Follow Up

Sunday I linked to a tale of woe & suffering caused by robots. It all came out to the injured party's satisfaction, but only because he has a large audience, a few of whom had a way to contact an actual human at Mall☆Wart; a way or ways which will no doubt soon be as useless as trying to deal w/ a brain-dead pseudo-intelligence. And one must wonder how big the rip-offs were & can only imagine the agonies they must've endured to get an e-mail address or whatever the contact was.

How Many Times Must I Tell You Cretins NOT To Buy From Amazon?

That's US$20 billion (W/ a "B"!) stolen from small businesses & your sorry asses!

Annie Palmer / CNBC:

The FTC and 22 state AGs sue Amazon, alleging it “secretly and systematically overcharged” advertisers more than $20B since 2019 by using “hidden surcharges”

Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal:   The FTC and 20+ state AGs sue Amazon for allegedly making tens of billions over seven years by manipulating ad prices on its retail platform

Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:   FTC, states plan lawsuit against Amazon over ad price fixing

Angela Palumbo / Barron's Online:   Amazon Stock Falls After FTC Lawsuit Over Advertising Prices

Reuters:   Amazon sued by U.S. FTC, over 20 states alleging company deceived advertisers

About Amazon:   Amazon's response to the FTC's lawsuit regarding Sponsored Ads

Financial Times:   US regulator sues Amazon for manipulating advertising prices

Forbes:   FTC Files Lawsuit Against Amazon Alleging Manipulative Ad Prices

Aimee Picchi / CBS News:   FTC and 22 states sue Amazon over alleged secret ad surcharge scheme

Bloomberg Law:   Amazon Sued by FTC Over Claims It Misled Advertisers on Pricing

Anzar Mehraj / Reuters:   FTC to file lawsuit alleging Amazon deceived advertisers, WSJ reports

Andrew Ferguson / @afergusonftc:   Digital markets play a critical role in the American economy—but they only work when participants can trust that powerful tech platforms play by the same rules as everyone else. That trust is foundational. Today, the Trump FTC—joined by 22 states—filed suit alleging that Amazon

IJR News:   FTC plans lawsuit against Amazon over ad pricing

@ftc:   FTC, states sue Amazon over secret ad surcharge scheme. FTC and 22 state attorneys general allege Amazon concealed unfair charges in its digital advertising auction pricing: https://www.ftc.gov/...

Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge News:   Amazon Shares Tumble Amid News Of FTC ‘Advertiser Deception’ Lawsuit

Federal Trade Commission:   FTC, States Sue Amazon Over Secret Ad Surcharge Scheme

Karen Weise / New York Times:   F.T.C. and 22 States Claim in Lawsuit That Amazon Secretly Inflated Ad Prices

While working the wage-slaves in their warehouses to early graves. Give Bezos all your money, sucker-ass chumps! Somehow, he deserves it, not you!

Remembering Milo

Making space on the hard drive & cloud storage, a stab from the past I can now delete.

And piss on the grave of Der Stürmer, which went away just this April, after being on the losing end of defamation suits to the tune of 18.1 million smackers, & "cancelled" by many hosting services after the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.

It's On Him Alright

No Gates or Brin in the rogue's gallery? Off w/ all their heads anyway!

Stolen from Ten Bears as I am too lazy, unmotivated & exhausted to look for the "funny".

Getting Worse Every Day

Sharp rise in incidents of AI escaping users’ control, research finds

Exclusive: Number of times AI lies, ignores instructions and pursues goals in harmful ways almost doubles in July

How it will first affect you before everything else turns to shit. Have the common sense & simple human decency not to buy from Amazon or the Walton family. They are predatory scum who will be hanged from a lamppost.

[The Guardian]

Any Questions?

DEBUNKED: Why This Pro-Israel NYT Columnist Is WRONG About Gaza by Mehdi Hasan

Mehdi brings receipts to rebut Bret Stephens’s viral argument and explains why Israel is undeniably committing genocide in Gaza.

Read on Substack

Please stop typing "brings receipts" or whatever. It's stupid. Call them the facts, or the truth. Thank you. Also: Expected to embed the video, not a link to it! Want those clicks, don't you?

You can scroll two items down for more facts.

