You hate smartphones because watching your little TV shows on them doesn’t work right.

I hate smartphones because they are a cognitohazard inhibiting our ability to create a galaxy-spanning empire.

We are not the same.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

I like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but this is accurate and fuckin’ hilarious:

As befits the piece, that performance was saucier than the Prego factory. Great in all aspects.

When I think about stuff like this, I realize that most people want to be hoodwinked, bamboozled and controlled.

Perhaps “want” is not quite the right word. But it’s close enough, because how else would you describe people who appear to do nothing at all to resist what’s happening to them? There must be some degree of desire — of want — present for it to occur at all. Otherwise it obviously would not.

To be fair, people are fairly easy to control. Spout a bit of propaganda, and generate a little fear, and you’ve got ’em. It happens all the time.

People tell me that cloud bullshit such as streaming is “more convenient.” Then I watch them spend hours and hours doing something that I can do in minutes. Or just witness them attempt to do something that’s no longer even possible as that song is gone, that movie is not available anymore, the cloud service they were using shuts down forever, taking all their data with it. Meanwhile all is still present and working for me because I possess it. Please explain to me how this is “more convenient.” I just cannot see it.

And that’s because it’s clown crap.

Propaganda works and most people are not only believers in it but spouters of it. So we must return to this: most want to be told what to do, and how to do it; most will believe something 10 times harder and 100 times worse is “more convenient” if they have it hammered into their heads over and over again. Human minds are inherently weak and the older I get, the more this is proved true.