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Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son

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SLAYER! - Raining Blood

@Darren Yeah. Just think, if they'd up and die already, it'd do wonders for your commute.

...to be clear, that was sarcasm, you human excrement; you're the sort of person who makes me wish God was real just so there would be a lake of fire waiting for you.

@Darren said in RL Anger:

@insomniac7809 said in RL Anger:

@Darren Yeah. Just think, if they'd up and die already, it'd do wonders for your commute.

...to be clear, that was sarcasm, you human excrement; you're the sort of person who makes me wish God was real just so there would be a lake of fire waiting for you.

Save it for someone who doesn't volunteer at the soup kitchen twice a week and the homeless shelter every other Sunday. I have nothing against homeless people, only panhandlers many of which are probably not even homeless. Also, you do not get to have an opinion about how I do/do not spend my own money.

I don't have an opinion on how you spend your money. But having the opinion that people should stop existing for your convenience (or just crawl into some dark cave so you don't have to acknowledge them until you feel like it) makes you, objectively, human garbage.

@Auspice In The Garden of Eden, by I. Ron Butterfly.

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

And I am definitely not going to get into the theology of that tangled relationship. Hoo boy.

"You got your Platonism in my Messianic monotheism!"

People who insist that 2020 isn't the start of a new decade.

Being pedantic and obnoxious is one thing; I generally approve of it. Being pedantic and obnoxious and wrong because you learned a pedantic obnoxious fact twenty years ago and are trying to trot it out where it doesn't apply is inexcusable.

@Tinuviel

@Rinel Well, I don't think GenX is a bad one. It's using the letter deliberately to indicate an absence of definition or strong association.

Millennial is better, but it also just seems... like, we were Generation Y for a bit, but that sucked, so around 2001 we needed a real generation name and it was like, fuck it, it's a new millennium you're the millennials. Not the generation born at the turn of the millennium, the generation we needed to name then.

And yeah, since we took the name GenZ should've had, they just get the no-effort letter.

@tek said in Random funny:

@surreality I've always found the melty-perfume-fat-cone theory to be suspect. It just sounds GROSS and not something you would want at a dinner party.

Well, you kinda need to calibrate "gross" by the standards of period hygiene.

(Like, "the ammonia in human urine makes it an excellent detergent and mouthwash!" levels of calibration.)

https://www.audubon.org/news/when-bird-birb-extremely-important-guide

@Auspice I like how the baby alligator is just kinda a line item at the end.

@Aria got me a phone (which I really needed anyway) and a copy of Brockway's The Empty Ones, a sequel to The Unnoticables which I'd read when it came out in 2015 and never realized had turned into a trilogy.

My mom got me a Master Class subscription.

@Tinuviel said in Separating Art From Artist:

That's not Cancel Culture(tm). At least not as far as I understand it. Airing legitimate grievances is one thing. The lightspeed reaction of the internet declaring THIS PERSON IS NOW UNFIT FOR SOCIETY based on nothing other than someone said something to someone once a decade ago and that means they're horrible evil fascists is more what I'm railing against. The speed of outrage is ridiculous, and the drama always flies faster than the correction.

I mean, if we're talking about the ability of the internet to generate shitbag stand-alone complexes who harass, dox, SWAT, and otherwise torment people? Yeah, that is a capital-P problem and I legit have no idea how to fix it (especially as long as legislators and LEOs persist in considering internet crime make-believe).

In terms of what you, @Pandora and @Ghost are decrying as "censorship" in this thread, that the Millennial/Zoomer Outrage Machine is going to banish someone's work to the outer dark over a minor infraction? Nah. Not a thing.

@Ghost said in Separating Art From Artist:

@insomniac7809 said in Separating Art From Artist:

Of course, Lovecraft died in 1937, so by buying one of his books you aren't supporting a non-profit dedicated to the removal of civil rights the way you are by picking up Ender's Game.

Fuck. Yea. Dude. Fistbump. Orson Scott Card. Ugh.

As for Twain, I know. I was trying to be a bit more tongue in cheek when I wrote that. Clemens wasn't a hateful racist. In fact, the point of Huck and Joe's relationship was actually intended to be positive, so all n-bombs aside theres this part of me that still kind of feels that changing the writing to Harper Joe doesn't change the story, but it does lessen Twain's often brilliant tongue in cheek wisdom.

