Month: October 2023

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Hmm, That’s interesting!

I updated my IOS and Apple Watch OS to the latest due to some security concerns.  Sigh!General iOS 17 Feature Orange Purple

Suddenly the weather functionality on my watch is all wonky. It’s obviously a bug. The weather info complications will work for a bit, then begin displaying “—“. They’ll still link to the actual weather application and that seems to be working just fine. 

Although in troubleshooting the issue I wiped all my saved locations. Not a big deal…

I thought it was a communication fault between my phone and watch, because I noticed the problem typically when I was outside and my phone was inside. Initially it looked like something not working when the watch was disconnecting from bluetooth. 

I was just about to flush the watch and start over. 

Then I thought, “Wait, I wonder if this is documented?”

It was, apparently Apple has introduced a bug as part of their updates to Weather. I’m glad I didn’t just wipe and restore my watch. The effort would have been pointless.

Busted software is busted software!

I’m wondering if Carrot Weather works, but then I’m not sure that I want to pay for another weather application. I really liked Dark Sky then Apple purchased the company. They did a pretty good job of merging the features of Dark Sky into the Apple weather app. But I’m now hesitant to spend on a subscription.

I have to say Carrot might be amusing because it apparently has a smart ass mode. That might be fun for a while.

Yes I can look outside and see the weather… But I like seeing a mini forecast like the expected high and low and what the probability of rain or snow is for a day or week. The complications on my watch face provide this information at a glance and while you wouldn’t think it would be missed, once you get used to it… you miss it a lot.

I miss it even in Southern California where the weather is boring in its sameness. If I lived in the Midwest or South I’d be losing my mind!

I also noticed another Bug in Apple Music on my phone. If you press the big, obvious, centrally located “Play” button it doesn’t change. There’s no indication that the album or playlist is actually playing. If the selection has a long quiet lead in you might find yourself pressing the play button repeatedly wondering what’s going on. What you’re doing, is restarting the playing selection over and over again.

User interface issues?

Come on Apple! You wrote the book on user interfaces. At least change the color of the button, change the symbol to the || symbol. Do something that tells the user their command has been accepted and is being executed.

Ive told you again and again… I’m happy to test your software. I keep applying for your open positions, I’m experienced, speak, read, and write English. I’m low maintenance! Just give me software and what specifications you have… I like testing software! I don’t need a special glitter covered desk or specialized bathroom designations. A simple workspace and the normal male symbol Malesym

Will do just fine. 

I’m being a little snarky because no matter how many applications I fill out with Apple, the deafening silence coming back from their HR department is a universal constant. Like Gravity.

Anyhow, off to fiddle with something else that needs fiddling with.

Have a good day

 

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I keep trying to write a non political blog post, but…

I keep running across reports out of Israel. 

My God! How can humans be that monstrous? Raping the women of your enemies is something that’s been going on for centuries so it’s not terribly surprising but I’d thought we’d gotten past that stage as a species.

Apparently I gave the human race more credit than it was due.

However, murdering infants? Decapitating them? Murdering women and children in their beds? That shit is vile beyond words. It also demonstrates what fucking cowards Hamas is. 

Their, Oh so Brave ‘Freedom Fighters’ killing unarmed people is wrong on so many levels that I find myself wanting to see Gaza leveled Indiscriminately. I find myself thinking “No Mercy, No Prisoners”

My rage quickly expands to those praising Hamas and Palestines actions in other countries. Australia I’m looking at you!

How can a country with such asinine hate speech & disinformation laws that they imprison their own citizens for misgendering a gender fuck drag queen, allow such hateful things as “Gas the Jews” to be chanted in front of the Sydney Opera House? 

I can tell you this, I don’t think I’ll be visiting Australia. I’ve heard it’s beautiful, but I don’t deal well with confusion. If “Gas the Jews” is okay, I’m going to assume my telling a tranny to get away from me, or calling the COVID Vaccines ineffective, or stating the fact that COVID 19 was only fatal to about 2% of the people contracting it, is going to be okay too. 

Except… We all know that’s not true and I’d end up in jail.

Then we have our own politicians, & citizens supporting Hamas with demonstrations in the streets or flying their flags outside their offices. Our own colleges saying they support Hamas and Palestinian causes. 

