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Guavanaut posted:Ah, as opposed to the made-up language used by the Lusitanics to piss off the Moors. Hey! 
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quote:2028 Britain withdraws from the European Economic Community (EEC) Bwahahaha. Man, what kind of drugs are these guys on when they write this crap?  e:f,b
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OwlFancier posted:In fairness the EEC is probably run by lofwyr, who is literally a dragon. Unelected eurocrats indeed! I was trying to fact check this and stumbled across something even better: https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/New_European_Economic_Community "Well well well... Look who came crawling back" EDIT: hahahaha just noticed that Ireland is a "candidate" country hahahaha AceOfFlames fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Aug 2, 2019 |
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Aug 2, 2019 19:23
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OwlFancier posted:Well ireland is an elf kingdom and doesn't like the megacorps much, you see Either that or they thought they make for an even better tax Haven like this. I admit all I know from Shadowrun comes from Shadowrun Returns and Dragonfall* (only played a bit of Hong Kong). *In case anyone is curious, yes I did all the Lodge objectives. Yes, including letting the Neo Nazi go and handing them the And I Must Scream troll. I wanted that sweet cash.
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Aug 2, 2019 19:33
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Pistol_Pete posted:Young people have given up on tv news altogether and i thoroughly hope this trend continues. I hope it does not because it seems I am the only person in my social circle who knows how hosed the world is and I have no one to commiserate with. Gorn Myson posted:He looks like Jason Watkins' evil brother He kind of looks like someone took a bunch of those character actors you keep recognizing but never learned their names and smooshed them in a blender. AceOfFlames fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Aug 2, 2019 |
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Aug 2, 2019 20:31
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Pistol_Pete posted:They still take news in! They just don't feel the need to get it by switching the tv on and seeing some upper-middle class guy in a suit telling them: "HERE'S what happened in the world today and THIS is what you're supposed to think about it." No they don't! Every single time I even obliquely mention current events they immediately go "I don't watch the news" Also how else is news supposed to be conveyed? Have a bunch of random guys on the internet screaming at you and you pick the one who aligns with your feelings about the world? AceOfFlames fucked around with this message at 20:39 on Aug 2, 2019 |
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Aug 2, 2019 20:36
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OwlFancier posted:Picking the one that aligns with your feelings about the word definitely seems preferable to being presented with a curated selection of ways you are allowed to feel about the world. But then what if you pick one that turns out to be wrong?
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Aug 2, 2019 20:41
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Bardeh posted:toaster license man is my new favourite person "NOBODY HAS ALL THE ANSWERS ABOUT HOW FREEDOM WORKS! THAT'S WHY FREEDOM IS SO IMPORTANT!" I'm dying
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:At one end of the mascot spectrum we get I have a really bad cough right now and this made me laugh and cough so hard I got light-headed. Thanks for nearly making me literally die laughing.
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Azza Bamboo posted:That's definitely not what I was picturing when I heard "Tibetan Camp". Funny, it’s exactly what I was picturing.
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Aug 3, 2019 18:26
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Renaissance Robot posted:Congrats Azza, this already puts you way ahead of most other dipshits. See, this is something that kind of bothers me with modern progressivism in general: "You want to know? Figure it out yourself! *later* No, that's not it at all you idiot!" I understand this derives from people arguing in bad faith but how in the hell do you change people's minds like that? You're just going to get people who are already primed to do the legwork while the racists are all too happy to dump Muslim rape statistics or whatever on people who have no opinion one way or the other. Are we really moving towards a future of "preach to the choir and shoot anyone who does not accept what we say on faith" on all sides?
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Aug 4, 2019 10:06
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Pilchenstein posted:This reads like something you'd see your dad post on facebook a couple of weeks before "you might as well just be racist since you're going to get called a racist anyway". I am not going to become a racist if that's what you're wondering. I just don't understand how anyone can live in a world where you have to decide what is real based on what you feel is right. I personally feel like empathy and tolerance is right but I would much rather support these feelings with facts as much as possible.
