DramatistDreamer

Having personally travelled to the island, it was apparent that Cubans take healthcare, education, the art and their baseball seriously and are deeply invested in each but unless there are more open relations between the two neighboring nations, there will be no certainty of how Cuban medical research has progressed. The urgency does appear to necessitate the need to put aside nationalism in order to reach a much more important goal. To stop the suffering and death from these cancers. Even having discussed this issue with friends who worked for institutes like Memorial Sloan Kettering, a great deal of ego and politics, even within these institutions themselves is hinder progress. Such a shame.

It is sometimes referred to as the “emperor of all maladies” but just as scientists and researchers and experts in viruses came together to concoct better treatments for coronavirus, surely a similar effort can be put into motion in order to find something as close to a cure for cancer? Yes, this sounds simplistic but why can’t this be a goal into which a worldwide effort is extracted?

That should be a very effective ad. Similar to what one of the people in the ad said, I was on the verge of laughing at the ridiculous things that Walker said until I thought about the dangers of having that sort of tomfoolery in public office. My urge to laugh immediately dissipated.

Thanks for the gift link @marceline. Lemme dig into this article.

^^In an age where a Bel Air can spring from “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air”, it wouldn’t surprise me if an actual Goncharov film or limited series gets greenlit, but could a real Goncharov ever live up to the one sprouted from the imaginations of hordes of people?

Something I have observed as of late, concerning Twitter. The trending topics skew heavily toward cryptocurrency and right-wing interests since Elon took over the company. I don’t know whether that is what happens for users who login to the site, but as someone who deactivated her account and no longer logs in, whenever I click on the “News” tab on the Explore page, 90% of the trending topics are cryptocurrency. In the past, even when I didn’t login, it was actually news stories from around the world. Right-wingers are cheering what they perceive to be the lack of curation on the site but, at the very least it signals that the majority of Twitter’s users are now tweeting about cryptocurrency and right-wing issues. That is, if there is indeed no algorithm manipulation, which I am not sure is the case.

Some information that I have been looking for and I am not at all surprised by the results of the data. https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/twitter-lost-users-elon-musks-takeover-where-they-go

If it’s any consolation, I doubt the vibe is like this anymore. I don’t get into NYC much anymore but the last time I went, things seemed kind of stodgy. Things have gotten so expensive that creative folks left at least a decade ago and left in its wake are trustafarians and techies.

You just haven’t lived until you’ve been in any public space in NYC and someone plays the theme song from FAME! The way that people will immediately start leaping, twirling and carrying on, to experience it was pure joy! Thank you, Ms. Cara.❤️ This is an interesting tidbit.

Oh damn. 💔 What a talent she was. Irene Cara was one of those people who spring to mind every now and then. What a sad feeling.

@SFKSomewhere, Richard Bey shouts into the void, “That b#tch Jerry Springer stole my show’s entire flow!”

Oh God, Ice Cube…forgot about him. Can we expect him to crawl out every election season, especially when a Black woman candidate is involved? Chappelle has already turned on Kanye as new material, as evidenced by his weird, overlong monologue for SNL (I admit seeing it on YouTube). It was also weird but unsurprising that all those corporations dug into developing a professional relationship with him after those comments, even though they eventually jumped ship after the antisemitic comments. The Very Online is an apt term, even diplomatic term to describe them. People who are always trying to provoke. I won’t mention the name that I give these people, lest I get a warning.👀

Twitter has embarked upon their own silly season since Musk took over. I wonder how much more of this will legitimate organizations take of Musk’s experimental tinkering?

My sole reason for even venturing onto Twitter: to use the search engine from the explore page (accessible without an account or login) so I can read the gift articles posted there by random accounts. This article seems worth a read.

I am also now thinking about those companies and corporations that not only decided to continue to work with him after he said slavery was a choice, but some of those companies intensified their involvement with him after he made those remarks.

Why do we still check for Kanye? When he said that slavery was a choice and that Harriet Tubman didn’t free any slaves, I was done with him from then. Obviously others didn’t find that statement offensive and kept checking for him, but why?

To this day, I have never seen those episodes and will be forever thankful that I haven’t.

Maternal figures is the word that I would use to describe those characters as well. For some reason, I don’t think that Y&R had much of a desire to create a dyed in the wool matriarch, in the mold of most soap matriarchs.

Has Y&R ever really had a matriarch in the way that daytime soaps were known for having a matriarch though? I struggle to think of one. Y&R had Liz Foster and Mary Williams, I guess but they never seemed to be the drivers of story, at least not at the time I got to watch and honestly, most of Liz Foster’s time was way before I started watching.

Trust tennis to unveil a long simmering scandal in the offseason. And this is a tragic one.

Any mention of Moses?

Wait, boarding school? The last time the twins were onscreen, that I remember, they looked college-bound! I am not opposed to De-SORASing characters, especially when their childhood and adolescence was rushed to begin with but man, these soaps need to be consistent! Remember, back in the day, when soaps wouldn’t just tell us, they’d show us? And soaps were so much better for it. They know they made a mistake. They made a mistake saddling Lily with twins, they made a mistake with Reed and they made a mistake with Mackenzie. That whole generation was messed up with directionless writing.

Thanks, @soapfan770. I am glad you could make out my gobbledygook mess, I had an embarrassing amount of errors in that post, I was writing two things at once, shame on me. 🤭