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The Platform 2 (2024) - A Review (Spoilers)

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Just watched "The Platform 2" and it blew by doors the hell off. There is so much depth to this movie. It explores so many aspects of the human condition and our political and interpersonal interactions. It even hits on religion and the idea that most people will reject the most meaningful ideas in favor of the affiliations. In it, someone looked on as a fool has the ultimate way of seeing reality, and is laughed at. It has a rating of 5.0/10 on IMDB at the time of this post. I gave it a perfect 10. I don't want to be judgmental of elitist, but I'm certain most people are not able to grasp all that is being said here, and can only see the dark violence in it. At first it explores the idea that we can impose a punishment on ourselves voluntarily. The people going into "the pit" are there willingly to pay for crimes they got away with in the first place. Next we see the idea that it's an experiment by the powers that control this dark world, just to see wh

God I Miss You Mom

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I miss her some much. We where like best friends in my adult years. We would spend a lot of time together just talking or watching TV together. We often watched Golden Girls on her TV. Our bond was deep. When I had to watch her rot away from cancer, it was something I'll never be over. It took part of my soul watching it happen. Nothing will fix it. For a couple of years I took care of her in her home. I moved into the same apartment building as her, even though the rent was higher than I could do normally. I would cook for her, and help her with everything she needed help with. I gave all I had to the point of exhaustion. I managed to get some help for her, but not nearly enough. I'm disabled and it was seriously hard to do all the work that needed to happen. Then when she was in the home, I visited every day, even when I was in terrible pain. Half of the time she was in a home 5 blocks from my home, and I walked every day, even in the rain. When she needed to be taken to Regi

Keyboard Recommendations on Samsung A54

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The keyboard recommendations LOL. I would like to know how this came to be. How do these 3 date ranges associate with the dates? A lot of people had to type this in for it to have ended up in the suggestions, because it's nothing even close to anything I typed after a sad face emoji. I've had some strange ones come up over the years, but this is something else. Although I seem to remember 1923 coming up a few times when I typed in news, and I got not a clue what that's about either.  

Halloween 2024 - 18 AI Images

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Images made with Copilot . This set includes fan art.  

Answering 12 Random Questions

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1. Do you need help with anything? Money, pain management, cleaning the apartment, cooking food, and generally being driven to appointments. 2. Can an alcoholic drink again years down the road? Of course they can, it's physically possible. I think you should be asking, should they? 3. Why aren't alcoholics ever sober? I'm sober right now, have been for over a week. I was sober for 8 months every day all day. Even if I never drank again, I'd still be an alcoholic. It doesn't denote you are always drunk and the vast majority of us are rarely drunk. 4. Can seeing a therapist sometimes make a person feel more depressed? Yes it can. If your state of mind has you feeling you are losing at life by needing help, it will make you more depressed. You would need to allow yourself to be helped, and some people don't seem able to do that. 5. When does it become pointless to quit drinking? It never is pointless. However, I have no desire to stop, even though it's harming

6 Strange AI Jigsaw Puzzles Done With Times

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Weight Update Turned Into A Health Care Rant

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I don't normally post these in my blog, but on Instagram and Facebook. I just had to mention I've been up and down a bit for years now but staying about the same range in average. For some reason when I got hurt badly on January 1, 2024, in a week I was up 47.6 LBS. The treatment put on a LOT of water weight. The edema was never worse. But I'm back down 44 LBS from then, so it's all good. In 10 years I lost over 100 LBS, then I just seemed to have stopped and started to go up and down a bit in the same range I'm in now for a couple of years. The edema of course, gives me a big jump when it flairs, and when it subsides, I tend to have a big drop. The thing is, it is hanging on a lot longer than it used to, and may be a permanent state in the near future. Before I'd have it flair up and I'd have it go away in a week. Now it's most of the month before it's gone away. It does not seem to matter how much salt I eat either. I skipped the hot dogs and I sti

Soup, Ring Sizes, and Warp Drive

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Well, this tasted good and was 3 meals, but it gave me the poops like you would not believe. I am certain most people would not like the combination of sweetness and the acidic taste of the tomatoes together however. But I did enjoy it. It's maple beans, stewed tomatoes, and mixed frozen veggies. This would NOT be popular, but it was a 6/10 for me. Still, not making it again, it was not worth what it did to me. In the last 10 years, I've lost a bunch of weight - over 100 lbs in general. I find it interesting that I went down 3 ring sizes (depending on where you are ring sizes will be different). I had to give away my rings I was given, as they just did not fit anymore and it's not worth having them resized (it's too expensive). I'm also amazed my tummy is not hanging a lot lower than it is after dropping this much weight over a decade. That is amazing to me. Looking over the math for "warp drive". It has the calculations for the amount of energy needed and