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NoneMoreNegative posted:I'm still mad that September, October, November and December aren't the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th months Julian calender was the superior option.
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OwlFancier posted:But otherwise I personally haven't ever found probations to be a particularly effective communication tool. I would rather just reply to people. I don't really understand why mods appear to use them as a method of replying to people. It's commendable and says a lot about you that you see the role of IK as explaining one-on-one to people who may have gone wrong, but you also have to consider how it makes the moderation look from the perspective of an outside observer. Do you want someone coming to this thread and seeing a post like that without any sign that it went formally challenged? Just having that "USER WAS BANNED / PROBATED FOR THIS POST" at the bottom of a lovely post is the difference between (a) someone seeing the thread and thinking that kind of opinion will be allowed (or go unmoderated so they can wind everyone up by continuing to post it); and (b)seeing the thread and thinking "not even as a joke, got it." I'm probably being paranoid, but with all the stuff about the online safety act, and a few pages earlier the stuff about prevent, I am concerned that a screenshot of a left wing thread that contains a post alluding to hitler being right (even as a poor-taste joke) could be used to block SA by an authoritarian government looking to make an example and flex their new powers. And unlike twitter or signal or whatsapp, I really doubt SA has the funds to challenge it if it were to happen. Or even if it doesn't come down to that, it could very easily be used by the filth to crack down on anyone caught at a protest who also posts here. I'm not saying that's likely, I'm just saying we are at an absolutely deranged period in history - being arrested for simpsons incest porn would have seemed ridiculous until it wasn't). And part of looking after ourselves as a community means curating that community in a way that makes it clear what we are and are not willing to tolerate. And not even that, but what if we got a couple of transphobes in here - if they spent pages engaging in 'lively debate' without getting shut down, how does that look to trans members of the forum who might otherwise have felt safe posting here? Yes there were pages and pages of people telling MB to gently caress off with that poo poo, but if the initial post doesn't have any sign it was formally disapproved of, then you're just leaving the door open for nazis and trolls to poo poo the thread up knowing they won't be stopped. The Wicked ZOGA posted:'Oh well you know most of Monica's posts have been ok, Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 14:37 on Oct 29, 2023 |
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keep punching joe posted:Julian calender was the superior option. Lets change and manipulate time! https://twitter.com/jrhennessy/status/1614077084250550273
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bessantj posted:I think Israel do try to exert strong influence but that's hardly different from any other country in the world we all try and influence people to our way of thinking. Of course Jews running the world is an old antisemitic trope that isn't going to die anytime soon and it's easy for people to fall back on.
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Lmfao I’ve seen plenty of Grauniad bollocks in my time but this is loving amazing https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/oct/29/personal-finance-expert-ramit-sethi-on-taking-the-fear-out-of-money-live-a-rich-life
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The explanation though is that the people who run the country, by virtue of being in the position of running the country, are the same type of murderous psychopaths that run Israel and the US. And the stratification between normal people and the people who run the country is intentional and built into how the economy and the government work. So I don't think they're able to give the explanation. smellmycheese posted:Lmfao I’ve seen plenty of Grauniad bollocks in my time but this is loving amazing That was far too many words of nonsense to get to a point which is also nonsense. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 14:41 on Oct 29, 2023 |
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Apologies everyone. I’ve been drinkposting. I need to get back to AA this week
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Guavanaut posted:Whenever some powerful group (an actual one like Parliament or the various press groups) takes a course of action that seems completely at odds with what most people want, and refuses to provide a rationale for it, it amplifies conspiratorial thinking though. People should not fall back on antisemitic tropes, but there is also some responsibility in the halls of power to transparently explain why they have decided what they have decided, otherwise they're just going to cause more of it. All true. Perhaps if those in the halls of power were responsible we wouldn't have this situation in the first place.
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smellmycheese posted:Apologies everyone. I’ve been drinkposting. I need to get back to AA this week I'm not objecting to you posting it I'm agreeing with you that it's a loving awful article. But I hope that things do pick up for you.
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smellmycheese posted:Lmfao I’ve seen plenty of Grauniad bollocks in my time but this is loving amazing quote:I only wish I’d met Sethi at college, where he first discovered his innate gift for dispensing advice Yeah, no thank you.
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bessantj posted:Lets change and manipulate time! I had a flatmate who operated a two days in one policy. He'd sleep from midnight till 4am, then go to work (postie). Get home around 11am, have a meal and sleep again from noon till 4pm. Then get up and have 8 hours in the evening to be his second day.
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smellmycheese posted:Did you object to the Level 42 one specifically? I actually can't think of a single objection I have to you personally, I just know a setup for a punchline when I see one
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That's just biphasic sleep and it turns you into margaret thatcher.bessantj posted:Yeah, no thank you. It is impressive how the majority of the article is the author self identifying as the world's biggest mark.
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TACD posted:big lols at John Cleese being shocked that he’s suddenly sharing a platform with somebody who doesn’t share his strong moral code! Huh. Without the mustache he looks like Dawkins
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keep punching joe posted:I had a flatmate who operated a two days in one policy. I do something similar if I'm going from a night to a day shift and it really messes with my body clock. OwlFancier posted:It is impressive how the majority of the article is the author self identifying as the world's biggest mark. Yeah stating early that he had drank the Kool-aid makes me want to contact him with an "excellent investment opportunity on the moon."
