Comments Sishongjerry has made

Wow, Petty Petty Petty, now here's my 2 cents

I cannot believe I read all of that, It was better than a soap opera and alot longer too! So much drama and bickering, so much anger and frustration! I don't know who was worse, the freecycle people, or everyone else. One thing is clear, I don't think anyone actually has a problem with Freecycle, they just have personal vendettas against Deron. So what he get's paid now, big deal.

Here's a secret... every non-profit, everywhere, has a budget for personell and benefits.

The idea of a non profit is that the group will not have any excess profit at the end of a fiscal year without turning that back into the group. The idea is not to live in poverty, flat broke, scraping by on your knees to pay for your groups space. No one makes a profit, the group does not profit, etc. The people who are employed there are expected to make some stipend, otherwise, the non profit becomes a sweat shop, not a non-profit.

Whatever, you all had way too much time on your hands at the beginning of this summer, and way too much bitter aggression, on all sides. This was just silly, so much venom, so little logic, so much gossip, very little knowledge.

A piece of advice for all of you,  get over it, move on, do what you mean to do, forget about "selling out" that's a joke, just do what needs to be done to survive. Survival of the fittest came up alot, and when it comes to that the one who is willing to do anything, and I mean anything, in order to elevate the ideas behind free-recycling, wihtout going down in the process, even if that means flipping off God, or giving the Devil a wedgy. Survival of the fittest, regardless.

Get over it.On As Freecycle grows, idealism and reality collide posted 4 years, 1 month ago 85 Responses

What about sitting in traffic?

If the electric car only gets about 30 miles on it, what about idle time, granted the engines not running full bore, but when I leave my cd player paused, the battery still drains. Would this mean that, given an average speed of 30 mph, the car could only go 30 miles without any stoplights, etc.? Or is this accounted for? I know I have spent more than 30 minutes stuck in a traffic jam, and it would not be good to need to find an outlet to plug in the car and recharge it somewhere out on the expressway.On Electric cars are looking good, but not quite there in terms of quality posted 4 years, 1 month ago 10 Responses

I play devils advocate

I understand and agree that smoking does harm the environment in more ways than one. My comment was not based strictly on the negative impact on the environment, it was based on the way in which the idea was presented.

The title grabbed attention and a response. It's that kind of extreme propaganda though that can hurt your arguement and generate a bigger negative response.

Just like the ad campaign that said if you smoke weed you are a careless baby killing terrorist supporter, it only fueled the fire of those who were already so self righteous as to believe the propaganda, and angered and insulted those who may actually be casual smokers, I know that's another issue entirely, but the idea remains the same.

Shock tactics should be left for the military and those in the business of scaring people straight, not in the pursuit of global welfare.

Sometimes the being the devils advocate, while not glamorous, gets the job done.On What is your position on smoking? posted 4 years, 1 month ago 9 Responses

KNOCK KNOCK

who's there?

The earth.

The earth who?

Cocky kids, I've been here longer than you can imagine and I still will be long after your'e buried in me!On Who's there? A joke contest posted 4 years, 1 month ago 20 Responses

It's harder than you think

I have lived in both rural areas in high school, Denton, NC. and urban currently, Chicago, IL. I am also broke. I will say, even though I know, I KNOW, that locally grown food is better for my health and in some respects my wallet, I can't afford to eat it. Yes, the economic benefits are there, if you have the money to go shopping for food, and the time to actually prepare a meal, Plus, I'm not a vegetarian, and I'm not quite ready to buy a pound of ground beef from the farmers market...

To the point here, processed, industrialized food is cheaper to an extent. If all the money I have is 10 dollars, I can go to McDonalds and purchase 2 double cheeseburgers, and fries, for under $3.25 with tax included.

Granted it's just one meal, but I, being broke and cheap, will buy it just the same, simly because I cannot afford to purchase each of the individual ingredients at one time.

I know this is bad for me, I know that it doesn't help my community, I know what should be done, I just cannot afford to do it. I have to work through most farmers markets anyway, so I wouldn't even be able to get there without losing money by taking time off work.

I have long been of the opinion that healthy, fresh, "clean" food is primarily harvested for the upper echelons. You don't even have to be rich, you just have to not be poor. With an average person such as myself is lucky to find a job making more than $8 an hour, ($16,640 each year). Without an income over $23,000 a year (before taxes), living in Chicago where the cost of rent alone can be $12,000-15,000 that only leaves about $5,000-6,000 for all the other bills. In the end, The food budget drops to only being $1,500 each year, that's less than $5 each day, for 3 meals.

I would have to say, and this is just observation, but everyone who argued it was not about being rich enough to buy the food, can probably afford to do such, without having to worry about living in the street because you spent that $5 on A tomato instead of rent.On To create a truly sustainable food system, we'll need to make some fundamental changes. posted 4 years, 1 month ago 26 Responses