#rant

Every now and again I have to waste time - everybody's time - by using Windows. Recently Windows just rebooted right in the midst of a Teams call. After that it didn't reboot cleanly after it did whatever nightmarish update it must have had to have AT THAT EXACT MOMENT WITHOUT WARNING. I could make another long list of nonsense. But let's say I'm thankful this isn't what I'm dealing with 99% of the time these days. It has been and continues to be a train wreck of an operating system. I am so thankful for the time I've saved for work, play, time to watch grass grow, instead of dealing with this ridiculousness.

I've gotta say, in some ways I'm ok with Starbucks and in other ways Starbucks just pisses me off to no end. One of my biggest complaints is how they do such a shit job training their baristas and don't teach them anything sane about coffee or espresso. They just teach them this made up bullshit Starbucks nonsense... which leaves the "baristas" being "Starbucks" employees NOT baristas. They aren't taught what a cappuccino actually is. They have those dumb ass sizings: Tall, Grande, and Venti. Latte is sort of a latte at Starbucks. A macchiato is just a nonsensical made up misappropriation of the word. No macchiato at Starbucks is anything like an actual macchiato that an actual trained barista would make. It's basically like Starbucks is just this giant revisionist bullshit factory. Starbucks really should just recede to being the "Sugar Flavored Coffee Factory" store or something. It's never really been about coffee except to lie about it. They're really just a fluff *luxury* brand for folks that don't have taste buds beyond "SUGAR". It's utterly nonsensical. Anyway, I'm done. The "partners" should get a bump in pay and the demands they've made. It shouldn't be that big of a deal. Starbucks has effectively closed all their "low performing" or "crime heavy" (re: they went union busting by closing the stores, same as Wal-mart does) stores so they have really no excuse to offer the union what they're requesting. It's really not that much.

I don't drive much, maybe a total of 500 miles in one year, and my life has been a thousand times better for it. But recently I've driven a few times and have discovered the shit scum Taxi Prius drivers. WTF is wrong with these assholes?!? Right on your tail, super angry, then darting (sometimes dangerously) around to get in front and then effectively got the exact same speed. Is there some mental defect between "Taxi Driver/Ride Share" and "Prius"?? Like somebody could write a book, I'm sure, about this level of smooth brained, dipshit, caveman behavior that comes out of these societal leeches. It's disturbing. Thoughts? Ideas? What's the deal with this oddball combo that makes this behavior so unbelievably consistent?!