And I ask myself what has happened?

If this is humanity… then maybe it’s time for God to start over. 

Even I, pointing out the horror, am willing to look the other way when I say, “no mercy, no prisoners,” and say that Gaza be leveled. I’m willing to look away knowing that hundreds of thousands of men women and children would be killed.  

That makes me just as defective as the rest of the human race.

Recognizing my own defect… I still think every single member of Hamas should be hunted down and shot in the streets like the filthy rabid dogs they are. I might even be up for torturing them a bit first.

I have no idea why I feel that way. Is it that what they’re doing is so heinous I’m almost blinded by rage? OR is it moral outrage?

I look forward to the Israeli counter offensive

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Trump Derangement Syndrome may be real… Who Knew?

IPhone 15 ColoursI was reading an article in Vanity Fair about the iPhone 15 woes and the author made reference to Donald Trump. Really? Why? What does Donald Trump have to do with the iPhone 15 being excessively warm?

Then I watched the news for a bit and saw the trial going on in New York. That Attorney General Leticia James was acting like a school girl behind Trump. Staring hateful daggers at the back of his head. Then I read more about the case and found she’s accusing him of fraud.

Okay, but the fraud was that he overvalued his buildings meaning that he had to pay higher property taxes on those buildings to the State of New York. WHAT? That makes no fucking sense! Especially in a crazy high tax state like New York or California. In California you do the exact opposite!

2 Donald Trump returns to court for 250m rigged fraud trial brought by radical lunatic 696x392So he must’ve overvalued the real estate holdings to defraud banks for loans? Okay, except that the loans were paid back (some of them before term), the banks looked at the properties and agreed to make to make the loans, (Which they wouldn’t have done if they felt the property values wouldn’t hold up,) the banks then made money on interest, Trump made money on the leveraged investment, and no-one was harmed.

Nobody lost money, and nobody was complaining. So who was hurt by this fraudulent activity? Uhhh No-one, no-one at all. In fact The State of New York benefited in increased tax revenue.

Apparently New York has some really weird laws and regulations about harm. Yet another reason to NEVER go to New York, do business in New York, live in New York, or take a shit in New York.

Trump has been living rent free in these people’s heads and they have lost their damn minds. Even the grinning idiot of a Judge in the New York case dismissed about 80% of the charges Leticia James brought. 

76082115 12584325 image a 18 1696268552089How much money did this stupid bitch of an A.G. cost the people of New York, digging up stupid shit charges? 

And for what? For her leftist hatred of Donald Trump? Trump is right… She is an embarrassment to the city and state of New York.

I could see Trump divesting himself and his companies of all New York holdings. Leticia James has essentially killed all his businesses by cancelling their business licenses anyway. So what happens if he sells all the real estate he has in New York to slum lords for say 25% off their value?

Trump gets to take a loss against his bottom line, so he benefits on Federal Taxes, he still makes a little bit of money, and New York suffers immediate loss of taxes on the properties. Further if Trump was to sell to nasty slum lords he punishes New York for decades to come by making uptown more of a shit hole than it already is.

Financial warfare can be more devastating and longer lasting than bombs.

Leticia James and people like her believe that Trump or indeed any White conservative, would never do anything to hurt the city, or “innocent” people.

JudgegrinsforcamerajpgThey count on being able to take swings and beat on “Nice Guys” with zero concern that there will be a price to pay. Because “Nice Guys” would never do anything to intentionally hurt someone.

I personally think that needs to change. The People of New York are not innocent, they elected Leticia James as Attorney General and her campaign was built only on “Getting Trump” not cleaning up crime in New York, not making things better so that New Yorkers could walk the streets safely.

No, her only claim to fame was “I’m gonna get Trump!”

It’s high time there were consequences. Those consequences should be long lasting and devastating. Leticia James face should be etched into every building Trump sells or converts to illegal immigrant or low income housing with a caption saying, “You voted for this”.

“Nice Guys” needn’t actually hurt anyone, all any of us have to do is stop holding the tide of destruction back. Let the chips fall where they may. Let stupidity reap natural, dare I say it, Darwinian, rewards.

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I knew there was a reason I didn’t like the new Pride Flag

Aside from the combination of colors making me want to vomit… It kept reminding me of something, I just couldn’t place what I was being reminded of.

