WALMART - ARE YOU IN NEED OF MEDICAL ASSISTANCE?

WALMART - ARE YOU IN NEED OF MEDICAL ASSISTANCE?

I don't frequent Walmart as much as the average middle America family would, in fact, I can't remember the last time I have been in one. Look, I'm not trying to say that I'm above that shit and go straight to trader joe's and whole foods and live in a sort of upper middle class bubble that can't hear the plight of the average blue collar worker. All I'm saying is that I just don't like going into the store. Not cause I'm better, but because the store itself is just so bad.

The wages they pay are terrible. They depend on welfare to support their workers, so in a sense, they are the worst type of welfare queens that the average Walmart shopper complains about folks being on welfare and taking advantage of the system if they were minorities, yet have no problem when this company is just subsidizing a living wage to their employees and pocketing all the savings in corporate welfare.

The quality of the stuff they have is subpar to me because they nickle and dime every vendor to give them the lowest possible price they can afford to make it at, which in turn makes it that manufacturers are basically screwed out at giving their own employees a proper wage. Often times making it so that the lowest possible price they can get something at just gets made in China and takes the jobs out of locals. It is what killed the rust belt. The inability to meet the demands of big box stores like Walmart and then got put out of business because Walmart put all the competition out of business. With no one to sell to in this race to the bottom, it basically fucked over the American dream in every possible way you can imagine.

Anyhow, that was a couple of paragraph rant that had nothing to do with what I am about to talk about. Something even stranger happening in the land of Falling Prices. You see, the company is completely getting into the world of collecting data on its patrons. For what purpose? I have no clue, but it is completely creepy in every possible way because it's going to effect you when you're simply walking in the store.

Walmart put out a patent for a shopping cart that reads your biometrics as you push it through the aisles. They're straight up going all Baymax from Big Hero 6 on us and will be reading your heart rate as you walk and checking the stress levels. I mean, who the hell wouldn't be stressed and have a high heart rate walking through a store that basically makes you wonder why you should even be alive.

The Biometric feedback cart handle will tell the company what the shopper's pulse, temperature, and force level when they're touching the cart's handles are. I guess it's to see if you're tense, stressed or what have you. I mean, when you're forced to buy there to make ends meet, how the hell are you not going to be stressed?  The justification?  They want to make sure that if someone is about to need medical assistance, they can assist them. Which sounds really specific and more to the point, really like a waste of money on their end.

This makes me wonder how many times does Walmart have to deal with medical emergencies that this is the route they go down? Then again, they do have a shit ton of locations, so the chances of having some sort of medical emergency in the store increases because they are literally everywhere in America.

Though, let's call a spade a spade. This isn't going to be used to help medical situations. Not in the fucking slightest. This is going to be used to collect the data that you are one fat fuck pushing a cart in Walmart and perhaps they read that your pulse is high, which will alert you to the fact that they have very low low prices on reduced sodium salt and push the blood pressure medication in the pill aisle on you.

I mean, not like they couldn't just assume that if you were riding on one of those rascal scooters anyway. But this goes beyond that. You may be in great health. Great blood pressure and all that, but still get advertisements on work out gear. Holding those handles too tight while going down to the clothing section? Maybe you're too stressed and they can advertise some tea or other relaxing item like a case of beer to you.

THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS WHEN THEY COLLECT YOUR DATA!

Just remember, you aren't a person to them. You don't matter. You simply are something they can advertise to and make money. But hey, it's not even just you that is special, it's basically collecting data as a whole to see how many, on average, consumers have really bad health and what products do they need to stock up in that specific area store to cater to you and make the most money.

I'm sure Walmart totally wants to just do all this R&D to see when your stress levels are high and to prevent some morons from fighting.. Totally.

DONUT MAN AND HUELL HOWSER

DONUT MAN AND HUELL HOWSER

Over this past weekend we saw the end of the strawberry seasonal stuffed donuts at Donut Man. These things are amazing. It's a regular donut that is cut in half and stuffed with this strawberry goodness that can only be described as magical.

Donut Man is located in Glendora, a place were folks even in L.A. just don't bother to go since it's sort of on the opposite side of a hill from the 210 freeway and on the historic Route 66. So it's a bit of land of time forgot unless you're really into that vintage nostalgic thang, know what I'm saying.

