Simple Suggestions...And a Word on Pregnancy...

 "Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error..." -- Marcus Tullius Cicero

More Like "Fact-F*ckers"...

 "The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity..." -- Christopher Hitchens

Quick Hits...

 Been extremely busy this past week, so no time to write. However, here's a few tidbits to tide you over, Minions.

Galactic Housekeeping #17 (The IRS, Identity Theft, and Your Master's Voice Edition)

 Just a few tidbits that will keep you updated on this particular corner of the galaxy...

Data Is Power...

 

From the comments on An Open Letter to Facebook:

"They haven't learned that the new, softer dictatorships do not make the same mistakes as the old ones when it comes to enforcing conformity and rigidity of thought and they have the technology to make that task much easier.

This isn't the fight to give up on. "

Lo and behold, Mr. Overlord -
this comment alone is worth to elaborate another post on!

An Open Letter To Facebook...

 "Apparently, you can post "Death to America" with impunity. You can call for the elimination of the White Race. You can easily express your belief that all republicans and conservatives should die. You can even write how you would like to see a Senator or President of the United States assassinated, and Facebook will do nothing about it. You can lie about a pandemic. You can use Facebook apps to overthrow a government, as the Taliban just did, and Facebook will maintain a constant state of inertia. Make a statement about Afghans suffering what you believe they deserve, however, and suddenly, there's 'Community Standards'" -- The Overlord

Explaining Censorship to A Blithering Idiot...

 "Democracy and Socialism have nothing in common but one word, Equality. But notice the difference: while Democracy seeks Equality in Liberty, Socialism seeks Equality in restraint and servitude..." -- Alexis de Tocqueville.

What Fresh Devilry Is This?

 

"The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn." -- Alvin Toffler

You All Suck (#44 - Of Barking Dogs and Dog Whistles)

 Q; Why does your dog bark so much?

A: Because he can't speak English.

Galactic Housekeeping (#12 - Purging Big Tech and Other Stuff...)

 "A Man does good business when he rids himself of a turd..." -- Edward I, King of England

A Majority of One (Facebook, Twitter and Google Can Kiss My Ass Edition)

 "Am I dreaming? Has the world gone mad -- or have I?" -- H.G. Wells

Steve And Alice

"The Kind of Man who wants the Government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic." -- H.L. Mencken

"A much-larger covey hails from the stalwart states that begin with I -- like Iowa and Indiana and Illinois. Bred with just the right combination of fresh air, roughousing, and ignorance, these primitive blondes set out from the cornfields looking like starlight with limbs." -- Amor Towles, "Rules of Civility"

You All Suck (Example #33 - Mixed (Douche)Bag Edition)

"There are few things that bring me joy in this life: the sound of a baby's laughter, the softness of a puppy, a good cup of strong coffee, a good night's sleep, and learning of the passing of yet another dumbass Hippie Icon." -- The Overlord

An Amalgam: Censorship, the Mailman and MLK...

"It is now common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that'. As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more than a whine. 'I find that offensive'. It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that'. Well so fucking what." -- Stephen Fry

Galactic Housekeeping #7

"There is more than one way to burn a book, and the world is full of people running around with lit matches." -- Ray Bradbury

You All Suck (Example #26 - Coincidences)

"It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results. Or, if on the other hand, events are limited to the combinations of some finite number, then of necessity, the same must reoccur, and in the same sequence."  -- Plutarch, Plutarch's Lives (Volume 2)

A Majority of One (A Mental Health Fortnight...)

Note to Readers: The thickness of the new breed of bullshit was such as to make it necessary for your Overlord to step away from the keyboard these last two weeks just to avoid committing an act of mass murder.

You've Lost Your Freakin' Minds...

"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." -- Benjamin Franklin

You Don't Know Tech: Google Steps on the Weenie.

A wise man (whether it was Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain or the author of the Book of Proverbs is in dispute) once said "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

We live in an age where the fool has countless opportunities to remove doubt, and furthermore, is actively encouraged to do so.

Your Overlord is pleased: the sooner idiots self-identify, the sooner we can start killing them off.

Galactic Housekeeping #2

On a technical note: We're having a problem here at Galactic Central with regards to Facebook.