@Thenomain What I find the most sad and frightening is that my father was a journalist. Yeah. Really. He sees nothing wrong with things like the push for 'I think suppressing any story that isn't flattering regardless of any truth behind it, and that suing people for writing anything that is unflattering is something we need to be doing even if every word is true'.
...yeah. 
Edit: They also watch FOX news literally all day unless my mother is watching something on HGTV or my father isn't watching Playboy. (Yeah, feel the burn on all that irony.) So I'm not holding out much hope on the press getting to them even if it does generally remove cranium from anus.
@Thenomain
That is unlikely to happen, the press right now has definitely slipped from the informative side of things to the entertainment side of things, so the answer will pretty much always be what will get the most eyeball on our product to ensure higher ad rates. And both sides of divide are equally guilty of this.
@Thenomain said in RL things I love:
Well, I'm hoping that the press get their heads out of their asses and return to the era fact-checking and contextualizing. I don't believe they're dirty liars, but their reporting has a huge impact on what people see and know.
I realize I'm referring to the media and not the press but I'm getting really sick and tired of attacks on Trump over the stupidest, most inane things. For instance take this bizarre story of Trumpâs plagiarized inauguration cake.
What this means is when an actual journalist actually nails him on something meaningful and important we'll all have been completely desensitized to it. If every day brings another excuse to launch a jab at him how can it result into anything else? Then he can shrug it that much easier.
All this is not even accounting for the fact the people such articles are trying (?) to sway aren't going to read them. The narrative is easy for Trump to set: the corrupt media are attacking him again, let's move on.
@Arkandel said in RL things I love:
I realize I'm referring to the media and not the press but I'm getting really sick and tired of attacks on Trump over the stupidest, most inane things. For instance take this bizarre story of Trumpâs plagiarized inauguration cake.
What this means is when an actual journalist actually nails him on something meaningful and important we'll all have been completely desensitized to it.
This kind of story is not remotely new. We had them about the Clintons, the Bushes, and the Obamas, too, and I'm sure it stretches back far beyond that. Expecting this to stop at all is to think we're going to evolve dramatically as a species to not be petty snarky assholes who love gossipy nonsense. That is not the kind of thing that's going to happen in 4 years, or 40, or probably even 400.
We're in the age of "alternative facts" now
@ThugHeaven said in RL things I love:
We're in the age of "alternative facts" now
We've been in that age for over a decade.
âIf you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.â
â Carl Sagan, Cosmos
@Thenomain At least. 
One of the Tales of the Weird Wing⢠of the Hospital involves a woman stalking the halls for hours beginning at 4am wailing about Obama and FEMA camps. Fun times. I am eternally grateful for the amount of morphine that was in my system at the time because it more or less hazed out to how all the straight white people were going to be exterminated in death camps so the gov't could seize their land and give it to settlers from Syria.
â˘Shit, the stories. Figures I'd end up in the 'trauma cases from the ER and people we don't have psych paperwork back on yet' wing, right? <rubs face>
While not in DC, my city gathered 15,000 women with signs for the protest.
Also, some of the Southwest flights changed their cabin lights pink.
@Misadventure said in RL things I love:
I have little sympathy for the "let it all burn" vote.
And in a single sentence we have a good summary of why there's a "let it all burn" vote. Bravo.
Personally, as a non-American, I have little sympathy for the USA and am chowing down on popcorn as I watch the nation burn.
@Thenomain said in RL things I love:
@ThugHeaven said in RL things I love:
We're in the age of "alternative facts" now
We've been in that age for over a decade.
s/decade/century/
s/century/millennium/
@WTFE said in RL things I love:
@Misadventure said in RL things I love:
I have little sympathy for the "let it all burn" vote.
And in a single sentence we have a good summary of why there's a "let it all burn" vote. Bravo.
Personally, as a non-American, I have little sympathy for the USA and am chowing down on popcorn as I watch the nation burn.
I'm typically torn because I do not enjoy watching people I cherish and consider my friends end up in such horrendous situations and do not want that for them at all. But at the same time, politically speaking and as a citizen of a country that has had to deal with interventionist policies... yeah, zero sympathy, man.
The dichotomy has caused quite a few arguments with people both here and there.
[kanyeshrug]
"Excuse the hell out of you. He's a bag of dicks. I'm a carefully curated box of cocks." -- to @GirlCalledBlu upon being misrepresented.