In Memoriam, Zombie Rotten McDonald

This is terribly sad. Zombie Rotten was a long-time close iNternet acquaintance, whom I knew from Sadly, No!, & elsewhere on the web. Can't find his blog, which may have gone the way of all things.

Tengrain's better at these painful events, & he's remembered Zombie Rotten well.

Extra suck: I usually enjoy outliving people, but not this time. Zombie (legal name, Brain L. Miller) was a mere 64, & died of a fall at home, of all things. Watch yourselves, people! And a mensch in meatspace, judging from the memorial page.

Still remember Lucy, the Leaky-Ass Dog, whom he often mentioned.

Out Of Uniform

I can't even. You know who the two flanking Gen. Lumpy are supposed to be? Patton & MacArthur, two other fascist wanna-bes w/ delusions of grandeur. Hah! "Mac" looks a bit like Brainworm Kennedy. "Patton" doesn't look like himself. Who makes this slop? Does General No-Hat (Part of the uniform, must be worn outside.) scroll the iNternet looking for it? Does he have flunkies serching for stupid? Will the Dep't. of "WAR" notice & say anything? Can someone be sued for generating a crummy AI image of someone else? I s'pose it's free speech, like an editorial cartoon.

The uniforms themselves may be correct; they're pretty generic, but none of the insignia, ribbons, shoulderboards, ranks or Gen. Lumpy's wings or medal are anything the United States Army has ever used. The things on their lapels, "Patton's" red epaulettes or "MacArthur's" cap device, for example. Not sure why George S. is sporting combat suspenders either. The Daily Bleat adds:

Trump’s fantasy image places him above Patton and MacArthur in the military hierarchy, showing him with four stars while the legendary generals wear two. In reality, MacArthur was a five-star general—one of only five Americans to attain that rank—while Patton was a four-star general.

Not to glorify these two, but here's the actual George Patton, in four-star uniform.

And MacArthur, who smoked a corncob pipe, w/ his five stars.

Note also that both get Fat Boy's jowly chin, but jowlier, in the AI.

The Future Is Now!

Time To Shell Out!

Would you like to know more?

Monday's Misery

Two words: Dry heaves.

Will be geting a mail order for the rent as the moron property managers can not or will not fix their online payment system, so I will be hand-delivering the money order directly to their office, in a package filled w/ TNT & hate! Death to the parasites that prey upon the people ME!! As they are parasites, I've also contemplated spraying a can of Instant Insect Death® down every last one of their throats & watching them spasm & die. Bastards. No jury could convict me.

Don't Say A Word!

A reminder from Dan Froomkin at Press Watch:

Covering Race

The world’s most vocal racist will be the Republican Party’s biggest donor again. But don’t mention it.

But it left out another key superlative: Musk is also the world’s most vocal white supremacist and advocate of ethnic cleansing.

Something about that ought to have been at the top of the articles. But it was nowhere.

So why do our top news organizations consistently fail to mention this very obvious and important fact when they write about him?

Truly a despicable piece of racist Boer shit who apparently wants a race war, like the chickenshit media that cover him.

Once again, a simple message comes of all this bullshit: Fuck everybody & everything to hell, at least twice!!

Anyone Seen Montag?

The Burned Over District hasn't posted anything for almost three months. Anyone know what's up? Or even care?

Last waltz from montag?

Worst case is what I expect will happen to me; I'll turn green & die in the bunker & no one will notice or care until decomposition & the dump begins to smell, or until the rent goes unpaid.

That's me; w/o meaning, interest or concern to anyone but the parasite slumlord, whose only interest is in extracting his pound of flesh every month. Considering what my existence has been for the past 70 or so yrs., I expect no better from the lumps of insensate tissue that comprise the dominant species on this miserable planet of fools & charlatans.

Yes, I made it about me. (Not much to work from.) And you knobs everything about yourselves. Why should I bother being any better than any of you?

From The Official White House Executive Mansion Account

Hop in... best dimension yet. pic.twitter.com/7dRJnUVANc

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 27, 2026

More of the same at Hullabaloo.

Non-government by a senile 80-yr. old who was born human garbage, a bunch of brain-dead twenty-nothing anti-social media "influencers", a delusional fuckhead who thinks some fairy in the sky is talking to him (Item below.) & the lawless, post-Constitutional Supreme Court. Now you'll get it, good & hard.

