Music Video wisdom

Love conquers all

Love means nothing

Annoying Bahamut ends badly
   (Final Fantasy series in general)

Annoying Alexander, especially if you're Bahamut, ends exceedingly badly
    (Final Fantasy 9.  Castle spirit summoned to itself being annoyed, ends badly for the aggressor.)

Wearing big flags on your back makes you look really cool
  (Master Blaster... one of those videos... hard to nail down)

Time compression is not noticed at the time, and possibly never.

How are you doing?

So many people ask the question, "How are you doing?" that any thinking person has a number of canned retorts to respond to this.

One of my standard retorts is, "I think I'll live." which may be followed up, depending on receiver with, "I'm not sure how to feel about that." (or very similar)

The purpose of this interaction with people is twofold.  I am dark. This is probably immutable.  In spite of this, I can and do humor humor.


Big afterthought:
I was going to add parenthetical things to clarify points. I chose not to because people that could be confused by my minor points or wit would be confused in general.  Even trying to help them find the general direction of "up" would be a challenge.  So, I left my thoughts mostly as-is.

Nepotism

In general, nepotism seems to be loathed. The reasoning for this used to be logical. But after additional scrutiny, there does seem to be some very good reasons for nepotism to occur.

You'd be amazed at how many unloyal people there are within your family. You should also be amazed at how many unloyal people there are outside of your family.

What should really disturb people is how many people think that government owns your business because government owns everything and thus knows you owe them a job. Never mind that they are unloyal to friends, family, and father big government... Or mother, or whatever.

Permanent stupidity

Stephen Crowder said something like this in one of his clips.  I take no credit for the original thoughts from which I went even moreso.



The left and most of the media (I admit there may be significant redundancy there) seem to be constitutionally (by their constitution, for clarity) unable to get out of their own way.

Trump is not a great person.  This is obvious to anyone that is paying a shred of attention.

The left are, on the other hand, trying like hell to make him look foolish, evil, etc. In doing this, the left forcibly magnify themselves to no good end.  Instead of talking about what Trump may or may not have done or may or may not have said, the annoyance of people with the left just continues unbounded because the left just keep adding fuel to the fire instead of just SHUTTING THE FUCK UP.  But the left just doesn't comprehend it because its members can't (constitutionally unable, remember).  So instead of proper criticism of the president occurring as it should, all the hate is being directed where it should, which is to say media/"journalists"/leftists.

The empty can (the left and their ilk in media/"journalism") rattles the most.  Until said can starts to fill (wisdom/knowledge is a good start) or the can chooses to not rattle, [the rattling can] and not [the attempted message of the rattling can] will get the attention (contempt) and be ignored or hated, rightfully so.

Employment

Let me start with a trick question.

Are there currently enough jobs for everyone to be employed?  (hint: It's a trick question)

If you answer Yes or No, you've fallen for the bait and gotten it wrong.

When government, be that global, national, regional, or local, get out of the way of people to fairly trade goods and services with each other as they see fit, there don't need to be "enough jobs".

If every person expects to have some job provided for them, they are robbed of the freedom and creativity to look around and say, "Hey.  People would be better off if they could use widgets.  Maybe I should make and sell widgets." or, "Hey, that guy's lawn is thick.  Maybe he'd be interested in paying me to trim it for him." etcetera, so on, so forth.

Yes, within this analysis and creativity, there is plenty of room for someone to take the step further and say, "You know, I could hire others to do what I'm doing and we would mutually benefit. They would gain my reputation and I would get some part of the profits from their efforts."  THIS is the essence of what employment is (in the form of jobs).

When government starts "creating jobs" it is only because they are capable of extorting the money for said jobs from people that are actually producing something (a good or service). And you can bet your bottom dollar (and that's always the one the government wants, isn't it?) that the "job" they create will employ the least of the competent to do something that nobody wanted done in the first place.  

Did I recently hear about openings for dangerous furniture inspectors, or did I just nightmare that? 

Ghandi reconsidered

Once, I thought that Ghandi had screwed up the math about how to deal with the tyrannical regime with which he was dealing.

My thinking has shifted slightly and I'm thinking that he may not have been wrong.  

Some "leaders" (managers, "representatives", senators, so on) under whose authority we are currently placed are clearly oblivious to how hated they are.  This is unsurprising when it is considered from the outside and it is obvious that the mindless or misinformed followers of said "leaders" create an echo chamber where the "leaders" only hear what they want and never hear ... truth.  

This is systemic of tyrants...  I could call some out by name, but it would never get through their echo chamber or even cause them even a moment's pause if it did get to them.

In the end, I think that Ghandi's actions had little to no direct effect on the actual leaders he was trying to identify or the evils he was trying to point out.  I think his actions worked more indirectly by assisting others to realize the evils (both policy and persons) that were very wrongfully being permitted to continue.

Unrequested "corrections"

Google is great (and I say that without reservation) at pointing out possible typos or alternate spellings for things that I may have gotten wrong.

