🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

When the Earth Held Its Breath

When the earth held its breath,
and the trees stopped speaking in green,
I found your shadow pressed into the silence—
not like absence,
but like the memory of warmth
left in a chair
after someone has risen.

I did not call your name.
It was already there,
inscribed beneath the skin of rain,
folded into the hush of wheat fields
bowing under the weight of their gold.
Even the wind carried you—
not as sound,
but as the echo of longing
before the voice has formed.

There were no angels.
Only the dust rising
from the soles of tired workers
who knew love by its weight,
not its wings.
And still, the sun leaned low,
willing to touch the dirt
just to reach us.

You were the breath I took
before understanding what it meant
to be hollow
and still full.
You were the salt in my wound
that sang.

Oh, what a terrible, beautiful thing—
to be stitched into another’s silence.
To be the ache
someone calls home.
To carry within you
the whole cathedral of their absence,
lit by nothing
but the soft, persistent flame
of remembering.

And still—
I would carry it.
The ache, the salt,
the tender ruins of your voice
crumbling somewhere
between my ribs.

I would carry it
into the next life
and the next,
and the next—
not because I must,
but because
even grief
was more beautiful
with you in it.

-- Jeffrey Freeman

A poem I just wrote as I sit here missing Noi Noi (my fiancee). She is so far away its hard, but I hope to see her soon.

#Poem #Poetry #English #Writing

@freeschool @invidious

I generally do invest in people directly, just as I do in aggregate. The problem is when you help people one on one your reach has a large impact burt over very few people.

I have many times in my life taken homeless people into my home and invested in them to get a start in life. In some cases they have stayed with me for a year or more, and in some cases I have even paid for their university fees.

About 50% of the time it works out and the money and time is well spent. But I can at most do this for about one person every few years. It doesnt scale well. Sadly if I just give people money 99% of them never achieve anything with it, it only ever works with strong guidance and oversight, and even then at only a 50% rate. So overall while I do find this important due to the small number of people I can reach it isnt typically the bulk of the time and effort I put into helping people anymore. Especially because now investing that time into making large amounts of money I can reach and help far more people

@freeschool

Having a system where wealth can be problematic is not the same as saying wealth is the problem, it means the system is the problem because it allows wealth to have an unfair advantage to begin with, and therefore is not capitalism (which by definition requires markets to be free, they arent free if wealth can dominate them).

This usually means things like anti-trust laws, and not allowing legal power to be bought. In other words, you cant buy your way out of legal trouble with a better lawyer, fines cant be flat rate fees per offense, and monopolies cant exist, to name a few. All of your points are easily addressed not by trying to eliminate wealth disparity but by addressing these root problems, because if you dont then even when wealth disparity is low you still have an unfair society where someone with even moderately more money can buy themselves out of legal troubles or otherwise take advantage of the system.

Material extraction - with anti-trust laws no one has anymore power to extract than anyone else, free market competition leads to fair prices and everyone pays the same regardless of how much money you ahve.

geo-political: Take money out of politics such that you cant buy yourway into presidency. ITs pretty simple, just outlaw politicians spending **any** money of any kind on campaigning, adjust the amount of money they are allowed to spend to be proportional to the size of their constituency.

tax related and economic wars are moot points as those represents **governments** not people with money. But if you want to address that then just apply the same principles ont he global stage between governments.

Just using banks - Dont require banks, let people store their money however they wish, including open-source techs like cryptocurrency.

@chrismarkevich

I feel like when thinking about celestial scales we should talk in terms relative to the scale.

For galaxies use the diameter of the mily way. So Andromeda is 25x away by that measure.

Within the solar system use the diameter of the sun. Using that measure the earth is 108x away from the sun.

@AlphaKiloPapa "murder" is not an adjective I ever want to see in front of "hornet"

@KimPerales Privatizing the govt is a great idea in principle, far less waste.. But when you do it trumps way, which equates to privatizing it with your own companies and your friends companies, not so much. As always Trump hints on things that may not be a bad idea in some aspect but with horrifically harmful execution.

Just gonna leave this here.

#Dog #Dogs

@wjmaggos Agreed

Universodon is literally one of the servers that blocked us for being "free speech - no hate speech" server... Oh the irony of them complaining about the world they helped create.

#USPol

@garyackerman Words in non-scientific context almost always have quite a few definitions that disagree with eachother. This is literally every word ever.

Well - it can mean a hole in the ground with water in it, or it can mean something done effectively (you did that well).

@amerika

Not only are there **lots** of other plausible causes (of just one I gave you), you havent even explained the direction of causation.

A very simple explanation (again among many possible ones) is that being poor causes low intelligence rather than low intelligence causing one to be poor. If you are poor you wont get proper nutrition or education, both of which results in lower intelligence.

That said youre extremely low-intelligence answers are doing a remarkably good job at convincing me we should exterminate you at least, so you are least making a convincing argument, even if it isnt the argument you intended to make.

@louis

@ceo_of_monoeye_dating

To be fair I may not be a righty, but as far as democrats are concerned (usually) even a centrist is a nazi. So I think your assessment still has some truth to it.

@amerika @louis

@ceo_of_monoeye_dating

Nothing to be sorry for, just wasnt sure who you might have meant. Havent been mistaken for a republican or democrat in a long time, but I can see why you might see it that way.

In my bio i list a bunch of bullet points on my stance on various issues, should give a pretty accurate picture of where I am ont he spectrum.

@amerika @louis

@ceo_of_monoeye_dating

I dont think so. Who is the democrat here and who is the republican? I am staunchly anti-democrat and anti-republican party and while their current lunacy makes that divide particularly far even 20 years ago I would have opposed either party, albeit less so. Im generally centrist with a very slight left lean. No party would be a close fit to my ideals but you had to describe it I'm something like 40% libertarian 20% old-democrat, 10% old republican, 30% views contrary to all parties.

@amerika @louis

@amerika

Again, this is a low intelligence response. Correlation does not imply causation, one of the fundamental logical fallacies.

@louis