@Misadventure said in RL things I love:
I am aware that the health of my ecosystem relies in part on the health of my neighbors ecosystems.
Then fucking do something about it. I spend a great deal of pro bono hours helping small start-ups and entrepreneurs, for example.
That no one can save an outdated model isn't a problem; it's natural. That no one gives people the tools, resources, or education to adapt, and push policies that actively keep them down -- that's the problem, and it is a fixable one.
That the solution is fucking ridiculously easy to do is aggravating.
âIt 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.â -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
@Ganymede said in RL things I love:
@Misadventure said in RL things I love:
I am aware that the health of my ecosystem relies in part on the health of my neighbors ecosystems.
Then fucking do something about it. I spend a great deal of pro bono hours helping small start-ups and entrepreneurs, for example.
That no one can save an outdated model isn't a problem; it's natural. That no one gives people the tools, resources, or education to adapt, and push policies that actively keep them down -- that's the problem, and it is a fixable one.
That the solution is fucking ridiculously easy to do is aggravating.
A-. Fucking-. Men.
The sheer and utter HYPOCRISY of the "outdated economic model" crowd makes me want to take a tire iron to their brain pan⌠only I suspect that if I try it I'll find they don't have such a pan.
They make the problem. They refuse to help the people trapped in the problem. Then they are shockedâŚSHOCKEDâŚwhen the problem comes home to roost.
@Coin said in RL things I love:
I'm typically torn because I do not enjoy watching people I cherish and consider my friends end up in such horrendous situations and do not want that for them at all. But at the same time, politically speaking and as a citizen of a country that has had to deal with interventionist policies... yeah, zero sympathy, man.
And this attitude breeds zero sympathy in return. It breeds the "burn it all down" mentality. It breeds, in short, THE FUCKING DONALD, MOTHERFUCKING POT-FUCKING-US!
Enjoy your moral high ground, jackass, while an incontinent orangutan pisses all over the world.
Spoke to my therapist today on the phone. She wanted me to drop by the office a day early. Got me in to see a psychiatrist who was able to give me a perscription for anti-anxiety medication. Zoloft, I think, or whatever generic name that I was given(because it was cheaper).
Good day.
@Coin said in RL things I love:
I'm typically torn because I do not enjoy watching people I cherish and consider my friends end up in such horrendous situations and do not want that for them at all. But at the same time, politically speaking and as a citizen of a country that has had to deal with interventionist policies... yeah, zero sympathy, man.
I've been trying to look at Trump in the larger context, but that just gets scarier. He's just the symptom of something bigger going on in the world, to my mind. Brexit and the rise of people like Le Pen in France feel like part and parcel of something similar, if not exactly the same. I don't have an ounce of sympathy for the people who voted for him. I'm freaked the hell out about where they're taking us (the global 'us').
@Three-Eyed-Crow You're right to note that this is not just a US problem. Many societies have been dealing with similar issues in their respective countries. There's a push back against the globalization 'one world' type of society and it tends to outweigh other deciding factors (like logic and reason and history and facts).
I tracked down someone I hadn't spoken to in like 15 years that I feel is responsible in good part for a lot of the qualities that I really value in myself. She played mentor for me for years and patterned a lot of really good behavior, and a lot of it stuck. Yaaaaaay.
@WTFE said in RL things I love:
@Coin said in RL things I love:
I'm typically torn because I do not enjoy watching people I cherish and consider my friends end up in such horrendous situations and do not want that for them at all. But at the same time, politically speaking and as a citizen of a country that has had to deal with interventionist policies... yeah, zero sympathy, man.
And this attitude breeds zero sympathy in return. It breeds the "burn it all down" mentality. It breeds, in short, THE FUCKING DONALD, MOTHERFUCKING POT-FUCKING-US!
Enjoy your moral high ground, jackass, while an incontinent orangutan pisses all over the world.
Not sure if you're insulting me, or ... what.
@WTFE said in RL things I love:
Enjoy your moral high ground, jackass, while an incontinent orangutan pisses all over the world.
Well, that's strongly worded.
RL things I love indeed!
I tracked down someone I hadn't spoken to in like 15 years that I feel is responsible in good part for a lot of the qualities that I really value in myself. She played mentor for me for years and patterned a lot of really good behavior, and a lot of it stuck. Yaaaaaay.
