Friday, End of Your Work Week, Beginning of Mine

 - Time Magazine threatens the world with an article bemoaning that tequila is bad for the environment.

- Man has his house all linked via Amazon Alexa to be essentially a smart home.  However, a delivery guy, wearing headphones and walking away from the smart doorbell, *thought* he heard a racial slur from said doorbell and reported it (this in itself is ludicrous…grow up). Subsequently Amazon then denied access to everything connected to Alexa smart home.  Lights, internet, communication, basic appliance usage, etc, all off for a week until Amazon could fix it.

So many things here! First off, it’s not against the law to be racist. If it were most of the government would be in jail. A guy wearing headphones ***thought*** he heard something? That’s justification to deny access for what the victim was paying for? Hell no it’s not. Taking an entire week to fix it is insane.

The thing that really grabbed my attention was the utter reliance on technology. Ever heard of a door key and a light switch? Jeez people…use some dang common sense

- Conservative host Andrew Wilkow said once that government is no more than a powerful corporation with the (seemingly) legal authority to enforce corporate policies with deadly force. Anyone doubting that might crack open a newspaper or other source to see what he means.

- Every sci fi TV program seems to feature a) aliens only landing and interacting with big city folks and b) our guys only encountering small villages with real simple folks.  Why would our guys go trillions of miles just to meet up with a town with 30 people?

- Once again, the only flag in residential areas I saw flying was ours…on Flag Day, no less

- At the grocery store yesterday, overhead a man chatting with his 6 yr old son, when the boy asked “dad, what’s a forklift?”  The old man answered “food son..almost always food.”

- Further evidence there is an endgame: cash is being eliminated one way or the other. One cannot take rolls of coins to their bank anymore. Banks turn these folks/us folks away sending customers to a coin Star or similar machine. Coins deposited, but for a fee. Seems one cannot just deposit their own cash into an account. 37 forms of ID, a blood and stool sample, 2 letters of reference, 4 sworn affidavits pledging allegiance to LBTQ+, and a promissory note to vote for social justice are required to deposit $500 into one’s own bank account.

Since banks won’t take MY coins, who takes kiosk money? If the fed is so concerned with it, they’d issue a policy requiring transactions be rounded up (never down) to the nearest dollar.  An item costs $12.15, then $12.15 would be charged to a card of sorts. If a person pays cash, then they’d pay $13.

And while I’m on the rant, gas prices have been false for decades. $3.15 a gallon is advised, but in reality it’s $3.16 after the .009 cents tax is added.  True, that’s not a lot, but it’s still my money, not theirs.

- The House of ‘Representatives’ took a vote to outlaw gas stoves. No mention of where all electric stoves will get their power. Not necessary, it’s the evil oil and gas that must be eliminated…dumbasses