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Proof at last of what I've been saying for years was going to happen. Stupid people with their "emotional support animals." No, Karen, that is called a pet. You don't have an "emotional support animal," you have a pet. "Oh I need it because I have anxiety" "I need it because I'm autistic." No you fvcking don't, Karen. Stop claiming your pet as a service animal! You're ruining things for people who actually need legitimate, trained service animals, and that link is proof! Leave your pet at home where it belongs and stop making life more difficult for actually disabled people who have legitimate needs!
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Why is it that none of these grocery stores teaches their baggers how to do their job? And why is it that none of the people they hire as baggers has enough brains to figure out you don't put heavy stuff on top of bread and you don't put hot deli stuff in with ice cream? It's like these places go out of their way to hire the biggest morons in the world as baggers! It's to the point I'm tempted to start saying, "No, I'll bag it myself because none of the baggers these places hire has enough brains to fill a walnut shell."
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Yet again had some random nutbag try to talk to me at the bus stop today. Why is it I can't ever fucking go anywhere or do anything without annoying people trying to talk with me? I already have resting b*tch face and I stare at my phone with headphones on; I already glare and mutter and growl whenever these freaks talk to me. How much more of a "FUCK THE FUCK OFF" vibe do I have to project to get these assholes to leave me the fuck alone? Do I have to actually say the literal words "GO FUCK YOURSELF, CREEP!" for these dipshits to get the message? I really want to do that, every time, but the rest of us in the body are scared of confrontation, scared of somebody hurting us. But fuck it, my patience for this bullshit is holding on by a fraying thread.
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Just like many Christians, the majority of vegans desperately want to believe they're being oppressed, they want to force other people to eat their stupid cult diet, they condemn and bully people who don't belong to their stupid cult, they pop up constantly being annoying as frick with their "holier than thou" attitude, you can't reason with them because they don't give a fig about facts (and so having any kind of disagreement with them is like playing chess with a pigeon), and also they're all massive hypocrites (pretending they care about animals and the environment and then turning around and eating vegan products that are worse for both than meat, such as arugala, agave, and avocados; also they don't care about human suffering from the exploitation of workers or the myriad people murdered for the avocado cartels in Mexico. Oh and there's everything PETA gets up to).

Honestly the only difference is they don't have any actual power yet, unlike the Christians. (And I hope to Satan it stays that way!) But on a purely personal level they're far more annoying because they infest my life almost more than Christians do. If Christians are lice, vegans are bedbugs.
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So there was this Boomer meme where they were like "Before GPS, we had to ask directions." This was my response:

Yes, and before lighters, you had to rub two sticks together, or hit a piece of flint against some metal. Asking directions has always been a total PITA. I dunno about the rest of you, but I can never decipher anyone else's directions because I can't even see the road names usually, I have no idea which way is north etc, I have no idea how to measure a mile, blocks are all different sizes in all the cities I've been in, and the things I notice as landmarks and the things other people count as landmarks are very different. I just don't view the world the same way most people do, I guess.

I also suck at GIVING directions, for many of the same reasons. If giving directions to someone like myself, I would measure distance in walking time, point out landmarks like "the tree that looks like it's judging everyone who walks by it," use only right/left/forward/back instead of the compass directions, say things like "turn left onto the street where there's a purple house a couple houses down, walk five minutes, then turn left again at the flower mural on the street." I end up spending so much time trying to convert my system to something they can understand that they usually give up or someone else steps in. And gods forbid I need to give directions to someone in a car.
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I hate my body. Got a headache, while my stomach has been uncomfortable for reasons I can't pin down. It's better now than it was before, but I don't know why. Sure, I ate something, but just a couple pickles and some diet Dr. Shasta. When I ate a mini pizza earlier, that made it worse.

And while I'd normally be sleeping off my headache, I can't because I tried that and my teeth kept clacking together sharply no matter what I tried to do to stop it. At one point it happened so hard I was briefly convinced I'd chipped a tooth.

