NutinButNet

A family member of mine let some guy who knows a guy she knows park his vehicles on her property. She has 1 acre of land with it being mostly trees and flat land and various wildlife. I’ve seen coyotes, rabbits, possums, and more running around there and it’s a nice place to walk around to feel like you’re away from it all without the actual distance. Trees everywhere, most being taller than most buildings in the city.

So how does this asshole thank her? By littering his stupid crap everywhere.

The picture is a vape cartridge that was tossed into a seasonal pond. It’s a nice place to walk around when it’s not actually filled with water. Only for me to stumble on this crap in the middle of it. I think what enrages me even more is that this pond, when filled in the season, will be home to ducks and their families, as the young ducklings learn how to swim and fly before leaving on migration. So had I not found this and cleaned it, it’d have contributed to pollution for these new families using this as their home. Possibly even poisoning them, at worst.

Then I found a lighter thrown in the bushes somewhere and cigarette butts lying on the ground in random places. NO smokers have ever tainted this area with smoke paraphernalia until now. This land has been here forever and this asshole is the first to bring this unhealthy trash here. Not to mention this is an area that often deals with bad wildfires, so thanks for helping start the new wildfire! That’s just what this area needs.

Then I find empty water bottles crushed and thrown in random spots. All are the same brand of water the property owner buys. Which tells me that this is an additional way he’s showing gratitude. “Gee thanks not only for letting me use your land to park my shitty cars, but let me also show thanks for sharing your water with me by throwing it around your yard too!”

Yes, trash cans exist and not locked on the property in various places. All one has to do is walk up to one. Some of this trash was only a few feet from a trash can.

Yes, I did pick this crap up too. I didn’t take pictures to only to vent online, but also to share with the owner so she’s aware of what an inconsiderate fuckhead she has using her stuff.

I’m legit pissed. If you litter, then fuck you too.

My electric company puts out ads showing their employees going to work. That was literally the commercial I just saw for my electric company and then they show their logo in the corner.

What is the purpose of this? It’s not like they have a competitor and this ad might make me switch back to them or stay with them.

So what’s the point in making these ads?

Inspired by WaBa Grill, except their cut of the beef. I was at the grocery store and grabbed the quickest cut I found which was taco beef. But this turned out really well! Very delicious.

I remember a time when the news would refuse to show something and I’d go to YouTube to see the uncensored clip.

But today I was reminded of how bad YouTube has gotten when a YouTube video censored a news clip because the anchor said “died”.

And this has led to the dumb trend of new terms like “unalive” and “self delete” like that makes it any different. It just moves to the next term that the algorithm will pick up on and lead to another dumb term to avoid the censors.

But for what? Like we did we get to this point? Who gives a fuck if they talk about suicide or death and it’s in context? Someone could be talking about a serious topic like their failed attempt and warning someone to not try it and that video gets removed/hidden. Good job, YouTube.

I’ve been making some videos too and it’s stupid the things I’ve had to avoid just to ensure my hard work doesn’t get hidden or removed because YouTube doesn’t like a term I used, even if it was in proper context. I’m not even getting paid for my videos but I don’t want my hard work going in vain. I release my videos on multiple platforms and it makes me want to skip YouTube, altogether, but I only keep it because it’s the most popular.

It’s so fucking stupid. The internet used to be the place to go to get the real story without unnecessary censors.

Inb4 Oreos and Hydrox

It’s been quite the journey in finally getting to see one.

All my life, I had never heard an owl “who” until a few years ago and it was so cool. Better than I could have ever imagined. I love all types of birds. We have a lot of hawks in my area that I love seeing often along with the other birds everyone is quite familiar with. Seeing them glide above and hearing their screeches is such an awesome experience.

Back in school, we did dissect owl droppings and even glued the skeletons to form a complete rodent skeleton on a piece of paper.

I have found owl droppings here too.

Then there was one time when we to let the dogs out and they were making a ton of noise. In the trees, I could see a big brown bird with a huge wingspan silently move from one branch to another to get deeper in the darkness of the small forest. I searched everywhere in there for what I knew was an owl but couldn’t find it anywhere. I had never seen such a massive wingspan or not hear a single thing. Not even a grip of tree branches or rustle in the leaves.

Then yesterday I let the dogs out again and they ran into the dried up pond and I saw a massive wingspan yet again go from the dried bed of the pond to a group of trees above. There, I finally laid eyes on this amazing creature. I had never seen anything quite like it before. It stared right back at me with very faint but bold yellow eyes. It turned its head to see the dogs who were making a ton of noise to my side then back to me. I could tell it was quite scared of us and so I backed away to give it some space.

As we backed up, I saw bones and a rabbit’s foot with its fur still intact. Looks like we had disturbed a meal, or the ending of the meal. I got some pictures, but they were quite blurry and far off.

Then today, as we went down again, I saw it perched on top of an old metal fence, very low to the ground. I tried to quietly get the dog to come back but he couldn’t hear me. The owl saw him and flew off into the trees above. Here is where I saw it more closer and I could see more details so clear.

This picture does my experience justice. (Not a shill, but I got this with the Adobe Indigo app I just downloaded today and it greatly helped me take a much clearer picture that was far away.)

I’m so in awe of this nocturnal bird. I didn’t want to scare it anymore than we already have so I’m going to try to be more gentle in the future as much as we can. I feel lucky to caught it as the sun is going down and as it is beginning its own day.

There’s a massive nest in one of the trees and I’m thinking that might be its home. May even be a mother or planning to settle here with some new owls of its own? I’m hoping so. We have a bad rodent problem here and these owls are so beautiful and graceful. Would be a welcome exchange, in my opinion.

wtf I actually like being put on hold if this is the music I get

This is the kind of shit that makes me embrace piracy more and more.

Years ago, we bought this software that specializes in something we do at work. Super specialized software but met all of our needs. Expensive at $600 per license, but it was supposed to be for “life”. So we figured it was worth it.

Until we upgraded to Windows 11 this year because Windows 10 won’t be supported after October this year.

We upgraded the computers (yes, we bought multiple licenses of this, some even as late as last year, so only got a few uses) and didn’t think twice about it. But after upgrading, this software now shows as unlicensed.

No worries, we kept our licensing information in an event like this. Oh, it doesn’t recognize it. Oh, their specialized number changed too! Wtf alright, well I’ll just reach out to their support for help.

Their support is super slow and not just because they’re on the other side of the world. I have to usually reach out to “sales” to get someone to actually help me. Days later, they respond saying that we need to pay for a “reissuance” of the license because the OS changed.

Huh…?

It just upgraded! It’s still the same computer we installed it to. Wtf dude. How is this fair?

This is like your car’s transmission going out while still under warranty and the manufacturer denying a warranty replacement because the tires and color of the car changed. Yes, the VIN we gave the car is still the same, even the license plate is the same…but yeah, we won’t honor this without you paying us because it’s fundamentally a new car now!

Go fuck yourself. Truly.

This is not a new computer. This is the same computer. This is a new update that we didn’t necessarily want but we have no choice in the matter. You can verify that your software has been installed here since the day we activated with your license.

No pirated version exists for this nor would we use it since we’d get in trouble for it. But man, this is the kind of crap that deserves a pirated copy because this is absurd. I can understand being paid for your hard work and trying to avoid people skirting around paying you for each computer they install to, but this is overdoing it. You’re now being greedy and double dipping. No other software we use has this problem. And $600 is a bit much when you do this kind of crap. Even if you are only charging partial for “reissuance”.

Must be dying from a lot of people leaving. Who doesn’t know about Reddit nowadays??