This place is just for my random opinions on random stuff. I have a ton.
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| My Opinion On It
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| Artificial Intelligence
| It seems quite polarizing to me, and seems to be quite the joke at the same time. People who don't understand technology think it's some kind of mysterious black magic opening of pandora's box sort of thing, while people who do understand it like myself see of it as only as bad as how humans use it - which is more frightening than the technology itself. Basically, all it is is a software program that can learn, and then process itself accordingly. I see the danger once it gains some level of autonomy, but I also see it hilarious people think someone like Bill Gates or Elon Musk really understands it - they don't - their ENGINEERS do. As for me, I tried it for music for awhile....turns out all it did was inspire me to make some of my demented parodies into real music made by humans, especially since the prompt is really just a poorly programmed Atari Game of trying to get it to do EXACTLY what you want it to do if you have clear expectations and goals in mind.
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| A.I. Music
| I did this for awhile to "troll" the A.I. system with piss-poor parodies filled with childish toilet humor. I was hoping to gimp the system through this, but it did not work. It also was a way to throw the middle finger to the modern music industry that's only interested in exploiting pretty teenage girls for profit rather than letting anyone else have a say in the world of music. That said, it did work for prototyping some concepts....so maybe some of my old tunes might get a full human built release one day....particularly the Preschoolers punk stuff. Never put money into it though, I just used free tools.
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| Apple
| A computer company that assumes their user-base is too stupid to understand things like "right click" or too simpleton to learn "*nix commands". They make great hardware though so I tend to take joy in taking in other people's old Mac products and putting Linux on them much to the big bitten fruit's chagrin as they seem to think I pay them $3000 to put a big, expensive, stylish machine on my desk for the "right" (this is not a right, it's a temporary privledge - rights cannot be taken away) to use it. Fuck you Apple, that machine is MINE, and I'll put FreeDOS on it if I want to, even as ridiculus as that may be. Steve Jobs was the original tech bro - riding on the coattails of others more talented than him, all the while standing on a stage with a turtleneck, ruining the meaning of the word "rockstar" worse than Smash Mouth ever did, just because he's a charismatic guy whose tech approximate.
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| Anger
| Anger is a natural response to stupidity. I'm sick of people making anger out to be some kind of mental health issue. It only becomes one if you keep ignoring the angry party. Anger can be quite conducive to good shit. Do you think we would have Metallica if there was no anger? Huh? Do you think all the inventions in the world were created by people content with how things are? Do you think the same of revolutions? Do you think that the "No Kings" Protests were born out of contentment with an orange idiot tearing shit up? So stop telling me I have an "Anger Management Problem" - YOU have a complicit, complacency problem! You live in this world, you whine it sucks, but you do fuck-all to do anything about it. Then I bitch and plan to do something about it, and you say "but that's how it is" and then tell me I'm "immature" for wanting to FIX SOMETHING! No, YOU are immature. Plus, Maturity is overrated anyway.
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| DOS
| DOS is like that old farmhand pickup truck - usually a Ford F-something-something or Chevy C/K - that's obsolete as fuck, but won't die because it's so simple. Sure, it runs on a 60HP straight six that couldn't over-rev-itself into a thrown rod to save it's life, had a manual transmission nobody under the page of 40 knows how to operate, and has to use vice grips to turn the hand-crank windows - but it still works. Even when the Ford Guy wanders to your farm to try and tell you about the "specials" on the new F800 King Ranch Luxury Vehicle. Same with DOS - just a simple O/S that does O/S things, does them well, and is ancient as heck and inoperable to anyone under 40 years old. So what is FreeDOS then? Basically the "Slate" of O/Ses...it's basicallly the 1989 Ford Ranger remade as an open-source E.V. That's why I like DOS so much, and it's cousin, UNIX.
