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My Random Opinions on Random Stuff

THE DARKSPACE

This place is just for my random opinions on random stuff. I have a ton. It should be taken as mere entertainment rather than any sort of news source or whatever. Gun NutsAnother group of online people I've stepped away from. Just exchange "squier" with "hi-Point" and exchange "Kimber" with "Gibson Les Paul" and you'll understand, in part, why. Every special insterest group is really just a form of consumer posing to show how "cool" you are by spending the most money. That's why I've left a lot of them, and reconsidered rewriting this whole site. A lot of these guys are preppers, and they focus highly on showing off what they have. Let me tell you, if you are known as the guy in the neighborhood who conceal carries a Kimber (people shouldn't know you carry at all), has a small armory they advertise, and your entire identity is your gun ownership - you're going to be a target in a SHTF scenario. The best gun owners don't advertise, they PRACTICE. Just like guitarists it seems. HealthcareIt's little wonder that in America in 2026 that people tend to prefer to google their ailments and then try to fix them at home with whatever (often questionable) shit they can actually afford. I'm one of the few who is good at googling ailments because I grew up in a house with a Med Tech with a Mereck Manual and a copy of Grey's Anatomy (the book, not the show) so I have a far more decent idea than most people. But healthcare on the pro-side is a joke, the hippocratic oath is a lie, and most of it is quick-turnaround to get you to shut-up type practices, all the while judging you like you're some kind of drug seeker. Walk-in clinics are about as useless as a paper knife, and usually you have to argue with some cranky bitch at the insurance desk who you've given your insurance information 10000 times and she still won't remember any of it. Then you're told to go home, take a shit, and rest, and maybe a prescription for something that doesn't do that much. Also, why do nurses insist on blabbing about alcohol, lunch, and sex arouind patients?!? Fucking stupid.

Subject	My Opinion On It

Age Verification at the O/S Level	Microslop, Apple, and Gruegle can suck my big fat digital c***! So can SystemD and Ubuntu for even ENTERTAINING the idea of following this shit. As well as governments worldwide who say they are "protecting the kids". How in the fuck do you expect me to believe that. This is about SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL and nothing more, and maybe also a way for the Epstien Class to adbuct kids by identifying them by their internet connections! You remain SAFE on the internet through ANONYMITY!! That's they only way to do it. Notice I mopped up about 90% of any photos showing me on this damn site? Until Donald J. Trump, Elon Musk, and all the other fucktards who support this crap are in jail for killing/fucking/even thinking about doing awful shit to little kids at Jeffrey Epstien's special places! Fuck no! And even then, we'll talk about it, bring in some infosec professionals and some I.T. Pros, not a bunch of fugly suit people who barely know how to send an e-mail on their iPhones!
Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)	Basically a bunch of copyrighted IP training large data models so that it can make a computer appear to be "sentient". All the lamestream idiots think that it's basically a computer gaining consciousness, and the billionare tech-inept bozos behind it are enjoying the money train from all the hype. Meanwhile, REAL musicians/artists/writers/etc. like myself are asking how in the absolute fucking fuck the MPAA, RIAA, Literature Associations, and anything else that had it's IP used to train these large data models are not suing the ever-loving-fuck out of all these Tech Bro companies with A.I.? Yet they'll go chasing after these guys because some teenager posted a video of himself playing guitar to Prince's music off a mp3 file! Meanwhile, I want A.I. to fucking clean the litterbox, vacuum my house (and not get clogged), and maybe I would consider one as a doctor since most Doctors in 2026 are about as useful as a Speak N' Spell with dead batteries! But nooo, you gotta' make all my games, make all the music, do all the FUN shit we people toil 40+ hours a week to just barely afford to do. FUCK A.I.!!!
Adulting	A dumb term made by a one Kelly Williams Brown suposedly that means you don't feel like an adult, so you go through the motions of "adult-like" activities so as to keep up apperances. The dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard. It's totally rooted in the idea that you have to care what other people think because it harms your fragile ego to think some rando out there thinks you're not "adult enough". Meanwhile, my attitude is "fuck them", because while they're at the table talking about their next bender spree pub crawl to forget their current STD while seeking out new ones, I'm sitting at home with my wife wishing I had more energy to actually be on stage and pretending not to exist in this timeline for 45 minutes to the tune of a 10 song set. HRMPH, Adulting, just as stupid as YOLO.....why not just try being a plain' ole adult! You know what a plain ole' adult says - so what, the housing markets fucked, new cars suck so I'm not wasting my money on a $48K computer on wheels, and if you give a shit about my predicament in a judgemental way, go fuck yourself.
Advertising	See BILL HICKS below. If you're in Advertising, you don't do a damn thing really. Nobody I know, even the dumbest person with an IQ of -9 - which we have many of where I live - ever bought anything from an "advertisement". It makes me wonder why in the hell this even continues to be a thing. Everyone wants to skip your ads on the internet, everyone quit TV to get away from your ads. Even in the olden days, you looked through the fucking YELLOW PAGES if you needed to find a Doctor, Lawyer, Auto MEchanic or whatever...now you use Yelp and the Internet. Today, if I want to buy something at the grocery store, do you think I'm even paying attention to your bullshit ads on TV!?!? Fuck no, I'm looking for BARGAINS! And don't think for a minute I'm not doing the math...I'm not the only one in the calculator app in the aisle! Fuck advertising. And Bill Hicks was also right that sex sells....because some dumb animal part of the human brain believes if a attractive pretty-much-naked person is holding the product, it means they're getting more sex...no it doesnt, the only fuck you're going to get is from the corporation that made the ad! GET OUTTA' MY COUNTRY!!
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 (ahemWozniakahem*), 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.