I first discovered this place because I loved Huell Howser's Visiting and California's Gold programs on public television. It was a show that had the host, Huell Howser, basically be surprised and in awe at everything as if he just had fallen off a turnip truck from middle America. But his excitement for things in our own backyard was something I yearned for. To be that happy to go and visit stuff that I should be visiting and not missing out on.

So in the interest to just not write all that much more today, here's the episode hosted by Huell and visiting Donut Man.



Man, talk about an easy day off.

YOU ARE EL

YOU ARE EL 

That title doesn't make sense, does it? It sort of does if you were to write it out and sound it out like you normally would with something.  Anyhow, it's a take on URL, which it seems that is in danger lately as Google wants to just get rid of the whole URL system.

Google wants to kill the URL. And if you're having a tough time thinking of what could possibly be used in place of it, you're not alone. https://t.co/sNIqOnoLCr

— WIRED (@WIRED) September 4, 2018

Hmmm, what the hell happened to the whole montra of "do no evil" Google, it seems like you've been up to a lot of evil and annoying shit as of late. Google seems to have changed that motto to "If it aint broke, break it!" So it will be worse, whatever the outcome is.

But hell, can we not fucking do this? It seems like steps backwards all around. All I imagine is some horrid windows phone type user interface. Remember back in the day when AOL had their own special links, that people would list both as a URL and an AOL shortcut on their CDs or cereal boxes? Yeah, that shit was funny. Enter the Keywords!  Like if that shit could actually exist these days.

Thanks for the HTML tip, bro! This just seems to be another move towards an ever more boring internet with no independent websites anymore. Just you watch, they'll get rid of the URL and probably next they'll get rid of direct access to files, which is already sort of happening with "apps" instead of programs getting executed. Seems pretty clear that the URL thing being hidden because they want to cover up all the tracking shit that they pack into URL's.

You never noticed those long ass URL links to products or links where they straight up are tracking your every movement? I guess the irony here is that google honestly doesn't need to hide that shit because nobody actually cares about what is in the URL except IT nerds.

Going back to the subject of how Google really fucked up things, let's look at their email service. Why the hell is it moving emails I sent out last week but haven't been responded to yet to the top of my inbox with no intuitive way to just make it go away without deleting it? I don't want to snooze the conversation and you showing me that someone didn't reply to my email just makes me feel more like they ignored the whole email to begin with. It doesn't make me want to follow up with them. It makes me want to crawl up in to a ball and cry that I'm ignored.

If I actually wanted to send a follow up, I would have by now. Stop trying to be so helpful you piece of shit program. I'm just using you to send messages over the internet. I generally find it stupid to complain about things changing like this, because I think the new thing is totally fine, but fuck, I really think they fucked up big with the new Gmail.  It's as if Google just figured that they could make everything about the Algorithms, and take direct choice away so we can pump even more advertising down people's throats.

Why yes! This is computers and the internet! We need more opaqueness, less choices, less control, and for everything to be just as fucking ugly and unworkable as possible. It's what the users want! Fuck your subscription channel. Fuck your gmail. Fuck all your news! We'll tell you what news you like and you'll damn well like it.

On top of that, Google just straight up non-chalantly drops products whenever they damn well feel like it. It's as if the company just likes saying to the world; Eat shit!

THE GOP'S GONNA HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE

THE GOP'S GONNA HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE

Taylor Swift did a bold move the other day in coming out and claiming that she is a Liberal, or as GOP and other 3 yr old babies would say  "A libtard" or whatever. I mean, is that even an insult that warrants acknowledgement? I can't understand if it is or if I should just be sad for the person attempting to launch an insult they can't even handle or wrap their minds around. I just shake my head at that shit.

Anyhow,Taylor Swift took to Instagram to post the following;

