The world’s richest man might have more important priorities, but he does seem good at multitasking, especially with a hit of adderall. You never know.
Yikes. This is crazy! I’m so sorry this is happening Sasha. It’s so frustrating. What a clearing right now in the eclipse corridor and right before the full blood moon tomorrow.
I find Facebook good for this. The things “friends” post there is not to be believed. If I see another cleavage or speedo shot amongst the elderly! Truly, the cries for attention remains fascinating…
I'm banned from Facebook for life. In fact, I think my descendants out to the year 2354 are banned. I wouldn't be surprised if my lawn guy is banned just for associating with me. And all I did was misspell Zuckerberg - Can I help it if I'm dyslexic and I mix up Zs and Fs?
What Sasha is going through seems like the plot of a dystopian novel. The term "Kafkaesque" comes to mind. Trillions spent on AI, yet the big tech companies can't even get basic customer service right.
Meanwhile any jerk who wants to draft on the followers of a legitimate user can simply change the case of a couple letters in the user handle and launch a clone page. These usually disappear when Facebook, for example, is alerted by users.
And that's what probably happened to sashastone26. Someone complained.
Makes one feel a significant respect for the Founding Fathers whose jurisprudence model included an inviolable right to confront and cross examine your accuser.
Your accuser is camouflaged by a vast atmospheric ether with little physical presence. "The Net" has become a poltergeist, a cruel and mischievous actor that just DOES stuff.
Being a Luddite has its benefits. I don't use my dishwasher because instead of making life better just it takes longer than hand washing. I'm waiting for a check "in the mail" that I'm probably just going to pick up in person. So much of what we're sold as convenience is a lie. We are like Gulliver being attacked by Lilliputians.
Totally agree. All of this technology which is ostensibly supposed to make our lives easier, just ends up making it more frustrating and difficult. I have a new property manager who requested we Zelle them the monthly rent. However, apparently Zelle has a daily limit on what I can send so now I need to send it over incrementally over a multi-day period. In the old days, I could have written and mailed a check and been done with it. It's just death by a thousand cuts these days. I'm so over having to log into an app for every. single. thing.
Agreed! The amount of time the husband spends on the phone attempting to untangle the nonsense at least keeps him busy. More so than when he was a fed judge.
Sasha, thanks for this article. Please continue this theme often in the future. I read through the comments and I so agree with the choices that others are making about trying to dodge technology simply to save time. I believe the AI world does create real problems . Here in my small world is mine. In ordering medication clearly in my voice, the AI
ordered another. Done deal. No way to cancel. When taking home medications, as a caretaker I committed the sin of not opening the bags for a couple of days. My bad. There was a box of needles that had not had a prescription for 2 years. Took them back. The pharmacist explained that they could not take them back. Company policy. I said that I would keep them, but I wanted my money back. The pharmacist finally returned money. This took 1 1/2 hours of my not at home time.
Multiply these incidents by the millions every day. Then think about the mistakes made in the bigger lives and companies .
Might want to consider what folks like Victor Davis Hanson and Catherine Herridge do: send out posts as an e-mail, in addition to sometimes posting to a social medial account. FWIW.
I have 3 times had my X account taken away. The last one was ostensibly because someone in Hong Kong hacked my account. It even showed in the history that that was the case, but my appeals were met with deaf ears or blind eyes, maybe both. I've decided to be done with X although I understand why you want to continue to engage on the platform. Honestly, I've had much less angst and stress in my life since. Better luck to you than I had.
No worries. After all, we are all living in an upside down clown world. I was suspended on "X"/formerly known as "Twitter", just for engaging in their "platform" in the exact manner it was designed for. Whatever. Oh ya, they are still charging me every month for my membership. Google denied my claim. Now, I have to do a stop pymt via my bank.
I've long suspected that being a premium member doesn't protect you from these problems, and it only makes the situation far worse because your forced to pay for this service that you aren't receiving.
Hah! I found out that at least with WaFd ( because I guess Washington Federal wasn’t hip enough) that the owner of the account can’t cancel a recurring ACH, it must come from who you send it to. Is that stupid and creepy enough?
I recommend a garden. Any plot of earth can suffice.
When these levels of technology make you crazy, go outside and pull weeds. This is a most effective form of deep healing therapy. Especially when you get the weed out roots and all.
That’s a nice way of putting it. I don’t want to hurt the kids but they seem to like the pruning. I have some elder trees, but I have 3 that were planted more recently and are hitting season year 5. Limes were active fastest, pink grapefruit produced exactly 2 gfs in each of the past 2 seasons but have more buds than ever and a blood orange that’s holding out on me. I just returned from a mini vacay, and bloody hell!, a few buds. Hard to tell on the latter 2 trees because they bloom last, but so far, so encouraging!