Anger	Anger is a natural response to stupidity. I'm sick of people making anger out to be some kind of mental health issue. If you want to see what "Anger Management Problem" really is, go look at ICE, but leave it out of angry people like me on the internet. Part of the reason we are here ranting, is because it's an APROPRIATE CHANNEL for anger. You know what, we have a "Stupidity Management Problem" in this country (the USA). Every time I leave my house, not a fucking one of you can use your turn signals, observe right of way, think your $48K Safety cocoon on wheels is a bumper car while doing 15+ over the limit on a regular backroad. Then, when I go somewhere public, people have the self-awareness of The Who's Tommy being molested by Cousin Kevin! Seriously, fuck people. Or better yet DON'T fuck people, we don't need more of them!
Antinatalism	People have stopped having children, and I totally understand why. First off, you aren't born of your own consent, that's usually the job of some irresponsible parents. Then you spend 12 years in an indoctrination camp disguised as a school to create obediant servants, just to pay upwards of $30K+ for even more "education" that you'll probably be paying off the rest of your life. Then you join a job market that has no jobs, lots of fake job listings, run by corrupt corporations run by billionaries and paid for by shareholders, all of which are likely lobbying a bunch of corrupt politicians to allow them to get away with continuous bullying, lying, and inapropriate business practices. Further above that, you have everyone's country fighting over whose god is the better god. So yeah, I loved my crotch goblins enough not to have them.
Atari	With the big "N" giving everyone the middle finger these days, I probably sound like a Atari fanboy. I'm not, but I am appreciative of a company that does it's thing and stays out of everyones way while doing it. The more recent years, Atari's put out some pretty good stuff, supporting their legacy, while trying some new things, and not being overly corny or cheesy about making them stick. Look, I come to you for video games, not to listen to a man in a cardigan hold his own Ted Talk about how we're "changing the future" - maybe they do that, maybe not, but at least it's not overly negative from what I see, not that I really pay that much attention or care that much. But yeah, I'd say, if you want to support a game company, support Atari...I get the feeling that they are in the right mindset right now - the mindset all the other comapnies are missing. Still better than what "N" is doing - wrecking lives because they refuse to re-release Dragon warrior I-IV or Super mario Bros. 3 as it was in 1989!
Automotive Surveilance	So in 2027 it's going to be a requirement for all cars to have "thought controls" that basically read your baggy overworked eyes and facial expression to determine whether it's going to start or not. FUCK THAT SHIT! I'm keeping my 93' hooptie, and you automakers, yes you Ford and Toyota too - gan GO FUCK YOURSELVES!! Once again, Ugly Suit People using "Safety" as an excuse for mass surveillance. And this is why I'm getting prepared for the future. BLOW IT OUT YOUR ASS JIM FARLEY!!! While I understand that Road Rage is on the uptick - it's a SYMPTOM! We are an over-worked, underpaid, highly stressed country right now, all under a regime of utter dickhead ugly-suit-people being paid off by tech billionaires! So here's what I suggest - BUY AN OLD FUCKING CAR AND LEARN TO FIX IT! Want a Ford? Anything 1995 or older is AWESOME! Want a GM? The Same! Like Toyota...2011 or older is a safe bet. Leave these new Big Brother Vehicles to ROT on the lot. And that shouldn't be hard, since $63,000 for a basic automobile is fucking insane! Let these vehicles rot on the lots all across the world. VOTE WITH YOUR WALLET!
(Being in) Bands	It's a money losing proposition with the support of some of the shadiest, flakiest, unreliable people you'll ever meet in your life. You spend $200 for a ordained practice space, because "family friendly" laws designed to take away the freedom to use a cheap storage space (which were wrecked by idiots trying to follow the "rock N' Roll Lifestyle" farce). The people you usually meet include a fairweather or substance abusing bassist, a fairweather or substance abusing and band-member/band-member's other fucking singer, a control freak or substance addled rhythm guitarist, and usually a drummer you can never keep because he's a hothead with more brains than the rest of you. If this seems "oddly specific", a phrase my generation and younger likes to throw around like monkeys throwing their poop at the zoo, it's NOT. This has been pretty darned consistant. And yes, drugs and alcohol are that much of a problem.
Bill Hicks	I love this guys' take on Marketing and playing music. First off, PLAY WITH YOUR FUCKING HEART! This worked for me, it'll work for you. Nobody wants some picture perfect AI picture of music created by some kind of theory spewing automaton! People want to FEEL something! That's what sets someone like Eddie Van-Halen or the guys in Angine de Poitrine apart from say those endless Instagram scale recitals, or Behold the Arctipus. Second, marketing.....look, marketing doesn't do a damn thing for me or anyone else. And the only ad you need is someone attractive and naket with th eproduct, because sex sells to cavepeople brains. Everyone I know HATES ads. I'm not buying your stupid shit because I waited 60 seconds before a YouTube video for it, I'm only buying it if you shut up and let me take a look at your product, and decide for myself. And I don't know if he addressed this part, but the more a company advertises, the more likely that product/good/service is SHIT!
Billionaires	I think Billionaires should not exist. Having enough money to fill multiple lifetimes, especially at the expense of the populace around you, makes zero logical, ethical, intellectual, or psychological sense. The purpose for commerce is to make sure you are compensated for your work, and the reason for money is to give a more universal platform for trade and exchange that people won't argue over leading to crime. Money is a TOOL - nothing more. Once you take this mindset, it stops being so important in your life. This truth is something most financial people refuse to address or logically answer, because it basically devalues the entire system that benefits them, and requires a real change of their entire lexicon in which they live on their part. As such, these people are completley out of touch with everyone else's lifestyle, which is why they have ZERO place in government. You don't get up at 5:30a every morning to rush to a job to pay your bills - you have a handler that does it for you. Most of your professional pursuits are of your own doing and not a necessity for survival in this system, but to continue in a special "elite" class of people who think that their shit doesn't stink because of a bank account and a bunch of expensive crap.
