Thursday, 5 February 2026

FEEDBACK REVISITED

Back around 20 years ago I used to have a blog that was set up so that readers could leave feedback. Some of the comments used to crack me up, so this one time, I compiled a bunch of them into a post.

In this day and age (2026) almost all feedback on social media platforms is AI, so it's boring repetitive, witless crap, just as everything "written" by AI always is. I'm not interested in modern feedback, but when I found this old feedback post last week, I felt like sharing it again.

This year the hits on this blog have ranged from under 50 to over 3000 per day. I'm far from convinced anything to do with modern blogging is real! But I do think most of these comments from around 2006 were real.

Here is some classic feedback from my old www.frot.co.nz blog! Google were going hard out trying to censor my old feedback post. What was offending their delicate sensibilities?

After further testing I concluded that a picture of a try hard heavy metaler with his PENIS hanging out of a hole in the crotch of his pants was offending Google so I replaced it.

FEEDBACK

Here is some classic feedback from my old blog!

“The people have spoken, the bastards.” Mark Twain

Once again I have been let into the mysterious workings of your mind. Surely no goat could mind control that! – BL

Your a dangerous stupid shit. The cancer industry may well be a scam, but I don’t think its even as close as your crackpot mind at thinks it is. A good chunk of that cancer industry scam is your natural health mates – RP

Hey – Big ups from an old old man. I don’t surf much anymore – but what fun this site is – CC

I’m intrigued about many of your topics mentioned – consumerism, Monsanto, Dow, Du Pont, Bayer, 911, genetic engineering; those topics are not a staple of the American news diet. I believe they’ve affected our ability to exist in America, not to mention what they’ve done to the planet. (I’m sure Condoleeza Rice is analyzing my email right now and I’ll probably have a Guantanimo vacation soon for the asking) – BS

First of all thank you for informing me that there’s such a conspiracy (it really is) about the main search engine. It’s the same for wahooo and ciul and all others. Actually it’s all the same, there’s just one search engine in the world.. there’s no yho, no alta vissta, no bindd, no ask, no iANDEXX.ru, no nothing, is all ggl. THE SAME RESULTS EVERYWHERE! Just tipe “fuck ggl (real name of the s.engine)” in ciul and you’ll se what results if gives – and this should be the biggest competition of ggl. They back themselves up.

Read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echelon_(signals_intelligence)

ggl censor the words “fakk yhoo” how do we expect to find reliable information about alternative – energy, alt. fuels, alt_medicine, alt_searchengines and other.

I can’t find reliable web sites giving information about the ggl cen–sorsh-ip ether so if you know any pls send it to me – NH

Dude, you need to move into the 21st century. Seriously – RW

I LIKE YOUR DIET BUT I NEED MORE COKE THAT YOU RECOMMEND AND I DRINK BOOZE VERY SLOWLY. BEST OF LUCK FROM BIG AL, THE FAT MAN – AS

hi dude, im not sure if i really liked all the info on your pages, but what i had appreciated is your honesty and yourself. Would like to meet u one day – Just one question: do u like mountains??

PS sorry for the short, scribbled style of this mail but just recently i broke my right hand while trying to slide a stair’s handrail with my bike… – CN

Thanks for the dow info on your site. i’ve been looking into it a lot more lately. my mom had leaking implants and nursed my brother and I on them for almost a year each. now we’re all decrepid, insane, and unhealthy but I guess it’s okay because if it weren’t for my mom having big fake boobs, my dad might not have noticed her in the titty bar, knocking her up, then
she giving birth to me and my brother 🙂

The microwave thing is interesting, too. I’ll have to go back and read the rest of your site after my brain repairs from stumbling across your keyword spam google page. I’m going to have to steal your image of the guy getting his balls kicked and plaster it on forums full of idiotic teenagers who get on my nerves though… i hope you don’t mind. – MP

Send me a pic of you naked and l’ll think about it – MC

Is it my mutton chops or your navel that’s giving them wood? – TE

I am writing to you regarded your very insightful website, and information provided on Apricot Kernels. I would greatly appreciate your permission in using some of the information you have provided for an article I’m writing on the subject, in “What Medicine?” magazine, a nationwide publication within the UK. I hope to hear from you soon. – SB

Hello my friend, We are liking to reading your daily blog thoughts on the internet. The internet is new here in our town. I live in Thule, Greenland. It is cold here, always. We are not riding bikes very much, I have a reindeer, Umlaut – he and I go riding together often. Sometimes he gives me the kissing with open mouth. It is dark night here very much. Umlaut is often a comfort. I am wishing that I could be riding bikes and doing death verts in Wellington.

Where can I post my opinions on your blog pages? Thankyou – EB

After further examining your website I have concluded that you have a terrible habit of only looking at one side of the issue – JS.

