I didn't know! Fixed :)
This is cool! I'll make a run at it! I'm Peter and I'm in university on the US east coast. - I play ultimate frisbee for my college's club team, so I'm pretty athletic. At 6'2" and 180# my last 1rm for squat was 315#. I'm shooting for twice my bodyweight by the time I graduate. - I worked on the coast this summer and sailed solo to the Outer Banks on a Cape Dory Typhoon. - I've got pretty severe social anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder which I manage by writing and listening to massive amounts of music. - I have resting bitch face. - My girlfriend's a dime and smarter than anyone I know. - When I was little my parents told me that being a strawberry tester wasn't a job I could have. I now agree but still think there's an opportunity for someone with my skills.
Finding new music :)
That's damn respectable. It takes a lot to say that and even more to evaluate yourself and really mean comes to terms with it. Hope to still see you around.
You're telling me! I told a girl that she had a really pleasant speaking voice. Turns out she'd just gotten sick and had spent all day coughing her lungs up. I felt real bad...
Sorry, bud. Didn't remember the post he was talking about until someone linked to it :/
So...you wrote a thoughtless, aggressive, explicitly antagonistic article condemning that very same behavior? And then you posted it to the same website that you feel is aggressive and antagonistic? You're part of the problem, bud. I think your story about Ohio is interesting. You are the guy who went to Ohio and hated it before even crossing the border. You seem to have a hatred for the people who come to this site, universally condemning everyone for not falling for your baited post while you waited with bated breath to catch someone being hypocritical. You have all sorts of ideas about the people on this site, clumping everyone good and everyone bad altogether into a homogenized, hateful group. You're not any better than the Ohio-hating idiot you were subtweeting in your blog post. Relax, talk to people. You're not going to make any friends by being the "inveterate outsider".
The breakdown at around 2:15 is one of the best parts of this song. Chet Faker's live sessions are amazing, and I'd love to see him cover some Otis Redding. And then there's Vulfpeck's discography which I've been exploring for a few weeks. Groovy band that sometimes has guest vocalists. I went to see Snarky Puppy in Raleigh on Thursday. They put on an amazing show. One of the best I've seen.
Nujabes - Arurarian Dance, Counting Stars He and several artists (like Fat Jon) did the soundtrack for Samurai Champloo.
I wasn't saying that it was offensive. Just that a religiously and ideologically crazed radical isn't at all comparable to the average person. Not even the "lol phaggots suck dix" type. And I don't see anything wrong or disingenuous about treating people well in the hopes of being treated well in return. Reciprocation is the basis of every relationship and friendship I've ever had. It doesn't mean I'm fighting some suppressed nature to be an asshole.
If you're trying to make the argument that "normal" people turn bad when they have anonymity to hide behind, ISIS and terrorist organizations are an awful comparison to use.
The Apache Relay - Katie Queen of Tennessee Vulfpeck - 1612 John Butler - Ocean Beirut - Scenic World Milky Chance - Stolen Dance
Snickers are motherfucking delicious.
Growing up, my dad struggled to keep a job. We'd stay some place a year or two, move, try again. I went to a new high school every year for four years. It made me a perpetual outsider in nearly every situation. Being the "new kid" over and over again sucks. It's not a big deal now. I found out quick that I make friends wicked fast, but I'm always evaluating where I am with a group of friends. It feels fake and forced. And because I'd move so much, I cycled through groups of friends, leaving behind the old ones and spending time with new ones. I have lots of used-to-know experiences with people. But that's changing now that I'm in college. I've had the same set of friends for 3 years now, and it's fucking awesome.
Breaking misted spray Ten knots on a windy day Water makes me fly
I think you're right. That's a pretty important distinction to make too. This doesn't make everyone who joins a group like the Manson Family a shit person. It also explains whistleblowers and informants as people who grow stronger moral fiber - or had it to begin with - and become dissatisfied with the organization. That's much more inclusive. I like it.
As a late arrival to the series....NOOOOO!! I've been binge reading. It's like House of Cards all over again :(
Dude...just. Damn. Are you even a real person? Elizabeth's so nice.
I'd agree with that. I think people are pretty sick of international conflict and are embarrassed by their country's role in it.
