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[Doomblade187]

I feel quite hollow since the events last week. I dont know what I'm doing, and I feel very much alone

Please feel free to hang out here. I know we're just internet folk, but you're a valued forumite here.

[Magistrum]

Always remember that the faceless mob in the forum wishes for you to be happy.
We are content with your interaction. We appreciate your presence.
We are rooting for your success, even if not physically present.

[TD1]

https://youtu.be/mSfH2AuhXfw

[Reelya]

Reading this Fortress is for "Everyone" post that attacks men makes me sad. https://medium.com/the-fortress-is-for-everyone/community-generation-e77d90081232 They call Toady and friends "boys". Also, I didn't know you had to have a specific value system and world view to contribute to Dwarf Fortress discussion.

One of the authors is in fact Zach's wife. "The boys" here means the Adams brothers. Also, consider that the co-author being Zach's wife would probably be on close terms with the parents of Tarn and Zach, thus referring to them as "the boys" in an intimate familial sense would make perfect sense.

... also, i couldn't find anywhere in this article that "attacks men". Please explain. It's anti-troll, however I didn't find any specific line in that that singled anyone out for being the male gender.

[CABL]

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As I've already said it, the person outraged at the article is baiting: the profile has barely 28 posts, ffs.

[Hanslanda]

Some forumites are incapable of resisting trolls. It's probably genetic or something. 

[itisnotlogical]

I find that trolls tend to feed eachother if left to their own devices, at least in larger communities. And seeing how Dwarf Fortress is coming to Steam, these forums might suddenly get larger. Somebody coming in and seeing that post, with seemingly nobody disputing it, might think "Oh, that sort of thing is cool here" and suddenly we have people who aren't baiting, but genuinely believe that sort of thing.

[hector13]

But now they know they can post something like that and get a reaction.

[TD1]

Social pressure does not discourage trolls; rather, it is the ambrosia upon which they feed.

[Folly]

Ukraine is currently in the process of electing a new president. Their forerunner atm is an actor who promises to do the impossible without actually explaining how.

*sigh* nothing ever changes...

[HmH]

Their forerunner atm is an actor who promises to do the impossible without actually explaining how.

I think that's a prerequisite for winning any fair election. The bigger a lie, the easier it is to believe, so bigger lies get you more voters.
That's pretty much the reason communists, ultranationalists and other fundamentalists are so popular in times of crisis and uncertainty: they have the biggest lies around and never stop telling those lies, not even after the elections. Like everyone else, they have no idea how to accomplish their proclaimed goals, but they're consistent in their rhetoric, and on first glance it's easy to confuse consistency for honesty.

So look on the bright side: the whole "promising the impossible" thing is more of an indicator that candidates have to fight for the electorate as dirtily as they can get away with, so it means the political system isn't completely dead yet.
I'd be far more worried if a candidate won without promising miracles for everyone. That would mean the system is so rigged that they know from the start they have nothing to fear.

[sprinkled chariot]

Meanwhile our political system is so not rigged, that everyone sort of knew, who would be president in next elections for like 20 years. 

[HmH]

Meanwhile our political system is so not rigged, that everyone sort of knew, who would be president in next elections for like 20 years. 

Yours is rigged in a broad way: it's obvious that one of the two parties will get their candidate to represent the country, since money decides the outcome when the parties' lies are of roughly equal size. It's also obvious that the two parties will divide most of the political power between them.

However, the uncertainty about the exact balance of power and the free-mass-media-dependent chaotic fluctuations in approval keep your politicians constantly on their toes, not simply trying to stay on the electorate's good side - every politician does that, except for the most psychotic of dictators - but trying to do it better than the other party.

That kind of an ass-kissing competition keeps the parties busy watching that their members don't screw up in their duties too hard, weeding out those embezzlers that are stupid or greedy enough to get caught, and making sure the system is running smoothly so they can juggle around some numbers and claim sole responsibility for it in the next elections.
If the parties were secure in their knowledge that they'll win the next election, they'd stop pretending to look out for the interests of the people and devote all of their energy to siphoning the money out of the country. Which, in turn, would hurt the economics and so on. The list of historical cases where democracy went wrong because of a lack of competition would be enormous.

Your system sucks. It's corrupt. It's oppressive. But - your system sucks less, is less corrupt and less oppressive than all the other regimes we've seen so far. It's so much less corrupt than non-competitive systems that Americans seem to believe the word "democracy" makes everything better somehow, and even managed to delude the rest of the world into thinking the same.

[Magistrum]

Social pressure does not discourage trolls; rather, it is the ambrosia upon which they feed.

Maybe we can get a troll exorcism chant or something. Like "gr8 b8 m8 i r8 8/8 no h8".

[ChairmanPoo]

You know this whole shit here is not about not getting the position. That's the least of things. Its  more about how the workplace had been shitty from the get-go, that I put up with a lot of crap for nebulous promises that turned out to be lies, and how they made everything as humiliating as they could.  Moreover, this place has eroded my self confidence and my ability to cope (and I can tell you, those are very important when making certain sorts of decisions).
And now they're in a panic because I'm leaving. You know whats the problem? They're so used to dealing with doctors from developing countries putting up with shit in junior positions  (and stuck in junior positions) because they literally have no choice, that they just defaulted to that attitude, even though I'm not a junior doctor, nor from a developing country, and I have plenty of choice in where I work (I had a job in Spain when I left. I would probably have one next week if I wanted to pursue that)