Posts in the category “rants”

Ranting and raving about fraud and abuse in the welfare system while blithely ignoring fraud and abuse in the White House doesn’t make you a conservative (or a liberal). It makes you an asshole.

To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin:

I’d rather 100 welfare scam artists enrich themselves than 1 child go to bed hungry.

I’ve been on hold waiting to talk to someone at Tesla support for twenty minutes now.

Which app’s score presentation do you think I prefer?

I appreciate that the CBS one shows the pitching data, which is (traditionally) the second-most important meta data about the game. But the fact that I can’t tell who won the game, which is the most important data point anyone wants to see, makes their alert more annoying than it is useful. If it wasn’t for the CBS football pick’em games, I’d delete the app entirely because of this dumb alert. The app from The Athletic is far superior.

The font size of the instructions on a box of Near East couscous is insultingly, aggressively tiny.

I’m getting really tired of companies trying to sell me $85 pairs of gym shorts.

Dear Amazon Music,
If I say, “Alexa, play Taylor Swift songs,” I don’t want to hear anything else. I don’t want to hear songs that remind you of Taylor Swift. I don’t want to hear artists that sound like Taylor Swift. I want to hear… Taylor Swift. This should not be hard.

A great part of parenting is when your child suddenly decides to stop liking something they’ve eaten literally every day for years. So now I have four dozen boxes of Froot Loops in the garage that will never be eaten.

If your HTML form does not perform its submit action when I click the RETURN key, it is broken.