Body Image Issues	I seriously wish a catastrophic event on the fashion industry. It was bad enough when I was younger and all these chicks around me had some kind of body image issues, now I have a wife who complained about the struggle of sizes and showed it to me many times, and I believe her....because guess what guys, nobody's alone in this shit. Why in the absolute fucking fuck is it I need to buy an XXL because I have a long fucking torso, only to look like I'm swimming in a giant nightgown with a band name on it!?!? Then I buy a Medium from another company, and it fits me perfectly. ?None of this shit makes any fucking sense. If sizes don't tell the actual fucking size, then why even have sizes at all, then we just add more fitting rooms! Christ on a goddamn bike. Also, how am I one size in one pair of jeans, and another in another. And fuck you Gen Z, I'm keeping my skinny jeans...so piss off. Also, this shit pisses us guys off because we like our women naked in the light....do me a favor all, and kick fashion fuckers, especially fat shamers and skinny shamers, in the fucking privates! There's your body positivity endorsement, you're wlecome.
Compact Trucks & SUVs	They used to call compact "midsized" and truly compact was a Suzuki Samurai. Now a 2-door from the 90's could fit in a "compact" spot and has the footprint of a Corolla, while a modern "compact" truck has a footprint the size of a 1989 Ford F-150 longbed regular cab at least. What ruined it was twofold. Compact Trucks were for people like me if we didn't have a hobby that required security of items and/or climate protection of items. Both vehicles are TOOLS! I Drive an SUV because I use it as a moving truck, off-road vehicle, inclement weather vehicle, tow vehicle, gigging vehicle, and I'm lucky to have a 5 speed and decent gas mileage and high reliability because of it. In the past, I looked at getting a newer Ranger or Tacoma, but the prices on used vehicles after the Obama era Automotive Holocaust (aka Cash4Clunkers) have gone up, and now the Trump Administration is helping make it an even bigger problem due to all this surveillance shit. I don't want that in my vehicle! If I ever moved to my own property out in the middle of the boonies, you bet your ass I'd be holding roost over a handful of well tuned and personally preened Scouts, Explorers, CJ5s, S10s and Blazers, and Rangers from the 1990's on back.
Consumertards	I have to give credit to Nathan Lineback for this term. Consumertards are a part of all walks of life, and the reason for creations such as "Enshittification" of goods and services. Consumertards are the idiots who will buy something because their neighbor has it, and give not one minute of thought as to whether it will do something good for them or not, and what it will cost once the money is already laid down and it's in their house. Consumertards focus on "brands" and not "value" "features" and most importantly "priorities". Consumertards are also the reason we have dumbass lawsuits like the Firestone/Ford Explorer debacle, hot McDonalds Coffee, and why nobody can find a 2-door, regular cab, compact, 30+ mpg pickup truck anymore. The Consumertard's battle cries are "more features, more lolcatz" and "but I have a family, so I got to have an F-350 King Ranch 4x4 (even though I live in central Seattle in a condo)". People like me have to fight them on every front constantly because we want logical solutions, and functional property, not bragging rights. This is why I drive a 32 year old SUV - nobody makes 2 door, manual SUV's with the footprint of a modern Toyota Corolla anymore. This is why I build my own music gear, and use old computers that run linux and DON'T have A.I. on them. Becuase I'm battling the consumertards. Seems the billionaires really don't like my money, LOL!
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. Oh, and best of all NO AGE VERIFICATION/ID REQUIRED!
Democrats	SEE: Politics - anyway, my opinion with the Democratic party is they are the lesser of two evils, and one wing of the same rabid bird. The problem with the Democrats is they are just as overrun with corporate simps as the Republican party is. Thankfully this doesn't generally include religious theocracy risks like the Republican party does. However, for as awake as they are on good left issues I support, such as support for women, minorities, and LGTBQIA+, I cannot at all support their stance on guns, or how they handle climate change or automotive policies. It seems they spend more of the budget on staticians than people who actually understand what the hell it is they are regulating. They think guns spawn legs and wander around shooting random people, while car farts are turning the Ozone into a premium lazer - yet they'll be the first people to cite "be smart/intellectual" and "buy some new doodad" that does worse for the environment, all the while taking a defeatest at personal defense and the 2nd amendment, and an antagonistic view towards hunting.
Donald J. Trump	The worst President of the United States in my lifetime. My optimistic side cannot believe this guy has been elected twice, and my pessimistic side says "that checks out". Between beinbg in the Epstien files more than Epstien himself it seems, forming a new form of SS/Gestapo/Brown-Shirts in the form of immigration enforcement, and then his supporting staff letting his cognitive decline go unchecked....I'm wondering if we even have a country anymore at this point.
Driving	I have to wonder, does anyone get tested for a drivers test anymore? Where is law & order these days? Are turn signals are a suggestion? Are the lines in the middle of the road are meaningless? Is Mr. Magoo legal to drive a motor vehicle in 2026? I hate driving. I love cars, but I hate driving...go figure right? All you have to do is look at above. Not just are drivers getting worse, but so are cyclists, bikers, and pedestrians.
Epstien	The fact that the billionaire class have secret parties where they do evil shit to people isn't really that surprising to me, and it's not right at all. Anyone on that list that owns companies (that's right, plural) should have their companies boycotted, see their profits fall, and then be arrested. Every last one of them. Everyone from Epstien himself, to that lesbo goblin Ellen Degeneres. Seriously, we want to see everything in the files. Some people want to see who the victims are, honestly, I think those are the people who SHOULD be redacted, not some multibillion dollar morons who enjoy eating children, fucking 12 year old girls, and performing weird medical experiments on newborns. Fuck em' all I say.