How can I contact you? It’s very hard for me as I’ve got Alzheimer’s disease in the first place, but usually I can find the place where a web page has a ‘feedback’ page that tells the email address of the person putting it up!

Skip Baker
Former President,
ASAP, American Society for Action on Pain.

“Whilst secrecy prevails, democracy withers & fails.”

Hey, I just added your Cocacola info as a link to my home page, and I’m coming back to read more of your siftings. We need more bloodhounds like you! Regards MD

You are such a morron! – coca-cola isn’t as bad as you think because it has aspartame; i’m a diabetic and i eat aspartame instead of sugar with al my meals and I haven’t had any complaints yet. I”ve been doing this for at least 15 years. So please, just stop making people paranoide about everything they eat or drink!! – NM

Yours is a very credible site that my students will enjoy – GL

You have clearly nailed your colours to the mast, and objectivity is not amongst them – BB

I just wanted to let you know I really enjoyed reading through your site. It’s nice to find a site well laid out and with no misspellings! You have a lot of useful information and a very logical mind. I especially liked your article on Bike helmets. The other articles kept my attention for over an hour! Nice stuff! – KS

Basically i think you suck ass, why? because u hold some grudge against the coke company probably cause you ran out of coke at your house. ur making up this bullshit about coke being bad for your and having to much sugar in it so people will stop buying it so you can have all the coke for yourself. well im not falling for it! im going to buy as much coke as i can just to make you suffer asshole! oh yea, and ill be thinking of you when im guzzuling down my next fridgepack loser – BC

The U.S.A have also released GE Microbes on Mars the evil Nazi Bastards! – AH

One mustn’t break rules or attempt to trick Google, lest they awaken the almighty search engine gods and be struck down by their wrath – JP

I hope you haven`t been rendering inedible perfectly good vegetables – GE

your right, it is a good idea to drink soda. oh yea and how could i not i mean if i bring my empty coke can to six flags its buy one ticket get one free so holy shit, drink coke= ride sweet coasters. sweet! – BC

Please let me know how you get your website within the top 5 rankings on www.google.com it is very vital that my website will be in the top 5 and so far my Organisation has limited funds which are all my own, it will be unlikely i get a grant or any financial help from anyone in time – AH

Hi i was just researching on some marijuana cooking 4 me & my m8s i was thinking if i use my whole stash 10oz in dat cannabutter, would i b able to boil it down into the same amount as u would in 1oz, but way way way more
potent. cause my shit is the best in all 4 citys it’s been though, best in NZ i’ve been told by friends and people at partys. well would it work and u can get wasted on 1 muffin ay bout hand size. just need clearance we gona have alot of fun if it works, just dont want to waste plz reply.

i just want 1 really powerful muffin 1 each and blow us all away or mabey 70z in one muffin make history in my town fukin fun if u know what i mean cause i got alot of weed 10 patches 6 plants a patch 6 feet tall min all females buckets of seeds i know care barrels a year trust me im only 15yrs of age but i know everything bout growing just mudd at cooking – JM

To me you sound like every other conspiracy theorist I’ve ever heard, in that you will utterly dismiss huge swathes of evidence and credible scientific input because it doesn’t suit your paranoid worldview.

I think it’s just as preposterous that you would think that a bunch of internet gossip contradicts the mass of evidence that the events of 9/11 actually happened – OB

As a general physician, I am highly concerned about the rampant use of coke and pepsi products for a simple reason: pH.

The blood must “religiously” maintains a basic pH of 7.35-7.45. Since a blood pH of less than 7.2 can result in death by cardiac arrest or metabolic acidosis, the body essentially “robs Peter to pay Paul” to ensure the blood pH remains within strict limits.

Since the pH scale is logarithmic, the pH of coke (about 3.4) is TEN THOUSAND times (10 to the 4th power) more acidic than the normal blood pH of about 7.4. Studies have shown that these acidic drinks increase the urinary excretion of calcium; it only makes simple sense that the source of this calcium is from bone since an increased level of calcium, absorbed from the bones, helps to buffer the pH of the blood to maintain that life-promoting pH of about 7.4.

Bottom line? Coke is hazardous to your health — no bones about it – AK

Hello, Im from the Society For The Preservation of Mexico’s Premium Nature Resource, The Spotted Back Spinc Mule. In the past SFTPoMPNR,TSBSM has campaigned for open trail use to all spotted back mules, or as we like to call them in the trade, SPHINCTERS. The SPHINCTERS get a hard time in their natural habitat of lower south west Mexico where Donkey stable boys often ritualistical sodomize them and tickle them with their engorged tadgers.

