Learn to write “Smarter Than a Fifth Grader (Who Rode the Short Bus to School and Spend Five Years in Fifth Grade Before Being Passed ON)™.”
YW.
The Country’s In the Very Best of Hands
Oh, you just KNOW it is. “They” (the crazy politicians who have destroyed the economy and the Dhimmicrap Operatives with Bylines in the Hivemind, in particular) all say so, and we KNOW how important the truth is to them. ?
Po-tay-toe/Po-tah-toe?
Second ‘graph in an “isekai” novel apparently written by a seventh grade boy refers to a “weighty, hardcover novel” and references the weighty subject(s) it details:
“Every page was filled with gorgeous alien babes, heroic duels, and shitloads of Martian gold.”
Yeh. Filed in (digital) file 13. Hey! I gave it a fair shot! Circular filed after 1.5 paragraphs shows I gave it a “fair shot,” doesn’t it?
*smh*
At least by ditching it early I only killed a few “little grey cells.”
I finally discovered how so many subliterate Dunning-Krugerands who are hormonally stalled at seventh grade (but who have yet to conquer fifth grade vocabulary, grammar, etc.) can have the utter gall to self-publish:
“My mama told me I am a genius, so I don’t have to learn what it takes for other people to master the craft of writing, ‘cos I R so smart that I know everything!”
#gagamaggot
Other examples include an almost COMPLETE lack of firearms knowledge “informing” a Dunning-Krugerand’s descriptive narrative involving firearms. “No, chicky-poo. It does NOT work that way,” is a common thought when I run across a writer with an Alec Baldwin-level, Hollyweirdish “mis-stupid-ignorance” of firearms. *smh* “No, dearie. Keep the booger hook off the bang switch, and don’t look down the barrel that way unless you INTEND to end it all, mmmK?”
And then there are the dumbass Dunning-Krugerands who bailed out on science and technology before they skated past fifth grade “explaining” how chemical processes (say, making steel) work. “Yeh, sweetie, you can make a firearm out of what you describe, but expect to lose a hand, an eye, or your head when it blows up, ‘K?”
*smh*
Or writing about horses (riding, caring for, etc.) or camping or tracking or whatever: no, none of those things work like that. Oh, and talking to guuuurrrrls! *sigh* I swear, seventh grade boys’ hormone-damaged brains can come up with better dialog than some of these po’ autolobotomized dummies.
But, it’s a Brave New World where ANYONE can publish a book (and where even tradpubbed books are frequently as bad, because not just writers but gatekeeper editors, proofreaders, etc., are often just as subliterate as the worst self-pubs).
Special Features
PC Mag, once an informative source for info about, you know, PCs and related items now wants to clue me in about “The Best TVs under $1,000.” Yeh, well, if I’m gonna eke out juuuust under a kilobuck for a TV, it had better bring me my coffee. . . and shut itself off afterwards.
Stylin’ for the Coming Dhimmicrapocalypse?
The urban ghillie suit. Stylin’ for the “free range ‘organic’ vegan” hunter:
Who Really Needs Weather Reports?
Well, a cold front is moving in, probably rain as well. I have a “report” from a source that’s been pretty reliable for the past five++ decades, the same “source” that taught me The First Lesson of Horsemanship”
“Always watch (be aware of) your feet. . . and the horse’s.”
Yep, my left foot, the “record keeper for The First Lesson,” has submitted multiple “pain reports” today, as in “with every step.” *heh*
Spies or. . . Undercover Operatives?
I guess it may depend on how seriously one takes the problem of The Biden Crime Family, eh? 😉
“Secret Service agents assigned to the security details for President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are involved in a bizarre bribery and infiltration scheme operated by a pair of phony federal agents, according to a new report.”
It Never Fails
Amid my gaggle of computing devices, I have a couple of Win10 computers, and I use them fairly regularly (right now, for example). One thing that annoys and amuses me in almost equal measure is the behavior of Windows Defender in labeling software of which I approve as “potentially unwanted software” and modifications I make to system elements (like the hosts file) as “dangerous,” when all those programs and mods do is limit Me$$y$oft’s privacy intrusions, tracking, etc.
I do go ahead and rescan those “dangerous” (to Me$$y$oft’s nefarious intentions) applications labeled as “PUPs” with trusted third party antimalware even though I scanned them with multiple trusted third party antimalware applications before I installed them, and invariably the third party software calls ’em good (because the only “malicious” behavior they have is limiting bad behavior by Me$$y$oft, of course).
So, far, the rule is invariable: safe, effective blocking of Me$$y$oft spyware is gonna be labeled as malware by Me$$y$oft. Of course.
Better Than One Note?
Well, for me it is. YMMV, of course, but ANY time I can get a third party app that works as well or, preferably, better than a Me$$y$oft app, I snap it right up.
Zim Desktop Wiki. I installed it as a portable on a flash drive. Handy for me. Available in flavors for various OSes. Also handy.
Just More Typical Me$$y$oft Woes
ACK. I hate Win10, sometimes. Usually it is. . . juuuust usable. But, when an installation needs repair, quite often I have found that a wipe/complete reinstall is needed. Refresh option? “Automagical” Me$$y$oft “repair”? Sucks dead bunnies through a straw. *meh* _Sometimes_ works. And yeh, there are other options, but usually they SDBTAS as well (Oh, you’ve made a .wim and expect to recover from that? You are so cute. . . ). If there is no usable THIRD PARTY full system backup, things get sticky. WinPE and a refresh/repair installation sometimes works. But sometimes, a fresh hard drive and full reinstallation of OS and all apps is just the only way to go. . . Resurrecting data files not found in a recent backup isn’t all that hard (especially if they’ve been mirrored to a NAS as well), but seriously, Me$$y$oft, why is Win10 so fragile and why do the built-in “repair” tools SDBTAS? Oh, right. Because you can do it and still expect users to continue to lap up the sludge. . .
If I did not need Windows for ONE app, I’d be gone on all my personal comps. (ONE app that WINE does not work well to use under ‘nix OSes *sigh*)
(Yeh, I resurrected a lil lappy a couple months ago w/a HD replacement/clone op, but this is different sitch.)