Re: [blind-democracy] Re: What would you do with something like this?

Roger and All Lovers and Haters of Face Book..and Twitter, too!,
Speaking for myself, Face Book could promise to send me a lovely Fairy
God Mother to sit on my lap and read the daily news while stroking my
cheek, and I'd take a pass. I know it's an irrational thing, but I
absolutely refuse to be "Liked" by some mystical Being that has no
ability to Like anything at all. And then they came up with Twitter,
and Tweet!!! My God(whom I doubt exists) Are we being led into some
little kiddie land? Can we say, "Goo Goo"? I refuse to be Liked,
twittered or tweeted.
Okay, I'm over it!
But getting back to where my feet touch the ground, it goes beyond the
silly handles we are being fed...did I mention "Google and Yahoo"?
Studies show that most Americans read at a Fifth Grade level. With
the senseless garbage we're being fed these days, I'd say Fifth Grade
is at least Two Grades too high. And I apologize to my Third Grade
Grand Daughter who reads at a Junior High School level.
But back to the present. Regardless of whether we join up with the
Pied Pipers of Wall Street, or not, we are on the broad road to the
end of democracy and that long dreamed of, "...Liberty and Justice for
All".
So I don't begrudge those who use Face Book or Tweet and Twiddle, it's
not going to change a thing. The folks who decide what is good for us
will go ahead, charming us and promising wonders if only we allow them
to "like" us, and we'll smile and grin all the way to the gas chamber.
But for now, I have a young double amputee with Diabetic Retinopathy
to visit. There are these times that I am reminded how much more
difficult life could be.

