Facial recognition required for all online IRS accounts?
No government agency can (ever) force me to give my personal information to a private company.
Leave me alone. And stop asking ME to do my taxes IRS, you already have all my information, send me a bill.
End - of - Discussion.
Sign the Texas Petition here:
Black Man Arrested, Held in Jail for Days, Mistaken for Older White Man With Same Name
Yes that actually happened. I think that man should legally be allowed to punch any of those officials in the face--- several times.
I can only hope that his lawsuit pays him handsomely.
Although money is never justice.
A Tennessee school district has voted to ban the Holocaust graphic novel 'Maus'
Unintelligent medieval people who believe in spirits and witches ban books. Anyone born after 1800 should know better. Books are merely an expression of ideas and ideas are not good or evil. Ideas should never be repressed.
Thoughts should always be allowed to be shared. It is how we move on as humans.
So, stop banning books already.
Consider this is me slapping you in the face! Stop it!
So what do I predict will happen with Putin and Ukraine? Putin will do whatever he wants in Ukraine. Nothing the US or anyone says will change his mind and force him to do otherwise. There is no evidence that Putin is swayed in any way, on any decision he's ever made, by anyone.
A bully doesn't change his mind and stop bullying people because someone asked him not to or told him it was impolite.
Dictators don't do anything they don't want to do, and they do everything they want to do, and the world has yet to stop them.
Maybe if Russia was suspected of having WMDs we could convince the American public to take him out. Oh, wait, that's been done -- and didn't go well either.
When I see headlines like:
Google Accused Of 'Constant Surveillance', Deceptive Methods to Maintain Access to User Data
or
A new lawsuit claims Google tracks people's location without permission.
I think to myself...
Doesn't Google do everything without anyone's approval?
In America having lots and lots of money means you can do anything you want. Kill babies, touch kids, extort data and cash, deliver no customer service, steal, lie, cheat, poison people and the environment, because as long as you can pay your lawyer(s), you're good to go in the good ole US of A.
If you live here and don't get that I really can't help you. If you don't live here, that's great news for you.
Google, however, is a worldwide problem.
We all need to stop using it that is the only way it can ever die (or change). Get it off your phone, don't use it at home, never stream their content. The only power we have is the power of our money and attention. If you don't give them that, they are nothing.
Clearly the state has no handle on this and I see there are two ways to resolve this problem.
It is like when people who live in the desert say they have no food to eat, when that is the case there are two clear options. Learn to grow some kind of food in the soil you have ...or move.
It's the same with the California wildfires. Learn to control them, and I do mean now, or move people out of the areas that are prone to fire. It's not complicated. Anyone standing in front of an on-coming freight train and doesn't step out of the way, doesn't get my sympathy at their death and despair.
California needs to pick one and move on because doing nothing and crying wolf about it every month is just falling on deaf ears.
Vienna Blood - UK, Austria
On the verge of forensic science and criminal profiling a young Freudian and a hard-nosed, brutish detective become unlikely friends as they struggle to solve intricate and disturbing murders in and around 1900s Vienna.
The Wheel - UK
Its a fun, bright, music-bopping, game show, with a huge wheel. Michael McIntyre thought of the concept and he is the perfect, funny and charming host. Of course when those brits get questions about the US wrong I do shout at my TV.
Vintage Voltage - UK
Taking classic (European) cars and making them electric? Yes, please. I'd love an American version of this show too, but Americans aren't this smart.
Secrets of the Royal Palaces - UK
Samantha Bonds sultry voice narrates us through some of the most amazing age-old palaces in the UK. If you can't visit them directly this is the next best thing!
Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock - US
Did you know it was back? OMFG. This was thee iconic TV when I has a teenager and it's still great!
Back in Time for Dinner - Canada
I love this show. Being a Foodie, interested in history and nostalgia, I literally eat this up. It is a show that makes me smile and anything that can do that for Mister Super Negative is down-right must see TV.
I recently saw a headline of:
"Google Home can help make your grocery shopping easier"
The only thing I want google to do, is go kill itself. Stop using Google. Stop giving away your information and freedom.
Google's motto used to be "Don't be Evil", but they changed it... so they could be evil.
