This place is just for my random opinions on random stuff. Sort of a more "generalized" version of what I was doing before with some of my other pages I deleted. The internet is an assortment of unsolicitied opinions so here's mine for anyone who really cares. I'm not going to discuss or debate this stuff outside this page, so don't even bother. It's in some kind of order, I'm sure you can figure it out. It's not rocket science. Also NONE of this is meant to be serious, it's just me venting about things in a lot of cases. I'm bringing back the kind of ranting I miss from the days of bloggers like the Misanthropic B*tch, Wynterphoenyx, or even ToastyTech.
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| America (has lost it's fucking marbles)
| I live in a country that once was a poster-child for posterity and success for anyone. What the hell happened? I'll tell you what happened, people have become selfish, self-absorbed, and kinda' obsessed with disasters, that's what. Dont' even need to look at the orange moron in the news to figure that one out. I went from growing up where my parents made fun of celebrity role models because they'd come out next week with another drug and infidelity problem, to a country that worships celebrities like gods, including our politicans - people who should be working FOR us, not as some kind of figure to look up to. We have let so much of business into the state, that now they're putting church and state back together too (Project 2025)....which is fucking frightening as a guy who spent 18 years living in bumfuck Alabama, is a LGTBQA+ ally, protested idiots like Betsy DeVoss, and doesn't have a single party affiliation I want to run with (Groucho Marx was a smart man). We need to stop with the "Football Politics" and start treating it like a job interview. That said though, there's a lot of merit to George Carlin - it's a big club, we ain't in it, and they really don't give a fuck about us. My only question for them is, why do you give that last shred enough of a fuck about us when you could just fuck-off on your 1.5M yacht into international waters and take out pirates with an unregistered Class 3 Firearm with no reprocussions? Seriously, what are you scared of? If I had as many dollars in the bank was we have people on earth, I'd fuck off to some cabin in the woods, and enjoy spending the rest of my life playing guitar and video games, and anonymously donating to good causes to help people - well researched causes, which is another thing we are allergic to here, Education - the basis of this whole damn site if you really think about it.
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| Apartments
| Apartments are supposed to be grouped dwellings for people who cannot afford a house. You pay a monthly sum called "rent" to (supposedly-)temporarily borrow a group of rooms inside a building known as a "unit" so that you have a place to sleep. Instead, they've turned into permanant housing for anyone over the age of 18 with a taxable income because the billionaire class has bought up all of the starter homes that haven't been upgraded beyond "starter home" status by a bunch of gentrifying "real estate investors" who then will most likely sell to those billionare class financial institutions, where the houses will likely rot. Apartment management is either corporatized to the point that nobody cares - think of calling "customer (dis-)service" for any company today, or they do care, but they too are frustrated because politicians and their corporate lobbyists have introduced bills that make it even more difficult to be a property manager, let alone a home owner.
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| A.I.
| A.I. is yet another thing like "The Cloud" that's an absolute joke to me while being a threat simultaniously. All A.I. is is a collection of super complex algorithms designed to emulate human-behaviors and make it easier for someone with absolutley zero talent or skill to do a job people like me had to struggle and bust our asses, often against our parents collective wills, to do. People make it out to be more complex than it is. A.I. has got to be the single biggest IP theft in the history of the internet. Billions of Corporate and Independantly owned music, pictures, software code, and other things are used to "Train" these glorified algorithms so they can create the shit you want to do whether that's some Van-Halen soundalike that never existed singing a song about taking a dump, or wanting to make some kind of A.I. picture of your anime Waifu so you have something to stroke it to while playing "Eliza" (anyone remember that BASIC computer program, also called an "AI" program) with ChatGPT! The whole thing is ripe for comedy, but also a huge threat towards comedy now that we can have so much horrificly fake crap made that could lead to a waste of time of a scandal, or WWIII. Yes, it could very well be our human undoing. Not because it's "Special" or "amazing", but because humans with technology is kind of like giving a open crate of swords to a bunch of loose monkeys at the zoo on "free kids day".
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| Baby Boomers
| In general...Basically the aptly-named "Me" generation. A group of covert narcisscists and sociopaths who think that their "hard work" - built on the backs of the golden and silent generations, paid off. Meanwhile, some are getting karma (going broke and beat like those that came after), but a lot of them are still going around asking everyone younger than them "when are you going to make six figures a year" or "when are you having kids" or "when are you going to buy a house" - failing to realize this isn't 1986 anymore when a 1 story, 3 bed, 1 bath rambler with a car port cost $36,000, a new car was under $20K fully loaded, and everything else was cheaper as well. It's no longer the days when a well written resume punched out on a typewriter handed to some pea-head in a suit that has the color scheme of a Salisbury Steak meal at my age will land you a ladder to climb on. So what other questions do they have that I'm going to say "no" to? How about the fact these schmucks hold college over your head like it's some kind of magical thing that will just tap knowledge into your brain - I've met more burnout college graduates than I've met burnout musicians playing rock music for these people when they were in college....WTH? They ask about the future? What Future? Trump is President again, nobody can afford a house, most people are struggling to find work, groceries are up beyond belief, we don't make anything of value anymore, and we are slowly slipping into a "you will own nothing and like it" society of late-stage capitalism. Myself, I'm one of the ones doing better than average in this mess if you ask me.
