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Random Crap I See When I Open Firefox

I figured I'd make a section on this since I see this stuff every time I start up the darn browser to work on this site. So here's my thoughts on some of the "articles" put into Firefox Pocket service....I'm also doing itbecause I'm not paying your biased News Service $31.99 a month to read the damn article. The internet is for Free Exchange of Information, and if you won't exchange it for free, then I'm not considering you a part of the internet.

Tuxedo Vs. Suit: A 101 Guide to Men's Formal Dress	Personally, I honestly DAGF! I hate being "formal". I feel like formal dress is sort of a way to tell people "I'm all about the looks, but I'm not about any action. I'll talk to you for nine and a half hours with a lot of fluff, cheerleading, and dressing down, but otherwise, I don't do shit. But you must aspire to be like me, because the lamestream believes a guy in a suit and tie more easily than a guy in a t-shirt and jeans". Even if the person is just doing it because it's what's expected. Honestly, to me, the ones who are willing just make their assholery well known. Me, I'll show up to a funeral dressed as a goth, I'll show up to a music event in a t-shirt and jeans, and I'll show up at home in a t-shirt and jeans. I like the T-shirt and Jeans, it's just honest, body covering, and you're ready for anything. Hiking, Walking, DIY Projects, Household Chores, picking up lumber, setting concrete, building guitars, electronics, showing up at a rock show, showing up for work to climb under dirty tables and connect networking equipment! I'm so sick of the pretentious bullshit in our society.
U.S. Could Lose Democracy Status says Global Watchdog	Tell me why I'm not surprised. I'm "independant" and honestly, this is the #1 reason I can't stand Donald J Trump - he's in the fucking news every goddamn day, and 99.7% of the time, it's something awful. I'm sick of his orange face, I'm sick of his voice, and you know what else I'm sick of, President MUSK! Now we have two annoying bastards in the news every day talking like a pair of 15 year old edgelords in their treehouse their Baptist dad brought over the preacher to praise. I'll give Biden this - he might have looked like he needed a goddamn Energy Drink when you'd see him - but he'd get shit done, and he was in the news like, once a month at most. We aren't a Democracy anyway, we haven't been in a long, long, long time, even with the "Woke" democrats in charge. We're a corporate oligarchy. The companies pay for votes to put the person in that they think will benefit them in some way: either financially, or as some form of large scale virtue signaling. The rest of us, just hamsters in a wheel full of bullshit. Maybe I read too much George Carlin, but maybe also, the dead stand up comedian just might be right!
Why Toy's Dissappeared from Cereal Boxes?	Why did toys dissappear from cereal boxes? I'll tell you why! Because kids today don't give a fack about stupid plastic crap you can buy 100 of on Temu for $0.99, or from the gumball machine at the front of Winco. What they want are expensive, big, digital devices. Want to bring back cereal box toys? You know all those Famiclones you find in the Drug Store for like, $15 apiece - things like that "sup' 400-in-1" or "8-bit retro game handheld" thing - yeah, stick one of THOSE in the darned box! The experience will be much like when we were growing up and got some kind of police badge with Tony the Tiger on it. Now you have a buch of Honey Smacks themed Nintendo or Atari 2600 games in your box! Maybe just toss in a tiny DOS computer with that Crispix (I think) port of Doom on it. Crackerjacks? Let's put "Home Run" on a wristwatch and stick it in there! Enough with this QR code bullshit. Kids get QR Codes that send them to some paywall game that will probably dissappear in six years because of the other things the developer did to kids. So why not take advantage of the rampant retro-tech for cereal prizes. Heck, Atari could come up with a cheap mobile 2600 that fits in the box of All Bran and middle aged and older Gen X plus would LOVE to buy! Kangaroo with your Special K, Gravitar and Grape Nuts, maybe even re-issue the Super Mario Bros serial system, and Nintendo could jump in with a blob powered box with the 1985 classic on it. Who knows?
San Francisco Billionaires Row Tension shows a bigger struggle within the US	Well no shit sherlock. We are currently on the cusp of Technofeudalism at the hands of a psychotic billionaire oligarchy! And people wonder why I rant so much about "Tech Bros" in my articles. We're not jealous, we're not envious at all, we just want you, for the love of god, to stop acting like overgrown toddlers because you can afford more shit than us. And it goes back to what I said as a 4 year old when I asked mom "what if some guy got rich enough to buy the United States?" coughElonMuskcough - I think, to this day, there should be a CEILING on how much wealth you can have in this country, and then, if you hit that ceiling, you get taxed the amount to knock you down to a acceptable level. The idiots saying 100% tax are stupid. Because I know once we establish that, I'll become a billionaire for a short period, and then become homeless before I can even forget where I came from! So we need a a bit of a "moral cage" that goes with it. Ie, some shithead like Elon Musk gets taxed higher than Bill Gates, who gets taxxed higher than the guy who just quietly got rich, keeps his mouth shut, and donates a lot of it to charities anyway without negative impact on society. Bascally, I'd call it the "Social Burden" tax - and all that money...where does it go? Education and humanitarian causes! All of the ones guys like these typically vote AGAINST! Education, pro LGTBQA+ rights related issues, making sure we re-enact Rowe vs. Wade, healthcare research, disaster relief, you know, all the important shit that the politicans generally ignore because they'd rather make up for a small dick.