I really truly hate this piece of shit body, and I want to get it exchanged for one that actually works well.
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I dislike the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Who are they? Well look at the picture:

Under the cut for size and caulrophobia/clowns trigger warning. )

Now, I am bisexual and genderqueer, so the reason I dislike them isn't the drag getup or homophobia or anything like that. I dislike them because, as you can see from the photo, they look like clowns.

I am scared of clowns. Not as scared of clowns as I am of cops, but having these fuckers at an event is like having clowns or cops or cop-clowns at an event. My attention keeps getting drawn to them, mainly so I know where they are in case they attack and I have to defend myself, and when I’m not looking at them, I’m looking for the exits in case I have to flee.

I bring this all up because they were at a memorial event for the Transgender Day of Remembrance at the Unitarian Universalist church on Sunday. They were there, in their full drag-clown glory. These clown abominations were there, at a somber event dedicated to remembering the deaths of transgender people from violence this past year. That’s like bringing... well, it’s like bringing circus clowns to a funeral. Caulrophobia aside, who thought it was a good idea to invite literal clowns to a memorial? I genuinely want to know, so I can yell at them about it.

What’s even more annoying, their name is fucking cool. Why and how did clowns get such a cool name? It sounds more suited to a Satanic nunnery.

SILENCE!

Jan. 26th, 2016 06:47 pm
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I really, really, truly loathe and despise the tendency of people in this society to fill their spaces with noise (shitty music, especially).
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Google Maps has changed again, and has become even more difficult to use than it was the last several times they changed it. It's almost useless now, in fact. Honestly, I don't know what it is about neurotypicals that makes them insist on "fixing" things that weren't broken, making them useless or nearly so in the attempt. They also have a tendency to not fix the things that ARE broken. *Gives Tumblr staff a significant look.*

I mean really, all they're doing is alienating their users, driving away people who either knew how to use the interface before and now don't anymore, or never got a chance to learn because they keep changing shit too fast for people to keep up with the changes. They might as well not bother to even pretend to give a shit about being useful to anyone!

If the world were run by aspies, websites would be designed to work well, the site layout would remain unchanged (except for unobtrusive additions to functionality), and complaints would be taken seriously. If aspies ran the world, store layouts would remain the same, changing only for holiday stock to be added or removed; you would always know where to find things because they wouldn't move around for no good reason. And the world would be a lot quieter, because goddamn are neurotypicals noisy as fuck or what? Yeesh.
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There's a guy outside the Starbuck's I'm in right now, who is holding a sign saying "Weed is legal, discrimination is not." Every time someone enters or exits the building, he shouts "(Garbled) is not okay!" With this, I have just enough information to know that whatever the fuck he's protesting, he's a fucking asshole who needs to go away, and I'm frankly astonished that the employees of Starbuck's haven't called the cops on this fuckhead.

I keep vacillating between the desire to tell him that nobody can fucking understand what he's saying well enough to have clue one what his damned problem is, and telling him to go fuck himself.

Him: "(Garbled) is not okay!"
Me: "Yeah, well neither is standing outside a business shouting incoherent gibberish like a dogfucker for no damned good reason either, yet here you are, doing precisely that."

EDIT: My hypothesis on his issue is that he tried smoking weed in or near the building and got kicked out for it. Which, if true, is doubly stupid because Starbuck's is a no-smoking business. In fact, I don't think it's legal to smoke ANYTHING inside a public building in Portland.
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I have IBS, and I've been reading into things that can cause problems for IBS sufferers, because I have fairly chronic soft stool and I can't figure out what's doing it, if anything. Anyway, I read recently that wheat products can contribute to IBS problems, so I've been trying to cut down on wheat, by getting stuff like rice noodles, to see if wheat is problem-causing for me.

Well one of those ways I tried was by looking into alternative breads. Things I've seen before and never tried, like potato bread and rye bread. Only, I read the ingredients and what is the first fucking thing listed on potato bread, oat bread, and rye bread? Fucking WHEAT. What the bloody fuck? Why call it potato bread if it isn't made of potato flour? Why call it oat bread if you aren't using oat flour? And how the ever-loving fuck do you legally get away with calling something rye bread when it's mostly wheat???

