SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:

Is there an official cspam discord

SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:

Is there an official cspam discord

Phyresis posted:

Carrie Fisher... this is the worst year of my life

Broken Box posted:

This is our fault for watching the Star Wars Christmas Special

Carrie Fisher posted:

This holiday is yours, where we all share with you the hope that this day brings us closer to freedom and to harmony and to peace. No matter how different we appear, we're all the same in our struggle against the powers of evil and darkness. I hope that this day will always be a day of joy, in which we can reconfirm our dedication and our courage. And more than anything else, our love for one another.

Lastgirl posted:

Phyresis posted:

who is gaslighting whom again??? in this twisted game of ours~

Baloogan posted:

my gas is lit
my eyes are woke
don't throw a fit
but take a toke

Phyresis posted:

MYSTERY CHRISTMAS MOVIE tonight 10 PM, all will be revealed in due time

http://www.psp-tv.com/r/NiteCrew

Phyresis posted:

I was like "holy poo poo why are the birds so loud this morning" and there's a loving sparrow in my house. I let it out but how the gently caress did it get in here? There are no open doors or windows!

crazy cloud posted:

I'm gonna go out during a break in the rain for some things and then come home n eat a shocking amount of drugs

Phyresis posted:

Dov Katz, head of the computer vision and machine learning group at Facebook-owned Oculus, has been charged in King County for attempted commercial sexual abuse of a minor. The 38-year-old tech exec allegedly attempted to contact what he believed to be was a 15-year-old girl for sex.

The fictitious 15-year-old was actually an undercover police officer with the Tukwila Police Department, a city just south of Seattle.

The news was first reported by KING 5, which said that Katz was arrested by Tukwila Police on Wednesday. Katz is to be arraigned on January 5th, and bail was set at $125,000. An Israeli citizen who resides in California, Katz is forbidden to have contact with any minors, except in the presence of a responsible adult, according to charging documents.

Katz allegedly responded to an online advertisement that offered sex in exchange for money, an ad which was posted by undercover police officer posing as a 15-year-old girl. Katz allegedly arranged a meeting at the Embassy Suites in Tukwila, offering to pay $350 to have sex without a condom. When Katz arrived at the hotel with $600 in cash, he was arrested by police.

Upon his arrest, Katz told the officer that he was there to rescue the girl, and should have first called police, according to charging documents.

We’ve reached out to Facebook representatives for comment, and we’ll update this post if we learn more. Facebook purchased Oculus — one of the leaders in virtual reality technology — for about $2 billion in cash and stock in 2014. Oculus operates a large engineering office in Seattle. Katz was profiled in a Times of Israel story in 2014 for the role he played in helping to develop the Oculus Rift headset.

petit choux posted:

Merry Christmas everybody. Yes, I love your newest addition to your sig, LG. Glad you're having some character-building experiences up there Baloogan. With you in spirit. :-) Here I am just making breakfast for my wife, degenerate that I am.

Here is a fav. Really reminds me of some of those french novels I read as a kid, Andre Gide, Sartre. This is the guy in the end of Gide's "The Immoralist," and this is where the protagonist in "The Stranger" makes his fateful decision to "kill an Arab." The last stanza there is the best:

I'm a prisoner here, I can never go home
And there's nothing here either to win or lose
And there are no choices to be made at all
Not even the choice of having to choose

Well, I'm a prisoner here, yes, but I'm also free
'Cause what I am's what I am and what will be will be
Yeah, I'm a prisoner here but I'm also free
And I smile and sip my opium tea.

And in my mind's eye, I see Nick performing this in some tired old dance hall in England, with old people dancing, dressed in suits and evening dresses.

Merry Christmas and if y'all are around later this evening, I'll probably be looking for company, probably want to watch the People's Movie later too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1rRXu3xd4k

Lastgirl posted:

Merry Christmas petit choux! I do have a family dinner but I should be on too for some movies later on!

Also that is oddly an appropriate stanza for everything right now. A strange calm at that too, I should read L'Etranger again, Camus was onto something there.

quote:

One does not discover the absurd without being tempted to write a manual of happiness. "What!---by such narrow ways--?" There is but one world, however. Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from the absurd. Discovery. It happens as well that the felling of the absurd springs from happiness. "I conclude that all is well," says Edipus, and that remark is sacred. It echoes in the wild and limited universe of man. It teaches that all is not, has not been, exhausted. It drives out of this world a god who had come into it with dissatisfaction and a preference for futile suffering. It makes of fate a human matter, which must be settled among men.

All Sisyphus' silent joy is contained therein. His fate belongs to him. His rock is a thing. Likewise, the absurd man, when he contemplates his torment, silences all the idols. In the universe suddenly restored to its silence, the myriad wondering little voices of the earth rise up. Unconscious, secret calls, invitations from all the faces, they are the necessary reverse and price of victory. There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night. The absurd man says yes and his efforts will henceforth be unceasing. If there is a personal fate, there is no higher destiny, or at least there is, but one which he concludes is inevitable and despicable. For the rest, he knows himself to be the master of his days. At that subtle moment when man glances backward over his life, Sisyphus returning toward his rock, in that slight pivoting he contemplates that series of unrelated actions which become his fate, created by him, combined under his memory's eye and soon sealed by his death. Thus, convinced of the wholly human origin of all that is human, a blind man eager to see who knows that the night has no end, he is still on the go. The rock is still rolling.

crazy cloud posted:

oh poo poo is it existentialist philo chat in the chat thread time? neat. what we got other than camus. I am rereading Moby Dick and having a great time w it :