- Sometimes businesses develop a product or service where the company name itself becomes part of the language. Two examples are Google and Rollerblades. Few people say, “Do a web search.” They say “Google it.” Similarly, no one says, “Let’s go inline skating.” They say, “Let’s go rollerblading.” I propose a new term: “Netflixing” a show. By that I mean taking a show based on a successful book, or alternatively adding seasons to a good show someone else developed, and f*cking it up with woke politics, characters, and storylines. Anyone who watches virtually any new streaming show from the past five years knows exactly what I mean. One example is the series, 13 Reasons Why. The first season was based on a book by Jay Asher. Although they sprinkled in some woke crap in the 1st season, the show mostly stuck to the book and did an outstanding job, earning new seasons that were not based on the book. Then, they Netflixed it up, turning it into an angry, preachy rant with characters and storylines that made ZERO sense in relation to the first season. The 2nd season was so excruciatingly bad, I couldn’t stomach any more. On top of that, Netflix gave into some critics and took out a couple of the most powerful scenes of the first season, dramatically reducing its emotional impact.
Even good shows on Netflix are weighed down with the fact they must, MUST, have their leftist checklist of items added, regardless of the plot. You is a perfect example. It’s another show based on a series of books (by Caroline Kepnes). It’s warped, but freakishly addicting. However, as with all Netflix shows, you have to roll your eyes and wait out the Netflixing scenes sprinkled throughout that have nothing to do with the plot (or books). For example, they add the usual unnessary gay characters, which is fine. Anytime you go into a Netflix show, you know to expect this. But added to that, as the protaganist narrates his stalking of his female targets, he regulary sprinkles in leftist politics: misogyny, guns, privilege, pro-vaccine screeds, and so on. There’s of course some subtle digs at Donald Trump, including a very gross sex fetish scene that I won’t get into. I could give more examples, but not without adding spoilers.
It’s not just Netflix, though. Every other major streaming service has sent out the word to Netflix up every new series. My wife and I just trudged through a series on Amazon called We Were Liars, based on a book by E. Lockhart. OMG, this woke screed was probably the worst series I’ve seen in years. Slow moving, preachy, and easily the most thoroughly unlikeable set of characters in recent memory. The book has over 1.2 million ratings on Goodreads, so I’m guessing it was pretty popular, but the Netflixed-up series is seven wasted hours of your life you won’t get back.
- With all the unhealthy food in stores nowadays, I’ve really been making a concerted effort to cook more at home. I’m not gifted or experienced in this area, but I didn’t expect the most difficult part would be finding a single f*cking recipe that isn’t 20 pages of text, popups, fake ad links, sticky posts, scrolling content, and all the other crap designed to show you everything but the recipe you seek. I just want ingredients and prep steps, preferably in a format I can read in one page. Is that too much to ask? Any site suggestions?
- I realize hackers and scams are a way of life nowadays, but can we admit that tech companies have gone a little overboard with their security?! I now have 264 username/passwords in my personal collection, all with increasingly complex requirements of letters/numbers/punctuation. I’m guessing most of you have almost as many, although you may not realize it, and most of you likely use the same passwords for many accounts. We all have to carry our phones everywhere, not only for two-factor authentication, but also, God help you, if you forget a password and have to reset it. My step daughter recently forgot her Apple password and needed to reset. They sent a code to her phone. Successfully entered. Then, they sent one to her gmail. Successfully entered. Then, they emailed a link to her recovery contact. Clicked on. After all that, Apple sent a message saying in the next few days instructions would be sent on what to do next. All for a girl who works at Culver’s, probably not a top target of hackers. 🙄 Google is almost as bad, as they not only send codes to your phone and email, but also sometimes to alternate apps like Youtube and alternate devices like your iPad. I get having extra security for banks or credit cards, but do we really need to lock up like Fort Knox accounts which no hacker in the world has anything to gain by attacking?
The entire point of two-party authentication and worse is to get you to accept the MARK OF THE BEAST (implantable chip, biometric measurement, etc.) as a more “convenient” alternative.
Agreed that security for things that don’t even have sensitive info has gotten out of hand