NOT Jarflax, but rather Saint Isidore of Seville – the Patron Saint of the Internet
A Jarflax Rant
I have been surfing the web and it seems that there are a lot of stupid opinions and beliefs. You have your (((Joos))), Christers, Buddha Botherers, Holy Cow Heroes, Mohammedans, and even those damn Mormons (no one could be that nice unless they were up to something). You have your Pinkos, Reactionaries, Progs, and those evil Glibertarians. And all of you bastards are stubbornly refusing to recognize obvious reality! Is it that you are all evil conspirators trying to take my stuff and make me a slave? That you like to see orphans selling themselves for a crust of bread? Or is it that you are all retarded and can’t see what is as plain as the nose on your collective face? Why can’t all the other 7.5 billion of you see TRUTH as clearly as me?
Every problem has a neat solution. Every situation is made difficult by easily identifiable malice, and could be perfectly smooth, just, and simple if the evil obstructionists would stop deliberately disrupting things. If you want wisdom buy me a fair trade latte or a PBR and sit with me as I sneer it out, one snarky epigram at a time. Just don’t be one of those assholes who doesn’t understand conversational etiquette! I talk/you listen, capisce? Do not ask me to enact your labor! Google it yourself! I am emitting wisdom, not being your research assistant!
Also if you voted for the Cheetoman, the Gangster in the Mao suit, some election spoiling third party wasted vote candidate, or were too lazy to vote at all you are an asshole and one of the evil obstructionists, so don’t think your imperialist earholes get to drink my sweet wisdom.
If you believe in Jesus you want to watch womyn bleed out in back alleys while piles of beaten gay corpses fill the gutters. If you do not believe in God you want pedophiles to sodomize toddlers, at clinics where mandatory abortions are performed by perverts that are married to camels! If you are Muslim you are either planning a bombing or are reading this as you leave the scene. If you are a (((Jew))) it is all your fault. If you are some other weird religion, you are lying!
If you like country, western or metal you are a Nazi racist. If you like pop you are a pervert. If you like classical you are a pretentious closet pedo. If you like hip hop you are a rapist. If you like something else you are lying!
If you are male you are a rapist and probably a murderer. If you are female you are an emotion driven castrating whore. If you are neither you are probably both.
In short everyone who disagrees with me is doing so because they are evil!
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People have a very hard time distinguishing disagreement from malice, particularly in areas of belief. Religion and Politics are essentially similar belief based conceptions of reality. They inspire strong emotions, and inculcate an Us vs. Them mentality, leading to anger… Which is why they were traditionally excluded as conversation topics from polite gatherings.
Some of this is unavoidable, and will always be the case. People get very emotionally connected to core beliefs and any attack on those beliefs, or even strong disagreement, hits us in the same way a personal attack hits. But I think some aspects of modern life have made this worse.
The internet and social media expose us to the worst spokespeople for ideas. In earlier times when you were interested in a subject, or a viewpoint you sought out books or articles explaining it. You might agree with what you read or disagree. You might find parts of the idea appealing and others appalling, but it was an impersonal interaction, and under your control. You read the book or article and any dispute you had with it was internal. If it was too offensive, or too idiotic you just put the book down unfinished. If it didn’t interest you, simply never read about it. Various curating bodies/effects tended to select for the best, most appealing spokes people being the most widely read.
Even then you had people who would try to force you to learn about their pet beliefs. We called those people cranks or bores, and we never invited them to a second party. Now every ‘movement’ or belief has militant advocates. They bring their pet belief into EVERY conversation, and because they are ubiquitous they are usually the first contact you have with an unfamiliar belief.
Vegetarianism is an utterly inoffensive practice. How can your diet possibly harm or insult me? But I cringe when I hear that someone is Vegan, because I have had dozens of interactions with people who militantly proselytize the Vegan ‘lifestyle’, not as a diet they have chosen but as “The One Truly Moral Way to Live.”
Across the dietary divide you find the Paleos. They think veganism is foolish, possibly an evil conspiracy of Big Grain and that we can only achieve health (and cure every ill of body mind and soul) by eating a largely carnivorous, low carb, high fat/protein, ancestral diet. If you disagree (which you can do simply by not immediately and unequivocally accepting every bit of pseudo science they spout as TRVTH), they will harangue you until you leave the forum.
As you turn away from the Paleo, who is beating the Vegan to death with a jar of ghee, Mr. Crossfit hobbles over on his crutches (blown tendon bro, do you even lift?) to tell you what a pussy you are for not exercising to the point of regurgitation. Fleeing Mr. Crossfit you encounter Ms. Antivax, who explains that the $30 DPT shot is a plot by Big Pharma to make your kids autistic, and announces that if you vaccinate you are in a parenting category with Jeffrey Epstein.
You don’t learn about Christianity from C.S. Lewis or G.K Chesterton; instead you learn about it from Frank Fundy who mocks you for being duped by the lies of the ‘Evolutionists’, and accuses you of molesting children if you meekly say you do not see why gay people shouldn’t be allowed to adopt.
Turning away from Mr. Fundy you run into a flame war between Moishe who regards any disapproval, of any Jew, in any context, as clear evidence of NSDP membership, and Ackbar who screams that allowing Moishe to live is an unforgiveable offense against the religion of peace. Meanwhile some 4chan’er is pretending to actually be a Nazi purely to rile up some SJW who dropped by the forum to berate all cis-hetero males for their inherent privilege. And an atheist is making very sure that you understand that he doesn’t believe in God, by announcing that only retards need a “Sky Daddy.”
All of this is probably happening in a thread discussing your favorite hobby! You don’t seek it out, it comes to you everywhere. Reading about home brewing? BOOM Atheism! Playing a Video Game? WHAM Social Justice. Looking up a recipe? POW Jesus/Allah/Jehovah loves/hates/owns you. If you try to disengage gently the militants get offended. If you dispute their premises they go ad hominem and call in sock puppets/allies/tulpae to pursue you across a dozen domains.
Of course people end up feeling that anyone who disagrees with them is their enemy when every dispute becomes a personal attack. Which of course makes the next set of people react with hostility when you disagree with them. So, this whole mess propagates itself.
At the end of the day most people are not militants. This is why in day to day life you find that you have friends and acquaintances who don’t actually believe the same things you do, but who are nonetheless decent people you enjoy knowing. But online the trolls and the true believers come into their own, and God (or not, I don’t really care what you believe) help us all.
My favorite St. Peter picture is where he’s crucified upside-down.
Thats hXc af, yo.
Like this.
Yeah, I thought Eddie had been reinstated when I first saw this.
Eh. It does look badass, but very stupid as a method of torture.
They’d pass out far too quickly to send the proper message to the unruly peasants fucking up your dictatorial shit.
Vegetarianism is an utterly inoffensive practice. How can your diet possibly harm or insult me? But I cringe when I hear that someone is Vegan, because I have had dozens of interactions with people who militantly proselytize the Vegan ‘lifestyle’, not as a diet they have chosen but as “The One Truly Moral Way to Live.”
I’ve used the term the “Smug Diet” for people who think their food choices are more virtuous and want to inflict them on everybody else.
I have before endured the beginnings of lectures on my food choices in line at the grocery store. Of course, my sneering “Were you born in a barn?” shut them up.