I’m writing this post about the upcoming midterm elections on November 6th, in which I’ll be voting in the state of Tennessee. In the past I’ve been reluctant to publicly voice my political opinions, but due to several events in my life and in the world in the past two years, I feel very differently about that now. I always have and always will cast my vote based on which candidate will protect and fight for the human rights I believe we all deserve in this country. I believe in the fight for LGBTQ rights, and that any form of discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender is WRONG. I believe that the systemic racism we still see in this country towards people of color is terrifying, sickening and prevalent.
I cannot vote for someone who will not be willing to fight for dignity for ALL Americans, no matter their skin color, gender or who they love. Running for Senate in the state of Tennessee is a woman named Marsha Blackburn. As much as I have in the past and would like to continue voting for women in office, I cannot support Marsha Blackburn. Her voting record in Congress appalls and terrifies me. She voted against equal pay for women. She voted against the Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, which attempts to protect women from domestic violence, stalking, and date rape. She believes businesses have a right to refuse service to gay couples. She also believes they should not have the right to marry. These are not MY Tennessee values. I will be voting for Phil Bredesen for Senate and Jim Cooper for House of Representatives. Please, please educate yourself on the candidates running in your state and vote based on who most closely represents your values. For a lot of us, we may never find a candidate or party with whom we agree 100% on every issue, but we have to vote anyway.
So many intelligent, thoughtful, self-possessed people have turned 18 in the past two years and now have the right and privilege to make their vote count. But first you need to register, which is quick and easy to do. October 9th is the LAST DAY to register to vote in the state of TN. Go to vote.org and you can find all the info. Happy Voting!

I will not deny that Taylor Swift has my heart. I mean, come on, you can't shake it off... shake it off.  But I'm really curious why this is career suicide. She's just stating her belief and if you can deal with her stating and airing the dirty laundry of her break ups, then why is any different than the TMI that she often unloads in entertaining fashion?

Oh, I see, it's because it's against the GOP, that's why. and anything against the GOP establishment is typically seen as anti-american anti-patriotic or just a bunch of snowflakes being snowflakes and getting butt hurt about something. I see now.

But seriously, was she supposed to go for the approval of these idiots? By creating this endorsement against a party that does not have her best interest in their mind as a woman, they could go fuck themselves. Shit, this is telling in itself;

Her endorsements drew much praise but also a fierce backlash. Some white supremacists who have formed an odd cult following around the singer cried betrayal, while some more mainstream fans said she should have stuck to her music.
On Monday, Donald Trump joined in, saying he now liked Swift’s music “about 25% less”.
Criticism is nothing new for Swift, whose political silence has drawn just as much vitriol as her decision to speak out.

Oh man, Trump likes her 25% less? Woah, sick burn there, homie. Also, why the fuck would anyone want their following to be from a cult of white supremacist. I would totally be feeling off if my fan base was all white cloaked fools who hate minorities. Good riddance.

I do have to hand it to The Onion for very quickly coming up with this response to the news.  Taylor Swift Breaks Political Silence To Throw Support Behind Restoring Shōgun To Throne Of Japan

Come on, now that's funny. That's how you critique something like this. Either way, I'm glad Taylor Swift stood up and fuck all those fuckers. Just makes me like her even more.

BETTER CALL SAUL - OR SNAIL MAIL HIM

BETTER CALL SAUL - OR SEND HIM A LETTER

In an episode of Better Call Saul a few weeks back, there was a situation where a judge was getting tons and tons of letters from a small town in Louisiana for Huell's court case. Well, if you looked at the fine detail of the letter and recall that this show is all about making sure every little detail matters, you would see that the letters can be sent to;

The Honorable Judge Benedict Munsinger
Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court
415 Tijeras Ave NW
Albuquerque, NM 87102

The address actually is the correct address for the courthouse. So I wonder what would happen if that court was flooded with a slew of letters about this breaking bad spinoff topic.

This wouldn't be the first time that the show caused a situation that crossed in to the world of the real. The Walter White house used to get pizzas thrown on top of their roof constantly in recreating that scene when Walter just chucks a pizza straight up there. So much so that they had to request folks not do that, to the point where they just put a gated fence around the house so you couldn't even trespass onto the drive way.

So yeah, mailing the judge is totally going to be the new pizza on the roof for Better Call Saul fans, isn't it?  

ORSON WELLS AINT GOT NOTHING ON MODERN MORONS

ORSON WELLS AINT GOT NOTHING ON MODERN MORONS

Over the weekend a Space X rocket was launched, confusing the fuck out of a lot of people for some dumb reason even though there's about roughly one launch every couple of months. It looked a little something like this



I'm just really surprised that since we live in a place that regularly gets rocket launches out of the base just north of Santa Barbara, that we have a couple of space manufactures and companies here, that no one can get a grip on the fact that a giant thing is in the sky.

Sort of reminds me of the whole story about War of the Worlds radio program that was claimed to have scared folks into a panic in thinking that it was real. The actual reality to that is that those reports were false and the radio show didn't actually cause panic in the streets. In fact, the whole craze of reporting it as such was simply a matter that the News Print industry wanted to discredit and put a black eye on radio since it was a much faster means of delivering the news than having to actually write a story about it, print it and get it out to the masses. So it was Print media's way of just throwing some shade on the whole medium of radio.

