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If something ever happens, I don’t know what I would do if I found out my search results had become public.

Like, yesterday I was searching "Is it legal to eat guinea pig meat?" not because I have any interest in eating guinea pigs, but because Amazon Vine was giving away these reusable guinea pig cage pads. And then I started thinking "If you have reusable, washable pads to make it easier to keep guinea pig cages clean, is it possible that someone could farm guinea pigs?"

Like, they’re collecting the guinea pig poo to use in the garden. Or like, could someone gather a massive amount of guinea pig poo and make methane gas or do whatever they needed to do in Mad Max to turn pig waste into biofuel to run their muscle cars? Does guinea pig fur make fancy moccasins like they do with rabbits?

And at it’s base, all my wonderings can be led back to a book I read when I was child. A science fiction book where the best and brightest kids were chosen to be part of a program, and then they were all tricked into being frozen in cryostasis because the end of the world was about to happen and they were going to be used as the saviors of humanity, like Fallout before Fallout existed. Only the main character’s dad, who spent the rest of his life searching for his missing son, gathered a bunch of people and managed to save a huge chunk of humanity, who then spent centuries in the wastelands and there was some mutations and what have you’s, but when the kid wakes up, he finds out that his dad never stopped searching for him and that his dad was basically the savior of humanity.

And one of the things his dad left behind was the idea that there was a Sleeping Prince that would wake up one day, and that everyone should protect and care for that prince. And the main character realizes that he is the prince. That his dad loved him so much that he aimed all of human society toward ensuring that his son would have a good future.

And one of the things that really stuck in my mind was that his father had gathered a bunch of guinea pigs to raise for meat, parts, and fur for clothing. And I’m not sure–I was a child when I read that book–but I think the guinea pigs might have been bred (and effected by radiation) to be big, like, bigger than capybaras, and humans were using them as working animals? Like, putting saddle bags on them to carry supplies, but I don’t think they were big enough to ride around on?

Anyways, the whole point of this is that if someone just looked at my search results, I would seem like a psychopath because there’s none of the deeper explanations behind why I originally searched for the term, or what I was thinking, and basically, that’s why modern "AI" is so shitty.

People are clicking away at a massive "Choose-Your-Own Adventure"-machine and thinking that it’s sentient. When no. You’re making options, which takes you from A to B to Z. You’re filling in the blanks, "Mad Libs"-style, and thinking to yourself "Wow! This thing is so brilliant it can remember my name! We’re best friends now."

And the guys that created the datasets the "AI" pulls from just grabbed a bunch of random shit off the Internet to train it because THAT’S where they wanted to cut corners on a technology that cost TRILLIONS OF AMERICAN DOLLARS. That’s not in yen folks. That’s in USD.

"Instead of paying a bit of money and ensuring that all the information used for our datasets is complete and accurate… We’re just going to scrape Reddit and hope for the best. We’ve even got the archive of Yahoo Answers loaded into that baby. The technology is solid. We can now depend on AI to decide which humans should live or die."

So yeah. I’m in a bit of a mood.

Please, Robo Gods, do not build my profile based on my search results or the goofy pictures I took when I was 15 years old. Please and thank you.

And also, I have no interest in eating guinea pig meat. I just had a thought and was curious about the answer… which ended up being something produced by a terrible AI. "Yes, it is legal to eat guinea pig meat in the United States where it can be viewed as game meat… [blah blah blah]… In some countries like Peru and Brazil it is a regularly eaten meat, though in countries like the United Kingdom and the United States it is taboo and illegal to eat." Hm.

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Yes, I realize that on one of my last posts, I wrote "Doner to the Good of All of Humanity!!!" when I meant "Donor." And you know what… I’m going to leave it.

Think what you will.

But when I looked up "define doner," the result talked about a "doner kebab." So… that definitely ties in to everything I was talking about in a semi-hilarious way.

"Eat the rich" is a very valid point of view.

