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Free roam chickens roam free, man. All sorts of other uses for ambulatory breakfast, too.

is it common for forum DMs to conk out after a few posts
i'm new at this so i don't know what the recommended wait time is between posts

Not personally involved with that sort of stuff, but I've read through archives and whatnot in desperation for something to read enough to know that... yes. Forum game style stuff that has a couple posts by the OP who then wanders off for whatever reason does indeed seem pretty common. Probably a majority of the distinct threads, even.

No clue if there's a common standard for thread creator contact, though. Reasonableness would say to give it a week or so and then maybe float 'em a PM to see if they died, but considering how fast some of those things run, I'unno.

But worse than just having a physical key, too, though. Or at least some kind of emergency unlock that doesn't consist of breaking down the door and/or going out a window. Cost permitting, the answer to these sorts of situations tends to be most effective when you stop asking which and start realizing both is good.

Quote from: PTTG?? on January 31, 2017, 01:56:29 pm

Starting today, he will start stocking the Supco. His appointees will be those he has leverage over. Expect at least one more justice to die of "natural causes," such as polonium poisoning.

I'll say this for the anti-Trump crowd, at least their conspiracy theories are more entertaining. Definitely spicier than anything to do with Obama's birth certificate.

Oh, don't worry, the anti-obama stuff was just as spicy, probably even moreso. If there's actually a difference it's that the birther bullshit was about all they could get anyone outside the alt-right & co media sphere to notice, so it was much easier to hear about it.

... also I'm pretty sure most of us are either thinking PTTG's stuff is something approaching satire or just some degree of insanity. The other difference would be that a notable amount of the anti-obama crowd, uh. Didn't. Think that sort of thing. Seeing one say with a dead serious face and complete sincerity that obama was poisoning political opponents and another not looking or being even the least bit skeptical is/was... not terribly uncommon, insofar as conversations tend to drift towards discussion of clandestine political executions. Which is less unusual than you'd think among that particular bundle of demographics.

Ahhh, the words anyone with any degree of bookkeeping experience -- even just training -- dreads: "They didn't keep records."

I guess in one sense, only several thousand dollars winding up in the wrong place over the last year or two is a surprisingly tame results :V

_{nothing major, just helping a little with someone volunteering to get a church's financial records into something approaching order rather than nonexistance while not surprised, the understanding of why the US church circuit is one of the largest fraud markets in the country has become a bit less conceptual}

But this is to be expected for a political outsider candidate to have very little experience in politics, really.

... see, just a little bit ago I said a few words on business practices...

No, this is not to be expected for an outsider than has little experience in politics, not unless they have fairly significant character and/or cognition flaws. Experience has nothing to do with it, having less foresight than a blind lobotomized rhesus macaque does (that's the charitable interpretation, mind; the other ones involve varying degrees of malice). Please don't be one of those people that piss all over actual outsiders of little experience that are worth two dessicated damns by saying this is the level of behavior you expect from them

Even if y'lack experience, you can have enthusiasm without enthusiastically shooting yourself in the foot in the process. Generally it ain't even that difficult (to at least only clip a toe instead of burying the bullet right in the center) if you stop to think for two seconds, or have the basic administration/leadership competence the nonexistent gods gave a diseased pinecone. And we really should be able to expect at least that much from a political candidate, regardless of their previous experience or adherence to current political structure. Clearly we can't from trump, but that was clear a long time ago. Let's at least not let his actions set the bar for those that come later.

Rest of that bit, just... fine, okay, if you call this fulfilling promises. Just, for love of fornication, please don't internalize this as normal, standard practice, or anything even remotely resembling either, even for folks of a roughly similar background. It's not. At all.

The war won't go on forever, and will likely end in pretty short order (at least in Syria and Iraq) if people would stop funding jihad there. That's why I think the USA should continue helping the Iraqi army kick out ISIS and the other bullshit infesting the place but back off in Syria and let the government and the Russians do the same.

*scratches head* The conflicts in that region have been going on for longer than I've been alive, and probably longer than both our lifespans combined. This particular conflict may be coming to a temporary close, but for all it's been pretty terrible the actual conflicts are rarely more than a small fraction of the problem. Funding is only part of it, and while that should be addressed, too, the stuff I was talking about was the human resource aspect, leftover soldiers old and new. Even ignoring the base ethical component, that's a good chunk of what refugee related political stuff is about, trying to reduce the likelihood of radicalization, increase the resources nearer state actors have to deal with their own groups or military/etc. response to the conflict itself, all that sort of junk. Yeah, the US's investment in that's been kinda' piss poor (particularly related to our capability) and those we did take in generally not the likeliest risk vector or whathaveyou, but... every bit helps, and at least we should have been avoiding making the step from anemic to actively counterproductive, y'know? Remains to be seen if we're going to actually manage to backpeddle on that front, but...

The more you keep people bottled up with the headchoppers, the more likely they're going to either join up (to keep from getting chopped, because a russian airstrike gib is later and today is now) or turn into their own bunch of 'em. Either tends to end up a net negative for everyone.

Logic you're missing is PTTG doing the same thing conservatives do and using ISIS as a catchall for particularly violent insurrectionists, probably.

Wtf. How is this a good idea from any angle at all?

It's not.

... all there is to it, really.