Oh, look at this. I want this a lot.

I am thinking about buying it. My current phone (which was about the smallest one you could get at the time) is no longer sold. I’d love one even smaller.

All the Senators on the judicial committee are so old, too. Both Chuck Grassley and Dianne Feinstein are 85 years old.

They should’ve been forcibly retired 15-20 years ago, not just because of cognitive decline but because the future matters more than the past, and someone younger would consider the future more.

No one should be able to serve past 70 in any legislative office, anywhere.

Public discourse is now a collective hallucination. The pols decide to act as if the standard is the same as in a criminal trial. The media just parrots the implication. People go around saying "innocent until proven guilty" like fucking puppets.

— Bob Holmes and the Limehouse Golem (@_Jack_Graham_) September 28, 2018

I noticed this, too. The confirmation process is a goddamn job interview. There is no standard of “innocent until proven guilty” in a job interview anywhere.

If I brought that standard up when I interviewed at any company or role ever, I’d’ve rightfully been laughed out of the room.

I don’t play video games, so I don’t have a dog in this fight, but the whole idea of worrying all that much about “breast physics” is just odd to me.

So people complain about when women’s breasts move in a video game. I don’t know if any of ya’ll have ever seen any real women, but unless they are completely bound, women’s breasts move in real life, too. Shocking, I know. They even jiggle. Oh my god!

I know, puritanical Americans can’t handle that (and many to most American feminists are just as puritanical as everyone else), but female characters with breasts that move normally are actually more realistic than something that is like a rock strapped to their chests.

Yes, I realize this will make me evil and bad in the eyes of everyone, but like I said I don’t really play games, so I hardly care, but women in real life do have “breast physics,” as hard as it is for American puritans to believe.

I didn’t watch any of Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony as I have no doubt she was assaulted by Kavanaugh and I’ve already witnessed enough women’s trauma in my life. That comes with having many female friends. Heck, I couldn’t even finish The Handmaid’s Tale because it’s just distilled misogyny. Well-acted, well-depicted, but I don’t need to watch a TV show to see women mistreated.

Kavanaugh is the worst of America, the elite mediocrity elevated far above his morality or intelligence, entitled he believes to take all he wants when he wants it, with few willing to disclose to him just how middling and prosaic he truly is.

I don’t regret spending so much time on the internet the past few decades. It wasn’t time wasted. I met some wonderful people there, including my current partner and a great, remarkable friend. I learned many things and advanced my career.

But that time is coming to a close as now it’s just a spyware-infested corporate propaganda arena with no usable browser any more to even access it.

Already, I’ve been optimizing my life since this resource is disappearing. I’ve acquired a keyboard (of the musical type) and am playing again. I’m getting back into weightlifting. I’m reading more books. So the internet essentially becoming an electronic turd is not all bad, though I will miss it in some ways.

Even I was very hopeful about the internet and its future in the 1990s, when everyone was more optimistic and the future seemed like it could be better. That’s not the path we took, though.