Posts made by Ganymede

@Lotherio said in Just checking interest in a concept.:

ETA: My hero is based on Iron Maiden songs, called it - DIBS

Mine would be:

@Ghost said in The Hockey Thread:

Columbus Blue Jackets need to rework their team name/image.

Look, motherfucker, you rally behind a team named anti-social miniature sand wolves.

The Blue Jackets are named for the blue coats that were manufactured in Ohio for union soldiers. They are meant to pay homage to Ohio's military contributions, although some think they were named after Charles Blue Jacket, a Shawnee war chief and predecessor to Tecumseh (who also lived sort of close to where I live now). I don't understand why they picked a blue version of the Charlotte Hornet, but the fun part of home games is when they fire off a big-ass cannon after every home-team goal.

Ohio isn't known for great sports team names, okay? Some are appropriate, though, like the team we named after the color of shit.

@Auspice said in The Hockey Thread:

and is a million times better than Greenville's ECHL's team the Swamp Rabbits.

My new pic is the logo for the Rocket City Trash Pandas.

I mean, like, that's super-good-advertising, maaaaaan.

@Ghost

It is an awesome name and will sell itself.

@Tinuviel

@Roz said in The Work Thread:

Gosh, if only we could predict the timing of this newsletter that we do at the end of every month so we're not scrambling to put it together each time!

When is your end-of-month newsletter supposed to be released?

@Otrere

@Testament

I’d be embarrassed as fuck and be looking for another SO.

Keep your chirp down, bitch, it’s not praccy.

I envy you all for having these sorts of stories.

I guess I don’t have any because I stopped caring how many times people have caught me naked or fucking in public.

I mean, it happens.

I don't often play Changeling, but when I do I play Winter courtiers.

Actually said outside of work:

Other Counsel: I like how you paraphrased A Few Good Men in there.
Me: Thanks. I was glad someone got it.

@Derp said in RL things I love:

That scene was and still is fucking heartwrenching. You passed your Turing Test, lawbot.

I have to stop listening to this at work.

Regardless, everyone, this is not the venue for arguments. Please continue elsewhere. (This is the Announcements section.)

@Kestrel said in Tyche Banned:

Yeah I really don't care one bit that Tyche broke rules, I care that his politics are disgusting and that as a society we seem to think such things are more sacred than the actual human lives they systemically oppress.

Sometimes those in the seats of power are presented with a situation where a person has done something vile and repugnant which causes the proposal of a law meant to address the same. In the late 1700s, this was the murder of children born out of wedlock. Would-be fathers were procuring drugs and poisons to give to their mistresses, with or without their consent, to cause miscarriages in order to avoid the consequences of their actions. And with men out in the battlefield with lonely wives, this was causing a great deal of scandal in the Western World. (I'm looking at you, Aaron Burr.)

So in 1803, Lord Ellenborough in England passed a law for "the further prevention of malicious shooting and attempting to discharge loaded fire-arms, stabbing, cutting, wounding, poisoning and the malicious using of means to procure the miscarriage of women[.]" Prior to that abortions, which were considered the "intentional miscarriage of women," were either considered misdemeanors or not crimes at all and not well-defined under common law. The law found its way into the United States and, around 1820, several jurisdictions began passing similar laws. Back then the laws were targeted at apothecaries and physicians, but by the mid 1840s New York had criminalized the act if taken by a woman.

This is the rhetorical slippery slope of policy setting. When people in power take a stand as to what ideas are permitted and not permitted, this infringes on the idea of speaking freely and safely. As it pertains to this forum, we have promoted the idea of speaking freely and safely even if what we say is objectionable or repugnant. The Hog Pit is a good example of our tolerance for that sort of speech, which has little political value but a lot of stress-release value.

Obviously, the consequences of banning a member is different than criminalizing abortions. Still, when moderators have taken a stand on something, it justifiably causes a furor that demands addressing. This occurred when we debated the alteration of rules in the Hog Pit and continues to cause us moderators some consternation. This is because we are human and fallible, yet are compelled to be models of conduct here, which we are not. I know I am not (and will not pretend to be anything less than a well-programmed feline automaton).

Tyche is a good example. No one is required to argue in good faith, even outside of the Hog PIt where our arguments are sometimes admittedly-surfeit but without reason. No one is required to adopt a thinking or morality that is accommodating, tolerant, or accepting. You can be as racist, sexist, or *ist as you want to be, but our rule is that you do not communicate or express such ideas here intentionally or in a way that is meant to target a particular group. And he crossed that line, in our opinion.

Taking a position is difficult and sometimes justifying it is more so. This is not the case here. We found that he knew what he was doing and saying, but ignored the rule regardless and the time came to put an end to it.

@Auspice said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

I hate this. I hate how even finding a method of working out I like.....and my body is rejecting it. I hate how I WANT to get in shape.... I mean an hour may have been the issue and once I recover I should prob do less but I was having fun! I should be able to have fun and enjoy myself and not pay for it for days on end.

Unsolicited advice: don't give up.

Maybe you should do less. Maybe you should do more. As long as you're doing and loving it, you will hit your goal, even it is "just have a bit more fun."

Also, maybe stretch.

Beautiful scenes that make you cry in spite of yourself.

I think something broke me this weekend.

@Testament said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Extremely petty gripe of the day: waking up to hear that Billie Ellish won a bunch of Grammys.

It's nice to see someone winning awards for music that echoes stuff that came out almost 25 years ago, sort of like how Ed Sheeran won all those awards for Thinking Out Loud.

I mean, compare Eilish to Simmons. Simmons admitted to having never taken a vocal lesson in her life.

@Sunny

I appreciate the perspective.

@Sunny

I think I understand your perspective, but it doesn’t change what I am suggesting, which is that we generally not speak ill of the dead in this thread. All of the reasons you have stated are what I would cite to in support.

@Sunny

How about we decide as a community to keep announcements and mourning in one place and criticism in another?

It’s 2020.

I suppose we could just enact an official policy.