond]

On Fri, 4 Feb 2022 09:44:22 -0500, Dave Smith
<adavid...@sympatico.ca> wrote:

>Well done. I was banned from the local leash free dog FB page. It's
>admins were a little cabal of tea party tyrants who kept making rules
>they had no authority to make or to enforce. For instance, one of them,
>who I used to call the Princess, wanted to have a time for old dogs who
>are too old to play or dogs who don't get along with other dogs.
>
>I mocked their ideas and openly defied them. They decided on 10-11 am
>Sundays for the old dog time, so I made a point of going at 10 every
>Sunday. The princess would be there and then leave as soon as I showed
>up. She complained about me to one of the other users and he told her
>that my dog was old.

Oh, the joys of retirement.

[Desmond]

We Dutch have a saying about froggers like yoos, which is KILL YOURSELF
you loser. no friends no real job no money no sex and no hope for the
future. Loser. Ghe Ghe Ghe.

[US Janet]

On Fri, 4 Feb 2022 06:10:00 -0600, Sqwertz <sqwe...@gmail.invalid>
wrote:

I agree about social media and cursed it almost from day 1. All the
isolated, ignorant, radical, lonely people bond and form groups with
even greater unhinged ideas.
But, computer access allowed it to happen.

Janet US

[Ritchie]

On Fri, 04 Feb 2022 11:39:09 -0700, US Janet <USJ...@jan6noplace.com>
wrote:

>I agree about social media and cursed it almost from day 1. All the
>isolated, ignorant, radical, lonely people bond and form groups with
>even greater unhinged ideas.
>But, computer access allowed it to happen.

Or access to electricity.

[Michael Trew]

I see your point, but I live on a small residential lot near other
homes. Maybe the lot is 60X120 feet, give/take. If my neighbor had a
smoker set up in his back yard and used it regularly, that would be very
unpleasant to live near. Forget about opening your windows or sitting
on the porch during the summer, especially if the smoke is blowing your
way. I'd not be a happy camper, for sure.

[Michael Trew]

On 2/3/2022 1:07, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

> On 2022-02-03, Ed Pawlowski<e...@snet.xxx> wrote:
>
>> Computers do allows for mis-use and some nasty effects when desired.
>> Facebook and Twitter are two contributors to the downfall of humanity as
>> we used to know it.
>
>

> What modern communications technology has done is to let juvenile ideas
> be allowed to be heard. Current outrage over an idea very well might be
> some teen angst, picked up by a small group, spread to a larger group
> and deemed important by someone in the national media.
> Then it becomes a "thing". Our society is becoming juvenilized by
> allowing nonsense to influence mature minds.
> 2 cents

+1

[Jeßus]

On Fri, 04 Feb 2022 11:39:09 -0700, US Janet <USJ...@jan6noplace.com>
wrote:

It all begins from within the education system.

[Sqwertz]

On Fri, 4 Feb 2022 08:55:20 -0500, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

> On 2/4/2022 7:56 AM, Sqwertz wrote:
>
>>
>> Nextdoor is THE WORST of them all. I don't know how they breed such
>> irrational lunacy. I couldn't delete all my posts on Nextdoor, so I
>> changed my name to something ridiculous, and that changed all my
>> posts. And then I quietly "deactivated" my account (it's
>> "automatically reactivated" again when I log in <sigh> Duh.)
>>
>>> What is with all the jets flying so low and making so much noise
>>
>> Helicopters are our thing.
>>
>> Give up Nextdoor.com. I was torn between calling everybody out as I
>> saw it and getting banned, or just walking away. Can you believe I
>> actuality chose the later?
>>
>
> Why? You used to be such a fun guy.

I'm still a fungi, but in real life I have to toe a line even if I'm
not in an HOA.

>> No. I'm not just a Virtual Keyboard Kowboy in RFC. I'm an asshole
>> (to some) in real life, too!
>

> Good to hear. Some people ask for it and nice you accommodate them. .

