Too D*** Quiet! (and other rantings)

[heinzs]

It's just too darn quiet here... there's more traffic over on Facebook than on the pages. I am saddened that I have had to lock down registrations because they are all overseas spam and even the few I make allowances for are either spam or never log in to post... :-(.

The PHPBB version we are running is loooong past outdated, but I do not have the computer expertise to run the upgrade, as doing so would negate many useful add-ons that Berlie had installed over time. If one of you out there listening quietly has computer confidence I would gladly make you an admin to do the upgrade, but with the dearth of activity it hardly seems worth the effort for anyone to do.

Pops

[Nefertari]

I agree...like a ghost town. Sad.

[GoddessErika]

Oh sure... I come back and everyone shuts up... I see how it is.

[Eternum 1]

Oh sure... I come back and everyone shuts up... I see how it is.

I know what you mean, I stop paying attention to the news for a few weeks and that piss ant Putin invades the Ukraine. It's this whole instant gratification thing that using your army and FB offers people with higher levels of attention deficit disorder.

[MJPease]

Well I sure wish I had the brains to go along with the desire, but we all know that's not in the cards.

[heinzs]

lol... they were quiet long before you came back, Erika.

[bags123]

Well,...we had a nice run. Let's face it,....the world has changed in the last 12-13 years. PP has always been a haven for me. A place where I could say things I may not say anywhere else. And I agree with ET,....we're all about "instant gratification" now. That's why we've got "credit" pushed down our throats from a young age. Portrayed as a necessity (which it increasingly is) then tempting us to use it immediatly, to buy new rims for the car that we couldn't afford in the first place. It's the latest version of "the company store". When you have 1% of the populace that controls 80+% of the wealth generated by the country,.....something's dramatically wrong IMHO. Our technology is outpacing the general population's understanding, or absorbtion of it. It requires fewer and fewer employees to run a factory today, than it did 40 years ago, and cheaper still if that factory is in China where they can operate it regulation free, without unions to protect their workers, not having to pay benefits to people who are paid pennies on the dollar compared to an American worker. The inevitable end of free market capitalism,
as we know it seems to be on the horizon. Just what will replace it is hard to imagine at this point. We're a very self destructive species,...so I'm not holding out much hope for return to Eden anytime soon. Maybe eventually though. Stranger things have happened.

[MJPease]

I agree strange things do and indeed have happened. This control of wealth sinks deep with in my thought process these days. Almost to the point of being unhealthy particularly to the health of the average working class family. I see very little incentive to improve the inefficient, mediocre and unsafe delivery of healthcare in our nations hospitals. The CEO's of these institutions are making millions and bail with golden parachutes when the going gets tough or the mega reconstruction contracts etc.have all been divided up. There's much more to medicine than meets the eye. The most lucrative construction work out there is in the medical field, then comes education. More money is spent on building facilities for medicine and education than is dedicated to patients and students. Medicine and Education in the USA is big business. Neither of these business's focus or feel the need to rely on customer satisfaction. In fact Hospitals have 44,000 of their unhappy customers winding up unfortunately dead each year from stupid mistakes. (We'll fix that by doing another 20 million dollar renovation to ER, in order to do that we need to cut back on the nursing staff again ). I was in a new Mega ER with my wife. The waiting room was packed even thou they had about 20/30 rooms for treating patients. They only had one triage nurse and a physician backed up with physicians assistants and a small nursing staff. The only beneficiaries from the construction of this new facility were the contractors and material suppliers. Patients have still and will continue to suffer as these greedy money hungry idiots misappropriate healthcare funds into unnecessary construction projects as opposed to patient care. Then again there's no benefit to the Baby Boomer population problem by making things better.

[LadySaturn]

This always happens when the nicer weather breaks.. You know that Pops.. Geez...And the Pages would be updated if Mama Berls would check both her emails and facebook messages. DAMN IT WOMAN! Anywho how is everyone finally enjoying the Spring weather.

Also I have a feeling that once everyone gets sick of the flashy social media and it goes kaput (Because it's only a matter of time) Folks will return to the pages. It's like home.. Once you leave you always want to come back. Especially if you're a broke college grad who has yet to find a job.

[heinzs]

Well, I'm not going anywhere soon if I have anything to say about it. I'll leave here in an urn, when that time comes.... lol

Thanks "guys"...

[MJPease]

That goes for me too, I'm not going any where, they'll have to drag me out kicking and screaming and then try to grab the key board out of my cold dead hands while my lifeless body still types nonsensical gibberish into the Open Discussions and Members' Messages sections of the Pages as I passionately and relentlessly continue to search for my long lost Muse without the use of run on sentences.

[nekot]

I'm a guilty quiet one on the pages. I do check in though.

If I had the computer savvy, I'd volunteer to help update the board function. But I'm ignorant.

Maybe I should write a poem (worth posting) some day.

[LadySaturn]

[frozentears]

Sometimes, when I'm on Facebook, it saddens me...I think of the pp familiar, and how I used to sign in every morning and evening...always great reads and lots of feedback on posts...

[LadySaturn]