Charlie

Deeply held beliefs: contemporary Country music is stupid. These guys can't hold a candle to Waylon, Willie, Merle or Hank.

A post from Dan Rather (@DanRather): The reality is we have a sharp partisan divide in this country. And that divide is largely over reality.

This is true.

McMonopoly is a scam, right?

Buh-bye, Hulu. Maybe I'll be back. Maybe not. This depends on y'all and whether you grow some balls.

My TV tuner has been disconnected for a while. I'm not seeing a compelling reason to reconnect my tuner to the antenna at this point. Sigh.

Listening to The Dollop's discussion of Bill Clinton. Came to the horrifying conclusion that Hillary could be justifiably blamed for us having Trump. Hated to say that but this is really the only conclusion I can arrive at here.

We didn’t exchange numbers, but I respect his hustle.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

I stand with Matthew Dowd. Fuck MSNBC. I once missed having cable because I missed the old MSNBC. That channel is now as trash as Fox, Newsmax, and the rest of the shitty channels that claim to be news but which real journalists can no longer recognize as such.

I’d rather not see the flag fly than see it flying at half staff for an agitator. He didn’t deserve to be assassinated, but he shouldn’t be celebrated.

Soooo... Does the notion of moderate gun control still seem like an extreme idea?

Trying to install Windows 11 on one of my kids' computers. It's absolute dogshit. Why is anyone using this?

Same with YouTube, not playing with age verification. AI is a fucking joke.

If I get an age verification request from Spotify, I'm blowing it away. Not playing.

Dear Google, you can fuck right off with Gemini. I don't want it. I'm tired of trying to scrub it off my phone. And dear Microsoft, get your fucking Copilot shit off my work devices. I hate your software enough already, and it only seems to get worse. (And people ask me why I use Linux...)

The other day when I was boarding a flight, I (maybe) inadvertently cropdusted First Class. It was glorious and cathartic. #sorrynotsorry

Rapidly coming to the conclusion that Reddit is a cesspool.

Putting someone from my past on blast. She abruptly moved from Sacramento to Utah shortly after I met up with her a few times. That traumatic event is now preventing me from being able to have a secure relationship style. Thanks a fucking ton, Jenny, and I hope you experience a slow, painful death.

@edzitron.com I'm imagining you writing a book titled "How Prabhakar Raghavan Destroyed Civilization". The point raised on today's episode how AI probably wouldn't have grown this much if Google had actually innovated instead of enshittificated was glaring. I'm degoogling as quickly as I can now...

I took a little breather there, sorrynotsorry. I am migrating in earnest to the Proton suite. Google Calendar is now ditched. If I can find a way to use the contacts that I migrated to Proton mail on my Android in lieu of Google Contacts, I'd be overjoyed. (Or, anyone have any leads here?)

Trying out Arch on my laptop and getting further with it than I ever have before. Now to figure out the answer to the question: AUR or Flatpaks?

Bridezilla... oy.

Watching said video now. excellent implementation. Ah, to live in a country where this pun wouldn't have crossed anyone's mind.

My deranged mind's eye wants to see a music video for Collective Soul's "Precious Declaration" juxtaposed with Gollum...

Is it bad that whenever I hear the name of the president of China, my mind's ear automatically hears the Disney song "Winnie the Pooh"?

I'll never run Windows 11 on any of my personal devices. I have Linux Mint on my desktop and my laptop and while I may distrohop again, I won’t switch back to Windows again no matter what.

The cruel truth, as I see it, is big business is a bunch of whiny little bitches who will complain bitterly about having profits when they want higher profits. The Michigan Supreme Court fucked the country with Dodge v. Ford Motor Co.

New Mexican here, she's got my vote in '26 for sure.

I'm with you, God... Schumer needs to get gone. He sold us out.