Everything posted by hayden_horn
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The Last of Us coming to HBO
i should neg that on general principle, jesus fucking christ
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Fat People
pasta is the first dish. and it's appetizer sized. in america, these are single serving pastas from olive garden: when you're there, you're family! except nobody eats family style. each of those pasta dishes would feed a family of 5 in italy. bread is everywhere in europe, but they do lack the high fructose corn syrup crap. also, they eat real food in europe. had a chicken in europe? it tastes like a chicken, not canned water based meat. cheese in europe? it's actually cheese from europe. it's fucking delicious. but you don't really eat that much. it isn't really until they come to america that italians generally get fat.
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Active shooter thread
when is? in your estimation, when should the poilitical conversation about the epidemic of gun violence begin?
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Active shooter thread
it's not all or nothing, nor is that what gandorf is insinuating. matter of fact, most of us recognize it's not all or nothing. we have a half dozen firearms in this household. my son is very much into shooting. but that doesn't mean we must have them in our household if that means hundreds of americans die every year in shootings. i'd give those guns up right fucking now if it meant uvalde didn't happen or any of the other terrible shootings that are largely committed by legal firearms in this country. there's a point, when something legal is very bad for us, we should maybe think about regulating it. leaded gas? lead in paint? lead pipes? lead at all? we got rid of it because it's very bad for us to ingest lead. while that seems like a lead pun, it's not intended as such. but it was a case of us looking critically at a thing that was bad for us and said to us "hey, us, let's not do that bad thing anymore, it's bad for us" and we stopped. that's going to happen with guns, permanently and without your contribution if this shit continues. gun owners need to be out front owning this topic and this conversation and this narrative, because gun safety is the fucking cornerstone of responsible gun ownership. why are they not?
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New GOP Congressman's entire resume is faked
so I'm not a member of the community but I'd bet my mortgage he is not winning over drag queens with a twitter battle. but members of the drag community tend to be cantankerous and rebellious (can i say bitchy?) so i don't doubt that there are a few loling at him.
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Why won’t we fight misinformation, teach critical thinking skills?
this is a topic i care about quite a bit, as you know, but i will find it interesting in the new paradigm. you know what i do and what i cover, and how fucking interesting it has been with covid affecting everyone, which has caused all kinds of branches of innovation that we might have been already there but unable to previously flower. we're doing all sorts of shit from home, and learning is the next horizon. i'll be especially interested in how public schools innovate, because it has become more than clear to me than ever that daily education, and hell, the daily fucking workday, is simply a model based around childcare. that's it. it might have started as something different, but i don't really think so. however, my kids have learned all kinds of shit in school. however, we've had a situation that we're dealing with my youngest where he just cannot go to high school. yet he's somehow pulling a b in some classes? so it's clear that school is about more than what is being taught in the classroom. this sounds stupid, but think about harry potter. yeah, the setting is the school but almost nothing happens in the classroom. sure, it's used for a demo or two, but all their major learning is done through real world application. that's the model i think we need to see evolve. practical education that prizes, oh, i don't know, education over behavior and attendance and sitting in your desk for x amount of minutes being quiet. kids today simply are not inured to a world of quiet, and guess what? that's fucking okay, because neither are adults. they need to learn to operate in this noisy world somehow. they need to learn with screens and an online world. when i was in school you'd get in trouble for looking things up on the internet. now that seems fucking crazy. if it's on the internet, 9 times out of 10, with actual factual things, it's true. i tell my kids to google stuff all the time. fuck a dictionary or an encyclopedia. they don't need to waste time with those skills. but it also comes with helping kids to develop a meaningful bullshit filter, and i think it is working. even older teachers are pretty fucking hip to what the kids are into these days. if we could just catch up education from the 18th century, it would be great.
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Why won’t we fight misinformation, teach critical thinking skills?
because the unwashed masses have been useful tools for all people in power forever. until they aren;t and they kill all the people in power. then they become the people in power and find the unwashed masses useful tools once again.
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Atlanta Protests (some violence)
for sure. and it's used by extremists. i think i even used to use it when i would reference certain left wing views in the past. but it is used to make an "others" to castigate. it's extremist behavior, but not by itself, i reckon.
