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Four astro fairy consults today - so fitting for the Virgo moon opp Venus Saturn in Pisces.
Has the world become so big no one tries to fix it anymore?
@elsa I think it would be rather grandiose of me to think that I could fix the world. I try to focus my energy improving my local community because that's where I can make the most difference.
I think our conception of the world has become complex and remote. Humans have really only evolved to conceive of a personal world that is small town sized with a border into the unknown lands--questing territory beyond which dragons lay. We are struggling to widen its scope. When my intellect is confronted and overwhelmed with the complexity of world that I can have no realistic impact on, I am overwhelmed and retreat. The problem is we have a generation and a half who are struggling to learn how to retreat back out reach of the dragons and re establish safety and connection in a town . They are stuck on the outer rim that we created.
That is not to say I have a problem with questing. But there is a balance... a dance of energy between the home and exploring beyond it and one can not supplant the other. I guess the elders need to call them back.
I dont know if that makes any sense. I have Neptooon doncha know lol
@jana It makes sense to me. I went out of bounds in my 20s, trying to make a difference in places I had no business being - and my help was not unsolicited. But it was a result of projecting my own problems on others, thinking I could heal them when I really needed to heal myself. I hope that I did not do more harm than good in my quests, but I fear that I may have. It was a conscious decision for me to come around to try to focus on my energy in my local community.
Some questionable varieties of "trying to fix it" are why it's now more broken than ever.
@warped true. I like what, Jana, wrote. I think this Neptune and now Saturn in Pisces.
So do I, and I relate to it in my own life, though I applied it in personal relationships rather than large scale.
@warped I was thinking about everything being blurred and askew. Borders, information, genders, fake back stories, medicine that harms, and on and on and on.
You can buy insurance today... tomorrow you can't. I had second client today, she went in to get her raise and she was fired. A box of cheese-its costs $6. The price of cocoa acts like the price of crypto.
Kids grow up on poison with a phone. Not one kid in Illinois can do math at grade level.
A huge percentage of families are estranged and generally speaking, no one trusts anyone.
I could easily list things all night long, and all day tomorrow. How are you going to approach this? It's overwhelming, basically.
Omg, I replied thinking you were referring to what was actually posted by @CocoPeaches, not @jana! Time for another nap!
It's way too overwhelming, worldwide, to tackle. Yet a few intrepid leaders ban some of it in their states or countries, and some parents homeschool, and some doctors and nurses speak out, and some whistle blowers defy the death threats...
Can small steps gradually purge the INhumanity from Humanity? Or will it take another, but even bigger, Superhuman event?
@elsa Not one kid in Illinois can do math at grade level.
I can report that this is so wrong it couldn't be more wrong. Not one kid? Um... I have three that can prove this to be very wrong.
@soup really? I saw that reported. If it's wrong, I'm relieved. But are we talking about your kids? Because I'm talking about today.
Here's a version of what I saw.
"The data comes straight from the Illinois State Board of Education.
This column focuses on schools where zero percent of kids are able to read or do math. But we could have just as easily looked at the 622 schools where only 1 out of 10 kids or less can read at grade level. That’s a whopping 18 percent of the state’s 3,547 schools that tested students in 2022..."
@elsa My kids are included in the Illinois stats. And my girls are in all AP classes ... all three of them. They could out math anyone I know. So, it cannot be correct. Period.
I have report card copies to prove it. This is an insulting statistic and a flat out lie.... whomever wrote it.
My Granddaughters are my kids.
Illinois has total of 3,977 schools in 853 school districts.
They are having this problem in 53 schools. In Cook County. (the Chicago area)
@soup yes the CPSD has been terrible for a very long time. It’s why we didn’t raise my son there. My husband and I moved to the city after my son graduated HS. We raised him in the suburbs just outside the city where the schools rank very well. He also tested very high in school and took college level classes in high school. He was already a year ahead in college when he started.
@sirena-oceana It is the Chicago public schools. And it's only 25% of those students. Low-income students and Black and Hispanic students. Chicago’s low-income student's inner-city student population, most of them minorities.
Lives thrown away by society. Many of these children must traverse a virtual war zone twice a day to attend school. You think that is an exaggeration? Then just walk the inner-city streets of Chicago. And children must cross that war zone five days a week to get to and from school. A lot of them hungry.
Those kids are victims of circumstance and deserve a chance like anyone else. Young “combat veterans” — nameless, faceless and hopeless to the rest of us. And they want to go to school. They deserve to go to school.
My three girls are honor students in advanced placement classes. Every child deserves the same chance. But this is not the whole state of Illinois. It's the inner city of Chicago and the public school system there.
And it's not just Chicago. Every state has a city that struggles.
@soup I know… many of those kids don’t even stand a chance. I mean they do but they don’t know it. Societal oppression. Segregation. I wish I could rescue them all.
