The loudest reaction to the rift/facebook thing annoys me to an unreasonable degree.
I mean my reaction was "...wait what? I... hmm. That seems kinda odd."
But then I try and find more info on it and it's nothing but tinfoil hat territory as far as the eye can see
It's gonna take a while for neckbeards to cease their bristling and for calmer heads to prevail and people who actually understand things and get around to talking about stuff.
But this is gonna be like ME3 all over again, for the next few years no mention of the rift or facebook will be let slip by without someone letting everyone know just how terrible this deal was.
Apparently among many other things, he tried to buy automatic weapons and shoulder fired missiles from a Muslim separatist group in the Phillipines, for a third party (who turned out to be an FBI agent) in exchange for campaign contributions.
Oh also this guy was/is a very prominent gun control advocate in the US.
I mentioned it before but the best part about the Facebook/Oculus VR stuff is people who seem to think because they kickstarted the DK1 they hold some kind of stock in the company and have a right to be outraged or something.
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log into okcupid for the first time in three months and my profile must have been flagged somehow because immediately, as I watched, a parade of cat-sweatshirt women with match percentages in the low thirties started swarming my profile like flies on meat
sorry, ladies. I have new glasses. I am too good for you now.
log into okcupid for the first time in three months and my profile must have been flagged somehow because immediately, as I watched, a parade of cat-sweatshirt women with match percentages in the low thirties started swarming my profile like flies on meat
sorry, ladies. I have new glasses. I am too good for you now.
Have you not enough love for both?
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log into okcupid for the first time in three months and my profile must have been flagged somehow because immediately, as I watched, a parade of cat-sweatshirt women with match percentages in the low thirties started swarming my profile like flies on meat
sorry, ladies. I have new glasses. I am too good for you now.
Have you not enough love for both?
I have no love at all for cat-sweatshirt women.
This is a phenomenon I may need to explain. They are a certain species of comparatively harmless Christian women who "love Jesus and my family!!!" and invariably claim that the first thing that people notice about them is "my smile! And that I love to laugh!!!"
This is never, ever true. The first thing people notice about them is their unflattering dome of permed hair and the sweatshirt (worn in all seasons) with an intensely tacky puffy-paint picture of a cat on it.
They are always super eager to start families and have profile names like "lookin4luv123" and I am like MOVE ON THERE IS NO LUV HERE
log into okcupid for the first time in three months and my profile must have been flagged somehow because immediately, as I watched, a parade of cat-sweatshirt women with match percentages in the low thirties started swarming my profile like flies on meat
sorry, ladies. I have new glasses. I am too good for you now.
Have you not enough love for both?
I have no love at all for cat-sweatshirt women.
This is a phenomenon I may need to explain. They are a certain species of comparatively harmless Christian women who "love Jesus and my family!!!" and invariably claim that the first thing that people notice about them is "my smile! And that I love to laugh!!!"
This is never, ever true. The first thing people notice about them is their unflattering dome of permed hair and the sweatshirt (worn in all seasons) with an intensely tacky puffy-paint picture of a cat on it.
They are always super eager to start families and have profile names like "lookin4luv123" and I am like MOVE ON THERE IS NO LUV HERE
I just wrote out a very insulting joke response that you should give in those situations but upon re-reading it no, that would make you a monster. And also me for being the asshole who wrote it. But I mean mostly that second part because it's ok if you're a monster as long as it doesn't reflect poorly on me.
What I'm saying is I should never ever sign up for okcupid because I would be a criminal
log into okcupid for the first time in three months and my profile must have been flagged somehow because immediately, as I watched, a parade of cat-sweatshirt women with match percentages in the low thirties started swarming my profile like flies on meat
sorry, ladies. I have new glasses. I am too good for you now.
Have you not enough love for both?
I have no love at all for cat-sweatshirt women.
This is a phenomenon I may need to explain. They are a certain species of comparatively harmless Christian women who "love Jesus and my family!!!" and invariably claim that the first thing that people notice about them is "my smile! And that I love to laugh!!!"
This is never, ever true. The first thing people notice about them is their unflattering dome of permed hair and the sweatshirt (worn in all seasons) with an intensely tacky puffy-paint picture of a cat on it.
