Replies to scribus, page 35
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@scribus Natural&Normal Wrist Movement ?
Giggity.
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@scribus The only Ghostbusters I believe in are "The Real Ghostbusters", which are purely fictional and not real.
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@scribus Very much so. It´s very strange how the legal system is portrayed in media for the sake of the narrative to the point it is all wrong.
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@scribus I think any good guy you wound in that case would be balanced out by all the neo nazis
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@scribus **gasp** don't you dare do those things
Pull it out, stab it in, let me begin
Cut under the chin, fresh out the loony bin
You don't want me to act up, punk better back up
Swingin my axe everybody gets hacked up
You'll get blood EVERYWHERE !
Unless if you are already practicing your plead for insanity. In which case, try to hit for the ego of you know who, I heard there is no body armor big enough to fit it. Also do not use a .22 LR, even by my European standards those things are garbage. -
@scribus The first thing after my alarm has rung I turn on my cheap tablet and start a youtube video. Usually it's so long that I can do everything (bathroom, putting on clothes, preparing breakfast...) before the video ends and go to work afterwards.
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@scribus I technically have. No it was not shot on camera, but here is an incident of what happened prior. Oddly enough noone thought to up security around him for some reason
https://youtu.be/uocDk3Ydhkg?t=25
I happened to be in the Netherlands when he was killed. He would have been voted the Prime Minister if he would have lived through the election process because enough people still voted for him even though he was dead.
For normal civilian life nothing happened that day which was out of the ordinary.
Meanwhile a friend of mine lived through the 2016 Turkish coup d'etat attempt while being in Ankara. Which was frightning for ALL the reasons you could think of.
"Ohh, tanks are too big for pedestrian roads, wait hold on, ITS COMING RIGHT FOR US !"
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@scribus I think I kinda see what you mean, but in the same breath it was not Twitter that got scrutinized after a certain madman besmirched one of my favourite Initial D songs somewhere over in New Zealand. Those were 8Chan, Kiwifarms, Facebook, Discord and 9gag.
Actually Discord is having a really double reason there.
Not to mention that there are enough people around that hate the Twitter Verified Blue Checkmark ( http://rainbowdash.net/url/875246 ) seeing it as a "blue pill" or "Loony Lefty approved club"
It is actually that specific part where I think you are wrong when you say "Twitter is a single ecosystem. There are no groups," ( @mrmattimation @notice/5464941) . But you are right in that it's like a cocktail party with everyone, there is no structural division. Just a battle over who has the most trending hashtag. Unless if you want to count popularism and realize that if you are a nobody with the greatest thing to say, you will still be ignored. -
@scribus I have to imagine it’s because, unlike Reddit and 4chan and in some ways unlike tumblr and Facebook, Twitter is a single ecosystem. There are no groups, there’s no structural division, they don’t have a separate directory for anything... it’s like writing o a very, very, very big wall, and everyone else in the world is writing on the same wall.
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@scribus Isn't modern comminucation way too decentralized and chaotic to ever be considdered a Forum Romanum in any form ?
Reddit vs 4chan.
Twitter vs Gab.
YouTube vs kiwiute.
I could probably go on but I just think I realized something as I put those 6 names down. One side seems really authoritarian compared to the other which is more rebellious and screams 'free speech'. Hmm. If only there was a chapter about that in "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" series of books. Oh wait, there is.
History is scary. -
@scribus I'm sorry, I did not know.
does a little digging
I assume you mean http://rainbowdash.net/url/875239
Hmm, interesting. Well it is mostly red, no denying there. We know why all those little districts are red too, so he is not wrong. But we ALSO know that Hillary got the popular vote in about 65,853,514 vs 62,984,828. So if nothing else it's just party grand standing, like an echo chamber.
TL;DR : Keep calm, carry on, also laugh whenever you spot people trying to subvert your version of reality by showing you how THEY think the world works. Laugh them right in their stupid face. -
@scribus As someone who seems to suffer less from PDPD ( "Person to Data Perspective Disassociation ) I have to ask, how is that a different way of seeing it ?
I mean, do not get me wrong, it is an awesome way to 'break' the PDPD. -
@scribus And the only reason that’s a “maybe” is because I don’t mention Ukraine by name. The word “Ukraine” gets flagged in their system automatically.