Education	The Education system is an indoctrination camp for obediant workers. It doesn't actually teach you anything beyond a certain point, it doesn't actually focus on life skills...because if it did, driver's ed would be mandatory, history would focus on the entire country and regional, not spend half the 12 years in the public school system focusing on the Civil War.
Facebook (aka "Fakebook")	If it didn't happen on Facebook, you actually have a life. I'm only on the site now because my wife basically forces me to keep my acocunt alive. I go by an alternate alias there, so don't try and find me. Basically, all I do there is make angry rants about things that are in the blurbs here that are friend's only, and it's basically a cesspit. I deleted my account, somehow our relationship came into question by everyone, because we are basically a "power couple" on facebook - imagine that. All the celebrity with none of the money. So I had to bring it back, and now I'm being asked by an ex-classmate from high school if my "angry" thing is a "schtick" - no, it's not. It's anything but. And with the orange moron in the whitehouse, people losing their brains when he gets in that whitehouse, and society going down the tubes in general...that's all Fakebook is good for now, being angry at shit, and then forgetting what you posted. Also, Fuckerberg was standing with the REpublitards during the ceremonies so I want fuck-all to do with the platform, but hey, Millennials got to be Millennialz right? Unfortunatley it's just something I can't dump to keep the peace, and it fucking sucks. I quit Fakebook in 1/2026. And I'm glad I did, it's taken my stress level way down.
Fender Guitars	I used to have a DECENT - not a lot, DECENT - amount of respect for this company because they ARE a corporation, and there's only so much respect I'm willing to give to a collection of people headed by fugly suit people. They make good instruments, though quite a bit overpriced, and up until now, they stayed out of doing the dumb shit Gibson does. When you have a body design by law that is practically public domain in your home country, and you seek to gatekeep the design in other countries, then the optics look pretty shitty - like cat barf in your glasses shitty. Maybe one of the new AI data centers will be powered by Clarence Leo Fender's spinning dead corpse? But hey, it supports my point of view that almost all corporations go "evil" after awhile. It's not safe to say, but it's an uncomfortable truth that most humans have an awful task of grasping. But hey, I build my own guitars now in my garage for $250 or less, and I have 28 so it's not like I'm planning to purchase anything from any manufacterer including myself, any time soon.
Family	Blood relatives it seems are a nightmare for everyone I know. So many I know have disowned their own families by this point, mostly of the most petty bullshit that started the need to separate started when they were children. This is why I'm an antinatalist and think it's stupid to have kids after the year 2008. It's because I don't know a bloody parent alive who is fully satisfied with their children, and doesn't complain about them all the time, and I don't know a bloody child of someone alive who doesn't have 1001 grievances with their parents. Whther you're me with a mom who wanted grandchildren as a form of "revenge" for me being a shitty son in her eyes, or you're someone constantly being hounded about how you didn't get married yet as a woman because the dating pool is filled with shit and algae, I don't see the benefits to family, relationships, or kids these days. Just seems all families are universally broken, it's just the rich can pay someone to hide it better, and the poor get rich off of it by participating in reality TV.
Ford	Another Corporation that's dead to me. You guys haven't made anything decent since 2011, and nothing GOOD since the early 1990's when "Quality is (Was) Job #1". Now you're taking out patents on surveillance technologies - FUCK YOU FORD! After all, I'm sick of your "Compact Ranger" that's as big as your 1989 F-150 was, your so-called "Explorers" that are as big as a 2001 Ford Excursion, and then Broncos with engines that won't live past 5000mi. Now you want to tell me I'm "too angry" to drive! Look, my job isn't going to like that, and I'll let you know that my pure ANGER is part of the reason the roads are SAFE when I'm around....because I might look mad, but I'm actually rather calm and calculated in a crisis. Plus, when did $60K become the "base level" price for ANY Vehicle, Henry might have been an anti-semetic white nationalist piece of shit (pretty much every ceo ever), but at the very least he TRIED to put a car in all of h is Employees hands at a working wage! What the fuck. Maybe pull out all the A.I. shit, and build a good, basic, truck-based SUV with a manual, or a pickup that's not the size of a LIncoln Town Car Limosine where the BED is the dominating size, not the cab for these Trumptard six children family mouth breathers.
George Carlin	Oh what a field day that guy would be having today! And one thing I very much agree with this guy on, I've tried questioning it a lot, but it makes too much damn sense. Even though he was a "comedian", is the concept that people are better as individuals, rather than in groups. Think about it. Every relgious groupthinker I've met is a total asshole, until they are outside their group. A lot of bandmates I've kn own were decent people once you took them out of the context of the band they're in, rock n' roll has a really weird effect on some people. Every 2 party moron I know acts just as ridiculous as the Auburn people vs. the Alabama people on game day. But get people out of that group context and some of them are actually rather cool...not all...some.
Gear Snobs	Any hobby you enter has some form of "Gear snob" and it's a huge reason I have my website and don't post on forums much anymore. I took up guitar, it becomes an argument about Fender vs. Gibson vs. Schecter vs. Ibanez, when we should be debating JBL vs. Celestion vs. Sheffield vs. whatever. I dipped my toe in the waters of car culture...I'm not ready to start deflecting "Found On Road Dead" with "First on Race Day" like I did in school with a bunch of kids who had yet to set a foot on a pedal in their lives. I'm tired of arguing with retro-PC nerds about these falsehoods about internet security on DOS PCs or how my configuration isn't "vintage accurate" enough - I'm not paying $249 for a hard disk that's 30 years old and has the capacity of a thimble for bragging rights - fuck that noise. CRTS? Everyone wants to argue about who has the rarest Trinitron all day! Consoles? Hell, most of you don't even know what an Atari 2600 is, and want to argue who has the most "legit" "Heavy Sixer" anyway if you do. Went to biking forums....well, I guess I have a piece of crap because it was a Mongoose before I got my hands on it. Guns? Oh yeah, got some old man from Alabama sipping his whiskey being high and mighty about his damn Kimber, when I'm perfectly happy with a Taurus - it's a goddamn 1911...what the hell else. Consumertards are everywhere and they've turned once fun past times where we could share our differences for others to decide into goddamn one-upmanship over who has the "neatest" thing. I don't care anymore, I like MY shit, and it works for me, like YOUR shit, and let it work for you. That's how it should be.