Is this shithole nation just screwed, or poked in the poop-chute forever?

Tuesday?

When I saw it was in Chino yesterday p.m., I figured it would be here today. But the estimated delivery date hasn't changed. Nonetheless, it's on the FedEx vehicle, so step on it, Jesus. My patience grows thin!

Saturday Supercut

Close to two hrs. of tunes, chosen by a mindless robot for me! Not a one by Yankee artistes, you'll note. The robots know what I like. Assuming embedding this will play the other tunes as well. Every one good, if not a 20th century classic.So I'm taking the lazy way. Last note: Between seeing what was in "My Mix" & posting this the devil-box was off; the previous list was all reggae but the last, "I'm Movin' On" by Ray Charles. When I opened it again Ray had disappeared, & it was all Jamaican, w/ a few new ones at the end.

I'm Mad As Hell & I'm Nagonna Take It Any More!!

Not just our money up in flames, but a waste of our precious time.

Tried to order track from two different corporate entities, both of which had recently added bullshit (apparently from reCAPTCHA) to their websites requiring an acc't. to buy from them. That's immediate bullshit, compounded by this reporter having an acc't. w/ the second company, whose fucking robot advised that my password was invalid, then didn't send a reset code & after a second try advised me there had been too much activity on my acc't., it was suspended, & to try again "later". The second shithole company has a brick & mortar store; I wonder if they demand that you have an acc't. to enter their store & shop? "I'm sorry, we won't take your cash or card unless you open an acc't. w/ us." Mark of The Fucking Beast, baby!!

Had it w/ iNternet commerce, guess it's back to bussing to Burbank to the Train Shack. Higher prices, yes, but no shipping fees, & no interminable waiting as I watch a package being trucked through towns I've never heard of in states I wish I'd never heard of. On the other hand, it is two+ hrs. in MTA limbo. Why the hell does nothing ever work out as well as it could, assuming it works at all?

Naming names: Tony's Train Exchange, & TrainWorld, which wasn't previously horrible, but now won't recognize my acc't. They're about to get a piece of my mind*. And look at this jingoistic garbage:

"Shop Now To Celebrate America": Cheesy consumption is not the way to celebrate America, you shallow buffoons!

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*Or not. Rat bastards only take calls from 0900-1600 Eastern Time. Very considerate of your western U.S victims, let alone "WorldWide Shipping" chumps.

Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow

Yesterday I spent one hr. & ten mins. in the hideous outside world of awful people & their bullshit, w/ nothing to show for it but this

&, on the sidewalk, some cable & a cross,

PPC is "a Belden company". Belden's reputable (or was) but why a subsidiary?

& medication refills.

Then, not long after returning, I rec'd. a call from the pharmacy's robot advising I had more pills waiting, so now I know what I'm doing today. Tomorrow, I may not open the front door, even to bother w/ the mail.

Not "Tired", Exhausted!

Been Getting The Old Run-Around!!

Spent the early afternoon screaming & yelling at incompetent, lying cheats involved in fucking me in iNternet & interstate commerce. (Then wasted 1.5 hrs. typing this screed, which few will read, & they'll probably just laugh at me. You'll be laughing from the other sides of your mouths soon enough, unsympathetic jerks.) DoorStepInk is in Chatsworth (Valley scum!) so that's not interstate. Do not deal w/ these mother-fuckers! Should have checked some of the comments on their ad: "Doesn't work, they are no help & won't give me a refund," yada yada. Do not buy anything from a Facebook advert, ever, period. And look at this pseudo-patriotic bilge:

Gawd damn America, I say!! 

This is a complete & absolute lie. I was given no such options. 

Woman I talked to there kindly informed me that H-P "e" series printers (I have a 2855e) don't take remanufactured ink. Thank you so very gawddamn much for letting me know on your website or when I ordered it, you fucking assholes!! I believe the Cath-licks refer to that as a sin of omission, rather than of commission. Evil lies either way! Then she says she'll e-mail me a return label, & asks if I have any way to print the fucking thing. No, you dumb hoor, that's why the hell I'm calling your stupid ass in the first place!! And screw every single person at Hewlett-Packard in every damned orofice twice w/ a rusty chainsaw! I dare say everyone who has ever owned an H-P printer will agree w/ me on that. Hell, if anything were to start a worldwide revolution, it might well be by uniting the world against those rat-bastard pirates. I'm sure Hewlett & Packard spin eternally in their graves after seeing what their names have been reduced to by filthy pig greed. Now I have to leave the fucking house & go to Target if I want to use this bullshit printer. Fuck everything.

