Category: Annoyances

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Down a different kind of rabbit hole

Don’t worry, this one is kind of fun and interesting.

I’ve been getting a Passwords Compromised notice in my browser for months. I’ve ignored it, as I suspect most people do.

Let’s face it, with every website demanding that you create an account, and so many of those websites being hacked almost instantly, you just stop paying attention.

For some reason, perhaps it’s that I’m cranky, this morning I decided to explore the websites that were compromised and change passwords or delete accounts.

I’m heavily favoring the latter over the former.

Anyhoo… 

I was surprised to note that on a lot of the “compromised websites”, my passwords were obscenities.

I know how most of these obscenities came to be my passwords. It’s about frustration and annoyance. In most situations, I was trying to take care of something completely unrelated to passwords and the website in question decided to force a password change.

Thus derailing my intent and turning what should have been a 90 second interaction into a tour de force of guessing what combination of letter, symbols, number, and special characters would please the website, allowing me to do what I’d accessed the website to do to begin with. That is, if I remembered what I’d gone to the site for in the first place.

Apparently “FuckYou96&yourmother^$#” Is commonly used. Who Knew?

“BlowMECocksuckers!-2021” and “LickMyFilthyhole-Asshole!9000” are also common.

This suggests that I’m not the only person who has become sick and tired of Websites, Their demanding that accounts be created, and “Secure” passwords.

Of the 36 websites whose passwords were compromised in various data leaks, I now have 16 left.

I’ve deleted the others. Honestly, do I really need a password and an account to confirm a haircut appointment? Uh, NOPE!

Since I canceled Amazon Prime, Netflix, and Hulu. There was no need for their residual threads to be stored in my browser, so I deleted them. The same with T-Mobile.

I was looking at a credit card login that used to work really well, then the rights to the card were purchased by another company and the new company website has never worked.

There’s no reason for me to maintain that login… Or that credit card account for that matter. I haven’t closed the account yet, but that day is coming and I’m looking forward to it.

The last stored password for that website is embarrassingly filthy! Which speaks to my frustration with the site, the creditor, and their offshore “customer service”.

Oh, that embarrassingly filthy password? It’s on the list of passwords that have appeared in various data breaches. Again, apparently I’m not alone in losing my temper trying to reset passwords.

Then there are those passwords that have been “Reused”. Except they’re not. Some of the banking sites are a conglomeration of websites with different domain names but who all use the same initial login.

These poorly designed banking sites trip the security settings because you have no choice but to reuse passwords due to the way the sites work. 

I would argue that these sites create a laissez-faire attitude because they cause end users to be endlessly warned about something they have no control over. Which results in the users being far more likely to ignore all warnings about passwords that their browser may present.

This is how someone like me ends up with 36 warnings that have gone ignored for months, years, decades?

Don’t get me started about cookies. More precisely, don’t get me started about the cookie notifications or the sites that feel it’s necessary to give you cookie notifications daily, monthly or anytime something changes on the site. (Yes, I know this site does that. Thank the EU!)

It looks like I’m not going to be able to delete these other sites for a while, so I’ll have to continue ignoring the warnings, or actually waste a ton of time changing the passwords. Ugh! That means I’ll be using the automatic password generator a lot.

You’d think that would make it easier but it doesn’t because it seems that the website designers create obstacles designed to prevent password generators from working.

I suppose I need to decide if I’m cranky enough that I don’t want to do anything else but mess with websites and passwords, or ignore the whole mess and do something else that I’d prefer to do.

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Maybe I’m missing something, Why does Violet Affleck think anyone cares what she demands?

Who does she think she is? Greta Thunberg?

I tried listening to her. The video of her talking to the LA City Council is in a few places. Twitter, TikTok, it was shown on the news and appeared in Breitbart. 

She’s really hard to understand, it’s like she’s a chittering squirrel sped up to 3x normal speed. And of course she’s talking through a mask so that makes it sound more like a muffled chittering squirrel.

Apparently because she had some kind of disease having to do with covid etc. She’s now demanding that no one be able to ban masks. I didn’t think anyone was banning masks. Hey you want to wear a mask more power to you, but understand, and this is a lesson from my childhood…

Because so many people used mask regulations as a method to hide their identity while committing robberies and stealing anything that wasn’t nailed down. A lot of businesses won’t allow you to shop with a mask on. So little Violet, the lesson here is an oldie but goodie.

A few bad apples spoil the barrel.

It was my understanding that laws were being enacted that stopped mask Mandates. That, my little snowflake I’m good with. Study after study have demonstrated that masking did little if anything to slow the spread of a virus, any virus!

Worn properly, an N95 can filter out 95% of particulate matter down to .3 microns. Notice I said worn properly. There appears to have been some conflation between an N95 respirator and an N95 surgical mask. They are two entirely different animals. Nonetheless, the average population wasn’t given any training in proper fitting, or, indeed wearing their surgical masks or an N95 respirator.

