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My First 100 days In Office If I Was Trump:

Make every Sunday a day where we shut off all unnecessary lights in the big cities, so we can see the Milky Way again.

Make a new noise ordinance: no more loud noise including gangster rap, mariachi music, and vehicles without mufflers. If caught without a quiet muffler after 1 warning, you get 10 days community service automatically 

Make actual sports much cheaper and easier to access than playing video games and doing TikToks

Make all people online who are looking for donations or handouts register their names and info for verification so we know where our money is going

Put tariffs on American companies who pollute the air and give the money made from it to those companies who find innovative, safe ways to prevent the air pollution 

Anyone caught littering will get a ticket and the only way to pay for it will be for them to pick up 100 pieces of trash

Homeless people can volunteer to pick up trash and get reimbursed by the city

Make Rideshare the new public transportation by subsidizing and offering monthly passes to people instead of a dirty bus or train

Free Rideshare to everyone who is going to job interviews

Free financial help to those who have a history of drug problems who stay sober and can prove it with drug tests

Free housing, clothes and food for mothers for the first 2 years of the babies lives

Free pet food for people who help stray animals and don't make a TikTok or Instagram page about their journey. You know, just be kind without wanting something back

Pet food and water stations placed in areas where there's lots of stray animals. Ban fixing stray animals until they get to a certain age and no more removing male cats testicles which is egregious and criminal. 

Under-road crossing for pets and wild animals placed under every block of road where there are lots of animals, stray animals and pets. 

 Outlaw rap music recordings unless it has actual musical talent and no gang association. 

Outlaw all things associated with gang activity

Incentivize specific inventions like inventing skateboards that hover and fly in mid air. Because why not? 

Restart Assumptions - Google Searches

 So people are posting blogs and websites with assumed information now. They are not even researching it anymore. I'm assuming it's because they aren't getting paid very much and frankly neither am I. 

  I was doing a Google search on how to factory reset a modern Maytag washer which I think involves knowing a certain key code. In the search results, what I found is shocking: People are posting assumptions now and passing it off as truth. They assume that a Maytag is like a cell phone where you just restart it by pressing and holding the power button or unplugging for a certain amount of time. Good grief, people get a grip. 

 Put the phone down, write a real story. If your not getting paid enough, please get a better job. Also, it's gumming up the Google AI algorithm, so just stop.

 

 

Karaoke For Gangsters

Rap and just music in general needs a filter to clean out the bad talent. 

In the old days, the filter was record companies and executives, but independent recording has brought in the wannabes who are so bad at music that it's incredible they get peoples attention

Some of them have even gotten very rich. How? How do you get rich spewing about abusing women, assaulting others and rapping like a burned pot out head couch potato?

I mean rap was never great overall, and has been extremely demeaning long before the internet, but it's getting so bad. It's karaoke for gangsters and no one wants to attend

How To Save Dogs, Cats, Black Birds and other Important Critters In Our Cities

Many stray animals, and just animals in general, in the city are stuck: they are no longer wild, and totally reliant on humans now. We can't go back, so here is a list of things the city can do to accommodate animals, cut costs, and stop the euthanasia. Helping the animals is the right thing to do. Ignoring is truly sad. 

1. Sensors and flashing lights installed on roads to alert drivers when an animal is crossing. Saves the city money and saves pets lives.
   
2. Drinkable fountains for blackbirds and other birds every few blocks. Increases bird population, and helps general environmental issues. 
   
3. Stop poisoning rats, instead employ cats to keep the rat population in check, or find ways to mitigate the problem. 
4. Automatic Feeders for stray cats and dogs in areas where it's needed. Maybe run them with solar panels. If the city has found ways to take photos of our license plates and run them through a datebase instantly, they can do this. 
5. Ban fixing pets and strays: it's never cheap or compassionate or right to do these predatory surgeries to control population. Good old fashion common sense and compassion will solve population issues. Why are the Karen's of society so obsessed with fixing cats? I don't know. Please just stop. 
6. There are other ways to continue this fight for the animals, but this is a great start.

The Best Gen X Alt-Rock Radio Songs In The 90s That Are Also Quite Haunting

  If you like to be scared, this is the playlist for you: On one hand, you hold the sun, moon, and stars, but on the other, a black hole sun, whatever that is. 

 The 90s sucked, but the music got us through some thing's. When you think about it, growing older, we now wish we were younger and healthier, but don't forget that when we were younger we prayed for the cushion between then and now, for the opportunities young people miss out on. 

We also wished we knew the lyrics to all these songs on the radio. We have them on Google now! Lastly, if we wait until opportunities avail us, our health may not be available too, so don't wait for life to get better while your health rots away. 

Working for a great living starts now, and it's not about getting a job as much it is about realizing you already have a job. We all have a job, because God gives to each of us a purpose. Your job is the one already set before you. The job doesn't start on day one of the job you hunted down, but right now. We can call it day zero. 

There is the launch and then the launch pad. Stage one and two, but the pad itself is stage zero. 

