It has been ages since I last posted. Over that time, we have had a pandemic, a lockdown, Ahmad Arberry/Brionna Taylor/George Floyd, protests/riots/looting/burning/murders, the rise of BLM (Burning, Looting, Murdering), and a whole lot of political stuff. Wars and rumors of wars, indeed.
On the personal front, I have been busy making YouTube videos and just started a podcast.
On the Gaming front, I am still playing Vega Conflict, but I recently came across a new game that just started up, called Eve Echoes, which went live a few days ago. It is effectively a port of the PC game Eve Online. It makes Vega look amateur. More on that later.
*Warning* Along with a fountain of tears, this video contains copious foul language.
Let’s break this cryfest down, shall we?
0:25 “I am nothing without my following“. Math tip: Nothing plus one hundred thousand followers on Social Media equals… nothing.
0:43 “You are ruining my life because I make all of my money online” Plain English translation: “I found a nice little earner flashing my bits on Social Media for cash and prizes. But now the party is over, I had no plan and no backup. And it’s your fault“
0:55 “The 90%ers, the people that work 9 to 5, that is not me. I am in LA to not be like that” = I’m better than you.
1:00 “I have worked soooo hard…” …shaking my bits on social media for cash and prizes.
1:15 “People come after me for no reason and it hurts“. They all had a reason, you just don’t know what that reason is. Perhaps the Internet is not the place for you.
1:20 “This is my life” = I have no life.
2:15 “Nobody loves me. I only have three friends in the world who have not backstabbed me” …yet.
2:35 “I have no skills, and $20,000 in debt from college…” So what did you learn at college? Why was it not useful?
3:05: “I used to work at McDonald’s before I did YouTube, Instagram, before I had 100,000 followers, before I had everything in my life, I was a loser…” So people who work at McDonald’s are losers, and people who place their value in the number of followers on Social Media have everything. Riiiight…
3:09 “I have no job qualifications. I could never work a normal job. I am worthless. I bring nothing to the table. I am not work material. I will never be work material. So stop reporting me…” BOOM. There it is.
Dear Jessy,
I have no beef with you. I don’t even have an Instagram account. I am not laughing at you, but I am not about to give you sympathy either.
By your own admission, you have no value outside of flashing your bits on Social Media for fun and profit, and good luck to you if you can make a living doing that. But deep down, you must know that the youth and beauty that brings in clicks, eyeballs, and dollars only lasts for so long. The party will not last forever. It never does. And when it does, you will have about fifty years to think about it. So start making yourself useful.
The fact that you have no skills outside of Instagram is telling. But you don’t have a hater problem, and you don’t have an Instagram problem. You have a *you* problem.
I have always hated New Year’s Resolutions. Nobody I know ever keeps them.
Over the past few months, however, I have been thinking about what people say, and how they say it.
It seems that more and more, people are afraid to say what they are really thinking; all too often, we say something else to “be nice”
Enough Already
My new year’s Resolution is to Speak Plainly. To be direct and to the point. I’m done with Safe Spaces. I’m done with tiptoeing around the faint of heart.
From here on out, I will call things what they are and say what I mean. This may mean using unkind-but-true words like “Ugly” and “Fat”.
I know some people will get offended, but Confucius he say:
When I was growing up, he was James Bond. Sean Connery may have been “Bond as I envisaged him“, according to Ian Fleming, but Roger Moore’s portrayal was… well, fun. His laconic demeanor and deadpan delivery informed my own sense of humour.
You know that you are getting old when the icons of your youth are dropping like flies. Freddie, Michael, Whitney, Madonna*, Prince, George… and now Roger.
*She’s still around? Guess there is no justice in the Universe.
Six Quick and Easy Reforms to Lower the Cost of Healthcare
Make all medically-necessary health expenses fully tax-deductible: Abolish the 10% AGI requirement. Do away with Health Tax Shelters such as FSAs and HSAs. Who loses: the Government and the banks. Who wins: Everybody else.