Gibson	Gibson was the orignal brand I was antagonistic to, but the reason why wasn't the brand itself, it's who OWNED THEM! See, I had all these beer gut Boomers and spoiled Millennial kids giving me grief because I refused to save up and buy a Les-fuckin-Paul. Like it's the ONLY guitar you can play actual music on. So my "dumb ass" taught myself luthiery and short-circuited the whole system so I could have whatever I wanted. Then the Henry Juskowicz era really made me disdain for them more. Plus Kramer? Why didn't they take a page out of Kramer's book and make the FOCUS series the mid-tier like the 80's, the Striker series the low Tier, and then FOCUSED on the Pacer. Or what about gutting Steinberger!?!? Don't they know how many of us WANT a Trans Trem in our guitars. Hell, they could sell the Trans Trem as a standalone piece of hardware and it'd probably sell like hot cakes. Could even have a KRamer model with it for all the EVH fans out there. But the worst was destroying guitars...why? DONATE EM' TO THE KIDS WILL YA? Maybe we wouldn't have so many AI songs if the damn kids were given a free Firebird X!
guns	The 2nd Amendment of the Constitution of the United States Shall not be Infringed. The left is FINALLY waking up to this fact after 2 years with a fascist dictator, and the right has really shown how full of shit they are. So I say, if you're sound of mind, and don't have kids, go out and buy any and all the guns you want! Hell, the way the country is going in 2026, we just might NEED them soon. Then PRACTICE! Go to your local range, and put some time in behind the barrel! Go watch Tacticool Girlfriend and learn a thing or two. That said, it's not for everyone. But for those of us with the wherewithall and reserve to learn well, and be willing to take it seriously, then I say go for it. The whole point is at least SOME of us are armed, so the "roulette" of being a criminal in this country - regardless of if you wear a hoodie, or a suit and tie, or anything else - is so risky that it deters people from crime....whether you're a hoodlum hot-wiring a car, or a gestapo of "new brown shirts" for context.
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.
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 from history.
Incels/MGTOW/Manophere	LOL! This is nothing new. This used to be called "AFC" - for "Average Frustrated Chump" in the PUA/Don Juan circles, lol. Truth is, these are just the Don Juans and PUA's now that they realize that they have wasted all their time chasing women and not finding other things to do, some of which women find interesting - and by women I mean the right kind of women,not the size six plastic candy princess you find at any average night club, but marriage/long-term-relationship material. Seriously, you jokers were the reason you could not get me to set foot in a dance club until I met my wife, because I'm not wating my night listening to some RedPill dodo tell me how to get chicks. It didn't work then, it won't work now, and now you feel sorry for yourself. LiveJournal 2003 anyone? C'mon. These guys now spend all their time telling everyone to go to the gym and hoard toilet paper. Guess what, when the apocalypse/dystopia comes, toilet paper is going to be the least of your worries, and listing your true priorities on the internet is stupid. Maybe teh gym is useful, but I don't need a membership - I have a Gym in my home that's free when I'm changing parts out in it - it's spelled F-O-R-D. So, how many of you change your own clutch and benchpress a transmission in place -without a jack. So fuck off with the "get a gym membership "bro" - specially' since I'm the one still in a 15+ year long standing marriage!
If the Internet Went Down	That seems to be a common "doomsday" scenario I'm seeing on random youtube videos as of late. So you know what, I'll be fine. For starters, I'll be the one going in thinking this is going to be temporary, and then when it looks long term, I'll know to keep my ass out of public view because most of you will be out crunching your cars up trying to use a paper map! I won't even need a map since I know my way around. Entertainment? Just look at what I'm into...do you really thing a intenret outage is going to stop me? If anything, I'll just be kicking back, appreciating what I have, and maybe even feeling like a burden is lifted off my shoulders - until I have to go into work at least. Paper Money? No problem, still use it quite a bit compared to my peers. What about the site? I have a backup, and even then, If the net never came back up, I'd be a bit expedited into normalization of life without the web anyway.
Israel vs. Palestine vs. Iran	Before I get into my opinions, I'd like to mention I am not suicidal, and am in no way islamaphobic or anti-semetic. I need to mention this because of an important problem I see brewing with Satan Yahoo acting like an insane ass! So basically, the problem I see brewing is a VERY dangerous situation where the right is pointing fingers at people who don't like genocide as being anti-semetic, because Judaism is based in teachings from ISRAEL. But what makes it worse, is some of the most anti-semetic fucktards work for the US Government right now! So we've got a really big fucking problem. This is why I don't like people in groups, especially religion, and say "keep thy relgion to thyself". Secondly, this war with Iran is the STUPIDEST war in my entire life. We all thought Bush was insane over his response to 9/11. What's the goal? Fuck up fossil fuels for everyone in a country that seems highly allergic to alternative fuel? Or just a cover-up for the Epstien files, which then is used as a flip-flop coverup for an insane administration?
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 (caring about the person and knowing they are smarter than they act tends to set me off) Last updated 1 day ago, 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 and the fuckboy/gymbro/manosphere/incel people 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!
Kill Switches on Cars	And this might be why I won't buy a new car, and if I ever have to, I'm going to hack it so this feature isnj't enabled. I'm not about to let a auto maker or fascist dictatorship take control of my personal vehicle, especially since I might need it to escape from them at some point when everything becomes illegal unless you're rich. When crime becomes law (entrapment) then rebellion becomes duty. I suggest we all start buying cars that are pre-2027 for this reason. I hope Slate Motors doesn't bend the knee. Time for a six pack of "Vintage" Ranger based vehicles.
