FINALLY BIG NASTY HAS RETURNED TO..
Ahh, I would love to say "I'm over Facebook.." that I don't check it every day or have it open as a tab open almost as soon as I open a computer. Or that I don't check the app every time I see a glimmer of a notification, often one which I have already seen, but just didn't click the right box for the notification to be removed. All of these would be lies, however.
Despite this, being Zucc'd does do me some favours. I definitely reduce my contact time with the platform, argue with people less and reduce the risk of damaging what slim hope I have of a successful career.. in almost any field.
Which is something that I wonder if I'm worried about from time to time. Given that we appear to be out of the COVID frying pan, into the fires of a potential WWIII, something I doubt will happen, but makes us all uncomfortable enough as we already deal with rising inflation, lack of rising wages, fuel costs, housing market nightmares and all that other late-stage capitalism, wealthy getting wealthier, poor getting poorer foulness we keep seeing.
As a shadowy cabal of ex-KGB hypercapitalist-cult-of-personality-fiends start rubbing up the old-imperialist-corporation-driven-industrial-military-complex West the wrong way over another country which seems inextricably forced to be that unfortunate piggy in the middle, who knows what to expect. I could sit and watch another bunch of lectures on why NATO shouldn't have been there, what these Neo Nazi Russian resistance movements were paid to do by the CIA (just like the Cold War days) how the US built Putin, or even *Shudder* that Peter Hitchins tripe my "I'm at most center-right" pal wants me to watch ontop of the thousands of hours of JBP nonsense he is insistent on. My head would be pickled. Besides that, even if I can criticize our capitalist overlords for days, at least they tend to give is a semblance of freedom of press and speech, whilst allowing LGBT+ groups to exist relatively unscathed. I'll stick with "the better the devil you know" option if I have to pick a winner.
Who knows, maybe it'll come and go.. like Crimea part 2. Horrible for civilians who end up being collateral damage, but to the rest of us just human sacrifice-statistics that we're so used to going "well, that's horrible but life goes on.." about. It's not good, but let's face it - that is how human beings appear to be. These things aren't a serious problem until they are literally on our doorstep. Our minds are probably built in a way to protect them from the countless horrors committed by the human race itself, particularly in the information age that we are bombarded with this stuff until we are desensitized beyond belief.
Really hoping China doesn't get any Taiwan ideas..
I just wish we could have things sorted out the old-fashioned way, with Putin pretending he's not a coward by stepping up to fight the Mayor of Kiev in a one-on-one no holds barred slugfest. If Putin comes to Ireland, I will chase him around a field with a lump of dogshite at the end of a golf club. I have two copies of the EA Games Classic, Freedom Fighters and I have beat the game on the hardest setting on numerous occasions.. even if I would fail the missions countless times before getting to the next level.
Though according to other reports, one of the towns just about safe from a nuclear attack on London is Winchester.. so maybe we should go there till it all blows over..
In my own news, I'm still tinkering away at the corporate day job, the multitude of side jobs, maybe making a few short films this year, maybe acting in the bigger projects of other people. It's cold and it'd be nice if these storms could chill out for a bit so I can walk up a hill or something, get a bit more vitamin D to shake the glumness of a failed relationship that never was, but I'll still get to training just enough to counteract the dirty Tim Horton breakfasts which follow them or reduce the fat saturation a good night on the homemade Old Fashioneds seems to encourage.
That'll do with the pretentious dribble for now. I've probably said something that will give the aul algorithm something to put me in the dunces corner for another month so I can reconsider my choice of vocabulary. If not, it's probably about time I set up a sweepstakes, everyone throws in a pound and names the day I get my next Zuccing. Winner gets the lot.
