I called Google today and they just gave me the run around. A recorded message directed me to a web site, and the web site directed me to another phone number. The guy at that number said that my computer is "infected" and tried to sell me a protection service for $299 a year. I hope that's all he did because I let him in for a remote session. I figured that would be all right because I initiated the call. Now I wonder if I was really talking to a guy at Google or some scammer that slipped in between me and Google.
If I still can't get on tomorrow, I'll start looking for a new email provider. I don't know what effect that will have on the Institute. Meanwhile, my esteemed colleagues will have to carry on without me.
Sounds to me like he got scammed. I don't know when we will hear from him again. I suggested that he email me his posts and I'll put them up.
I put social realism in the title of my last post, well mainly to get attention, but really socialist realism is really just their version of the patriotic feed we got fed regularly in the fifties. Family values. Your country is never wrong. Obey authority. It was bogus man, and worse, it was boring.
And this pc stuff, same fucking thing.
A couple weeks ago I saw Hidden Figures about three black women that the whole space program would have failed without their help. It had feel good and preachy written all over it, but the critics had loved it. The three black women never did anything wrong. The white people never did anything right unless it was after they got their comeuppance from the black women. Well the white women sometimes did something right, because they were women, but not very often, because they were white.
I'm a good liberal, I believe in black rights and women's rights and if they had a LBGTQ person in the movie that too, oh and a Puerto Rican lesbian in a wheelchair, that also.
But Gentlemen, that is not entertainment.
Good
Day.
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