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| Driving
| Go figure, I love cars, I hate driving, except in video games...honestly, I'm not the only one I've heard that about. A long bearded texan guitarist comes to mind. Seriously, every time I go on the road these days, it gets gradually worse. Apparently, the turn signal is the "I'm gonna turn and there's nothing you can do about it" lever, if it's even used at all. Some of these people have the spatial awareness of an amoeba and apparently couldn't even color in the lines as well as I could at age 4. A good lot of you don't seem to understand the concept of a DWI....seriously, so many day drinkers and stoners I can either see, and often SMELL, while you're passing me in your stupor putting everyone at risk around you. I have to pay out the nose for car insurance because many of hte fucktards out there who got their driver's license from a crackerjack box can't understand the concept of a brake pedal....or they're so selfish they just don't care enough to use it. I think Driving, like the internet, is just another reflection on how our society sucks. A lot of these people I wouldn't trust with a potato peeler, let alone a car....hell, a lot of these fuckers have GUNS as the MAGA and SNek stickers indicate....that's scary, you aim for the criminal and shoot the baby in the apartments across the way instead...based on how well you can keep that F-250 in it's lane! How the hell did you manage to reproduce? I'm amazed your children aren't just sticky on the ceiling fan with the way some of you people out there drive!
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| Education
| As one who wanted to lead a full "The Wall" style revolt in high school at one point, our education system in America is a joke. It's not an Education system, it's an "indoctrination system" created by the industrial revolution to create "yes" people who are obediant. It's not about knowing our history, or about knowing maths, or about knowing shit. If it was, these football players would be held accountable, and they would teach us shit relevant to life in this country, rather than Calculus and how to hold a political debate - what about starting with the simple civic shit, like balancing a checkbook, or how to navigate the real estate or our draconian credit system? The fact the response is "well, that's what math is for, that's what blah blah is for" - yeah, maybe in abstract. But maybe give the kids a REASON to pay attention rather than saying "youll find out when you get older". And they need to stop bunking off ideas of "Music" or "Auto Mechanics" as being useless - hell, most of my math was taught to me through music and I.T., not from some curly haired teacher who just wants to go home and watch STar Trek rather than deal with shitty teenagers all day.
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| guns
| The Guns aren't the problem - PEOPLE are. Little wonder we have a problem in the United States with firearms. The people supporting the 2nd Amendment only up until recently have been the same idiots who helped bring an Orange moron into office. They spent my entire life waving their little yellow flags with a snake on it screaming "don't tread on me" helping that marketing group called the NRA. They talk like every person who voted blue is some basement dwelling incel playing Call of Duty - failing to take a good look in the mirror. Truth is, there's a lot of us out there who support 2A who don't make a Glock our entire personality, actually, a lot of us flew under the radar because that's the point. It's supposed to be like roulette for would be criminals of both the civilian, and the organized corporate crime types....so they never know what's behind that door, whether it's protecting our home, or protecting our democracy. It also saves the police a lot of work. The unknown is a GREAT deterrent.
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| Humanity
| Humanity is going to figurative hell in a handbasket. Just take a look around you, nobody can drive, everyone wants to listen to the most sensationalist headlines, nobody wants to think or listen, nobody wants to read. Everyone just sticks their noses in their phone, then hypocritically tells everyone else to get theirs out - including people like me who are just using the phone because a LAPTOP isn't exactly available right now for research or reference. We're judgemental, superficial, vain, self-righteous, and chimpanzee-level thinking these days. Elevated thought is discouraged, control is encouraged under the guise of "Freedom". Every single generation keeps getting somewhat worse, all the while having some kind of better crusade to go on that may truly be better than the status quo, but it never works out....doesn't it. Honestly, about the only people I can stand to listen to past middle age, are George Carlin and Henry Rollins - that should give you an idea where I stand these days.
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| idiots
| The world is too full of them. Useful idiots, useless idiots, ignorant idiots, pretend-deaf idiots....thats why I say we just rip the warning labels off everything and let the cards fall as they may. Once enough people stick their hand under a running lawn mower, I think the people with brains wil get the picture. Stupid enough to drink bleach because you want to stop COVID....go right on ahead, it's not my fault you're stupid and fail to understand SCIENCE. Think doing 95mph in a 35mph zone with curves is a good idea, I'm not stopping when you wrap that Charger around a tree! We let too many stupid people breed, what's the solution? Culling of the idiots through their own idiocy. Some people call it Darwinism. I have a feeling Darwin might have been one of the few people I could hang around with IRL.
