March 30, 2026

Posting to get this into my Journal. It's a description of internet obsessives and flamers.

Credit jmbar2 for it, and we both agree that it's unfortunate that the person in the video resembles Elizabeth WARREN. Perhaps somebody has the technology to replace the actor while leaving the valid content intact.

March 30, 2026

Need advice on coping with single-issue flamers spammers.

I don't want to name the single-issue here because it will spur the couple of flamers to do their thing. Actually, I agree with them on the broader dangers of the subject phenomenon, but there is a moderate side where the main content is not pernicious, but it's all or nothing to the inquisitors. They spoil every innocuous thread, highjack it, flame, harass, and personally attack the posters.

When one of them, who has been well thought of for years, first went on the tirade in one of my posts, I first responded with the moderate explanations inside the public thread, but they kept up the tirade, then I asked politely and privately in a DM that they stop, which only got a LONG conversion type sermon on the topic, so I DMed that they STOP. No, they don't stop, ending with my having to subject myself to the embarrassment of posting it in the public thread. They don't stop.

I have never used the Ignore feature because, for me, it's better to know what's out there than not to know; knowledge is power. And I have tried to use the guideline SKINNER laid out, that we should attempt to negotiate to solve our interactional problems with one another - doesn't work with these. And I seldom use Alert, in this case hard to fit these one-issue things into category - Civility, Spam, Don't Divide Us, what?

Their one issue is *large* and worldwide and not fixable on an internet board by a few posters. The couple of flamers here no concept that they cannot convert (apart from the core agreement) everybody, and relentlessly do long, LONG tirades that will not be read, much less convert.

March 29, 2026

Final (promise) farewell to cannas/rhizomes, settled welcome to evergreens

So perhaps the Loungeteer will come forward to claim the insight that cannas are hard to get rid of, including by digging up the rhizomes. More recently one said that "canna" means Canna-get-rid-of-them. A couple of years ago I launched (they're water guzzlers, get it?) into my experience with them because glimpses over the years flashed their beauteous blooms. After the first few months of blooms and health, downsides mounted up: The aforementioned water guzzling, the spreading growth almost to the invasive level, of course easily freezing, infestations of grass and weeds in the crowded patch needing weeding, then the next couple of years unannounced mascots/moths chewing them all to pieces.

So at my elderly elder age, my coping strategy in all areas of daily living is to conserve energy, cut out as many things and activities that are unnecessary, and yes sift off negative things and people. In the case of the gardening that was never a big specialty for me, doing away with high maintenance plants - long ago anything with thorns, weedy weak trees in the wrong places possibly crashing into the house and those that call for raking, and anything fairly far away to call for treking to water/whatever. These cannas' negatives have been listed, and the few replacements are some kind of evergreen retail things that are not water guzzlers, unlikely to freeze, and no shedding.

So below is the summary of the operation: Top center from Google the ideal iteration of the blooms; both sides, the rhizomes, first dig on the left, final dig on the right. Bottom sides evergreen shrub perimeters, center tall for privacy blocking.

March 27, 2026

Known: That Wingnuts desire, constantly work to dismantle the New Deal, Fair Deal, Great Society

In the 75 years, they've chipped away but so far not succeeded *entirely* - it's been HARD for them. If only it won't be hard for us to eradicate all the crap KRASNOV is doing.

March 27, 2026

It's not a matter of promotion. He's like Chris MATTHEWS (used to be), as a DUer said,

"WHEN he's on our side there's nobody better." It's a service to let people know who the guests are, for us to decide whether to look at parts of it or none. I don't know the numbers but he has a representative number from all sides, and when the MAGAts go over the top he does good smackdowns on them. And when he doesn't smack down enough I post angrily about him. But above all, one of the Liberal core principles is Free Speech - being able to be open to the reality of what's out there, not to do the ostrich thing because knowledge is power, not to live in a bubble. It is the MAGAts who try to pretend that the enemy doesn't exist, the way the Repukes of Olde denied the existence of "Red China." And we also have in our Lib DNA to look within ourselves to find root causes, while Wingnuts look outside for whom to blame, us digesting constructive criticism. And at least part of what he does is to hurl SOME constructive criticism for improving our strategies to win. Not how totally Wingnut operatives pretend to give us (unasked for) "advice," when it's obvious they are just mocking.