They are always super eager to start families and have profile names like "lookin4luv123" and I am like MOVE ON THERE IS NO LUV HERE
Oh, well thanks, I did totally misunderstand that point. You are in Kansas right? I'd assume that you have a higher number of that kind of person than I encounter.
That being said I can't talk, I was asked to supply names of Sikh and Pakistani men looking for marriage yesterday. I'm a recruiter now for the informal matchmakers it seems.
In the last new minutes I have made four posts, none of which I am particularly proud of, composed one post that upon reading it made me think"ok well that's just being mean for no reason, and way too mean on top of that" and one of which was just plain dumb because it amounted to olol necro thread
clearly it is bed time ((after I finish this beer and sing (poorly) at least two more songs in rock band))
g'night [chat]
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Oh man so in my knitting group, one of the old ladies brings her husband along because she can't drive. He's an abrasive jerk.
She's talking about what's going on in her life, and mentions that she's going to the doctor next week. Now it's obvious she doesn't want to talk about it, so the conversation moves on.
Then her husband blurts out, "THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH HER VAGINA!"
Awkward...
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The authors lived for a year in a “party” dorm in a large midwestern flagship public university (not mine) and kept up with the women in the dorm till after they had graduated college. The thesis of the book is that the university essentially facilitates (seemingly knowingly, and in some aspects strategically) a party pathway through college, which works reasonably well for students who come from very privileged backgrounds. The facilitatory methods include: reasonably scrupulous enforcement of alcohol bans in the dorms (thus enhancing the capacity of the fraternities to monopolize control of illegal drinking and, incidentally, forcing women to drink in environments where they are more vulnerable to sexual assault); providing easy majors which affluent students can take which won’t interfere with their partying, and which will lead to jobs for them, because they have connections in the media or the leisure industries that will enable them to get jobs without good credentials; and assigning students to dorms based on choice (my students confirm that dorms have reputations as party, or nerdy, or whatever, dorms that ensure that they retain their character over time, despite 100% turnover in residents every year).
The problem is that other students (all their subjects are women), who do not have the resources to get jobs in the industries to which the easy majors orient them, and who lack the wealth to keep up with the party scene, and who simply cannot afford to have the low gpas that would be barriers to their future employment, but which are fine for affluent women, get caught up in the scene. They are, in addition, more vulnerable to sexual assault, and less insulated (because they lack family money) against the serious risks associated with really screwing up. The authors tell stories of students seeking upward social mobility switching their majors from sensible professional majors to easy majors that lead to jobs available only through family contacts, not through credentials. Nobody is alerting these students to the risks they are taking. So the class inequalities at entry are exacerbated by the process. Furthermore, the non-party women on the party floor are, although reasonably numerous, individually isolated—they feel like losers, not being able to keep up with the heavy demands of the party scene. The authors document that the working class students who thrive are those who transfer to regional colleges near their birth homes.
Oh man so in my knitting group, one of the old ladies brings her husband along because she can't drive. He's an abrasive jerk.
She's talking about what's going on in her life, and mentions that she's going to the doctor next week. Now it's obvious she doesn't want to talk about it, so the conversation moves on.
Then her husband blurts out, "THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH HER VAGINA!"
Awkward...
Best response: Ugh I know, right?
Alternatively: You noticed too?
Alternatively: Are you talking about the smell or the texture because quite frankly both are off.
Alternatively: No that's just for you, it's gravy for the rest of us.
All I wanted was tickets to see the most elusive, brilliant singer songwriter in the world at her only concert dates for three and a bit decades. Is that so much to ask?
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Uugggghhh...
It's been a long-ass time since I've had a night like that. It felt like I was waking up every 10 minutes. Nevermind that I couldn't fall asleep till midnight, and my tossing and turning.. just..
stupid sinuses. I was feeling dizzy yesterday too. I think today's a good day not to risk anything with work.
The loudest reaction to the rift/facebook thing annoys me to an unreasonable degree.
I mean my reaction was "...wait what? I... hmm. That seems kinda odd."
