+ Partner? Don't say partner, just tell me what the hell you're talking about. +
++ Parter is a terrible word that seems to be used more and more as time goes on. It is especially terrible when it is referencing a girlfriend/boyfriend/significant other. +
++ + It is confusing and terrible that partner can relate to a sex life. Back when Glen Greenwald released the NSA documents, there was a lot of talk about his partner. +
++ This was confusing considering that this was the journalist who released insanely sensitive information. When someone hears about his partner they would expect it to be a business partner. This, however, was not true. For whatever reason the media decided they need to talk about his homosexual lover, which for the most part, had nothing to do what so ever with the story at hand. +
++ We need to go back to the days of keeping private life private. I miss the old don't ask don't tell mantra of the army. Not because it was a backhanded way of letting homosexuals into the Army, but because I don't want to know about your homo/hetro/bisexual life. +
++ Now if someone says, My partner and I made an extra $100 working overtime today There is no way to tell what the hell is going on. Is that your skydiving partner where you give lessons? Is it your business partner? Is it your fellow dancers at the strip club? Is it your lover? A combination of these? +
++ The emphasis on saying partner to cover up homo/bisexual status is silly. It is not much of an issue in this country, prejudice be damned, but we still don't need to hear about it. +
++ Another increasingly annoying use of the word is for when two people are together (hetro or homo), they don't want to say girl/boyfriend, and they are not married. Seriously, we can just saying friend, or someone's name. We don't need to know the intimacy level, we just need to know what is being referenced. +
++ Unfortunately, other methods people tend to be using are almost equally annoying, but for different reasons. Oh my dw is at work right now. or My dh is a lumberjack.. Lumberjacks are pretty fucking spiffy, but holy shit, who the hell says dear husband/wife? Type like you speak, and don't speak like an idiot. +
+ ++ I do believe I've rambled on enough about this. The partner thing has me really annoyed. When I heard Glenn Greenwald's partner was intercepted at an airport, I thought it was a business partner related to the NSA documents. Couldn't they just have used a better word for that situation? Anyway, comment below and teach me how to write. +
+ + diff --git a/oldsite/27-oct-2017-please-fuck-you.html b/oldsite/27-oct-2017-please-fuck-you.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5e54cea --- /dev/null +++ b/oldsite/27-oct-2017-please-fuck-you.html @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ + + + + + +a.) Will you please grab me a soda? + b.) Will you grab me a soda? + c.) Grab me a soda. + d.) Please grab me a soda. +
++ Which one is the most pleasant to hear? Let us discuss each one. +
++ Will you please grab me a soda? +
++ What's going on here? Someone is asking you to grab them a soda which is fine, but they added the word please. Why would they do that? Perhaps it is just to be polite because that is how they have been indoctrinated throughout their lives, but more likely reason for people will say words like that simply because it could increase the likelihood of their desires to be met. In other words, they tend to get what they want more often if they ask with please. +
++ Will you grab me a soda? + Seems pretty straight forward, no words added to trick or brown nose anyone into performing an action for them. Awesome. +
++ Grab me a soda. +
++ Most people respond rather poorly to this style. It is clearly a command and people tend to dislike being ordered to do things. The first thing that most people likely think will be around the lines of You can go fuck yourself. Which leads us to our next little devious ploy. +
++ Please grab me a soda. +
++ For some strange reason, the same people angered about being ordered around by the last option, have no issue with this one. Hell, many people will even argue that this is actually a question and not a command. Why? Why does saying please suddenly make it okay to order people around? This is ludicrous. +
++ So what's the point? Let's stop using silly words like please to order people around. Let's just ask questions like humans and avoid the extra brown-nosing bullshit. +
+ ++ So what do you think? Should we do away with saying please? Again, I might simply be bat shit insane. Saying please is just a bullshitty way of sugar coating a command, or trying to con someone with an under handed slight in a question. Let me know below. +
+ + diff --git a/oldsite/3-nov-2014-for-the-shareholders.html b/oldsite/3-nov-2014-for-the-shareholders.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2fffe03 --- /dev/null +++ b/oldsite/3-nov-2014-for-the-shareholders.html @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ + + + + + ++ Our society may owe a huge debt to capitalism for our our economic successes, but it has also pushed corporations to seem evil. +
++ People like to mention how XYZ corporation is bad because all they want to do is make more and more money. This seems like a reasonable complaint, but it is not always some greedy top dog raking in the money. Often times it's the investors. +
++ Fiduciary Responsibility is a bit of a double edged sword. The idea, in this case, is that a corporation is beholden to its investors which gives the investors confidence in taking risk and ultimately investing in the company. +
