* It’s easy to spot a big-government leftist shill in the media by listening to the language they use. For example, the same ones calling the Epstein saga a “conspiracy theory” are the same ones who called January 6th an “insurrection.” “Far right” is used to describe common sense beliefs, usually shared by a majority of the population. However, “far left” doesn’t exist in the MSM vocabulary. Anyone who uses logical reasoning and critical thinking that goes against a Ruling Class narrative is called a “conspiracy theorist,” while the mainstream media countering libertarian arguments will usually use a standby such as “Critics say…”
* Another way to spot a Ruling Class shill is to notice the definitiveness of their stories. For example, they will always hedge anything negative about Obama, Hillary, and other Democrats or Deep State allies. They’ll add “alleged,” say its “criticism from Republican lawmakers,” or some other qualifer to make you doubt the credibility. However, “Epstein committed suicide.” “Trump continued his false claim of 2020 voter fraud.” “Conspiracy theorists continued to spread misinformation about the Covid virus leaking from a Wuhan lab.” “The laptop was a product of a Russian disinformation campaign. It did not belong to Hunter.” No hedging. Whatever narrative they’re pushing, there’s no doubt, 100 percent fact, indisputable. 👌
* Message to every business that sells on a website: if you don’t list a price for your product, I won’t be buying it. I’m not going to “call for price.” Not only do I assume the price is outrageously high, but I also don’t want to listen to a sales pitch. If you’re not trustworthy enough to list a price on your website, do you think a salesperson on the phone will convince me?
* Related to that theme, when did it become a trend with restaurants to make us “Start an order” to see what’s on the f*cking menu? When I look for a website menu, it’s almost always because I want to know the options before I arrive in person. It’s bad enough that some Branch Covidian decided it’d be a good idea to make us scan QR codes to see a menu, now we have to deal with this? Also, in the past, I rarely looked at restaurant prices, especially for something like fast food. But nowadays I have to check to see if I need a 2nd mortgage to pay for the meal, so let me see price in advance.
* If you work in I.T. and are considering re-organizing the locations of menus, options, and settings in an existing app or website, please reconsider. This is annoying for two reasons. 1) Those of us who’ve taken the time to learn the locations must now re-learn from scratch, and 2) People who google “How to….” will likely be given solutions that reference the old layout. In other words, the solutions given in reddit, message boards, and FAQs give outdated step-by-step instructions.
* Autocorrect is generally a nice feature, but I seem to waste a lot of time backspacing for some things that your precious A.I. should have figured out by now. For example, can you please add stock symbols to your dictionaries? I’m tired of typing AMZN and instead getting a quote for AMEN. And maybe add a few more context checks before auto-replacing words?
* It’s awesome that steaming servies and learning websites track our completions of content with checkmarks or whatever, but what if we want to rewatch a series? The progress checkmarks are then an annoyance if we lose track of where we’re at, especially with Prime Video that keeps taking me to some two-minute unwatched part of the credits in a later season. How about a feature to just reset all checkmarks for a series?
* I realize A.I. assistants aren’t human, but I can’t let go of the Midwest manners I was raised on. I therefore still say please and thank you to Siri and other assistants rather than just bark orders. Of course, maybe Skynet will remember those manners and spare me after the machine uprising. 🤔
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