Rant

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.

l33t

Chill Rant

I still fail to understand why I should have to experience a worse user interface for me because other people have low IQ.

Look, I really don’t care. Computers were better when they prevented dumbasses from using them. Yes, I am an elitist. Never denied it. I would, however, be ok with them having a click-and-drool interface while I was allowed an advanced one.

But instead, they took away the powerful UI, put in place the drool-ready interface, and forced me to also use that garbage. Which tells me it’s actually more about restraining me than helping the mentally challenged.

Obsess

Chill Rant

I just saw it on Reddit today, so don’t tell me it doesn’t happen. That said, it’s strange when women are like, “All you care about is SEX!!!!!!!1111” when you’ve mentioned like a dozen other dealbreakers.

And then you say, “Wanting kids is also a dealbeaker. We have no future and should not have a relationship if you do want that. If we have nothing we enjoy doing for fun in common, also a dealbreaker. If you are super clingy, also a dealbreaker. But yes, not wanting a sexual relationship is in fact also a dealbreaker.”

Then it’s the “All you want is SEX!” again. It makes no damn sense.

So my question is, why are so many women so oddly sex-obsessed? 😉

Aversive

Chill Clowns, Rant

What School Didn’t Teach Us: You Need to Lose Control.

While I don’t agree with Kat that this needs to be done with the aid of alcohol, sure, it can be. And her thesis is absolutely correct.

This is a generation that is both highly conflict-averse and virtually allergic to risk, particularly when it comes to markers of autonomous adulthood like driving, working, or sex. The bosses of Gen Z employees report that they can’t make eye contact, take criticism, or even ask questions when they don’t know how to do something. The post-work drink is dead, apparently, thanks to young workers who prefer boundaries to bonding.

I remember when dipshit Alice Goldfuss wrote some clown-ass crap about why did people go to bars when they could just drink the same thing at home for much cheaper. Because, you fucking doofus, people go to bars to be social, to hang out in a neutral place with their friends, to see what the night brings. I’m not really all that social and even I can understand that1.

One time, I went to a bar with some friends (and I barely drink) and I wound up sitting at the bar chatting with a minor TV actress and Charles Fuckin’ Barkley. Now do you think that would’ve happened if I’d stayed at home? Hell to the no, y’all. Serendipity can be pretty fun sometimes.

Too many people are much too concerned with building boundaries and walls before they even know what they want, what would be good for them, or how to handle life. They read Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” completely the opposite of what he intended.

Gen Z can’t handle shit because they never do anything, never take any risks. Miserable prudes.

  1. In some ways, it’s not fair to pick on her as Covid caused her to go nuts. But I can’t help it. Don’t go harassing her, people. She’s just small-minded, afraid, pitiable and pitiful.

Stable Bull

Chill Clowns, Rant

Sorry to bring this back up again, but this idiot’s take on the whole affair is clownishly fucking moronic:

The problem is that she’s saying SHE SETTLED FOR HIM. That he’s not hot enough to be a hookup, but he’ll do for stability’s sake. No one, man or woman, wants to hear that. If my partner didn’t think I was super hot (and vice versa), I’d want to break up because I’d be doing her and myself a huge, huge disservice. What she said was clearly not awkward wording and if it was, it was the most backhanded “compliment” in recorded history. Seriously, with a backhand that good she should play pro tennis.

Ok, since a lot of you are dense, think about it this way. One time I lost my partner in the grocery store. Went to seek her out. Got distracted looking at other crap there, my mind wandered, and as I was gazing down an aisle completely zoned out I saw a woman and thought, Wow, whoever is with her is lucky. She’s just gorgeous. And then my brain engaged again and I realized IT WAS MY PARTNER. Yay, the lucky guy was ME! WOOHOO!

If you don’t feel that way about whoever you’re currently with, you’re with the wrong fucking person. Simple as that. And it’s clear that she in fact does not feel that way about him. Why is that so hard for people (mostly women, but not all) to understand?

QR

Chill Rant, Tech

Even the interns fresh out of college with comp-sci majors struggle with troubleshooting basic issues that can be fixed by uninstalling/reinstalling apps or updating drivers.

I had a developer just yesterday who couldn’t figure out how to scan a QR code. A fucking developer. I had to walk him through it like he was seven years old.

Not my job, by the way. Not even remotely. Younger millennials and Gen Z just do not know how to use computers, no matter their occupation.