Tuesday Open Thread ~ Shared Perceptions
A locking of eyes can be all you need to have some (others) understand something you mean.
Eye contact between two people is a powerful act of communication and may show interest, affection or dominance.
Welcome to another episode of the ever-changing C99 Tuesday Open Thread. A place to share perceptions. Be it individualized or assumed to be accepted as common knowledge. The audience here are varied and astute. Post away, it's easy if you are signed in. And throw in a couple coins. It helps.
Although it is difficult to lock eyes with each other thru this digital medium, we connect in other, more cerebral ways. Best guess the communication devices we use have eye-tracking capabilities. The trick would be to share that eye contact concurrent with text, video or voice links. How could the lying politicos tolerate that? Methinks the tech is already in place. In a sharing agreement between the NSA and Google, a marketing plan will be put forward to the public once the bugs have been worked in.
Big Hat Tip to my alter-ego Zoebear, AKA Anja, who took up the challenge to go every other Tuesday OT. THX! In that vein...
Recipe: Sunday Slush
Ingredients:
In a fruit jar (better with a handle) load with ice cubes.
Add a good jigger of your choice of alcohol (preferably clear, 100%)
Dash of lime / lemon juice
Ginger tonic / soda, like Vernors. (see my recipe for ginger tonic next week)
Optional : 5 whole seedless grapes and a few sprigs of fresh hemp leaves.
Stir down to get grapes and leaves on the bottom. Once drained (or drunk), scoop out the grapes.
Jim Pepper performs Witchi-Tai-Tai (Would not embed, U-tube flukey on this machine)
Busy as bees knees these days. Spring rush. Check in when able, so maintain 'yo'in seffs (en patois).
Celebrate life, long as you dare.
Forged Hook and Eye by Chris Bordeleau
Comments
Good morning and thank you, QMS.
Not an option for posters, who are too often often arrested per Poe's Law.
Barr is investigating whether the evidence that was the reason (rationalized justification?) for the Russia! investigation was acquired legally. Given the spinelessness of FISA courts, I won't place any bets on that one, either way.
I am already running behind this a.m., so this is all from me. Have a great day, everyone!
Poe's law
Good morning, QMS ~~
That drink sounds yummy! Thanks for the recipe. I'm always interested in new drink concoctions, although I'm a die-hard beer lover, which is why all those new breweries are fun to check out!
Yawn, stretch ~ it's Tuesday. Already looking forward to the weekend. Who can blame me? I work to live and have never lived to work.
Have a beautiful day, everyone!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Beer
The mother of america.
via Food & Wine
Cheers!
Empire notes
From Zero Hedge via Global Research
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-special-forces-command-new-guide-overth...
Here you go.
Jim Pepper performs Witchi-Tai-Tai
Now and then, with a few people that I seldom speak to directly, I feel a glance, a nod, a meeting of the eyes for a instant. I don't question it. My brain files it among real things. It is unique to this place, but it's unpredictable. It's not the Internet of Things. I think we can transcend devices and algorithms and the people who watch us. We must.
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
Thanks Pluto
If you smile at me, I will understand.
It's something everyone, everywhere
does in the same language.
CSNY
The Extinction Rebellion in Tampa, FL
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Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.
Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.
I suppose
that mode of communication needed to be used back in the day in the USSR. A quick glance or smile was enough. Well, not really enough, but had to suffice. It's odd to me that that is where we are now. Odd and sad. How we have shrunk.
My comment above
As some infamous people say; "it's very easy to misunderestimate people on the intertubes".
“When you have a broken leg, you don’t put a Band-Aid on your
forehead.”
Good day. QMS; watched the GND livestream last evening; great grassroots work by Sunrise.
Thanks for this OT and have a good one.
Way too much
for all of us. Go AOC. Give 'em hell!
Good luck with the well.
Sounds swell.
Good morning
Trade day was buzzing this AM, but I left empty handed. Went grocerying while in town.
Now it is back to the slowly developing well house. Hope you all have a great day.
Cool and clear here this morning.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
oops, scattered
way too much was for smiley, well for lookout. Multi-tasking is not one of my strong points today.
What passes for sustainable agriculture in Sonoma County
‘We’re getting killed’: Jackson Family Wines CEO calls for protections against imports
Because if everyone could vacation in Hawaii...? What about the rest of us who have to compete against subsidized labor and subsidized housing? cake! I'm not a math surgeon but I think 360 is more than 64, but look a golf course park! community wookie Wine is not a food crop, why is it subsidized like one? These are not the "people who feed America" sorry. 5th largest reich
What passes for journalism in the local rag stinks like a corporate advertisement, but go on:
Proof read much? mind your robots
It can also serve, but does it? never mind look at the 2 Billion dollar industry. My great grandpa left Ireland forever to escape land barons like you. history repeats jkmn
kabuki capitalism
...
"Is our children learning?" Don't blame teachers for environmental brain damage. "The future happens here first." sorry about that
California to ban pesticide it says hurts babies' brains
brawndo
I've boycotted California Strawberries as long as I can remember, because Methyl Bromide is very bad for healthy dirt, and healthy people. go in peace
Perception Dump
PEACE
not dead yet
Mind your robots
proves much
Thanks eyo.