With the attack by Hamas on Israel, I connected the dots.

Flag of Palestine 1769629428The geometry of the new pride flag reminds me of the Hamas Palestinian flag.

It’s bad enough that if you put four of the new Pride flags together you get a swastika, or that there was someone in England who was arrested for publishing an image from someone else showing that it was true. 

I thought England had freedom of speech…

Oh RIGHT! They only have freedom of speech as long as nothing they say could ever in any way be taken offensively, by anyone in perpetuity.

In other words, our English brethren may not speak, they may only use their mouths to eat.

New pride flag 01 1569595309Hate speech laws seem to be a growing standard, people are trying to push hate speech laws even in America.

I’m amused and astounded when comedians have routines from decades ago reviewed and scrutinized by the new humorless thought police.

Then when offense is found, (as it always is,) the comedians must apologize for something that no-one 20 years ago thought was anything but funny.

By todays standards though, “It” is offensive enough that the scolds in our society try to cancel whoever said or did this offensive thing.

SwastikaprideflagI doubt seriously that any of these all too easily offended people were offended when half their genome was hanging in their daddy’s balls waiting to be jacked down a toilet! A lot of these humorless scolds should have been loads their momma’s swallowed. 

That’s just my opinion… It’s probably reflective of just how tired I’ve become of the perpetually aggrieved. The new pride flag is a symbol of the perpetually aggrieved, and in many ways the Hamas flag is the same.

The Palestinians have been pissed off about something or other for God only knows how long. They’re pissed at Israel over things like power, water, and productive farmland. I’m sure there are other political reasons but I honestly don’t remember and don’t care anymore. I suppose Israel maintains a secure border which hampers Palestinian terror attacks on school busses. That for sure, is going to piss off a bunch of terrorists!

I don’t want to get into discussing the war. I hope Israel wins. And since they’ve been accused and punished for all manner of atrocities… They might as well commit a few in their march to the sea.

I ran across this diagram that supposedly explained the variations of pride flags.

Pride Flags GuideRight off the bat I noticed a couple of historical omissions. They completely erased two of the three most common flags.

At one time, there were just three LGB Pride Flags.

Bear prideThere was the standard 6 color rainbow everyone is familiar with. There was the Bear Flag that came after the rainbow and there was the Leather flag.

The Bear flag was representative of men who, at the time didn’t feel that they needed to shave their chests, or adhere to the smooth muscle boy image that had become so popular and indeed almost necessary if you happened to be a gay man.

The Bear flag represented men who might not be the ideal weight, who might have and like having beards, who might be as hairy on their backs as they were on their chests and who weren’t ashamed of it. The Bear Flag, like the rainbow flag was counter culture, it was counter culture against the main stream gay culture of the time.

leatherpride.pngThe Leather pride flag was much the same. It represented the crowd within the LGB community that liked a bit more spice in their sex life. They too were underrepresented at the time. Dating was difficult, because they’d chat up a prospective bed partner only to find out that their “Date” for the night was only interested in vanilla missionary sex.

Don’t get me wrong, vanilla missionary sex is fine, but if you’re wanting a little more variety and all you have to choose from are missionaries you’re going to get bored pretty fast.

For years, (At least a decade) you’d see the rainbow flag everywhere in the “Gay Ghettos”. But some bars would fly the Bear Pride flag or the Leather Pride flag and those flags served to welcome folks who identified as one or the other community. Sometimes, it was just a matter of going into a bar that was flying what you were into, that particular night.

Some bars used the flag to advertise themed nights. So the same bar might on one night fly a Leather flag, then a few nights later a Bear flag. This was really convenient if you were driving down a crowded street because you knew at a glance what was up and where. It made fighting for parking easier.

It’s not unusual for there to be a bit of crossover between the bear and leather community too. But if you went to a bar flying only the Leather Pride flag, expect to be surrounded by men in leather who’d likely be willing to take you to Kinky Town for the weekend!

Likewise with the Bear Pride flag, be prepared to be mauled, cuddled, touched, and be welcome to return all the above to furry mellow cuddly strangers.

Why is it that some folks want to erase parts of gay culture?

How is that inclusive?