With the infants, I give ‘em water, fertilizer just before growth spurts (where I live in Palm Springs that was about a month ago), chats of encouragement and caresses of love carefully given they nip.
I do love my babies and cant wait to greet them in the mornings at this tine of the year where little baby fruit sacs tease their harvest once ripe!
Another benefit - when your octogenarian husband is caught getting blown in the hot tub by the sea by that husband who’s husband yells “dirty whore” in his direction aloud in your small town friend reunion in Cabo, what do I care? I’ve returned to my babies! When I awake tomorrow, I escape to heaven, fondling sprouting, flowering branches. To say nothing of the orange blossom scented air caressing the San Jacintos.
Weeding is therapeutic, as is gardening in general. So is animal husbandry. I have aquariums and chickens. Caring for the animals gives me joy. And eggs.
One of my favorite things to do, that and planting oodles of flower saplings. But alas at age 60 I have severe, advanced osteoporosis with t-scores of an 88 year old. That has put strain on all my joints, and my hands, wrists, and elbows often injure with the smallest amount of use (kneading bread, folding blankets and towels, scrubbing dishes or my bathtub, etc.) The last time I pulled weeds and planted my beloved impatients all over my yard I got both tennis elbow and golfers elbow that knocked me out of the gym and any lifting weights for six months, it took that long to heal. Last year I didn’t plant much and left the weed pulling to my husband and son (felt awfully guilty) yet here I sit today mid-winter with so much pain in my thumbs and wrists I can barely hold my water bottle with one hand. Not sure what activity caused it but damn, I can’t get much more sedate than I have been!
Not sure what activity I can take my stress out on now 😩. For most people gardening is the next best thing to a long walk.
I think I need to find a better quality? I’ve been using a DMSO cream I bought on Amazon for my thumb/wrist pain every evening (smells like BenGay, lol) and it isn’t helping yet. I wondered if it’s got a good amount of DMSO or not ? Any recommendations for a good source and medium?
Have you ever read Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying's book based on the work as evolutionary biologists, called "a Hunter Gatherer' guide to surviving the 21st Century"?
Brilliant bit of work, before they got really deep into their pod casts and the other public movements.
They talk about the dangers of modernity having grown to the point where everyday something in your world changes to add more stress. They also give some decent ideas on how to mitigate that.
Im a tech writer in construction safety, a former safety officer, working now from home. Yet about everyday something changes in one of the tech platforms changes meaning time spent with frustration from adapting my daily routine. All of us are forced to be ome less productive or more overworked to make up for these changes.
Take care of Sasha. You matter and your work matters.
Exactly. My theory is that most younger people have never had the advantage of working for someone competent. Hence poorly trained and their benchmarks are flawed.
I'd appeal to Elon Musk. He might never see it, but possibly you could get results.
perhaps if enough people appeal to Elon, he'll notice and act.
The world’s richest man might have more important priorities, but he does seem good at multitasking, especially with a hit of adderall. You never know.
Get President Trump on the Case!
You and Trump appear to NEVER sleep—so no worrying about interrupting each others schedules!!
Oh— You are both BAD ASS as well!!!
Yikes. This is crazy! I’m so sorry this is happening Sasha. It’s so frustrating. What a clearing right now in the eclipse corridor and right before the full blood moon tomorrow.
Hang in there, Sasha! We are really looking forward to reading your next post whenever you have time to get to it.
Your old X account;
"I use it to peer into the crazy Doomsday Cult, and honestly, IT NEVER DISAPPOINTS"! 😆 😂 LOL
Good luck getting the convoluted mess X has made straightened out.
I find Facebook good for this. The things “friends” post there is not to be believed. If I see another cleavage or speedo shot amongst the elderly! Truly, the cries for attention remains fascinating…
I'm banned from Facebook for life. In fact, I think my descendants out to the year 2354 are banned. I wouldn't be surprised if my lawn guy is banned just for associating with me. And all I did was misspell Zuckerberg - Can I help it if I'm dyslexic and I mix up Zs and Fs?
What Sasha is going through seems like the plot of a dystopian novel. The term "Kafkaesque" comes to mind. Trillions spent on AI, yet the big tech companies can't even get basic customer service right.
Sasha vs. The Big Tech Titans!
LFG!
Sasha, show them NO mercy!
You can do it. You are the best!
Meanwhile any jerk who wants to draft on the followers of a legitimate user can simply change the case of a couple letters in the user handle and launch a clone page. These usually disappear when Facebook, for example, is alerted by users.
And that's what probably happened to sashastone26. Someone complained.
Makes one feel a significant respect for the Founding Fathers whose jurisprudence model included an inviolable right to confront and cross examine your accuser.
