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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. 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.

Subject	My Opinion On It
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Antinatalism	It's the belief that creating more humans is morally bankrupt - at least that's what it is to me. So I chose not to have kids. Think about it, none of us are born of our own consent, into situations we have zero control over, which will affect us in ways we will struggle to comprehend the rest of our lives. Isn't genetics fun? We are put into a "system" that pretends we're special and precious until we reach "the age of majority" to which we then become bums, pariahs, and serfs in a system that pretends to tell us we are "free" but grants us several "rights" that are truly temporary privledges at best, in order to control us. So if our system is this messed up, that some of us (myself included) are starting to see the catch 22's and feeling like the genera populace is too stupid to comprehend a society where everyone benefits and nobody is in charge, because we realize "idiots be idiots", then why even fucking bother. Humanity is a lost cause unfortunatley.
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!
Being in Bands	Basically, a lifetime creative type like myself goes out seeking musicians to put together something that will capture the ear. We end up joined by a Fuckboy who fancies himself a CEO and Alpha Male (Lead singer), an everyman (bassist), and the next Chris Rock, just as smart but 3x ever the more sarcastic (drummer). We all go to rehearsals where we slowly start to deflect personalities as we warm up to each other: the singer's constant barriage of sexual harassment and bullshit, while the bassist silently weathers it, I get called "anger management" for protesting back, and the drummer says "god damnit, this is a fucking mess, I quit!" - and so begins the "Spinal Tap-Esque" revolving door of drummers. We play for 3-5 years while fuckboy loses interest in being a lead singer and either spends weeks on drug-fueled benders with sexual partners, or tries to start a fanclub for the 5 people who show up at our gigs who aren't friends or family (the one or two that show up, one being my wife). He will then insist we hire some big name "producer", whose shaking his head at our stupid investment over what could be done for free or cheaper with a local guy, and have a bunch of merch printed up that ends up in everyone's storage units/garages/attics, and act like we are bigger than Led Zeppelin. He may also insist some major label is courting us in the form of some invisible nameless person who we have never met or seen before. This is why I'm not so gung ho about playing in bands anymore. It's okay to be a "career teenager" on stage, it's not okay to be like that 24/7/365. It wasn't even cool when you WERE a teenager! Usually the whole thing disbands when either someone dies/is hospitalized from an overdose or something, someone fucks someone else's in the band, someone (usually me) finally has enough of this moronic horseshit and goes full out nuclear warhead attack on everyone pissing me off, or the drummer blackballs us after leaving us. Ever wondered why there's no "new Nirvana" to replace the old one - there's your answer! Being in a band is kind of like Five Nights at Freddy's, it's supposed to be about the core purpose (music), but everyone's all about the somewhat arbitrary lore instead.
Billionaires	I think Billionaires should not exist. Having enough money to fill multiple lifetimes, especially at the expensive 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.
Compact Trucks & SUVs	Honestly, they need to come back, but I think I've decoded this whole mess. See, I've been dailying a 2-door 93' SUV - basically a 2nd generation Bronco II, since 2000. I've never replaced it for two reasons: 1, it's bloody reliable as heck - it's basically a giant Volkswagen Rabbit but surpasses the Rabbit in longevity and lack of rust...and 2, there's no comparable vehicles on the market. The new Slate truck is the closest thing I know to what I think the car market should be shooting for, but we're all skeptical about it. I think the problem starts with the change between Gen X and Gen Y. Gen X were the last generation to generate large families on any economically feasable quantity. So they justify the purchase of a 4-door longbed lifted truck in that they need to haul around a family and camping gear. I come from a generation who are having less children (we can't afford it), most of us are single or divorced (I'm married but we are #ChildFree), and thusly, the need for a 4-door vehicle is not that important to us. But we won't buy one when they come out becuase the new "compact" options are the size of a 1989 Ford F-150 longbed pickup - basically Bigfoot on street tires - have gas mileage comparable to our smaller 1990's counterparts at best, and cost more than a down-payment on a house in most cases, and heck, most of em' are still 4-door anyway. And Gen Z even more so with the moves towards going off the grid, a further declining baby population (ie no large families). So instead, we try to preserve what's left post- Cash4Clunkers for utilitarian reasons, and have to make justifications to keep such vehicles on the road because nobody's making more of them. Nobody wants to parallel park a RAM downtown.
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.
Democrats	SEE: Politics - anyway, my opinion with the Democratic party is they are the lesser of two evils. At the core, we agree on most things, but their methods, eh, are kinda' lacking in spirit and anger until only recently, which I'm glad to see. It also seems they are finally coming around, somewhat at least, on gun rights, which has been my #1 beef with that party: the mixture of post-90's FEminism and conceptualization that big white guy = big evil republican, automatically makes men like me who were built in our mother's wombs to look a certain way physically, means we are some big evil woman beating son of a bitch because we have a temper. Meanwhile, they wimpily scream "take the high road" and "that's not intelligent to be loud" - no, it's stupid to shut the fuck up! That's where I'm at now. I've sat on the sides - just like you guys - for years, and let people talk shit and invalidate me....it's not happening anymore. I wish them well, but I really think it's time America rethinks the way we view politics. I'm sick of this football game bullshit. At least none are in the Epstien list as far as I'm aware.
Deals	Humanity uses deals to fuck you over. I hate "Deals", I'd rather find "bargains" that nobody noticed. You know, I go to the thrifts, and I'm a master at it because I understand what half the "seemingly random" shit is in the electronics section that nobody notices because to them it just looks like some dumb box with weird "Alien-like" ports on it that nobody understands - and it says $2.99 on it! "Deals" are just ways of making you feel good about spending money, bargains are ways of feeling good that you spent less money because people are not particularly bridge or inquisitive. That's the difference between me, and the lady 3 aisles over contemplating the $300 Kate Spade purse she found in the glass case as a "deal".
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!
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.
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.
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. Guns are great, learn to use one, learn how to lock em' away from your kids in a way effective enough to keep your family safe, but a quick enough response. But hey, the problem with guns is most people are too stupid and neglectful to operate an automobile properly, hence too stupid to operate or care for a gun properly.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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?
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 models 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. Hopefully this blue wave though will bring some balance back to things as the republicans are far worse.
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.
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'.
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.
Society	I think society could do more by doing less. Less judging, less caring about what other people think, less marketing, less focus on money, less hustling for the sake of the hustle, less socialization with people we don't like, and just less in gneeral. Call me a social minimalist. I have no problem talking to someone where it's meaningful, but fuck if I'm going to stand around talking abou tthe Mets and the Bears or whatever because that's what soceiety expects because I have a dick between my legs. There is one thing society CAN do that could help - kindly fuck off.
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.
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.
YouTube	It's basically a boundless mess of ads, and content creators that get no attention in favor of AI Slop.