I get the impression that some people basically do want a copy of reddit, just one that hasn't yet reached the critical mass where it's too hard to see through the shitposting to the substantial discussion. I don't know if they realize this is a temporary state, or maybe they think they can keep it from happening if they get in as one of the vanguard.
It is my initials, at least later when I change the last name to that of my mother, who was there, instead of my father, who wasn't.
Anonymous was by definition an Anonymous poster on an image board. In its early form as anything resembling vaguely a "group" that does things (it wasn't a "group" quite) there were raids/trolls against targets for the lulz. A pure and simple time. Later, a touch of morality came into play, and Anon used their skills to attack those who deserved it rather than simply those yielding the most lulz, leading us to the campaign against the Church of Scientology. After this, Anon was more and more oriented toward some attitude of just revenge or sometimes destructively discouraging a behavior, instead of just fucking with people. "Moralfags" and "Moralfaggotry" were the words of the day. Because Anon is not really one well-defined group from one place, there never will be any good consistency in what it looks like Anon as a whole stands for. 4chan certainly did not "create the existence of the net troll", which somehow this writer is supposing to be exclusive to the idea of Anonymous, but when they say it spawned social justice movements, they might mean the involvement of moot and 4chan in GamerGate and the social justice movement, by no means a "spawning" (of the movement -- though maybe, in part, they spawned GamerGate) but significant in that it apparently led to the thrashing death of 4chan. If by spawning social justice movements they mean raids/attacks "for justice", then sure, but the Social Justice movement isn't one of the things Anon was really anywhere near agreed about. I never really got into the whole thing (I was busy on 7chan, TOTSE, SA) but these should tell you enough, albeit with some bias: https://encyclopediadramatica.se/GamerGate#m00t.27s_GamerGate_Sellout https://encyclopediadramatica.se/4chan#4chan_is_kill https://encyclopediadramatica.se/4chan#January_2015_-_Final_sellout_and_le_cuck_est_mort https://encyclopediadramatica.se/4chan#September_2015_-_The_End_Two_-_Electric_Boogaloo
We bring with us from reddit a chilling fear of judgment and derision. :>
TL;DR I used to consider myself such a handwriting romantic/nostalgic, but now I'm not convinced that handwriting needs saving or offers any benefits that aren't tied up in aesthetic or nostalgia. I've heard things about it feeling more creative or expressive or something, but I'm having ideas about the fluency mattering more than the medium itself. Fewer mechanical/skill barriers between thought and print seems like the ideal, no? This article isn't really focusing on the merits of handwriting like the others I've sought out, but it makes me think of this.
I turned a Zebra F-701 into a poor man's Space Pen, and my favorite. You can follow all or parts of this and end up with a great cheap pen. I started with just replacing the ink cartridge and moved on from there. Supplies: Zebra F-701, Zebra F-402, Fisher Space Pen pocket clip, Space Pen cartridge. You will also need pliers capable of gripping the little collar at the top of the pen. One of these will be metal, so be okay with scratching it or use some kind of rubber between. I also used some lubricant to smooth things out. Remove the stock ink cartridge and keep the spring. Shove the Fisher cartridge from both directions through the tip of the pen to widen the little piece in there that holds the cartridge steady. Remove the plastic collar from the top of the F-701. Pull out the clicker assembly, which should include the top button, the collar, and two additional pieces of black and white plastic. The pen barrel should be empty after this. Remove the superior clicker assembly, including glorious metal collar, from the F-402 and screw it into the F-701. You may find that the clicker will squeak; the lube is good for this and a generous amount doesn't appear to interfere with the satisfying solid click. Put a few drops of lube into the tip of the pen and move the Fisher cartridge obscenely through it; now it won't bind. I did this months ago and it's still fine. The new pocket clip is because the stock one sucks (it has branding, and eventually breaks or bends). I tried for quite a while; it won't go on over the top of the pen. You have to place it against the barrel and push it into the barrel until it snaps on. Takes a good bit of force. This may result in superficial marking which can be buffed out. I have other pens that many people would say are "nicer" (such as a TWSBI 580, or really any fountain pen over any ballpoint, in some people's eyes), but I use this one, even with the others within reach. I let people use it, but not leave with it. It's not a big deal, just a pain in the ass to make a new one. I like to give them as gifts so eventually it won't be an issue anyway. :D Result: https://www.redditgifts.com/gallery/gift/homemade-pen-1/
I try to make this a non-issue by integrating the two instead of letting work be a thing that interrupts life. This works because I largely live on the internet and work a job in front of a PC all day. After some wrangling with the firewall I'm able to access IRC, where I talk with you guys, my boyfriend, and various others, keeping up these internet relationships that fulfill me so. I can also keep up on various personal projects during downtime, so that I don't have to feel entirely as if my own interests are stagnating while I work 100% for the company until my shift ends. I don't always enjoy my work, but it is aligned with my aspirations (to become better at networking and net security), so I don't consider it time wasted in this sense.