++ Unfortunately for progress, these investors are typically only looking to make money and watch their portfolios grow. What does this lead to? Companies bowing to the investors' demands of a greater and greater return on their investments. While it makes sense for investors to want their money to grow, it tends to lead towards risk-adverse decisions. +
++ Companies can get in trouble for not protecting the investor's best interests to the point where they need to worry about the amount of extra profit they make each year. +
++ If this year we make an extra $100,000 and $200,000 the next, shit really hits the fan when year three only brought in $250,000. That increase was much smaller than the year before. Something must be wrong with the company. +
++ How dare they only make a 25% increase in profits this year? Last year they made a 100% increase. This is bullshit. +
++ Investors don't like extra risk, and if the company takes a big risk that fails, investors become unhappy. So instead of taking strides to the future, we are forced to take baby steps. +
++ This is assuming that the company isn't involved with the record industry which choose to keep its feet firmly planted in the ground, not even taking baby steps. Going so far as to sue their own customers so they could maintain their failing business model. Yay lawyers. +
++ The real problem is the way a lot of corporations are funded. If a corporation owes investors and shareholders, they are more beholden to make a steady increase of profits rather than taking risks, leaping into the future. +
++ Seriously, the investor is god mentality needs to be fixed. I admit that it would be scary not knowing what will happen with my investment if the company wasn't beholden to me, but at least the company could choose to do something risky without worrying about getting in trouble with the law because the shareholders didn't make enough profit. Then again ,I suppose I've already invested in quite a few things on crowd funding platforms that I have no idea what will actually + happen with my money. Oh well. Please comment below. +
+ + diff --git a/oldsite/9-nov-2014-Im-Sorry-No-Youre-Not.html b/oldsite/9-nov-2014-Im-Sorry-No-Youre-Not.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f5b01a4 --- /dev/null +++ b/oldsite/9-nov-2014-Im-Sorry-No-Youre-Not.html @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ + + + + + ++ Why do people apologize so often? Apologies should be reserved only for things that weren't intended, but even then... Why the hell would you say "sorry" for an accident? +
++ When would someone apologize for something? There are two situations that people tend to feel the need to say I'm sorry: +
+ In either case, it is said so people can feel better about themselves and attempt to absolve themselves from guilt. +
++ I'm sorry, but you're an asshole. +
++ No, you are the asshole. If you want to attack someone, why take it back? +
++ Oh, shit, sorry. I didn't mean to kick you in the face. +
++ Assuming the person speaking is honest, why would (s)he say "sorry"? No harm was intended, intent is king, so what is there to say sorry for? Doing some unintentional thing? Someone getting hit in the [em]crossfire[/em]? +
++ This is really the only time an apology can actually mean anything, and it is still someone pointless considering the intent was not to hurt. It would be much better to simply inform the other person that it was unintended. +
++ Back to the question of when people decide they need to apologize. A lot of times people like to voice their opinion and try to take it back before anyone can complain by saying sorry. +
++ Like the first situation above, this asshole actually apologizes before voicing his shitty opinion. Many people will say something along the lines of "I'm sorry, but [insert bullshit opinion here.]" +
++ No, you are not sorry asshole. If you feel you should be sorry about something before you say it, you wouldn't fucking say it. +
++ An honest apology would be a regret. Something you wish to take back. Regretting is a silly thing to even consider. What is the old saying? Never regret because at some point you wanted to do it? This leads straight into another problem. +
++ I don't regret telling you that you suck at guitar. I'm sorry, but it's true. +
++ Holy shit, that is the biggest bullshit of them all that people might say. Let's rip this apart: +
++ I don't regret telling you... Well no shit, you're giving me your opinion. +
++ I'm sorry, but it's true. What? Didn't you just tell me you didn't regret voicing your opinion? But still you apologize? So you regret saying the thing? But you already said you don't? +
++ Oh I get it, you are just trying to feel good about yourself giving non-constructive criticism of someone else's ability and get away with it. You're just being an asshole, yet still look like the good guy. +
++ Apologies can never be sincere. Either something happened that was an accident (which isn't the apologizer's fault), or it was intentional, in which case the person apologizing is just a dick. +
+ ++ Perhaps there is a bit of a theme here. I'm not a fan of many words that are polite. People either use them to get away with shit, or simply because they were taught that they are supposed to say these things, in which case it is useless extra words. The only polite words I'm ok with involve gratitude. Even then it is simply a ploy to get someone to think better of you. Tell me how I'm wrong below! +
+ + diff --git a/oldsite/index.html b/oldsite/index.html index 06b5140..0eb2c31 100644 --- a/oldsite/index.html +++ b/oldsite/index.html @@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ Go Home Old Site16-Nov-2014 - My partner... fuck you. That's not your partner.
+09-Nov-2014 - I'm Sorry? No, You're Not
+03-Nov-2014 - For The Shareholders
+27-Oct-2014 - Please? Fuck you!
20-Oct-2014 - Why? Why? Why? Question Everything