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Gab Goes Dark - GoDaddy Tells It to Find New Domain Provider

Smart media and business guidance could have kept social network Gab in the safe-content box.

However, the newbie, launched in 2016, allowed its posters to stray too far out of the box with rhetoric that was assessed to encourage violence.

Now, reports TechCrunch, Gab is over. At least for now. Its domain provider GoDaddy told it to find another registrar. Since then, Gab is offline. 

Part of this GoDaddy action is in response to the worldwide news that alleged mass murderer Robert Bowers posted hate speech on Gab. But even before that, alt-right Gab got on the wrong side of the tech community. For example, Apple and Google banned it from its App stores. 

More recently, though, PayPal and Stripe suspended its payment accounts. And cloud hosting service Joyent parted ways. 

Underlying this push-back against a social network which is perceived to be extremist is the age-old issue: Can there be a direct correlation between words and action? 

In short, how much influence and power does language really have? Is the pen really more mighty than the sword?

In the era when the medium of published books dominated, academics frequently raised the question if language products such as "Uncle Tom's Cabin" helped end slavery.

Further back in history, did the satire on religion Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" prompt Roman Catholics to push for reform? 

Although we are in a post-book time, there are still those questions on applications for content assignments or even jobs about what books changed one's thinking or had a great influence on us.

Not long ago, for instance, I applied to research and create equities analysis for Motley Fool again. Years ago, more than 140 of my writeups had been published on Yahoo Finance under the umbrella of Motley Fool.

On the application was that question about books. My answer was that Scott Galloway's "The Four" had reinforced my questioning about the power of branding. The system of brand management had been invented by P&G in the 1930s. In my current purchasing patterns, I am post-branding. 

Will it be up to the lawyers to duke out if social network language can be held accountable for behavior?

Meanwhile, those socializing youth should explain how misleading the nursery tune can be: Sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me. On an emotional level, for many of us the damage has been profound. 

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Manhattan: Could It Actually Be the City of Hope?

It's there: Enough height to practically ensure a fatal leap. 

The high building in Manhattan has essentially become the platform for suicide. 

And, again that method has been used for self-deliverance. 

The New York Post reports that a middle-aged woman residing at the New York-Presby Hospital Guest House jumped to her death.  That was Sunday morning.

That Helmsley Medical center is used by patients and their families who are receiving treatment at NY-Presby.

As yet, no other details have been released. 

In general, Manhattan is a difficult setting to navigate - emotionally, socially, and in terms of getting around physically. 

What's puzzling is this: Why aren't there more suicides? 

Perhaps Manhattan is really the city of hope? 

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Lisa Jacobs, Former Lawyer, Lives Everyman/SomeWomen Fantasy of Life on the Road

Her mother's death in 2014 was a life-changer. 

After that, successful lawyer in Texas Lisa Jacobs quit her job. 

Her interim step before taking the really big leap was founding a green interior design company.

Then, in 2017, she took that leap. At the time it was not as a solo woman. There was a boyfriend in the picture. She bought a van for $15k. Together they reconverted it into cozy convenient living space. 

Then they hit the road. However, the relationship derailed. Living together in the small quarters of van and being challenged by the uncertainties of always traveling brought out the worst.

To regroup emotionally Jacobs returned to TX.

Then in March 2018, she restarted life on the road, this time as a solo act. She brings that act to the subscription based "Yes Monday" on the Vacay Vans YouTube Channel. Here are more details from Daily Mail. 

Of course, from the get-go of quitting her law job, Jacobs has been living out the fantasy of Everyman/SomeWomen (traveling solo in a van is not usual for females) to exit the conformity, stress, and need to win of professional life in the second decade of the 21st century.

As many might recall from those courses in western civilization, the journey has been an archetype since Biblical and ancient Greek times. It represented a test of human nature and, if passed, a growth experience.

In the Old Testament the Jews left all they knew in Egypt for their Promised Land. It was not easy.

Greek author Homer created the "Odyssey" to chronicle the ordeals a war hero must endure to reach the next level.

More recently, there is Jacobs' "Yes Monday." She survived. She has learned how to thrive. And she shares her experiences with her subscribers.

Other professionals yearning for another kind of lifestyle can use this as a template for putting together their own kind of journey out of X and toward whatever. Change is possible. 

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