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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: Testing

« Last post by Dr. Richard Grossman on October 23, 2026, 08:39:03 PM »

Hi CB123,

I'm ok, but the board has become completely unreliable due to the effects of AI.  The board is constantly overwhelmed, and to fix the host's server would require thousands of dollars. I feel terrible about shutting the board down, but we are likely on our last legs.  You may want to reach out to other board posters to get their email addresses so that you can find a way to maintain contact.

So sorry!

Richard

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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Testing

« Last post by CB123 on October 23, 2026, 10:51:36 AM »

So...this is a long shot....I have come back to the page a couple of times and saw that it was inaccessible. Then I found a circuitous way to get in.

Dr Grossman, have you closed down the page on purpose? Are you okay?

At any rate, if anyone else happens to get in, hoping this gets fixed and you are able to use it again. I havent posted for a long time but I check in ever so often.

This is mostly a test to see if the page is really gone.

CB

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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: Farm Journal - 2026

« Last post by Dirty Hippy on September 13, 2026, 09:40:02 PM »

Today I didn't have to wait for the page to open like usual when it spins. Seems to be working okay for me at the moment.

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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: Anything again

« Last post by Dirty Hippy on September 13, 2026, 09:36:51 PM »

Decided to go to church today and I successfully brushed off the guy I was not interested in. Yay me. Like clockwork it's predictable. Had been avoiding church for a few reasons that person being one of them.

I'd like to be rich and have some dogs instead. Thanks.

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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: Farm Journal - 2026

« Last post by sKePTiKal on September 13, 2026, 07:52:22 AM »

I hope everyone is well and life is feeling cozy.

I miss being able to come here, and stream of consciousness babble out the things on my mind. They're half feelings and half thoughts. But I understand the difficulties of maintaining a server in this exploding digital environment. None of us are spring chickens, either.

For awhile, this turtle is crawling back into her shell and waiting for the dust to settle. Right now, I don't know what that looks like or means, coz I still have plenty to say about "life these days".

I think I've just hit the point where the return isn't justifying the effort. I'm not even sure I can post this. But I'll try.

I wish everyone the best - and thank you for the most helpful, caring, and intelligent forum on the planet!

Amber

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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: Farm Journal - 2026

« Last post by Hopalong on September 11, 2026, 01:16:41 AM »

When I first read about Facebook I felt an instinctive revulsion-shudder that went all through me. Today, with AI, the very same shudder is way higher on the Richter Scale and rattling me to my bone marrow.

So much winning! I'm becoming more intentionally myopic. I'd rather watch an ant crawl up a plant. Going to take an online drawing class with C this winter. I know creating -- anything -- is my little bit of (imaginary) power against The Machine.

I vote. Donate a pittance to good candidates. Volunteer a bit. Keep my fingers crossed until they cramp.

hugs
Hops

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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: Anything again

« Last post by Dirty Hippy on September 08, 2026, 12:14:34 AM »

From X Amelia @amelia_tweetz 11h
"They took memory cards from us and made us pay for storage. They took CDs and DVDs and made us pay for streaming. They took software you could buy once and turned it into a monthly subscription. They took ownership, convenience, and basically everything that used to be a one-time purchase… then somehow made us pay for it every month."

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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: Farm Journal - 2026

« Last post by Dirty Hippy on September 07, 2026, 11:21:05 AM »

agreed even in some of my jobs the companies push the staff to collect more info than some people want to give out and it gives me some discomfort too because I remember the "before times" I'm of the last generation that remembered what life was like before the internet

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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: Farm Journal - 2026

« Last post by sKePTiKal on September 07, 2026, 10:35:51 AM »

I resent (and B more than me) being pushed into doing digitally stuff we've always been able to accomplish well previously. Why re-invent the wheel?

I really resent the implicit pressure to "social-ize media" too. FB will lecture me because I haven't filled out my profile with all my personal identifying information; or because I haven't posted anything there. I deleted my previous account almost 10 years ago and only re-upped to be able to contact my oldest BFF occasionally via messages. Sorry! I'm not giving you info to sell to advertisers and hackers. Just ain't happening.

I'm using a 15 yr old phone. It sends texts, calls, and even transfers photos reasonably well. I did change the number - and I think the only reason this number was available was because every spammer/telemarketer/social-political activist had the number on the call sheet. I delete between 4-5 calls a day most days.

The intrusiveness of all this "cyber-pseudo-reality" inspired me to finally watch all the Terminator movies. Ironically, the first one came out in 1984. And the "rise of the machines" tracks pretty close to what I've experienced working in technology, with a heavy dose of doomerism & warfare added to keep things spicy and "action movie" qualified.

We're still talking among ourselves about phone options for privacy. Since ATT was hacked some years ago, I probably ran afoul of some bad guys then; but then other personal data was hacked from the fedgov's OPM database which I was in too. And many many more over the years.

Life simply isn't about all the new cybertoys anymore than it is politics, in my opinion. Everyone else can make their own choices and if they choose to endure the hamster wheel of "keeping up with the tech bois" - more power to them. I don't wanna; you can't make me.

I'll take up basketweaving, first.

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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: Anything again

« Last post by Dirty Hippy on September 07, 2026, 01:03:41 AM »

One wonders what is the normal about of frustration/anger versus what is that narcissist victimhood feeding their resentment thing.

I feel like these days I have been defaulting to negativity. Surrounded by bad people.

I know for a fact that I am not always like this. In better circumstances I feel more content/productive and positive.

Sometimes I worry I am no better or worse off than the narcissists. I'd like to tell them that they should have been mandatorily sterilized.

I dislike my own negativity I mean it scares me but also I think there is some truth to it. Like scratching around in my frustrations helps me kinda see things after awhile.

All I know is that somehow my brother and I ended up even worse off in our circumstances and problems than my parents. Whatever back to purging my emails.