the reacts section is changing. the recitations of written essays will end. the reasoning underlying it has altered.

i started the reacts section to deal with rants to old youtube videos, precisely because they weren't going to be up-to-date. so, the section had a specific purpose of capturing thoughts that i had while eating. it was shortly after this that i noticed that my posts on youtube were only visible to myself. so, i decided that if my written word was going to get censored like that then i'd recite what i was saying instead, so that it was at least available.

youtube was compromised, but google+ was at least safe as storage even if you couldn't see everything; youtube is public, whereas google+ is private. i rationalized the censorship, and decided the writing would be safe if posted in a private place. at the beginning of december of this year, that assumption was challenged: posts on google+ started disappearing, and some experiment on my behalf pointed towards a censoring filter as the most likely cause. don't tell me that's impossible because they'd tell us if they were doing it; i'm telling you i was censored by a filter, and you need to adjust your analysis to fit that new evidence. they are doing it, and they're not telling you. clear? if it's not, then fuck off.

once i became aware of their intent to censor, i immediately stopped posting to google+. i may be rationalizing further, but i do feel that the information is safer at blogspot, and will until further notice. i have no reason to think it's not accessible. yes - i'll be backing up regularly. but, i no longer feel any need to recite the information into a video, because i feel the writing is in a continually accessible place.

this change, retroactive to december 1st, 2016, will have a large effect on the lengths of my vlogs and will also dramatically cut down my editing time.

i'm fooling myself in thinking i can stop ranting. but, i don't need a video component to go along with these rants, either.

the odd one? maybe? it's not likely.