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Kanine posted:my actual conversations with both my fellow americans and foreigners online who arent poisoned by something awful goes completely against what you're saying. attaching the word libertarian to socialist has been an incredibly useful tool when i want to talk to people about the actual meat of what i believe in and the direction id like to see the world go in I woke up to discover you've been having this unproductive little self-indulgent whirlwind of an argument in at least two PYF threads, which is two too many. Knock off the political semantics poo poo in here. Doctor Spaceman posted:It's a pretty natural thing to want to discuss. That's absolutely true, but a thread that slips into political discussion can very quickly become consumed only by political discussion, which is not what this thread is for. Can you have unpopular political opinions? Oh, lord, yes. Should you post about them in this thread? That doesn't tend to go so well, for anyone. My unpopular opinion, which I guess isn't all that unpopular going by the past few posts, is that I don't like or really care about Discord. I follow a lot of threads here, lurk in a couple of other places, and have a barely-used Twitter account that are mostly for following funny/interesting things. That's more than enough to keep up with without plugging one or more neverending cocktail parties into my already fraught headspace. fizzymercy posted:Guys I still post on the straight dope forums and I don't even understand how twitter works. Am I an old? Has the internet passed me by? I grew up adoring the Straight Dope paperbacks and column (when I could find it) but those forums have always, even way back, seemed sort of, well, stuffy to me. Couldn't tell you why.
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CYBEReris posted:ime discord is more used a replacement for IRC and the old messaging services like AIM and MSN. i don't think there's anything else that really maps to the structure/relative permanence of forums; even Reddit is pretty transient in that you generally don't see comments on a post more than two days or so after the post is made with some exceptions. Forums will make a comeback in the future but it will be strange and weird and marketed at folks.
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Discord got popular among gamers as a replacement for Ventrilo bc you didn't need your own server for it I thought. Phuo: Standing desks are superior to sitting desks, not for health reasons but because it makes it easier to pace around which allows for better thinking
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Badactura posted:Phuo: Standing desks are superior to sitting desks, not for health reasons but because it makes it easier to pace around which allows for better thinking I don't understand how people sit to think things through. You have to get the blood pumping to get the thoughts out of your rear end.
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CYBEReris posted:ime discord is more used a replacement for IRC and the old messaging services like AIM and MSN. i don't think there's anything else that really maps to the structure/relative permanence of forums; even Reddit is pretty transient in that you generally don't see comments on a post more than two days or so after the post is made with some exceptions. My experience is that Discord is like IRC only much much worse so that young people who are experienced with and want bad ways of communicating (like Twitter and any World Wide Web forum) will use it. Jefferery move the forums to BBBS TIA so we can finally have actual threads the way they're supposed to work.
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Discord absolutely sucks and I hate that I have to use it sometimes now because everyone else does.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:My experience is that Discord is like IRC only much much worse so that young people who are experienced with and want bad ways of communicating (like Twitter and any World Wide Web forum) will use it. Jefferery move the forums to BBBS TIA so we can finally have actual threads the way they're supposed to work. I never used IRC, how is discord worse?
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Josef bugman posted:I never used IRC, how is discord worse? Everything takes up more space. I guess it could be fixed with a good client but gently caress that.
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Mechanical wombs would be a good invention because humans wouldn't have to deal with pregnancy and could divide reproduction and sex from each other. Everyone I've mentioned this to thinks I'm insane
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Badactura posted:Mechanical wombs would be a good invention because humans wouldn't have to deal with pregnancy and could divide reproduction and sex from each other. Everyone I've mentioned this to thinks I'm insane I support mechanical wombs as long as they still require a human host. A sort of mechanical spider that hunts someone down and latches on and draws energy from the host to grow a child in it's bulbous gestation tank
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Badactura posted:Phuo: Standing desks are superior to sitting desks, not for health reasons but because it makes it easier to pace around which allows for better thinking Follow up: standing desks that you put on top of a regular desk and fold down so you can sit are a scam, just get a taller chair
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Gripweed posted:I support mechanical wombs as long as they still require a human host. A sort of mechanical spider that hunts someone down and latches on and draws energy from the host to grow a child in it's bulbous gestation tank I'm cool w that Coffee And Pie posted:Follow up: standing desks that you put on top of a regular desk and fold down so you can sit are a scam, just get a taller chair Having a standing desk that can become a sitting desk is giving yourself an out to be lazy and should be discouraged
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I have a standing desk at work and I hate it, though a lot of that is because I walk 10-15 miles in a day and when I go to my desk I just want to park it for a bit.