This is why I prefer the self-checkout.
One advantage of living in NYC is nobody in a grocery store would even consider talking to you.
Is that why Impractical Jokers get over on so many people? The customers are in shock?
I had to translate this before understanding came.
So I can’t say to what extent that stuff succeeds, only that we don’t take kindly to strangers poking their nose into our business. (That’s what the ballot box is for!)
Oh, I love the IJs. But I love this line even more:
That’s, like….the best inside joke for Glibs.
You know who else had inside jokes?
Comedy clubs?
No, they just have jokes inside.
Potato/Po-Tah-To
I just respond with a “Now who is trying to cram stuff down whose throat?”
My husband’s go-to line at the grocery checkout is, “Do you think this is the appropriate amount of toilet paper for the food items I’ve selected?”
It would be fantastic if the response to that was, “I couldn’t possibly answer that, because I never shit a shitter”.
Jeebus. I sometimes forget why I come here, and then I read lines like this.
And barely refrain from pissing myself.
If you’re in the comfort of your own home, piss away (I say).
Or, if you’re with trusted friends, even.
What I’m saying, is, just be you.
As an omnisexual vegan gluten-free cross-fitter reddit atheist, I am extremely offended and targeted by this hit-piece. DELETE THIS, MODS.
I read that as “cross-dressing reddit atheist”
You may not be too far off.
Pics or it didn’t happen.
Vegan?!?!?!
Hate speech.
Vegan … Cross-fitter? Thought you bros were all paleo all the time?
You left out Burner.
I couldn’t care less what you believe, who you vote for, or what you eat. Don’t be a dick and leave me alone.
It’s really as simple as NAP.
The problem is, the other side demands that you adhere to NAP, not them because, totes woke.
So much this. I do care who you voted for. I’m interested in having a civil conversation about the pros and cons of your preferred candidate. If you don’t want to discuss it just say so. But for chrissakes stop telling me everything I believe is wrong and trying to cram your beliefs down my throat.
Don’t be a dick and leave me alone.
I choose to read this as meaning that only dicks leave Spud alone.
If I end up surrounded by willing vaginas, I think I can make it work.
Little blue pill?
Whatever it takes. As long as the erection lasts at least four hours.
Jagged little blue pill.
That would be ironic
Don’t you think?
It’s like RAAAAAYYYIIIAAAAANNNN…..
I don’t want to care about who people vote for, but the people who they vote for “care” about me.
That’s where it gets tricky for me, but I still think it’s at the level of productive discussion and persuasion right up until they personally try to molon labe.
What straff said; I can’t do any better.
Dennis Miller used to say about sexual preference, “Nothing is more interesting to me than my orgasm, and nothing is less interesting to me than your orgasm.”
IOW do what you want, I don’t care, just leave me alone.
I think one could apply this reasoning to most aspects of life.
Candide in 2019. I liked it. Thanks.
WHAM Social Justice.
I hate it when Social Justice whispers carelessly.
“Careless Whisper” was a George Michael solo song. I dont think WHAM! was involved collectively.
Let me correct myself, since it included Ridgeley.
It’s sometimes credited to “Wham! featuring George Michael”.
And it’s on the album Make It Big, which was credited as Wham!, if you want to get really confusing.
What about that song “Don’t Step on That Rake” by Wham!
Leo does a good version. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jt8lViuzILg
I would have gone with Everything She Wants in that joke.
Careless in the Abyss
That is so wrong.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I’ve heard about this. Apparently the same deviant has three different mashed-up Wham/Slayer songs. If you needed concrete proof that the internet can be used for evil; here it is.
Woke Me Up Before You Go Go.
Heh.
Way back in my teens, when I used to go rollerskating every weekend, I had the Make It Big LP because it had the extended mix of Careless Whisper. All the cute girls at the rink loved that song, and we also like rollerskating to the Wham Rap!
Little did we know George Michael wasn’t straight.
St. Peter doesn’t get alt text?
Not complaining by the way. Thank you to the Glibs’ staff who add pictures, and edit my walls o’ text.
You get editing? Look at Mr. Special Boy here. I get chided for two spaces after each period as God intended, and taunted for my oxford commas. /sulks
The Oxford comma is now a matter of legal precedent.
Two spaces after each period? The ‘70s called and want their punctuation back.
My lawn. Get off it.
Fuck. You. Tonio is 100. Percent. Right.
You’re going to make me reach through the Internet and cut a bitch, aren’t you?
You know the worst part about this new-fangled type setting? It’s not obvious when people like Tonio and I properly use the double space. Sad. Very sad.
The funny thing is, when I first learned how to type on a “real” typewriter, I was very cognizant of proper punctuation, including the double space, and for many years after that. Now, not so much.
Same here, but since I am generally a traditionalist, and even tough I am well aware of kerning, I still hit that space bar twice after a period.
The internet broke that habit out of me long ago.
100. Percent. Right.
^ This. Guy. Get’s. It. ^
Wait…It’s Tonio, Rhywun, and I who feel strongly about this?
What are you implying.
Maybe questioning is a better word…
You’re Questioning? That’s very stunning and brave of you to admit.
Dammit, Rhy! No, just being a smart ass.
Obviously, this site is homophobic.
We do fear sameness.
I actually do a search and replace to correct all incorrect period-single-space with correct period-double-space as part of editing or marking up a document.
As. God. Intended.
Doesn’t that end up with a lot of Mr. Smith oddities?
I’ve yet to see a passage in which an Oxford comma isn’t a clarifying force for good, especially in the context in which it’s expected.
Granted, I didn’t go digging for some jarring upset to this convention, but.
What are your thoughts about spaces around em dashes?
Can’t help linking this every time.
My peeve is people using “I” when “me” is appropriate.
It’s so obvious!
“Please email that report to me. “ Yes.
“Please email that report to Jake and I”. NOOOOO!
“If you have questions, just ask me.” Yes
“If you have questions, just ask Maria or me.” NOOOO!
“If you have questions, just ask Maria or me.” NOOOO!
????
Nein! I am unclear on this rule and am sure I break it from time to time.
@Jarflax: Thanks.
“If you have questions, just ask Maria or me.” NOOOO!”
…
“[You] Ask Maria or me if you have questions.”
Ask Maria or myself? I can hear people saying that, but ‘[one] asks a question to me.’
In your head just switch the order from “Jack and me/I” to “me/I and Jake”. Then it becomes obvious what the correct usage is.
I think you aren’t supposed to trust Maria. Who, I take it, is a really stupid bitch.
She’s a Shark; you can’t trust them.
Ok ok, it was a typo.
I meant when people write it in an email “Ask Maria or I”
Arrgggh!!
I used to think it was an upper Midwest mistake to use nominative pronouns in the objective case, but sadly it pervades San Diego as well.
I still say/write “Ask Maria or me” but they probably think I’m a rube.
The big problem is that people either A) were gold-bricking in English class when the lesson about putting yourself at the end of a subject/ “and” or “or list (Maria or I) was being taught, or, B) they can only remember fragments of the lesson when writing, and Just stick “I” at the back, even when it makes no grammatical sense.
And, yes–that was a shit sentence. But you get where I’m going.
I have an ‘affect’ / ‘effect’ mental block.