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@scribus I am very sorry for all the stuff that is happening over there. But I will have to tell you that I took an interest in it because of that. Also GamerGate and MetalGate and ComicsGate and. Well everything is a gate nowadays. I guess it is going to be CultureGate next.
But yeah, I am legitimately sorry that you happen to live there while I can just point my finger and do a Nelson-laugh. -
@scribus Ohhh, Brutal.
Also that is the number one reason I do NOT use cheese slicers. I ended up in a hospital once thanks to one of those.
I would rather cut my cheese with a Bat'leth -
@scribus I have the opposite problem
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@scribus "considering how many people are shot in the back while running, or tazed while already handcuffed on the ground, I do believe the system as a whole qualifies as triggerhappy." - Scribus
Yeah, and that is something that should not happen. Maybe I am too simple in thinking like this, but you would think that body cams and stuff like that would before-long filter out all the bad cops from the good cops.
"I wouldn't ask the party who had been whipped by the system for 250+ years to be the first to yield." - Scribus
I understand that, then again with one side of the 'non-debate' getting irrationally angry when someone utters 'Pizza Lives Matter' or 'No Lives Matter' ( actual words obscured for the sake of my sanity lest we actually fall down that hole ). I think that you are WAAAAAAY too far ahead of reality if you think anyone in their right mind would even put down a gun.
A is too afraid that it is a trick, B is too afraid of losing leverage. -
@scribus That is the silly part. Nothing really happened except me noticing something, calling the neighbours ( noone was home ), me calling the cops.
Sitting there like, what am I going to do now. So I jammed the inner doors using some things I had lying around ( Putty knife FTW ) and then got an idea of getting a needle from my sowing-kit and ducktaping it through keyhole so the sylinder could not turn ( I never did that BTW )
Then after the police came they asked me if I knew who the guy was who tried to get inside of my home. No I did not know him.
And then I was asked if I required councelling. I mean, I said yes but, Nothing happened.
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@scribus Are they triggerhappy ? Or are they unwilling to take a bullet in case someone shifty goes to draw a gun ?
Probably a little bit of both when it comes down to it. I know for a fact that statistically seen the nearly monthly shootouts in America paint a picture that is none too flattering and would leave many people to assume something.
Head-breaking-part is that no-one is really wrong either. At least untill you are going on a case by case basis. I can't believe that there are many people out there who do such things for fun. -
@scribus Yes, and with good reason. The sheer amount of firearms present in the America's pretty much requires all police officers to have a good training for every possible what if scenario. Just for metermaids alone there is a 6 hour long training every quarter/halfyear just to go over 'what would you do if'-training.
Whereas in most parts of Western Europe you live really closely together, even in the inner cities apparently to population density ( so getting help is seemingly a lot easier by, Idunno, simply screaming for help ) and the amount of officers that get hurt/injured on the job is rivaling that of librarians. That includes paper-cuts by the way.
Also for some reason I am now reminded of https://youtu.be/p1sxc3V0lzQ . I guess I know why, kinda. Still a fun RLM vid to watch :)
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@scribus It's still a very serious impact that can, under unfortunate circumstances, cause death. For me tazing should be the second to last option to use for the police, other than using a gun. Maybe it's my ignorance or idealism but I think that other solutions should be used first when all other things fail, not one of the first.
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@scribus I live in a congressional district that used to split its ballots, Obama won narrowly in 2008, Romney in 2012, and Clinton by 10 points in 2016, with the Republican House candidate winning handily all three of those years as well as every year between (and it was a Republican stronghold before 2008). So the way it USED to be was the congressperson here was a cookie-cutter Republican, but occasionally they’d back Obama (or rebuke Trump) on highly nationalized issues, and that’s how they survived. After 2016 the old Congresswoman got a little comfortable and just became a rank-and-duke Republican... then she lost re-election by 10+ points. Everyone thought it’d be one of the closest races in the country before that - it ended up being one of the first ones called.
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@scribus my congressperson (my new one anyway, the old one got voted out last year) has been pretty consistently open about everything she plans to do... the last one stopped holding town halls because people kept asking questions she didn’t have answers to.
