Rant

OER

Chill Clowns, Political Economy, Rant

Owner’s Equivalent Rent for measuring housing inflation is the clowniest, most useless way of computing that in the universe. Owners mostly have no goddamn idea how much it’d cost to rent their own place. I bet if you asked (and the gummint does) the owner and compared that to the actual rent they could get those owners would be off by 40%+.

Maybe the various levels and layers of wrongness balance out. But I doubt it. And even if so, why should we depend on that? Just a terrible, terrible metric.

Box Of

Chill Politics, Rant

People who think Harris saw the questions before the debate, you are fucking idiots. Those are the same questions they ask during every presidential debate and have since rocks were new.

What are you, 11?

There’s actually quite a lot to criticize Harris on but none of the conservatives seem to have the intellectual capacity to do so.

It Was a Time

Chill Rant, Regular-ass Post

It was a lab leak, of course. But wasn’t it just wild in Feb-Mar 2020? I had people that are now mask-crazy insisting masks don’t work and were racist (??), and that not shaking hands was also racist, and that buying extra food was absurd because “nothing is going to happen.” All of that has been memory-holed and is “conspiracy theory” now. But it all happened.

What a time!

Even Some

Chill Rant

People are extremely susceptible to propaganda in general, but they seem particularly likely to fall for Russian and Chinese variants of same. Are those two countries just better at it, or what it is? To be painfully honest, even some of my friends have repeated Putin talking points like he’s got his hand shoved so far up their butt he’s able to control the words coming out of their mouths. Now, I like you, friends, but it’s true.

Don’t be a Putin shill. It’s just déclassé. And hurts your butt.

Bully For You

Chill Rant

I am so 100% against the belief that if someone is attacked and then fights back, the resulting conflict is the fault of the person who resists. This is how my teachers way back in elementary and middle school used to excuse their punishing me (and not my bullies) even though I was the one being beaten up.

I just cannot understand the people who buy into this way of thinking.

Deserving and Serving

Chill Rant

Most people are so little concerned with the things that they should be, that they definitely deserve the bad things that happen to them as the result of their chosen cluelessness.

But the problem with that is that though the above is all true, the just outcome makes my life worse too. Dammit. Thus, I selfishly have to support allowing dumbasses who should suffer to continue to prosper in spite of their metaphorically juggling running chainsaws while blindfolded and riding a unicycle.

I am forced to charity and grace by pure self interest.

Bannage

Chill Rant

I’m bad at forums and community in general. I just am not a joiner. I wish I could be but I’m not and I will probably never change.

One of the reasons I run a blog is because I know this about myself and I know that no one wants me all up in their shit. I always quickly get banned. I’d ban me too. I’m frustratingly persistent, do not care about making nice when I’m right, and often piss off the most respected members of forums because if they’re wrong, respected or not, they are still wrong.

I care more about being right and knowing what’s what than appeasing, pleasing, or making nice so everyone gets along. If that’s wrong, so be it. I can take it.