Proud to be… SHUT UP!!

March 10th, 2009

Aren’t you just tired of these pride nuts? Proud to be gay, proud to be American, proud to be black… Shut the fuck up already!

A person can be proud of something they have achieved, something they have put work into. But what the heck is up with being proud to be, for an example, gay? You did not achieve gayness. You did not go to The University of Gayness in San Francisco. You did not work hard to become gay. You just are. You have achieved nothing, there is nothing to be proud of.

Now I’m not saying one should be ashamed of being gay/American/black/whatever either, but, to stay with the most prominent example, gay pride parades are the most ridiculous, moronic, self conflicting thing man has ever come up with. Gay people want to be treated as equal, normal parts of the society, right? Well how the hell is flogging your half naked partner in the middle of the street in broad daylight going to help that at all!? What the heck have you people been smoking?!

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Discrimination

December 15th, 2008

Discrimination is all around us, every single day. Some forms of discrimination are actually so common they have their own names! Like racism for discrimination by race, or sexism for discrimination by gender or sex. Then there is of course discrimination based on sexual orientation, or even a disability or age.

What gives you the right to decide how good a person someone is based on something they didn’t and can’t even choose? A person can’t choose what color his skin is, what sex they are, or what their sexual orientation is. And I doubt someone with a disability enjoys it too much either! Also, if you haven’t invented a time-machine, I doubt a person’s age is their own choice either.

Now excuse the little side-trip, but I must take one since I know some of you still think that one’s sexual orientation is a conscious choice. It’s not. Let’s think about this for a second. Why would anyone choose to be in one of the most hated groups in the world? To piss people off? I doubt that… Then again, if it’s really a conscious choice, anyone should be able to make it, right? Ok, feel attracted to members of the same sex for 10 minutes. That’s all I’m asking, 10 minutes… Can’t do it, eh? (and if you can, I must inform you that you are actually homo- or bisexual)

Now back to the topic at hand, discrimination. Isn’t it funny how even though the constitution prohibits discrimination by age, whenever I go to a liquor store they discriminate me based solely on my age? And because teens can’t get alcohol the legal way, they get someone over 18 years old to get it for them. If a teen wants alcohol, he will get it, no matter what you do. Banning certain substances from young people is just the decision-makers stroking themselves off, it doesn’t really solve anything.

Well what is it then that causes all this discrimination? Fear. People are afraid of things that are different, things that they are unfamiliar with. When a human can’t explain something, they say it’s by God, they find a way to go around the fact that they, in fact, don’t know shit. When a human can’t understand something, they label it weird, abnormal, freaky. A human is really uncomfortable with the fact that the human understanding is actually very limited. A human is afraid.

But! What’s possibly even more annoying than senseless discrimination, is people who whine about it too much and too easily. I used to be one of the whiners too. Being in the furry fandom I sometimes have to cope with lots of stupid bullshit. I used to get all riled up and start ranting and raving if the fandom was portrayed stereotypically in the media, but nowadays I just laugh my butt off with the rest of the people. No need to say I prefer my current attitude over the bitching any day, it’s more fun to have fun.

If someone says nigger a black person gets angry, if someone says fag a gay person gets angry, I say chill out already! It’s not the word that matters, it’s the context.

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Veganism & vegetarianism

November 2nd, 2008

Yay! Finally a post that isn’t really bashing on anything!

As you (hopefully) very well know, some people choose not to eat meat, some even eggs or dairy products. These people are called vegetarians. Some go even further and do their best not to use or consume any animal products of any kind. These people are called vegans.

But what goes through the mind of a person who decides to become a vegan or vegetarian? Some just say they don’t like the taste of meat (weirdos), but most have various other reasons, which I will discuss now.

Some say that they don’t want to be responsible for the death of a living being, that killing something for your own good is morally wrong. But has it ever crossed their minds that plants are living organisms as well? Besides, plants can live for a long time even after being torn off the ground. Chances are they’re eating those poor plants alive! And I doubt you’ll find any vegetarian wolves any time soon… Eating others is only natural, it’s a part of life.

Though, on the other side, using animals for making clothes is just plain wrong. People don’t need to do that anymore! We can use synthetic materials, or cotton, or something else! Og the caveman didn’t have a choice, but there’s no need for fur coats in today’s society, we can do just as well without them.

