Youjo's Crits and Reviews

A quick review of another attack item from Aldi  What's really cool about these foldable keyboards is that they have four color options!  It magnet shuts close but it doesn't have magnets on the other side to make it stay open so you have to use it on a flat surface.  It has a hard time connecting/staying connected with cell phones, but it works fine with my Linux mint laptop. I initially bought it to see if it would connect with my KiaOS flip phone and unfortunately it didn't, but I'm going to keep it because it connects to my laptop. For it to connect to my Samsung Android, I have to unpair it and repair it and do the connection settings every time. I can't suggest buying this, But if you want something cheap for your laptop that comes in different colors, go for it.

At almost $30 I would say that this is a very impressive speaker! It's very loud indoors. I haven't tried an outdoors yet.  It's heavy for a speaker but lightweight and portable to carry around. The Bluetooth connected to my phone seamlessly. I don't know about hours of playtime, but I have learned that if you're not playing music it times out in about 5 minutes.  It has three light modes. Fast flash, slow flash, and off. The two flash settings are both rhythmic, which I love!  The sound comes out impressively clear and the microphone function picks up my voice across a small room - for when I'm audio dictating and I forget to turn off the speaker.  It was available in three colors at the location I picked it up from: black, gray, and pale blue.  I was impressed with everything right out of the box: The shape, the weight, the lights, and how loud it gets!  It has USB-C charging! It came with 80% charge, which is nice! Not a whole lot to say. Sup...

A lot of people have forgotten about this, but a years ago, Tim Burton said that he doesn't cast black people because race has nothing to do with the context of any of his movies.  I think this happened after Beetlejuice 1988. Black people were casted as football players in the afterlife. That makes sense. Most football players are black. We figured out decades later why that's problematic with the Kaepernick situation. Entertainment is all black people are allowed to have so when an entertainer has a political opinion it's easy to tell them to shut up. "Dance, monkey! Dance!" narrative. But with Beetlejuice Beetlejuice having that soul train scene after he said it, the context tells me that black people are allowed to exist in Tim Burton's aesthetic if they are not stereotypical singing dancing caricatures.  A lot of (white) people will argue that Tim Burton isn't racist because he casted a Latina to play Astrid. The problem with that is a lot of Mexicans...

Things I would really fuck up a Beetlejuice cartoon continuation:  Have Dolores in the cartoon, at any capacity.  I know some people want that, but the Dolores didn't do anything except being a looming threat in the background of the movie. Totally remove Beetlejuice and have the story be solely about Lydia.  However, I would be happy if the first few episodes being about Lydia and how they met and Lydia's backstory and then jumping to where they are now.  Crossing the continuities.  Like a 30-year time skip where Lydia has a child and is getting divorced. Leave the continuities separate.  What I would really like in a Beetlejuice cartoon continuation: 5 or 10 year time skip where Lydia follows in beetlejuices footsteps and learns magic.  They make the cartoon for teens and young adults instead of children, so they can lean more into Lydia/ Beetlejuice. LESS 4TH WALL BREAKING Move away from the gross out humor and fully embrace the body horror aspects ...

Let's talk about Judge Sean Holden, only for the sake of his resurgence and popularity and how blood meridian is becoming retrospectively overrated. Also going to be talking about traditional era ritualistic murders. Also going to talk about folklore, in general, with Mac and Candyman as examples. SUPER LONG POST! BUCKLE UP! People are having such a hard time coping with the present they got to reach back to shit like blood meridian, which is a huge commentary in it of itself.  Judge Holden is actually something of a person or a folklore that exists in a few stories. I don't know about any of those other depictions, but I will say blood meridian wasn't good for him or anyone.  So, if the folklore thing is true that means that Holden's character was developed in a time where it was socially acceptable to demonize albino people. It doesn't take looking that far back to see the demonization of albino people in a lot of literature. It was a thing they did on the regular...