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OwlFancier posted:Sad Dick Can was on the rejected list of names for the fleshlight. Brb, off to the patent office
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Don't think I saw this posted here, but man, this thread, and the follow up threads posted at the bottom, and his further answers to the comments underneath, are an absolute pro read. I read the third thread and couldn't help but think that if my company was a WSDE, I would have already been fired for being the weirdo who barely talks to anybody. How can socialism benefit the asocial? AceOfFlames fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Aug 7, 2019 |
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Aug 7, 2019 18:33
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OwlFancier posted:I would suggest that given about 50% of his posting is "oh but socialism would hurt me because I don't want to have any sort of participation in anything" I'm going to suggest that he has quite a lot of trouble giving the faintest poo poo about anyone else. I can have working relationships with people but I lately I have had the bad luck of ending up in very cliquey places. Like the sort of place where if this were a country with looser labor laws, I would likely be kicked out the door for no better reason than "lack of cultural fit". Where everyone not only attends office functions but also have the exact same interests and hang out together outside of work. Just worried about that sort of thing being enhanced, that's all. I just want a job where I am given the tools and knowledge to do my work, I do it, and I get paid. I don't want to have to "believe in the mission" or have to change my interests to get along with people. Guavanaut posted:Also capitalism is ridiculously based on networking and nepotism over merit so it's not like it's any better if you don't get on with people. Fair enough. I still think it's a miracle I have so far dodged that. AceOfFlames fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Aug 8, 2019 |
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Aug 8, 2019 00:03
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Junior G-man posted:And now we can't even post about it properly anymore. Good forum performance uses valuable electricity that could be used for more important things, like Bitcoin mining.
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Ms Adequate posted:And on the coinage, these words appear: Thread title Ratjaculation posted:made this so you remoaners can understand why coins are essential to makin britian grate again As a reader of grocery store Disney comics when I was a kid, I am far more familiar with Scrooge as a straight up villainous rich sociopath as opposed to the grandfatherly figure presented in the capitalist propaganda known as "DuckTales" that brainwashed the English speaking world, but I'm pretty sure Scrooge would have much better business sense than to vote leave. If only for the prospect of having to pay tariffs. AceOfFlames fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Aug 10, 2019 |
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Aug 10, 2019 20:37
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Ms Adequate posted:The poo poo Rob Hubbard did back in the day is loving insane, how did he get these noises out of these machines? For a minute I thought you were referring to the musical stylings of (L.) Ron Hubbard: https://youtu.be/ZpTUhN__FRk
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Aug 11, 2019 09:54
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TheRat posted:Interesting name of a prisoner being executed in the new tv show Pennyworth: Is this show any good? I have the feeling that even if it is and it shows Alfred being a total badass you're still left with the fact that he will eventually leave all of that behind to wash Bruce Wayne's underwear.
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Aug 11, 2019 15:14
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Failed Imagineer posted:Your legs will feel way better if you do a little light leg stuff and then gently caress around with some upper body. Is there any exercise routine that is like the equivalent of what you would give to a person recovering from a decades long coma? Preferably bodyweight only so that person doesn't have to show up to a gym and have everyone laugh at them, especially since most of his coworkers are attempting to convert the entire workplace into the CrossFit cult? Asking for a friend.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Yeah that too. Realistically 99% of gym users are just worried about their own poo poo and don't notice your existence. It's theoretically possible that some bro could laugh at your weak poo poo but I've never seen it IRL. I have however seen a bunch of helpful people offering guidance when asked. But would that happen in CrossFit? I don't WANT to do CrossFit but it seems the entirety of the people I talk to IRL are on it.
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Dead Goon posted:From what I have read on the internet, Cross Fit is universally reviled and mocked by actual fitness people. That's what I have seen as well but it looks like most of the criticisms are from five years ago and the fact that anybody can get a certificate. Apparently at least where I am at, they have real qualified trainers giving these courses. The freaking attitude of the participants is still the worst though. Once you're in, it really does look like CrossFit becomes all you ever talk about.
