Schadenboner posted:

Utter garbo. Death to amberpos.

Schadenboner posted:

Utter garbo. Death to amberpos.

Sagebrush posted:

amber is the color of my energy

Sagebrush posted:

amber is the color of my energy

jit bull transpile posted:

piss energy

Sagebrush posted:

amber is the color of my energy

Jonny 290 posted:

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

i think that’s called kidney stones

rjmccall posted:

the internet has definitely shifted in ways that make people’s shittiness harder to avoid. it was always there if you went somewhere where they were talking about “politics”, but a lot of the internet was organized into communities dedicated to specific topics, and the “elders” would try hard to keep things on topic because they knew from experience that if they didn’t the politics would quickly crowd everything else out and probably piss people off enough to fracture the community. but social media doesn’t really have a set topic, and it doesn’t naturally organize into self-conscious communities or grow “elders” who feel any ownership over how the overall site is going, so everywhere is contaminated with the same shittiness as the old politics groups

Gynocentric Regime posted:

This is the thought I was trying to convey. Before Facebook and Twitter there were forums invasions sure but you weren't forced to share space with people who hate you.

President Beep posted:

gonna charge up my piss crystals

fishmech posted:

no this is super fake, things that are rightfully considered awful today were completely fine with most of the population not long ago

like you didnt even have a whole half of the country say interracial marriage at all is ok until the late 90s.

fishmech posted:

like you didnt even have a whole half of the country say interracial marriage at all is ok until the late 90s.

rjmccall posted:

i'm not saying it was a more civilized and less racist age, because it wasn't. but the experience of participating in a topically-oriented community like a bboard or a usenet group or a forum is very different from the experience of participating in a social network. the good folks at rec.arts.beckett.wait.wait.wait usually didn't just suddenly start talking about how much they hate miscegenation, so you might never have found out how racist they were unless you, like, happened to check out alt.fourteen.eighty.eight and saw them posting there. but on twitter you follow someone because they made a good joke on some viral thread and then you find out they like to unironically retweet milo

rjmccall posted:

i'm not saying it was a more civilized and less racist age, because it wasn't. but the experience of participating in a topically-oriented community like a bboard or a usenet group or a forum is very different from the experience of participating in a social network. the good folks at rec.arts.beckett.wait.wait.wait usually didn't just suddenly start talking about how much they hate miscegenation, so you might never have found out how racist they were unless you, like, happened to check out alt.fourteen.eighty.eight and saw them posting there. but on twitter you follow someone because they made a good joke on some viral thread and then you find out they like to unironically retweet milo

hobbesmaster posted:

here I thought the booth across from mine with the slogan “interneting every object” was good

ADINSX posted:

I guess I'm more surprised that grunge music has solidly entered the world of "dad rock", but you know they carefully curated that set list not to include anything too controversial. For a minute when the band started playing a pearl jam song I thought it was jeremy but it was still alive.

Jonny 290 posted:

Krankenstyle posted:

i used to mod a pretty big aphex twin forum called joyrex (now watmm.com i think) in the 90s and i dont remember any racism there (& ive always been sensitive about it)

lots of chris morris chat tho

the dumbrella boards were cool as well

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

overhydration is becoming a more and more significant health issue because apparently people cannot loving begin to grasp the idea of moderation in anything ever

for the record perfectly clear urine is not good, and you should not exceed 3 liters of fluid a day on the regular

fishmech posted:

uhhh no this is super bogus. and again a lot of the stuff that is now shocking as it should be you totally would have ignored back then. most groups would go offtopic all the time or people would inject their hangups whenever the topic even came close.

one particularly salient example would be how any group involved with media would tend to have a bunch of complainign about hollywood liberals or whatever, or people sucking off some fasho cut rate heinlein etc

its easier than ever now to actually go and hide yourself away from weird bigoted people intruding on your stuff because the internet's simply so much larger and its easy to put together niche communities where in the before-times you would need to result to general-audience stuff more often.

James Baud posted:

Those of us who were there for it would make aggressive use of "kill thread" functionality for the off topic crap that didn't entertain us and if someone was annoying enough with starting new threads, they'd eventually earn a rule to kill all threads started by them.

I recently started reading some (still!) active newsgroups again lately for the first time in probably ten years and I still way prefer the experience to anything else. Quote trimming, bottom posting, threading, subject changes when appropriate (frickin' Gmail).

Amphigory posted:

you are a cool dude

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

man, you fooled me into the rather difficult task of making it onto usenet, only to discover that for any of my areas of interest it remains absolutely irredeemable trash, as i should have realized beforehand

Krankenstyle posted:

i used to mod a pretty big aphex twin forum called joyrex (now watmm.com i think) in the 90s and i dont remember any racism there (& ive always been sensitive about it)

lots of chris morris chat tho

the dumbrella boards were cool as well

Hot Karl Marx posted:

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1040081660723843072

fishmech posted:

lol again this is totally fake unless what you mean is that you really did only stay on tiny places noone knew about, which you can still do if you really want to.

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

overhydration is becoming a more and more significant health issue because apparently people cannot loving begin to grasp the idea of moderation in anything ever

for the record perfectly clear urine is not good, and you should not exceed 3 liters of fluid a day on the regular

SENSUAL DAD KISS posted:

I think another factor in this is that at the time the internet felt downstream from "real life" and now it feels definitively upstream

President Beep posted:

gonna charge up my piss crystals

SENSUAL DAD KISS posted:

To be fair this is directed at athletes who are going to lose a huge amount of salt and water through sweating so it's not as bad as some office drone pounding 2 gallons of water a day and getting kidney pain

SENSUAL DAD KISS posted:

To be fair this is directed at athletes who are going to lose a huge amount of salt and water through sweating so it's not as bad as some office drone pounding 2 gallons of water a day and getting kidney pain

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

this is rather the opposite of the issue, athletes are the ones who are liable to overdo it badly http://www.mdalert.com/article/every-year-more-athletes-are-injured-by-hyponatremia-than-dehydration https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/07/150709092727.htm

as muckswirler correctly noted; drink according to thirst and you'll be fine, but drinking a lot at once (the body can't really store a lot of extra water, so your kidneys just have to go full tilt to get rid of it again) or despite not being thirsty at minimum has no benefit and worst-case carries health risks

C.H.O.M.E. posted:

yeah theseare 320 pound guys who are gonna go through the water like crazy.

http://www.sportingnews.com/ca/ncaa...6a190zn9lsy6zkh