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Be warned:in this very rich environment where you can immerse yourself so completely, your emotions will become engaged -- and not everyone is cognizant of that. Among the many excellent features of SL, there is no auto-return on hearts, so be wary of where your's wanders...
Today is the 6th day of the 19th week, the 8th day of the 5th month, the 129th day of 2020 [with only 230 shopping days until Christmas], and:
Fintastic Friday: Giving Sharks a Voice
Free Trade Day
Furry Dance Day
International Space Day
Iris Day
military Spouse Appreciation Day
National Animal Disaster Preparedness Day
National Coconut Cream Pie Day
National Day to Prevent Teen & Unplanned Pregnancy
National Give Someone a Cupcake Day
National Have a Coke Day
National Provider Appreciation Day
National Public Gardens Day
National Student Nurses Day
No Socks Day
Pesach Sheni
Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives during WWII
Victory in Europe Day
World Ovarian Cancer Day
World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day
Earliest day on which Mother's Day can fall, while May 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Sunday of May. (United States and others)
Most of us have come to the realization that we are not essential, especially not during an emergency, which can be a humbling thought if it hadn’t occurred to you in the past. Our existence is not necessary to the health and wellbeing of society, indeed, most of us are anonymous cogs in the wheels that keep rolling on whether we are there or not. But it is quite another thing to find out you not just non-essential, you are expendable
What does it mean to be worthless in the eyes of the rich and powerful? To be required to work regardless of the dangers, knowing that your pay is minimal, knowing if you don’t go back, you lose your job and can get neither unemployment nor healthcare? Even those of us with jobs have to step back and pause, struck by the realization that we don’t matter anymore than serfs in the Middle Ages, all the powers that be are looking at is the profits and the wellbeing of their shareholders because employees are not assets to be cultivated and protected, they are costs to be contained. The state is no protection, it is the government [state and federal] agreeing with the capitalists “it’s the economy, stupid” that matters and not individual lives