@greenflashlight said in RL things I love:
@aria Sure, I get all that. I just mean I don't understand how, the first time that phrase was coined, the people who heard it didn't get an instant mental image that made them recoil from it so hard no one ever said it again.
Neh, toilet-based things haven't been a taboo or cause for concern for very long. Gross, sure, but a 'fact of life' for most generations before the modern-day.
@sunny We keep getting told we're at the 9th mile, but I swear I've seen that shrub before. Am I running in a circle? It feels like I'm running in a circle. But we're still at the 9th mile.
@ganymede said in Ortallus Banned:
@ganymede said in Ortallus Banned:
... don't fucking threaten to break the prime directive: don't make Ganymede work.
@ganymede said in Ortallus Banned:
But, please, can we continue this elsewhere?
That's your job. Split this stuff off to somewhere else.
@groth said in Ortallus Banned:
@saosmash said in Ortallus Banned:
I agree that the repeated and misogynistic threats/invocations of death and mutilation were probably bannable but I think that using the derogatory term that has been specifically delineated in this forum over several years as one of the few that is off limits is also bannable & and an easier and more immediately enforceable banning rule which seems to require the mods to have to do less work figuring out what behavior is over the line in the future.
I'm all about easy objective standards when it comes to placing trash in the appropriate receptacle.
I feel like this is landmine modding. There is to my knowledge no list of illegal words anywhere on this forum. There is no way a new poster can know which terms are allowed and which are not.
There is however a rules of engagement sticky in the hogpit which disallows misogyny and RL threats.
We've had this argument plenty of times, we're not going to have it again.
I agree that saying a word shouldn't get you banned - excepting in cases where a traditionally bigoted word is used to actually make an attack based on that word (the n-word, for instance) since word usage and intent isn't universal.
Thus it should come with a warning first, after which it's not the word it's the disobeying an instruction to stop doing something that is bannable. Easy.
In this instance, it's not even remotely the main issue that needed to be addressed, and I absolutely abhor the statement that it is the reason. It's like charging someone for jaywalking when they, in fact, murdered people in front of you.
ETA:
That says to me that I can go around threatening people, telling them they should be dead, assaulted, abused, etc... and that's all fine, but if I say a mean word, then I'm going to the naughty person room.
@greenflashlight said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Why do I ask people questions before I just Google for my damn self? I'm so old and lazy.
Human connection. You don't really want to know, you want someone to talk to you about what they know.
The easiest way to solve unemployment is pay everyone a UBI, everyone works two or three days a week. Everyone would work three days, if they're able. Productivity stays the same, wages stay the same (though they should be higher in general anyway) and everyone has time to be creative, see their family, engage in hobbies.
Done.
@arkandel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Spend that time building up your Little Black Book
You and I have very different ideas on what goes into a Little Black Book.
@aria said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
we're totally good as long as @insomniac7809 can still bang one out before breakfast.
Only one? I dunno... sounds like a sacrifice is being made here.
I blame religion.
And with that, shoo off to the political section.
@cobalt But what if she wants another child. Or her husband/boyfriend wants another child. You really should think about how a man might be affected by this.
@kk said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I just looked it up and you are right. Apparently in the US this was happening as recent as the 70s. Very depressing and heartbreaking.
One could argue it still happens in many developed nations, at least the removal of children based on bigotry rather than an actual justified cause.
@kk I mean. All of that has literally happened in exceedingly recent history just in the United States. So it's not even remotely hypothetical.
@derp said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Mandatory vasectomy is even less invasive, easily reversible upon approval, etc.
So... you are advocating for eugenics.
@ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
They're the ones that don't have to work, is my guess.
They're the ones whose family don't have the guts to make them work.
Honey, I wouldn't work if I didn't have to. No amount of force in the universe outside of starvation and homelessness could keep me working this hard.
@il-volpe said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
and wonder why all the volunteers and all the 'adoption success stories' on the website are white ladies of around the same age and haircut.
They're the ones that don't have to work, is my guess.
@derp I have, though usually jokingly, also suggested such things.
But it's one of those problems that's hard to enforce without stomping all over people's liberties and such.
@ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Adopting a pet should be more like adopting a child than just buying a toaster.
Having seen a lot of abuse cases involving adopted children, some people should really just be relegated to buying toasters.
Amen. The same can be said for having children.