And Yankee Dabbler. Sent me a defective box car in fucking April, dealt w/ an incompetent buffoon who somehow couldn't find my 'phone number for a month because it was "blocked" & he was apparently unable to find it in all the information Yankee Dribbler has on me. Somehow he did find my e-mail, sent me an e-mail promising that some other fuck would send me a return label which hasn't happened for two wks. now. They finally acknowledged me today after an angry e-mail, but I didn't hear the 'phone ring, & called again so damn angry the chickenshit asshole hung up on me. I fucking hate people who get all pissy when you scream at them & call them the cheats, crooks & liars they are after they've spent two months ignoring or fucking w/ you. "Oh, don't curse me." You self-righteous prick. If I'd been in the same room w/ you ... You bastards sit there in New Jersey thinking I can't do one damn thing about your bullshit, then you claim "Oh it was just miscommunication". FUCK YOU!

Another outfit to watch for is Sagebrook Home, which advised my order was coming by UPS, which continued not to have the package, so I called them & they kindly sent a replacement, which arrived a day or two after the original order showed up, but shipped via FedEx. Done by some ignernt cracker moron warehouse worker in AsheSummerville, NC. Fuck you, moron!! I advised them of this wks. ago & asked them to send a return label. No action, as the saying goes. Today I called, rather than e-mailed, & had the operator/receptionist track down the person so I wouldn't be transferred to some bullshit answering system that won't record a message. (COWARDS!! Answer your fucking 'phones!!) So I did speak to her & she e-mailed me the damn label. Finally. Would've kept the damn thing but there is literally no place to put it in this tiny dump.

In conclusion, I so hate this fucking bullshit world of fucking bullshit & everybody in it, because you made it this way you pieces of shit.

Dep't. Of Schadenfeude

Alright, it's a dumpster, not a "can". Available as a file for your 3-D printer, only US$3.00.

You Suck, We Hate You, Please Die!

Brendan Rascius / The Independent:

Two websites restrict reviews of JD Vance's book after savage critiques  —  JD Vance's new book is a memoir about his conversion to Catholicism  —  Two websites have restricted or banned reviews of Vice President JD Vance's new book following a stream of savage critiques.
Alexander Willis / Raw Story:   Torrent of awful reviews drowns JD Vance's new book: ‘Reads like garbage can’

Jordan King / Newsweek:   JD Vance's Book Flooded with Negative Reviews: ‘Unreadable’

Catherine Bouris / The Daily Beast:   Brutal Vance Book Reviews Force Sites Into Drastic Action

There's nothing inside that boy. Changes names, religions & politics at the drop of a hat. Not to be trusted.

Meta, Faacebook, Instagram: Criminal Fraud & Revenue

Are There No Laws?

Meta faces calls for Congress to probe scam ads targeting seniors

Retirement groups said seniors have lost millions of dollars while Meta profits from the ads.

The letter’s demands follow a report published last month by the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit advocacy group, which alleged that Meta has profited by leaving up fraudulent ads, many of which target Medicare recipients.

[...]

It’s not the first time Meta has faced scrutiny over the scams: Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) urged the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities Exchange Commission to open an investigation into the company in November after Reuters reported that Meta in internal documents projected 10 percent of its 2024 revenue would come from fraudulent ads. And in February, a group of bipartisan lawmakers pressed Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg over its plans to prevent and combat fraud on its platforms.

Reps. Dan Meuser (R-Pa.) and Lou Correa (D-Calif.) also introduced bipartisan legislation earlier this year to combat predatory scam ads.

Any damn day now, Congress. Don't let me stop you. Or do the millionaire jerks "representing" us just want us all to die immediately?

In conclusion, Zuckerberg & his cronies are criminal scum. Lock 'em up, throw away the key, & give all of Meta's filthy money back to the people!

[POLITICO]