But look how it blends with the site, mm: http://imgur.com/ypqxGrw
It isn't, but I can still see this being an issue when you're speaking in general about something, and then people present might have various opinions about the word choice and so on. It's the societal approval of vocabulary sort of thing that I'm going for.
This sounds nice, and I would love to believe it works this way, but I have a bad feeling that this is basically the same argument as, regarding privacy, "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." The problem is that what I think is a reasonable thing to argue or advocate may seemingly unreasonably piss someone else off, and then they may go on to have an unreasonable reaction to it. Just as you can't really know the minutiae of all the laws and what seemingly innocent thing could get you into legal trouble, you can't know what statements will put you in someone's crosshairs, even if it's nothing hateful or criminal or disgusting. I try to avoid being a dick online, but I can't say the idea of public accountability in this way really appeals to me. It's not that I'm trying to escape accountability -- I just don't trust myself to the judgment and mercy of the internet. They can judge my words and leave my self alone.
It's not the first time I've heard this, but this seems like the best place to ask: why? It doesn't have a direct effect on you (their dose isn't your dose). I'm sure you know this, so is it that it bothers you too much? Suppose I smoke weed or even meth in front of you; is there any impact for you really? I see this statement a lot but I'm not sure what kind of thinking is behind it.hopefully far, far away from me
I'm personally very attached to IRC and very not interested in taking up a new platform for one specific place like this. The nature of IRC is such that it's easy to slap some easy (YMMV) solutions on top of the existing: - A bot can keep a log and send the recent backlog to new joiners - I or someone else can keep logs and provide protected access to them, contingent on agreement and conditions of IRCers Or something like that. In fact it could be that it's possible to make an IRC gateway with Matrix or whatever else -- I would have to look into it -- but as long as I'm working with my usual IRC client I don't mind connecting to something else on the back end. In the case of this project, it's true that it's important for people to be able to review and contribute, and not only on-the-fly. Some kind of collaborative / multiplayer notepad software would probably be good for this.
Got to catch up on the overhead of a stack of iPads, eh.