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. Linux to me, is what COMPUTING is all about - a computer is a TOOL, it's there to make things EASIER through technology. It's not going to single handedly change the world, unles we do something groundbreaking with it. And like the Internet, the cloud, networks, all that came before, there comes a time that "ground break" becomes "status quo", and that's the part the Tech Bros just cannot handle. Linux in Status Quo mode to me is like the good ole days of DOS - it's my computer, it does what I want it to do, and you can't do shit about it so you can buy another yacht to torture girls on. I just hope they don't bend the knee to Age Verification!
Mainstream (lamestream)	Let's see, we come from a capitalist culture that favors aesthetic over functionality, cutting-edge over usefulness, sexiness over personality, and social clout over actual skill. The mainstream is the most moronic cesspool of filth to be swimming in that I can think of. We don't go to school and get a piece of paper to become "educated", we do it to be accepted by the oligarchs in hopes to make more money. We don't go to work because it's our passion (well, most of us), we go to work to make money to pay for things. We pay for things to impress our friends, family, neighbors, and co-workers, instead of doing what might actually be best for us. We focus on what's attractive, or what's accepted and un-questioned as fact over actually being objectionable about anything. This creates a system of mass suffering, and worry about "fitting in" with everyone else, as opposed to fitting in with ourselves. Henry Rollins lyrics in Black Flag are true: Swimming, in the Mainstream....IS.....Such a Lame Lame Dream!
Maturity (is overrated)	Maturity is a scam created by the system to keep you compliant. What is maturity in most people's eyes? Basically, being above 18, having lots of sex, doing drugs and drinking while pretending not to, all while maintaining a facade of being a "responsible" adult by deflecting accountability through better worded arguements to blame someone else. You get bonus points for having children or making large purchases such as a car or a house. You also NEVER get angry. That's the #1 rule (see anger above), but instead, lie and say you're not while making strong arguements with arbitrarily big words that could be condensed down to something much simpler, because you need to appear adult - because you don't feel like one. Which is why I don't understand the term "adulting" - I'm 42, I feel like I'm 84! I wish I felt 24! I can't identify with all this "adulting" bullshit the Millennial generation created. I don't get it. You feel young? I just feel like a cheated adult.
Men	I'm neither blue-pill or red-pill....I'm an angry guy whose all out of pills...and I have a headache. First off guys, my sex life is none of your damn business. You "do" yours, I'll "do" mine, and keep it between you and yours. Secondly, sex is not a form of currency, sex is a intimmate activity between you and someone you love. "Body Count" Is just as ugly in women as it is in men. So just how many anitbiotics ARE you on by now? Or how about sports - FUCK sports. Why does every conversation have to be about a team of people shoving some fucking ball around a field? And then it becomes an anagram for "Business" - fuck business. I only USE business because that's how you survive in a modern society, not because I want to. Furthermore, every one of you turns an art project into a fucking pissing match. Then someone like me walks in who spent hours only competing with himself to be the best guitarist he could be to contribute to the music, but you don't like it because it's not "competitive in today's market" - well fuck you, and fuck the "market". Then you get the woman and spend all your time whining about her to everyone. NOBODY CARES! Welcome to relationships man, they suck. Everything humanity has created, sucks! And we refuse to fix it, most likely because some MAN in a suit and tie thinks it's "not profitable" to do so. Everythihng has to be a fucking pissing match as a guy and I'm fucking sick of it - so I check out of it. And if you in any way sayt I'm being sexist, see my "women" part below. As far as im concerned, the whole human race is fucking ridiculous. That's why I like "things" better.
MGTOW	If you were really going your own way, you wouldn't need an internet forum for it, next!
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 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, hand now they want to jam their fucking CoPilot in everything, and take away the $250 desktop from Wal-Mart you bought from you as "Theirs". Any tech company that takes my money and says that the hardware isn't mine can suck a big one! IDGAF how mucn I enjoyed Ballmer's rants when I was there, or that I shook Satya's hand once.....Microsoft has been going downhill since 2013 with Windows 8, Windows 10 has been a horrific roller-coaster, and I can already do everything I need on a Linux system. Also, fuck Microsoft Edge....if I wanted to flip switches all day long, I'd bring my Fender Jaguar to work with me!
Misanthropy	Misanthropy is a journey you end up going on when humanity continues to drive you nuts as a whole. I see of it as being kind of like the 5 stages of grief: denial, sadness, anger, bargaining....except stage 5 is bargaining and anger in an endless loop as a form of acceptance. You accept humanity is a shithole, but it still doesn't cease to make you angry, and thusly, you bargain with it to make it through each day. Such fun (NOT)! Folks, I think this is where agoraphobia comes in for those not of the same buildup as me to handle being pissed off every time they are out in public because people can't behave as they did in the past - you know, like civilized humans, not lawless baboons. So yeah, I'm not fond of humanity, have not been for years. Why do I share on this website, well I WOULD like to talk about things, I like to talk, I just don't like fighting with idiots to do it. Why do you think social media is so popular?
On-Call	Ever tried explaining to your non-medical extended family what On-Call is as someone working within or in close proximity to the Healthcare industry!?!? Jesus fucking christ. These are weekends you need to be ready for ANYTHING to happen. And to add to it, you know the person on the other end is most likely going to be cranky, or assume you're some kind of vampire that lives in the server closet 24/7/365 just for calls like this....probably some fat pimpled guy that looks like a nerd version of Peter from Family Guy. But of course, instead, everyone and everything in your physical reach has to fuck up...like this weekend, litterbox broke, had to vote in the local primaries (I don't take voting lightly), and got maybe a total of 5 hours of sleep because every damn call was some person whose account had been disabled due to inactivity - medicine has people who are there SOME of the time, why security policies don't know this is a big question . All the while, I'm still dealing with all the Microslop update and MFA bullshit that makes a 5 minute password reset a 15-30 minute ordeal. I WANT TO GO BACK TO MY LINUX BOX AND DRIVE BEYOND HORIZONS GOD-FUCKING-DAMMIT! All the while, the millennial in the house wants a participation trophy for initiating an Amazon return on a shit litterbox.
