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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: January 06, 2015, 11:34:12 pm »
2:30, doing topology. Fuck, I need to do something about myy procrastination.

LOL. That's going to be me next week.


I just found out about Marion Zimmer Bradley, co-founder and namer of the Society for Creative Anachronism and author of The Mists of Avalon's child rape thing (along with harboring her serial child rapist husband). Just... fuck. This is after a day spent reading about concentration camps.

I don't know the full details of that last part but reading it made me a little sick.

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General Discussion / Re: Modern and future medicine discussion
« on: January 06, 2015, 11:28:31 pm »
Problem with nano-bots is the potential for grey goo

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: January 06, 2015, 11:23:14 pm »
Goddammit, I want my story and/or video about Buddhist abortions!

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: January 06, 2015, 11:16:23 pm »
Youtube: Because all the alternatives suck more?
Youtube: Not bad enough yet.
Youtube: We know you're to lazy to look for anything else.
Youtube: Just keep using it until Google comes up with something better... oh wait.
Youtube: All your favorite content creators are on here and it'd be suicide for them to go anywhere else exclusively.
Youtube: There is no single Buddhist view concerning abortion although traditional Buddhism rejects abortion because it involves the deliberate destroying of a life and regards life as starting at conception.

what is this...I... does this have an attached video?

I was Buddhist and I never even... did the first Buddha speak on abortion...What is happening here...

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: January 06, 2015, 11:08:43 pm »
I miss drinking. And cigarettes, definitely cigarettes.

I wish cigarettes did anything for me. The craving/indulgence cycle might provide a weird form of artificial stress relief.

Also, most of my friends have completely different schedules to me this term and one isn't even going, so I'm among strangers in one class and I have only one friend in the other, until the end of term.

they stress you out more, and you're only going to get a noticeable affect the first few times. It's an addiction without much of a high, other than the need to continue to fulfill that addiction. Despite cigarettes stressing you out, the fulfillment of said addiction brings you great relief... so it's sort of an endless self-perpetuating cycle. One that involves large amounts of phlegm and possibly cancer, and a terrible smell that clings to all your clothing.

Cloves were my favorite. But I used to smoke these $2 cigarettes (around the time when camels would be about $5) that were horrible and I fucking loved it.

I quit because I had heart surgery and cigarettes are bad for your heart. I would smoke cloves casually, maybe one every few days, but I would not be able to control myself. I'd suck down the first pack in a day or two.

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Life Advice / Re: Give Me Dating Advice
« on: January 06, 2015, 10:50:26 pm »
here I thought you guys actually meant yiffing.

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Life Advice / Re: Binary Trading?
« on: January 06, 2015, 10:47:18 pm »
Soo I thought this was some sort of male and female only swingers thing. >.<

I'm somewhat relieved.

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Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Don't know who this Leon Trotsky guy is but thanks to Kanye he's about to be HUGE

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Let's all go full retro and start using Netscape again.

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General Discussion / Re: An interesting reflection on labeling
« on: January 06, 2015, 10:38:35 pm »
I don't quite understand this post (although, I too, am a kitchenbot,) you are taking a strategy for figuring out a generalized alignment for a fictional character (which really covers a broad array of personality traits and a great deal of grey areas, I prefer no alignments at all, tbh,) to real live people.

It doesn't translate. Both sides of each of those sentences don't really prove to be universally true.

But then, I have never met a human being that actually fit into any of the alignment categories from D&D etc.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: January 06, 2015, 10:17:08 pm »
I miss drinking. And cigarettes, definitely cigarettes.

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General Discussion / Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« on: January 06, 2015, 10:08:22 pm »
Homelessness used to be a mostly-for-women thing?

during the 80s there were significantly more homeless women than men in the US. That statistic has flipped.

A lot of homeless people are veterans, and/or mentally ill, so you might see some of that echoed in there being more male soldiers and women only recently "officially" getting to see combat. I don't know, tbh.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: January 06, 2015, 10:03:57 pm »
well that, and the sequel, didn't have video accompaniment when I first heard them, which I prefer, tbh.

you kids and your youtube

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yea I hope that works out, but I don't see much coming of it. It's the legal system potentially trying itself. Much like with the original Brown case.

"It's cool guys, we've investigated the matter, and cleared ourselves of all charges."

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: January 06, 2015, 09:54:09 pm »
Stories like that make me incredibly grateful that my folks were both atheists (or non-praticing, or lapsed, or whatever else you want to call people who stopped caring after they stopped having to attend); all I ever got was my mother asking me if I wanted to try going to church when I was seven or so and that was the end of that...

...yeah, no, except for the fact that pretty much every social activity for children in the area was sponsored or run by one church or another, so I ended up getting a belly full of attempted indoctrination anyways.

-snip-
http://www.newstatesman.com/laurie-penny/on-nerd-entitlement-rebel-alliance-empire
Thanks for posting it, that was an interesting analysis. Though I completely disagree with one of the sentiments she expressed -- who'd ever want to be an Ewok:P

I KNOW! How can she expect to make a salient point when she's saying things like that?!

Arcvasti:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPvLykRfSi0

God those chick tracts were good fun.

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