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So, I am making this series to talk about the things that each own is
grateful about in owns life :-) .

So, now, I am grateful about being able to make, and drink, tea inside
my house. I have plenty of choice of tea leaves from a local
supermarket, that I can bring some home. I also have good quality sugar
to enhance my tea drinking.

In the kitchen I have all the appliances needed to make tea. I even
have a clamp for submerging tea leaves into hot water, so this is great.

I have enough peace to make good tea drinking sessions, and I should be
doing it every day, something which I don't do, to be honest about.

So, do tell... What are the everyday things you are grateful about?

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The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that
refuse military service. ~ Albert Einstein

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keyboardan <keyboardan@tilde.club> wrote:

So, I am making this series to talk about the things that each own is >grateful about in owns life :-) .

A most commendable commencement, keyboardan. I for one have never
come to doing this on account of my many complexes, but your post has
inspired me to start my private log of gratefulness.

If you allow me to correct your English, the correct phrase is "to be
grateful /for/", not /about/.

So, now, I am grateful about being able to make, and drink, tea inside
my house. I have plenty of choice of tea leaves from a local
supermarket, that I can bring some home. I also have good quality sugar
to enhance my tea drinking.

Very nice. I too enjoy tea drinking, and (on the rare occasions I have
time to spare) the intricate brewing ceremony, which to me is nothing a
an easy form of meditation.

In the kitchen I have all the appliances needed to make tea. I even
have a clamp for submerging tea leaves into hot water, so this is great.

A clamp? Can you please a picture about it? I have various vesses:
a teapot, a gaiwan, and even several laboratory-like infusers, such as
this one:

<https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/S28772db029b4407faef2ad46800aefdd6.jpg>

I choose the vessel depending on my mood, the variety of tea, and the
number of persons.

I have enough peace to make good tea drinking sessions, and I should be
doing it every day, something which I don't do, to be honest about.

I can't afford this every day, and once a week feel good enought for me.
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ant <ant@tilde.club> wrote:

If you allow me to correct your English, the correct phrase is "to be >grateful /for/", not /about/.

Alghough I have not been able to find a statistically significant usage
of "greateful about" in classic (pre-descriptivist) English literature,
modern Englsh seems to allow it, with the special impersonal meaning of
being grateful to the unverse, circumstances, &c.
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keyboardan <keyboardan@tilde.club> wrote:

So, do tell... What are the everyday things you are grateful about?

I'm often in awe of how for $0.20 - $2 I can buy a second-hand VHS
tape or DVD and legally watch a movie that took tens of millions of
dollars, hundreds of people, and sometimes years, to make.

Indeed I'm really grateful for all the great stuff people get rid
of as junk, so I don't have to enslave myself for making as much
money as they do to pay for it new.
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freet@aussies.space (The Free Thinker) wrote:

I'm often in awe of how for $0.20 - $2 I can buy a second-hand VHS
tape or DVD and legally watch a movie that took tens of millions of
dollars, hundreds of people, and sometimes years, to make.

I totally disconnected from the movies and serials distraction industry.
IIRC my last movie in a real cinema was [Monsters INC], so somewhen in
the early 2000s and the last serial I dropped was [Doctor Who] and I
miss its humour a bit, bit it was liberating too. Now I'm just focused
on politics and STEM news and that's already enough of real life
cliffhangers and big cinema.
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yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> wrote:

freet@aussies.space (The Free Thinker) wrote:

I'm often in awe of how for $0.20 - $2 I can buy a second-hand VHS
tape or DVD and legally watch a movie that took tens of millions of
dollars, hundreds of people, and sometimes years, to make.

I totally disconnected from the movies and serials distraction industry.
IIRC my last movie in a real cinema was [Monsters INC], so somewhen in
the early 2000s and the last serial I dropped was [Doctor Who] and I
miss its humour a bit, bit it was liberating too. Now I'm just focused
on politics and STEM news and that's already enough of real life
cliffhangers and big cinema.

Unfortunately I see news as just another form of entertainment, and
a more dangerously manipulative one. It distorts the world, most
often by omitting events or viewpoints rather than fabricating them
entirely. Rarely does that media world touch your own experience,
and then the contradictions are exposed, but one is accustomed to
ignoring them.

Today one can research the details, pull in extra details from
obscure places, trace back their sources to try and verify the
truth behind them, form a real opinion instead of accepting the
narrative from your chosen source of thought. It can take a day,
longer, and I do it sometimes, but it gets me nowhere. I might as
well have just enjoyed the entertainment of whatever the TV news
says, or enjoy the entertainment of a movie.

I elaborated more on this topic in my phlog a while ago:

gopher://aussies.space/0/~freet/phlog/2025-03-16RE_How_Do_You_Process_The_News.txt
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freet@aussies.space (The Free Thinker) writes:

keyboardan <keyboardan@tilde.club> wrote:

So, do tell... What are the everyday things you are grateful about?

I'm often in awe of how for $0.20 - $2 I can buy a second-hand VHS
tape or DVD and legally watch a movie that took tens of millions of
dollars, hundreds of people, and sometimes years, to make.

Such country sounds great :-)) . Here in Portugal, the "watching movie" scenario is not as good.

Be happy!

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refuse military service. ~ Albert Einstein

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