This dude claims to be an "old style" Lib (although he's now on board with the MAGAt deception that America's "greatness" was when the 1950s Father Knows Best White days was the norm), and so far claims to donate millions to Dem nominees and votes for them.

I don't watch most of the time, and mostly YouTube clips of the monolog, New Rules, and after-thing, and good guests or bad ones being slapped down. Plus, I don't Follow or "watch" hardly anything - movies, long stuff - just have things on the shelf in the background while doing *this*.

*** Like on DU, it's easy to *skip* the stuff not liked and not feeling obligated to tell the world of almighty disapproval of what others post. There are thousands of other things out there, so why spend aura on what's not liked instead of what's liked?

*** *THANK* you, Rhiannon12866 (255,215 posts), for the YEARS of DU service!

March 26, 2026

Passing for Happy socialization

Actually, a thoughtful conversation. More often than not on a regularly scheduled day it's just moi at the empty counter with my phone, which is fine. Often the proprietor arrives and participates in these interactions, both of us literate and saavy and most of all civil with not an F-word to be heard. Tonight we talked about local and international history, technology overtaking with economic and personal hazards and benefits, navigating internet interactions.

Well, leaving it all to the imagination, nighty night.

March 23, 2026

Fwiw, Recommending a history YouTube channel, ripping down myths we were taught

First, this is *NOT* about AI. Yes, this channel and many others might be using AI for graphics and illustrations, but the narrative content here (and others) is historically based.

I was calling YouTube "The University of YouTube" long before the nefarious ROGAN (whom I don't look at) started calling stuff his education, and I "discovered" before that that he was under-educated formally and was dredging his crackpot theories from YouTube videos. I also say that *critical thinking* is a mainstay of Liberal Arts education and that it is a canard of non-internet people to dismiss every mention of "the internet" as being ALL junk and slop, smearing us as soaking up anything we hear or see without distinguishing and discriminating stuff like sponges - the way MAGAts actually do with the Faux Propaganda Network and all their "think" tanks and podcasts and Stephen MILLER propagandists.

*** Anyway, it is a thing that our national education system purveyed rosy myths and otherwise condemnation of historical personages on a "Good" "Bad" basis, not really a graduated spectrum, more like Slam Bam. Heroes and Villains. In my last score of years, the internet and now specificaly YouTube have opened horizons in many directions - from "visiting" foreign lands and cultures, to how-to fix all kinds of things, vistas and mundanities and everything in between.

In the past 4 or 5 years I've been gobsmacked into the Greeks-Romans-Egyptians and the gritty origins of X-tianity. I was an unlabelled atheist-agnostic-LapsedCatholic before, but just knew it didn't make sense and blind "Belief" was no answer. Finding YouTubes of religion scholars has been a "revelation," cf. Mythvision.

*** But to the point: I had arrived at my No-Heroes/no-worship-individuals since the '90s, but a very specific phenomenon of YouTube has been the History and biographical undressing of all the myths and judgments of our academic brainwashing. Not only the historical personages, but gee whiz all the dirt on celebrities. Very few have been left unscathed.

The political offshoot is: Our Democratic AGENDA above everything and everyone - NO worship of individuals. Our leaders are evaluated by how effective they are in furthering our AGENDA - NOT celebrityhood or "Royalty" entitlement. If somebody in our camp does criminal or unethical things, they forfeit our Democratic label and if office holders should resign on the spot.

This history channel is *FANTASTIC*! Yes, I knew that the much maligned Herod "the Great" did some big building, and the video lays out that part extensively well, but it also goes into breathtaking detail about his personal atrocities. Same goes for their video on Alexander the Great - not your Colin FARRELL (which I didn't see). Will see the vid on Cleopatra soon.