Gay Pride Flag svgCould it be that Bears, and Leather men once again don’t fit the narrative? You know, because they are CIS gendered, happy with who they are and not super worried about marching lockstep with a community that no longer represents them?

I actually see opportunity in the new flag versus the old flag.  I’m wondering if the standard 6 color flag will come to represent the LGB community once again?

It might be nice to get back to just 3 flags, and knowing that if you went to a bar flying the old flags, you’re likely to meet people who are more like you.

Maybe the folks under the old flags would be a bit more settled, a bit more conservative, and similarly uncomfortable with the direction the, LGBTQX+… whatever the fuck else they’ve added, are heading.

I’m planning on attending Leather Pride weekend in Palm Springs, (At least one day,) I’ll be avoiding the establishments with the new gay flag. My trip out there might be very short. I’m hoping that I can find at least one oasis and sit under the old rainbow flag with a drink in my hand one last time.

More optimistically, I’m hoping that I’ll be having that drink as the first of many, under the old flags with people who think and feel the way I do.

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I’m getting damn sick and tired of the White Supremacist Boogie Man!

WIRED Magazine did a piece on something called “Active Clubs” the piece tacitly banged the alarm bell because the clubs are connecting using the Telegram App. Why Telegram you ask? Why is the method of communication important? Because it’s encrypted.

There’s more information on the ADL website at Active Clubs

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Antifa, BLM and Smash mobs use encrypted apps to coordinate their activities but you don’t see the liberal press making sure that the specific application is known. You also don’t see the kind of scrutiny applied to those groups as you do to something with the slightest whiff of racial pride on the part of White people.

At their heart “Active Clubs” are about activities as near as I can tell. To some extent they’re about physical training and health versus sitting on your ass all the time, watching TV, playing video games, or being a keyboard warrior.

To the right is an active club logo. In looking at this logo, I immediately see there’s a lot I agree with. Weight Training, Boxing/Self Defense, No ANTIFA, No Communism, No Drugs. I don’t know what the Spray can is supposed to mean. But when an organization’s logo communicates the organization is 83% in line with my core beliefs I’m going to want to know more. 

I applaud anything that gets us off our couches.

Especially when sitting on your ass all the time in front of the TV is a great way to get brain washed and indoctrinated  by a news media where the lies start pretty much after the words “Good Evening, I’m your host”.

Let me be categorically clear. I’m not a fan of anti-semitism, Neo nazi groups, or hate groups of any kind. I’ve spent my life trying to avoid being “That Guy!” You know, the White Supremacist everyone is afraid of. God knows where I was raised, I could easily have joined the KKK. But I believe that every human being has something to bring to the table and that we should learn from each other.

That being said, I’ve been taught as some cost that it doesn’t really matter if you’re a White Supremacist or not.

I’ve never had a white person, steal from me, I’ve never had a white person threaten me with a weapon, I’ve never been told to ‘leave a place or be beaten’ by a white person. I’ve never been surrounded and beaten by a “Pack” of white people. I have experienced all of these things at the hands of non-white people.

I’ve never known any white person that did a smash and grab, or looted, or set fire to buildings. I’ve seen this being done by mostly non-white people on TV.

This is not to suggest that White people don’t do these things, it’s a statement of fact that my lived experience suggests I as a white person am far safer and less likely to be a victim of crime or engaged in crime if I’m hanging with White folk.

Except that nowadays it “Feels” a lot like just being a white dude who wants to hang with other white dudes is painted as somehow criminal, or that it’s being a white supremacist. For fuck sake, just wearing a MAGA hat or expressing support for Donald Trump is considered by some to be white supremacist behavior.

Going to church, being pro-life, expressing a dissenting opinion at a school board meeting, not believing or agreeing that there are 147 genders, and being white, can get you painted as a white supremacist. The fucking FBI has issued memos that in effect tell their agents to be suspicious of otherwise law abiding citizens if they express any opinion congruent with older accepted societal values.

Proud Boys can trace it’s origin to Gavin McInnes who suggested as a joke that we needed a group of men who were proud of Western Civilization and that civilization’s values, and who were supposed to hold the line against the erosion of those values.

Proud Boys, as an Idea found traction not as a white supremacist group, but as a Men’s group who celebrated being men. The Proud Boys actually attended protests and rallies in this local area to help make sure no-one got hurt and everyone got to exercise their first amendment rights.

