Ron is the don, for sure.
One of the most well reasoned people I've known.
I wouldn't worry too much about offending me, only I can do that.
I often misinterpret what people say because what they think they said is not always what I heard them to say.
It comes across as talking past them, sometimes.
Other times it is a conversational tactic to try to get them to think.
To examine their beliefs as they may be wrong.
As unexamined beliefs can be.
Conversations such as you offer put a toll on me, I have to think deeply, and that is very much like work.
Good for me, makes me richer, but wears me out when I get too much.
You'll notice I had to take a nap.
If you could give the hive more time it will only serve to make it better, imo.
At some point the networking effect has to kick and that we haven't sold will enrich us monetarily as much as it has intellectually.
At least, that is the hopium I keep huffing.
I have intended to be here as long as we last, both me and Hive. Recently I have observed an Android phone send a text the owner of the phone did not type and send, and that has chilled me more than I can describe. My confidence in my ability to remain online is now in question.
Still, Hive, as long as I can speak freely and read others forthright speech, will be the last place I leave, if I do. I no longer use a phone at all, as I cannot get a landline here that doesn't require a digital interface, which allows the spoofing I observed. I cannot permit Goolag to send words ascribed to me that I did not speak, and I don't have a phone otherwise.
I will seek to resolve that problem, but if Goolag is spoofing texts, it's an extremely intransigent problem. I am unsure of what that means for the internet using linux computers and VPN exclusively, which is how I go online.
Sorry I am excessively verbose. I do undertake to say precisely what I mean, and despite that sometimes miscommunicate, but always use more words than seems necessary.
They have phones now that are degoogled, perhaps that is an option, if you need a phone.
All anybody can ask of another is for them to be themselves, take all the words you need.
I will look into Rob Braxman's site, because I remember he does that.
Kennyskitchen put out a post about one, too.
I think maxigan was talking about on he was using in one of his videos.