I actually don’t remember being taught about subject/verb order in those situations, maybe they did it when I was out with chicken pox. I didn’t figure it out until I was in my 20s, and only because it was something I looked up on my own, not in any of the college courses I was taking at the time.
It’s even worse when you realize that both of them can be both noun and verb.
“To affect [something].” “The patient’s affect was flat.”
“The effects of [something].” “To effect change.”
I think that’s the source of my issue.
So I see you’ve been on the Steam forums. Or, God help you, Kotaku.
What you’re describing pisses me off to no end. It’s not even that there isn’t one right way, it’s that it doesn’t really matter if other people are wrong so long as they’re wrong quietly to themselves.
What I mean is, let’s say I feel a given way about X. Other people feel a different way about it. I don’t have to believe that they might be right, although I think it’s a good idea to be open to the possibility. That they’re wrong has no impact whatsoever on me; I don’t need other people to be right about the things I’m right about.
For instance, that there are benighted souls in the world who love MacBooks doesn’t make me less of a member of the PC Master Race. Obviously I’m right. I mean, c’mon, of course I am. But I’m not more or less right based on the number of Godless Macintosh heathens that I have or haven’t converted. I don’t need my beliefs to be confirmed by others agreeing with me.
Obviously, when beliefs turn to action the equation changes. I know and love people who believe private citizens should not be allowed to own firearms. We get along, we disagree, and we move on to other topics. Everything works just fine right up until the point where they can act on that belief. And I think that’s the key; nobody agrees about anything, but if we leave each other alone about it, it generally works out.
*everything, not anything
And this is exactly why there are few libertarians and libertarian will never be a major political party in which many people actually get elected to office.
Because not many people believe that other people should be able to do what they want and have different views as long as they are not bothering anyone else. If you talk to enough people or just observe their behavior and listen to them, you will find this out. You really do not have to even interact with them at all. Just quietly listen to other people’s conversations. Most people are FAR more concerned with what you are doing that they are with what they themselves are doing and they definitely believe that it is of utmost importance that they stop you from doing what you are doing, that they don’t like, whether it directly affects them or not.
That’s why asshole busybody nanny state politicians are so popular and get elected over and over again. Because most people, who want to control what you do, do not have any power to do so. But the people they vote into office, do.
” I know and love people who believe private citizens should not be allowed to own firearms.”
I know and love about 120 million of them. If I refused to get along with people I disagreed with, doubt I would’ve moved here. My old joke about this: “Why are Japanese people polite, clean and smart ? Because if they weren’t, they’d be rude and dirty little idiots”. People actually think I’m insulting them when I tell that joke.
Did you hear about the chinaman who disguised himself as a samurai?
They found a chink in his armor.
What I find ironic is that country makes one of the best O/U shotguns on the market.
Engineers gonna engineer even if they can’t own the final product.
I have been very thankful for how apolitical the people in my area are at least. Only time we’ve ever talked about politics was when Trump was first being taken seriously on the 2016 campaign trail and when we’ve been extremely drunk at nomikais. On the other side, any casual/gaming voice chat conversations with friends back in the States, they go maybe 5 minutes at best before going into Daily Show inspired politics/economics tirades.
How much of that is people feeling out what you believe so that you can be bestest buddies and how much of that is them just not having any idea that people could possibly have a different opinion?
It’s more of the latter. They’ve legit called me a monster who’s a lesser being than fictional rapist goblins because I’m a registered rethuglikkkan and because I told them I don’t believe free healthcare exists/should be a right.
That’s kind of what it boils down to. Signals, Jerry!
It’s not even that there isn’t one right way, it’s that it doesn’t really matter if other people are wrong so long as they’re wrong quietly to themselves.
That’s pretty much the motto of Restraintist libertarians. To make it even shorter, MYOFB “mind your own fucking business”. Our culture needs a heaping helping of MYOFB, because there’s a nasty strain of busybody that has infected it.
Absolutely – but when your entire worldview revolves around envy it becomes a necessity for them to be all in your business in order to take some of what’s yours. From there it just becomes natural to want to be the boss of you in every other aspect too.
I like to think at the root of what you refer to as deferentialist libertarianism is this idea that otherwise good people can believe things in opposition and yet still, at their core, both be equally good people. I think it’s important to begin with the assumption that when a person disagrees with you, even if they do so strongly and emotionally, that it is coming from at least a morally neutral place. The ACA was supported by a hell of a lot of people who really believed that the government is in a unique position to provide health care to people who need it. But, that’s as far as I can go. I cannot pretend that all decisions or ideas or customs are equally good or correct. I can, as you say, recognize that not only do I not have the right to enforce my beliefs on others but that establishing such a precedent would be dangerous, but that doesn’t mean I have to pretend to some disinterested relativism.
That’s a frothy rant worthy of Agile or Heroic. Well-done.
If agile did it, it would be a run-on. And needs moar “wasp-nipples lactating poison”
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I aspire more to Mencken than Thompson in my ranting.
And it’s so tough for me to pic a favorite, if brevity is the heart of wisdom, tonight Ill go with:
Agile Cyborg|3.21.15 @ 9:42PM|#
light just ate my ass…
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Wait a minute….. I always thought you were Agile, and you had cleaned up.
What was your handle on Reason?
You honor me, kind sir. But Im indeed not the great AC.
That’s quite the Glomar denial.
What was your handle on Reason?
Keeping in the spirit of today’s theme, did you know that Jesus Christ was the messiah’s handle?
Why, CA? Why did you make me laugh at that?
I can’t even right now…
Is it me or is the sidebar on?
Everything I say here is a sidebar, God I don’t want any of this on the record!
What you just did there. It was noted.
May it please the Glibs?
Well, quite.
Well said Jarflax! Only a complete moron could disagree.
I think only a complete moron could agree.
The truth is somewhere in the middle.
Then its unanimous!
Well it almost was.
I have a very good friend from 3rd grade that I don’t see too often (fortunately). Often he will start sentences with “What you should do is….” I mostly ignore him ’cause had I wanted to do whatever his suggestion is I’d already have done that. He talks to his adult kids the same way and they also ignore him, unless its something where they want some help.
Since we have gotten older we find we don’t agree on very much but we still are best friends.
Really? Robby on Tucker again. Huh…
Tucker has a great aftershow cocktail party.
A Catholic would have turned off the sidebar.
Oh, I was wrong. That’s not so hard, is it? Yet, how often do you hear that coming out of the left these days? FFS, we’ve had Kavanaugh, Covington, Smollett over the past year. All of these went full blown crazy with the left and all of them fell completely apart. Hell, I still have friends that think Michael Brown had his hands up and was doing nuffin when he was shot. There comes a point when you just have to write people off as hopeless, ideological zealots and hope that some day they have a Whittaker Chambers moment.
I beseech thee, Saint Isidore, patron saint of the internet; strike down those who don’t disable the sidebar in their posts. Amen.
I was more on the side of burn them at the stake, but to each their own.
Are you disagreeing with me? 30 lashes you heathen!
Take your NAP and stick it where the sun don’t shine.
*takes of glove, slaps Mike across the face*
*hands Spud a Glencairn of amber colored fluid*
Here friend. Don’t worry, I adhere to the NAP.
Aw, shucks. Never mind.
