Time Corrected

The Hiroshima post has been time corrected for the moment of detonation, which is actually on the 5th of August at 1915 hours EDT.

This happens when recording things that happen on the other side of the planet sometimes. 

Dear Anon Commenter

Your question was already answered in the linked article a few posts back.

Read the article hosted by the white supremacist and your questions will be answered!

Which is as nice as I can be about saying, "do your own homework."

I Think Most Of My Traffic Is Fake

Here's a screenshot of the search words that lead to the blog:

Yes, a person typed in those search terms... 

That's Better

I have severely edited my post berating Mikey for being illiterate.

It was childish and not up to my internal standards.

The replacement language says the exact same thing in a more adult tone.

I will try to explain the comment policy again...

You get to comment at my sufferance.

If I will not suffer you to comment, you don't get to comment.

Ending your commenting privilege doesn't mean I am afraid of your argument, it's means I'm sick of hearing from you.

Nothing about me allowing comments give you a right to express yourself here.

For the most part, if you remember to sign your comment, it's getting posted.

It actually takes some work to get me to give up and start moderating someone.

Filtering out the sealions makes my life easier and happier. 

Oh, and once I've decided to ban you, you're done.  No matter how reasonable and polite you are when you've forgotten about what you did to get banned. 

True Cowardice (Rephrased)

True cowards shit on other people's blog without having their own to be shit upon.

You got banned for not being able to follow the posting rules, Mikey.

I'm not afraid of you, I'm sick of you.

And I know you can't read.

If you'd been able to read, you could still comment.

You'd have known I'd be mocking you for being unable to read. 

Tschüß! 

PS: Because I control if you get to reply, I get the last word. 

Mutter Mutter

Posting pics has, once again, become unreliable at Blogger.

If they'd just stop breaking the "Insert Image by URL" feature, I'd be fine.

Copy-pasting the image to the page as a work around started working erratically, and was making hot-links to the URL I wanted to insert anyway rather than actually dropping the image.  Those links die for some reason. 

Uploading the image to Blogger has never failed, but there's reasons to not use that; not least of which is the limited space provided.

I pay flickr for unlimited space, I'm not going to pay someone else too. 

They Keep Breaking This Feature

Blogger keeps breaking the post picture by URL feature and I have now idea what could be the cause.

It's not because the URL is broken, because if you manually enter the html for the hot linked pic, it appears correctly.

It's their interface that's busted and keeps getting busted after they fix it.

Feedback has been sent to whomever keeps track of such things and it will prolly start working again tomorrow for a few weeks. 

Broken Pics

Blogger continues to fail at hot-linked pics.

Flickr is not innocent because they keep giving links that expire almost instantly.

The work-around is to select the link for the 1024x768 sized image rather than the full sized 6000x4000 image.

I've fixed several, and will keep doing so as I encounter them.

Department Of Redundancy Department

I've been posting about things I'm doing and updating and bringing forward old posts that relate to the things I've been doing...

Which puts two very similar posts right next to each other...

For now.

Many of them will be updated again and brought forward, putting distance between the posts later.

I makes me wonder how many of my readers delved into the archive from the beginning.

I look back from time to time and see that my position has changed on a couple things, and not at all on others.

Some things without changes have gotten new posts where I try to better mean what I am saying.  Sometimes I do a better job with successive iterations.  Other times... 

Reading Comprehension

When you tried to comment; it is clear that you didn't read something.

Seeing that you didn't read that, I'm just gonna assume that you didn't read or understand the post you're commenting on when I stab the delete button.

The instructions are not complicated.

Almost as simple as putting how to pour piss out of a boot on the bottom of the heel simple.

Yet we have at least one, and probably more, people walking around with a boot full of piss and a deleted comment.

I mentioned I'd be mocking y'all in the instructions. 

Annual Cleaning

Anyone on the Blog Roll who hasn't posted in a year or more gets moved down to Blogs that Used to Entertain.

It's a depressing chore, because I loved reading what they wrote well enough to make sure I never missed it because my sidebar updated.

Occasionally, they revive and I see them in the other roll and I can move them back.

Those are happy days! 

Not Sure Who's The Problem

I am not sure if it's Blogger or Flickr that's the problem with putting pictures on the blog.

The "by URL" inserter from the WYSIWYG interface barfs on anything bigger than x1024.

It will happily display a linked photo that's much larger if you write your own HTML string.

I am not sure if this is Flickr refusing to parse for the inserter, or the inserter being unable to process larger files before it times out.

Figured Something Out

Flickr adds a lot of extraneous stuff onto the end of the image links.