So... 'nuff said about Google.
...and yes I do know that Google owns blogger.com, but hey, if they can be evil, why can't I, use them?
Now I am reading that they want self driving semi-trucks on the road too? Um... No.
Just no.
I don't want to be on the road with them. If that happens I will stop driving.
It cannot be allowed to happen.
I am a software engineer. I have been for over 30 years. I would never, ever trust a computer to drive me anywhere and neither should you.
When these things make decisions for us in emergencies and mount the pavement and kill five people who do you think is responsible? The automaker? No. You are. You will go to jail for the rest of your life for sitting quietly inside the vehicle and not taking action.
And what about bad weather? We can't even get people to handle half an inch of snow in the southern states without massive pileups.
Again, this is a very bad idea that needs to go away. Stop it. Make it stop!
Please! This time think before people die!
I am not kidding!
Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay
I don't always know where my Super Negativity (SN) comes from.
Well, okay, I DO know. My ever-present super negative Mom and super negative Dad installed all my super negative buttons early on ---and pressed all of them too!
So when I see a headline in my news feed like this:
"Florida woman attacked by bear while walking dog says she's 'lucky to be alive'"
My first thought there was... lucky to be alive, huh?
...well?
...maybe not.
How do we know that is the case?
It could be that we are all very unlucky that it didn't kill her. Maybe she's a puppy-killing, bible-thumping mask-protesting, anti-vaxxer who needs to go and the entire world would be so much better without her.
Of course I don't know her, maybe she's a sunshine blaring, birds singing, hero of humanity and her death would have been a serious, marvel movie, time-line altering, tragedy for the universe.
Makes you think, tho. Exactly how important is any one person? No one can ever really know.
I think if what she said was, I am "happy" to be alive, not "lucky", it would not have triggered my SN buttons.
"How the global chip shortage is boosting US manufacturing"
Wait. You mean the country that doesn't make anything, started making something and that was... good? No!? Say it isn't so!
"Amazon is betting you're tired of buying clothes on Amazon."
I have never (and will never) buy clothes on Amazon.
Amazon is Evil. Google is wicked Evil. Walmart... pure Evil.
All massive corporations are Evil.
Unchecked Capitalism leads to casually dismissed, human and animal tragedies every single day.
"5G vs. airline safety: This is why we have a government"
Why we have governments is to help people. In reality, however, governments don't help anyone.
They gladly depopulate any area to further the twisted logic of whomever is in power.
Always remember that democracy is four wolves and one sheep deciding what's for dinner.
"5 ways to save 10 percent on your home energy bills."
Easy. Use ten percent less energy. Buy candles, ditch your time-soul-power sucking mobile phone, your game console, your big screen tv and super deep Fridge.
You'll probably live a longer and happier life without those things, too.
That's all from Super Negative Central. Now back to you...
There are things that, for me at least, are just NOT news.
Novak Djokovic: Is not news for me and a few articles in my news feeds is fine, but enough already, time to let it go. Stop it. I don't care.
Britney Spears Conservatorship: So glad its over (!), can we never hear about it again? That would be great. Thanks.
Anything related to that fool Trump. Anytime I see a photo in the news feeds I think to myself the article is (or should be): This just in! Trump: Still an Asshole. End of article. Really I literally say that out loud when I see him in pictures in my feeds. I can't help myself.
The problem is any idiot can type up of a story without any facts and sell it online to any news feed they like --for cash. New feeds want to fill empty holes on the screens, I get that, but there used to be integrity and focus in the news stories that got published and read, now, its all a huge mess like most things in the USA.
And please stop picking photos that have nothing to do with the article! I recently saw a story on something the NY Governor said, with a photo captioned something like: "People walk down a lane in California," which is just plain stupid and ridiculous.
So I shot my wad and bitched, but do I offer a solution to my problem? Sure do. Provide me a list that I can add to, to block articles containing certain keywords. Does anyone do this? No, because that would make too much sense for an end-user. Note that I said end-user, not advertiser. I get it, Money is all that matters, ...but it never should be.
Ignore these keywords, is just the sort of power-tool I'd like, maybe you would too?