*sips and closes eyes while savoring*
I’d disable it, but I lack the power. (Ok I also lack the knowledge but since I lack the power that doesn’t come up)
I gotcha, brah.
Speaking of which…
https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1100540317055545345
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Oh, I see. My browser is restricted to half my screen, which makes the sidebar a bottombar.
And now it’s gone.
Saint Isidore answered my prayer!
Wait, has Jarflax been struck down as he so richly deserves?
There was an odd lightning strike but it deflected off a meat ball that was flying at my head and hit the cow that was running in to trample me, at which point the bears that were coming to eat me got distracted.
Missed it…
Good rant, Jarflax.
I’d rave to switch it up from time to time but I can’t dance and I’m too old for drugs.
Nah, it’s good. It was a fun read. I feel the same way. It’s frustrating as hell. At least we have this safe place. My only complaint is there are no coloring books. Or puppies. Or
hookerscall girls.OMWC’s hookers are playing with the coloring books and puppies.
“guys NEED to understand when they ask girls to come out to their place, we see it as a 10% chance of being raped or killed or worse… so 9 times out of 10 I’m driving out there for nothing”
https://twitter.com/rumeruwu/status/1098352271845396480
That blew a fuse in my soul.
I actually looked at their images. I think that is Ernst Rohm reincarnated. Or a troll.
Did you say Blow My Fuse?
Great call Mike’s. I’m still surprised they weren’t bigger.
Damn Ted S for making me use apostrophes.
He is a bas’tard.
Blow My Fuse was one of my absolute favorite albums of the 80’s. I agree; they should have been much bigger.
Kix is still going, aren’t they?
/BMF IS the bomb
Today on Glibs, I learned…..what a yandere is.
Can you tell me?
Happy to be of service: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Yandere
Thanks and yikes!
I’m starting to think that you might spend too much time on twitter.
I blame a possible Demi Rose drought for driving the Count to Twitterstan.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6746025/Demi-Rose-sizzles-skimpy-black-swimsuit-pal-helps-apply-suncream.html
Ah, the sweet ambrosia returns.
I blame you for that.
I think he wants to make her Contessa Patata
A common term in otaku fandom, a yandere is a person (usually female) romantically obsessed with someone to the point of using violent means to get them in their arms. Often seen with a sharp weapon and a psychotic grin.
Well, okay then.
Glenn Close was a yandere?
Or Lorena Bobbitt ?
I assume AOC is one.
Not a chance. She is far too in love with AOC to have obsession left over for bunny boiling.
‘Otaku’ is one of those trigger words that make me tune out completely anything that follows.
Wanna get high?
“Police in the United Kingdom are warning about a dangerous new trend of teens lighting plastic garbage cans on fire and inhaling their fumes.”
From the generation that brought you the tide pod challenge, comes the wheelie bin inhaler.
That’s as real as butt chugging.
Binhaler, surely.
Sigh. I wore an air pack on car fires because one whiff of that burning plastic smoke gave me a ginormous headache that lasted for hours, and now teenagers are doing it on purpose. I predict much brain damage. More than what made them think it was a good idea in the first place.
Go back to huffing gold spray paint.
I’m calling bullshit on this story. Your experience is just more evidence. There are easier, repeatable, more pleasurable ways to get high. This is a scare story.
In moral panic terms the word “trend” is defined as one dude somewhere who either tried something, joked about trying something, or said ‘what if I tried something’.
Exactly ny thoughts
*My
damn phone
Damn drinking
Indeed.
*starts sniffing his sharpees and markers*
They already confiscated all of the knives, scissors and saws now it’s time for the trash cans.
Mixed opinion. Huffing White Out used to be a thing before they changed the formula. I transported a 14y/o who was completely brained fried from the stuff. I also had a class mate in Junior High who fried his brain after taking pcp. He spent a lot of time in the stoner area staring at the ground. The teenage brain is a stupid brain.
Monkee Mike Nesmith’s mother was the inventor of Liquid Paper.
Yep. He inherited around $240 million.
It’s just not the same.
“Hold my beer” does not mean “wanna get high?”
Guess who.
Stalin? Castro? Mao? Ortega? Maduro? Corbyn? Sanders?
Can’t we all, wherever you are on the political spectrum, agree that she’s an idiot?
Yeah, why the fuck do they let her keep talking? Is this new generation all stupid like that? I just can’t imagine any Political team wanting someone like that spewing her whine-iscisms. She sounds like a particularly dumb third grader bitching about her Christmas presents.
Because she ticks all of the “Television News” boxes:
1) Woman
2) Young
3) “of color”
4) appeals to emotion
5) no intellect whatsoever
6) nice rack
Try to find anything on CNN, MSNBC, or any network or local TV news program that doesn’t tick at least three of these.
#3 – I have yet to see a human being completely desaturated of coloration. Even Albinos have color.
Has she even defined what exactly a “living wage” is? I’m talking exact numbers and what it’s supposed to get you. Also assuming I understand her aims correctly, she wants a nationally/federally mandated standard for this “wage”. Does she even understand that “living wages” can differ just between different cities/towns in a state?
I meant to say living expenses* for that last question.
Does she even understand X?
For all real values of X: No
There is only one set “living wage”, and that is: more than you’re getting paid now. Make it $15/hour today and tomorrow it will be $20/hour. Cost of living and living standards are variables across time and space.
Not to mention that artificially inflating the bottom of the scale will just result in the whole bell curve ratcheting up so the new number is the same value as the old one.
You mean arbitrary number assigned to pieces of paper don’t have objective value, and are determined by the relative scarcity of the paper in comparison to goods in the market??!?!?
*reaches for fainting couch*
I dropped out of macroeconomics after a week, but I was disappointed that lesson #1 wasn’t “money =/= value”
This morning I dreamed that I stuffed my sleeve onto an insect horror-show like Stephen King would dream up. I’d caught my cuff around a dry plant-pod. It exploded and caught something angry and writhing against my wrist, and it started pumping something like agitated leaping cricket down my sleeve while at the same time biting down on me and causing excruciating pain… I woke up gaping at my arm, which was, of course, fine.
But I’d snoozed both alarms and was ten minutes from being late to work, so my nightmare tricked me into being on time.
Not a reply, but okay.
What if the value you create is not enough to get paid a “living wage”? You might be getting paid less than the value you (helped) create, but the universe doesn’t promise you a comfortable existence even if you close that gap.
Simple. You go on the dole. The fact that these people see no shame in that explains why they don’t give a shit about killing entry-level jobs.
AOC: “Wages are so low today compared to actual worker productivity that they are no longer the reflections of worker value as they used to be.”
Citation needed.
boring-ass labor theory of value.
Posted in dead thread. Copy pasta–
Yikes.
Mom and dad have been doing counseling for a while now. My dad has asperger’s and it messed up their relationship and they’re working on it. As a favor to mom, the brother and I talked to the therapist with her. New (to me) building; new person to talk to in a professional setting, (kinda ironic, coming from me and my lifestyle, don’tcha think?) me having to talk about that things that I normally don’t talk about….pretty much all things that will send my anxiety through the room.
Internally freaking out the whole time. I’m not sure if anyone noticed my voice breaking a bit, but I certainly did and that only leads further down the panic hole. Afterwards went out to eat with the fam and just couldn’t get my brain back to normal levels.