Many say that they think the treatment of animals is bad. Well, I can’t really disagree with that… Animal rights need attention. And PETA needs to stop constantly infringing them as well!

Then there’s the health reasons. A proper vegetarian diet has actually been found to be very healthy. It lowers the risk of cancer, heart diseases, and various other things. It’s also a lot easier to stay thin on a vegetarian diet. Vegetarians have a longer life-expectancy than others. Care has to be taken to get enough of some nutrients, though.

And to lighten things up a little, here’s a rather funny little fact: Vegetarians are a lot less likely to die from choking on their food!

Anyways, I’ll go munch on some delicious steak now.

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Left? Right?

October 31st, 2008

I hate people who use left and right to describe a circular motion.

Sure it’s OK if you’re ie. in a car, when it’s clear what is meant, the perspective is same for everyone. But what pisses me off is if someone uses it in a sentence like Turn the bolt left. What the heck is that!?

Let me tell you something, Einstein: The words used to describe the direction of rotation are clockwise and counterclockwise (or anticlockwise for stupid some people…)

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Finnish internet

October 30th, 2008

Here are some more ravings about things that are wrong with Finland.

The internet, the place where anyone can be anything, the place where the word is free, where information and opinions are spread free and unhindered. The place that is under attack by government!

The Finnish government accepted a law that allows the police to filter websites containing child pornography some time ago. Now I’m not defending child porn, and I think it’s wrong, but that doesn’t make censorship any more acceptable. The list wouldn’t be so bad if it actually only did contain child porn sites, but among other clean sites, the website of The World Wide Web Consortium, a site in memory of a Thai princess (blocking of which nearly lead to an international conflict), and last but not least, a site criticizing said filtering system. Less than 1% of the sites blocked actually contain illegal material.

But wait, apparently blocking sites at random isn’t enough anymore! Now the police wants that all Finnish websites include a red button on them, which allows reporting a page to the police with a singe click (a system already in use in Norway). So now in addition to censoring opposing opinions, we are told what we must have on our site. This is just what we needed, more government control!

So where is the internet we all love? The internet where we are free, the internet where you can be anonymous and still have a valid opinion, the internet with unhindered unbiased information, the internet we need, the internet the world needs, today.

Update: Apparently the two biggest ISPs no longer force filtering. Customers can choose whether they want their internet traffic filtered or not. Now we’ll just have to wait and see whether filtering will be made compulsory by law…

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Finnish electronic voting

October 30th, 2008

You thought I’d only bash Americans? Oh no no no… What kind of a person would I be if I refused to see the defects in myself and my own country? Umm… A Finnish politician.

Recently some municipalities tested electronic voting in the municipal elections. In practice I’m all for new technology and progress, but in this case the whole thing was a huge disaster. Electronic voting is a great idea, but the implementation was utter crap.

When it comes to elections where seats are given by differences of just a few votes, losing 50 to 100 votes per municipality is definitely not acceptable. Elections have been redone because of mere twenty votes, why not now that the amount of votes affected was over two hundred?

I’ll tell you why not. Because the officials are too embarrassed to admit that they trusted something like the making of voting machines, devices that are used to ensure democracy, to a company known for bad user interface design and other mistakes. They’re too embarrassed to admit that they screwed up, big time.

When a voter inserted their voting card, they were given a number pad on the screen. They then selected the number of the person they wanted to vote. After selecting the candidate they were told to Press OK to confirm their vote. What happened when you pressed this OK button? Often nothing, since the system was for one reason or another being slow. What was supposed to happen? A confirmation screen should have appeared. Were the users informed of this? No. This resulted in lots of users thinking their vote was counted when it really wasn’t. The system didn’t even warn the voter when they removed their card prematurely!

But as I said, what really bugs me is not so much the fact that they couldn’t even make a simple vote counter work properly, but rather the politicians and officials trying to deny that anything went wrong! Some problems were in fact encountered when testing the system, but instead of aborting and falling back to paper ballots, they decided to just keep their mouths shut and say the results were confidential and blame the voters for not using the machines properly. A person shouldn’t need to be an expert on badly designed voting machines to be able to vote!

