Lose-Lose-Lose
In case anyone forgot, Trump works
for Putin. He has for years and he
still does.
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Andrew Cuomo: A Democrat investigated
for sexual assault by Democrats.
Donald Trump, Matt Gaetz, Brett Kavanaugh:
Republicans whose sexual assaults were
ignored by Republicans.
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Just a reminder: In early 2020 Trump
said the pandemic would be over by
April, 2020. So fuck Ron DeSantis.
That creepy, murderous toady
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Is it me or is the internet dying?
Well, not so
much "dying" dying as it's got a bad case of
that yellow toenail disease where you have to take
expensive pills that can damage your liver
every day for like six monthns to a year while you
wait for the old toenail to grow out because that's
just the way it fucking works.... though I wouldn't
really know anything about it.
ANYway.
Some of you may recall before
Google hit the scene one of the great
delights
of
the internet
was the intense scrutiny of every
cyber-nook and cranny just to see
what kind of weird and inventive
sites people were developing.
And develop
they did. This was the golden epoch
of the 'net, when bookmarks were king, when
surfers routinely used email to share
new and interesting sites with one another. (This
was before search engines, I.E. Google, data-mined
us for so much info
that
they know
what we want almost before we want
it.)
I still have
many of these bookmarks buried in
one browser or another. (A quick
check reveals a lot of the sites
are gone
or the domain name is available for
purchase. Ah, well, time to break
out the old shovel and bury a few
of these corpses.)
The diversity back then was staggering
because no single web entity,
apart from maybe msn.com or apple.com,
dominated the web.
Today?
It seems it's all about site
links on cell phones and there's
only so much room on those things.
Users
heavy into cell phone
use have their specific
links for shopping, social interaction
and, hopefully, news and that's about
it... until some bright spark, probably
Chinese, has a new and innovative
idea for social interaction (I.E.
getting
laid.)
A brief digression: The top ten websites
garnering the most foot-traffic today
are, in
order,
Google,
Youtube,
Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Instagram,
Baidu (China), Yahoo(?) and, uh,
two porn sites.
Upon reflection, I sadly realize
that there are about twenty major
websites
which
I, personally, have
in heavy rotation.
Most are news and information, a
couple are entertainment and one
or two are,
uh, porn-ish.
Yeah, I'm as bad
as
everyone
else.
How long before the internet is one
big button that says "Gimme!" and the
information that we think we want but
is really, in actuality, just pure
marketing by a consortium of Walmart/Apple/Amazon that
is beamed directly into our corneas
via our Apple wallets?
So to those of you that visit this
site, I commend you. You're still
obviously doing it the old-school
way because
this is an old-school site, and always
will be.
Excelsior!
=Lefty=
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