Finally back at home. One more errand to run before I pour myself a stiff drink and decompress. Dad is sick and mom has a big day tomorrow so I anticipate that they’ll go to bed early. Then I’m sparking a fat bowl and in the privacy I should recover fairly quickly.
A First World Problem day, to be sure, but it’s gonna feel good to back into a normal headspace.
Hope it gets better for your parents, man. Also hope you get to decompress and chill again.
I feel like I’ve asked this before, but here goes (again?):
Question for those of you native English speakers who have learned a second language. For years I’ve wanted to learn German. I’ve tried in spits and spurts over the years but it’s never “stuck”. Immersion isn’t an option, so does anyone have any suggestions? For reference my main reason for wanting to learn it:
1. I collect German coins and want to be able to read German so I can read German coin books
2. #1 on my bucket list is visiting Germany. I would like to be able to at least make an attempt to speak to locals in their language before they feel pity and switch to English.
3. I just want to learn German (and sign language)
Can’t help with the german, but my eldest kid was a late talker. Now that he is talking (a lot) I can say it was fun learning the signs for his favorite things and teaching him
We did the baby signs thing with our daughter, and even though she is talking, she signs for emphasis. I’d like to keep her going with sign language. We know enough deaf and nearly deaf folks that it would be useful. However, It’ll be hard to keep her immersed since we don’t sign at home.
Try looking online if there are any groups in your area that meet up and practice speaking/learning German. Back in my old college, we had a group that was run by kids in the Japanese Language program who would help non-speakers/non-majors learn and practice their Japanese.
Old school
Nein! Steely Dan ist scheisse!
Funny I have the same conundrum. I took German in college and picked up a little. Now I’ve been toying with a phone app called drops. Unfortunately I haven’t had a lot of free time to really get into it. It’s free so maybe give it a try. I don’t collect coins but my in-laws bought a trunk at an auction that had a couple Reichsmark coins in it. Knowing I’m a history nerd they gave them to me.
I still have family in Germany, my mom went over and visited some of the elderly relatives. They don’t speak a word of English so they had a local help translate. He told a story about the 101st airborne troops who stayed a couple nights in their house during the war. It would be awesome to learn German and have a conversation when I eventually visit.
I had a year and a half of German and two years of Russian in high school. I remember bits and pieces of it.
The classroom setting is helpful. I am not sure how you study a foreign language on your own.
The basic steps are
– Memorize vocabulary
– Translate English to German in writing
– Translate German to English in writing
– Have lots of conversations in German
Repetition, Repetition, Repetition.
Ah, the Grammar-Translation Method!
Is this the most important part of that article:
Yes.
I would just watch a bunch of German porn with subtitles. At least I’d learn the offensive stuff, right?
Come to think of it, the German stuff is pretty out there, like two girls one cup kinda stuff. Maybe not a good fit for German?
What can I say. It was the 70s.
Hey, I suffered through it as well as the Audiolingual method. Remember language labs? Where you had to listen to a tape and repeat the sentence over and over again?
The only other experience I had was sitting across the table from a Russian engineer while the highly-talented translator translated in almost real-time.
So you hear the conversation as Russian with an overlapping English echo.
Add jet lag to this, and it is a wonderful experience.
Real-time translation is crazy! I had a school friend whose mother was a German and Dutch translator for the UN. I am convinced they are aliens. No human can do what they do.
Every person I ever told I was getting a BA in linguistics asked me something along the lines of “which language are you going to be a translator for?”
Yeah, it’s otherworldly for sure.
So what is the best way to learn a foreign language?
Meaningful interaction with a native speaker. Key being interaction – opportunities for linguistic input and output. Another key is learning the language for a specific purpose – not just learning it because “school”. Eg. for business, for academic purposes, for tourism, for getting a blowjob, etc.
Do you have access to a native speaker of German to speak with?
I would love to, and I know this would be a huge help, but unfortunately, no.
A webcam and Skype are your friends. You can find language tutors willing to do one on one Skype lessons for much cheaper than you’d think.
I will explore this more. Other than the obvious benefit of having another human being helping you, the fact that another person is counting on you to make progress is helpful…it should keep me on track.
Money is an object, but I’ll see what’s out there. I’d gladly take any recommendations if you have any.
I’m not sure I can help you with German. All my cam partners are young Thai women.
I clicked on that link with no reservations. None. The transformation is complete.
Mike S and Jarflax–
We may be the same people. Mike, ya just perfectly summed up my reaction.
I ain’t even upset.
And Jarflax, same with Alina. The first fucking guys name is Igor and he’s gonna compete with that talent?
Seriously, you can find folks willing to do it for a rate of 15 bucks an hour.
Literally LOL at the prices/pictures. I would go with Alina S. before she figures out that her face is worth an extra $15/hr.
If this isn’t the first “clean” minute of a porno, I will eat my shoe.
I’ve never done anything one-on-one like this myself. I have a sometimes crippling shyness that ties my tongue even in English. I can’t imagine it in German with a stranger.
Yet I’m quite comfortable in settings with more than two people. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Nothing wrong with group lessons either. You can find those too for a lower rate usually.
It depends on your goals. Do you want to speak the language, or just read it? Either way, there are *tons* of online options nowadays.
Ugh. This is a question I ask myself a lot. I guess, right now, reading is the primary goal. Speaking is secondary.
I suggest buying a copy of A General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology in the original and reading it with a German/English dictionary.
I can recommend Rosetta Stone. It ain’t cheap, though. But it does let you focus on one or the other, or both.
Based on your goals, I would suggest rethinking your priorities. How many people learn to read their first language before they speak it? Very few. In fact, it is really a false dilemma. Language is learned most effectively when all four discrete language skills (reading, writing, speaking, and listening) are engaged in a meaningful task. Try interacting with others in a German-language numismatics internet forum. I did that with a Thai flight simulator forum. You may not get to practice listening and speaking, per se, but people tend to write in a more conversational style on the Internet. But again, I really suggest Skype tutoring. Without getting into mirror neurons. the Output Hypothesis, and all that shit, nothing can replace language acquisition through spontaneous interaction with a real-life native speaker.
This is always in my mind. While immersion isn’t an option, the internet should allow for a similar experience. I’ll see what I can find.
Technically I studied german for 6 years or so. I even did a semester in Freiburg and took all my classes in German.
I struggled mightily, because my German was bad enough that IU almost didn’t let me join the abroad program. But with studying (the courses weren’t hard, it was just writing the papers that sucked) and help from friends/German housemates, I was able to get Bs.
The biggest thing in learning any second language (is this your first additional one to study?) is getting over how dumb and awkward you (correctly) think you sound. *GET OVER IT* It sucks, but you’re going to sound dumb at first. Do not, repeat, DO NOT let this natural fear and anxiety prevent you from trying to practice and express as much as you can.
For communication, vocabulary is much more important than grammar. Eventually their importance will come closer together as you learn more complicated structures.
It’s very easy to fall into the habit of learning one adjective for “happy” and being content with always using that word for expressing that basic idea. In the intermediate+ stage, I’d suggest really branching out to get more nuance.