Super disappointed with the 420 event at Marigold/ Honeycomb. Super crowded for not much going on and only three people wearing a mask.  There were a few things on sale, but they were by three get one free. Someone was selling walking tacos for $15. We paid $10 to get in but nothing was free, so I guess we were paying for the DJ?  It would have been great if they had a heated seating area with speakers for the DJ outside for folks who are covid conscious. We left a few minutes after arriving, because $10 is not something to behold someone to. We can go get some real food for $15. The day wasn't a total bust, because we went to a different event earlier and had a great time!

If you're black, brown, disabled/ disfigured, trans, or talk about any form of progressive politics or human rights you probably have a lot of issues with TikTok. A lot of us have five accounts to try to get around tiktok banning us, but what if we didn't have to live like that? What if we embraced the apps that tiktok paid all those millions of billions and advertising to make sure we never know about?  BIGO (little blue dinosaur logo) and Live. Me+ is where TikTok ripped a lot of its framework for their livestreaming setup from - and then paid billions of dollars in advertising to make sure you never hear about those apps.  And since these apps aren't popular, there are less white people. Not to say that these are designated black and brown spaces, but there are marginally less white people. And in my experience, when I first went on to bigo and live.me - for the few North American white people there were on the suggestions page, most of them were sex workers.  In my o...

I'm not being paid for this at all. I got this off of tick tock shop and I'm very grateful for myself for having the insight for myself and wanting to challenge myself and I'm glad that this brought out so many limiting beliefs about myself and how I can make money. I'm happy with what I have now, and I'll be happy with how I'm building towards what I will have in the future. A part of manifesting is truly believing what you're saying. Not limiting your beliefs. Not being afraid to be as vague or as specific as possible. Put what you want out into the universe and make the actions to lay the path for those goals to be achieved. I am no longer afraid of where I've been, where I am, and the bridge I'm building to where I'm going.

I'm 35 and I just had p.i.v. sex. I feel like if more people started having sex later in life they would have a better understanding of how trust based sex is, and it wouldn't be treated so immaturely. People act like sex or maybe the people they can sex with are/ is something detached from the rest of their lives. And for all the cisgender men that get blamed for mediocre sex, maybe consider there are better things you can do with your time than have sex with people that don't take it seriously - which is usually cisgender men, because there's less bad things that can happen to them if something messes up.  Unless it's sex work. As of right now, I can't endorse anything other than that. Y'all please be safe out there. We need to get rid of FOSTA AND SOSTA so sex workers can operate safely online again. That shit didn't do anything to stop child trafficking. It only ran sex workers off the internet.  Also, this isn't hate speech. I'm not saying b...

This adaptation isn't just another black struggle movie. If you call it a black struggle movie and you didn't watch it, don't talk to me because we don't have anything to talk about. If you think it's a black struggle movie after you watched it, okay then. That's your educated perspective. I disagree. The color purple is a very underrated coming of age story when it seems like all is hopeless and bleak. because of the way things start off, it's not even really seen as becoming of age story that it is. Also, there's something very classist about how people don't want to believe that somebody who started so low, the lowest than anyone in our modern day could think is low, could come up and be successful. But I certainly wouldn't suggest just anyone watch it. there are racially charged events. there is domestic violence. there is family violence. there's also using a teenager as a surrogate without her consent and forced teenage marriage.  there...

Why don't they feel bad about killing Winter King? That was the only other Simon that we've seen live. They brought us up on the idea that Finn and Jake were the main characters of adventure Time, but it looks like Simon was. Simon's death dramatically changes that trajectory of other characters lives and roles in the main story. In farmworld, Simon's death means Oooo doesn't get nuked. In vampire world, Simon's death means Marceline is raised by the vampires and becomes evil.  The one other Simon that lives is less deserving of life because he did something dubious to circumvent the crown's insanity flaw? Come on. We all know that's not fair. I also question that Simon did that to princess bubblegum on purpose. Or if at all. Maybe someone casted the spell for him. To believe that Simon maliciously casted that spell on princess bubblegum is to believe that he had a lapse of sanity to be able to do such a thing. I may be missing some episodes, but I'v...

The sound quality was adequate, but they're behind the head headphones so they aren't adjustable, and they were unfortunately too big for my head.