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Yeah I feel like standing desks are more for people that are mostly sedentary.
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I have been thinking of different ways to make a standing desk setup for when, god willing, I am able to get a house I played wow with a guy who had a standing desk with a treadmill and walked while he collected bear asses
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hawowanlawow posted:
I’ve wanted to do the treadmill gaming setup for ages, I think it’s going to be my next weird project when I have time again. I tried to do it with an exercise bike but that didn’t really work.
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My Neighbor Totoro is a crap movie. The two little girls are largely obnoxious (the little one is incessantly insufferable and the movie could have redeemed itself if she stayed drowned). It’s a fine kids movie but I have to wonder about the adults who tag it as their favorite Miyazaki movie. Bland, dull, meandering, saccharine. Spirited Away is ok I guess
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Badactura posted:Phuo: Standing desks are superior to sitting desks, not for health reasons but because it makes it easier to pace around which allows for better thinking Chairs are essential for hung-over working. Also a standing desk makes the person opposite you in the cubicle row look at your rear end all day in the monitor reflection.
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Sitting down is terrible and relaxing just makes you lazy. Work harder and whine less you'll be happier. please help im so tired
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I have an electric desk so I can just raise and lower it whenever I want to stand or sit
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IRC looks like the kind of program that people who think it's okay to like Linux would use. I'm very glad that discord has replaced Skype for not just text chat stuff but for quick little voice calls.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Chairs are essential for hung-over working. Also a standing desk makes the person opposite you in the cubicle row look at your rear end all day in the monitor reflection. If your job is mind numbing you should sit, but stand up at regular intervals to keep your brain active. And get a toned rear end to please your co workers. fizzymercy posted:Sitting down is terrible and relaxing just makes you lazy. Work harder and whine less you'll be happier. Sitting all day is bad for your body and mind, regardless of how much you work.
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Lurk Ethic posted:My Neighbor Totoro is a crap movie. The two little girls are largely obnoxious (the little one is incessantly insufferable and the movie could have redeemed itself if she stayed drowned). It’s a fine kids movie but I have to wonder about the adults who tag it as their favorite Miyazaki movie. Bland, dull, meandering, saccharine. I agree that Totoro is an annoying movie. All of the scenes that the big man himself is not in are grating.
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Sometimes I’m sitting down at my job and sometimes I’m standing up and walking and doing things
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oldpainless posted:Sometimes I’m sitting down at my job and sometimes I’m standing up and walking and doing things Check out this privileged rear end in a top hat
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Aramek posted:IRC looks like the kind of program This hurts me.
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Looking back, late 90s/early 2000s pop punk was and is good actually.
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Aramek posted:IRC looks like Lmao Anyway: they should shovel the snow off Mount Everest so it wouldn't be so hard to climb. Sprinkle some salt on there too to stop ice from forming.
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Green Day’s American Idiot remains greatest album of all time
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Manager Hoyden posted:Looking back, late 90s/early 2000s pop punk was and is good actually. As someone who sang "Somewhere on Fullerton" by Allister in the shower today, agreed. Unrelatedly, where did the thread title come from?
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Sorry I only ever used the desktop version of it back in the day. mIRC iirc. 
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Aramek posted:Sorry I only ever used the desktop version of it back in the day. mIRC iirc. I believe that Platystemon and 3D Megadoodoo are alluding to the fact that IRC is a protocol, not a specific app like Discord. You could connect to an IRC server with any program that supported it, of which mIRC was one example - but even the basic Telnet program that came with your operating system would do the job.
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Microsoft Comic Chät was IRC and I doubt any Linuxist would've used that.
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Tiggum posted:I believe that Platystemon and 3D Megadoodoo are alluding to the fact that IRC is a protocol, not a specific app like Discord. You could connect to an IRC server with any program that supported it, of which mIRC was one example - but even the basic Telnet program that came with your operating system would do the job. The IRC server is running the IRC program. The various IRC clients are different programs.
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docbeard posted:The IRC server is running the IRC program. The various IRC clients are different programs. Wikipedia posted:An IRCd, short for Internet Relay Chat daemon, is server software that implements the IRC protocol, enabling people to talk to each other via the Internet (exchanging textual messages in real time).
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YeahTubaMike posted:Unrelatedly, where did the thread title come from? During a discussion about the fate of the Southern states after the Civil War, this got posted: hawowanlawow posted:
Even going back and re-reading the conversation, I'm not sure what it meant, but damned if I didn't like that turn of phrase. I cannot believe this thread title has been around since April. e: is an unpopular opinion the opposite of weed? we just don't know
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