Yeah, I think I just ruined your Halloween and the notion that masses could be stirred up so easily. Don't worry, they still can. The only difference is that now the attention span of that outrage is much shorter and moved on quickly to another outrage without ever really resolving the first.

Besides, everyone knows that the pretty blue and white glow that this Space X rocket was just chem trails and we're all just getting dumber and dumber due to government stooges suppressing the masses... Okay, maybe not, but I'm sure someone will make a stupid youtube video about it soon in wondering if another Space X rocket is some how a UFO just really showing off blasting away from the earth.

Come back, Alf.

YELP'S COMPLAINT LINE

YELP'S COMPLAINT LINE

So I used to write a lot of yelp reviews. Mainly because I was bored and I liked food. But since the company is a worthless piece of shit that seems to muscle in their reviews and get paid off to take off negative reviews constantly.

Well, after about 2k reviews, and about a couple of dozen getting removed over the course of the years, I got the notice that yet another one of my fine free reviews to their site was stripped because, as the letter put it.

We typically remove reviews that address culturally sensitive subjects in ways that reinforce negative stereotypes or make light of physical or sexual violence.

In this case, we felt that your content of Angel's Cabaret crossed that line, even if you didn't intend it to. The text of your review is copied for reference below, and we hope you'll continue to share your experiences on Yelp while keeping the Content Guidelines in mind.

So what was the offending content to all of this?  Here's the removed Content:

This place is clearly the official bar of the Anaheim Angels, right? No?! Then why is it that I see the hot dog vendor from the game chilling and getting a lap dance? I swear, we saw the dude at the stadium just hours before serving up wieners. it's only fitting that on his off time he's still serving them up.

This is a bikini bar that has an actually impressive selection of beer. Though who the fuck can think of enjoying some Arrogant Bastard when you can get some cheap ass pitchers of beer to go with the atmosphere of pool tables and whatever the hell is going on with the pole on stage.

The trouble comes in when you're pretty much feeling like the ladies are hard up to make the quota of shots/dances/etc. sold. They will constantly bug you to buy their shit and help a girl up.

Every time I've come here with Cheaptimes, we've always had the snaggletooth looking waitress try to unload her pussy shots on us. And like clockwork, Cheaptimes always rejects her.

It's actually pretty damn funny and if I go and that doesn't happen, I'll probably feel like I've gone to Disney and not seen Mickey Mouse.

So yeah, it's the type of place you want to get a cheap beer and potentially get harassed by waitresses who need to sell a certain quota of drinks otherwise they'd get even poorer treatment at work. Go figure.

Why thank you, Yelp Support Team of San Francisco, Ca. You are guarding the internet from crazy reviews that may be offensive about a bikini bar in the shady part of Anaheim.  You sir, are the first line of defense.

I feel like I should defend myself a little. First off, I'm not sure what exactly was the offending material. I was writing about a bikini bar. A place that the waitresses walk around in their..... well, skimpiest of outfits without legally becoming a nude bar. Because as you well know, you can't have alcohol in a place where the tits are flopped out.

Could it have been the comment about the Angels stadium hot dog vendor there? Because funny story. My friend, Cheaptimes. Yes, that is what we call him on account of him always wanting a cheap time and having a paid for truck, decided to invite me to an Angels game before we made our way to this fine established drinking spot. And sure enough when we got there after the game had ended, the vendor who sold us Hot Dogs no more than 20 minutes prior at the game, was there getting a lap dance. It was a bit of a small world.

Could it be because of the "Pussy shot"? I mean, that was literally the name of the shots that they put on the waitresses to walk around and try to sell to customers. They were around $10 a shot and probably were the nastiest thing you could put in your mouth in the place. My friend constantly brushed them away.

Oh, I know, snaggletooth? I get it. Look, this is the #METOO era and all, but let's call a spade a spade. In this case, someone with the worse overbite possible and it's the truth. If I can't tell the truth in an online review about a shitty bikini bar, then what rights do I have left as an American?

But hey, I still am not sure what the offense material is in this as they didn't really point it out and since they just cut and pasted my entire review, I don't know if it's going to teach me any lessons on if I ever want to write another review for the free website of Yelp.

Soooooooo great job.