Carl Jarvis



On 11/6/17, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@freelists.org> wrote:
>
> Miriam, pretty much every one of those sources that you post articles
> from have a presence on Facebook. I have some of them in my feed too.
> Frequently I see some of the same articles that you post here. Now how
> is it that the very same article becomes superficial when it appears on
> Facebook and it is not superficial when you post it here? By the way,
> sometimes you complain that certain articles from certain sites are hard
> to read and hard to copy. I think that if you got them from Facebook and
> used the M.Facebook site you would find them a lot easier to access with
> a screen reader.
> On 11/6/2017 6:34 PM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
>>
>> Well, that's a matter of opinion because to me, the sources that you
>> like provide superficial information and some of the information isn't
>> of interest to me or isn't useful to me. It's kind of like choosing
>> books. I'm on the DB Review list. People have a variety of tastes.
>> Some people recommend books that they love, but I would never want to
>> read. I like some books that most other people don't. But sometimes,
>> our tastes overlap. The same is true of information sources. I choose
>> mine very carefully. One example is the podcast feeds on my VR Stream.
>> There are people who have 50 or more feeds on their streams. At the
>> moment, I have 16. I've had some, discarded them, and replaced them
>> with others.
>>
>> Miriam
>>
>> *From:* blind-democracy-bounce@freelists.org
>> [mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@freelists.org] *On Behalf Of *MARY CONVY
>> *Sent:* Monday, November 06, 2017 5:31 PM
>> *To:* blind-democracy@freelists.org
>> *Subject:* [blind-democracy] Re: What would you do with something like
>> this?
>>
>> It is not a matter of liking different info than you do, but choosing
>> to expand my sources.
>>
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>>
>> *From:*blind-democracy-bounce@freelists.org
>> <mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@freelists.org>
>> <blind-democracy-bounce@freelists.org
>> <mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@freelists.org>> on behalf of Miriam
>> Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net <mailto:miriamvieni@optonline.net>>
>> *Sent:* Monday, November 6, 2017 5:16 PM
>> *To:* blind-democracy@freelists.org
>> <mailto:blind-democracy@freelists.org>
>> *Subject:* [blind-democracy] Re: What would you do with something like
>> this?
>>
>> I guess that different people are interested in different kinds of
>> information. It's a matter of taste. I had a blind friend, a guy with
>> a PhD in psychology, who was not interested in reading newspaper
>> articles. He didn't trust journalists. He preferred to get his
>> information from talk radio. He was very interested in medical issues
>> and he liked to listen to doctors who had radio programs during which
>> they gave advice. He also had a police scanner in his apartment at one
>> point. He was, for many years, a lurker on this list, but he never
>> read the political articles that we posted. He was only interested in
>> posts related to blindness.
>>
>> Miriam
>>
>> *From:*blind-democracy-bounce@freelists.org
>> <mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@freelists.org>
>> [mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@freelists.org] *On Behalf Of *MARY CONVY
>> *Sent:* Monday, November 06, 2017 10:42 AM
>> *To:* blind-democracy@freelists.org
>> <mailto:blind-democracy@freelists.org>
>> *Subject:* [blind-democracy] Re: What would you do with something like
>> this?
>>
>> Miriam, As with anything, the thing itself is not inherently good
>> or evil, but the way it is used. I am on twitter subscribed to a
>> million news sources. I get live notice of live streams of protests,
>> live police calls, 140 characters of news headlines that allows me to
>> look further into an issue or not, weather alerts, police alerts,
>> kidnapped kid alerts. It is a great source. I am on Facebook where
>> there are neighborhood pages and town pages of where I live and find
>> out instantly, for example, of a bear coming down my block, a woman in
>> great need after an abusive husband left, lost dogs, a family whose
>> teen was killed in a car accident and needed help, a man sitting in a
>> car on my block taking picture of kids. The police are on the site
>> and post neighborhood alerts. It is a wonderful source.
>>
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>> *From:*blind-democracy-bounce@freelists.org
>> <mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@freelists.org>
>> <blind-democracy-bounce@freelists.org
>> <mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@freelists.org>> on behalf of Miriam
>> Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net <mailto:miriamvieni@optonline.net>>
>> *Sent:* Monday, November 6, 2017 9:52 AM
>> *To:* blind-democracy@freelists.org
>> <mailto:blind-democracy@freelists.org>
>> *Subject:* [blind-democracy] Re: What would you do with something like
>> this?
>>
>> I'm certainly not on twitter. The idea of thinking that one can
>> adequately express an idea in 140 characters is ridiculous. It's just
>> a way to lash out at others or inflate one's ego, as far as I'm
>> concerned. Facebook is a huge money making operation and is not the
>> way I want to communicate with anyone!Even my kids who are 53 and 45
>> don't use it. And if I could manage it, and I almost do, I'd boycott
>> Amazon because I don't want a monopoly doing all the selling in the
>> world. I have ideas about right and wrong and I've tried to live my
>> values. But as society becomes more and more corrupt, it becomes
>> harder and harder to do so. I'll hold out, wherever I can.
>>
>> Miriam
>>
>> *From:*blind-democracy-bounce@freelists.org
>> <mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@freelists.org>
>> [mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@freelists.org] *On Behalf Of *MARY CONVY
>> *Sent:* Monday, November 06, 2017 8:04 AM
>> *To:* blind-democracy@freelists.org
>> <mailto:blind-democracy@freelists.org>
>> *Subject:* [blind-democracy] Re: What would you do with something like
>> this?
>>
>> Miriam, Are you on Twitter? Why no Facebook?
>>
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>> *From:*blind-democracy-bounce@freelists.org
>> <mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@freelists.org>
>> <blind-democracy-bounce@freelists.org
>> <mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@freelists.org>> on behalf of Roger
>> Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@freelists.org
>> <mailto:dmarc-noreply@freelists.org>>
>> *Sent:* Sunday, November 5, 2017 11:34 PM
>> *To:* blind-democracy@freelists.org
>> <mailto:blind-democracy@freelists.org>; Miriam Vieni
>> *Subject:* [blind-democracy] Re: What would you do with something like
>> this?
>>
>>
>> It was just a personal post that was forwarded around and happened to
>> come my way. Maybe you wouldn't be on Facebook, but you have made plenty
>> of personal posts right here yourself.
>> On 11/5/2017 10:09 PM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
>> > I wouldn't be on Facebook to begin with. And the fact that people
>> would become involved in a story like that when really important and
>> horrible things are happening to people all over the world, many of
>> them caused by the government of the country where I live, is one reason.
>> >
>> > Miriam
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: blind-democracy-bounce@freelists.org
>> <mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@freelists.org>
>> [mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Roger Loran
>> Bailey (Redacted sender "rogerbailey81" for DMARC)
>> > Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2017 8:02 PM
>> > To: blind-democracy <blind-democracy@freelists.org
>> <mailto:blind-democracy@freelists.org>>
>> > Subject: [blind-democracy] What would you do with something like this?
>> >
>> > There is a guy on Facebook who says that his wife brought home a
>> puppy that she found. She said that it had been abandoned and that she
>> found it in the weeds on the side of the road. They decided to adopt
>> it and went through the whole procedure of getting its vaccinations
>> and dog tags and so forth. But he says that the older it gets the more
>> he is thinking that it doesn't act quite right and it doesn't look
>> quite right. He is getting more and more suspicious that his wife
>> brought home a coyote. I wish I could see the picture. Several people
>> have commented and a couple say that it looks a lot like pictures of
>> coyotes that they have seen.
>> >
>> >
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