Well, I really wish I hadn’t done that math, but here we are. I stumbled upon a menu from October 2019, an artifact from the before-time if you will. The menu is for local restaurant serving home-style/cafe food. I compared prices for the major menu items that we would typically order, and what I found was a very consistent increase of $3-$4 per entree.  This increase averaged out to a 28% increase in the cost of nearly every single thing across the menu. This number far more accurately reflects the actual inflation Americans have experienced in the last 5 years.

The government wants you to believe that the inflation rate is only 2.8%, but the way they calculate this number is misleading. When your average person thinks of inflation, they’re thinking of what things used to cost a few years ago, not what they cost last month. A 28% inflation in 5 years is catastrophic, and we’re talking a 28% inflation on basic needs, FOOD.  This is why there is a genuine affordability crisis in America right now. NO ONE’s salary’s have gone up 28% in 5 years. How could they have? That’s an absolutely insane rate to keep up with, yet this is the actual inflation rate everyone is being forced to deal with right now.  This essentially means every working class American (and if you’re reading this right now, that’s you bub) has suffered a 28% pay loss in the last 5 years. Your government does not care. Your elected officials do not care. They aren’t working for you, they’re working for the corporations. Everything we were taught about how our government works was a fucking LIE.  Welcome to late stage capitalism.

History will see that he manufactured chaos because he had nothing good to offer. No vision. No ideas. Just tearing down what  others have built, and blamed others for his shortcomings. Generations will be taught he was nothing but a pathetic conman and a failure.

Inkjet printers, the bane of every computer user’s existence. I have been through SO MANY inkjet printer brands over the years, and EVERY SINGLE ONE eventually has the same problem, despite my attempts to maintain/use them and keep them in working order. I have been switching printer brands every time one fails, in the hopes of finding a manufacturer who has figured it out. I have had every brand I have tried fail, and every failure mode is the exact same thing; clogged printer nozzles. My most recent attempt at keeping an inkjet printer from committing eventual suicide involved a powershell script set up on my computer that once every week would print a color-test page to the printer. I had the idea that if I kept the ink flowing through the printer, it wouldn’t dry out and clog up. This printer was even a different style of printer, an ink-tank style printer that I thought would help with the drying out issue from other inkjets.

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I have become extremely disillusioned with massive social-media sites, as well as supporting large corporations in general. I only see them as doing bad and evil in this world and I am done participating in their games.

As such, I have removed all social media sharing buttons and interactions from this site and have also removed all Google tracking tags from my websites. I haven’t even logged in to those Google dashboards in years, so why am I continuing to send those assholes free data? I’m done. I’m pulling out as much crap from Google as I can, they’ve lost the rights.

I will no longer be handing the tech-oligarchy a single bit of traffic. If you’d like to share something you see here some place else, you’re more than welcome to. I’m just not providing you the buttons to do it.

DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER.

– George Orwell

Google’s relentless pursuit of profits has taken the best browser on the web and instantly turned it in to decidedly the WORST browser on the web. You see, Google has made back end code changes to their web browser that effectively DISABLES ad-blocking plugins from fully working properly. Why? Because Google is an ad company. Their job is to shove ads down your throat in every corner of the 2025 hellscape known as the internet. Google made this decision solely to remove your ability to block their ads on your computer. Pretty fucked up huh? Yeah, I thought so too. A few months ago I installed Firefox and imported my bookmarks and installed matching plugins. I have been trialing it as a replacement on all of my computers and android devices, and I’m glad to say I have not found any issues at all, and in fact it has been BETTER than Chrome in some places. For example, Firefox on Android has some plugin support, meaning you can even install an adblocker on your phone.

When I fired up Chrome this morning it told me my ad blocking plugin was now disabled, as well as other plugins I regularly use. I already had my game plan in place. All I needed to do was bring over 3 new bookmarks I’d added and I was done. I have uninstalled Chrome from all of my computers and am back on Firefox full time. I will not play Google’s little fuckboy games of intentionally removing functionality from a web browser in the sake of profits. This is where Firefox and the Mozilla foundation stand apart from the scum from the likes of Google and Microsoft.

I now fully endorse Firefox as the ONLY good web browser. Chrome and Edge are officially in the “hostile browser” category that are doing bad things in the sake of profits. I STRONGLY recommend uninstalling Chrome from all of your devices ASAP!

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

Emma Lazarus
November 2, 1883

When will the madness stop? Probably not for another 3.5 years or so I’d wager a guess.

Company after company are raising prices as a direct result of Trump’s tariffs on foreign goods. We, the American people, are directly paying for Trump’s tariffs. If you thought this was going to work any other way, you have not been paying attention.

News stories like this one are unending. Every company, every good, cost has gone up. The other day I looked for an Iced Tea maker, we’ve always bought them for about $30 from a local store in the past. Looked in to it again as we need a new one, and they’re now over $80 for the exact same unit.

This is just the beginning, the start of Trump’s tariff tax hikes that the American people are going to pay for. Why would anyone vote for this? Why did they want this? How stupid must you be?

A conspiracy so juicy, so big, so beautiful, it must be true!

Elon has dropped lots of interesting information after his work in the White House has finished.  Apparently the Epstein files have not been released to protect Donald Trump because he is in them… 👀 

After spending significant time with the President, Elon also mentions that the person in the White House known as Trump may very well be a body double:

Top minds running the country, or just a bunch of brain rotted boomers? A true mystery we may never actually figure out the truth to. 🤔