And if you’re a rich person trying to get people to downplay the idea and not talk about it and "Oh, no. You shouldn’t talk like that. You’re such a pretty girl. Why are you talking about stuff like that?" you can STFU. You are not being on the side of the angels right now.

You’re not being a super cool demon in a leather jacket and kicky little boots either. You’re just being a shithead.

Get back in your lane and stay there. I’m fairly sure there are plenty of "rich" people that would like to know why they’re a few years away from being hauled out of their houses and murder-death-killed in their front yards.

Why is anger fomenting in the background of society?

Because shitheads are being shitheads. And why? For the age old reason of "buttloads of money."

So if there is a super good PR option out there that not only helps society and the world, but also has a fairly fabulous return in value, including the stock market paying out like a winning slot machine–why wouldn’t smart rich people want to know about it?

Why wouldn’t any rich person with a thinking brain NOT get on board with being a Good Person to the Public?

Now is seriously NOT the time to be a depraved maniac, not just not on main, but not at all. You don’t want to be associated in the minds of the public with THOSE people.

Think how hard Hi-nnz went to keep their ties to "him" from being a trending topic. People would talk about it. But it was never top of the trending lists.

MASSIVE amounts of money must have been spent to downplay his ties to their company and that buying a bottle of ketchup would result in him receiving end of year dividends. Because he is such a shithead, that being associated with him loses customers.

I honestly can’t believe that generations of a family could work to build a leading brand, and like, one of the family cousins can ruin everything by being a shithead. And that those brands are accepting that kind of nonsense? Unbelievable.

Just because someone has a lot of stock in a publicly traded company doesn’t mean they should be allowed to make a public ahole of themselves. Because once it’s opened to the public, there are some standards that should be maintained for the good of society.

And I know, as the recent health insurance killing showed, the stockholders did not react as normal humans would, they instead started screaming about their lost profits and wanting the publicly traded health insurance company to go back to being predatory leeches. And it’s the health insurance executive officers and other employees who are terrified of being gunned down in the street like the mad dogs they were behaving as that are like "Hey, maybe we should and could dial back on the predatory capitalism. Just a tad. We’ll still be making ludicrously massive amounts of profit. But I won’t end up being shot dead in the street and people won’t cheer at my funeral and piss on my grave so much that the soil is destroyed."

I wasn’t expecting it, but it turns out the stockholders of a cold-hearted company are cold-hearted people themselves. It wasn’t that their financial planners filled their portfolios with stock in problematic companies but that those people CHOSE to invest their money in evil. Like, masks off pure evil, and those people were like "Put my money in support of human suffering. The more gratuitous the better!"

And here we are.

Rich people doing evil shit and thinking they’re going to get away with it because someone else already did something as equally if not worse evil and faced zero backlash. And they’re such dumbshits they don’t realize those other guys got away with their nonsense because they were doing that stuff in secret, and in lots of cases the vast majority of the public doesn’t even know they happened.

But here you are with your more than 1.3 million followers making a public spectacle of yourself being a shithead on main. And you somehow think that’s fine.

So yeah. I meant to write "Donor to the Good of All of Humanity!!!" but instead wrote "Doner to the Good of All of Humanity!!!" and that actually seems like a more apt name.

Rich people either better start slicing off a bit of their wealth and sharing it with the 99% themselves, or everything they have and are is going to be gobbled up by the angry poor–at least until the other richy riches come cruising around and snatch the whole carcass, bones and all.

Like, "They" like to go around saying that they’re the "silent majority," but really it’s only a chunk of "comfortably wealthy" people that WANT to be the stereotype of a "Greedy Boss"-type. Smoking cigars while "talking business" in a hot tub with hot women on standby. Sitting mostly naked in a sauna with a bunch of other dudes, owning the room with his alpha male presence, like muscles upon muscles with his little titties being the cherry on top.

For reals: Does anyone really want to sit around stewing in the juices of other people? Forced to lick the metaphorical asshole of a guy you would really prefer to not have to hang around, but you need to get that business deal signed or it could effect your job? Forced to do Benjamin Franklin-style diplomacy, but it’s with a bunch of hangry muscle dudes that want to smoke weed, flex, and lecture at you all. night. LONG? That’s your life goal? Your measure of success?

