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havires  ·  3448 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 2001: A Space Odyssey - Discussion Thread.

It was my first one as an adult, and I don't regret that decision. So much so I went on to read the book, what did you think of that? The next one I had watched as a nostalgia trip from watching it as a younger man, was The v Shining. After that I decided to watch Dr. Strangelove... That was... Different.

havires  ·  3513 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: HUBSKI: Before We Get Started...and Chapter 20 - Part 1

FINALLY!

(Wait does this mean we're going to have to wait 44 more days for part 2?)

Confused. Don't recognize anybody.

    “[Giuffrida's] views really aren’t that offensive, despite what some of the articles on the web have said,” says the US Army War College spokeswoman, an officer of lieutenant colonel rank, unsolicited, over the phone.

Yet calling for the internment of millions of blacks isn't offensive? I'm calling bullshit on that right there. Is this the time where we should also re-imprison anybody who has a bit of Asian in them too? In fact (THIS IS SARCASM) why not just imprison everybody who's not white?

Again that was all sarcasm, I think this is bullshit.

havires  ·  3514 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Where Art Thou Hubski?

One of those * marks, I won't tell you which one.

havires  ·  3515 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Reading multiple books at once or one at a time

You know what? I wasn't aware that they did something re; it already. Either way I've been doing it for as long as I've reading books.

havires  ·  3515 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Reading multiple books at once or one at a time

I have three or four books going at a time, so I'd have to say multiple. Read one for a few days, trade off to another and then go back to the first book or so on. Currently have A Dance With Dragons, Ender's Game (second time now), and Confessor (Terry Goodkind) going on.

havires  ·  3517 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Horrible people are just a vocal minority: Prove it

    So brave

Responding to a post with a thought answer is "so brave"? Please explain more. This isn't Reddit, you'll get a decent reply.

havires  ·  3525 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Let's talk about two things they say never to talk about:

Whoa that's awesome. (That your mom is on Hubski that is)

This sounds fucking terrifying because I routinely use my torrent client to grab things like Linux distros and other open source software, so what happens when they decide to gut me over it? These are scary times people. Very scary indeed.

havires  ·  3552 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Eighty-Second Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread

Some Rick Ross:

havires  ·  3555 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Harry Potter fans are less likely to be bigots, or some bullshit

That actually sounds really good.

havires  ·  3557 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: NASA Probes Record Sounds In Space And It's Terrifying

The Saturn clip around the 3 minute mark sounds like something lifted out of an atmospheric horror, the same thing can be said of the Uranus one. There's a joke about Uranus in there some where.

havires  ·  3563 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hallucinatory 'voices' shaped by local culture, Stanford anthropologist says

I wonder what kind of input (if any) theadvancedapes has to offer on this matter. I'm going to read this in the immediate future and come back with some worth discussing.

havires  ·  3564 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Testing the Potential Objective Reality of the Subjective DMT Experience

Wasn't there a post on Ayahuasca recently? I'll have to go read up on it too. Thanks... Do you have a link on hand for Rogan's podcast?

havires  ·  3564 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Testing the Potential Objective Reality of the Subjective DMT Experience

Pablo, after reading what you just wrote, I'm not ashamed to admit it either. (And I've never had an interest in hard stuff until now)

havires  ·  3566 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Movie Club - The Grand Budapest Hotel

Thanks for the shout out. Feel free to shout out when the actual discussion thread comes along.

havires  ·  3567 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 9 clueless things white people say when confronted with racism

To be fair I didn't click the author's name in the article and I didn't click this link, I try to judge by the article first, impressions of the person writing it come second.

havires  ·  3567 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 9 clueless things white people say when confronted with racism

Sounds like an awful lot of white guilt to me, so I agree with Qz.

havires  ·  3568 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "You are muted here. Have you tried apologizing?"

    If the current system (as I understand it) is kept, then the conversation wouldn't take place at all. But if your solution is used, how can you follow a half-sensored discussion without lifting the mute?

You can't. He's a user with at least 1K users. If he censors you, you're done for. Short of "apologizing" for having a different view than his, there's nobody anywhere on this site who would see what you said. His goal, apparently (stated in another thread) is to make anybody less than half his account's age, feel very fucking unwelcome here. Killing the idea the site was built on (a place for thoughtful discussion).

Edit: Cleaned up this comment some. Turning this into a wall of text.

    Let's turn that "Have you tried apologizing?" sentence into a hyperlink. And when the user clicks on it, they see a list of 'follows' that the muter and mutee have in common - 'mutual friends' if you will that could intercede on your behalf.

Funny thing is, if he muted me, there would be no way in fuck I'd be able to "apologize", considering I think we don't have any mutual followers / friends. A true power user if I ever saw one.

You know what? CashewGuy just said it best in a lower part of the thread (and I'm going to badge it when I can just on this) -

    I don't care if people mute me, that's fine. I care that people can remove my ability to talk to others. That, to me, is a problem. No one should have the ability to stop me from talking to someone else. Sure, I could go start another post. But that's a band-aid, not a solution. I'm much more in favor of the several proposals of "mute as comment ignore" where the muter simply doesn't see the comment anymore, but doesn't remove that person's ability to communicate and have discourse.
havires  ·  3569 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "you are muted here"

It's censorship plain and simple, and I left Reddit for that same reason. I'd go as far as comparing muting to shadow-banning, since that's what it seems like effectively speaking.

havires  ·  3571 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: HUBSKI: Chapter 13

Oi it's havires :P (but I mean these corrections in good nature haha). Of course something tells me we're going to look for thenewgreen and co. but I could be wrong. Who knows where this is going to go? FIND OUT IN THE NEXT INSTALLMENT OF HUBSKINA! (Right? :D)

havires  ·  3576 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are you "streaky" at?

Some days I'm Gordon Ramsay, other days I burn (yes burn) water.

havires  ·  3579 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: HUBSKI: Chapter 7

Nooooo swedishbadgergirl lost the chess game. Damnit, but at least nowaypablo gave a badge for transportation. Totally read that end in the narrator's voice. Dis gun be gud.

havires  ·  3580 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Seventy-Eighth Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread

Run To The Hills

EDIT: I've really been digging Iron Maiden lately for some reason. Here are some more videos... (One of the few times where I don't mind using Vevo channels - even though they're like radio friendly 90% of the time)

https://www.youtube.com/user/IronMaidenVEVO

havires  ·  3581 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: HUBSKI: Chapter 6

Seeing as I'm coming from AskTidder City... Yeah I think I am. Now I just have to hope SBG can win that damn chess match.

EDIT: it's funny the first time i read this post I was eating an orange while I read it.

That's "Top Stories" for ya folks, keep your shit on "Most Recent Stories". Fuckin' persistent dickstains. (Facebook. not hubski, i fuckin' love hubski <3)

havires  ·  3586 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Mail: do you use it?

Then I'm talking to the wrong people on the wrong site lol

havires  ·  3587 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Seventy-Seventh Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread

I'm just digging around at random and listening to things. A playlist of everything would actually be the most handy, but that's also because I'm lazy.

The only soup I can make is instant soup. So SBG you're already ahead of me.

havires  ·  3588 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski -- some observations

Forgive me, seems I thought so erroneously.