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Author Topic: Things that made you sad today thread.  (Read 8472708 times)

Graknorke

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #100695 on: January 12, 2016, 05:00:24 pm »

But we're worse at not destroying the planet now than then.
Only because we're smart enough to damage its biosphere in a meaningful way. What could pre-industrial societies do, run a bunch of cattle off a cliff? Boo fucking hoo I'll be crying for them while I just dump these litres of acidic chemicals into this river. Scrubs.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #100696 on: January 12, 2016, 05:10:52 pm »

I'm crap at talking to people I don't know. At all.

Same. But people generally aren't worth talking to.

They're terrible.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #100697 on: January 12, 2016, 05:15:50 pm »

yeah, but some of them are really great

i mean, not me, obviously, but some other folks probably
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #100698 on: January 12, 2016, 05:20:45 pm »

I'll never turn down an opportunity to talk with most people, even terrible ones

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #100699 on: January 12, 2016, 05:49:21 pm »

This is true. It can be proven based upon London's famous consumption of coal.

Regardless, things are still pretty bad.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #100700 on: January 12, 2016, 06:47:17 pm »

But we're worse at not destroying the planet now than then.
Only because we're smart enough to damage its biosphere in a meaningful way. What could pre-industrial societies do, run a bunch of cattle off a cliff? Boo fucking hoo I'll be crying for them while I just dump these litres of acidic chemicals into this river. Scrubs.
git gud, pre-industrial noobs
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #100701 on: January 12, 2016, 07:29:13 pm »

This is true. It can be proven based upon London's famous consumption of coal.

Regardless, things are still pretty bad.

Worth noting, the Industrial Revolution Brittons realized that they were eventually going to run out of trees, so they jumped onto fossil coal deposits as a more sustainable alternative.

In that way they were better than current moguls that plug their ears about the oil running out at some point.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #100702 on: January 12, 2016, 07:35:51 pm »

git gud, pre-industrial noobs

By definition, they have. Since pre-industrial society has become industrial society.
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« Reply #100703 on: January 12, 2016, 07:53:33 pm »

Got the class lists for future Thursdays. Crush isn't in my class, and tbh I'm not sure how I feel about that. Somewhere I think we could still have talked like usual after I asked her out? Would've been interesting to find out. But now I probably won't ever find out. Oh well. On the other hand, me being in a class with my crush who just rejected me and some of her friends would probably have been really frustrating. Meh.

So who is in my class? There's only three (?) guys in the class, including me. All the rest are girls. One guy I don't know and the other I dislike, but both are more social than me. I don't really see this not ending with me sitting awkwardly in a corner, as always. I just can't handle talking in a group to people I don't know well when they know eachother well. I never end up actually participating >.>

E: oh, nvm, looks like it's time for us to discuss the workings of the forums in depth in the sad thread again.

I've had some similar things happen - basically, I had a crush on someone a few years ago but then I barely saw her due to school scheduling stuff. The nice thing was that it showed me that there were all kinds of other people.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #100704 on: January 12, 2016, 08:29:54 pm »

git gud, pre-industrial noobs

By definition, they have. Since pre-industrial society has become industrial society.
Nah I'm pretty sure they're all dead.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #100705 on: January 12, 2016, 09:08:35 pm »

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-peters/ben-carson-says-hed-consi_b_8958500.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

Really?

I have to live a lie enough as it is. Taking away the small progress we've made for no reason and no gain is just insane. There's no benefit to anyone to doing this at all and there's so much bane. He's just going against every last shred of evidence. I mean really. What the Hell?
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #100706 on: January 12, 2016, 09:18:16 pm »

Progress or not, by 100 years we'll all be gone, and by a few billion everything we've done, every legacy, deed, goal, and accomplishment will be forgotten, forever. At this point, I've realized my voice isn't loud enough to effect anything serious, so I only speak when I have to. Why do you care so much when it won't matter in time? If he can't change anything, nothing to worry about. If he can, there's nothing anyone here can do, so why worry? I'm not trying to offend you or insult you, and if I have somehow, I'm sorry, but why worry about what you don't have the power to change?
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« Reply #100707 on: January 12, 2016, 09:26:08 pm »

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-peters/ben-carson-says-hed-consi_b_8958500.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

Really?

