And this, lately, every day since sometime before Christmas, Google sending me an alert telling me that I can relive a "memory". Every day a new album, this one filled with pictures of my daughter, or my son, or myself, or of rocks and pretty pictures, I mean, it used to be once in a blue moon, now, every day?
Am I dying? Is this what they meant by "and his life flashed before his eyes..." ***Courtesy of Google?
Anyways, thought it was funny and then annoying. Maybe it's just a nudge to get into better shape...
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And, through the thrift shop, a wooden flute
Or I thought it was a wooden flute, picked it up, tried to play, could only get a single note, I'd figure it out.
And I did, there's a wooden block which covers the part I was blowing into, instead, I'm expected to blow into the end that looks suspiciously like a foreskin...
So, in other words, more of a "recorder" than a flute.
I'm annoyed beyond measure, I didn't want a recorder, I wanted a flute!
So I take it out on M******, showing him a fishbowl and telling him...."Next time I come up to you showing you this and SAYING that I want to buy this TV I WOULD APPRECIATE YOU CORRECTING MY GRAVE MISJUDGEMENT...!"
M's nonplussed. A sale is a sale.
And, in any event, these trifling failures keep the fire under my anti-materialistic ass. What good is buying anything when you have neither a place for it or have a clue as to what you are buying?
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No, I won't be watching this on Netflix, I find it far too disturbing.
But the case does highlight - as did the documentary "Dear Zachary" - the ease with which women get away with murder.
Link: https://www.vox.com/culture/23506125/casey-anthony-evidence-where-the-truth-lies-how-true-or-false
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You knew it, with the Freedumb convoys and all the truthers and the increasing general level of stupidity that has pervaded the planet.
Musk, I've been suspicious, and increasingly dismayed/disgusted by his actions, and this just cements it:
Link: https://boingboing.net/2022/12/12/musk-shadow-bans-the-twitter-account-tracking-his-
UPDATES: (Dec 14, 2022):
- Musk suspends twitter tracking account
- Musk bans tweeting that reveals location data
- Musk starts irrelevant lawsuit
To summarize, that kid that had a website tracking Musk's private jet usage has effectively had his twitter account "Shadow-banned", meaning that it will be unavailable to most users. That's Elon Musk, champion of freedom of speech, except when it concerns him.
Now, a few things regarding "Freedom of Speech" and - "Freedumb" in general - is that the people that go on about it usually want freedom of speech for themselves, and for everyone else just to listen.
That, of course, is not part of the bargain. People that argue "Freedom of Speech" seldom, if ever, allow for informed or intelligent dissent.
And "Freedumb" can be summarized as the "right to do as you choose without regard to it's effects on others". This is almost always an exclusionary Freedumb, the one lobbying for his or her "Freedumb" never wants someone else to have the freedom to choose differently.
Anyways, a day of trifling annoyances on the internet, but I read the news, what did I expect?
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