The Remarkable Fools Letter

The Remarkable Fools Letter

obituaries or obitrees

pople ar losin leters arond hre!

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Jim Dalling
Jul 10, 2021
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Today is a break from the book of wrong answers.

I’m getting old.

These days?

I have people in my life who,

If I don’t hear from them for a while they might actually be dead.

Clients. Friends. Colleagues.

Approaching fifty has its drawbacks.

Losing friends is one of them.

So, once a week I check the obituaries.

I have to.

I’m not really on social media - more on that later.

Hell. How about now?

Social media is the worst.

Everyone there is yelling.

Even when they aren’t.

They share things that when they shared them?

They were likely upset.

They likely thought that other people should know about this bullshit.

Right wing people are screaming about unborn babies while sending the born ones to the electric chair.

Left wing people want to include everyone but the mainstream and the middle.

All of them are right.

All of them are certain.

All of them are special.

All of them are assholes.

So, I have a really simple social media policy?

If you post ANYTHING political at all? I mute your ass immediately.

Problem is?

E…

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