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Errantly Without Tether

errantly without tether | attentively phaseout dither | contently overflout blather

currently about whether | cogently sickout bellwether | petulantly doubt weather

evidently indevout neither | nocently freakout swither | redolently rout forgather

virulently spout mouther | patiently waitout bother | puriently pout-out together

(if) ⇒ changing direction in an aimless manner with no physical restraint [then] politely attend to the wishes of others by gradually discontinuing to behave in an indecisive manner [and then] in a peaceful state, openly disregard long pointless verbose rants

(because) ⇒ at present the topic under discussion is requesting a decision between these alternatives [either] think in a clear and logical manner and participate in an organized period of unwarranted sick leave as a leader [or] in a childish bad-tempered manner, question the factual information about current visible atmospheric conditions

(also) ⇒ it is obvious to all, those lacking in religious conviction do not [cause] intentional harm, react in a irrational manner, vacillate between [nor] act in a manner reminiscent of forcing a disorganized retreat from a peaceful assembly

(instead) ⇒ in a bitterly hostile manner, declaim for all to hear, those who give "lip service" [and] without becoming annoyed, hunker down and stay in place during the difficult time [until OK to resume] acting in an overtly sexual manner, holding lips to appear sexually attractive while in public spaces, with one or more other people

additional collections of stanzas structured to instruct:

waod poem

personal values in a poetic vocabulary lesson

Design Fault

SQUARESPACE Business Model: Kill Golden Geese Daily

See those metaphorical tight little spaces inside the adjacent squarespace logo? Like entering an IKEA store, you are not supposed to be able to find what you are looking for—or get out—in a simple, end-user-familiar manner. Their business model appears to be (from a month of personal experience):

Impress geese (who have an ability to lay small golden eggs for life) with high-end ubiquitous marketing and impressively up-to-date, shiny, shit.
Kill geese while removing gold egg.
Discard goose carcass.
Wash hands.
Rinse.
Repeat.

This year, I began to move this blog to a modern pay site. In the (near? not-so near?) future, I will "go live" on snapperhead.space which was, obviously, only available at squarespace dot com. For one more tiny golden egg, I can transfer this domain to a different host. Yes, squarespace, you may consider that a threat.

I sent squarespace this email and have not received a response.

          Want to know why some fantastic computer games fail? Because their designers are “too innovative.” This is a lesson you at squarespace need to heed. I am three steps away from taking my sites to a more user-friendly home and requesting a refund for my year (before ever going live).

I just spent ten minutes trying to FIND OUT HOW to change my credit card info (my old card got hacked the day I used it to pay for squarespace - just a correlation, not a causation). It is not under my Profile; Accounts & Security. Also, there's no explanation where to find it at Accounts & Security.

          I feel, at this point, you—squarespace-email-reader/responder—might need to have this explanation provided, because you are stuck in your paradigm - and you think “your way is a better way”. Every other company, which I pay a subscription to, puts payment in a prominent place in my account or profile - or - they tell you where it is placed. You hide yours.

          Related: Your FAQ works fine. Type update credit card; answer is available.

          Related: Your CONTACT US works like a computer game that wants to test your temerity and willingness to solve the puzzle. It took me another ten minutes to find a way to send you this email.

The end of every subject tree ended with another branch of sentences, and a “Do you still want to contact us? take a screenshot and ...”   WTF squarespace - you need to get out of your own way.

          All this does is tell me you hate emails from customers. You despise reading complaints. And, you do not intend to ever peek out at what the industry is doing differently / more efficiently / gaining customer satisfaction better at, than you.

          You need to hire “secret shopper type” users to crawl around inside your over-designed sleek and impressive rabbits warren of a site and make things better or you are going to lose to Wix or Wave or whatever other new site is making things fun and simple, instead of more complicated, on the user end.

          -Veach Glines

I am not surprised they did not respond. Are you?

Semalt SEO Scam - a Blogger's Perspective

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Hire An Older Worker (Covid19 meme)

This flyer was posted on the bulletin board at my office (temporary job with the US Census Bureau). It is a legitimate form published by the US Department of Labor - Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) encouraging employers to Hire An Older Worker.

Obviously, I added the parenthetical phrase containing too much punctuation and too many capitalized words (because the actual form is humorously over punctuated/capitalized). The form is about the size of a large book-marker, probably designed by a retired grammar teacher who idolized Ben Franklin (200 years and still not a more appropriate poster-codger?), and they had no training in visual design.

If you think my attempt at humor is insensitive, cool your jets high-speed and consider the number of elderly who will not get tested by a doctor because the Medicare program they are enrolled in has a deductible or a co-pay (or both) and a $100 doctor bill means a week without groceries.

Medicare-For-All is not the gold standard (no matter what Bernie Sanders says). Most elderly people I know (or have known) carry an additional insurance policy to cover the 20% Medicare does not cover, or to bridge the gap between the exponentially large cost of prescription medications (not covered by Medicare or Medicaid) or to pay for anything over Medicare's annual cap.

Veterans-Health-Care-For-All is the tarnished-gold standard. With all the flaws of a VA hospital or clinic, they do not send you a bill, or cover only 80% or have a cap on annual services.