Category Rant

Let’s stop giving these billionaire shitheads even more money. Stop spending ANY money with companies that do evil or are related to evil people.

Here, I’ll get you started on some quick and easy companies worth boycotting and driving out of business:

• Twitter
• Paypal
• Tesla
• SpaceX
• xAI
• The Boring Company
• Neuralink Corporation
• Zip2
• OpenAI
• SolarCity

These companies are all directly related to the economic crisis that is now facing America. All of these companies should be shuttered. Stop giving money to them. I’m glad to say Paypal is the only one I used every once in a while, and I can easily replace that site with other payment methods. Boycott them all, never a single penny ever again.

Hey idiots, are you all happy? Yes you, you absolute morons that supported this shit are directly to blame for the death of my favorite hobbies over the past decade. Thanks to the Republican’s determination to destroy America, hobby companies that I have supported for years are now either already shut down, or have halted all sales to anyone in America. Why? Tariffs. Tariffs are driving the United States at 100mph towards a brick wall named “Recession”. What better way to grind a country’s economy to an absolute stop than to disable all extracurricular spending. Why? What’s the point of the tariffs? It’s to cripple the economy. The conservatives intentionally want to take America’s economy (and other things) back 100 years. It’s mentally deranged.

All I can say is we are battening the financial hatches down and won’t be spending any extra money until this stops. That enamel pin purchase I had in my Etsy cart? Cancelled. Don’t want to risk spending the money. That new tire inflator from Amazon? Cancelled. Nintendo Switch 2? LOL yeah fuckin right. Can’t afford it any more, tariffed in to hell. That favorite meal from the local Italian place? Nope, no longer spending money on that as well. Food prices have gone up exponentially and now we can only afford to cook at home. Thanks tariffs, thanks boomers who voted for this! It’s all your fault! Remember this. This is what you wanted, you voted for this.

The destruction of this country’s entire financial stability is directly in the hands of the them now. Boomers, The Worst Generation.

You can’t uncook a fully cooked brain, and it seems the boomer generation is doing everything they can in their last feeble grasps of influence, to shit on the floor on the way out. Why? Why are they like this? Did they eat too many lead paint chips? Is it because their lives didn’t turn out like they had dreamed? Is it because of shitty life choice after shitty life choice and now they want to subject everyone else to shitty life choices? Why do they vote for destruction? Why do they voluntarily chose hatred, vitriol, and cold abandonment? I am genuinely so lost on what is wrong with that generation of people. The absolute brain rot that has propelled the current elected officials in to office is directly to blame for what is happening in this Country right now, and it IS the boomer’s fault.

I’m fucking disgusted by all of it, and honestly I’m disgusted by anyone who could support any of it, at all, even slightly.  That’s right. You. You disgust me. Live with that fact and the personal choices you have made, and know that people will always be disgusted by such viewpoints.

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

That’s the America I grew up in. That’s the America I was promised. Where the fuck is it? Where is MY America? The country that does good in this world. Not this garbage. This isn’t my country, you’re not my boomer. 

The toxicity, damage, lies, and other awful things spread online are nearly exclusively propagated by “social media” sites pretending to be community hubs, facading for corporate owned billionaire oligarchs. Let’s stop beating around the bush here and call out Reddit as one of the biggest and worst criminals of this that I have recently witnessed. Reddit pretends to be a community hub, but is actually in bed with every other big corporate oligarch. Reddit has recently started a new campaign to silence calls for Federal Workers to Strike ASAP in light of the recent proclamation from president Muskrat. I witnessed it with my own eyes; lurking a reddit thread about the recent federal worker unrest reading massive threads of comments about it, and when I refreshed, posts started vanishing. One by one. Each time I was refreshing I was seeing more and more posts about the federal worker strike getting deleted. Reddit corporate staff are actively working to silence calls of a Federal Strike.  I couldn’t believe my own eyes so I jumped on my computer and opened the same thread. I started tabbing open comments, and eventually they were all deleted. I started watching user accounts of federal workers calling for the strike, and I was watching these reddit accounts get banned one by one. These were not smurfs, in one case I saw a legit 10+ year old reddit account get completely killed. I watched Reddit staff shift the entire tone from one of federal unrest to one of people making fun of federal workers. This is honestly crazy, seeing this level of censorship occurring before my eyes…. and on Reddit of all places.