I know people watch those types of YouTube videos at home. But you can hit fast-forward or rewind ("What did he just say?!? I need to hear that again") and you’re not being forced to experience "that Type of Guy" in real life.

Being forced to experience a guy LARPing as "an ALPHA MALE" and having to clap and cheer along because it’s part of your job.

And I’m not even talking about all those incredibly attractive people they hire to stand around them and "act" in their videos. Those people are practicing quislings and class traitors and anything else someone wants to call them based upon some weird dude’s YouTube video, whatever. To me, they’re people that got hired to do an acting job and unless they know who the guy is beforehand, they’re not going to be aware that they’re props in a "life coach" flex video rather than as the background in a music video or something. They are working for money to pay rent and buy groceries or pay off medical expenses.

If you want most of all that to stop, then vote for a Universal Basic Income. A lot of that happens because people have a desperate need for money to pay rent or for travel expenses to visit a sick relative or friend. Or maybe they blew all their money on concert tickets and they HAVE to get that money back in the bank before bills need to be paid. ("What, you get to go to AMAZING LIFE CHANGING concert, and your phone is going to be shut off the whole time because you spent ALL your money and couldn’t pay the bill?")

There are plenty of reasons why a person doesn’t have any money, and some are a lot more serious than others. And the point is that no matter the reason, in a successful society, NO ONE should have to worry about homelessness, hunger, or financially crippling medical expenses.

In today’s society, old people have to either sign their house over to someone else THREE YEARS before they can seek out financial aid when applying for a retirement home OR they can lose their house and everything they ever owned. That’s a hard choice. Especially since most parents would rather leave an inheritance for their children and grandchildren than giving it to someone else’s predatory bank.

And like, rather than dealing with real, systemic societal issues that are causing real and generational-level harms… We’ve got weirdos demanding to look at children’s genitals. For gender critical science!

It’s frustrating when you realize that things won’t be allowed to change because the people at the highest levels of the societal hierarchy are fucking short-sighted idiots willing to kill someone for a dollar even if it costs them $20 in return.

/RANT

Sometimes I’ve gotta get everything off my chest. Otherwise one day I’m going to start screaming and I’ll just keep screaming and screaming and SCREAMING until I drop dead from the stress.

And it’s like, just because you can’t hear someone screaming, doesn’t mean they’re not screaming.

We’re all screaming right now.

And rich people can keep pretending they don’t hear. But they can’t say later that there weren’t any warning signs and that everything just came out of nowhere. There were plenty of signs and warnings and Internet essays.

Be a donor or be a doner. It’s all the same to me.

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Thoughts

Sometimes my brain starts moving fast. Whole stories spread out before me in an instant. And it’s up to me to try and keep up with what I was thinking about.

Things I want

There is nothing a good pair of shoes cannot do.

I’m not talking about beautiful or sparkling or any kind of fancy. I’m talking about a dependable, walkable pair of shoes.

BILLIONS of dollars are being spent on elections. Where the fuck is all that money going???

There are things that I think the government should provide free to every citizen. If the government isn’t able to provide, rich people should make up the rest. Like, they LOVE to put their names all over "charities," and I really hate that the charity organizers can keep so much of the money.

So I think there should be government chosen products–that have gone through a testing and reviewing process and that meet MAXIMUM safety quotas–that rich people can give money to so that shoes, and pants, and shirts, and school supplies, and hygiene devices can be provided to EVERYONE that wants them.

I imagine a site screen with options, and a rich person could choose to be a Doner to the Good of All of Humanity!!! (and thus can be put in the winning of some sort of "everybody wins" contest (remember Summer Book Lists when we were kids? You’d fill in a list of books you’d read (from Scholastic?) and you mailed that slip in and they’d send you a free book. No strings attached. No getting your information sold to brokers.)) And the GOOF Award could be given out to the person that makes the biggest Positive Contribution to Humanity.