I have to live a lie enough as it is. Taking away the small progress we've made for no reason and no gain is just insane. There's no benefit to anyone to doing this at all and there's so much bane. He's just going against every last shred of evidence. I mean really. What the Hell?
It won't work, that's for sure. Discriminating by "LGBT" is only reasonable as the implication it serves. The judgement and logical process is lacking, and it detracts from critical thinking for something wholesomely beneficial (to the state and otherwise--given the role of the military).

It makes me sad though. This Ben Carson guy, who seemingly is going for a position of authority, really looks like he's thinking much less than someone who can actually serve well. :-\ Strange thing to see people going for these things, because it follows the precedent that 'he didn't think about this' holistically.

Progress or not, by 100 years we'll all be gone, and by a few billion everything we've done, every legacy, deed, goal, and accomplishment will be forgotten, forever. At this point, I've realized my voice isn't loud enough to effect anything serious, so I only speak when I have to. Why do you care so much when it won't matter in time? If he can't change anything, nothing to worry about. If he can, there's nothing anyone here can do, so why worry? I'm not trying to offend you or insult you, and if I have somehow, I'm sorry, but why worry about what you don't have the power to change?
That's the mistaken thinking of superficial logic. :-\ Belittling yourself to comparison and temporal degrees leaves you open to not seeing what level your thoughts will follow. It's the essence of the action that matters, instead of 'Oh in all this time we'll be gone. Nothing matters'. It's what is currently being done--for the present and for the future, that defines what's going to happen.

The very things you see today are a product of those who acted before--malicious or benevolent. Please take note that if you may say
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Why do you care so much when it won't matter in time?
It also reflects your own thinking, instead of challenging the other person's woes [also it may be impolite because it verges on what the other person says, and adds a tinge of apathy to it, which won't help at all because of context-dependency].
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If he can, there's nothing anyone here can do, so why worry?
This bit too. Because this person is acting on an idea which belittles other people because of very illogical and lacking reasons. Point in the orange bit there--that's not something you can throw out as if people cannot do anything because of what other people have done.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #100708 on: January 12, 2016, 09:36:29 pm »

Progress or not, by 100 years we'll all be gone, and by a few billion everything we've done, every legacy, deed, goal, and accomplishment will be forgotten, forever. At this point, I've realized my voice isn't loud enough to effect anything serious, so I only speak when I have to. Why do you care so much when it won't matter in time? If he can't change anything, nothing to worry about. If he can, there's nothing anyone here can do, so why worry? I'm not trying to offend you or insult you, and if I have somehow, I'm sorry, but why worry about what you don't have the power to change?
That's the mistaken thinking of superficial logic. :-\ Belittling yourself to comparison and temporal degrees leaves you open to not seeing what level your thoughts will follow. It's the essence of the action that matters, instead of 'Oh in all this time we'll be gone. Nothing matters'. It's what is currently being done--for the present and for the future, that defines what's going to happen.
The very things you see today are a product of those who acted before--malicious or benevolent.
It doesn't matter what I think. I don't hold any power, voice, or sway over anyone who makes or could make any meaningful decisions. My thoughts don't matter here, so there's no point in stating them. And the essence of the action? Meaning behind it? What do you mean? So our intent in what we do is what decides its relevance? It's morality? Or am I not understanding you completely?
Please take note that if you may say
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Why do you care so much when it won't matter in time?
It also reflects your own thinking, instead of challenging the other person's woes [also it may be impolite because it verges on what the other person says, and adds a tinge of apathy to it, which won't help at all because of context-dependency].
Yes. I'll admit that. I went... off, here.
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If he can, there's nothing anyone here can do, so why worry?
This bit too. Because this person is acting on an idea which belittles other people because of very illogical and lacking reasons. Point in the orange bit there--that's not something you can throw out as if people cannot do anything because of what other people have done.
So if, for example, this guy were to be put in the position to enact his idea, could any of us here do anything about it that would be of any relevance to the decision or anyone who put this decision into action?
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #100709 on: January 12, 2016, 09:38:12 pm »

I have to say.  Ben Carson has lost the respect I once had for him.

And yes we COULD stop a runaway President.
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