My pleasure. It gets interesting when some people know me an
asshole and others as insightful and factual, just terse. That
created an interesting predicament a couple years ago when I got
banned from the neighborhood mailing list (on Christmas Day
<snork>).

But I'm Back in Action, Baby!

-sw

[Gary]

Best not to complain about your neighbor's smoke habits, they might
complain about all the old cars you keep in that small lot.

[Dave Smith]

When we moved out here we looked at this house and one about a mile
away. I am glad we opted for this one. The other one was next to a
corner lot and the guy who who had the corner lot developed his one
junk yard. Over the years he accumulated several vehicles, a couple
trailers, and a number of old appliances.

Then there is the guy two doors down from me. Thank goodness the
neighbour in between plants a bunch of ever greens as a visual barrier.
There is only one unused old car there now, his camper trailer, several
lawn mowers, a lawn tractor and a shipping container. I only see the
eyesore when I drive by.

[bruce bowser]

Therefore logically: All the hip, fashionable, all-knowing, all-seeing, groupie people bond, too!

[%]

On 2/5/2022 9:59 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> When we moved out here we looked at this house and one about a mile
> away.  I am glad we opted for this one.
>

Yes, we're all very thrilled for you.

[Michael Trew]

On 2/5/2022 9:59, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2022-02-05 8:25 a.m., Gary wrote:
>> On 2/4/2022 2:35 PM, Michael Trew wrote:
>>>
>>> I see your point, but I live on a small residential lot near other
>>> homes. Maybe the lot is 60X120 feet, give/take. If my neighbor had
>>> a smoker set up in his back yard and used it regularly, that would be
>>> very unpleasant to live near. Forget about opening your windows or
>>> sitting on the porch during the summer, especially if the smoke is
>>> blowing your way. I'd not be a happy camper, for sure.
>>
>> Best not to complain about your neighbor's smoke habits, they might
>> complain about all the old cars you keep in that small lot.

I have no complaints about my neighbors.

> When we moved out here we looked at this house and one about a mile
> away. I am glad we opted for this one. The other one was next to a
> corner lot and the guy who who had the corner lot developed his one junk
> yard. Over the years he accumulated several vehicles, a couple trailers,
> and a number of old appliances.
>
> Then there is the guy two doors down from me. Thank goodness the
> neighbour in between plants a bunch of ever greens as a visual barrier.
> There is only one unused old car there now, his camper trailer, several
> lawn mowers, a lawn tractor and a shipping container. I only see the
> eyesore when I drive by.

No mowers, appliances or garbage, but I do have too many cars. I'm sure
I wouldn't get away with it if it were a visible lot. Not that I'd want
to anyway, that would be embarrassing.

[Michael Trew]

On 2/5/2022 7:08, Sqwertz wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Feb 2022 08:55:20 -0500, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>
>> On 2/4/2022 7:56 AM, Sqwertz wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Nextdoor is THE WORST of them all. I don't know how they breed such
>>> irrational lunacy. I couldn't delete all my posts on Nextdoor, so I
>>> changed my name to something ridiculous, and that changed all my
>>> posts. And then I quietly "deactivated" my account (it's
>>> "automatically reactivated" again when I log in<sigh> Duh.)
>>>
>>>> What is with all the jets flying so low and making so much noise
>>>
>>> Helicopters are our thing.
>>>
>>> Give up Nextdoor.com. I was torn between calling everybody out as I
>>> saw it and getting banned, or just walking away. Can you believe I
>>> actuality chose the later?
>>>
>>
>> Why? You used to be such a fun guy.
>
> I'm still a fungi, but in real life I have to toe a line even if I'm
> not in an HOA.

I think all bets are out the window after a few of your stories that
I've heard. The drone thing would have done it for me. I'm glad that I
don't live in a busybody neighborhood.

[Umberto]

Uhm, Ghe Ghe Ghe. This is my not frogger. Yes. Ghe Ghe Ghe :)))))))))))