But then I try and find more info on it and it's nothing but tinfoil hat territory as far as the eye can see
It's gonna take a while for neckbeards to cease their bristling and for calmer heads to prevail and people who actually understand things and get around to talking about stuff.
But this is gonna be like ME3 all over again, for the next few years no mention of the rift or facebook will be let slip by without someone letting everyone know just how terrible this deal was.
Disagree. For one thing, sometime in the next 1.5 years there will actually be an Oculus Rift. It will be amazing since everyone already agrees even the low-res dev kits are amazing (I'm checking one out on Monday in anticipation for getting my DK2).
At that point, those people will be forced to shut the hell up, and also will be completely stupid if they actually try and boycott the product.
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Yeah I saw that and that's kind where I'm at.
But there's a lot of the sky is falling going around.
It's gonna take a while for neckbeards to cease their bristling and for calmer heads to prevail and people who actually understand things and get around to talking about stuff.
But this is gonna be like ME3 all over again, for the next few years no mention of the rift or facebook will be let slip by without someone letting everyone know just how terrible this deal was.
Huh, so it is even odder than it first sounded
sorry, ladies. I have new glasses. I am too good for you now.
this is the best twitter acct ever
Have you not enough love for both?
I have no love at all for cat-sweatshirt women.
This is a phenomenon I may need to explain. They are a certain species of comparatively harmless Christian women who "love Jesus and my family!!!" and invariably claim that the first thing that people notice about them is "my smile! And that I love to laugh!!!"
This is never, ever true. The first thing people notice about them is their unflattering dome of permed hair and the sweatshirt (worn in all seasons) with an intensely tacky puffy-paint picture of a cat on it.
They are always super eager to start families and have profile names like "lookin4luv123" and I am like MOVE ON THERE IS NO LUV HERE
Yup, seems accurate.
fantastic
Some of them just make me feel sorry for them, though.
That one really leapt out at me.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
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I just wrote out a very insulting joke response that you should give in those situations but upon re-reading it no, that would make you a monster. And also me for being the asshole who wrote it. But I mean mostly that second part because it's ok if you're a monster as long as it doesn't reflect poorly on me.
What I'm saying is I should never ever sign up for okcupid because I would be a criminal
Oh, well thanks, I did totally misunderstand that point. You are in Kansas right? I'd assume that you have a higher number of that kind of person than I encounter.
That being said I can't talk, I was asked to supply names of Sikh and Pakistani men looking for marriage yesterday. I'm a recruiter now for the informal matchmakers it seems.
Exit plan to bankruptcy.
Krugerrands are better, you can put them in a hole in the ground before the barbarians invade and make you pay taxes.
clearly it is bed time ((after I finish this beer and sing (poorly) at least two more songs in rock band))
g'night [chat]
She's talking about what's going on in her life, and mentions that she's going to the doctor next week. Now it's obvious she doesn't want to talk about it, so the conversation moves on.
Then her husband blurts out, "THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH HER VAGINA!"
Awkward...
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
hmmm.
(1) It's from Crooked Timber, which is the canonical ancient left-wing academic blog, but (2) wow does this thesis feel like something out of Charles Murray's latest
Best response: Ugh I know, right?
Alternatively: You noticed too?
Alternatively: Are you talking about the smell or the texture because quite frankly both are off.
Alternatively: No that's just for you, it's gravy for the rest of us.
Alternatively: ohmygodIshouldgotobed
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Tough on Corgis.
Tough on the causes of Corgis.
But corgis are the cause of corgis! Your second sentence is redundant.
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Jerk.
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Note to self: Kate Bush is Bogart's weak point
It's been a long-ass time since I've had a night like that. It felt like I was waking up every 10 minutes. Nevermind that I couldn't fall asleep till midnight, and my tossing and turning.. just..
stupid sinuses. I was feeling dizzy yesterday too. I think today's a good day not to risk anything with work.
What even is this?
An expression of the ineffability of times past
Disagree. For one thing, sometime in the next 1.5 years there will actually be an Oculus Rift. It will be amazing since everyone already agrees even the low-res dev kits are amazing (I'm checking one out on Monday in anticipation for getting my DK2).
At that point, those people will be forced to shut the hell up, and also will be completely stupid if they actually try and boycott the product.