Politics	Basically, a mental (in more ways than one) "Football Game" where team red and team blue aruge who is better at their job while simultaniously proving how unfit both of them are at their job. Both sides whine about free speech, then either want to silence through cancel culture (woke) or now silence through facism (MAGA). One side whines about "gun rights" but then brings in a bunch of billionaires who earlier on were funding the removal of "assault rifles" (don't ALL of them assault? how fuckin' stupid are you people?) - so 2nd amendment keeps getting trampled on, even by the gravy seals with the "snek" flag. Both sides are backed by billionaires who are only interested in continuing their bermuda visits to fuck 18 year old traffiking victims in secrecy. As far as I'm concerned, fuck politics, doesn't really help anything. I'm looking for SOLUTIONS, not "feel good bullshit" - neither the democrats nor republicans have managed to do so, different wings of the same bird. It's just a bullshit distraction....now where's the Epstien Files!?!?
Power Outage	My generation and younger really pisses me off. None of you have lived a day without electricity and it really freaking shows. The first thing to do is pool your resources - flashlight, keep the fridge shut (for now), see if you have any methods to cook that don't involve the power grid - like a charcoal or gas grill - and make the best of it. Do you have board games? Make it a night of rockin' out on the acoustic with board games and the gas grill. I don't see what the problem is? Or heck, I can just kick back in a corner with my electric and rock out quietly to my self for fun. But man, everyone else my age or younger, the minute the electricity goes out, they panic about charging their phone, like somehow that little plastic screen is their only source of entertainment. And this is coming from a guy whose been coming home and playing Drive Beyond Horizons on Steam like an obsessive freak for the past few months. Got money? Is the local food place open? You can go there.
Preppers	The prepper genre of human has got to be just about as stupid as the "gun nuts". They think that by advertising all their fancy schmancy shit on the internet, they are somehow posting as a form of "don't fuck with me". Hilarious since these people will be the first one to say "be the gray man" only to follow it up with a 20 minute brag session about their new Patagonia backpack or Sig Sauer pistol. When SHTF - you WANT to be the loser, you want to have NOTHING, you want people to leave you the fuck alone. You don't advertise - before, during, or even after, until it's time to write the memoirs. That's the most important "preparation" advice I can give anyone. You want to make your neighborhood "roulette" for bad people. As for me, I have nothing of value...but I will still act like I do!
Reddit	If this is the voice of the internet, we're in real trouble. Reddit is basically a corporate backed site full of idiots who sided with MAGA when I was doxxed back in 2019. So now I'm perma-banned for fighting with a little red hat person. What's even funnier is since I started bringing this up online, they changed their reason for permabanning me to "multiple infractions of our Terms of Service" - what infractions? Because I was one of the most negative posters they ever had, and didn't just sit back and take shit from idiots? Well, we know where you stand Reddit, and anyone who sides with MAGA is not on my side, but rather, an enemy. May your data centers become drenched in water and washed away with a tsunami or sanded away by a sandstorm! And may your shareholder's fall from the skies on the way to whatever evil Geneva Convention type meeting they go to! Thanks to Reddit, I knew their own hypocrisy before the 2016 election....so I know who I'm dealing with here. Fuck Reddit.
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.
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?
Republicans	Republicans have lost any - of what little I had left - respect for them. Let's start with 2008. I had to listen to you all whining at anyone who would listen to buy a gun because some "big kenyan marxist" was coming for our guns...then you guys voted in an orange Napoleon on the Epstien list, and what did he do - the very thing you said Obama (whose native BTW) wasn't. I had to listen to all of your stupid conspiracy theories about black helicopters, new brown shirts from the Democrats, and FEMA Internment camps, and all your omnipresent Dis-InfoWars lying, and then you voted in a Orange retard who started a shill gov't dept called DOGE with a multimillionaire stoner, and a guy that if you didn't see an "R" next to his name on Faux News, you'd be yelling "ISIS, Al Queda!!!! GIT 'IM!". I've had to listen to the endless tirades of slowly being unveiled anti-LGTBQA+ stuff, how "Antifa" is an ogranization when your own republican Daddies and Grandpawpaw's who fought in WWII were ANTIFA - aka Anti-Fascist. I've gotten to laugh my ass off through the dismay when you idiots say "oh, they're killing Obamacare" only for you morons to suddenly realize "but I'm on the ACA" (rolls eyes). Seriously, MAGA, this crew have proven just how dumb the republican party really is. We thought Nixon or Regan was bad, but christ, this is a new level of hypocrisy. You talk a blue streak about the "Blue haired Gays" yet I don't see anyone poking at Mike Johnson's Grindr profiles - so maybe it's time to shut up about the LGTBQA+ people, they shouldn't even be in this rant...they're good people (well, except for those being shit people...which is pretty universal to humans). You have Elon Musk as a part of DOGE, yet the guy was stoned on camera sounding like an idiot about SpaceX just a year or two before in an interview. Then you plan to take away gun rights from Americans who smoke weed in legal states - hell, most of the people I know who smoke weed don't want to own a gun anyway...maybe it's time the fucking football politics end and we start, ya' know, acting UNITED instead of like finger pointing idiots? Just sayin'.