So… Now we have over two hundred lost votes and no sign of a redo, and the blame is rolled on to the voters. Sad times…

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Guns and violence

October 28th, 2008

A kid gets pissed off. The kid goes to school. The kid shoots lots of other kids. The kid then shoots himself.

And what follows..? Everyone starts blaming trivial stuff like video games and movies. They’re supposed to be oh so violent, they’re supposed to rot kids, they’re supposed to deprive them of their common sense and morals. No!

Violent video games and movies are one of the few things keeping kids from going batshit insane and starting to shoot random people. They are one of the few outlets for all the stress and negative energy that is pumped into kids all day and every day. They give kids the opportunity to really vent their feelings and blow heads off some aliens. All without hurting anyone.

Then there’s the whole pro-gun and anti-gun thing. The first group clings to the constitution and the right of people to be able to defend themselves, while the latter one believes that banning guns will effectively stop violence. It won’t.

But guns are evil! Oh, yeah, I totally forgot about that, it’s the inanimate piece of metal that’s going out and killing people! Here’s a little news flash for you all: Guns don’t kill, people do.

But guns make killing easier! Yes, but so does a pencil, a book, and even the keyboard you’re probably sitting in front of right now. Solving this problem is like putting out a fire (excuse the cliché). It’s no use wasting all the water on the top of the flames, you need to concentrate all your energy to the root of the inferno, the real problem.

The real problem here is of course finding out the answer to the question Why do kids want to kill random people? Let me tell you why. Because they’re stressed, so much is demanded from them starting at a young age. In addition to that, they’re treated like this ugly sub-human slime. They have no right to vote, no right to buy certain products, no right to do pretty much anything until they’re 18 years old.

Kids are more clever than that, they have their opinions and their needs much before that. Contrary to popular belief, a human being actually does have a brain before the 18-year-old mark.

So what can we do to solve all this? More violent video games of course! Nah.. Actually what needs to be done, is getting parents to talk to their kids, to keep up with their kids’ life, to be ready to jump in and interfere before something terrible happens. I don’t mean to be a constant pain in the ass, but a parent not noticing that their kid is about to go crazy is kinda worrying… Maybe instead of the kids directly, we should be focusing on the real root of the problem, the parents.

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Religion

October 28th, 2008

Here’s the compulsory religion post… I’ll whine more about this if I can’t come up with anything more creative to post about.

Americans are always preaching about how they have this so called separation of church and state, yet they can’t seem to come up with a good excuse as to why even their paper money says In god we trust… Doesn’t really look like that much of a separation to me. Could someone tell me how not selling alcohol on Sundays, a habit obviously coming from the bible, is separation of church and state? If I were American, I would be required by law to conform to Christian standards. That’s crazy!

And even that isn’t enough, oh nooo… In addition to the government, they have to infiltrate the schools too. Why is creationism taught in the same class as the big bang? Religion has nothing to with science, religion is the opposite of science!

Now I don’t want to sound like I object to teaching about religion at all. Here in Finland at least, we have a seperate class for religion, which teaches about all sorts of religions in a rather neutral way. We gain information, but are not lied to, are not forced to believe truckloads of bullshit.

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Political correctness

October 27th, 2008

One of the things that really pisses me off is the so called politically correct language, the language that tries to make things sound less bad than they really are, the language that robs words of their power, the language that is boring and overly complicated.

The whole concept of political correctness is plain ridiculous! Calling something with a different name doesn’t change the thing at all. Calling blind people visually challenged doesn’t fix the condition. Calling fat people obese or even horizontally challenged doesn’t magically make them loose 50 pounds. All it does is make communication slower and more difficult to digest.

What the world currently needs is unhindered communication, free communication, communication that can stretch national and cultural boundaries, communication that unites people, not overly complicated bullshit that tries to hide the truth.

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A blog is born

October 27th, 2008

Welcome to my new blog!

In this blog I will talk about pretty much anything that comes to mind. Things that I love, things that piss me off, things that make me think, things that make me not want to think, things. There is no general topic, anything and everything goes.

Comments and opposing views are of course more than welcome!

P.S. I’m not a native English speaker, so grammar and spelling corrections are much appreciated!

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