No corporate social media sites can be trusted, AT ALL any more.  The comments you read, you think are organic, have been curated, manicured, and shaped, to say exactly what ideology the billionaires who own Reddit are pushing. I never realized what an extremely dangerous tool Reddit (and all social media owned by them) has become for the oligarchs. They can pretend to be natural community opinions, when in reality they’re just wiping the opinions of the mass amount of accounts that aren’t pushing their corporate political agenda. This is extremely scary and dangerous to democracy as a whole.

Something bad is brewing. Mr. Stark, I don’t feel so good…

On December 1st 2018 a freak warm front swept through the area bringing with it 29 Tornados. One of those Tornados was a devastating EF3 Tornado that completely destroyed many houses in my town. Over 400 homes were damaged by this Tornado which had wind speeds estimated at 155mph and was a 1/2 mile wide. Our house was in this Tornado’s direct path. We were fortunate enough that when the Tornado reached us it had lifted off the ground but the official storm track still put it coming right over our backyard. As a result we had extensive shingle and siding damage done. No face of the house was spared and we took damage from the extreme winds and flying debris on literally every side. My daughter and I were home at the time and ran to the basement as soon as we realized there was a Tornado nearby. We both suffer from PTSD from it to this day, with Tornado sirens setting off a near panic-state in her, and having adverse effects on me as well.

I had been a client of Country Financial since the day I turned 16 and got my license, only because that was who my Dad used at the time. As I grew, I continued to use them for multiple vehicles, multiple life policies, and our home policy. I had made some small auto claims in the past, none my fault, and had always been satisfied with how it was handled. I wish I could say the same for the Tornado damage to my house, but my experience was the exact opposite. Country Financial weaseled out of tens of thousands of dollars in necessary repairs and stuck me with the bill.

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Seriously, avoid any crowd-funded sites. Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and even things like GoFundMe are hosting full on scams these days.  Some years ago there used to be legit projects and I backed a few and got what I expected.  I’ve only ever had one project not finish, but that’s the risk going in.  However, these days there are straight up scams running unchecked on all of these sites.  I haven’t backed anything in quite some time and have decided I will never be backing anything on these types of sites again.  They have lost all credibility in my opinion.

I’ve noticed a new phenomenon in recent times where a user of a certain product, be it a nas, a switch, a ip camera, wireless ap, or anything else really, posts up questioning why X device is making X number of repeated DNS requests.  Just shut the hell up, seriously. This is normal behavior, it’s how DNS works. The device makes a request and the caching DNS server replies with the answer. This is how DNS has always worked, but these dim bulbs have been given a light in the window to the inner workings of DNS and have suddenly crapped their diapers about it. Also, the thought of offloading a critical network service like DNS to a $30 device is horrifying to me.  But then again, like I said, Pi-hole users are the worst.

I don’t know why political messages get excluded from Do Not Call Registry penalties, but it’s a bunch of crap. Not only are these calls unwanted and obnoxious, but there is no way to stop them! You can’t block them as they use different numbers every call, and you can’t unsubscribe from them because there is no list, they have your number, and they’re calling it no matter what.
And now… NOW they’re Text Spamming people! So far this elections season, I have received 3 separate spam SMS messages from political candidates. So now not only are they making unwanted calls, but they’re making unwanted texts too. I’ve had psycho-ex’s less clingy than these shady campaigns.
So far, I’ve got:
1 message for Jon Ebel (D)
2 messages for Erik Jones (D)
So, at least I know 2 candidates who will NOT be receiving my vote this fall. Keep it up guys, you’re helping me narrow down my list! 😀