mysoulishome

Going back a few years I loved 90s Mariah Carey and Jewel. Fiona Apple’s debut album was instrumental in my life. Nowadays, I am not a super fan or anything but I enjoy and have very high opinions of T Swift, Gaga, Beyoncé and many other.

My daughter recently introduced me to Chappell Roan and damn she’s amazing.

Ouch

I worry a lot about the generation of kids coming up with full access to the internet and social media. Their schooling and social contact was all completely online during COVID. Being constantly connected to everything by the internet is all they’ve ever known. Yet they still feel lonely and alienated. Depressed, anxious. The statistics on self harm and suicidal thoughts with teens are insane and so scary.

I feel like at a certain point when they grow up and understand the ramifications it will be studied as a sort of generational trauma and they’ll tell us, as parents, you should have protected us better… I do what I can but corporations and politicians DO NOT have their best interests at heart. If they are addicted to their products and making them money…that’s all they want.

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Ha…I do this with microwave pizza all the time and electronics instructions. 350 22 minutes…how could I forget that in the time it takes to preheat the oven and set a timer? Dog collar…charge it, turn it on, who could forget that? Dammit.

Yeah if I realize I’m factually wrong or being a dick for no reason and it’s too late to shadow edit I’ll state as such and note to the parent comment I’m wrong and downvoting myself. It’s more mature than just deleting your comment, which fuels the fantasy that you’re not talking to real people and can just take back anything you say and un-say it. Getting downvoted or murdered by words and then just deleting your comment is kinda cowardly and doesn’t allow you to grow IMO. If you (I) cared what people think maybe you should have thought about it more before you said it.

In America, gaslighting by corporations and conservatives attempts to convince us that for profit healthcare is normal and fine. It’s ok for billionaires and huge corporations to get tax breaks and pay less or zero taxes because they “create jobs.” Businesses have the right to control elections with massive donations because…that’s free speech. Most rich people got that way by working hard…and anyone can do it. Immigrants are responsible for poor job markets and other economic woes.

In my opinion the way you do things is how they should be done in order to actually have free and fair elections but impossible to dismantle the power structure now since they run things. They buy the politicians and in some cases literally write the laws.

This is referring to campaign finance, many believe that corporations have too much influence on American politics and their influence should be limited. The constitution guarantees free and open elections, doesn’t the heavy influence of corporations soil that? Many think so. When challenged in court, the courts ruled that corporations are people so limiting or eliminating their ability to donate and influence campaigns violates their first amendment rights (the right to free speech). It’s complete bullshit, in my opinion, and it’s the reason in many cases that we don’t have regulations limiting corporations in general…even utilities. Agree or disagree…

I was an AT&T wireless customer for 25 years, from when they were Cingular in the late nineties. They finally pissed us off when we subscribed to a special plan to get some talk time on a cruise ship, ended up racking up several hundred dollars in charges that we didn’t understand and they refused to even budge a dime. No effort for customer retention was made. We paid the bill and cancelled then they refused to unlock my iPhone which I had paid off in full because we had a past due balance with Directv from years ago. The Directv bill was from we lived with my mother in law…our DVR had all of her programs on it so we transferred the service into her name. Apparently she agreed to a new contract and then cancelled it, but they held it against us because it was originally ours. Never got a bill. Paid THAT shit then still took several weeks for my phone to get unlocked. Never will use any ATT anything ever.

Could be. Call center employees are overworked and underpaid for sure and it’s very possible those particular folks get transferred cancellation requests and get bonuses based on talking people out of cancelling. Still super bad for them to leave a customer with a bad taste. You could be cancelling because you’re moving and after that you’re probably never going to subscribe again…

Not sure why this was necessary to say at all but ok.