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dreamclassier  ·  3411 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: If anyone wants to talk I'll be awake for a while. I don't usually open up.

Journalism award? First place?

Halfway into my twenty-eighth year myself, and though I feel muchly similar pain, I do it without such accolades and potential. I get tired of lying to myself that I'll be okay, maybe, some day, eventually.

I don't want to Be Someone, I just want to know who I am.

dreamclassier  ·  3429 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why I Disagree With The Removal of The Confederate Flag From A Federal Building

My argument is "defacing property is an act of violence."

"Defacing" by definition is alteration without permission, whether by act of adding of removing some feature.

dreamclassier  ·  3428 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why I Disagree With The Removal of The Confederate Flag From A Federal Building

I'll just leave this here.

    I love my country too much to be a [patriot]. - Albert Camus
dreamclassier  ·  3428 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why I Disagree With The Removal of The Confederate Flag From A Federal Building

I am very much not trying to advocate banning a historical symbol, especially since I'm one of those people who go out of their way to read banned books, so such a consideration would be hypocrisy.

While I'm not a fan of the flag flying over a government building, and a big fan of the talking being done about whether it belongs there, I agree that Ms Newsome was in the wrong when she took it down.

I'm also a big advocate of freedom of speech, regardless whether I agree with the speech or the statement being made. If the end result of this mess is to put the flag back on the pole, then I won't advocate increased hostilities. I'll grumble about it, but I won't advocate -- I don't advocate -- violence.

dreamclassier  ·  3428 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why I Disagree With The Removal of The Confederate Flag From A Federal Building

    violent: using or involving the use of physical force to cause harm or damage to someone or something

via Merriam-Webster Online

Petty violence perhaps, but yes, defacing property is an act of violence.

dreamclassier  ·  3432 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Future of Human Sexuality

I think the character strings are cute, personally, especially when they're primarily lowercase.

dreamclassier  ·  3442 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: IIWK: Ice Floe Elder Care

No, if it were satire, it would have a satire tag on it.

Personally, I'm not happy with how the entry came out, but I'm a little short on material right now, so I've been digging through my idea archive and polishing.

dreamclassier  ·  3472 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What If Everybody Didn't Have to Work to Get Paid? - The Atlantic

I suspect he'd likely stop the crowdfunding once he gets his subsidized income, but I'm not inclined to take that on as an act of faith, especially if I were one of his donors. I'm not one of his donors, and never will be; I unfortunately, am not one of those people who can depend on my charisma to pay my bills, regardless how minimalistic of a life I lead.

dreamclassier  ·  3480 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Do you desire power?

I think I'd be hard-pressed to find someone who could honestly answer "No."

I too desire power, but I don't desire attention. I desire power for the sake of making myself as independent and autonomous from society and "modern" civilisation as possible, but I have little desire to bring attention to myself, or "show off" holes in the "traditional" way of living.

dreamclassier  ·  3483 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Laura Michet: Meeting Strangers in the Street

That's been a concern of mine for some time, and I've been playing since 2013. It hasn't happened yet. If anything the game has taught me to stop taking things so personally. My local area's downtown flips about every two days; you could almost set your calendar by it.

dreamclassier  ·  3485 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 122nd Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread

Recently discovered Sleeping Wolf on YouTube and Soundcloud

dreamclassier  ·  3500 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Writer needs advice

You can use IFTTT to autopublish blog entries and your RSS feed from WordPress to Tumblr and other services, like Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and more. That way, you can duplicate your posts across both platforms as well as easily reach out to those on other social networking platforms without investing significant amounts of time doing it manually.