Man, sometimes I wish life really was like the Sims and I had a little access to the controls. Upping the Empathy-settings. Letting people rest and relax and clear their minds to look around at how HAPPY they are, or should be.

Sometimes I want to be like "How DARE you steal my identity as Someone Who Wants FREEDOM so you can soft-market fascism to the public! It’s so disgusting. Stop it." toward modern marketing directors.

Like, you’re the marketing director if you’re the one running your account and making all the posts and "saying" all the things that represents your brand to the public. You are the PR. You are the one that’s responsible when you help dismantle the country for Likes and Follows.

You’ve made that bag.

It’s time to stop schilling for evil. I’m pretty sure you have enough money to afford 24/7 security. And if you don’t… Why are you being the public mouthpiece for evil?

Unless you truly believe all those things you insist you don’t believe in, I can’t see being a public representative of fascism. Not in these or any time in the future.

Produce good content. That will get you the attention you want and deserve.

Being "outrageous" for attention can take multiple different levels, and a lot of people are at the point where they still think that being "ironically [racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic]" is a "funny joke to make."–We echo the things we’ve experienced in our pasts.

There have been many times when I’ve been pulled into a huddle with a bunch of people only the people I was with knew. A bunch of strangers to me.

But I imagine never being pulled into a huddle with people, then being pulled into one for the very first time. And it’s the kind where someone is confidently talking at everyone, and most everyone is listening to the story they’re telling.

It could become like a Stephen King moment. That "one crazy incident of your younger years" experience that gets spoken of over and over and over again. A true life-defining moment. Something that will be thought about and dreamt about and folded over and over in a person’s mind until the edges grow smooth and glimmer like magic.

And for someone else, their life is a bunch of those moments. What are life defining to one person, is everyday to somebody else.

And in all those moments, a good pair of shoes is top of the list of things to have.

Wear beautiful stiletto heels. Rock that fashion. But also keep a pair of running shoes in reach. A pair of emergency shoes; they don’t have to be BULKY in your bag. You don’t need all the cushioning and fancy laces or any of that stuff.

I imagine running in an emergency situation, and it would be good to have shoes with good soles and that can handle water contact well. You want to be able to walk over broken glass and sharp stone without cutting your feet to bits. You want to be able to step on hot things and stamp out burning ashes without melting your soles. Also maybe a pair of thigh-high "socks" that offer some protection and support for both running and crawling. They can be worn under pants too.

There are a bunch of people that have been incentivized to perform acts of violence. They see other people doing criminal things, and they start thinking "I could do that." And then they actually do it.

It’s human nature to wonder about things. To see a dollar on the ground and think "With that dollar and the change in my pocket, I can afford to ride the bus home" and then make the decision of whether to pick up the dollar and keep it or not. If something is there, seemingly free for the taking, a lot of people will take it. That is what our society has become.

So I would prefer that movies and TV shows show people doing normal human things like turning in a found bag at the Lost and Found. Someone doing gardening in their neighbor’s yard while talking to their friend who is standing on the sidewalk. Everyone polite about following laws and displaying behavior that a lot of kids are not seeing in their everyday lives, but they should have some experience with.

I grew up with unreal representations of everyday life. Like, the "golden summer" wishful high school/college experience of someone that went to like one party and had "a life defining experience" that was basically them playing beer pong with a bunch of people they’ve drunkenly made up life stories for in the moment. And that dude made like 20 generation-shaping movies, and other directors followed suit.

And we ended up with a movie where a group of preteen boys hired a sexworker.

And that was a movie marketed toward children. Same with "Blank Check," which is set in an alternate universe where all the laws are different. But in this universe, parents were probably finding their checkbooks missing, because that banker didn’t even blink about giving a million dollars to a CHILD.

How did he even interact with the bank? Did he show his student ID? Would a student ID work–in the 1990s when they were just a piece of plastic with your picture printed on it?