But, there are SO MANY times that I have spelled something perfectly where some stupid recommendation comes up for something else, like "to" to "too" or whatever.  But, the recommendation lingers there in spite of the correct results being listed, and there is no link or button or something for, "Yes, I typed it right.  Leave it alone."  type of button or link or whatever.

Yes. Sometimes I type things wrong.  Or things are transcribed wrong (that's also on Google if the transcribing agent is not considering context, in most cases) so the results are off.  And I will choose to click/tap/whatever the correction.  But, especially from non-mobile devices, I am not a twit and I will not type like a twit.  When I type, it is generally purposeful.  If I type and whatever algorithm thinks I made an error, recommend the fix, but also include an option for, "No, I didn't make a mistake. Adapt thyself."

Are you sure you didn't mean "too" instead of "to"?  No.  Google should know me better. (or from prolonged sneaky experience with me with and without my knowledge, Google should)  So, give me an option for "Your recommendation is a failure."

I would hope that enough "idiot links" (as I call them), unclicked would cause said links to expire eventually.  But with the quantity of idiots growing daily, I can't count on that.  I would just hope that Google can distinguish between idiots and not (if Google is not capable to the task, then the task is failed permanently) and at least offer "No. I intended what I typed." links/buttons for people that appear to have some wisdom.

Labels

Labels tend to have meanings, typically of a categorical context.  It's a necessity.  A tomato isn't an apple, and suchlike.

Unfortunately, some legislatures and worse some judicial branches have started valueless-ing some categories, essentially refusing to accept real-life categories.  The value of being a real woman (created via nature) or real man (same) as opposed to a fabricated woman (whatever creator you choose or un-choose to believe in made you such) or fabricated man (whatever) come to mind.  What you choose to pretend to be... is whatever it is.  You pretend successfully, I'll probably ignore you because you pretend well. 

Let's intentionally include the man that pretends to be female and doesn't creep out the other girls (or hit on them) in the girl's room or the woman that pretends to be a man and doesn't creep out the other boys (or hit on them) in the boy's room.  Fine.  Whatever.
Let's intentionally preinclude the people that have had "reassignment" ... whatever that actually means as far as nature and GOD are concerned.  If you "fake the funk" as a what your pretend to be, and people don't "detect" it, success.

I'm friggin' tired of having to address people in ambiguous ways because they may choose to interpret things wrong.  If you're a guy or you look like a guy, I'll call you "sir" or (less likely) dude, or guy.  That should not EVER be considered an insult.  Same for a (what looks like woman) being called "ma'am" or equivalents.  Being forced to use sex-less pronouns will get tired fast (with reason, because they make no sense).

If sex-less-ness is forced upon service locations, I can bet that service will suffer and those that provide service will quit because [humanoid phallic organs] (of the unpleasant variety) (regardless of gender or sex) are acting like [humanoid phallic organs] (of the unpleasant variety).  Was that confusing?  Blame the dicks (of both sexes/genders).

I've tried to be civil, but they (as a monolithic community) seem to nationally refuse to be.  Instead of asking to be tolerated, and tolerating "oopses", they distolerate anything even slightly resembling an error. 

So, in general, I ignore them and resort to silence.  As a busser, I guess that's a perk.

Tides prove GOD

Suppose you live on a planet on which there are three primary states.

Suppose on this planet that the states of said things are solid, liquid, and gas.

Now, suppose that there is this thing that happens to have a gravitic effect (student homework) on things on the planet you're on, and it happens to orbit the planet you're on.  It pulls things on the planet to itself, but weakly.  Gas seems to not care and solid really seems to not care.  But liquid seems to really like being played with, so it plays along.  Things like tides happen.

Without a GOD to make all this happen, how does any of this make any sense?  I expect a number of atheists to have any number of reasons (all nonsense) for why this is, but I'm interested to hear from others.

Meh

Cost increases of "medical" things are a cross-junct of insurance (a bet against oneself) and governmental control.  People that are "suffering" from over-cost drugs because of choices they intentionally made (supporting insurance or government involvement) brook no sympathy from me.  They chose their bed.  Now they have to slumber in it.

If insurance hadn't been a thing, there would be no problem.  If government intervention hadn't happened because insurance had gone wrong, there would (again) not be a problem.  That people are unhappy because X caused Y and then Y (because some clueless people didn't realize their cluelessness) caused Z, I care not.  Or more precisely, I'm hateful of the people that caused X, Y, and Z, because they should have known better.  They or their parents or grand parents (etc) chose this and the choice was made to not fix it and complain about it instead. (most often in the form of government intervention)
I choose to refuse to care.  If your default reaction is to choose to get government involved instead of dealing with things yourself, I choose to refuse to care about you.

If government is your god, then as a human, I have no reason whatsoever to humor you because you're worshiping a false god.

Some people seem confused why I'm so cold and distant from their "problems" and they don't understand why I don't care.  The obvious causality of it seems to miss them entirely.  Meh.