Get rid of “sweetheart deals” that benefit only Insurance companies: All this “in-network” and “out of network” rubbish need to stop. Once upon a time, insured people paid full price so that the uninsured could get healthcare at zero or low cost. Then the Insurance Companies made a grab for the money that was left on the table. Providers were offered lower, fixed rates with insurance companies. Insurance companies need to pay the same as everybody else. Who loses: Insurance companies. Who wins: Everybody else.
Allow providers to negotiate discounts: Under current Medicare Law, it is illegal for a Provider to offer you a discount. Who loses: The Government and Insurance companies. Who wins: Everybody else.
Require Insurance companies to settle bills immediately: Medical care is the only area where you have no idea what it will cost you until you get a bill, weeks, often months, later. When you go to the pharmacy, you know how much your drugs will cost before you leave. A similar system needs to be implemented for medical care. Who loses: Insurance companies Who wins: Everybody else.
Menu Pricing: Customers have a right to know the cost wherever possible, and shop around if necessary. Who loses: Doctors. Who wins: Everybody else.
Discourage frivolous malpractice lawsuits. The way things stand, Doctors have to pay thousands of dollars a month. That pushes up the cost for everyone. Who loses: Lawyers and folks who want to sue for malpractice. Who wins: Everybody else.
I don’t watch much TV, but once in a while I blunder into an episode of Judge Judy. I find this program both amusing and somewhat saddening; almost all of the “cases” that come before the judge seem to fall into one of several common categories. It seems to me that most of those folks would have avoided this unfortunate predicament by following the following rules.
Do not live with someone without being married to them.
Do not get pregnant outside of wedlock.
Do not lend money. Shakespeare was right: “Neither a borrower nor a lender be”. If you can afford it, give it to them – but do not lend.
Clear Communication: If you are lending or selling something to someone, communicate that clearly and get it in writing that they understand this. If you don’t have it in writing, you gave it to them.
You are not her ATM! Guys, do not spend money on a girl you are not in a serious relationship with. Most girls *will* string you along with vague promises of future delights, and will drop you like a hot brick as soon as the money runs out. Because. They. Can. If you are already in this situation, test her with a financial crisis that removes your ability to give her money and see what she does.
Guys, stay away from single mothers. There are all kinds of very good and sensible reasons for this, which I am not going to go into here. Just. Don’t. Do. It.
My first job out of college was working for a UK-based Defence Contractor, where I was involved in a very small way in the development of Avionics for the Experimental Aircraft Programme (EAP), a technology demonstrator for the Eurofighter Typhoon.
“We worked all hours, we could be in until midnight and then back in at 6.30am, it was hard work but it was satisfying. You knew you were at the start of something really special, what we created was the forefather of the next generation of flight“
This one goes out to my posse. You know who you are.
Wooderson’s Law: all straight men are attracted to twenty-year-old women. God designed young women’s bodies to be extraordinarily attractive to men of all ages. This is a feature, not a bug.
Women are generally attracted to tall, strong men who project confidence, status and power. This is also a feature – and explains why thugs, rappers and gangsters, and billionaires have beautiful girlfriends and politicians have beautiful mistresses.
As much as women wish that it were not so, the ten-point scale is real. Most women in the western world honestly believe that they rank two points higher than they actually are.
“There are no ugly women, but there are plenty of lazy ones”.
Women are not attracted to men they don’t respect.
The average man thinks the average woman is average. The average woman thinks the average man is… unattractive.
Nice guys finish last; don’t be one. Be bold, be brave, be confident… but don’t be nice.
Attractive women are swimming in male attention. their best strategy is to ignore as many men as possible, which explains the increasingly-popular headphones-and-straight-ahead-stare, which seems to affect most of the attractive ones… and way too many of the not-so-attractive-but-delusional ones as well.
Women need two things from men; seed and provision. Rarely are the two qualities found in the same man.
Most Western women are either bored or overstimulated, which may explain their continuous need for drama.
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