Enrique TarrioI continue to be astounded that some of the media calls The Proud Boys a white supremacist organization when the head of proud boys is Enrique Tarrio. Other media describes The Proud boys this way; the Proud Boys, a far-right neo-fascist organization that promotes and engages in political violence in the United States.

Note the WikiPedia definition says Proud Boys is Neo-fascist. Which plays well with the observed behavior of the Proud Boys in their conflict with and opposition to ANTIFA. This characterization allows ANTIFA to be painted in a positive light and the Proud Boys to be painted negatively.

I disagree with the characterization that Proud Boys are far right, or Neo-fascist. As I’ve written elsewhere in this blog I considered joining Proud Boys. I wanted to join an organization where I could contribute to the local community and where I’d be around other men who abjure the narrative that all Men are inherently evil, testosterone poisoned, misogynistic, rapists, that are responsible for all the bad shit in the world.

Hillary fucking Clinton calls pretty much anyone that doesn’t agree with her views Neo-nazis, Neo-Fascist (yeah those two are probably redundant), or if they’re white, White Supremacists. She recently suggested that anyone who supported Donald Trump might be better off being Deprogrammed. So explain to me again Hillary what Fascist is???

Thus far I’ve not seen one single article investigating how someone becomes involved in one of these groups or how they somehow get roped into the dark path to White Supremacy.

I rather suspect that I already qualify as a White Supremacist by the definition of the FBI. But I got here without actively trying. I actually feel like I haven’t moved in my beliefs, but society’s stated beliefs have moved past me.

I’m old, white, conservative, I don’t believe in more than two genders, I’m Pro-life, anti-ANTIFA, and Anti-BLM. I’m Pro-constitution, specifically the 1st, 2nd, and 4th amendments. I do happen to be gay, but because of all the other beliefs above, I’m obviously a self hating gay so there’s no get out of jail free card there. And to top it all off, I absolutely despise what the Biden Administration has done to this country. I think Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are both unfit for their duties and should be removed via impeachment as soon as possible.

The FBI should be breaking my door down any moment!

My point is, calling someone a White Supremacist, or a group White Supremacist, is as nonsensical as calling someone that you disagree with, a racist. It’s almost meaningless because everything the left doesn’t like or that appears to be a collection of people who have beliefs in opposition to the left, is…

(Check One)

  • Racist
  • White Supremacist
  • Fascist

It’s possible I might join an “Active Group” because I really could use some human contact and if that contact also meant I was getting fitter, or learning a new skill then so much the better. That doesn’t make me any of the descriptors above. 

I know I’ll join one of these groups and along will come the Anti Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center, they label the group White Supremacist and presto just like that I’m a member of an organization akin to the KKK.

In truth, I think White Supremacists are built, they don’t occur naturally.

In my case, I could easily devolve. There’s no reason to fight against being a white supremacist because no matter what, I’m going to be perceived as a white supremacist because I’m white, and conservative.

So if there’s no hope, no redemption, and no choice… I might as well raise a confederate flag and join Patriot Front! 

The sad part is that reading Patriot Front’s manifesto, I can see a lot that fundamentally I agree with. 

Our government is out of control
Our culture and society is being destroyed
Our People (Americans) are actively being divided and turned against one another.
We as a people (Americans) need to regain our pride, get back to work and remember what it is to be Americans standing together, choosing right over wrong.

I’ll have to read their manifesto in depth, I scanned it. I can say as a person that believes in smaller less invasive government, a quick scan of what Patriot Front is about seems interesting.

I find this interesting because there was a time when I’d have looked at organizations like Patriot Front as a bunch of lunatics right from the get go. But now, not so much. I’m starting to wonder if organizations like this are actually canaries in the coal mine.

They’re composed of folks who are just more sensitive to their rights being abridged and more likely to scream bloody murder about it. Maybe these are the people who are just not wired to “Go along to get along”. Does that make them White Supremacists, or White Nationalists? I don’t know.

I do think a bit of American Nationalism would go a long way to getting the country back on track. The worry I have about that is that it’s not a big step from pride in our country to asking people for their papers, and imprisoning anyone who doesn’t have papers.

Given what’s been going on in the past decade or so… I’m not even sure that asking people for their papers is a bad thing.