Hey, White Dude – You\’re A Racist, Sexist, Horrible Fascist

Objective:\”not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts.\”

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Everyone has feelings. When trying to view or judge the world around us, we cannot help but apply our feelings, our experiences and our opinions. Everyone has their life, their viewpoint.

In order for us to be considerate and inclusive, we need first take an objective view, and then apply our feelings to it.

Feelings are our viewpoint. Feelings can change without changing the world around us. Viewpoints can change without changing the world around us. Facts, taking an objective view, do not chang. Unless active change takes place.

Empirical evidence: \”the evidence of the senses, of direct observation or measurement\”

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Empirical evidence is information acquired by observation or experimentation. Scientists record and analyse this data. The process is a central part of the scientific method. Meaning that they take an objective approach. Only when there is a lack of empirical evidence will they resort to rational evidence. Any anecdotal evidence gets assigned to the footnotes.

Prejudice: \”dislike, hostility, or unjust behaviour deriving from preconceived and unfounded opinions\”

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This means that no matter how you feel about a fact that has been shown objectively to the true through empirical evidence, it does not make it false. Nor does it invalidate your feelings. What it does mean is that if you deny the empirical evidence through rationalisation, then you are lying to yourself, and you are being prejudiced.

Rationalise: \”attempt to explain or justify (behaviour or an attitude) with logical reasons, even if these are not appropriate\”

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It doesn\’t matter how complex, complicated, difficult or expensive something appears to be, if you explain away a fact through rationalisation, then you are inappropriately justifying a falsehood.

There is such an enormous body of evidence that shows that we live in a biased world. The facts show that women and not treated as equals. Empirical evidence shows that they are currently fighting a vicious circle with inequality. The same for black people. It might make you feel uneasy to realise that, but it is true. To argue otherwise is to rationalise empirical evidence.

If you are any sort of nice and lovely person, who thinks that people should just be able to get on with their lives on an equal basis, the you need to realise that things are not fair right now, that some people need help. They need your help.

If you believe otherwise. If you think that people just complain too much, and things are OK as they are. The world has it right. No change is needed, then heed on.

Authoritarianism: \”a form of government characterized by the rejection of political plurality, the use of a strong central power to preserve the political status quo\”

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Politicians make the rules. They govern your country. So, if all is well, then you believe the world, your country, is being run just fine by your politicians. You wish to preserve the status quo.

Ultranationalism: \”extreme nationalism that promotes the interest of one state or people above all others\”

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You believe that your country is right, and others have it wrong. Things are just fine the way they are. You do not want change. The world is not unfair. Other people, irrespective of their experiences, and evidence to the contrary, should change their behaviour to fit in.

Fascism: \”a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism\”

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Well. It turns out you are a fascist. You don\’t want change. You don\’t accept facts. Your anecdotal, rationalised evidence fuels hate and divisiveness.

Either, you accept the empirical evidence that you are living in a world, a society, that perpetuates racism and misogyny. Or, you are one of the fascist perpetuating the racism and misogyny. Because the act of denying it, forces the status quo. And anyone who won\’t see the need for change is the cause.

If you feel uncomfortable about this, then that\’s probably a good start. Remember, you can\’t change the facts.

And, stop being such a little shit.

Where do you think all those terms, like mansplaining and white privilege come from? They come from women and black people\’s experiences of their objective lives being rationalised away by some white man who doesn\’t think there\’s a problem.

That\’s you. They are looking right at you. You\’re being fascist. You\’re being racists, You\’re being sexist. And still you bang on about how they just need to change their behaviour.

Ignorant Twats That Keeping Asking For Hosting Recommendations

Oh. My. Days.

The resources required for hosting websites come from a large and complex pool of computer processes. If you want something that works well for you, then you need to pay for the skills and resources to set it up for you. If you want some cheap shit that probably works for most people most of the time, then any old crap will do.

If you\’ve chosen a host for your website because it comes cheap from a large company – then like shopping at a supermarket, you\’ve chosen the \’value\’ range. Don\’t be surprised if it comes with surprise horse meat. So when you chose your cheap host, stop fucking crying when your site is slow and gets hacked. These large companies work in bulk. You are a tiny, tiny percentage of their business and they are looking to maximise their profits. For every one of you, there are thousands who just happen not to have had a problem. So by all means change to a different one. This time, for a while, you might be OK. But it really is just pot luck.

There are many technical layers to hosting and serving up a web site. You\’re reading this because you have no fucking idea what the complexities are. You are being duped. Do you really think that you\’re getting some amazing deal? They\’re just hoping that you\’re too thick to spot what the catch is. And trust me, there is a catch, and the catch is that you\’re getting shit hosting.

Just shut your big wanky cake hole and pay for proper hosting. Find someone who will build you a service that fits your needs. And if you can\’t afford it, well then stop crying too. Tough tits. If you won\’t pay it, then you really are the smelliest of turds.

Finding a good host is easy. You just don\’t want to admit it, or pay for it.

Seriously, hop around between those crappy hosts (and yes you know exactly which they are), whine and moan. Keep going back to forums and mailing lists and ask \”which is better?\”. It\’ll fill some little pointless hole in your life.

In the mean time, businesses that value their customer\’s sensitive data will pay good money for proper hosting. Leaving you with your site down. Again.

Google – I hate their wafty design and crappy scroll bars

The point of scrollbars is to act as a visual clue that there is more content, not currently visible. It shouldn\’t be hidden behind a mouse-over. Google seem to have introduced this concept that every web page, instead of being rich with user information for your eyes to find, you have to go on a fucking stupid treasure hunt with your mouse to un-earth the hidden content.

To make this a double fuck-up – they don\’t even shitting work. When you mouse over them they indicate that you are at the top of the content. But I know there is more content! When you scroll down, suddenly you can scroll up even further than before.

And to add to this triple-whammy twat-fest they\’ve added a lot of white-space. I hear all my (usually Apple fans) designer friends and acquaintances go \’coo\’ over it. It\’s true, when the page loads, it looks pretty. But it\’s as useless as a cunt in sausage factory. It might be pretty, but you wouldn\’t want to eat it.

A classic case of form over function. And Google\’s products are for using, not for looking at. So reducing the usable screen real-estate, hiding what\’s left, making it more complicated and having all that shitty mess not actually work? That\’s a cock-up. And I don\’t like it.