Ministry of Truth Rejected

Sorry about missing last week. I had about 0.5Mbps download speed and 0 upload. This week I have 0.03Mbps upload. Blame Verizon.

In brief.

It looks like the Ministry of Truth will not be getting off the ground. https://news.yahoo.com/biden-administration-considers-shutting-down-151257861.html

Elon Musk says he will no longer vote Democrat. "In the past I voted Democrat, because they were (mostly) the kindness party. But they have become the party of division & hate, so I can no longer support them and will vote Republican." That the Democrat party has been the party of division and hate(and intolerance) has been true for a number of years. I'm amazed he said it out loud. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/teslas-musk-says-no-longer-200335296.html

The shorter this is the better my chances of the upload not failing.

Have a great weekend.

Abscess Round Two?

Last week, it looked like a post had been censored by Big Tech. It turned out to be some kind of internet problem. A number of sites weren't loading or weren't loading correctly, including Blogger statistics. Even Facebook was inaccessible.

There's not much to report this week. The two pieces of equipment I ordered for the second Fiverr gig arrived. They didn't connect without a cable. I ordered one. It arrived today. Hopefully, I'll get it set up this weekend for testing. I still need more equipment to get it up and running. The proofreading Fiverr gig isn't up yet either. Life has not been working lately. It looks like the tooth in front of the abscessed tooth is abscessing. I've been feeling it some but not as much as the last one. I've been feeling tired from it, too.

The plan for the next week is to get something done on the writing front and get this equipment tested.

Have a great weekend.

Censored, It Seems

Last week's blog had zero views, which is impossible. It exposed the truth about a political scheme the Democrat party has enacted to officially censor truth in the United States. Blogger is owned by Google, so the censorship of that blog was done by them. Assuming I'm not being paranoid. Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. I've known for a while that I need to abandon Blogger. The need is more urgent. The most obvious flight to safety would be setting up a WordPress blog on my own site.

Speaking of censorship, a while back Twitter did a purge of Christians, one wave of who knows how many. I gave up on them and cancelled my account. Elon Musk is buying Twitter, if the deal goes through, and is promising to restore free speech. The current CEO, a foreigner who doesn't understand American free speech, has made anti-free speech comments in the past. Twitter as a company has a very toxic culture. Will Musk be able to turn it around? Will he replace the anti-free speech CEO with one that loves freedom and democracy? Will democracy-hating employees leave? We'll see. I was tempted to open an account, but I think I'll wait and see what actually happens. Tesla has a long, long, long history of overpromising and underdelivering.

In real life this was a very bad week. The main good news is that I was able to find and buy two pieces of used equipment I need for the second Fiverr gig. I still need more, but I may be able to get that up and running next week, which would be even faster than the proofreading gig that I thought would be running for months before the second gig could get off the ground. However, the problem with Fiverr is that they promote successful veterans over newbies. It can take two months or so to get a first job on Fiverr. If I can get a barebones setup working for the second gig, going outside Fiverr will be my first option. It's possible I might not even do the proofreading gig. I was kind of thinking of that as a way to bootstrap the second gig. We'll see. If I can get up and running and get a sale next week, I'll post more about it.

Have a great weekend.