It seems like everyone has a set of ideals these days that they’ve dug themselves into like a tick. They’ve found a hole and burrowed deep into it, pushing everyone and everything out. Honestly, I don’t think “treat others as you’d like to be treated” is a bad hole to dig yourself into. In fact, I’d say that it’s the best hole to dig yourself into. Choosing that hole is choosing a hard road, but a righteous one. It’s also fully unoccupied by Trumpers. There aren’t any in that hole. They’re all in the “I don’t care what you say it’s fake news” hole. That’s where you’re going to find Trumpers. Maybe next to the “fuck immigrants” and “fuck the poor” holes. They’re not super far from one another.

Holy shit, man. I’ve been watching “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” lately and it’s goddamned hilarious. I love it. It’s so fucked up and the plots are never predictable. They’re all over the place. One day the gang is smoking crack to try to get welfare, then they’re trying to sell a kilo of coke they found, and end up selling it for like five percent of its value.

Holy shit this show is fucked up. :joy:

On the front end not much has changed about this blog. On the back end I’ve made a few tweaks. More than a few tweaks. The heavy lifting is done by Hugo, Git, VSCode, Vim, and Make. I love learning new shit and implementing it to make things easier. It’s super goddamn useful, and honestly I’m loving writing Makefiles to do things automatically rather than bash scripts. It feels cleaner. It might not be any different other than feeling cleaner, but it’s also an extra thing to learn.

A Guide to Neopronouns

First off, if you care to read that absolute trash just download NoScript and kill javascript on NYTimes.com. Easiest way to bypass their bullshit, since they blocked 12ft.

Now, that article is garbage for many reasons, but one of the biggest is that it claims to be a guide to something without actually explaining anything. There is no actual information in that article, it doesn’t explain anything, it simply excuses stupidity at nearly every new paragraph.

Amazon wants to charge a subscription fee for Alexa eventually

This story totally makes sense to me. After all, who wouldn’t pay to have a third party feed the government their private lives on a regular basis? I mean, it sounds like an awesome way to cement 1984 as the defacto standard. Fucking morons. Don’t even get me started on how fucking stupid these systems are. You ask these things for the weather and you end up getting a fucking rotten tomatoes score for the movie “The Weather Man”. Amazon is bad at these systems. Google is bad at them. Apple’s Siri is a pile of shit. None of these voice assistants have ever proved useful, and honestly when it comes to a home automation setup, they’re easily the weakest link.

Alright, I have the final puzzle piece in place with regards to my home theater setup. I really feel like this setup is the best setup for me. I love the shit out of this. So I’m going to run through the list. Here we go.

• Generic and not super important TV
• Schiit Vidar
• Schiit Freya
• Klipsch R-41M
• Apple TV 4K 128gb

So here’s the thing: The Apple TV unit really honestly ties it all together like nothing else. It does everything you want it to and then wraps it up in a rechargeable slick controller that’ll easily tie in with the Freya as a unit. The setup sounds excellent, and if you don’t give a shit about surround sound like I don’t, this setup is the best possible setup you can achieve. The only piece that I think I might want to swap out at any point is the piece I didn’t put in the list above.

I don’t feel like I have a net positive impact on society. When I search my feelings and examine this notion I’ve arrived at, I don’t really see any contributions that end up being notable. I’ve done things that have amused me or that I’ve enjoyed, but I can’t really say I’ve done anything to meaningfully change anyone’s life. Not someone else’s, not my own, I’ve never really done anything substantial.

Sometimes I’ll be doing something, usually driving, and I’ll sort of go on auto-pilot. My mind will drift away from a connection to what my body is doing and my body will sort of autonomously manage the slight nuances of the steering wheel and my feet will kind of automatically guide the acceleration of the car in a regular manner. It’s the wildest thing to be driving without even being mentally present. Sometimes someone will fuck up and almost hit me, and I’ll either have to brake or swerve or what have you. It’s the weirdest thing to be snapped back to reality. Sometimes the jerk back into reality can feel weird. It can make me wonder if it really happened. Did I actually die without realizing it? Am I actually still here? There are other times I experience that, too. Hell, sometimes I’ll wake up still kind of high from the night prior and wonder if I’m actually alive or if I died in my sleep. It’s the oddest thing. I mean, I rationally know I am not dead. But without knowing exactly what death is as an experience, how does anyone know they’re alive? You can observe a dead person at a funeral home, but those dead people might not be dead in another universe, right? I don’t know. It’s all just so weird. Every day feels longer than the last and yet somehow they’re slipping by without my even realizing.