The Age of Very Online is Over: Here's Why	Yeah, tell me about it. That's why I made this website. I just about replied to a thread on AtariAge today talking about how toxic certain places of the forum are. I left guitar forums because I got sick of all the music and gear elitism. I tried to leave Facebook because of all the drama - serious, I'd rather go back to LiveJournal and fight a Hot Topic Goth with one of those "Trying to be Ironic" canes from the "Voltaire" section. The reason why, back in the day, we had NETTIQUITE! Back then, we didn't fight, or debate, our rants were seen as someone being funny, actually, ALL early internet rants were just people being obnoxious and funny! That's what it was about. The Angry Video Game Nerd, all those old GameFAQs reviews....I lived in a vast sea of Atari 2600 reviews about Bears with bedpans on their heads and Psychotic Ducks chasing around a square with an arrow from an exit sign! Total LSD Trip shit! Anyone remember "Seanbaby.com". Now you go to Social Media and these Webforums and get in a fight with some fat fuck from Florida with a tiny little red hat over a bunch of lies he's spreading because he wants to feel important over somebody! Let me tell you people, the internet is over, but people like me, us who live on the outskirts of this - we'll survive, and reign in the next "digital age" of the internet....the post-internet-apocalypse! And you know what, I'm going to try and crimp it down to 80486 era levels too! Honestly, I think we all should have stunted computer technology circa 1995! Web too slow? Touch some grass! People being assholes, call their ISP and get them kicked off their data plans! That's how it should be. Maybe in the next ten years, we'll all be running on used Embedded hardware to keep A.I. dead, keep the telemetry services from working, and keep our TechBro Billionaires from becoming such!
Why do we become obsessed with our partner's Exes?	I have one teensy weensy tiny question...... WHO THE HELL HAS THE FUCKING TIME TO DO THIS AND WHY!?!?!? Seriously, I barely know enough about my wife's ex-boyfriends to even count, and she knows about as little about my previous girlfriends, and honestly, I'd like to keep it that way. I'm assuming this article is largely for women based on the artwork - look, if you want men to look at it, don't draw a chick who looks like she's from a nightclub drinking from a martini glass as some kind of warped neon sign. Look, I don't have the time to worry about the past much anymore, I'm too busy dealing with "RIGHT NOW" shit: like setting up equipment at work, taking care of two cars, taking care of two cats, being obsessed with the maintenance so they keep the apartment in working order (and I don't have to then become obsessed with repairing something because they arent' getting shit done). If you're over 28, married, and have a life, I don't see why the hell you need to give one iota of thought to someone elses love life before you came along. All it is is a catalyst for pain, and sorrow, and realizing how much you really hate people in general. I hardly know anything at all....and I can actually do something with this that I can't do with Trump in the news: say "I don't wanna' frickin' know! I don't need to frickin know! Let's talk about dinner!".
The Surprising Health Benefits of Swearing	THIS! YES! This might be the one thing left keeping me alive in 2025, my potty mouth. For all the FUCKS I throw out in a day, even if only in my head, I'd be giving every Nu-Metal band in every record catalog from the early 2000's a run for their money. What? You think it's uncouth? You think it's bad? Well, tough fucking shit. I don't care. Look, if people out there acted like humans and not like overgrown apes, maybe I wouldn't bet throwing a bunch of Damn Darts, Fuck Bombs, Shits, a few vain cloudman curses, and the good "ole' fuckin' hell" all the time. You want a good society with nobody who cusses, then make society better. I'm trying to do my part, but I don't see many doing theirs! That's why it's healthy to cuss I can tell already. Ever been in a store? In 2025. I don't even thing in 2015 I was as annoyed with people at the store as I am now, and most certainly not 2005, or 1995. Society has really de-evolved (that's right Mark...We're ALL DEVO) to a point that I really don't like leaving my house. Call it fuckin' Agoraphobia, call it what you will, but maybe the good almighty swear word is something that's keeping some of us going. It won't make you have cirrhosis like Alcohol, or make you have brain rot like Pot.....and of course, you get to keep your energy and GET SHIT DONE!
Fuckin' Forge of Empires "Build Your Own Empire"	Can we stop with this DLC, Paywall ridden filth yet? C'mon! Fuckin Forge of Empires! I'll turn Forge of Empires into a FUCKIN EMPYRE!!! Not as in my old band Lithium....but as in ON FIRE! Maybe it's time to snip the power lines on some server fans, change some ACLs on their switches, and point them to the dark web. I don't know who I'm more tired of? Forge of EMpires, the "Cute CHica with a gun shooting tin cans" game, the "poor lady with a kid starving in the winter in a condemned house" game....Matchington Mansion I think it is? Or all the games where some guy is in a sewer pipe with gold on one side, and pee on the other....or how aboutr Squarespace, NordVPN, tormenting that sports guy...Lebron something something on the State Farm ads with nasty hipsters that like to sniff the pea soup in their beards? Seriously, some of this stuff makes AI nightmare scenes and Skibidi Toilet look like quality PBS programming! Look, unless you're name is ATARI and you have some new 8-bit game that I buy for $35 and get the WHOLE GAME without some random lemur on crack asking me for money, and it runs on a console that doesn't require a WiFi connection...GET OUT!
Melinda French Gates shares why she 'Had To' end her relationship with Bill Gates (yawn)	The only thing more annoying than Celebrity Gossip is "Tech Bro" Celebrity gossip, and I consider Gates and Jobs among the first of the Tech Bros...and here, we don't like Tech Bros. We want people who actually CREATE something, not talking heads that take the creations of others (in this case BASIC, DOS, pieces of Office, Paintbrush, even Windows itself (Xerox Parc anybody?). Seriously, all it does is reminds me how stupid society is, we give all the credit to loudmouth investors, and this is how we end up with grifters like Elon Musk being called "genius innovators". I really don't give a crap about these people, let alone who they are fucking. And it's really irritating because certain people around me (mostly Women) for some fucked up reason give such a crap about this baloney. Like somehow an inkling of a thought about Fidelity is going to somehow save this person in their eyes. Whatever. Seriously America? Why are you so obsessed with people's sex lives? Maybe be obsessed with making your own life better. Seems like a better way.