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| Bigfoot (the Monster Truck, not the Mythical Creature)
| I don't care what anyone says, Bigfoot is, was, and will always be, the King of the Monster Trucks. Bob Chandler started the whole thing as a promo thing for his 4wd shop in Hazelwood Missouri in 1974, and it just "sorta happened" over the years as the local promo vehicle wearing all the shop's wears got more attention and became the worlds first Monster Truck. This is about the closest to "sports" I will wander, other than that, I really don't care much for sports. Because unlike Monster Jam, which is basically WWE and a Marvel Comics movie come to life, Bigfoot was always about science and innovation in their work as a MT org. They wanted to do things of substance, but as we know, modern America likes anything but substance, with the #1 thing being as much money as obscenely possible.
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| The Cloud
| The Cloud is a glorified "client->server" relationship where instead of keeping your own shit, on your own server, in your own place. You now are "borrowing" space - most likely for a monthly fee or with very limited privledges - from some other cad with a server who may or may not still exist tomorrow. I don't know about you, but I don't like the idea of keeping my stuff on someone' else's server very much anymore. Especially since these Tech Bros LOVE their Advertising revenue, and the last thing I want is 20 minutes of ADs just so I can download last years income tax forms. So screw the cloud! I built my own Server at home....and it has Terabytes of space I can use for only the cost of electricity...which ain't all that bad surprisingly.
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| Compact Trucks & SUVs
| If there was ever a case for "Politicians really should find some experts who DON'T wear suits and ties", this would be it. The Chicken Tax, combined by liberal idiots CAFE laws, and auto-makers loving loopholes as much as politicians do, is why right now we have Ford, GM, Chrysler, Toyota, Honda, and all the others making these ginormus "Imma' Rednek' Fuck Yeah'" big ole luxrury sedans with a bed that get worse gas mileage than my 420k mile 1993 Ford Explorer - because of the "Footprint" law. Which is bloody sad because we live in 2025, and I'm more than sure that Ford, GM, or Chevy, could make a tiny short-bed regular-cab sized pickup or SUV that makes 30+mpg or runs on alternative fuels. But the fact is, they don't want to. Because bigger trucks suck down more gas, and drink more oil, which means more money for their sponsors at the oil companies, and more in parts and labor for their repair companies because these trucks have more shit in them than a basic-bitch pickup would. They whine and whine "but nobody wants to buy a simple truck" - yeah we do, it's that your SALES PEOPLE at these "stealerships" want to upsell us on every fuggin' thing. Anyone who bought a ship from Stan int he first Monkey Island game knows this playbook. "Don't you want the gold encrusted porthole defoggers" - no, no Stan, I don't!
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| Tech Bros
| Tech Bros are an exponent of what happens when you make a once bullied series of ultra-smart outcasts into the coolest kids in the room, and they don't remember that their dad or uncle was the one being stuck upside-down in the toilet (swirlies) or shoved in his locker because in their time, they were revered as "geniuses" who'd be "makin' mad bank" and "sittin' up top with Bill Gates and Kanye West (and other potential Epstien Files residents). Guys like Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pinchai, and others had me thinking we should bring back "Nerd Punishment" like swirlies and Wedgies, and then I gave thought that these guys are not real nerds, actually, NONE of the damn talking heads who run these tech companies have single bit of actual technical skill. The real nerds are the guys you never hear about, the one slaving away in the corner of a room writing software code, engineering the actual thing that is being built, or putting shit like that into practice. And if they did - like Zuckerberg - they probably haven't touched a single line of code since they got rich enough to spend their weekends in a hot tub with some loose women. You wanna' know who to repspect? Maybe let's look more to Paul Allen, or Steve Wozniak, or Al Alcorn. C'mon, do you really think Shigeru Miyamoto designed and built the NES? No, that was Dev Team #1, and Gunpei Yokoi only gets a little on the Game Boy. Al Alcorn made Pong, and Joe Decuir, Jay Miner, and a few others from Atari put the 2600 together. So don't tell me what a "genius" these executives are, the REAL guys behind the tech are the fuggin' ENGINEERS!
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