The place I lived like over a decade ago (I’m “getting old”; everyone on The Internets says this all the time; I know this; I also know I’m not about to be devoured by scorpions tonight; please don’t judge me; I can’t sleep if you think scorpions are under my bed). Wait, uh, … what?

Basically I moved there back then to be closer to my relatives from another State. It’s been awesome.

If you’ve been a demented soul like me and are part squirrel, Albanian assassin, and the seven other people who have read this blog? You might remember I’ve written about that residence in the past. Then I left.

One of the reasons I had to leave was the target gunfire in the park that my second floor overlooked. They did it at about 11 or so. Not every night. I can’t remember how often it was; maybe about monthly. It drove me and my dogs nuts. Guess what? Nobody ever did anything about it. In Earth terms (even though it was not a rich USA place) it was essentially one of the richest counties on the planet.

Nobody cared.

It kinda creeps me out that I now live in one of the most rich counties in the world (this county is not the county mentioned above) and they can’t even get the street signs correctly. I’m not joking. One of the richest counties on Earth can’t produce intersections that make sense to a normal person.

This is how the planet works.

This is why everything that is wrong lately is happening. When your local or national government is so incompetent that they can’t be bothered to make the nearest traffic sign work? Why would you trust them with anything else.? Or get involved with anything else? You have to live your life, don’t you?

Iran has been front page news in the media for weeks. I myself dug into it, I kinda am ashamed about it. For what? Remember South Sudan, Syria, Burma, Central African Republic, Sudan today?

What about obscure stuff? How about continuous fighting (for decades) between the Indian government and those maoist insurgents? What about Mexico’s multi decade war against insanity, drugs, and anarchy? What happened to all the feelings about Tibet or Xinjiang?

Guess what folks, especially in the modern era of social media, nobody cares. Iran is top page news for now. In (let’s estimate) six months nobody will care. Oh, oh, … the media will tell you the war has increased your price at the gas pump this month? Hasn’t that been happening via inflation for an entire fucking half decade?

Remember Ukraine? Remember THAT? Iran is front page news. But! Every. Single. Day. At the moment, tens of thousands of Ukrainian Soldiers are under fire from Russia. Remember that?! But the media is like: Oh no, no that’s not important anymore, we need to report the current price of a barrel of oil like it’s a fresh killed deer at a medieval market.

Watch what you read, what you listen to, and what you look at on your blinky box of choice. Even if you can do nothing about it? Can you do anything, I mean anything of value to help the Iran situation? I can’t. But at least don’t let your brains be led by the media.

Reality will be changed soon. And the media will feed you clickbait of another kind till then. This is why everyone should volunteer and help their neighbors. This is why sports exist.