Therefore, the conclusion that masking was pretty useless is probably valid. Mandating masks did nothing but needlessly expose us to graphene and increased C02 levels. Oh it also made mask manufacturers a shit ton of money.

My absolute favorite though was this little virtue signaling gem.

My Brother gave me this one while I was visiting Florida unvaxed during the pandemic.

I know, it must be so very disappointing to the Vax NAZIS and those who said the unvaxed should be placed in camps, to discover that somehow a cockroach like myself is still alive.

This lovely mask is all fabric, and I believe was made by one of our relatives. My Brother has a few others with similar death motifs. Primarily, we used them to get into bars and restaurants who demanded we wear them until we were seated.

I’ve kept this one because I know that somehow, sometime, I’ll need to virtue signal again.

Maximus bk w hat left angle 2016.This is a super well made machine washable mask. Just because 90% of my family didn’t believe in the efficacy of masking doesn’t mean we’re above cashing in on the terror and virtue signaling needs of others. I think my relative was selling these for $25 or $30.

Had the masking insanity continued, we were going to suggest that our relative start making less elaborate Black Death masks.

We were thinking just the beak and not quite so long.

I’m sure little miss Violet would be outraged that my Brother and most of the rest of the family would be so flippant about masks.

Believe me, if I thought a mask was going to do the trick I’d be wearing one. I commonly wear an N95 while doing yard work. Why? Because the dust and particulates kicked up by weed whacking often contains rodent feces. Those fecal particles if inhaled can cause valley fever which is unpleasant but mostly survivable.

I also wear an N95 when sanding and painting. Again as a protection against breathing chemical particulates which can do me harm. In these cases the N95, even improperly fitted to my face with a beard affords protection. I also swap them out every few hours as well.

Violetaffleckmask 640x480.Not that anyone should care about my mask usage.

The point is I’m not anti mask, I’m anti stupidity and the masking, the mandates, and all the rest was just theater, waving of hands to make it look like the officials had a plan.

It’s the same damn thing as during the 50s and 60s when government officials produced those idiotic duck and cover movies about what we were supposed to do in the even of a nuclear attack.

I got into trouble for saying stuff like, “If you hear the air raid siren, you’ve got 30 minutes to go do whatever you want to do.” Later I amended my statement to, “If you hear the air raid siren you’ve got 30 minutes to have as much sex of whatever kind you want. Get naked and make the best of it.”

I honestly don’t understand why these famous or pseudo famous people think anyone gives a shit about what they think. Why should Violet Affleck think in a million years that just because her daddy and mommy are famous she should be listened to?

Perhaps this is why Ben always looks like he’s taking a hot spike up his ass these days. Is he questioning the wisdom of being a father and wishing that he could go back and get a vasectomy before he got anyone pregnant?

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Good God Almighty! If they’d tell the truth it would be easier on us all!

I constantly being reminded of the Harry Potter scene where Harry is writing lines and what he writes is burned into his hand. 

“I must not tell lies.”

In the story, Harry wasn’t telling lies. In fact he was telling the truth and still got punished for it.

The Biden administration could do with a little Harry Potter magic.

Well since that kind of magic doesn’t actually exist, perhaps this administration could benefit from a branding iron every single time they lie. 

Although I’m partial to Scott Adams creation of “Shock Pants” too.

I would love to see politicians getting their butts and privates shocked every time they lie. I think the voltage should go up with every lie and only drop after 1 whole hour of truth.

Congress would only have the smell of seared flesh for a few hours, before the liars learned or destroyed their ability to procreate. Either way, the American People win.

Karine Jean-Pierre screaming mid way through a press conference would serve as a lesson to children everywhere. “I must not tell lies“

All of this is brought to mind because now, its coming out that the Parkinsons Specialist who visited the White House monthly as shown by the visitor logs, was in fact answering questions with Joe Biden in the freakin room.

Joe biden health 640x480.In other words, even though the Biden administration doesn’t want to come right out and just say, “Yes, the President is suffering from Parkinsons and is undergoing treatment.”

We, and the entire world see the president is obviously having problems and should not be running for re-election.

Had the administration spoken the truth directly they really could have facilitated a nice soft landing.

But NO! These morons had to lie, just as they’ve lied about everything. Now they’re unhappy that huge swaths of the country are pissed off, have no trust in the administration, and are probably going to vote for Trump.

That’s what happens when you keep lying to everybody and attempt to lie about what people are actually experiencing.

It’s arguable that Joe Freaking Biden was screwed up when he took office in 2020. 

So much for honesty, transparency, and unity, Liar in Chief! (Sounded a lot like Hope and Change, anyway)

I thought it felt really Obama-ish these past 3.5 years.

At this point… I personally would vote for a murderous dictator knowing full well that we’d have to shoot our way out that kind of mess, just to be sure that every single liar in Washington D.C. was imprisoned or tried for treason. 

Oh what the hell, try them in a “Kangaroo Court” in New York. They seem to have an abundance of them.

Hey assholes in Washington D.C.

Tell the truth! It’s about the only thing you haven’t tried…