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am_Unition  ·  2267 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Just Joined the Site

Saw this post earlier, but then it disappeared from my feed. Someone used the community tag to tag this post #newtohubski, which is a tag that I had been filtering (we had a weird influx a while back). So there are two probably somewhat confusing sentences for you about Hubski mechanics.

Things move slow here. Some conversational lapses are large fractions of a day, several days, maybe even much longer. Not too much karma whoring, if you will. Which brings me to rated R(?) material. It's around, I curse like a sailor sometimes, but it's never at anyone. Except Donald Trump, I guess, which brings me to tribalism. Most of us seem to really dislike Trump, so I think most of us are voting democrat, but there's plenty else we disagree on related to the finer intricacies of governance, economics, whatever. And actually, the majority of the site takes to ignoring posts about Trump and preferentially sharing posts with one another that are OC (like novels). All kinds of working professionals, but too many physicists. Never enough artists, although we do have a wonderful amount of artistry.

Welcome!





thenewgreen  ·  2265 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I am not a democrat.

Welcome wileyfoxes!

Check out an old tag I used to use #didyouknow or better yet #3questions or even better yet, TNGPODCAST

Enjoy your time here! See ya around

am_Unition  ·  2265 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I am not a democrat.

I've been creepin' around here long enough that I would've guessed as much. Do you ever get pushback from other not-Democrats when they learn about Forever Labs?

And ehh, I'm voting democrat, but somewhat reluctantly. My girlfriend and I both just registered to vote for the first time to throw another couple of votes at Beto. I think he's going to win. Can't wait to see the torrents of slime oozing out of Ted Cruz's mouth when they go head to head for the three debates they've both agreed to.

thenewgreen  ·  2265 days ago  ·  link  ·  

To be clear, I’m no Republican. I loathe to be associated with either anymore.

Most people rightly assume that Hubski leans left. It does. But at least there are open debates and most people are tolerant of ideas from the right. There used to be a guy named cliffelam that would show his Elephant ears around here from time to time. Those were the good ole days.

cliffelam  ·  2265 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Conservative not republican.

With a peppery dash of little-L libertarian.

-XC

thenewgreen  ·  2265 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I’m independent with that same peppery dash. Nice to hear from you, old friend.

Dala  ·  2266 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I would disagree with you in the 'too many physicists' bit. As a mathmatically challenged person who finds physics, astronomy, and cosmology fascinating, the makeup of user base and the types of content that gets posted keep me around. I might not always understand enough to join the conversation, but I enjoy it all the same.

BTW, welcome wileyfoxes!