I deal with he aftermath of this all day trying to help the ones who were lucky enough to land in long term care. Though that’s not lucky at all. Depends how you look at it I guess. And yes, every state has cities that struggle for sure. Chicagos just happens to get a ton of media attention.
In Chicago they send people who have been through the programs to long term care. Homeless people, drug addicts, severe mental illness… hospitals send them to the nursing homes with the elders who need it and call it rehab.
I meant adults who were raised on that bad side of town in those projects. They’re lucky they are not in jail or dead or on the street. They get a second chance to make something of their lives. Many of them are quite young. Some in their 20s, 30s, though it doesn’t matter. It’s never too late to make a new life. Anyway our program is designed to help these people get out , obtain housing with our subsidy in any area they choose and receive the supports and services they need to thrive.
@sirena-oceana I absolutely love hearing about your work. Work that makes a difference. You are in there. Fighting to make a difference with people that deserve a leg up.
I remember when someone reached down and pulled me up. My life changed immediately.
Chicago does get media attention... but there is a city in every state that is trashed and in trouble. Every. Single. State in the United States.
Here is the thing. It's the thing no one wants to hear.
I was told when I was managing a team of people that my team was only as good as my worst team member. I would not be able to produce the results I wanted if I have people that were not making it on my team. I needed everyone to have the same level of understanding of the job. No stragglers. No one left behind. It was my job to see to it that everyone had the same chance to make money.
Same thing here.... we are only as good a town, city or country as our people with the worst problems. Everyone at a local level should be reaching out to help PULL UP the people who are struggling. Some will take advantage. But most wont. They need a little help so they can do it themselves. Nothing feels better than accomplishment. When you are able to do it yourself. There are a lot of people that don't see a way out or even know there is a way out. Raised in the worst poverty and violence. What follows is lack of education and many fall into severe mental illness.
@soup truer words never spoken. The program is small in the scheme of things. It’s a huge systemic issue. But even though it’s small and it’s after-the-fact, I am happy we can help a few people get out of it. What’s better is this kind of thing spreads. Many of them are going back to college and want to help people themselves. We are making progress. It’s just hard to get anywhere and it sucks when as a society we have to take multiple steps back before moving forward because we do things like take in thousands of immigrants before fixing our own homelessness problem. It’s hard when the re-entry programs kick them out after some months before they’re able to get fully on their feet.
The main thing I wish is that people realized it starts with the children. If we want it to be better in the future we have to start with helping them. Sorry I’ll get off my little soap box lol
@sirena-oceana the kids. They need help. They have no idea how they got where they are. And they have no idea how to get out.
@sirena-oceana Societal oppression! Segregation!
Yep! There's a place in heaven for people who do the work you do. Of course you are a Pisces. xo
Those people need you and you answer the call.
I got a new twitter account, strictly for use on a tablet - I want to follow edgy or subversive accounts. I have been doing this for awhile, using an app, but twitter has blocked all the apps, I am aware. You can't read without signing in. My handle makes it clear what I'm doing. "Justbrowsing..." Point being, I just want READ.
So I've never posted anything and I never will, but I am getting (fake) followers, daily. I mean, I have not posted but I have also not commented, so there would be no way to see me, never mind, find a reason to follow me.
This is not surprising. It's just now verified.
Also, one the people I know went to their mom's fb and determined her whole timeline is people that don't exist.
I wonder the split between can't wake up/won't wake up.
That's wild! Report those bots. I'm sure I get some. I rarely check out or follow new followers since I'm maxed out. When I try to purge out the deadwood that I followed long ago to make space, I can only scroll back to show about 10% of the total for some reason. The dozen or two accounts that I actively follow I've put on Notification so they show.
I only interact with a dozen or so on FB, most of whom I know IRL, plus another dozen or so groups for a variety of interests and info. Again, all on Notification.
If there are lonely housebound seniors who think their fake "friends" are real, it's probably kinder to leave them be.
Bing has a new feature. It tells you the content it doesn't like.
Can't say "gigolo" (post from 2007, my husband talking).
Can't say "castration".
This is not good: Dating Gemini, Let’s Talk About ‘Em! (elsaelsa.com)
Can't say this (it's not political) Your Progressive Views Are Revolting! (elsaelsa.com)
Entire years are not good... but I am getting the idea. I need to be utilitarian. Like this
and this
I'm not really into masking.
I've never used Bing, it seemed even worse than google! I have Brave and Ecosia because you mentioned them, and my good old Firefox and DDG. If I ever want to dig for something likely to be heavily obscured, I install Yan dex and uninstall when done with it.
@warped I don’t see significant difference between any of them. I use brave and brave search these days. I want to try tge paid search, but haven't yet and I doubt it would deliver what I want anyway. I'd explain but I'm incomprehensible lately.
The eclipse was productive around here. I feel a little hopped up though.