Has very fun color settings and a very attractive boxy shape. But the sound quality has no base and sounds like it's coming out of a trash can!

Quick review These headphones were a 10 out of 10 except they didn't work with my xUbuntu laptop. I don't know what that was about. It worked with my windows laptop, and I think it worked with my phone but it didn't work with my other laptop so I returned them. The sound quality was decent, but the headphones didn't get very loud. People could hear me clearly and loudly on discord. Everything else about the headphones was great.

Menstruating for the first time in about 6 years. Not that bad so far. Moderate to heavy flow. Had really bad abdominal cramps, but slept through the most of it thanks to Seroquel. Cramps make it hard to poop, so had it not been for Seroquel I probably wouldn't have gotten any sleep. Still woke up a few times during the night, but was able to go right back to sleep. This is not nearly as bad as the PMDD I was dealing with before I started birth control. I'm going to let my body have one or two more periods before I go back on birth control, just to even things out.

Cashcapp is about to be much less popular with black people with this update that they rolled out of verifying identity. They asked for the front and back of ID and the for your face from three angles. The reason why Cashapp blew up with black people is because it was super lenient when it first rolled out. We're going to have to wait on the next payment app that's going to be super lenient like cash app was, and hopefully stay that way.

The Flix bus Ride from Tucson to Minneapolis was horrible. My first bus was 30 minutes late, but that's fine because I was 10 minutes late. My second bus left on time but the drivers trainer was bitchy. We went through the infamous Sierra Blanca drug checkpoint. The bus from Dallas to Memphis was 5 hours late so I missed my 4-hour layover in Memphis and had to sleep and the dirty Memphis station. The bus from Memphis to Chicago was at least clean. Although people's devices died because Greyhound stations don't have adequate charging stations anymore. The charging station in the Chicago downtown bus station didn't work, so all of my stuff almost died. And the bus from Chicago to Minneapolis canceled 45 minutes before it was supposed to take off. I reached out to some friends and got some money for a hostel bed. I rescheduled my ticket for the next day. I missed the bus, and later asked for a reimbursement for the night I had to spend in the hostel. Just the first night, ...

I've been smoking bubba Kush for a while now, and recently I started getting very dizzy. That is One of bubba Kush's negative effects, but I wasn't feeling it until recently and it hit me pretty hard. The brand I got has a little QR code about information on what's in the package, and I scanned the QR code to find that the stuff that I'm smoking is from 2018. As I posted previously, after a year THC starts to degrade into CBN. CBN is primarily a sedative and painkiller. I don't know how much of that stuff is still bubba Kush and how much has degraded into CBN, but it's 2023. Bubba Kush is a higher volume of CBD, but I don't know if there's any THC even left in something from 2018. I only have a little bit left, and I'm still going to smoke the rest of it. It's not bad, I just have to be more careful. https://qrs.ly/kf9tjmf

The feeling is only slightly different from Zkittlez. It's "happy, uplifting, and relaxed", but it's not euphoric. That's the difference between Blue Zkittlez and Zkittlez. The parents of blue Zkittlez is Zkittlez and blue diamond. Blue diamonds main effects are being relaxed and sleepy and also increasing appetite. I can see how that would take the euphoria out of Zkittlez. I'll smoke BZ again in a social smoke, but I don't feel the need to buy it for myself again.

Unfortunately, this vape model is ultimately defective. Once it gets clogged, it stays clogged. I keep having to unclog it, and resin keeps coming out. I might not have the receipt from the place that I bought it from, because they keep clearing off the screen before I can have my receipt email to me. Fortunately, I got this vape on sale so I don't feel bad about tossing it. But given the vape model that they sell in stores and the vape model that they have on their website are two different models, and the price for the model in store is half the price of the model online it makes me not want to trust this company. Green post also sells pre-rolls which I have been happy with so far, so I don't mind continuing to buy pre-rolls from them. But I'm not getting another vape from this company and I suggest no one else does either. The vape that I bought was $21.99 (without tax), and on sale for 420. A different model of vape for the same amount of resin i...