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Active shooter thread
soon as i saw the lunar new year shooting, i told my wife it was something more mentally ill than angry and that i'd bet the person won't fit the profile of angry young usually white guy. and that probably people would use that for political hay either way instead of pointing out the device used (a gun) and the person wielding it (probably mentally ill). sure enough. what do i win? another school shooting? fucking a, america. fucking a.
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Atlanta Protests (some violence)
well, since it was me who hypothesized this, i'll deign to answer in @Celery Man's stead. yeah, i do have a half-baked hypothesis that extremists are more prone to words like "screed" or "ilk," absolutely. it's a hypothesis for which i don't have any hard evidence. then along came a poster saying, "hey, yeah, that would be an interesting hypothesis to test, and here's how it could be done," to which you extremists responded "wait, what are you proposing?!?" that it would be interesting to see if extremist posters tend to use certain extremist (my new descriptor) language? yeah, it would be. it would be interesting to see all sorts of vocabulary and linguistic trends as they are tied to the consumption of news/media/website sources as well as commonalities between posters with common political views. wouldn't that be interesting?
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Active shooter thread
seriously. if you are going to dress up, at least try to look the fucking part. if there was a dangerous perp in that van bent on killing those cops, they made it super fucking easy. jesus.
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It's time we talked about pickup trucks
yeah, this is straight from the no shit department. you can spot a work truck. i don't think anyone begrudges any work truck or knock around truck. most f-250s i see ariund town aren't work trucks. but they are in the fucking way, whether i can't see around them in traffic or they are filling up the parking lots. yeah, yeah, you don't paint the small spots but you sure try to fit in them fuckers.
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It's time we talked about pickup trucks
the venn diagram with some surly bmi thread where everyone just lifts and isn't a huge fatass is probably a single circle.
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Atlanta Protests (some violence)
so...i dunno. which is it? you never really gave us a baseline for sanity. you also never answered whether you consider yourself extremely right wing?
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Atlanta Protests (some violence)
straight from dogtown
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Atlanta Protests (some violence)
you said it was a leftist circle jerk. unjokingly and seriously. unless you weren't serious with that? i can quote you if you like.
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Atlanta Protests (some violence)
yeah, so i'm just looking for an example. let's see an example of what you consider a realm of sanity for online political discourse. come on, shouldn't be that hard.
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Atlanta Protests (some violence)
well, first we would have to agree on what right wing extremist means. i think it means you, because you post some crazy ass right wing extremist shit here. for instance, say, this fucking thread. you probably do not want people combing through your posts for examples of right wing extremist views. that might not end like you think it would. but, in case you missed it and of course you did, i was talking specifically about coded language that right wing extremists (like yourself, i want to be clear here, i absolutely think you are a right wing extremist) use in online forums as strange self-identifiers. i'm sure left wing extemists do the same thing, but i don't see it as clearly. but then, i'm compelled to ask you a question: do you consider yourself extremely right wing?
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Atlanta Protests (some violence)
this place is not a leftist circle jerk. might be you could, i dunno, benefit from some introspection and ask yourself why you think this place is a leftist circle jerk. and again, as compared to what? you want a leftist circle jerk, i can direct you towards: https://www.democraticunderground.com/ as compared to that place, surly is texags.
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Atlanta Protests (some violence)
only here? as compared to where, exactly? a-ha. i understand the distinction. thanks.
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Atlanta Protests (some violence)
normally i'm right there with you as i'm trying to be a better person with my words. but i think this one is alright and kind of sexually neutral. would you think twice if he said "jerking themselves off?" because i wouldn't. i dunno.
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Atlanta Protests (some violence)
it's only missing "ilk" for the right wing trifecta. there's something behind the disingenuous language that extremist right wing posters use, and i mean the exact words. i'm not sure what that something is, but it's there. it's like there's a primer out there. or maybe it's fox news sourced language? you never hear clap-trap, screed, or ilk unless some extremist is going off about something.
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Bill Maher has become the whiny little bitch he complains about
well it just so happens that I've had a smoldering coal burn my sack so maybe I'm slightly immune hahahaha who am i kidding gutfeld is terrible but i would still rather watch gutfeld over maher
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Bill Maher has become the whiny little bitch he complains about
i'd rather watch gutfeld to be honest
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Competing Currencies
i find it's best not to sit and ruminate on currency overly much. the economic cornerstone of all trade is a bullshit belief system, and has been since forever. it's amazing that we are still clinging to a rare-ish shiny soft rock with limited utility as a thing upon which to base this belief system.