Please support our Ideals and get open trail use for the SPHINCTERS on all Mountain Pass’s Hill’s and City Streets, through your help only, you can aid in the preservation of the dirty smelly spinc mule and continue the legacy of love for the Mexican way of life. Thank you goodnight we love you all – EP

“I’m all lost in the supermarket
I can no longer shop happily
I came in here for that special offer
A guaranteed personality”

The Clash

Wednesday, 4 February 2026

AVOID USING MICROSOFT

This is only the second topic on my privacy page and I can already see that page is not going to be a logical and orderly progression of ideas, but rather a bunch of responses and reactions to whatever subjects come up.

Like the majority of computer users, I had been using Microsoft Windows forever, and only recently stopped, but I don't want to give the impression that Microsoft is the only one to avoid. Apple is full blown spyware as well, as of course is Google.

What seems to have really been the final straw is Microsoft's Windows 11. This appalling pile of full on spyware is so bad it has even aggravated non geeks who in the past would have just gone along with whatever crap Microsoft pushed on them.

This was my reply to a friend who yesterday asked what sort of computer she should get to replace a Windows 10 PC that was failing. I've had several friends asking similar questions recently, so I thought I'd better do a blog post to try and cover the basics of the current situation

Microsoft have lost the plot. Personally I stopped at Windows 7, and refused to ever use Win 10, but I ended up still using Win 7 to some extent right up until 2024, although I was having increasing problems with software that would no longer work properly on Win 7.

When I shifted to Linux, it took me ages to get used it to after 26 years of Microsoft. I prefer it now, but for the first six months I wished I could just go back to Win 7.

Much as I dislike Win 10, that is nothing to my loathing of Win 11, which is badly designed spyware with built in adverts, mainly designed to sell expensive PC's

Microsoft pulled support for Win 10 in October 2025, and told everyone to get Win 11 which requires an expensive high end computer.

One good thing about that is that there are now thousands of Win 10 PC's going cheap because they won't update to Win 11

They will run fine for at least the next few years, but over time there will be increasing problems with Win 10, like there now is with Win 7.

A good solution is to switch old PC's over to Linux, which runs much better on older PC's because it's better designed software.

The catch is that you will need to learn to use Linux, which for non-geek Windows users is a big change, and to begin with many find difficult. Linux is different to Microsoft.

With Linux literally everything is a choice, while Windows has very little in the way of choices. For example with Windows you can now essentially only choose between switching to Win 11, or continuing to use Win 10.

https://sift666.blogspot.com/p/linux.html

Meanwhile on Linux there are hundreds of different versions (distros) to choose from which initially seems confusing. But it's often less confusing than it first seems.

For an ex Windows user who is not a geek, and just wants a good general purpose operating system, there are two stand out options - Linux Mint or Linux Zorin.

Both of those are from Ireland which is now a hotbed of computer development

As with all things Linux, every last detail on these operating systems can be customised, although you can just run them on the default settings as they come if you want, and that will work fine too. They are not like Windows where all the defaults are set to spy on you, and need to be changed.

But essentially I think the best option for Windows 10 users wanting to buy a PC in 2025 is to buy a good used Win 10 PC, and to continue using Win 10 for now, but to be aware that in a few years you will probably have to convert it to Linux, so to start learning to use Linux now and gradually get used to it.

A lot of geeks recommend setting up a dual boot PC, often suggesting a combination of both Win 10 and Linux Mint, but I don't like dual boot set ups myself and prefer to keep Linux & Windows totally separate.

So for the initial learning stage I recommend getting a second computer, any half decent 64 bit laptop with a 500gb solid state drive (SSD) will be fine, and that means you can get used to Linux under no pressure. If anything goes horribly wrong you can just start over again.

Hundreds of old laptops and PC's are going cheap on Trade Me - here is a typical example, this is a 17" Dell laptop for $199, which would be ideal for setting up with Linux to learn the ropes.

I see no future in Win 11 and think Microsoft's appalling spyware will always be best avoided.

This my own Linux Mint PC - Linux uses different programs so instead of Word for example it runs Writer, but they are very similar. More difficult for me was that instead of Photoshop, Linux runs GIMP (Graphical Image Manipulation Program) and that is more of a difference.

Tuesday, 3 February 2026

COPY & PASTE

Is there any point in doing copy and paste blog posts where I just copy somebody else's post, change a few things that I think look a bit shit and bang it up on my own blog like I'm pretending I wrote it myself?

That is something I really don't have a firm opinion on, as there is a solid argument to be made that it's pointless plagiarism that pisses off the authors and serves no useful purpose.

On the other hand I do have reasons for doing it from time to time. I don't make any income from this blog so it's not about that. Most of the content I post is primarily aimed at me, rather than any unknown and possibly non existent readers. Those thousands of hits I appear to be getting could well be mostly AI.

But when I'm trying to share some good info with my friends sometimes the links I send them just kill the whole experience. A prime example is anything on Substack. To me, the whole platform is a dog's breakfast, confusing, filled with subscriptions and pop-ups, an ugly looking mess.