German verbs are assholes, but somehow they are big enough assholes that they will manage to fuck YOUR asshole. It’s almost assuredly the hardest thing about German—the conjugated verb goes at the very end of the sentence. So you have to keep everything in mind until you get to *arguably the most important word in the entire sentence.*
And also, it’s not that hard! English/German overlap tremendously and even new words that aren’t cognates can be figured out pretty quickly.
And Controversial Corner! People always joke that German is ugly sounding. But people usually think of Hitler. I actually think that normally spoken German is quite mellifluous and lovely. Additionally, the insane German-words-are-so-long-and-strung-together is true, but actually beautiful IMO. Very logical and it’s ‘easy’ to build words to represent new inventions or ideas. Their women are also very attractive.
Freiburg is the best city on the planet. People have proposed worthy challengers, but for obvious reasons their arguments didn’t sway me.
WOW wall of text sorry.
Also–I should explain something further. For the first 5 years of my German study I in no way took it seriously. I never really studied. At the end of my semester abroad I was OK, but I still couldn’t have full-on conversations.
After not having practiced in 5+ years, I was still able to get around and do everything I needed to do without ever having a person abruptly switch to English to make it go along quicker. When I first got to Germany absolutely NO ONE would speak to me in German. It was just not good enough. But I’m fairly convinced that the level of German I learned has been soldered into my brain and isn’t going anywhere without an injury/illness. I imagine if I actually tried I could pick up so much in a very short period of time.
“Golden Age” Latin is like that. Not because of any grammatical reason, but it was considered a sign of erudition and wit.
“Well, no one who speaks
GermanLatin could be evil!”Perhaps, but Latin was basically a SOV type language, so I suspect
that rather than it being a sign of erudition, it just sounded funny
any other way.
There is SOV, and there is Cicero placing 72 words between a verb and it’s subject! That was a “fun” test.
If Mike takes my advice above, 72 words between verb and subject will start to seem like “Jesus wept.”
There is something to that. One summer, I took an intensive Latin course with Carl Ruck at BU. Yes, the Carl Ruck who was Timothy Leary’s best friend and whose scholarship focuses on the use of psychedelics in Greco-Roman religious rites. Anyway, his philosophy was to teach the most difficult grammatical points for English speakers first, as once that it out of the way, you gain momentum by going downhill, so to speak, as opposed to the feeling of going “uphill” with the easy stuff first and working your way up through harder and harder grammar. I wouldn’t recommend it in all cases (I think it requires the student to be extremely motivated), but it worked for me.
I think if he can read Husserl he can read anything. That said I love puzzling out the sense of complicated philosophical texts (or did when I was younger anyway) but Husserl drove me insane. How the hell is it possible to have a sentence that continues for more than a page? And how the hell am I supposed to puzzle out what it means?
Also let me not sound all arrogant here, I was picking that as the single most inpenetrable text I have read, and I read it in English; I speak no German. It was meant as a joke.
What he should read is the Tractatus.
But Wittgenstein actually makes sense, at least some of the time.
As a Ch’an Buddhist, I looked into Phenomenology as both are concerned with the investigation of consciousness. Upon first encountering Husserl, I realized that while both had the same end goal, the methodologies were diametrically opposed to one another. The primary argument of Ch’an/Zen is that true experience is inherently ineffable.
I think a phenomenologist would argue that his position isn’t diametrically opposed to that, but rather is an attempt to avoid using/assuming that assumption, or it’s opposite. The (well one) problem I had/have is that as soon as you communicate your experience of phenomena you are making myriad assumptions that there are noumena. Meaning, language, listener etc. have to have some externality and pure phenomenology is inherently an internal ‘discipline’.
In other words I can pretend all I want that I have rigidly excluded assumptions about the reality of anything but phenomena, but by trying to communicate them I break that pretense, and the whole ‘discipline’ depends on trying to put into language the totality of direct experience, and then chopping logic about it.
I recall reading somewhere that regardless of the formal
grammar, at some point of sentence complexity, even
native speakers will break the “rules” and put words where
they don’t technically belong. Somewhere the brain loses
the ability to keep track of what’s going on, so you unwind
the stack early, so to speak.
I see that in German all the time. It’s no big deal if you put the conjugated verb at the end of a “thought” even if the written language might technically require it at the end of a long sentence.
Having done similar research, that sounds right. There seems to be a hard limit in one’s working memory – eventually, keeping all of those concepts in the episodic buffer to be retrieved as the brain works out all the possible semantic meanings when faced with ever-increasing syntactic ambiguity will eventually present a cognitive load that “crashes” the central executive.
“Having done similar research, that sounds right. There seems to be a hard limit in one’s working memory – eventually, keeping all of those concepts in the episodic buffer to be retrieved as the brain works out all the possible semantic meanings when faced with ever-increasing syntactic ambiguity will eventually present a cognitive load that “crashes” the central executive.”
Que?
The most used model of working memory (WM) proposes that it consists of four parts: “the phonological loop”, that stores language sounds info, the “visuo-saptial sketchpad” that stores visual info, the “central executive” which focuses attention and directs sensory input into either the PL or VSS, and the episodic buffer which attempts to synthesize the data into an episodic narrative.
If we accept Bates and MacWhinney’s Competition model, when faced with an ambiguous sentence, our brain holds all possible meanings in its buffer weighing the probabilities until it receives enough data to rule out all competing possibilities.
Finally, cognitive load refers to the fact that our WM can only process so much data in so much time, so if faced with a clause that requires one to hold many, many competing meanings – eventually you’re going to get to the point where the WM is overloaded and the sentence can’t be processed.
OK. I have a question. For everyone.
Back in the day people had more time, communications were slower (in print and when giving speeches), and there was a special pride in being erudite and well-versed in letters. I am aware that radio, TV, twitter and our much busier task-per-minute our lives have become.
But isn’t that just *sloppy* writing? I presume that the appeal for brevity mirrors the speed of communication pretty much perfectly. If a person has less time to process something then you need to deliver more information faster and with greater clarity to your audience.
I refuse to believe that everyday people listening to Edward Everette for OVER TWO HOURS at Gettysburg were able to fully process that information and have it click with the correct structure. There’s no way the audience could absorb that and give a brief synopsis afterwards of the main points of the speech.
The more I flesh this out, the more likely it seems that those big speeches back in the day were the equivalent of pols late night spewing out meaningless platitudes and made-up statistics involving every alphabet letter bureaucracy. People smile and nod at the (of course!) beauty of the oration, while secretly being afraid to admit they understood none of it.
Wait. I’ve got it, haven’t I?
I’m not sure I agree. You have to remember, for many, this was their entertainment. Just as we can watch a movie that is 2 hours plus and take it all in, if the only novelty you had from day to day was either listening to someone play the piano or listen to a lecture, then you would hang on every word too.
HM: That is such a good point. I love why I come here.
I still think my point remains. ABSOLUTELY people would be going to events like that. My example included using the President during a war at a very important battleground.
Literal lemonade stands and all.
However, I just don’t believe that the everyday person could have understood what all was being said.
Gettysburg Address? Absolutely. That’s why it’s so beautiful.
Everette’s slog? That’s simply a difficult thing for a mind to be able to do.
*Disclosure: I have not read Everette’s speech. I just know it was hella long.
Also: I was thinking about how well I would do at listening to something for two hours and then having to give some facsimile of what it entailed.