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Aug 11, 2019 18:48
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MrFlibble posted:Everyone knows JFK travelled back in time to kill himself via the grassy knoll to preserve his legacy and stop the world from collapse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6naJ08Tskk
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Communist Bear posted:When the hell did the FT transition to full socialism now? The pink paper was a clue all along. "Salmon" my rear end.
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Aug 12, 2019 15:53
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marktheando posted:The actual conspiracy theorists are saying that Epstein isn't dead, that the ears on the corpse photo don't match other photos of Epstein. My favorite crackpot explanation is that it's the corpse of Anthony Bourdain.
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Aug 12, 2019 18:05
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OwlFancier posted:Jeffrey Epstein is actually a clone of the original Big Nonce and when he went rogue the patriots activated his kill genes and that's why his body looks wrong. The Patriots are 5 Nonce AIs: JS*, GG**, MJ*** and BS**** all under the command of the Master AI CC***** * Jimmy Saville ** Gary Glitter *** Micheal Jackson **** Bryan Singer ***** Catholic Church
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I support democracy but think anyone dumb enough to vote for Brexit and/or the far right should be shot in the head. Does that make me a centrist?
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Rarity posted:"Let's kill everyone who doesn't vote the way I want them to vote" is authoritarian as gently caress, dude Paradox of tolerance. Anyone who makes those choices is clearly devoid of empathy and is so sure in their opinion that they cannot be reasoned with. If not shot in the head at least removed from the decision process.
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OwlFancier posted:The soylent guy is a colossal pillock, if you're looking for people to shoot I think he trumps brexiters both in idiocy and actual harm. That was taken out of context. I support making fun of Soylent guy's stupid life style choices. What I don't support is when people make fun of people like him or Zuckerberg with "Get a load of this loving nerd! He studied COMPUTER SCIENCE! Aren't engineers WEIRD?" You can make fun of specific things without generalizing to a whole group and getting other people caught in the crossfire. I thought the whole point of progressivism is to live in a society where no one is mocked for anything other than causing explicit harm to others (in which point fire away with extreme prejudice).
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OwlFancier posted:Gonna say that STEMlords having no concept of society is a: a thing and b: not a thing you of all people can credibly dispute. See, here is what I don't understand. I keep seeing this argument over and over and over. "When I say STEMlords/any privileged group etc are bad, I am not talking about YOU unless YOU do something bad." I'm sorry but I don't buy that. It's elementary logic: All As are B I am an A. Therefore I am B. It feels unnecessarily disrespectful and missing the point all for the sake of saving some words. Is it so hard to add a qualified like "inconsiderate/unempathetic/etc" to the group name? Otherwise it's like if you want to do the right thing, you have to hear verbal abuse 24/7 because "oh they are just blowing off steam". I don't insult anyone unless they do harm to others. Period. Brexit is an objectively harmful thing. Bigotry is an objectively harmful thing. Those are acceptable targets. My own parents once told me I was an egomaniac because "you never badmouth anyone except Trump. It's like other people are so beneath your notice that you never commebt on them being ugly, or weird. That's not healthy". Is this the society you want to create?
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OwlFancier posted:Being a terrible techbro in a position of power is absolutely explicitly harm causing because techbros are bad people with a bad culture and they are a product of bad ideas about education and training. Discrediting them and their fields as being destructive self indulgent wankery is praxis. Then what are the only "worthy" fields then? Are we just supposed to turn our backs in technology and go back to tribalism and clean each other with leaves? Or just stop here and create an entirely static society not learning anything about the world around us and smoking weed until the climate kills us all or the Sun swallows they are Earth? I'd rather complete extinction that an eternal dark age.
