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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: June 24, 2015, 12:07:31 pm »
... acting in a way to make people more comfortable is not "superficial platitudes" -- it's a basic display of understanding, and accepting of how people are. But... whatever. It's pretty obvious you care about ideological purity more than actual consequences, and are willing to tank the environment around you to defend them. So be it. Understanding achieved.

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General Discussion / Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« on: June 24, 2015, 09:05:57 am »
Yeah... we have a great deal of human history more or less detailing how terrifyingly easy it is to get sane people to commit atrocities. Yes, a murder spree is generally what you'd consider evidence for mental illness, but it's not proof of it, and there's a lot of cases -- such as, to all appearances, the case being spoken of -- where the person committing the act is not mentally ill. The situation they're in just such that they're able and willing to perform terrible acts, often on people who are to outside observers entirely undeserving of such things. Sometimes they're just terrible people, sometimes they're just in a terrible situation. Sometimes something in between. That doesn't make them insane.

To an extent, it's almost unfortunate. Mental illness is something often identifiable and sometimes treatable, or at least able to be largely mitigated in ill effects. Baseline human psychology is... less addressable. We want people like Roof to be insane, because that means we don't have to address the conditions that led to his actions. We just have to fix the person, rather than attend and be aware of the fact that their actions are a potential weakness for anyone, not just the mentally ill. There but for the grace of god, as the saying goes :-\

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General Discussion / Re: [Poi] The deadly game of poi (Happy thread? Poi! B.. Baka!)
« on: June 24, 2015, 06:30:34 am »
Quote from: Japa on June 24, 2015, 05:33:56 am
Does Kankole or however you spell it have an active slash fiction community?

I just ask because the idea of people shipping ships amuses me.
Kancolle, yeah. Short for Kantai Collection, which is the full name. It seems to! Also plenty of non-slash randy stuff, double checking things. Ships get hella' play, J.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: June 24, 2015, 01:01:50 am »
If there has been, boh, I can't see it on my end. Things look as they've long looked.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: June 24, 2015, 12:47:18 am »
Bit of the latter. Especially if that's what you got out of what AC said.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: June 24, 2015, 12:23:29 am »
Be sad to see you go. S'always a little disheartenin' to see folks head to greener pastures 'cause some of the residents can't seem to reel it in.

Do what you need to do, though,. Better your health and happiness than contributin', if the unappreciative folks are drowning out the rest of us, yeah?

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: June 24, 2015, 12:12:11 am »
... they got a brand name? The dried veggies/seasoning liquid combo is standard to one of the microwaved sorts I eat fairly regularly*. Nissin chow mein, specifically.

*Or would, except the local places that carry them have been permanently sold out of the non-spicy teriyaki beef for... months. You'd think they'd get the hint when they've got four or five of those display boxes mostly full of the spicy and chicken versions and absolutely none of its much-better-tasting non-spicy beef kin, but no. Apparently not.

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General Discussion / Re: [Poi] The deadly game of poi (Happy thread? Poi! B.. Baka!)
« on: June 23, 2015, 11:49:16 pm »
It does! Oddly enough, there's still the rare website that has been lingering there since the late 90s or somethin'. It's weird stumbling upon one, sometimes.

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General Discussion / Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« on: June 23, 2015, 11:04:11 pm »
... can't say I've heard much of cops bringing suspects through the drive-through, no. Or fast food in general, whatever happened (I can't actually see the linked website. Thing's just a blank black background.). Heard plenty of them holding suspects without food (or water, sometimes) for extended periods (and often for considerably less than, you know, multiple homicide), but luxury foodstuffs (which fast food is, if about as low on that totem pole as it gets) isn't something you hear much about.

Occasionally in crime dramas or whatever, I guess, but considering how little those things represent real police proceedings, I'd imagine they get that wrong, too.

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General Discussion / Re: [Poi] The deadly game of poi (Happy thread? Poi! B.. Baka!)
« on: June 23, 2015, 10:17:17 pm »
Uh. Hrm. I don't see any engrish. Just a bunch of... spanish? Probably? Above the comments, not in them. Guess there's images or something that's not showing on my end?

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General Discussion / Re: [Poi] The deadly game of poi (Happy thread? Poi! B.. Baka!)
« on: June 23, 2015, 10:10:17 pm »
... no habla quel dat dit.

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General Discussion / Re: [Poi] The deadly game of poi (Happy thread? Poi! B.. Baka!)
« on: June 23, 2015, 10:01:07 pm »
Sometimes clumsy translations are the best :3

Quote from: Ark
“I’m thankful that you recognize me but I’m busy so please die.”

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: June 23, 2015, 08:22:37 pm »
Quote from: Cinder on June 23, 2015, 08:15:16 pm
What's the point of discussing things if you're just going to cherry pick and ignore other people?
*shrugs* There's still fruitful discussion to be had with certain venues of inquiry cherry picked and ignored. See: Medical science, regarding things like homeopathy. Just as one example among many, many examples.

If you're aware that you're not going to actually engage someone, and vice-versa, there's no point in engaging with them. Just talk about something else. Still plenty of to talk about, and having stuff that's verboten doesn't cause a spontaneous cascade deletion of everything else, y'know?

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: June 23, 2015, 11:29:33 am »
Quote from: BlackFlyme on June 23, 2015, 08:41:28 am
Still, I'd rather cut these than the tattoo of the two big black bears recreating their favourite number again.
Wait, wait. Actual bears, or...? I mean, based on context, I'd assume the latter, but if it were the former that would be significantly more amusing.

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General Discussion / Re: The small random questions thread [Talk about stuff I pretend to understand]
« on: June 23, 2015, 11:26:16 am »
... though, as the not-so-token southerner (there's a handful of us floating around the forum) I'll add to baffler's observation by noting that while the ones that fly the flag explicitly for racism is fairly minor, most of the group in question is still pretty damn racist. It's significantly rare that you run into someone flying the battle flag that's not using it as a bell whistle to other racists as a secondary factor. Folks that aren't, usually aren't so damned willfully delusional about what the flag means.

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