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| Kids
| I chose not to have kids because of two reasons. 1) I don't quite have the verve or temperpent to be a good dad, either I'm going to give the kid too much rope of fun to hang himself with (because I'll be playing with the same damn toys), or two, I'm going to be that cranky man whose disconnected from his kids through his own over-abundance of activities. 2) because why would I put another living creature on the planet to suffer 1000x worse than I did. Let's see, I was born to a single mom, dragged kicking and screaming to Alabama at age 4, had to learn about race relationions because of being white in a predominantly black daycare, and the sins of homosexuality before age 8 despite being a straight guy because I don't advertise. Then suffer another rest of those 18 years unable to get a girlfriend or a job because I'm not some jarhead sports fan, but I am built like a goddamn linebacker, and don't belong to a local church - all the while being bullied and ridiculed by my peers. I become an adult during the worst time in US history to that point to become one with the 2008 recession, neo-feminism fucking up potential dates, the cost of living and runaway inflation on the rise.....who the FUCK in their right mind would bring a kid into this world. This world is for rich people only apparently. So fuck the rich, and fuck contributing "warm bodies" to some rich man's "war machine". My genetics end with ME!
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| Linux
| A Hobbyist O/s of some actual consequence that became one of the biggest unsung forces running the majority of the Internet, IoT, and everything else that Microsoft/Apple/Google/Samsung/Roku/etc. haven't bought out for their various wings of their monopolies. Unfortunatley, it gets dumped on like a marginalized segment of the population because it's not run by some big flashy megacorp with a noisy Tech Bro out front to blabber about how it's going to change the world and revolutionize everyone's lives. Instead, humble LInux just does what it does - what you ask it to, and Linux Torvaldes doesn't really bug people with his superficial crap, and for that, he's not a "tech Bro (TM)". I can't stand Tech Bros by the way.
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| Microsoft
| The O.G. "TechBro" Company started in the 1976 by a engineer gone rock-memoribelia collector, and the second O.G. Tech Bro (to Steve Jobs) whose now probably in the Epstien Files. Originally, like all tech comapnies, they had humble beginnings where they seemed to put user-choice and user-development above authoritarianism and creating monopolies, and forcing everyone to use the same web browser. I'd say the beginning of their fall from grace started with Windows 95, and it's been all downhill from there (I love Windows 3.1x - it's basically Gnome for DOS). These days, they love harassing everyone to buy new computers with the latest windows releases even though everyone has caught on that they never fix their security flaws timely enough, and have more irritating and cantankerous update processes than Apple.
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| Relationships
| Socializing with other humans is a pain in the ass. They don't actually listen, when they do it's usually for "sport" (ie Ridicule or to back-up some coup they're trying to start). Having a relationship with one though, oh hell....it just feels like some kind of fucked up "business deal" where you put up with their crap so they put up with yours, and vice versa, like some kind of negative social currency. It's fucking bullshit. Let's face it, most people in modern society don't connect for the purpose of love or genuine interest in one another, they're just interested in what they can get out of other people. That's a big part of why I don't do anything social much except this website these days. Call it fear, call it what you will, but the cavepeople who survived caveman times weren't the "Alpas" who got eaten by T-Rex trying to display how "tough" they are.
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| Religion
| You believe in your sky daddy, I'll believe in the absense of mine. I've been a religious tourist, and find it almost null and void to complain or judge because nobody really knows what the afterlife is anyway. But I'm more apt to believe people who say it's weightless nothingness for eternity, than I am some man we can't picture says he'll send us to hell if men don't cut their hair (forgetting their son that died for their sins is always portrayed as an extra from Woodstock), give partridges to their priest for spilling their seed, and honor their highly vain and narcisscistic parents who "let them live" despite the commandment "thou shalt not kill". You know what the afterlife that sounds cool to me is? The one where when you die, you get a couple weeks to haunt people and guide the living towards your absense, then, you get to go to some celestial spa where you review your life and heal before you move to your next existential activities. I found that one in a YouTube video. Why waste the gas?