http://typeracer.com -- competitive speed typing http://blankmediagames.com -- Town of Salem -- mafia/werewolf -- strategy, deception, whodunnit I second Agar.io http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/ -- addiction warning
I do tech support of enterprise firewalls. It's kind of fun, but it's not just the PCs I've been dealing with forever, so I have to really try and pay attention, and I can't just screw around like before. I've fixed systems that are essential in some way to things like hospitals, police departments, casinos, something to do with NASA, big banks, etc., but it's not direct enough for me to avoid the occasional feeling that what I do doesn't especially matter. I kinda flip-flop between wanting my work to have a direct effect on people's lives, and being satisfied with digging into a new and complex system and mastering it. Just coasting along here until I figure it out, I guess. I'm 24 and still figuring out what to do with myself. Haven't been to the full-course university, just CCNA courses at the community college. I have vague interests in things as disparate as biology, English, foreign language, linguistics itself, sociology, and various physical and low-level elec/comp engineering, and no real idea what would make me happy, and certainly not the money or time to try all of them. What really chaps my ass about this job is that it's never done. I guess very few jobs are ever done in full, but I never feel like I'm done in any sense. There are tickets that open and close, and are done with, but there's a steady stream of them, always getting more even before I'm done with my current ones, so closing one doesn't feel like anything. Getting them down to where I can see them all on one page feels like some mild progress, but it's all destroyed by the time I get in the next day. So I think I actually want something project-based. This is what we need to accomplish, here's our resources, here's our plan, yay we did it, done. And then I can have a list of the things I helped to accomplish and not just a nebulous blob of trouble tickets the details of which I barely remember past a day. But I do also like the idea of getting into sysadmin or internetworking, being one of the guys who keeps the internet going. And then when the apocalypse comes we can hide out in a fortified datacenter and start building the new techie world, huehueh.
Yeah man, I recently uninstalled a game and left a one-star review for pushing me a "reminder" to play because something or other was probably "missing" me, you know that sort of thing. Not sure if you're talking about this or actual third-party advertisement being pushed. I don't know if this is somehow okay for some people now, but I grew up desktop gaming and this is bizarre to me and generates in me vaguely old-person thoughts and fear about how the norms may be changing now against my favor. But at least I can change things on my own phone and I like it when applications speak when spoken to ... technology is becoming impertinent. :P
Try another client like https://kiwiirc.com/client in case mibbit got blocked for some reason. Happens to webclients, abuse gateways you know. But the topic in the freenode channel says they moved to #hubski at irc.hubski.com I haven't been paying attention so not sure what's up now.
Haha, great. There's a convention I go to yearly where a guy brings over a computer lab of Linux machines. For years I was able to telnet from one to the other and issue commands to launch the web browser to whatever site I wanted, trolly images, turn up the volume all the way and play sound files found on the hard drive, etc. I emailed him anonymously about it the first year and it was never fixed for years, until he bought new hardware entirely. I could have captured almost whatever I wanted, lol.
I'm rereading Tailchaser's Song. Nice journey while high. I've also left Neptune's Brood unfinished a while ago. I'm not sure what else but I probably have something sitting around.
I guess it could go either way. For example, this http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2015/06/whos_the_speaker_at_his_graduation_the_man_who_sent_him_to_prison.html Followed by this http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2015/06/car_dealer_fires_former_gang_member_after_syracusecom_story_about_his_success.html One happening isn't a statistic but here's at least an example of how the well-intentioned coverage can cause trouble.
It's still a great read so thanks.
Yeah I decided to PM him instead. He'll get around to it if he feels like it and that's the only way I would want to get it anyway. :P I'll try the search though.
I've been thinking about it because it's not some kind of strategy I worked out, just me remembering (I'm not very good at that) what has happened seemingly naturally. I'm not sure what sort of situation you're imagining but I don't usually have the chance to talk to a total stranger and go from there to the juicy bits. Usually it's at work. Maybe there are a couple of people talking in the smoking area, and in that situation especially, it's easy to join the conversation and nudge toward things like the underlying reasons/motivations of something, and probe at the personality and so on. Even if it's just one coworker I hadn't really talked to much before, we might start talking about an issue one of us was working on, and once that exchange is comfortable then we can move from Facts and Happenings to Principles and Theories holding them up, and so on. I'm not saying we get really really personal from a cold start, but I find that it's not hard to get past small talk. Anyway, you asked for examples and I'm not really giving any, but I think I'll just have to watch the conversations I have and see if I can bring back examples. Making it up or remembering it is escaping me at the moment.
