@ominous said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I would hold off on that strategy. When I was in college and grad school, that was still a thing, but it was dying out. Now hitting on people at a bar is considered creepy.
Someone please send this memo to the men who have hit on me while I'm on public transit, wearing headphones and visibly doing schoolwork.
Over the years the number of webcomics I enjoy has dwindled down due to comics wrapping up, going on hiatus, or creators suddenly poofing. Now I'm down to Order of the Stick and Kill Six Billion Demons, and nothing I look into is as good or interesting as what I've lost.
Yes, self, I am aware of the irony of studying fiscal and monetary policy while listening to punk songs about fighting the system.
I am keenly aware, thank you.
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There were never any good old days. They are today. They are tomorrow. It's a stupid thing we say, cursing tomorrow with sorrow. -- Gogol Bordello
@aria Been there do it all the time, hate myself for it.
@aria said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Yes, self, I am aware of the irony of studying fiscal and monetary policy while listening to punk songs about fighting the system.
I am keenly aware, thank you.
"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design." -- Friedrich Hayek
Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
@derp said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design." -- Friedrich Hayek
Ah, yes, Hayek: the thinker that Keynes fucked up in a letter so badly that he abandoned the study of economics and took up political philosophy.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
@ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@derp said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design." -- Friedrich Hayek
Ah, yes, Hayek: the thinker that Keynes fucked up in a letter so badly that he abandoned the study of economics and took up political philosophy.
That would not surprise me in the slightest.
@ominous said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Over the years the number of webcomics I enjoy has dwindled down due to comics wrapping up, going on hiatus, or creators suddenly poofing. Now I'm down to Order of the Stick and Kill Six Billion Demons, and nothing I look into is as good or interesting as what I've lost.
@aria said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Yes, self, I am aware of the irony of studying fiscal and monetary policy while listening to punk songs about fighting the system.
Gotta know the rules to figure out which to bend, which to break, and which were built on blood.
Funny. However it is more of an appetizer than a main course. I am left wanting substance to sink my teeth into.
When you are delighted to log in to notifications of upvotes to your posts, then read our Glorious Leader's post about needing to ban a troll who keeps trying to re-join the board and realize all your upvotes came from them.
True and funny at the same time.
@aria inserts obligatory smartypants trivia that alpha males aren't even a thing, that the scientist who said they are a thing retracted it when he realized his research had been done on wolves in captivity, so he tried it again on wild wolves and it just doesn't work that way
@greenflashlight hmmm, that got me thinking ... behavior in captivity, meaning less freedom of association with others, generates domineering behavior.
Is human civilization effectively captivity?
I have a waggish sense of humor.
@misadventure said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@greenflashlight hmmm, that got me thinking ... behavior in captivity, meaning less freedom of association with others, generates domineering behavior.
Is human civilization effectively captivity?
Yes. Most political scientists and sociologists start from that premise and work outward. Submitting to power for survival does that.
Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
Honestly, this makes me want to recruit for a pack of werewolves who live in some ramshackle duplex on the west side of town, and all work for the alpha's food truck, and the alpha most of the time is just trying to get everyone fed and feeling okay for the next mission because FOR FUCK'S SAKE WHY IS THE CLIATH EATING PASTE?!?
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
@ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Honestly, this makes me want to recruit for a pack of werewolves who live in some ramshackle duplex on the west side of town, and all work for the alpha's food truck, and the alpha most of the time is just trying to get everyone fed and feeling okay for the next mission because FOR FUCK'S SAKE WHY IS THE CLIATH EATING PASTE?!?
If and only if he has a fanny pack full of cheesy crackers.
Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
@derp said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Honestly, this makes me want to recruit for a pack of werewolves who live in some ramshackle duplex on the west side of town, and all work for the alpha's food truck, and the alpha most of the time is just trying to get everyone fed and feeling okay for the next mission because FOR FUCK'S SAKE WHY IS THE CLIATH EATING PASTE?!?
If and only if he has a fanny pack full of cheesy crackers.
And slim jims. Werewolves, man. They gotta have protein!
Yep yep.
A Hobbesian would argue it's better this way, though, as the State of Nature is the same as the State of War. Those wolves outside of captivity are truly free - free to catch horrible parasites and diseases, free to get into fights with other packs of wolves, free to get frostbite or hypothermia during a sudden blizzard, free to die to farmers with rifles annoyed with them killing their livestock. We submit to government because otherwise we will murder each other, shit in creeks, and die dirty and starving.
A Lockean would say that civilization maintains something close to the State of Nature (a kind of garden of Eden-esque state where everyone is free and there is no private property and things are all sunny and happy) from the State of War that develops as the exercise of those freedoms possibly violate the rights of others. So to establish a third-party as a mediator, we collectively form a government/civilization.
Both say pretty much the same thing - government/civilization makes us get along and live in a developed society with things like electricity and clean water. The difference is that the moment civilization goes poof, Hobbes says we murderfuck everything and Locke says we kind of annoy each other and decide maybe we should have government afterall.
I fucking hate flare ups while simultaneously being grateful that mine are very mild and (so far) not progressive. Like everyone I know with this has it far worse than me. But low grade nausea/pain just really sucks when you do not know when its going to end. So I am super grumpy.
@ominous said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I would hold off on that strategy. When I was in college and grad school, that was still a thing, but it was dying out. Now hitting on people at a bar is considered creepy.
Someone please send this memo to the men who have hit on me while I'm on public transit, wearing headphones and visibly doing schoolwork.