I concluded that I would have to be actively taking notes the entire time and trying to put together the subtle motives behind all of it.
So I would be a journalist. Working pretty damn hard.
It makes more sense to me to think that all of the spectators at all of these great speeches were….
Ah. Another thought. Of course no one understood and was merely responding to spectacle. What is actually said usually isn’t that important as long as it impresses.
Of course we can’t allow Catholics to read the Bible in English. Duh. Then they’d have an inkling that we are a shit organization.
Well, that’s sad but a fun way of making dots connect by thinking out loud.
At least the Gettysburg Address is indeed beautiful.
^^^^^
This is hugely important if you’re looking to *speak* the language. And the only way to overcome it IMHO is to surround yourself with natives.
And to get drunk!
Prost!
G’suffa!
I was watching a video on Oktoberfest and the narrator said there’s a dozen+ ways to say “cheers” in Germany. This pleases me.
Do you know who else wanted people who spoke German?
Cleavon Little?
Julius Caesar?
It really depends on how you learn, but here’s some ideas:
Flashcards. It helps a lot to know what the words basically mean,
even without a solid grasp of grammar. Flashcards can help build
vocabulary.
Listen to songs in German. The B side of Nena’s 99 Luftballons is all
German.
Get a German translation of a book you really like in English. I’ve
got a few of those (Forever War, Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and Dune).
Work through it slowly. Go over pages again. I can read the first
couple of pages of the Forever War in German by this time.
Get children’s books in German. That’s part of how you learned
English, it works for German as well. Comic books can be good for
this as well. I’ve got a German edition of Watchmen that I practice
with.
If you get spam in German, rather than deleting it, work through it
until you can understand it. They’re short and fairly easy language,
and it’s amusing.
Most of that is for reading. Speaking will be harder without someone
to practice with, but listen and try to imitate as best you can. An
understanding of how sounds are actually physically produced by
the vocal aparatus can help.
If you get spam in German, rather than deleting it, work through it
until you can understand it. They’re short and fairly easy language,
and it’s amusing.
How to conjugate the verb to erect.
If you get spam in German
Wirdst du ein großer dickeren haben? Dann mußt du hier clicken!
Well fuck. I can read that.
Fun fact: ‘Dick’=’thick.’
And we laughed and laughed.
Mike’s first Glibs German lesson:
Do you want a big dick? Then you must click here!
How’d I do?
I don’t think it worked. Try clicking again.
That was from my limited German. Here is what my traslator says:
I feel like this isn’t working.
That was adorable, Mike S.
I’m very stoned, but that was adorable. I don’t know if it was intentional or not.
I don’t care.
Another thought: if you can find fairy tales (Marchen) in German
and you enjoy those, those can be good as well. Though I was
accused of speaking “Grossvater Deutsch” since some of my
vocabulary came from German readers from the 20s.
I’m also probably the last person around who actually likes
old stories printed in Fraktur, so that’s a bonus for me.
(cue Fraktur enthusiast coming out of the woodwork.)
All of this amounts to find something you would enjoy reading
if it were in English. If you’d not want to read it in English,
you’re not going to develop the motivation to work through it
in German.
*lowers hand*
Great, simple advice. Thanks, nw.
re: Fraktur. Fraking love it…just need to study it a but more and learn some of the more confusing letters.
“3. I just want to learn German (and sign language)”
You don’t really need to learn German, you can just hire German pee girls who speak English.
Podcasts are another cheap way to get exposure. Deutsche Welle has a bunch of stuff.
I got far more input than I expected; thanks to all who replied. I’ll re-read when I am a tish more sober. And I’ll be looking for a native German speaker…somewhere…she’s waiting for me…
Holy shit, it sounds hard to learn a second language if you didn’t speak it around the house from childhood. And then I remember that Civil War hero Joshua Chamberlain was supposedly fluent in ten languages. With a wife looking like Mira Sorvino, where did he find the leisure time to become a cunning polylinguist?
On topic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/02/united-methodists-fracture-lgbt-plan-rejected/583693/
The picture of the sad clown people at the top is rather amusing.
Schisms are inevitable once you add moral rules beyond the Golden Rule. I periodically (usually after rereading C.S. Lewis) think about spirituality and reconsider my agnosticism, but I always give up and fall back on my belief that I don’t know because I can’t accept all the teachings of any faith.
I don’t think the Golden rule is exempt from that either. In my experience, it’s not nearly as universally accepted or practiced as we’d like to believe.
I think history is starting to repeat. The people are starting to get tired of the proggy bullshit, just like they did a century ago.
I mean, if the church that I decided to belong to, doesn’t like my lifestyle, I could find a different church. OR, alternately, I could look like the woman in that pic, like it’s just been announced that the Mongol hordes are outside gate and we’ve got about an hour before they’re inside. Some people will find a way to be miserable and you are not stopping them.
I don’t get the desire to remain part of a group that doesn’t want you.
Neither do I, but the proggies are obsessed with it. It’s like they’ll intentionally seek out the ONLY people they can find who don’t like them and force them to like them. Bake that cake, I guess.
If you can force those who disagree with your choices/beliefs/nature/lifestyle to agree with it maybe the little questioning voice in your own head will shut up. (I am not making a judgement on the validity of that voice in their head. This is not meant as “they know it’s wrong”)
I think gay people who are actually at home in their own skins don’t feel this need to force others to applaud them.
I think
gay peoplehumans who are actually at home in their own skins don’t feel this need to force others to applaud them.FIFY
Control. They could split into 2 denominations and go their own way, but there is 50 years’ worth of church property, devotees, and institutions to divy up.
each* go their own way
I hope that helps.
That article is a prime example of the subtle editorial power journalists wield. Look at the quotations in that piece. Fewer for the traditionalist side than the progressive side, and the traditionalist quotes are unclear and not particularly relevant. The progressive quotes are appeals to emotion made to sound as reasonable as possible to influence the reader.
I don’t really have a dog in the Methodist fight, but the author does.
TL;DR but given the URL that doesn’t surprise me at all.
I don’t have a dog in the fight either; it makes sense to split up. That’s the wonderful thing about free association. Anyone trying to force their interpretation on a large, unwilling group shouldn’t be surprised if that group leaves to go start their own organization.
I just thought the picture was funny.
Does it matter?
https://pjmedia.com/trending/who-is-the-uc-berkeley-puncher/
The guy could have murdered the kid in cold blood in broad daylight and some Kali jury would have fined him a dollar.
The local area is a tough jury pool but the local cops are the ones responsible for the current mess. There is obvious probable causes to make an arrest but they seem unwilling or unable to do it.
You know, I’m just waiting for you and Rhywun to get into a fight one day, just so I can say, ‘It’s difficult to separate the Chafed from the Rhy’; I love me some punnery.
It may be a long wait. He professed his love for Babylon 5. That gets him a ton of goodwill.
Damn, I must be set for life, then!
You and Nephilium.
\0/ Victory!
BTW, do you know: Did J. write all of the episodes to B5? I thought I read that somewhere. Or, at least, the (overwhelming) majority of them?
Maybe it was that he had the whole story mapped out, but had a team write various episodes… Something rather amazing for such a big story.
He wrote or cowrote nearly all of them as I recall.