And that’s one thing I definitely believe the government should provide to every citizen free of charge: An ID or drivers license should be free. Maybe there should be a charge for a replacement, but renewals should be free.

Everything is so expensive. And everybody is poor and getting poorer, while the uber-rich gaze down upon us from their castles. Completely unaware "of the cost of things" to the point of simply not being able to understand how someone can’t afford to pay $26 for a pair of underwear. Or if they do pay that much, that they then won’t have enough money to pay for this or that luxury good because they are struggling to afford groceries and the ever rising rent prices as big equity buys up the world and devastates civilizations.

How great would you look if you provided everyone in a community with necessary items they would definitely appreciate? And maybe there would be a coupon code, so the items could be provided by the store of peoples’ choice? That way the items could be shipped to the stores rather than making a larger carbon footprint by shipping directly to every person.

Shoes would be a good choice. Sealed packages of multiple pairs of underwear and tee shirts. Cat food and dog food in popular brands.

There are ways to please the public that don’t involve making a clown of yourself.

I wish people wouldn’t lie about being professionals

You know you’re not a doctor. Stop giving medical advice.

It’s so horrifying that people have decided to seek their answers about life from strangers on the Internet. People that have maybe read a few actual books, but have likely watched a video or two and now see themself as an expert.

I don’t know when people started taking parenting advice from influencers, but it has got to stop. Like, if they’re talking about commonsense normal stuff, that’s one thing. But if they’re telling you to stick foreign objects into your body… They need to have a medical degree. Be for real. That person looks like they’ve got injection marks between their toes. That’s a grifter. Stop being grifted.

And yeah. I’m angry at people letting themselves be sucked into Hate Holes. And I really wish there were laws in place to stop the grifters, just like I wish they would stop telemarketers. I would like to see some terrible people be deplatformed. At the least, they should be demonetized and no longer offered up to the public.

It’s not censorship because the content is still there. But it is not content that should be recommended to people.

People did not seek out antivaxxer content. That stuff crept its way into our lives via then-reputable "news" channels. I still remember the sense of shock as a C-class actress talked about her belief that her child’s autism was caused by vaccinations. She was so sure.

It made me sad.

She was a real confused human being desperately seeking answers for her child’s condition. And she was sucked down rabbit hole. And unfortunately, she opened the door and a bunch of people were sucked into a bunch of lies about autism. And it has resulted in millions of children being adversely effected.

Imagine: People are so afraid their children won’t be perfect that they are willing to put them through hell just in case.

It makes a person think.

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So, I made the strawberry ice cream recipe I shared a few posts ago, and I’m not going to lie: It was delicious.

BUT it’s obviously a doubled up recipe, because there was WAY TOO MUCH base for my 1.5-quart machine. So I’m refreezing the bowl and I’ll make up the rest of the ice cream tomorrow.

Still, it tastes so good. Both the strawberry ice cream recipe and the vanilla ice cream recipe are thumbs up all the way. Just be aware you’re not going to be pouring that entire strawberry base into a one quart machine. There’s just no way. It seems too much for a 2-quart machine even.

I made mine with frozen whole strawberries that I defrosted and mashed up, and maybe some of the fruit chunks are too big, but I don’t care. After I made the ice cream and sealed it up in a container and put in the freezer, I cleaned up my tools by putting all the ice cream on them into my mouth. That’s how good it was. I didn’t want to waste a single bit.

Anyways, if you make the strawberry ice cream without a machine in like a mason jar or using two mixing bowls with one holding ice… It’s a BIG recipe and you’re going to either want to make multiple batches or cut the recipe into at least fourths. It makes so much ice cream.

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While writing this, the trailer for "The Long Walk" popped up and OMG. I’m down with it.

I read "The Long Walk" short story (by Stephen King) when I was likely way too young. But it really stuck in my head. Like every story in the Bachman collection is one that can live in a person’s head rent free.

So, along with "Together," "The Long Walk" is going onto my Movies-To-Watch list.