Rock N' Roll	It's fucking dead, by the very tenants that it was created under. We need to make a new name for music that sounds lke it, because we're not roaming around putting babies in every chick in town, and doing enough drugs to kill a small country anymore. Most of us are well adjusted people finding outlets for our anger at misadjusted people these days. We want to have families that don't suck like the ones we grew up in, even if that's just furbabies and a spouse, and be left the fuck alone. Enjoy the music, just don't think we're some kind of ethical or moral prophet to follow, we're just as fucked up as you are, it's called being able to identify with the genre. Rock was a CORPORATE genre....even Punk rock was turned into one. Time to find a new name for loud, angry/tensioned, electric guitar music....or maybe I'm wrong, Angine De' Poitrine anyone?
S.H.T.F.	A lot of people are talking about when "shit hits the fan" lately, and in typical human fashionm, It's not about preparation, or undersdtanding, tather it's trying to placate to some ego. Backpacks, solar radios, guns, ammunition, range practice, bugout bags, bugout vehicles - all listed by name, make, or model, and most of which are expensive, far more expensive than what it SHOULD be. So want my idea on SHTF - the first thing you do when SHTF, is you STFU (Shut the Fuck Up). The next thing you do, you pool whatever resources you have - outside the box - so even if unprepared, you can impromptu prepare. You also need to keep in mind your resources will most likely dry up, dissappear, or fuck up at the most inopportune time, so be ready to fight or flee. All these firearms SHTF people are idiots - guns are NOISY and should be a last resort. Want a projectile weapon, take up Archery - makes less noise, just about as effective, and you can mill your own arrows and bolts much easier than you can "reload" when there's no more gunpowder and you've melted everything smeltable in the house (if you even have the tools for that). Probably the #1 skill you could have, is the ability to REALLY rough it, I'm not talking "glamping" that people call "camping" these days - no KOA crap - I'm talking full on eating tree bark, and showering in the rain roughing it. I'm talking making effective traps using what's already in the house roughing it.
Sickness	First off, I don't understand why it's so hard for people to leave me alone when I'm sick. That's the #1 thing that works for me. I'm not your average googling lamestreamer, I have some medical knowledge - I came from a medical family fuck-it-all. I know 101% what works, if I'm in pain in the middle of the night, let me be, I've got it under control. Second, if I'm laid up on the couch sleeping, don't wake me up, and if I'm trying to relax, don't come to me with stressful shit. Also, this isn't the time to go collecting compliments from me ither. I'm trying to get better. As a guy, I don't really have the easy acceptance of "rest and relaxation" I'm supposed to be hustling and looking good while holding in diarrhea, passing a kidney stone, sniffling, and screaming inside at my leg because it's about to fucking rain!
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.
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).
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.
Vacuum Cleaners	One of my biggest struggles in appliances...are modern vacuum cleaners. Took me about 20 years of my adult life to finally say "fuck-it" and buy a used Kirby.
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 gy?", 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.
Women	I know this one is going to piss people off but Women are usually authors of their own misery. They don't listen to people, they don't care about other people's feelings, but my god they're so smart they'll twist a situation like Superman twisting an iron girder to get whatever the hell they want from you. They scream out for equality, then next minute use their gender as an excuse for why they can't operate a piece of techonolgy - no, your vagina isn't the reason you can't use your fucking computer, it's the same reason any man can't use a fucking computer - you're ignorant. Seriously, if I have to hear "because I'm a girrrrl" one more time with regards to some shit like changing a tire or using the internet....I'm going to fucking scream. No toots, it's not because you're a fucking girl, it's because you're a fucking idiot, and idiots exist in every gender, shape, and size. Go tell all the ladies from Huntsville Alabama in the 1950's who were programming in Fortran that - they'll slap your ass all the way back into 2025! Maybe that shit flew in the 50's, but it ain't flyin' today sister! I blame Millennial Women for this mostly, because they didn't want to let go of the "Barbie Dreams" all the while using "grrrrl power" as an excuse to have a lack of accountability - kind of like how Trump uses MAGA as a way to have a lack of accountability....so fuck trump, and fuck you too. And if you think I'm being either sexist or unfair, read the "men" part above. Also, why the fuck do you feel the insatiable need to make EVERYTHING about you? Especially if there's a guy at the other end of it all. You're no better than men, same fuckery, just different methods - just like Democrats and REpublicans. (drops mic)
Work	Work is merely a way to make money in a capitalist society using a marketable skill to pay your bills. That's it. It can be your passion, but for most people, it's not, so choose wisely. If it is a passion, it can kill that passion as you deal with people's B.S. every day and get tired of dealing with people. If it's not a passion, then "quiet quitting" isn't "quiet quitting" by the definition of the term, it's just fulfilling your obligations and meeting standards. Co-workers are not friends, and all personal information should be kept on a "need-to-know" basis at most. Politics have no place in the workplace, and nobody really gives a fuck how "stressed" you are, actually, that's just handing them more "bullets" to shoot you with. Work is like money, some people make it out to be more than it is, others make it out to be less. Me, I see it for what it is, a means for income, and that's it.
YouTube	It's basically a boundless mess of ads, and content creators that get no attention in favor of AI Slop, run by a billionaire oligarch (Google) who collects your information so they can make money from their corpo sugar-daddies. They ruin open-source things like Android OS or Chromium browser with commercial alternatives that everybody uses because they "invested too much" into the system and refuse to leave because it seems "too hard" (the classic battle-cry of the lazy human - "too hard"). I've told these fuckers to fuck-off with the PITA "ClownfishTV" crap six times, and I'm still getting suggestions from that Pro-MAGA channel. Fuck off. However, none of this is a surprise to me, I knew the writing on the wall in 2008 during the peak of my YouTube years in 2008 that this company was going to hell when it got bought up by Google, and google dumped their "do no evil" tagline, I knew the suits had "Won", and therefore, time was lmited. That said, it held out a lot longer than I expected, but I'm not surprised. Hence I'm going full retirement in 2026...I'm just tired of this shit.