And then of course, the worst part is that the only breads I could find that didn't have wheat in them are the super-expensive gluten free breads. Who the fuck spends $8 on a loaf of bread if they don't absolutely need it? And why, with all the "gluten free" craze, are these things so expensive? Why are they so expensive to begin with? How fucking hard can it be to make bread out of oat flour, or rye flour, or even rice flour? It's all fucking flour! Why do people accept these blatant rip-offs?
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I have been seeing a marked increase in bad drivers the past couple weeks, especially the idiots who pull up into the pedestrian walkway area. One guy's car was not only blocking it entirely, but was too far into the intersection anyway.

I think the laws should be changed so that anyone with a driver's license has to pass a written test once a year, either in person at the DMV or online, in order to keep their license. If they fail the test, their license is suspended until they pass their second attempt. If they fail the second attempt, they are required to take both a written test AND a driving test, to get their license back.

Even if people cheated on the online version, they would at least have to look up the answers and thus would be reminded of the rules, which would really be the point of the yearly test. (Well, that and weeding out bad drivers.) And I think the test should look for the same answers for some rules, but the questions worded differently each time, so they either have to look up the answer multiple times, or use their brain for more than holding their ears apart.

Yeah, this should be the new system.
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After having gotten on LiveJournal and it again, for the thousandth damned time, forgetting that I hate its fucking new layout (honestly, no matter how many times I switch back to the old layout, that never fucking STICKS), I got frustrated and sent them this feedback:

"There is literally nothing at all good about your new layout. It is horrible, it sucks, it makes me want to never use LJ again. Please change it back to how it was, because everything about the new layout makes me want to vomit."
 
Their reply:

"Thank you for your inquiry. You can switch back to the old version by following the instructions below.

When viewing any system page that shows the standard blue header banner (such as the home page), click on the "?" speech bubble icon to the right of the Post New Entry link at the right side of the blue header banner.

A dialog box will appear with information about the redesign -- at the bottom of that dialog, there is a 'Switch back to old version' link you can use to return to the previous version. An image of this dialog box can be seen at http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/markf/1314111/44151/44151_original.jpg."
 
Me again:

"I am aware of that. However, there's something in your code so that every time I turn off my computer and turn it on again and get back on LJ, it's back to the new BS layout and I have to select the old one all over again. If something triggers me to vomit, I want to get rid of it permanently, so I don't have to fight my gorge every damned time I log on to the Internet. Something in your code is messed up that makes the site forget that I would sooner eat baby shite than look at your new layout.

I can guarantee you that the only people who like your new layout are from Stepford, and they'd still be happy if you doused them in gasoline and lit them on fire."
 
We shall see where it goes from here.
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Copied from my Tumblr.

The fact of the matter is, I agree with the vegans on a lot of points, like factory farms suck, which is why I was a vegetarian myself for 10 years. But the lack of any coherent logic, the bleeding-heart childish personification of creatures that are not human no matter how hard you want them to be, and the general fucking preachiness of most vegans really pisses me off so much that even when I was a vegetarian myself I couldn't stand most other vegetarians, and I can't recall a single vegan I could tolerate. I cannot tolerate people who go about proselytizing their fucking cult, no matter what their beliefs, no matter how much I agree. I couldn't abide most vegetarians and vegans when I was a vegetarian, I couldn't stand most atheists when I was an atheist myself, I had low tolerance for most LaVeyan Satanists when I was one myself, and someone could agree with me 100% on pretty much everything I think, but if they were even half as annoying as most vegans, I would unfriend them/unfollow them in a heartbeat.

Yeah, I kvetch on my blog, and I tag things. But I'm not forcing anyone to read my blog. If they wanna go trolling through the tags, they have nobody to blame but themselves for reading what's on my blog. They could choose not to reply. It's not like I go around looking for idiots to get in fights with; I only bitch about/because of the idiots that wander into my personal sphere on their own.