Countries are always judged by their people. I've got a theory that I want holes shot in so I'll put it out here. Lesser (hideous vile) people naturally associate themselves with things that will hide their quality of character. They lose themselves in the group - the KKK, Nazism, bad cults. Often they misappropriate a good cause and turn it into shit - I'd say the Black Panthers might fall here. Nationalism is no different. It can attract highly outspoken morons easily. Like moths to light, and they swarm to it in clouds. Patriotism is generally viewed as a good thing so it gives them a mask to wear. Meanwhile the good people - by their inherently tolerant nature - tend to rise above national boundaries and instead focus on people. Because they're concerned with everyone, it's hard to tie a nationality to them. Eventually this translates into a global redefinition of what an American patriot is where the loudest group dominates the news people see.
The professors who expect my input because I test well. These guys ignore everyone for the first 3 weeks and then pick favorites based on assessment scores. And goddamn If your name is in good standing, expect to be heckled and prodded amd nudged for input for the rest of the term. To be fair, it's nice to know someone's looking out for you, but if they make the jump from, "Ah, he's not a bad student!" to, "You're not applying yourself like I think you should be." That's when it gets fucky.
Privacy and guilt together, really. I don't want them to worry about it. They have their own problems, and this isn't something I'm incapable of dealing with. I think they noticed something different about me growing up, but I quickly found out how weird the disorder made me from talking to the other kids. I told my girlfriend because - unlike my parents at this stage - I'm building a life with her. She deserves to know. Intrusive thoughts barrage my mind when I've not prepared myself. The volume of thoughts I can have during those times is overwhelming, and it almost serves to brainwash me into believing the scenes I see in my intrusive thoughts are what I want. "Why else would I imagine them so frequently? Why can't I think of something normal? Is that going to happen? Am I going to make it happen? I'm not getting the ritual right this time. I must subliminally want this..." It erodes the good parts of my personality until I can rebuild myself mentally. And I love Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow. I read them as a kid. I'll put Xenocide on the list though. Thanks for the recommendation!
If you're looking for Radioheadesque music and don't already know Suuns then you totally should. I think they were on a weekly music thread a little while ago. Images Du Future is a good album to start with.
Understanding the analogy doesn't change that muting someone is exclusionary - whether good or bad. As such, it makes new users uncomfortable rustling established users' jimmies. That might be how the site's constructed, how it's going to be, and how you like it, but it makes the community harder to approach. It's not cognitive dissonance. My opinions weren't idealized so there wasn't a hill to be king of. You just have an abrasive way of talking about things that's not the most helpful. This time it was though. It was a good talk, klein. Maybe we'll have more.
This is the hinge of your argument: that you own the ground people comment on when they choose to write on your posts. But thank fucking Jesus there's a choice. So, at the risk of ruining your dinner party, I'm going to get the hell out myself. Because you're big on respect, I'll say you've changed my opinion. Not begrudgingly, but in the way you seem to usually do. Where you leave whoever you're talking to feeling like they've talked to a real asshole, but they can't say anything about it because you get your point across. Keep your lawn shit free...the blanket of words you choose to spread out are on my lawn.
Blocking anyone's content so you can't see it is fine. Blocking anyone's content so others can't see it is not. With your ideal muting function, you've got to rationalize that you're taking discussional surrogacy over people who view your posts. You're making a decision for them. Why would you do that? I've thought up some, but I'm not going to be a jackass and assume what your motivations are. I'd like to know though. You keep saying "my content" in regards to your posts. Your posts are yours. Categorically, objectively, blah blah. They're yours. But the discussions people can have on your posts are entirely comprised, owned, and made by contributors. This comment is "my content". Not yours. You don't own this comment because it's your thread. You don't own this comment because your comment's the parent comment. This is mine; the post and your comments are yours. Being a post originator shouldn't let you silence contributors from other contributors. By doing so, you're saying their content is yours. "I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!" So two things really. Why do you think you can make content-viewing decisions for people who view your posts? And do you think you own the comments from contributors when they write on your posts? There's got to be a better word than "own" by the way. I'm saying own because it seems a best fit, but if you'd like to use a different word, that's fine.
Lil was being honest. Relax...
Makes sense. I like the idea, but I guess we'll see how it goes!
Nice to be remembered, lil!