OT: Priorities (was: Re: Stack with the same name loop)

[Pi Digital]

> On 7 Oct 2021, at 05:49, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> 
> In the larger picture, what would you address first:

Firstly the fundamentals
Closely followed by UX

These are the foundation upon which ALL software AND hardware are based. Without them everything else is a waste. 

Sure, a wheel can have pretty callipers and spokes, fancy tyres with run-flat technology, but if it can’t turn because the bearings are exposed or the lug nuts rust easily meaning you have to drill them out (an irritating workaround) to replace a damaged one, then what’s the point of all the fancy stuff?

An ‘irritating’ workaround that’s been in place for “18 YEARS” is seen as acceptable. However kind a person is, putting their core users through that torture goes to show what lies at the heart of them. Gently water boarding. Leathal injection given in nano-ounces every day/week/month. A noose tightened gradually and gently while slowly pushing the stool from under you. You get the picture. It sounds kind but ultimately winds up killing us all in the end. 

Everybody ‘seems’ kind and genuine. Without exception, everyone are not, not entirely. Every single one at their core is self-serving. That leads to protective behaviours. This is developed from childhood, impressed upon by parenting and society, then ingrained by experience and environment. Some get pampered and groomed into not seeing the maltreatment, believing that all or some are benevolent and beyond reproach. That is either illusionary or delusionary. 

I HAVE met a lot of the people at LC. Visited three of their bases. They all ‘seemed’ nice. But, unfortunately, we are all flawed and are all inconsistent. All affected and feel the effects of time and events. It’s inescapable. If we have a nerve touched we respond, as did you to my last post. Those reactions are only a natural reflex to how we have been trained to respond based on our past. You’ve been trained to accept things that others find uncomfortable. I respond badly, partly because of the chemicals, but mostly by the scars of mistreatment over a long period that have enabled me to see people in a different light, sometimes distorted, but more often in their true nature, and choose not to accept it’s discomfort. I can be nice, but my nerves are exposed and raw. 

I don’t mean to offend, but offence is inevitable no matter what is said in this day and age of woke mentality. So I apologise to those who have been offended now. That sounds nice but, at it’s core, is false because I don’t care if you are offended - I had something to say about how I feel and so said it. Which is only fair because a lot of what has been said here over the past few weeks has deeply offended me but I’ve said nothing. Because, so what if I’m offended. :) 

Now loop back to paragraph three and four and read in context.