I am reminded of one of the tenets of Satanism: do not complain about that which you need not subject yourself. Vegans could do to start living by that maxim.
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I don't like The Beatles. I never did. I used to think it was just because it was played to death and then the dead horses continued to be flogged until now, we have the sound of flogger leather hitting dried bones. And that's part of it. But I just realized, The Beatles were the Justin Bieber of their day. Their music is catchy, yes, but have you ever listened to the lyrics? It's not much better than Justin Bieber's stuff.
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So a week or so back, I saw on Tumblr a post about H.P. Lovecraft having been a racist, and an unusually vocal one for his time. I may have even reblogged it, I dunno.

I was thinking about that post again today, and remembering how it was calling for a boycott of Lovecraft’s works because of it.

Um… my basic thought to this is what would be the point of that? I mean, it’s not like the guy is still alive and making money off his works. He’s dead! He’s been dead so long that his writings are all in the public domain! And as far as I know of, his estate is not making any money off sales of his books and even if they were, his estate is not promoting or funding racism in any way. Also, from what I read on Wikipedia, he only ever expressed his racist views in essays and letters, and how many people read that kind of shit? It’s his short stories and books that are still being read by everyone, and there’s nothing that says his views ever made it to his stories. So how is his racism even relevant? And what purpose would be served by boycotting him? HE’S DEAD. LONG dead.

If it was someone like Orson Scott Card who is actively and vocally a raging homophobic shit stain on the cum-rag of the planet, someone profiting and using their fame and profit as a soapbox for their bullshit, I could understand it; I will not give that motherfucker any money nor read his shitty books. But how many people knew Lovecraft was racist before reading that Tumblr post? And how many people read his essays? I sure as hell didn’t know until that Tumblr post.

Besides which, if people boycotted every author that ever had an opinion that was offensive, there would be fuck all left to read. Me, I hate extremist Christians, but if I boycotted all Christian authors, I’d have very little to read. I also hate extremist atheists, too, like Richard “Dickhead” Dawkins, but I’d be stupid to boycott all atheist authors. And I am opposed to the Sex Offender Registry because it does more harm than good and because why should we have an SRO if we don’t have a registry for murderers? I mean, murder is a far worse crime than rape! Rape you can survive, murder - by definition - you cannot. But should I boycott everyone who disagrees with me? Of course not.

But yeah, some may shout about false equivalence there, but seriously, all those things I mentioned above are actively hurting people just as much as racism is: the SRO is filled mostly with people who have done nothing more harmful than drunken pissing in bushes, and often far less. Extremism of all forms alienates a lot of people and actively hurts others when the extremists start acting (often violently) on their extremist views. So yeah, I don’t think it’s a mistake to say those things go in the same kind of “harmful” category as racism.

Oh, and like I said, if it was someone alive and actively using their fame to spread their fucked-up ideas (like Orson Scott Card, Dick Dawkins, or John Boehner), I would understand it. I would also understand boycotting someone whose fame was caused by their racism (like Adolf Hitler), and/or whose writing were nothing but racist/homophobic/sexist garbage (also like Hitler). Or if someone is famous for something that they actually sucked big-time at, like how Carl Sagan is this famous scientist but he kept stepping out of his particular scientific speciality like he was Mr. Omniscient Science Man but in reality got most of his so-called “facts” terribly, horribly wrong, and was a fucking extremist skeptic to boot, then yeah, boycotting is good.

But someone long dead whose only racist comments are in obscure essays and letters? Someone whose racism does not seem to have informed his fiction writing, or at least not marred the beauty of his works? My basic comment to that is this: if you’re going to stroke your rage boner over something so ancient and irrelevant, please do it in private.
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I got more of those annoying email invites for some site called Boxbe. I don't know or care what this site is.

