Wednesday, July 19th 2023 … Really?…

Every time something works, why do they have to change it? My camera hurdle is now trying to connect it to my iPhone. Wireless that used to be intuitive, is now complex and Bluetooth? How complicated do you need to make Bluetooth? WTF. Gotta be compatible with 40 different types of named cameras? Why? What is the point? They had a product that worked. Make one with more options, greater complexity, add graphics. Why? Why did users choose google? They chose google. Because it was graphics minimalistic. Not because it was better – initially. It loaded much faster and cut the crap. It didn’t try and ram huge files down your throat. I wish they would have asked my opinion :). I’ll try and see if I can find a YouTube vid on the subject (connecting SnapBridge). Thanks Nikon – not.

-Rat

Wednesday, February 22nd 2023…If it’s not one thing, it’s another…

WordPress, ISP’s (Internet Service Providers), ICANN, 3rd Party software providers. Damn. Why can’t we all just get along. It’s tough running a simple blog. WordPress upgrades its code, PHP is out of date, update PHP and the site breaks, the new WordPress doesn’t play well with the 3rd party apps that are supposed to support it. Your domain is expiring, if you want to own the domain from a technical standpoint, you need to register with ICANN, but the ISP who supports your site, for some reason can’t send emails to ICANN with your domain emails. Do that and your information can’t be private, don’t do that and you get all kinds of spam calls (calls from numbers that don’t really exist). Lie about it and ICANN finds out and your domain is shut down. That’s the dark side of ICANN. All this to keep things “free”. Get the government involved and nothing works right because business’ keep it that way, get business involved and nothing works in your favor (meaning you’ll have to pay for everything and if they can’t monetize it, they won’t develop it – so you’re stuck with what they give you until someone figures out a way around it. And then there are the hackers who exploit your stuff just because they want to experiment on stuff that is meaningless.

Ugh, to have a blog. How do all these people stay fat, dumb, and happy? I don’t get it. Maybe because they stick to monetized sites with tons of crappy ads that charge little to nothing. I dunno. Fuck em’.

-Rat

Monday, January 4th 2021…really Mr. President?…

What a dumbass. Like a toddler who can’t get his way. He’ll throw a tantrum… he’ll cry and he’ll get his ice-cream. Nope, no you don’t. All we (the American public) have to do is wait your dumbass out, and the country reverts back to being run by a lying sack of crap. Can January 20th come soon enough? I think not. We tried an experiment, it failed, is rotting in the garbage can and stinking up the kitchen. So much for the experiment. All you had to do was act like a caring human being, you didn’t even have to believe the crap that you needed to speak, what the public needed to hear, and you needed a filter. Nope. Couldn’t do it. Too big of an ego. Yes, i know you are a bad liar, and that is exactly why I voted for you. Nope. And the worst part was you couldn’t even keep your mouth shut on twitter. So much damage done and documented. Words and thoughts exposed like rotting fruit and roadkill on a hot day. And the American public had to drive the only road that passed by. We had to hold our collective breaths in our convertible with the top down. Listening to the drive-by media rightly crucify you. Spewing it’s hate speech couched in what the elitist liberals think the country needs with a sprinkling of division. You gave them all the ammunition they could ever want. They didn’t even have to look hard.

On January 20th, 2021 the presidency pendulum will swing the other direction back to the Democrats. Not that it really matters anymore. That’s the greatest irony here. That’s what this experiment taught me in no uncertain terms. It doesn’t matter who is in the White House, the outcome is mainly the same – its a slow box step set to a discordant dirge that never really goes anywhere – in a circle, by design. We had one of the the biggest megalomaniacs that walked the planet in the presidency (bills still got paid and no one died) and nothing really changed, now the pendulum swings back the other way. To a guy who couldn’t hold a thought in his pocket. Not too much change mind you, we need to give the public the allusion of change without real change. Same with Obama, same with Bush, same with Clinton, wash, rinse, repeat. We are rearranging the proverbial deck chairs on the American Titanic. Republicans, Democrats, they are 2 heads on the same coin. Does it really matter if the coin flips? Not really. The American public loses.

Just find the approximately 11 thousand votes somewhere? Really, Mr President? I had to laugh at the Washington Post – you were set up, dumbass. And essentially, they said that Congress needs to work fast before the American public wakes up. No worries there congress. The American public has been asleep since about a year after the World Trade Center attack. Social media under the guise of “media” has been slowly dividing us and keeping us at arms length for the purposes of arguing with each other. Fanning the embers of discord and hate. Just look at the Election ads playing on the media if you needed a reminder. Watch the nightly news on the major channels and compare what you don’t see on the BBC news. Sprinkle a bit of the daily-mail in for good measure, and you’ll start to see that our news isn’t news at all. It’s filtered entertainment with the Weather and Sports. Actually, weather and sports anymore are the only fact driven segments that come with check-able facts.

I for one, am glad that this experiment is almost over. I will go back to quit wondering what would happen if we didn’t have a professional liar in the presidency, I am resigned to it. My liberal friends can relax and go back to just grumbling about their lives instead of railing about the dumbass in the oval office. They still make sense, we all want the same outcome, and although we don’t agree on the path – our destinations are still the same. We still have to get through life together, supporting each other, and doing all the things that we don’t really want to do – in our jobs. I think we all can eventually find joy in the process.

-Rat