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Jose posted:lol at being such an egomaniac your own parents call you one Actual exchange after that. "How the hell is not trashing people signs of egomania? What else do you have?" "Well, I have never seen you give anything to the poor." "I give online all the time! When was the last time YOU gave something to the poor?" "Well, I haven't done it in years..." Trust me you do NOT want to sign with them. They say some horrendously racist and fash things in front me on the reg.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Technology isn't the problem, it's people being douches and acting superior because they have tech careers. The prime example of this is Elon Musk starting off attempting to rescue trapped kids, and ending up in court for calling the guy who could actually save them a pedo, because he stole his thunder. All those attitudes are terrible. Unfortunately I just don't understand why hiding by my social circle online and IRO I am apparently the only person on the planet who thinks "technology as a whole is good, engineering is a good and necessary profession but Bitcoin is stupid, Elon Musk is an idiot and technology should serve people and we should not abuse workers for progress." ^ Finally, I found someone! 
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OwlFancier posted:Thinking technology has the potential to be useful to humans is not remotely the same thing as "we must always be 'progressing'" because that is the mindset of capitalism. No we mustn't always progress, technological and productive progress without a social foundation is exactly what got us where we are today. A perfectly static world is infinitely preferable to one where everyone gets killed by dickheads shouting PROGRESS as they wipe out most of the earth's biosphere and population. Maybe if we get to Trek levels of technology sure but come on, wouldn't living in freaking neo tribalism forever and only thinking of your own survival just get boring? Heck, even if you fixed health care, inequality, fake news and fascism today (which would be fantastic and better than corporate dystopia) wouldn't you get bored if Facebook were still the same 40 years from now? What would you even do in the mean time?
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big scary monsters posted:I'm a big fan of the current theory that weed causes mass shootings - I saw someone posted the Hitchens tweet and I think there was a Guardian article or something about it? All those famous Dutch and Portuguese shootings I keep hearing about, it's wild how those just keep happening there thanks to the easy availability of the worst drug there is. Weed is not that freely available in Portugal, at least not like in the Netherlands. Jose posted:all i want is for porn to get increasingly weird to make up for how normalised its all become Have you been to a porn site lately, dude? It's getting there.
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Julio Cruz posted:oh my loving god Ok, bad example. Your phone then.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Friends, family, socialising, art and culture in all its many and varied forms, philosophy, science, nature. People can devote entire lifetimes to cultivating these or growing them as a personal skill, with no expectation of changing the world. Do these mean literally nothing to you? Go and get a hobby, god loving drat. My family is a bunch of control freaks who treat me like a child and have highly regressive opinions, all my friends have moved away and I can't seem to make new ones since apparently they consider when I do talk about art, philosophy or even just films in a level deeper than superficial they get intimidated and prefer to talk about freaking CrossFit or whatever and all my conduits for art, philosophy and science are technological in nature. If that all goes away on the climate apocalypse, I will have nothing and be the first target for not being a part of whatever tribes pop up.
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OwlFancier posted:Have you considered that what people might want you to be interested in is them? Who they are, what they think, how their day was? People are not simply tools for you to use, they're the same as you, all the complicated things in your head are also in theirs, and if you aren't interested in them as people, they will not be very interested in you. But they don't even do that. I ask "How was your weekend" and most of the time they say "Good" or "Nothing special". The rare times I see them upset I ask "Is everything OK", they say "Yes" and don't elaborate. Maybe I'm just incredibly unlucky. But I try. I just don't understand.
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forkboy84 posted:Have you considered why people might not feel comfortable opening up to you? This might come as a shock but I don't act the same way IRL as I do here. I would LOVE to know the answer to that question. My mom says that I have resting bitch face and I don't have the most cheery disposition but you'd think at the very least people would be concerned instead of standoffish.
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OwlFancier posted:Of course, my idea of a static world is probably some kind of mostly agrarian society without rulers, not necessarily one that doesn't have technology but which probably doesn't have a lot of the things we have today, like mass use of aircraft, ships, cars etc, no global economy, because it's somehow managed to create a durable disinterest in them, belieiving that they just do more harm than good, that they demand more of people than they give. Genuine question: how can you have time in a "mostly agrarian society"? Isn't farming some of the most intensive labor imaginable? There's a reason why one of my biggest nightmares about the future is the beginning of Interstellar and that is essentially mankind's BEST case scenario at this point.
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