I have never, in my entire history online, ever joined a site by someone's email/Facebook invitation and I doubt I ever will. When I join a site it is because I have my own reasons to. I only joined Twitter after lots of foot-dragging because, at the time, I needed a way to aggregate links I was sharing onto my LJ; that's pretty much all I use it for still, except occasional visits to the Night Vale Twitter account. I only joined Tumblr, too, after lots of foot dragging, because there were so very many cool things being linked from there. I only joined Facebook for the games it has.

If I've never heard of a site, I might look at it once, and might join if it sounds interesting or useful. If it's popular, I'm likely to resist joining the bandwagon for as long as possible, because by nature I just don't like bandwagons. And I add pretty much any site I get email invites about to my "never in a million years" list. So inviting me to sites does the opposite of enticing me.

After months and months of it being popular, I still have not joined Pinterest. I have basically told Google Plus to fuck off. I'm more likely to grow horns than join Instagram. And the sun will likely grow cold before I join any of those websites that broadcast your location for everyone and their grandmother to see. Hell, I only joined the Soup.io bandwagon because Yahoo bought Tumblr, and Yahoo has this nasty reputation for censoring stuff that isn't "family friendly." Apparently, though I've not logged in for months, my Soup is still importing from Tumblr. :-)

So don't ever email invite me to any website. I don't care how cool you think it is, I have my own ideas about why to join things, and if I am going to join at all, it must be in my own time and for my own reasons.
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I was out and about a few days ago, and I watched this guy waste 5 minutes using a leaf blower on a mess that would have taken him 2 minutes or less to do if he'd used a broom instead.

Yes, you could fill a whole dictionary full of the things that piss me off. But leaf blowers are one of those. Who invented this pointless waste of electricity? What was so difficult about a broom that they felt they had to invent the leaf blower? And if you've ever seen someone use one, you quickly realize it's the least efficient tool ever not only in terms of electricity use, but also in terms of personal energy output. He worked at least twice as hard wasting his time with the leaf blower than he would have with a broom.

There is literally no use for a leaf blower that would not be better done with a broom. Think about it; you can't even use the leaf blower when the leaves are wet!

WTF?

Aug. 2nd, 2013 07:51 pm
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(I wrote this ages ago, but never posted it AFAIK.)

So just now, I was looking up the definition of entropy so I could figure out what the opposite of entropy is. One of the definitions said that entropy was the process that would, in a closed system, eventually lead said system to a state of inert uniformity. This made sense.

However, the third definition was "chaos, disorganization, randomness." Um, what? These two definitions contradict one another. "Inert uniformity" is the exact fucking OPPOSITE of chaos and randomness. What kind of idiots wrote this dictionary?

Anyway, I guess that answers my question, at least. The opposite of entropy is chaos.
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I am very pissed off. I got the eighth Harry Potter movie from the library because I've never seen it. Unlike number 7, it has unskippable ads and other bullshit before you get to menu. This is highly annoying, but what makes it worthy of my being pissed the fuck off, is that because of that, and because of scratches on the DVD, the DVD won't get past that crap.

Let me clarify: normally when a DVD skips, I just click to a part past that point, if the skipping gets so bad that it freezes up. Sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. But with the unsurpassable ad bullshit, you can't do anything at all if it skips during that part. All you can do is speed up the rate of play, which doesn't help. Now if this had happened on the DVD for movie #7, I could have right-clicked, hit the thing to get to the main menu, and then done “play” and gotten to see the movie, even if there were scratches in the pre-menu section.

So basically, because of their fucking HORSE SHIT ads that they force people to watch, the entire fucking DVD is unplayable. They've shot themselves in the foot, metaphorically speaking, and because of it I wish they would shoot themselves in the fucking mouths with a goddamned elephant gun.

And they wonder why so many people pirate movies these days. Well DUH, you fucking monkey-raping, maggot-infested, sewage-drinking, half-sentient talking human-shaped piles of cat shit and horse intestines: it's because people can ACTUALLY WATCH THE FUCKING MOVIE when it's pirated!

I think, from now on, I am not buying or renting from any company that pulls that bullshit, ever again.

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