Coof

I caught the coof. God dammit. Again. It’s goddamned horrible. I’m not a fan, do not recommend. Don’t have “COVID parties”, don’t intentionally try to catch this thing, you’re gonna get it over and over eventually. Just avoid it. And all you superdodgers out there better count your lucky fucking stars that you don’t go through this shit, because it’s unfortunate to say the least.

I’m not sure if you’ve noticed this yet, but I treat this blog as my sort of social media. It’s where I dump my thoughts and feelings whereas normally most people would do so on facebook or twitter. I don’t accept that someone else has any say in what language I use or what thoughts I express, and so this is the road I’m taking for better or worse. I can be as kind or as abrasive as I see fit without conforming anything about myself to any standard set by society. I can do so relatively safely from behind a pseudonym that isn’t directly attached to me publicly. My OPSEC isn’t perfect by any means, and most would say it’s incredibly insufficient, but I think I’ve found a rational balance with OPSEC. Security, at the end of the day, is always a compromise between the end goal and usability. The end goal being absolute security, which is almost entirely unusable by anyone. A totally secure system doesn’t exist, because total security precludes all usability. So, of course, security is always trying to find the needle’s happy place between a usable and unusable system. You can easily find photos of my face on this blog, but that’s pretty much it. There are also a few other obscure bits and pieces, but it’s not frequent and it would require some effort for anyone to put together a comprehensive dossier on me.

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They Stole Our Dislike Button and Now We’re Confused

It’s funny to me that Google has decided Youtube is best served by removing the dislike button. Google doesn’t seem to realize they always had access to a better option, a more future-proof one. Google should actually have pulled what Facebook tried to, enforcing a “no pseudonym” rule aside from on a case by case basis. It would’ve been easier to implement that than basically ruin Youtube as a service, which was the road they actually took.

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To Whit

Man, we’ve been watching this series called “Sister Wives” where these goofy ass motherfuckers go out in the world seeking extra partners when they’re already paired up. It’s a whole ass thing, man. Like, seriously. You’ve got this creepy serial-killer looking motherfucker, “Garrick Merrifield”, acting the part completely. He’s a total manipulative narcissist, controlling his wife Danielle and seemingly brainwashing her across like three seasons. But what creeps me out is that she seems to carve herself a spot in the fucked up triad that inevitably ends up toxic and awful. It’s just fucking wild, man. He keeps saying shit like “God has a plan and this must be part of it”. It’s ultra fucking creepy and cultish. He keeps saying that shit through nearly every episode of every season. The funniest thing is, he’s clearly just a pussy-fiend. It has absolutely fuck all to do with “God” and everything to do with him thinking with his dick. That’s all he ever does in any episode. He thinks with his dick and then when everything explodes just shrugs and says “Must be God’s will”. Like, no, motherfucker. Take some fucking responsibility for the fucked up shit you do and quit dragging invisible space wizards into it. He’s a sick fuck.

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Redneck Rebellion

If you haven’t seen the latest news, it looks like Donald Trump is in a bit of hot water with treating national secrets like they’re his own fucking personal playground. The absolute nerve of this rich piece of shit. What a fucking twat of a human being. He treated the executive office like a goddamn urinal. Him and his few pals, Rudy Giuliani and the rest of the crime syndicate, just shitting on the oath of office and every goddamn oath each had taken. What absolute garbage human beings. I fucking despise privileged little pieces of shit like Donald Trump, never knowing in his 70-odd years of existence what it’s fucking like to actually work hard. God damn, and this asshole is going to tell me that taxing people like him fairly will make them “go away” and everyone will be poor and starving with no billionaires to drop crumbs for them to eat. Fuck you. Fuck you so fucking much for saying such stupid fucking bullshit. Jesus. Fucking. Christ. No one worth a damn buys that bullshit.

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Kiwi Farms and the Future of the Internet

First and foremost, I’ll say right off the bat that I do not condone targeted mass hate campaigns against individuals or groups. I personally condemn that activity across the board no matter the victim or antagonist in any conflict, for any reason. That said, there’s a terrifying precedent being set currently that’s going to enable certain groups to change the world in ways previously not possible.

First, we need to identify how speech is protected on the internet. Currently there are no laws on any books anywhere that guarantee a person has access to the internet. There are also no laws explicitly stating that a company has to, in good faith, do business with everyone who approaches them for service regardless of who they are or what they believe. There are no laws regulating platforms on the internet that ensure every individual has equal access or ability to use them. There are no laws protecting forms of speech on the internet uniformly. There aren’t any real protections in place anywhere in federal regulatory bodies or federal or state governments on the whole. You can fall back to the first amendment, but the first amendment says fuck all about corporations being required to propagate your ideas. There are no such protections in place.

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Trugreen Chemlawn Complete Is Trash

If you ever decide to “improve” your lawn and sign up to Trugreen Chemlawn Complete you can pretty much count on this being the result after four months:

Just look at that beautiful series of images. Man, they really demonstrated the “Tailored Solutions” and “Science-Driven Expertise”, don’t you think? But they’ll take you for thousands of dollars to do nothing. The proof is in the images. They come out seemingly all the time and yet nothing improves. The weeds stay as thick and huge as they are. The bald spots are unchanging. It’s easily just the worst lawn service you can sign up for, you’re literally better off doing it yourself and saving a ton of cash. These jackasses are useless. Trugreen Chemlawn is basically just a trash can for you to throw $1,500 into. What a scam.

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