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| Social Media
| Aka. Let's get you to divulge your life story on the internet for the whole wide world to see so that we can market you more crap that makes products from a early morning infomercial circa 1991 look like a legit product ala. Windex. Meanwhile, you get to suffer from body image issues, flame warriors, political abuse, misiniformation/disinformation/fake news, MAGA keyboard warriors, Rogan/Tate Incel Idiots, and every other person who used to be condemned to their creepy looking, trash filled trailer home at the end of the street in the past.....now gets to stand on their hands and take a collective dump in the air to everyone with decency's chagrin. Seriously, fuck social media, and I hate I ever got on it because now it's a pandora's box I can't get rid of. If you're a married man, you delete you account, now all your wife's crazy friends think that you're divorcing/splitting up! Stick around, they don't like what you write, and ask if he need's therapy. Seriously, someone needs to find the Facebook server farm and burn it down.
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| Technology
| Technology is supposed to make life easier, but we as a species overestimate the actual application and capabilities of the average human adult. We have "tech Bros" who really don't know much about tech, just much about manipulating people to buy products by being a talking head, telling you all the wonderous stuff their product will do without letting you know of all the check boxes, buttons, hoops, and "code" you may have to do to get the damn technology to do what you want. It all seems simple to a guy like me, but your average Microsoft Office user might find it daunting....especailly the those who need to resort to a digitized "For Dummies" book when they want to do a Pivot Table. The "Tech Bros" knowing this, then use technology to exploit idiots, which just makes techies like me want to explode as less control is allowed over their products. That's why I'm not a huge fan of say: Microsoft/Apple/Google/Android/Meta - and tend to prefer OpenSource Solutions like Linux/Raspberry Pi/disused old computers instead, because there's not some silicon valley wannabe-nerd in a hot tub with strippers telling me I can't be trusted because I "know too much" and it's (but not really) "a security risk (only if you're an idiot I wouldn't trust with a potato peeler).
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| Tech Bros (TM)
| Ah yes, the Tech Bro. He's a slender, fit, charismatic, always male, and always wearing the Tech Bro version of the international business attire: A black turtleneck, some dark dress pants, maybe tennis-shoes to not look TOO corporate, and he wanders around a stage with a bluetooth laser pointer pointing out how whatever AI Driven slop they put together today (or previously cloud-driven, or internet driven, or object oriented, or GUI driven....whatever *buzzword* is popular today) - and never tells you any of the bad things or potential problems. Just an over-hyped sense that whatever product is being shilled today is "good" whether it's A.I. (Taking away jobs from aritists, musicians, writers, and everyone else pretty much), or the cloud (let the Megacorps delete my data from THEIR servers...fuck em'), or whatever....it's going to be "revolutionary" and "change the world". Then it usually fails to and irrirates everyone in the future, or it manages to change the world, and we end up with a situation like Social Media.
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| War of the Sexes
| Basically the stupid war of facts vs. feelings, and substance vs. aesthetic, and yet another stupid divisionary tactic. I'm praying Gen Z is smart enough to change this paraddigm. See, Millennials, they THINK they are "woke", but they're not. They are just asleep as Gen X or Boomers are, just they feel like they are "Woke" because they are first stage "Woke" - the stage where women get to be little harlots without accountability, and men get to be punished for being men in the "let's stay home and play video games" sense not the "hey, it's my birthright to get funky with any woman I wish without protection (or consent)", even though there are plenty of those idiots around in all generations. Me, meh, I check out from this shit. I grew up with "feminist" family members talking about men with the tagline "you need to train him", only to hang out with guys in school that said "just walk up and say "hey, wanna f***! Or are you g*y?", and find that I'm happiest on my own, away from these idiots. Sex is over-valued anyway in our culture. Meanwhile, the chicks just say "I feel" or "that's not pretty (and I don't care how it works)". So at work, on one side, you have the guy struggling to keep a circa 2014 laptop going despite not meeting the Windows 11 requirements, closing 15 tickets a day, and trying to cram for a higher position.....while a woman will be begging for a purple Apple Macbook Pro, close 5 tickets between gossip, and then try and dress for the very thing she goes to H.R. for a couple months later. I'm tired of both fucking paradigms.
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