Best posts made by Tinuviel

@Ganymede said in Welcome to the Euphoria - Alpha:

@Cobaltasaurus

I thing he is making fun of the concept of civil services by drawing a comparison with legal services.

No. That's a goddamn civil servant.

@silverfox If my students aren't thinking about controversial subjects and discussing them with their peers and their families, then I'm not doing my job correctly.

In... many cases the actual setting itself is secondary to the prevalent themes of the setting-like-genre. You can take those themes and use them in another setting just fine, or with a modicum of work.

Space western, anyone? Dystopian 30s-style Gangsters?

You can have the themes you want in your own original creation, without having to worry about any of the uncomfortable or complicated historical baggage.

@HelloProject The eighties didn't really end until the middle of the nineties.

@lisse24 I am teaching the most controversial of subjects: "Racism is bad mkay."
We're just finishing the Boer Wars, more specifically.

@bored In defense of my words, I did say that no situation was going to fit the baseline I offered, and thus context is important.

Secondly, the accused exists as both a moderator and a regular user. You can most certainly strip moderator powers for violating rules or standards as a user. A police officer that regularly drink drives shouldn't be a police officer anymore (ETA: while also being punished for their crime as a regular citizen), for vague example.

@mietze We also appear, at least many of us, to be more incapable of giving a fuck. X place is bad? Eh. Quitting is easier these days, far more things competing for our attention.

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

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

@lisse24 I am teaching the most controversial of subjects: "Racism is bad mkay."
We're just finishing the Boer Wars, more specifically.

I don't see the connection between racism and the Boer Wars.

We were discussing the introduction of concentration camps, and their subsequent uses.

@bored said in I owe a lot of people some apologies.:

Apologies if it sounded like I was trying to put some spin on your words.

Oh, not at all. I just didn't want my words being unintentionally misunderstood, as often happens so I lept to an explanation simply to cover my own butt.

I think in this case our craving for instant gratification is partially to blame for the rhetoric exposed in this thread. Diligent investigations of accusations take time.

That said, I think that while the investigation is being undertaken some sort of censure should be applied, i.e. some sort of suspension from official duties to show that the allegations are being taken seriously and that something is actually being done in the background.

@auspice said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

I meeeeeeean. Bodies are weird yo.

Right? We hear stories like "Man cuts of arm after getting it trapped in rockslide" or "woman falls from plane without parachute, survives." But then you get a schmuck like me "Man sneezes too hard and has to lay down and take codeine for his back."

@coin I have a very particular set of skills...

I've also fallen for the 'sure it's nearly midnight but I can get in a quick scenzzzz'

@tyche said in Back in my day....:

The current fad of young people mutilating their bodies is beyond sad.

You mean the 'fad' from many cultures that has been done for millenia?

@faraday Oh man, I recall doing something similar once. Every bridge console on every ASpace ship was set to control one particular ship... except the ones on the ship itself.

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

I'm pretty sure that's just called "being nine years old".

Then I have been nine years old for a very, very long time.

@sunny Given his evidential intellectual stature, the only things he can make fun of are people enjoying things he doesn't. He can't make fun of anything else without giving away the fact that he doesn't understand anything else.

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

but something doesn't have to be debilitating to be a legitimate, diagnosable disorder.

I mean. That sort of is the definition of a disorder. Debilitating, like the disorders themselves, is a spectrum. You still have a broken leg, regardless as to whether you can hobble around on crutches or are stuck in a wheelchair.

@Darinelle If one apologises simply from public backlash and not an actual desire to apologise, then it's hardly worth the keys it was typed on.

Though I wasn't specifically referring to this exact apology. I feel that far too many public apologies reek of "see I'm not a bad person" rather than "I am actually sorry for this thing I did." Especially some of the ones we've seen from certain fan favourites of the board, where it comes out "I'm sorry you got hurt from what I did but here's why what I did is okay and you're just sensitive."

ETA:

@kanye-qwest said in Apology to Darinelle:

i mean, you could not run your mouth like an asshole while thinking "take this constructively" at the top would change the intended read in some way. That's a solution.

To be fair, it did change the intended read. From "I am an asshole" to "I am an asshole with a socio-linguistics problem."

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

@tinuviel

The DSM-IV also admits that there is no precise definition of a mental disorder, and encourages the user to keep an open mind about it.

It does indeed. Though I've found that to mean 'the definition is evolving as we learn more' not 'just ignore what we just said.'
It's the best definition we have now, and I'd appreciate that such terms are used as accurately as we have presently defined them.

@ganymede

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

@surreality

To be fair, if my partner asked me to help with housework at 0300, I would probably strangle her.

What, you're not still up at three am anyway because your brain sucks?

Luuuucky you.