Another example is the Miles Mathis website. I don't know what is really going on with any of his bizarre story, there are some great essays on there, but his entire website is a digital train wreck. I previously did a post about Miles Mathis here.

And there are several other sites with some good content I'd like to share, but either the sites are a mess, or sometimes the links don't work at all, so I often just give up and skip posting them.

This year I decided to change my attitudes to blogging, and stop being so anal. To just post whatever I feel like. And that is going to include doing more copy and paste posts. I'm not sure how many or where from, but just some things that I find interesting and would like share.

Hopefully they won't piss off too many content creators and I will include a link to the original content even if those don't always work very well. The links to the original content will look something like this:

This post is a lightly edited copy of an article by "Messy but Perceptive Dude" which can be found here: https:/the.original.url

Monday, 2 February 2026

I NEED TO QUIT

Seeing an endless stream of fake AI driven fudporn every day is really unhealthy.

I've already given up most "social media" but until now have still been regularly looking at Facebook, YouTube, and some of the blogroll posts on this www.sift.co.nz blog.

But the 2026 online fictional universe is a whole new level of mindfuck. Almost none of this crap is real, it's all just a never ending script designed to crush our will to live.

If I ask myself the question "Is seeing this good for me?" the honest answer is almost always a resounding "NO". So why am I still looking at it? Mainly because I'm addicted to it. Can I overcome my addiction? YES!.

This year I plan to very nearly quit ALL social media. As far as my SIFT blog goes, I will post whatever I feel like, whenever I feel like it, and not give a toss if anyone else looks at it. It will be the only online posting I do, and if I don't feel like posting anything I won't.

Facebook can sometimes be a handy way to catch up with a massive collection of online friends, but even viewing it with a chronological feed, most of the content that is being shared is AI generated fudporn designed to generate emotional reactions.

Paddling around in a sea of fake online sewage is not healthy.

And while Youtube has some cool music videos and some useful content, it has now devolved to the point of being about 90% AI generated garbage. YouSlop...

So as well as continuing to avoid all social media I'm going to keep limiting my time on those two sites to a maximum of 15 minutes a day using the StayFocusd extension.

When I originally posted the following in May 2020 I was doing my best to not be dragged down by fudporn, but the truth is the damn stuff is pretty addictive and in 2026 I need to remind myself again…

FUDPORN IS DOING NONE OF US ANY GOOD

A message to my fellow “conspiracy theorists” – mainstream FUDPORN (Fear Uncertainty & Doubt) is constantly programming the masses to believe that the end is nigh.

And lots of us do get that part. But another aspect to FUDPORN is choosing to constantly focus on the evil plan. I have been part of that mindset myself for years. But what does exposing it and focusing on it really achieve?

Clearly the sheeple don’t believe a word we say, as they have been fully programmed by the media and by all the crap they look at all day on their “smart” phones

Meanwhile many of us “conspiracy theorists” have been reduced to a position of being nearly defeated before we start, staring down the barrel of a plan so cunning and run by people so evil that we sometimes argue about whether they are even human, as we are constantly being told how rich, how evil, and how cunning this enemy is.

If they are really that cunning, they are certainly cunning enough to be running the “alt” media as well as the mainstream media, and making sure shills like Alex Jones get lots of attention. Play both sides is a key tactic, along with divide and conquer – we know that, yet for some reason we believe “alt media” is telling us some secret truth while “mainstream media” lies.

But “play both sides” doesn’t work like that. It fills the heads of both sides with utter shit while doing something completely different while we are all distracted.

Have we become our own worst enemies, constantly focusing on how totally fucked we are because “they” are so powerful? Why are alt media sites constantly going on about police brutality, state oppression, forced vaccinations, 5G rollout, race riots, and endless other variations of “you are fucked”?

Even if all these things are taking place, relentlessly talking about them will not stop them happening.

Every time we are told “this is how it is now” we are not being informed, we are being programmed and beaten into submission. Maybe this moment in time is a turning point, and how we evolve right now determines the lesson we learn next.

We can only change ourselves, the sheeple will do what they will, and so will any evil satan worshiping pedophiles who run everything. But do they really? – or are they just using “alt media” to tell us they do, when in reality they are a bunch of fading old farts, terrified of losing their power as the world evolves.

That may or may not be true, but if one belief keeps us in a state of fear, and one gives us hope and power, why not choose the empowering one? We can choose to believe we are fucked, or we can choose to believe this is our chance to move forward. Because it might be, but it certainly won’t be if we keep believing all the stories saying how fucked we are.

Right now is the time to give this a shot – watching fudporn (wherever it stems from) has not been working for us.

“FUD is an age-old manipulation tactic intended to create knee-jerk reactions instead of intellectual reasoning. Used by politicians, advertisers, and sales people since nearly the dawn of time, it’s more successful than it should be. Instil fear in the audience, and they will need, not want, to do as you instruct”