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girlofthesea@diasporasocial.net
Girl Of The

#city #living
I'm down in the Salt Lake Valley - at the bottom of the Soup Bowl. The sky is white and it's a grey day. Rain and some snow.
I have to get out there and catch a bus in an hour or so.
The heat in the building has finally started to work - after much hell raising aimed at incompetent management. Incredibly, the Maintenance Manager had decided to "go on vacation" and ignored the entire problem.

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girlofthesea@diasporasocial.net
Girl Of The

#housing #living
November 24, 2024. Sunday
Condo Ghetto Living

Nothing goin’ on here but yet another building heating pipe leak in my ceiling.
When the heat is not needed - it’s blasting and I have to open windows and turn on fans.
When it’s cold, there’s no heat and I use my space heater to stay warm, boil water on the stove for some steam heat, and stay under piles of blankets in my bed.
Hot. Cold. Hot. Cold. It makes me sick.

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wist@diasp.org
WIST

A quotation from Murasaki Shikibu

I have never thought there was much to be said in favour of dragging on long after all one’s friends were dead.

Murasaki Shikibu (c. 973 - c. 1014/1025) Japanese novelist, poet, lady-in-waiting [紫式部]
The Tale of Genji [源氏物語], ch. 29 “The Royal Visit [行幸]” [Princess Omiya] (AD 1001-1015) [tr. Waley (1928)]

#quote #quotes #quotation #death #friends #living #loneliness #oldage
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sol_o_o_l@diaspora.psyco.fr
sol_o_o_l

The Summer of Living Dangerously

The #Summer of #Living #Dangerously #France #elections #UK #BRICS #Europe #NATO #summit #NATOstan #US #UK #Russia #Ukraine

"So Le Petit Roi in Paris was predictably crushed in the European polls. He has called parliamentary snap elections, dissolving the Assemblée Nationale in an act of blind, puerile revenge on French citizens, de facto attacking French institutional democracy.

That doesn’t mean much anyway, because the lineaments of “liberty, equality, fraternity” have long been usurped by a crass oligarchy.

The second round of these fresh French elections will be on July 7 – nearly coinciding with the British snap elections on July 11, and only a few days before the slow-burning urban catastrophe which will be the Olympics in Paris.

Paris salons are ablaze with intrigue on why the little Rothschild stooge with a Napoleon complex is throwing all his toys out of the pram now because he’s not getting what he wants.

After all what he really craves is to become a “War President” – together with the Cadaver in the White House, Starmer in the UK, Rutte in the Netherlands, the Toxic Medusa von der Lugen in Brussels, Tusk in Poland, without having to answer to the French people."

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The summer of living dangerously

The plutocracy believes that afterwards they can buy the whole thing for a pittance while flies are still laying eggs in European carcasses. So Le Petit Roi in Paris was predictably crushed in the European polls. He has called parliamentary snap...

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anonymiss@despora.de
anonymiss

#Turkey: Central Bank Chief Moves Into Parents’ #Apartment As #Inflation Hits #Istanbul Property

Source: https://www.theheritagetimes.com/turkey-central-bank-chief-moves-into-parents-apartment-as-inflation-hits-istanbul-property/

Turkey’s central bank head, #HafizeGayeRrkan says she has been priced out of Istanbul’s property #market by rampant inflation, leaving her with no choice but to move back her parents’ apartment.

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“Is it possible that Istanbul has gotten more expensive than #Manhattan?” she said.

I've two questions:
1) What do normal people do with a normal job and without parents or friends in Istanbul? (Are they sleeping in their office or under the bridge?)
2) Is the apartment market now only for billionaires?

#fail #problem #news #living #money #finance #city #politics #economy #capitalism

Turkey: Central Bank Chief Moves Into Parents’ Apartment As Inflation Hits Istanbul Property

By Enyichukwu Enemanna Turkey’s central bank head, Hafize Gaye Erkan says she has been priced out of Istanbul’s property market

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ramnath@nerdpol.ch
ramnath

https://youtube.com/watch?v=8c2HkBlmMxw

And now they're destroying churches...

Also, most pyramids have an extensive underground network of tunnels, waterways, etc...

And then of course the darker thought of how these once great spiritual temples were built on powerful #ley-lines where their energies would be multiplied and sent out across the world and what they've doing in those underground caverns and under those churches to invert those energies...
#mexico
What’s It Like #Living in Mexico’s City (local experience) 🇲🇽

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wist@diasp.org
WIST

A quotation from Camus

A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.

Albert Camus (1913-1960) Algerian-French novelist, essayist, playwright
The Myth of Sisyphus, “Absurd Creation” (1942) [tr. O’Brien (1991)]

#quote #quotes #quotation #endsandmeans #happiness #life #living #money
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The Myth of Sisyphus, "Absurd Creation" (1942) [tr. O'Brien (1991)] - Camus, Albert | WIST Quotations

A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.

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faab64@diasp.org
Farhad 🆓🇵🇸 ☮️Now

One of the most amazing building technology, sidestepped and forgotten because of our addiction to cementeand concrete is rammed earth.

Ancient civilizations, built huge buildings using nothing but earth, either reinforced with hay, or simply pressed to create bricks that lasted centuries.

Ancient city of Bam in south central Iran and Saana in Yemen are examples of such amazing building method that helps keeping the interior cool in summer and warm in winter while it's beauty and simplicity made it last generation after generation.

Bam was almost completely destroyed after the devastating earthquake of 2003 and Saana is partially destroyed by almost decade long brutal war by Saudi and UAE against the people of Yemen.

There are people now who are trying to spread the knowledge about this cheap, reliable and beautiful way of building houses in warm climates. Combined with modern technology to use concrete foundation and use barbeife to reinforce the layers, these buildings can be made at a fraction of the cost of those using concrete blocks or bricks. Plus they have almost 0 carbon footprint and do not need any energy to process them before being pressed by hand or machine to create such magnificent beautiful walls. They are so beautiful that they don't even need paint.

It is possible to make them last longer by adding an extra layer of water proof plaster on top or just simply leave them as they are and they will withstand the rain and wind for many decades without losing their strength or beauty.

#RammedEarth #Bulding #Clay #Bam #Saana #Iran #Yemen #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #Techbology #Living #Construction #Housing

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bryanmeloy@diasp.org
Bryan Meloy

Well after 3 years of recovering from treatment for throat cancer I finally got back to work last week and am surviving though fatigue is still there. Now in Halifax W Yorks where I had never visited before.
All good so far though the landlord where I am staying is far too intrusive and thankfully only a short let and will be moving on soon - hopefully somewhere better for my needs will come up:)

#life #living

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