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Obviously islamic nations have far worse institutional issues when it comes to all that, but that's primarily because they actually read their holy book.

Uh, no, it's primarily because the areas are by and large either unstable shitholes or just recently starting to claw their way out of such, mixed with tribal traditions that are also pretty shit. There's a religious aspect to some of the gender shit, but not when it comes to sexual assault and whatnot. Islam's texts take a pretty damn dim view towards rapists and sexual perfidy in general. Consequences tend to involve execution for the perpetrator or stuff that's pretty capable of killing regardless. Lotta' the shit we've been seeing in recent times counter to that is basically fairly forthright heresy.

By itself, talking to yourself isn't crazy at all -- there's plenty of reasons to do so that don't involve mental abnormalities of any sort, after all. When I'm living alone, ferex, I pretty often talk to the air a lot just to keep my voice from getting rusty. There's a fair number of voice training/maintenance related things that benefit notably from the such practices. Vocalization can also help fairly substantially when studying or trying to puzzle stuff out -- varying up how you're processing things can be beneficial for many people. Plenty of things along such lines. Vocalization is an effective tool for a buncha' stuff, audience or not. Plus singing and bits of theatre and whatnot is usually quite fun, especially when there's no audience

It can definitely be a symptom of insanity, though. S'just not necessary or sufficient on its own, nor terribly indicative of anything in and of itself.

Huh. What does "Quest-style" refer to here? Never heard of it.

Something like this or this or this, for some archive dumps. Or this, for an active-ish and lengthy one. There's some fairly notable ones from 4chan or whatev' archived somewhere or another, too.

Yeeaaah, if I'd forgotten to earlier, lemme' just say cheers to everyone involved. Wish I'd offered more to the pile, heh, but I'm glad I managed to offload what I did, at the least

Eh, moore's not a federal employee -- elected state-level judge. High up, insofar as that goes, but no more than that. It may indeed take a bit for everything to get processed and the jackass to get the boot again, but there's not really much question of the order sticking. Though there is the possibility it doesn't happen fast enough for the blighter's term to not just end... iirc, he's on his last one, so folks may just more or less shrug their shoulders and wait for 'im to go away. Not sure how much I'd blame people for deciding alabama just isn't worth the effort >_>

Fun bit is that any judges that follow moore's ruling may actually be liable to face contempt of court charges if they do, ehehe. Neat lil' casual write up on some of the history involved, that I ran across on a different forum.

Yeah... depends on the security. A wall that's crumbly and full of handholds is often worse than no wall at all, because it leads people to wasting resources on areas that aren't an issue and/or focusing away from things that are, among other things. Poorly implemented security is often worse than none, heh. Applies particularly to IT and whatnot, but the sentiment is fairly universal.

We don't really have any meaningful data that the TSA et al bullshit hasn't been straight up counterproductive. It's definitely been, to all appearances, mostly useless and freakishly cost inefficient. If there's any deterrence going on, it's harder to tell than it normally is for such things.

Heard about that, heh. What you're hearing, if that's the summation, is roughly 90+% complete bullshit. What happened was a smaller group (forget details there, but iirc the likely numbers are less than a couple dozen at the high end) was using the larger party as more or less a smoke screen. More or less the same sort of thing you see when your average rapes and whatnot occur during frat parties or some shit.

1k is the number of total partiers -- the actual perpetrators were considerably smaller in number. Conflation of the two has been occurring due to idiots who lack the reading comprehension of a two year old.

Yes & no. My spelling used to be pretty good back when I was writing regularly with pen & paper. These days I don't write, it's either typing on a phone or computer & my spelling is atrocious (for instance I just wrote "writting" & "atroscious"). The fact that I don't have to write in a professional (ug. proffessional) or academic setting, likely makes a difference too.

Hehehe. My spelling improved dramatically once I started mostly typing. S'a lot easier to see and correct errors for me with a computer, and most of the errors these days are just finger fumbling (or intentional) rather than actually not knowing what the zog I'm spelling. Considering I was at one point diagnosed as learning disabled in spelling (and writing, for what it's worth), it's been a helluva' change. Typing saved my english/communication grades

Well, typing, online gaming, and fanfiction. Counter to what many would probably say would be the likely results of that combination, I blame the three for the majority of my gains in regards to written (and spoken, to a degree) communication over the years. Practice with intent towards accuracy/effectiveness and exposure to a massive amount of examples of both good and bad go a long, looooong way.

Though to the generational thing... no. Not so much. Seems to vary just based on non-age stuff -- hobbies/work activities, educational background (with most definitely no bias towards the older generations, ahaha, or if there is, the cognitive degeneration that comes with age offsets it), etc. Person to person thing rather than something you can meaningfully generalize out to a generational group. Sorta' helps on that front that most folks seem to be honestly kinda' shitty at spelling :V