I'm not disagreeing with you on that. The contrast of the ugly and reflexive racism in the society with the human relationship between Jim and Huck is a big part of what was being conveyed, and taking it away lessens that.

But when I've heard about the wording being bowlderized, it's (almost?) always been in the context of primary school education. Specifically, the effect of the word being repeatedly used and its discomforting and alienating effects on black students, especially black students in a majority-white classroom.

I don't support making copies of the unaltered text unavailable. Fortunately, no one is doing that or suggesting that be done! In a circumstance where it's less of an issue, or in higher education settings where it's more possible to give the work a deeper investigation and place it in a more complete context, the work can (I'd say 'should' but I have no basis for this but literary snobbery) be taken as originally written. Bowlderizing the language isn't any different from editing the text to clarify the characters' heavy dialects, which I've also seen done in several contexts.

@Tinuviel said in Separating Art From Artist:

@insomniac7809 said in Separating Art From Artist:

In terms of what you, @Pandora and @Ghost are decrying as "censorship" in this thread

Did you actually read what I wrote? And the subsequent... entire end of the discussion?

I admit my eyes kinda glazed over when it derailed into a talk about American party registration. (See, the thing to understand is that American parties aren't technically an apparatus of the US government, they're private organizations--really, they're many private organizations, with the state-level parties organized under the national organizations. But citizens can register as a member with the same forms used to register to vote, which allows us to vote in the party elections; most people do.)

I saw the disagreement over what people's secret agendas were, but it does all still start with the general agreement that "censorship is bad" has become "controversial" at some point. The parts of "cancel culture" that get called out as "censorship" aren't, they're just speech being directed at other speech.

ETA: Seriously, it's the rallying whine about KIDS THESE DAYS where people have something mean said about them so they talk about how they've been rendered unpersons on the national goddamn platform they're provided to whine about how censored they are.

And just in general...

@surreality said in Separating Art From Artist:

Also, this is just... all people do good and bad things. That's how the world works. You don't only deserve recognition for the good things you do if you're without flaw, and you don't deserve to be exempt from the consequences of bad things if you have good qualities as well. This just seems utterly elementary to me.

I mean, how hard is 'reward the good acts, punish the bad acts'? (Massively simplified, obviously.)

"...but you fuck one goat..."

Look, I'm not disagreeing with what you're saying. People do grow, change, and develop, or they should. I do, or at least I try to.

I've hurt people, people I care about, doing short-sighted or selfish or mean things. I wouldn't do these things now, or at least I hope I wouldn't. I've lost people I cared about as a part of my life because I was a shit. And that sucks.

But that's my fault. I get to live with that, and try to not do that again, and not whine that I'm owed the lost friendships because I wouldn't do that sort of thing anymore. And that's what part of improving consists of.

@bored said in Separating Art From Artist:

@insomniac7809 I don't really follow your post. I have said several times that engaging in a public rally probably mitigates privacy protections to some degrees. I can nonetheless find that in some instances those consequences might be out of scale, believe that better legal frameworks might rein this in, and point out that it can have a suppressive effect on speech you support alongside speech you oppose.

You expressed incredulity at the idea that someone shouldn't be an activist unless they're willing to suffer consequences for it (potentially to their employment).

I responded that being willing to suffer consequences for tying their public identity to the ideological cause is a large part of what activism is, so yes, that's kind of how it works.

I'm also responding to your comment upthread, saying that
@bored said in Separating Art From Artist:

@Kestrel
In the United States (and even moreso in Europe, really), we do enshrine a certain right to privacy, particularly as in regards to political belief.

And I'm responding that someone who takes to the streets to publicly participate in a demonstration has very explicitly forgone any sort of right to privacy as in regards to the political belief in question.

"Who can relate? woo!"

No, Logic. Not woo. This is not a topic for woo. A woo is inappropriate in this context.

Boss:

I don't know what to tell you, here.

I'm trying to keep things up while you're traipsing around the district, but A is a lazy flake, B struggles with basic tasks, and C is less useful than a bag of assholes in that I'm not allowed to grind him up for sausage filling.

ETA: Also, no, I don't have any strong opinions on whether we should implement 1 in the form of 1a or 1b. I have, to you, compared the wisdom of implementing 1 to using icy hot as a sexual lubricant. Unfavorably. 1a and 1b seem equally terrible.