Please correct me if I'm way off base here, but it looks to me like early adopters always get the short end of the stick. These days, the first in line for a product pays more in downtime and and frustration than latecomers because they act as free beta testers for the manufacturers and have significantly more trouble with hardware and software bo…
Skepticism
I made some new shit for the online store here, and I wanted to talk about the inspiration for it.
From early childhood, I've smelled something fishy. I've had many head injuries and lost some of my memory as a result, so I'm not really sure when my "awakening" was; I do however remember being defiant in elementary school. When I was in Kinder…
New Products!
Just a note, I set up an account at teespring.com to sell sarcastic shit and other things with my dogs' pictures on them (coming soon). Check it out here.
https://teespring.com/fine-2070?tsmac=store&tsmic=bh-warren&pid=658&cid=102908
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A Tale of Three Experts
It's anecdotal, but I think it illustrates an important principle in 2020, that of self-ownership.
Back in February, my dad was supposed to have surgery to repair torn muscle in his shoulder. As he's getting on in years, there were some concerns raised during his pre-surgery physical regarding his heart. He was told that his heart was not stron…
Consent
This is a topic I'm sure I'll revisit far too much, but it's very important to me. So is consistency, because I think it's lacking in a lot of people. Digression: If you have to redefine words, or add specific contexts to make a definition hold up, you have a massive problem with consistency of thought. If you need to tie yourself up in knots, den…
The Creep
This morning Milady and I were discussing current events and the topic turned to the current trend of pretty much everything being someone else's business. I blame politics, personally, and the expansion of political power to more and more mundane areas of life. After all, if the feds have an opinion as to the design of your toilet, can you really…
Are You Challenged?
Do you stay in a comfy bubble? Does anyone in your life strongly disagree with you about any major issues? Do you only accept opinions that are closely aligned with yours, and malign any that stray too far? If so, do you wonder why?
Maybe it's my personal history. I've been an individualist for literally as long as I can remember, and I say tha…
Fear and Political Power
What are you afraid of?
It doesn't really matter. Not that I'm callous and don't care about your fears, it's just that in a normal world I can't do anything about them, only you can. Because fear exists only in the mind of the person experiencing it. But here's where politics comes in and messes it all up; using the coercive power of government…
Musing on the Numbers
Let's start by pointing out that no one really knows:
How many cases there have been.
How many fatalities there have been.
How dangerous it is in the absence of underlying health conditions.
How long it's been in the wild.
Any of China's actual numbers.
If you claim to definitively know any of this then you are superhuman or a d…
No Accountability, Part 1
I don't like our political system. Its popular description as "the best system we've yet devised" seems like a cop out. It reminds me of a supremely bad manager I once had whose favorite phrase was "it is what it is". As an acknowledgement that a situation is beyond one's control I can't fault it; however, she used it synonymously with "I'm too la…