Yeah, I saw the whole geek fest over Babylon 5. I wasn’t impressed with it’s visual style in the SD era, no desire to see it in the HD era. (although, talking to Bernett in that article that was linked was a bit misleading, because he was one of the defendants in the Axanar case and most people would be happy happy if the Star Trek shows were available in 16×9 it’s not so much about resolution, as experience, but that’s an entirely different story, as the show wasn’t shot for 16×9 so who knows what was off the screens edge) (The remastered Buffy The Vampire Slayer episodes had a big problem with vignetting and other things the audience was never meant to see)
To get to the point, when most people think they are talking about resolution, they are actually talking about bitrate. I was going to write an article on it a while back, but I was having problems with my software at the time. Maybe I’ll revisit it, who knows.
Question: Is it accurate to say that bitrate has an affect on resolution?
No. A lower resolution video can have a higher bitrate than a video with with a higher resolution.
Interesting. This is all well after my time in “TV Production” (HS class).
I’m old.
And vice versa. They are independent.
basically, when people complain about ‘blockiness’ in an image, that is bitrate. A 1080 or even 4k video can look ‘blockier’ than a 480p SD video depending on bitrate. Sure, given the higher bitrate the other formats can handle at the top end they are better, but at the same bitrate the difference can be slight depending on screen size.
When I started film school we were still cutting actual film, when I was finally done (had some delays along the way so it took longer) that was almost a relic. In the span of 10 years (like I said some delays) everything changed.
Yeah, I did actual film cutting when taking “Cinematography”, which was unrelated to the “TV Prod” class.
Basically, video vs film. Using equipment from 60’s/70’s.
The show had a great story arc, inventive characters, acknowledged religion in both human and alien cultures, and had a very civil libertarian bent. I get you are way more knowledgeable and interested in technical aspects of visual storytelling. You do you. But you are a monster for not loving the show.
I wanted to get in to it, but never could. It was visual garbage. I think one of my main problems was I believe it was shot and cut in PAL onstead of NTSC, which at 25FPS has always looked unnatural and wrong. It’s one of those things that just gives me the ‘willies’, like puppets, not quite sure why.
Puppets, eh?
The willies, eh?
Harsh. But, accurate.
I see how it is. My churchy self can make cartoons yall love, while I personally disagree with your values, but I don’t like a TV show with good potential but poor execution and I’m a monster.
Live and let live, unless xe doesn’t like my thing!
Anyway, I’m gonna go pass out now. Alcohol, it’s a hell of drug. That’s why we need to stop the Mexicans…wait, this isn’t twitter?…
“Your values”???
I thought we had the same…
I’m starting to wonder if he was a plant. ‘Here’s the info. on the conservative. Pretend to be a student. Go punch a Nazi. Oh…..and don’t forget to wear black’.
Hat and The Hair live Tweets from Vietnam.
Because of the hashtag I think I’m getting some likes that don’t really get the jokes, but hey, I’ll take what I can get.
Fucking OT – OT alert. It’s #27 on the late night post, so I don’t think it’s extra douchey. No more than I already am, anyway.
Hey, fags – my brother asked to do a financial analysis of some weed companies, which I did. Please perform a withering analysis of my analysis:
CGC canopy – financials look mostly pretty good but they have a large amount of “goodwill” equity – always be wary of that. It’s basically “this is money we claim because people like us.” Not saying it’s a house of cards or anything, but limit your exposure. They seem to be able to make a profit, which is kind of a plus. But at $47 a share, 100 shares will be a tad steep. Also, they still investing a shit-ton of cash.
They’re a fairly new company, so having a lot of debt and investment isn’t the kind of nightmare you’d have if it were an 80-year old industry. Still, I was surprised by the apparent lack of solvency of these companies (all of them, not just cgc, which has the best financials IMHO)
Aleaf..longshot , but cheap – they’re currently burning through money faster than hippies burn through weed. If you want to take a flyer, keep it to a max of a hundred stocks and keep a close watch. Even at $2 a stock share, losing that would suck.
APHA – they’ve got a great deal of “unusual expense” – big RED FLAG. Their non=operating income accounts for all of their operating profit. Not saying they’re doomed, but HOLD OFF until they can get an operating profit with their standard business.
CVSI – steady, but under performing. They don’t seem capable of generating a profit. If you can afford 50-100 shares and want to take a flyer, go ahead, but be wary. Their numbers seem to indicate a standard, accountant-ly bureaucratic way of running a business, which may work out for them better in the future. Still, earn a fucking profit, guys.
I’ve included links to my top 2 companies of the ones he selected, because I have no idea if my former creator credentials give me access to more than that, and I’m not going to fuck with them to ask for more, but you can right click to Marketwatch if you like.
Smoking weed was cool before corporations were in it. Now it’s just, lame and um, evil. I’m switching to Fentanyl.
Good strategy, CPRM. I’m sure that’ll work out for you long-term. Imma go shave now.
I like your analysis BP. I’ll add, for the entire industry, state level taxation will continue to impair the companies’ ability to compete against black market providers. Federal laws effectively denying access to the banking system puts every company at an elevated risk of theft, violent and nonviolent, and will require security expenses other industries don’t have.
Also, not a fag NTTAWT.
Fuck, good point Chafed. A couple of the companies are Canadian, but even if that detracts from the danger issue, it also adds another level of complexity.
They could make all this so simple. It’d help people out and just be easy. I need to bang my head against the wall now.
Note – my second paragraph was meant to regard the political institutions of the US. Also, my head doctor, who has essentially given up on me.
Because he’s a fag.
Also, CPRM, I was joking, if it wasn’t totally obvious.
And Chafed, you’re a fag. Good thing I like you, fag.
Bored on the train and maybe someone is still here (Hi, Pie) so I made a meme.
https://i.imgflip.com/2ur1hd.jpg
Hey, that’s not bad. I am going to use (steal) that.
“Bored on a Train” could be a ZZ Top song
I thought that was the Amtrak theme song.
Just home from work, Old Granddad Bonded was on sale at my local so I’m giving it a try. I think I’ll go back to the Wild Turkey 101.
Wifey confiscated a Juul thingy from a student today. Nicotine makes me sicky-sicky so I was looking to see if one could put the electric lettuce in it. The answer is, apparently, yes. But, now I feel old as I only understood every 5th or 6th word these kids said.
I am eyeballs deep in planting and some family business. I recently received a treasure trove of family photos going back 100 years. So…scanning, emailing, talking to family I haven’t talked to in 40 years, etc, etc.
I haven’t been able to keep up around here but now and then I cant resist taking a look.
Dammit. Just dammit. I have missed some fantastic articles and I haven’t had time to write any submissions.
*sigh*
Jarflax….I cant believe you passed up a perfect opportunity to say ‘Wake up sheeple!’. There should be a law about that. It is the only phrase more discrediting than Godwining.
“Who regards any disapproval, of any Jew, in any context, as clear evidence of NSDP membership”
I know this guy IRL. My wife made the mistake of disagreeing with him about circumcision online, which lead him to call her a Nazi supporter. To be fair, she does like swastikas. . . Cause she’s Hindu.
Ooh, yeah, him and his wife haven’t talked to us since. Fun times.
I love me a good rant.
People can’t wrap themselves around the ‘kamikaze satire’ of 4chan.