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I think the issue with probing that post is that a sixer/one day almost seems like it’s letting them off the hook too. No ‘formal’ punishment, but it dealt with interpersonally, to me says it’s treated more seriously than pretty much anything but a ban. Fwiw I think you handled it fine Owly and I like your attitude to IKing. I’d also like to apologise for not visibly condemning the post hard enough initially. As Bobby says, I was really thrown by it and trying to work out wtf MB was doing.
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grobbo posted:This is delightful, thank you. Frostarious Thermidor sounds like something George Lucas would name a background Jedi. So in your opinion, forums user "grobbo", Frostarius Thermidor is the star wars name??
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Miftan posted:So in your opinion, forums user "grobbo", Frostarius Thermidor is the star wars name?? Says poster “Miftan”
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Miftan Grobbo is definitely a character in Rebels.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Miftan Grobbo is definitely a character in Rebels. I was an extra in episode 3
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His Divine Shadow posted:Huh. Without the mustache he looks like Dawkins Honestly he's starting to look more like Old Hitler in the New Colossus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qry6Ys0Dck
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Miftan posted:So in your opinion, forums user "grobbo", Frostarius Thermidor is the star wars name?? Look, as we all know, the best Star Wars names come from George Lucas just tossing out whatever free-associated word happened to be in his head at the time, as with Greedo, Darth Plagueis, Darth Icky, Elan Sleazebaggano, or Tarys Chaclat-Oranj.
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keep punching joe posted:Darth Icky? It's (almost) from the Force Unleashed video games, and personally, I think it's sad we never got to see him in action. quote:A developer who worked on The Force Unleashed recounted how the team tried to convince George Lucas to give Starkiller a “Darth” moniker, a title that would give their game’s main character “more credibility.” Although Lucas didn’t often bestow the coveted “Darth” name to characters unless they were in the movies, he agreed with The Force Unleashed team. But what these developers didn’t expect was that his suggested “Darth” names would be so terrible.
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grobbo posted:It's (almost) from the Force Unleashed video games, and personally, I think it's sad we never got to see him in action. That happened as well on the behind the scenes doc on making of Phantom Menance. Lucas is up explaining poo poo about something, and you can see everyone else go goggle eyed as in 'what the gently caress am I hearing'.
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grobbo posted:It's (almost) from the Force Unleashed video games, and personally, I think it's sad we never got to see him in action. Lmao Lucas clearly just bored with this poo poo.
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grobbo posted:Some day I hope we find out why Perry decided to state repeatedly in his book that he wished death upon his neighbour, Keanu Reeves.
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grobbo posted:Some day I hope we find out why Perry decided to state repeatedly in his book that he wished death upon his neighbour, Keanu Reeves. Perry died yesterday so I doubt we ever will. Drowned in his hot tub: https://pagesix.com/2023/10/29/entertainment/prescription-drugs-found-in-matthew-perrys-home-after-death-report/
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"poo poo talk me in a book again now." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su8Y8FiBGnQ
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Looks like Keanu finally got his revenge. I laughed out loud, and then felt absolutely terrible about it. Someone sent me a stage manager's story earlier today about working with Matthew Perry and he doesn't come across well, but God, did it make me feel for the man in a 'he sounds remarkably like Bojack Horseman could have been based on him' sort of way. quote:The show that caused my career to take off the way it did was a show I did with Matthew. This was maybe 8/9 years ago. It was a play he wrote and starred in that had premiered on the West End and then moved... Off-Broadway.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:The French Revolution did some interesting calendar things: The Czech calendar is a bit similar (not the Slovak one though which is standard Julian because reasons), it goes: Icy, Burrow-y, Birch-y, Oak-y, Bloomy, Crimson, Crimsoner, Sickle-y, Radiant, Pregnant, Leaffall and Pleading E: Looked up etymology for Brezen and fixed the translation. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Oct 29, 2023 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:The French Revolution did some interesting calendar things: And a happy 8 Brumaire to you too. I briefly got obsessed with the Republican calendar after listening to the Revolutions podcast, and discovered that no-one online sells a wall calendar version. I blame the lingering influence of the Bourbons.
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The best calendar is the one from Jostein Gaarder's The Solitaire Mystery based on a pack of cards. https://www.tumblr.com/memeengine/32358150248/the-solitaire-calendar-the-solitaire-calendar-has Also it should start in March (or the equivalent) because New Year should be in spring, not the middle of winter.
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Private Speech posted:The Czech calendar is a bit similar (not the Slovak one though which is standard Julian because reasons), it goes: I visited Croatia in summer and then Czechia recently and I found the totally different, Slavic names for days of the week and months in both countries to be unexpectedly disorientating. The European counties I normally visit (including Greece, for example) all use some variant of the Roman day and months names and you just get used to being able to read and work out a date. The more traditional Slavic month names are cool.
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The days of the week are a bit more boring, but anyway in Czech they go: After-division-day/After-non-work-day, Next-day, Middle-day, Fourth-day, Fifth-day, Sabbath and Division-day/non-work-day. The English ones are cooler if anything IMO. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Oct 29, 2023 |
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