The full size photo link is:

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54825718145_1d2ce9b74d_o.jpg?s=eyJpIjo1NDgyNTcxODE0NSwiZSI6MTc2NDMxNjI1NywicyI6ImEzMWJjY2EwZTE3NmRhMWI0ZGUxZmJhYTk5OGEwOTExMGE4MjJlMTUiLCJ2IjoxfQ

Won't work to insert an image using the URL link with Blogger.  You have to trim it down to: 

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54825718145_1d2ce9b74d_o.jpg

Even that doesn't always work...  But selecting the 1024 image often does...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54825718145_5ff00e1a42_b.jpg

Manually copying the HMTL code always works!  This is that overlong string.

The links are good, but Blogger refuses to fix their "what you see is what you get" editor.

Non-Anon

The comments policy and the non-anonymous anonymous posting was formed from dealing with dickheads and assholes.

I didn't want to do it.

If I just let every anon comment post, you'd see maybe two or three a day with my normal traffic.  And most of them have excellent points or good observations.

The policy came from disagreeing with, Aesop, for example.  He and I, more or less, civilly disagree and post to our own spaces to spar about it.  I only go to his blog when the traffic sources in the stats say I'm getting a lot of hits from his place.

I call them the flying monkeys.

They post anonymously and break my rules.  They forget they are guests.  They are rude.  They don't stay on topic as they post gigantic diatribes.

Filtering the good from the bad got to be too much effort and it seriously affected my desire to blog.

Since blogging is a release valve for me, it's something I need to do.

So I nuked anonymous comments to make sure I would still post.

I did toss the people who refuse to make a Google account a bone!

If you put a little signature after your comment you're 95% likely to have your comment posted.  Several readers comment this way successfully!  Just make your last line your name and voila! you're not anonymous any more!

This also works if google logs out you for some reason. 

Gone Forever

I notice that Looserounds no longer has the Weaponsman archive up.

I worried about that when they sold the site.

Awwwwww

Every once and a while someone will repost something I've posted.

Even rarer a former reader will comment on the repost and express how they no longer read this blog.

First off, I'd be doing this if there were zero readers, so losing one is mox nix.

Second, I normally recognize the person virtue signaling they no longer darken my digital door.

Know what they all have in common?

I stopped publishing their comments.

Mostly because this isn't their soapbox.  It's MY soapbox.

They're doing exactly what I wanted, going away.  (I especially love how they phrase it like they decided on their own to leave when I told them to go away!)

Far too many of them are trying to convince... someone (me?) that their brand of bigotry is the way to go.

I don't endorse bigotry.  I don't like bigots.

So they don't get to comment and they get to hate someplace else. 

I've Seen A Little On TV

I've amended my presidential military service post and tried to differentiate between serving at all, serving during a war and actually being a combat vet.

If you spot an error, comment on THAT post s'il vous plaît. <- Froggish spelling corrected.

I'm Shocked

As much of a frothing hot-head as I can be...

I am shocked that I've never called for the violent death of someone I disliked here.

I checked. 

I have wished a couple of organizations to die in a fire, but no people.

I'm actually kinda surprised.

I've celebrated a couple of deaths.

I find I don't regret it.

But I noticed I've never celebrated a murder.

The people I've celebrated dying lived long, unhappy, lives with me despising them the whole time. 

As close as I've come to celebrating the violent death of someone is when a criminal FAFO'd on their last victim.  That will never stop being funny for me and I will never apologize for it making me happy. 

Meh

I had a reply all queued up and ready to go when I remembered:  This is MY soapbox!

So I nuked the Hamas supporter's comment and I invite them to use their Google account to start their own blog to hate what they hate there.

To help them along, I've marked their comment as spam to aid the filters in removing the idea they've found a platform to spew bile from. 

This is a much better use of my time while I figure out GURPS: Thaumaturgy and watch Malcom in the Middle.

I'll Get Further

I'm going to go teach the neighbor's dog to program a VCR.

It will be simpler.

I am reminded, often, why I did not pursue a career in teaching.

Teachers are not allowed to say, "No, you fucking idiot," when they get frustrated that the student doesn't want to learn.

It's not constructive.

I've never been good at conveying what I know to others.

It's frustrating watching them not understand and being unable to rephrase it so they will.

I fail to communicate.

This makes it harder to spot when the reader is actively refusing to understand.

But when every interaction leads to frustration, over and over, I wonder why they still come here.

I know I will be happier if they stop.

The MO is to be contrarian here in the comments, act like they almost grasp a topic, then run to their own blog and mob of worshipers to bask in the glow of their "OMG you're so right and McThag is SOOOOO wrong!" adoration. 

I watched this pattern repeat a couple times and haven't bothered checking their page for what they're saying for a long time.  Even if they announce in a comment they're taking their ball home.

He's been banned from commenting here before during COVID.

I think that unbanning him was a mistake.  The worshipers coming here to berate me should have been the last straw.