If they are a bad influence in some way then that's your own thing to decide about. Otherwise, I used to feel like you did, but now I would disagree with this attitude. I talk to people to find the human connection, probe a mind about some interesting topic, establish common ground. The way I did this was to talk to the low-hanging fruit [easy but not lacking value], who already clearly matched what I was looking for, but what I only later discovered was that the connection I'm looking for is almost always there. It's past the universal insecurity and the layers of social protocol. The common ground is always there too, but sometimes it has to be abstracted a little before the equation is clear. We can move from the concrete what do you do? to the abstract what is your aim and what are you accomplishing? and when we find out that this person is in nursing because they enjoy helping others in a tangible, direct, sometimes urgent way, we can go from there and bridge it to our own concept of how we want to help others, or whatever we feel is our purpose in life and how we're implementing it. Sometimes if you move too fast on that it can still be weird though. It can be hard to feel out when it's a good time to segue deeper. I wonder if people who need to talk to somebody are only searching for the start of a proper connection. Surely there are those who just want to run their mouths but I haven't really met very many who want to stay at the surface. This isn't a call for you to pull anyone out of their shell though. Not really your job if you're not into it. But almost everyone is behind some kind of barrier, and some of the barriers are so strong that a real person can seem to be missing completely, but if you're both interested in connecting, this can be worked through. It was pretty refreshing for me to move from the old way of seeing people, to one where there's always some vein of deep thought and human story to be sought out and mined.
If you're ordering little one-time-use cartridges you're not doing it right, not getting the most out of it by far. Go to a shop and ask about how to get a good flavor and nicotine hit, you might have to spend like $100 to start off good but it's worth it. If you make sure you enjoy it then you'll stay on it. If you like it for now then just remember this for later when the novelty wears off.
Are you using 12.x or the new Chrome fork? Did you use the old Opera before? Totally different experience, really pretty cool.
Yeah, I'd love to see how this develops later on. But if I'm understanding right, these are words that were originally taboo and became milder with the loss of connection to the original taboo. Any thoughts on words that were originally the new polite form, then relegated to taboo to make way for the next one?
Yeah, 'faggot' was a side point saying that I may have a bit of an edge perspective on this, being a gay guy who's fine with a gay slur -- just not used as such. It was never really okay, but some people are on board with the idea of intent vs. words, some gays have taken hold of the word for themselves, etc. One better example is that it used to be normal to say someone was retarded, and later, or to differentiate from the insult that had developed, mentally retarded -- and then, alongside physical handicap, this developed to disabled, challenged, special needs, and I don't know what else. Is it because people adapt and use them as insults too? It's not like it's going to stop. Changing the words is never going to keep people who want to hurt others from doing so, so why are we making the effort on that front? I don't know if there's anything else to be done about that though.
Sorry, disappeared for the weekend. This isn't something I really deal with all that often, but sometimes, and I do see it around a good bit. I don't so much mind being wrong about things, but I do mind when I'm made to feel as if I've done something wrong when my intentions are good but I just haven't been caught up on the latest codeword. It all seems rather arbitrary and unfair to give anyone shit about it, which I think is what really gets me going. I don't want it just to be easy for me or I wouldn't bother with any of this. Anyway, no, option 1 isn't really trying hard enough on my part. This is the problem I'm getting at. The trend is always moving along on the whole, but at any given time, you can find a lot of different preferences about this. I don't have a problem with making the effort for individuals I know, but when communicating with a group or posting online, I can feel pulled in various directions as to what words I should be using. I guess one solution could be to check what the latest polite/clinical term is every so often (must be written down somewhere) but some of these terms are so far gone they feel disingenuous. But, hey, I go around preaching to internet grammar pedants about how they should chill out and let the language evolve, so maybe that's all that's happening -- seems disorientingly fast sometimes though. Sometimes it seems like people don't look past the words to the intent. They just see the word as packaging a certain intent necessarily. Saying the wrong word can make you the bad guy when they don't check inside to see what's really being communicated.Also, lots of people have different reactions to different words.