Perette Barella
Thank you
In the aftermath of the 2022 elections, I want to thank the sane Republicans who chose to vote against party lines.- Those who voted against all the election deniers who were running to "fix" Trump's loss by rigging future elections in favor of their preferred candidates.
- Those who voted against radical-right and MAGA candidates in favor of sane ones.
- Senators who voted for the Respect of Marriage act, protecting gay and lesbian marriages from being annulled by angry, radical-right MAGA types.
- Those national representatives that voted for the Electoral Count Act Reform, to close the exploits used by Trump and friends to try to overturn the will of the people.
Nevertheless, spending a month in The Netherlands in 2022, my eyes are open to the madness that is the US way of life. The Democracy may be girded anew, but it does not fix the policies and politics that pander to Wall Street, corporations, and the plutocrats. Wealth and income inequality have been bred over decades by policies disempowering workers from fighting for wages. The middle class has shrunk, poverty has increased. Sadly, the people have blamed taxes, instead of wages that haven't kept pace with costs.
So I continue looking forward to emigrating to Europe, to Nederland, although I will admit I am intimidated and nervous about it.
There's a better life there. Better work-life balance. Less religiousity. Public and mass transportation are still priorities. Walking and biking treated as first-class transportation options, not afterthoughts; fewer painted bike gutters. They are not so beholden to their ideologies that they are prevented from having sane gun policies, nor prevented from stopping a madman nationalist liar provoking more division and hatred every night on television. There's less consumerism, less disposability. Race relations aren't perfect, but they're nothing like the racism in the US.
I am glad the US is no longer poised to imminently fall into authoritarianism. Nevertheless, I think my best shot at a better way of life awaits me elsewhere.
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Social & Political
- On Trans Issues Thoughts on all things Transgender. (51 minutes)
- On Queer Issues Collected thoughts on Queer political strategies and social direction. (23 minutes)
- Essays on Identity Essays on being ourselves in a world where where we have to live with others. (17 minutes)
- Periisms What experience took far too long to teach me. (6 minutes)
- More Political...
- More Social...
Science & Technology
- How Prime Factorizations govern the Collatz Conjecture Patterns produced by the Collatz Conjecture are driven by prime factorizations. How might these be used to better understand it, and potentially lead to a solution? (13 minutes)
- The State of Linux Linux is not known for ease of use. But faced with Apple's decline, is Linux a viable replacement? (32 minutes)
- Alternative Therapies & Imagination Proponents claim alternative therapies such as shiatsu, acupuncture, healing touch, reiki, etc. are scientific in a way that we just don't understand yet. But does this hold up when compared to the physiological effects of a horror movie? (10 minutes)
- Reason, Intuition, and Religious Tolerance Comparing and constrasting reason and intuition, good and bad theories, experience and explanations, logic and reason-- all leading to my conclusion on the 'religious tolerance' that has been demanded of me recently. (23 minutes)
- More Science...
- More Technology & Computing...
Fun & Travels
- How does one start bicycle touring? How to get started bicycle touring, in whatever style applies to you. (12 minutes)
- A New York Autumn (2022) Exploring New York State by bicycle in autumn 2023. (25 minutes)
- Apple Product Evolution Memorandum Concerns on Apple's direction from a long-term geek fangirl. (5 minutes)
- Bicycle maintenance suggestions Perette's advice for bicycle maintenance. (9 minutes)
- American Bedwetter ( 338 words) Anticonsumerism propaganda for you (and truth in advertising, too). Great deals on stupid American Bedwetter crap.
- More Fun...
- More Travels...
About me
More about myself:
- Perette's journal
- My life in bullet points and
pictures
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About my skills:
- Software creations & thoughts
- My curriculum vitae. I expect to arrive in Nederland September 2023.
- Skills inventory self-assessment