Hang in.
Cheers QMS
That eagle we saw it yesterday, it circled right over us walking the river path. omg I was clicking the camera pointed skyward like a mad woman LOL mad woman clicking. My neighbor never looked down walking the whole time it was within eye sight, she was so mesmerized it was like a dream. me too right on We were talking about symbolism and BAM! there goes that eagle again. huh I think she is some kind of Shaman or something, lucky me. Also I met a Rastafarian who lives nearby. She is the real thing, whatever that means. heh
Rastafari Is --Peter Tosh
youtube is shark jumping
the post office remains the same
namaste
peace
Mind your robots
proves much
Thanks eyo.
Hang in.
oops, xeroxed again. Damn IBM machines anyway.
"I'm not a math surgeon."
Jimmy Dore is not the math surgeon
peace
Gazing
Apparently a spiritual practice. I do it with my dogs and cats. My family members would freak out. But it's cool with the animals.
Wishing everyone a great day!
Marilyn
"Make dirt, not war." eyo
Do you see what they see?
That's the magic of the gaze.
Animals are deep. Simple.
Youmans are fracted unless focused.
I like imagining you doing that
When I do it with my cats, it always looks like they are thinking about things.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Cats and dogs are different
or . . . maybe not . . . now that I think about it. Some of each can do deep gazing and some are more distracted.
@QMS I think it is a "no thought" sort of thing . . . just a reflection of being.
Marilyn
"Make dirt, not war." eyo
Absorption or reflection
That is an interesting point.
Thanks!
Morning QMS
Love the quote. And it is so true. Facial communication can be so powerful. As someone who works with the public, I'm always amazed at the degree of differences between people's social skills. Some are great at it, others, less so.
Silliest things I heard at the register on Mother's Day:
Guy: You have children?
Me: No, I don't.
Guy: Oh, well, happy Mother's Day anyway.
Woman: You have children?
Me: No, I don't
Woman: I'm sorry
?????
Lol.
It was crazy busy at the store on Sunday. I was working my favorite section and I came across this:
People are weird.
Have the day off today and I'm in the kitchen! In a clever form of barter, I am trading my cooking skills for car repair. A fellow crew member who knows about cars is coming over tomorrow to replace a part in my car. In return I am going to feed him, and supply him with "take-out", but not before I take a picture of what I made!
Speaking of which, I'm on Instagram now, so anyone who wants to follow me, this is my name:
Have a great day everyone!
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
The definition of mother
is somewhat beyond biological.
Awkward for some to relate to the concept of living child free.
Love your Happy Plate!
The concept of being child free
Good choice of words. The common usage is "child-less" which connotes the obvious. Child free is more accurate in my case.
Most people get it. But a lot don't. Nonetheless, it was funny in its awkwardness. Imagine if I had said back to them: "Gee, I'm sorry you have all that cumbersome responsibility and disappointment". Now that would've been awkward! Lol.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
I knew from the age of 9 that
We have always described ourselves to anyone who asks as "childfree by choice", and I think that that is the best way to encapsulate our approach for those who think differently. In any case, it tends to preempt the tired old "but why?" or "awww" or "you cheated yourself" tropes.
Which is good- because if somebody insists on pushing those at me anyway, my next level of response is to say "Actually, I like children just fine; especially sauteed" (accompanied by a big toothy "I'm-just-joking" grin, of course). That seems to discourage all but the most bewildered, anyway.
That was snark, for the humor-impaired: after all, you couldn't see my big, toothy grin. Hope everybody is having a great day!
Love it
Think it was WC Fields that responded 'like'em broiled or fried' or some such. Nothing against chilluns, per say. Got plenty people aboard already. Big and small.
My perception of this is seeing two love birds
Lavrov: After Mueller report out, US & Russia can work to restore constructive dialogue (WATCH LIVE)
Feels so good ...
redacted - double entry /nt
Sigh, WhatsUp and Co.
"Spionagesoftware WhatsApp-Sicherheitslücke ermöglichte gezielte Überwachung ".(Spying software WhatsUp-Security hole facilitates targetted surveillance)
And I thought only JtC knows everything about me, but now it seems the whole world knows all my innermost secrets I share with my loved one.
I try not to hate the internets. But my loving spirit is weakening. What the hellish, evil, fucking technology have we developed? Worse than nuclear fission. The latter kills the body, the former kills the spirit.
Oh shit. May the internets go to hell and burn into dust.
No worries
We are small fish in a big pond.
Your thinking is original. That you own.
The rest is open to marketing ventures.
Be at peace.
.....
I was accused of looking at people intensely
but all I did was gazing. My eyes didn't look at any person, it was that look where you don't look at somebody but through a person, or better your looks stopped at an invisible wall just before it would hit a person.
So, if you sit in a subway in Germany and you would feel uncomfortable me staring at you, it's not staring, it's staring without a target. Oh, Germans are so rude. Tell me about it.
ja, ja, I am looking at you kid. Those looks ... hmmm something else...
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