1. Weezer - Sweater Song
   
2. Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
3. Stone Temple Pilots - Vasoline
4.  Green Day.- Basket Case, Welcome To Paradise 
5.  Nirvana - Pennyroyal Tea, The Man Who Sold The World
6. REM - What's Your Frequency Kenneth, Man On The Moon
   
7. Counting Crows - Round Here, Mr Jones
8. Toadies - Possum Kingdom
9. Jesus Jones - Right Here, Right Now
10. EMF - Unbelievable 
11. Mad Season - River Of Deceit
12. Alice And Chains - Angry Chair, Heaven Beside You
13. Screaming Trees - Nearly Lost You
    
14.  Silverchair - Tomorrow
    
15. The Smashing Pumpkins - Rocket, 1979
16. Live - Lightning Crashes
17. Space Hog - In The Meantime

There are probably a number of other songs that fit in this playlist too, but it will come to me later. 

 

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Pollution In All Its Forms

So, when we see the word pollution we think trash dropped on the roads or rivers, or wash ways plugged up with trash, but there is more to the story. 

There is also air, light, and noise pollution: it's like a work room or office that gets cluttered up and messy. We start a project and next thing we know it's a mess. One minute it's spotless, the next it's a complete mess. 

It's hard to imagine that our great big sky is full of toxic stuff, and nothing ever gets done about it. The same goes for light pollution and sound pollution. It gets some attention, but is never addressed. I live in California where many young and old have never seen the Milky Way, and don't even know that there is one right above us.

Crime and road safety is probably the number one reason why we don't get to see the stars at night. There are answers to this epidemic, but no one appears to care. I have read some chatter online about maybe having a holiday where we shut off the lights, and enjoy the stars for a day. Personally, I think that's a great start. 

But that still leaves issues with sound pollution. If we address all types of pollution, one thing at time, they compliment themselves. For example, if we have a lights down holiday, people will be inspired by the beauty of the night sky and want to do even more to clean up, and in the process, tax money would be saved. 

It's like when we wash our clothes and clean up our room, we are less likely to lose our wallet and keys. We are also inspired to spring clean the kitchen or bathroom, so we go the extra mile, because it's worth the time, and we have fewer allergies. 

Unfortunately when it comes to sound pollution control it's not a priority, because we have never felt what it's like. We don't realize how great it is. Some people think it's some kind of constitutional right to burn down the road in their loud noisy cars, but the more it's tolerated and ignored the closer it will be just too late to deal with once we realize it is a legitimate problem. 

There are silver line benefits to cleaning up the skies, the streets, and the byways and highways. It all works for the good. It shouldn't be something political either. 

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11 ways to know if a muscle car driver is a sissy boy

1. The driver revs engines to assert dominance

2. Always acting like Mad Max as though they are a victim

3. Driving 60 in a 30

4. Windows tinted

5. Drives a Dodge or Ford muscle car

6. Drives a monster truck so big, you can't see them, because they are sunk into the seat and drowning, while barely seeing over the windshield.

7. Honks or revs engines at innocent pedestrians or homeless people while driving by. 

8. Does donuts in quiet residential neighborhoods while filming themselves.

9. Always immediately taps their brake when police are seen nearby. 

10. If you confront them while doing donuts in front of your place of residence, they run away instead of manning up.

11. Accidentally or purposely runs over your cat. 

My Latest Art Projects

 I'm trying to be an artist. So anyways, here's my latest digital art stuff. 

What To Make Of "AI ART."

I have experiented with an artificial intelligence art generator(AI generator ), and it didn't work for me all that great, but based on other people's work, it looks like a promising, cool new thing. 

It appears to be theme generated which may or may not work for some of us. If I am not a big anime fan then I may not like the options I have to choose from in the apps settings. It is promising, though, for artists, bc you can use the generator to see how your ideas will work or use it to create a piece and then digitally remix it to make it your own. 

I also think that AI tech in general is going to sweep this nation with all kinds of inventions and new ideas. It will probably be used by the government and military and police. If it can be used in the military, that is usually the catalyst for major success in the market. 

So here we go, this could get scary, but for us artists, it can certainly be positive. Having said that, I probably will use traditional methods of art bc it's fun. I'm sure I will start using and experimenting with AI generators at some point. It's like a dishwasher: I will probably use it. Some people however, will still do the dishes the old fashion way, bc it's fun. Some of us just need something to do with our time. 

The fact is, the 1% at the top are using high tech to get ahead of us, so us normal people have no choice, but to keep up somehow, but that's the fun part: Figuring out new ways to keep up. 

Happy keeping up friends,

- Billy 

I made this abstract looking piece with PicsArt. It's not AI generated. It's actually a famous painting (Van Gogh) that's been twisted around. 

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SpaceX Wet Dress Rehearsal

 So for those of you who don't know yet, and are interested, I am a space travel and exploration enthusiast. I've been following Starships program since almost the beginning of it's start, but waiting and anticipating my whole life to see the space industry become a real viable industry and for space mysteries to finally be unraveled. 

 When I was a kid, a long time ago, the space industry was not a viable career for most people, unless your a genius, and don't mind being jobless, but here we are in an age where space programs are ramping up. It's awesome to see, and when you think about it, it's like a football game, but unlike a game, new discoveries are on the way.  This is Christopher Columbus 2.0? 

We are possiblely witnessing history being made. What we do with it, depends on whether we keep our eyes upward.