Here's the channel: Ancestral ::

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https://youtube.com/@watchancestral?si=PwzO81C9mMO5es1J (fixed thanks to CoopersDad)
36.9K subscribers 46 videos 2,959,241 views

🏛️ OUR CRAFTSMANSHIP MANIFESTO: History deserves more than just a timeline. It deserves a pulse. That’s why every documentary we produce is defined by humanized editing and deliberate pacing. We entirely reject lazy, automated AI assembly. Instead, we obsess over genuine emotional storytelling—where every cut, shadow, and soundscape is hand-placed to immerse you in the raw, unapologetic reality of the past.

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March 22, 2026

Farewell to the beauteous but guzzler cannas. Behold the defiant rhizomes!

Yes, I love nature. Also have a healthy glimmer into its overpowering force, combined with cowardly self survival. At a ground level, so to speak, I'm 79 and getting deep into the downsizing phase of things - final plans made, but ridding of *things* in all manifestations, easing off of frivolous physical effort to optimize it on essential tasks, obviously ridding of material stuff. Never been a specialist deep into foodie-ism, gardening, cars and all such devotions. 30 years ago in my final, permanent shack, went through planting bushes and trees - every half dozen years or so replacing stuff that went bad, raking leaves and barbering down dead branches. First thing to go back then was any growing thing that had thorns on them. But skipping to the chase, narrowing everything down to a near area without trekking and excessive watering.

So the last, near "gardening" (sitting on a bath stool, barely digging planting holes), regarded cannas for their lovely blooms and above waist-high privacy height. Some downsides were known quantities - water guzzling, tips that they spread and are hard to get rid of. Surprise discovery, they seem to have pet, mascot pals in the form of moths who eat up the foliage with nothing lovely left.

A Loungeteer warned back then that getting rid of them is daunting, even digging up the rhizomes not working easily, to which am here testifying and validating. Dug up the whole patch of the rhizomes last week - the "digging" being sitting on a bath stool and implementing only arm action on the shovel. So this week there were a very few new sprouts from rhizomes, and am sure there will be some few to come.

*** So the further downsizing consists of replacing with evergreen shrubs - not water guzzlers, no shedding/raking of leaves. Who knows whether the height will make it for me to witness.

The lovelies (from Google, not mine), gone.


Behold the valient and defiant rhizomes:


The replacement: Evergreen

March 21, 2026

Remember comparing W. Shrub to Caligula? Now, some bits comparing KRASNOV to Herod "the Great" - (long)

Leaving out "the Great." If there's a forum more suitable for history, listening, but the personal characteristics seem relevant to KRASNOV now. It's the video that's long, and the content is magnificent, undetectable AI except maybe the artwork.

* Herod had a complex about getting to be accepted into Jewish high ranks, like how KRASNOV struggled with Manhattan social ranking. He lacked the royal bloodline, so ditched a wife to marry a Jewish princess for legitimacy.

* He switched sides based on changing expediency, was a sycophant to the Romans (PUTIN), surrounded himself with sycophants, and eliminated/killed anybody he suspected of disloyalty (O.K., "killing" not proved yet for KRASNOV, loves it when they die ).

* He loved construction projects, took over the temple for expansion to impress the Romans (not the Jews), used taxes on the Jews to pay for it, not Roman money. KRASNOV says he wants to impress foreign heads of state with his projects. When the temple was completed in the 60s C.E. after his death, the Romans took it apart down to the last wall less than a decade after, 70 C.E.

* He said he knew the Jews would rejoice when he died. KRASNOV gets piteously snowflake about how he won't make it to heaven.

* when he died his genitals were gangrened and his carcass exploded. Feedback pending on KRASNOV.

March 20, 2026

The *covered* statue of CHAVEZ: Some meanings for Dems::

* As another DUer said, The difference of how we Dems react to our former partisans who disgrace themselves as opposed to the MAGAts.

* We don't do the cult thing, don't worship individuals; we focus on our *AGENDA* of principles. We base the value of our leaders on their effectiveness in furthering our agenda.

* None of us is exempt from forfeiting our Dem label: Not long years of having it, not origin by constituent group (ethnicity/race, gender, identity).

* Heads-up to KRASNOV's plan for an approved "statue garden," where it's obvious that he will install one of himself.