Your accuser is camouflaged by a vast atmospheric ether with little physical presence. "The Net" has become a poltergeist, a cruel and mischievous actor that just DOES stuff.
Someday the lights will go out
❤️❤️❤️
I’m very sorry and upset this happened to you. I always read your posts and think yours is a very important voice to be heard.
Hang in there 🎈
Being a Luddite has its benefits. I don't use my dishwasher because instead of making life better just it takes longer than hand washing. I'm waiting for a check "in the mail" that I'm probably just going to pick up in person. So much of what we're sold as convenience is a lie. We are like Gulliver being attacked by Lilliputians.
Totally agree. All of this technology which is ostensibly supposed to make our lives easier, just ends up making it more frustrating and difficult. I have a new property manager who requested we Zelle them the monthly rent. However, apparently Zelle has a daily limit on what I can send so now I need to send it over incrementally over a multi-day period. In the old days, I could have written and mailed a check and been done with it. It's just death by a thousand cuts these days. I'm so over having to log into an app for every. single. thing.
Agreed! The amount of time the husband spends on the phone attempting to untangle the nonsense at least keeps him busy. More so than when he was a fed judge.
Unfortunately he can’t ask the Bailiff to toss then into the gaol.
Its on Purpose,,,they assaulted Sasha, all legal in their world but wrong morally wrong and they are pigs
Those Zelle limitations are from your bank. Appeal to them.
Utilities are going paperless, but charge you extra for paying paperless, by credit card.
Death by a thousand cuts, marketed as convenience.
And always involves MORE of the users time.
Sasha, thanks for this article. Please continue this theme often in the future. I read through the comments and I so agree with the choices that others are making about trying to dodge technology simply to save time. I believe the AI world does create real problems . Here in my small world is mine. In ordering medication clearly in my voice, the AI
ordered another. Done deal. No way to cancel. When taking home medications, as a caretaker I committed the sin of not opening the bags for a couple of days. My bad. There was a box of needles that had not had a prescription for 2 years. Took them back. The pharmacist explained that they could not take them back. Company policy. I said that I would keep them, but I wanted my money back. The pharmacist finally returned money. This took 1 1/2 hours of my not at home time.
Multiply these incidents by the millions every day. Then think about the mistakes made in the bigger lives and companies .
.
Alot of Lilliputians like millions of them
If you get an “extra” check in the mail, then please send me one. If it is from a Nigerian Prince 🤴, then that was be a negatory.
Might want to consider what folks like Victor Davis Hanson and Catherine Herridge do: send out posts as an e-mail, in addition to sometimes posting to a social medial account. FWIW.
^^^ THIS ^^^
I have 3 times had my X account taken away. The last one was ostensibly because someone in Hong Kong hacked my account. It even showed in the history that that was the case, but my appeals were met with deaf ears or blind eyes, maybe both. I've decided to be done with X although I understand why you want to continue to engage on the platform. Honestly, I've had much less angst and stress in my life since. Better luck to you than I had.
I also was suspended for no valid reason recently and am finding much more time for other endeavors and much less stress
It’s ok!! Despite all your attempts at impersonating yourself we still knew it was you!!
No worries. After all, we are all living in an upside down clown world. I was suspended on "X"/formerly known as "Twitter", just for engaging in their "platform" in the exact manner it was designed for. Whatever. Oh ya, they are still charging me every month for my membership. Google denied my claim. Now, I have to do a stop pymt via my bank.
Thank you for reporting that.
I've long suspected that being a premium member doesn't protect you from these problems, and it only makes the situation far worse because your forced to pay for this service that you aren't receiving.
Thank you for the warning. I had been tempted, but not any more.
Hah! I found out that at least with WaFd ( because I guess Washington Federal wasn’t hip enough) that the owner of the account can’t cancel a recurring ACH, it must come from who you send it to. Is that stupid and creepy enough?
I can't imagine spending one minute of my life worrying about twitter
Agree. I don’t use X, FB, Instagram, none of it. I don’t have time. I’d rather spend my time in the real world, despite all its flaws.
All Notices should read: "Welcome, you are now in Dante's 'Fifth Circle of Hell.'"
LOL. An additional line below the above: "Liberals please have valid ID ready for entry."
Ha Ha Ha,,,like Liberal women are nice women
Not many that I know of. They are more harridans at heart.
that;s what I mean,,They say,,,,,Trans women are women, NOT
liberal women are nice women NOT, ,,Get it?
I'm a little slow today! Thanks for the interpretation. :-)
All good,,and I rarely come up with a funny so I had to put it up AND its true
!!!! 😂
Woof!
someone should fix this
This is why our Constitutional Republic is hanging by a thread.
X Twitter has been a problem for a while – repeat yourself or tick off the wrong person and you end up being censored.
