#ponderings

Do we make our lives way too complicated? Why not just make a web & enjoy our little world with simplicity?

I’m not familiar with law but it came up in another post that since lobbying congress is considered freedom of speech does that set precedent that all financial transactions are free speech? If so, how

I was reading a NY Times article about the recent uptick in homicides and one of the people they interviewed was saying a sense of "There is no tomorrow" was partially responsible. I was struck

I had slept late last night, actually I slept at early morning so I woke up late. Well there isn't much of a plan today anyways but the usual stuff that I do which is just blogging the rest of the day.

For a long time it's seemed like it's become cool to be extravagant. Gold chains and diamond rims. It's all well and good to portray this wealth if you want...but it's seemed to get worse and worse lately.

There are a few little minor issues of PAL of course, like their hastily modified Steem front-end that only shows PAL, but there's one major issue that kinda annoys me. To use my PAL that I Staked, I have

Brain won't turn on, can thoughts be drawn? Do they swirl do the whirl? Are they a bright color, or are they a bit duller? When they are blurred are they heard? Can they be unmasked, is this my task? What

It slips through your fingers, can drag on forever, sometimes feels like you’re on that hamster wheel and other times like you are simply marking time. In the 100 meter dash one-hundredths of a second

The mind, locked in repetitive, neurotic loops as trying to sleep, like a torturous dream from which there is no escape... It’s not a complete secret that pop hits are meticulously crafted to be outright

Today I take a rainy moment to tell you all about some of my thoughts and plans. 'Where will we go from here?', is something I frequently ask myself, and I often try to weave a complex web of plans while

This is a different type of post I'd like to try out. My goal here is to get everyone's input on how THEY define the male gender, & how THEY define the female gender. Obviously, I'm not looking for

FOLLOW YOUR HEART. You have to FIND your heart in order to actually FOLLOW it. VULNERABILITY. It means taking down a few of those walls around your heart. CHANGE. Nothing changes on its own. Everything

Do people use the Promoted page? I don't often visit it, but I have tried promoting some of my posts. I know there are some bots that will give you a vote for burning some SBD on that. I just don't seem

Statues seem to be in the news a lot recently. I just read this piece on why we should take down statues of Lord Nelson as he supported slavery. I'm sure lots of people would be against that as they are

I decided to use a different data source and a snippet of code I borrowed had a very subtle error in it that wound up taking me about 6 hours to hunt down because I was off on a Cross Origin snipe hunt.

Now hopefully when I hit post on this thing it doesn't prove me wrong but I've noticed that the time since posting at least through steemit seems to be based on when you first click submit a story and

Deep Ponderings What is it to feel so deeply than to break our own hearts? Giving the shirt off our backs for strangers And yet, scratching shit with the chickens Always having to be the one to apologize

The voting behaviour on Steemit fascinates me. When I post I will generally get a few votes almost immediately by accounts with very low SP. If I'm lucky then I'll get a whale vote like those from @wang

A number of years ago, while young, innocent and attending college for a brief moment I felt that human knowledge had reached a plateau. The kind of plateau I allude to here is one in which the foundation