I think someone had that thing as an avatar. It may very well be the only spider I would hug.
It would be the only spider where I would feel a small tinge of remorse as I killed it with fire. But then I'd steel my heart for the task at hand, and know that it would have betrayed me. It cannot be trusted, betrayal and deceit is the lot in life of all its kind.
So fuck spiders up whatever part superficially resembles the ass.
He was a nice spider who liked to sit on the swings and think about fluffy rabbits all day.
And now he's a nice piece of ash who is incapable of any of those functions.
I think I've said everything I need to say in the permission thread.
I've also figured out why I don't usually get involved beyond the first few pages of a non-[chat] thread. After the first 5 it's usually circling time.
I've noticed a really strong and seemingly growing trend in threads for people to argue ONLY with strawmen. It makes things really ridiculous.
Pretending that you are being strawmanned is nice cover for fleeing a thread, sure.
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You know what? I'm totally going to figure out the perfect recipe for a hot cream/cognc/coffee/milk drink
then I'm going to go to a vorspiel sometime soon when the weather is dreadful, and I will make it for everyone and everyone will adore me.
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Sleep sweet spider. May flights of angels sing thee to thyne rest.
Look, even if someone strawmans you, so what? Logical fallacies aren't so bad. This isn't war. We can be a little fallacious and fellate each other, no?
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You know, whinging about how terrible non-chat threads are is treehousing, which is heavily frowned upon and enough of would get the [chat] thread removed.
No one is complaining about all non-chat threads. Have you read this "marriage permission" thread? It's people yelling past each other at totally unrelated mental constructs they've been having arguments with privately before they happened to sit down at their computer.
There's tons of great threads. The alcohol thread is great, the car thread is great, there's various music / sports / etc. threads that are great.
Certain topics set off tedious, routine behaviors in people and it is very tough to get them to engage with people outside of this generic "Internet Debate" frame of mind once they entrench themselves in that behavior set.
No one is treehousing.
No they pretty much are, do you want me to go back in this very thread to point out examples of people saying non-chat threads go down the drain after five pages? Plenty of posters sit in here whinging about non-chat threads and it gets a tad tiresome after a while.
So Mojo, what's going on with this trip, you traveling with the Phd guys or what?
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I don't blame a mod for infracting me for being glib about debate threads, because I was being bitchy about how I phrased my complaint. The issue isn't debate, or the topics themselves: it's whether or not you can reasonably expect to see any actual communication, at all, anywhere from start to finish on some topics.
I was about to post in that thread after reading the intro post, but like so many topics I've seen, by the time I read a few pages in, I just didn't want to expend the energy. I'm sure that people get all fired up or feel that they're engaging in some sort of conversational fencing match when they communicate like this, but I just lose interest in talking to people differently than the way I would talk to them in person if I knew them.
I don't think the internet is "bad" for communication, but I do think that it is astonishingly ill-suited to human nature if your goal is anything other than a monkey yelling silently at disembodied voices in its head.
Pretending that you are being strawmanned is nice cover for fleeing a thread, sure.
Are you really going to do this, Drez? Really? Here?
Let's not.
Are you really going to pretend that the two of you weren't making a couple of obnoxious little jabs toward me from the chat thread? Really? Here?
Let's not.
Also, let's add in the context you excised and remember that if YOU'RE going to bring something to the chat thread, people have a right to respond to it. Don't pretend that I'm bringing it here:
I think I've said everything I need to say in the permission thread.
I've also figured out why I don't usually get involved beyond the first few pages of a non-[chat] thread. After the first 5 it's usually circling time.
I've noticed a really strong and seemingly growing trend in threads for people to argue ONLY with strawmen. It makes things really ridiculous.
Pretending that you are being strawmanned is nice cover for fleeing a thread, sure.
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Went to the pet store and now I wanted both the baby white's tree frog they had and one of their baby bearded dragons. I do not have the money for another enclosure set-up right now.
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So Mojo, what's going on with this trip, you traveling with the Phd guys or what?
I'm speaking at a conference here in Boston, but I decided to go to New York before hand for a holiday. A friend from another lab and a guy I didn't know from the same lab also came to New York. The guy I didn't know was a bit of a dead weight.
Travelling to conferences is supposed to be one of those PhD perks, but this is the first one (aside from a day trip to Birmingham) I've been to.
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And now he's a nice piece of ash who is incapable of any of those functions.
Says you, defector.
I bet you aren't even trying to find a decent cup of tea.
I'm drinking a cup of Earl Grey as we speak
Pretending that you are being strawmanned is nice cover for fleeing a thread, sure.
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then I'm going to go to a vorspiel sometime soon when the weather is dreadful, and I will make it for everyone and everyone will adore me.
thats freakin awesome
Lies.
Everybody knows that the US is a tea-less wasteland.
And ElectroMan was born.
Noooooo!
Well the room didn't actually have a kettle, just a weird coffee maker, so frankly, it's not the best cup of tea.
The strawmanning isn't personal, it's general, and its common all over the place.
"What do you guys think about chocolate?"
"A lot of chocolate is produced by slave labor therefor chocolate is always bad!"
I don't know about you, but I debate things in order to improve myself, not to confirm my ego.
No they pretty much are, do you want me to go back in this very thread to point out examples of people saying non-chat threads go down the drain after five pages? Plenty of posters sit in here whinging about non-chat threads and it gets a tad tiresome after a while.
So Mojo, what's going on with this trip, you traveling with the Phd guys or what?
Are you really going to do this, Drez? Really? Here?
Let's not.
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Get over it.
Also, you'll note that even while we're complaining about non-chat threads, we still get involved in them.
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I don't blame a mod for infracting me for being glib about debate threads, because I was being bitchy about how I phrased my complaint. The issue isn't debate, or the topics themselves: it's whether or not you can reasonably expect to see any actual communication, at all, anywhere from start to finish on some topics.
I was about to post in that thread after reading the intro post, but like so many topics I've seen, by the time I read a few pages in, I just didn't want to expend the energy. I'm sure that people get all fired up or feel that they're engaging in some sort of conversational fencing match when they communicate like this, but I just lose interest in talking to people differently than the way I would talk to them in person if I knew them.
I don't think the internet is "bad" for communication, but I do think that it is astonishingly ill-suited to human nature if your goal is anything other than a monkey yelling silently at disembodied voices in its head.
It had a spunky kick to it
so awesome in fact, that I proclaim
LIGHTNING CHAT
Are you really going to pretend that the two of you weren't making a couple of obnoxious little jabs toward me from the chat thread? Really? Here?
Let's not.
Also, let's add in the context you excised and remember that if YOU'RE going to bring something to the chat thread, people have a right to respond to it. Don't pretend that I'm bringing it here:
I guess I must have BRAIN PROBLEMS!
Yeah yeah, fly to los angeles and bring cognac already.
Interesting. Was it very sweet? Like, too sweet to drink on its own?
FUCK YOU
kittens are pretty cool
I'm speaking at a conference here in Boston, but I decided to go to New York before hand for a holiday. A friend from another lab and a guy I didn't know from the same lab also came to New York. The guy I didn't know was a bit of a dead weight.
Travelling to conferences is supposed to be one of those PhD perks, but this is the first one (aside from a day trip to Birmingham) I've been to.
Once a kitten bit me so kittens are bad.
Oh, I debate only to confirm my ego.
Someday I will ask it to marry me.
(But I will NOT ask id or superego for their permission.)
Puppies > kitties
Wrong.