I recommend a garden. Any plot of earth can suffice.
When these levels of technology make you crazy, go outside and pull weeds. This is a most effective form of deep healing therapy. Especially when you get the weed out roots and all.
Me too. My citrus trees are like my children, fruiting to beat the band currently, like good little soldiers.
Oh yes. Pruning trees is just as therapeutic as weeding. Pruning is a way of letting the light come through. Redirecting the energy. ❤️
That’s a nice way of putting it. I don’t want to hurt the kids but they seem to like the pruning. I have some elder trees, but I have 3 that were planted more recently and are hitting season year 5. Limes were active fastest, pink grapefruit produced exactly 2 gfs in each of the past 2 seasons but have more buds than ever and a blood orange that’s holding out on me. I just returned from a mini vacay, and bloody hell!, a few buds. Hard to tell on the latter 2 trees because they bloom last, but so far, so encouraging!
any advice for two foot avocado tree and new lemon trees about a foot so far
With the infants, I give ‘em water, fertilizer just before growth spurts (where I live in Palm Springs that was about a month ago), chats of encouragement and caresses of love carefully given they nip.
I worry too about hurting the plant when I prune. But my experience is always that the plant itself seems to start telling me where to cut.
I do love my babies and cant wait to greet them in the mornings at this tine of the year where little baby fruit sacs tease their harvest once ripe!
Another benefit - when your octogenarian husband is caught getting blown in the hot tub by the sea by that husband who’s husband yells “dirty whore” in his direction aloud in your small town friend reunion in Cabo, what do I care? I’ve returned to my babies! When I awake tomorrow, I escape to heaven, fondling sprouting, flowering branches. To say nothing of the orange blossom scented air caressing the San Jacintos.
Yes it does. Hadn’t thought of it that way.
And I’m currently “with child”. Just asked the gardener to plant me a lemon tree which will happen soon, given impending heat.
Weeding is therapeutic, as is gardening in general. So is animal husbandry. I have aquariums and chickens. Caring for the animals gives me joy. And eggs.
Yes, yes, yes. And yes. !
One of my favorite things to do, that and planting oodles of flower saplings. But alas at age 60 I have severe, advanced osteoporosis with t-scores of an 88 year old. That has put strain on all my joints, and my hands, wrists, and elbows often injure with the smallest amount of use (kneading bread, folding blankets and towels, scrubbing dishes or my bathtub, etc.) The last time I pulled weeds and planted my beloved impatients all over my yard I got both tennis elbow and golfers elbow that knocked me out of the gym and any lifting weights for six months, it took that long to heal. Last year I didn’t plant much and left the weed pulling to my husband and son (felt awfully guilty) yet here I sit today mid-winter with so much pain in my thumbs and wrists I can barely hold my water bottle with one hand. Not sure what activity caused it but damn, I can’t get much more sedate than I have been!
Not sure what activity I can take my stress out on now 😩. For most people gardening is the next best thing to a long walk.
Look into DMSO. I have had pain relief and a reduction in inflammation (arthritis, bursitis, and muscle spasms), all with minimal application.
I think I need to find a better quality? I’ve been using a DMSO cream I bought on Amazon for my thumb/wrist pain every evening (smells like BenGay, lol) and it isn’t helping yet. I wondered if it’s got a good amount of DMSO or not ? Any recommendations for a good source and medium?
Try a quality curcumin/Turmeric supplement and try some restorative yoga on YouTube with Yoga with Adriene. She's amazing.
You will have my prayers. I am so, so sorry for this pain you suffer. Praying for relief from your pain.
Will that Work in Washington DC? Alot of weeds there.
To be sure.
Have you ever read Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying's book based on the work as evolutionary biologists, called "a Hunter Gatherer' guide to surviving the 21st Century"?
Brilliant bit of work, before they got really deep into their pod casts and the other public movements.
They talk about the dangers of modernity having grown to the point where everyday something in your world changes to add more stress. They also give some decent ideas on how to mitigate that.
Im a tech writer in construction safety, a former safety officer, working now from home. Yet about everyday something changes in one of the tech platforms changes meaning time spent with frustration from adapting my daily routine. All of us are forced to be ome less productive or more overworked to make up for these changes.
Take care of Sasha. You matter and your work matters.
Meant to add thanks also for telling us your experience.
Thanks for the book references.
Apparently, there is a Deep X. If it is any consolation, customer service sucks everywhere.
Exactly. My theory is that most younger people have never had the advantage of working for someone competent. Hence poorly trained and their benchmarks are flawed.
A lot is AI and it basically tells you what you already know.
X-Twitter sucks
I got suspended so many times I just gave up and started an Anon lurking account
Anyway, the site is just one big drama circle jerk bereft of any true knowlege