{"id":1251,"date":"2018-08-06T18:48:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T22:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=1251"},"modified":"2018-08-06T18:48:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T22:48:04","slug":"eighteen-8-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2018\/08\/06\/eighteen-8-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Eighteen (8\/8)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Work happened, and I think management is happy with this weekend&#8217;s slogs.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been going through the old posts to think back on that awful summer three years ago.\u00a0 Maybe I shouldn&#8217;t harp on it, but I got a really shitty deal there.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><em>Is there an aspect of your personality you wish you could chnage?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>That\u2019s a tough question. The only thing I can think of is that maybe I\u2019m too trusting of ordinary people sometimes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I don\u2019t think my boss is out to get me.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I don\u2019t think the government is out to get me.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I don\u2019t think evil corporations are out to get me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019ve never attributed to malice what could more easily be explained by ignorance or stupidity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThey\u2019re not bad; they\u2019re just stuid.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Maybe that makes me a fool.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But, whatever. I could spend lots of spoons thinking about how I\u2019ve been fucked over. But I don\u2019t have enough to waste<\/em>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I think, maybe, this is still true.\u00a0 At the same time, I&#8217;m comfortable with how I approach others, even if it means people sometimes take advantage.<\/p>\n<p>All that said, I will break contact.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve done something that&#8217;s hurt me, I can basically write you out of my life.\u00a0 I only have so many cycles.<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;m not going to do is go out of my way to make things awful for you.<\/p>\n<p>The news of the past couple of days is that Apple, Stitcher, et. al., have pulled Alex Jones off their platforms.<\/p>\n<p>On my initial response, I was okay with this.\u00a0 But after thinking more about it it, does that really serve any purpose, and what implication does it have for other things that aren&#8217;t your cup of tea.<\/p>\n<p>Nope.\u00a0 Keep it running.\u00a0 Trumpet it.\u00a0 If people don&#8217;t like it, they&#8217;ll be the editors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work happened, and I think management is happy with this weekend&#8217;s slogs. I&#8217;ve been going through the old posts to think back on that awful summer three years ago.\u00a0 Maybe I shouldn&#8217;t harp on it, but I got a really shitty deal there. Is there an aspect of your personality you wish you could chnage? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-1251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-writing","tag-hot-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}