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Escaping the Echo Chamber
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I think what Inanna is suggesting is something like:
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
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I actually had a specific day and general time set with one of those three (ie. "Monday evening"). It was even his suggestion.
*silenceforeeeeveeeeer*
*silenceforeeeeveeeeer*
I wanna love somebody but I don't know how
I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
-The Decemberists
I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
-The Decemberists
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They're probably Russian trolls. I think something like 92% of internet entities are, these days.
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That would explain soooo much.
I wanna love somebody but I don't know how
I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
-The Decemberists
I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
-The Decemberists
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yovargas wrote:I actually had a specific day and general time set with one of those three (ie. "Monday evening"). It was even his suggestion.
*silenceforeeeeveeeeer*
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
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Awwww. I’ll try and remember this when I read some of the nasty comments my students leave (3 out of 10).River wrote:**wishes I had an Inanna giving me lessons when I was a student
Yov,
'You just said "your getting shorter": you've obviously been drinking too much ent-draught and not enough Prim's.' - Jude
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I appreciate the hugs but I wasn't looking for sympathy by sharing that here. It was meant more as a companion piece to the article's examples of the weird ways modern technology is changing sex and dating.
I wanna love somebody but I don't know how
I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
-The Decemberists
I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
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Well, yov, through your own actions you've made a lot of people here care about you. So I'm afraid you're just going to have to live with the consequences.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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Darnit!
I wanna love somebody but I don't know how
I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
-The Decemberists
I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
-The Decemberists
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This article makes a really good argument for non-zero-tolerance policies, even for me-too cases.
Zero Tolerance for Zero Tolerance https://nyti.ms/2OfweWc?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Zero Tolerance for Zero Tolerance https://nyti.ms/2OfweWc?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Excellent find! I've shared it all over the place.
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Mornings wouldn't suck so badly if they came later in the day.
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"it's the case these days that a lot of people on the left see any kind of criticism of their methods as a criticism of their goals."
QFT
QFT
I wanna love somebody but I don't know how
I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
-The Decemberists
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"These days?" "People on the left?" How about "all times and places" and "all people?"
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So, a few radio stations have removed "Baby its cold outside" from their Christmas rotation due to the #MeToo movement. Overreaction?
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This actually doesn't bother me. I don't believe in prohibiting or disrupting political or religious speech purely because it's offensive, and I don't believe in bowdlerising the past, but I don't have a problem if we decide some type of entertainment has had it's day and should be left in the past. If the song had remarkable artistic merit I think that would outweigh the issues, but as it stands, I don't see a reason to play it when there's others available.Alatar wrote:So, a few radio stations have removed "Baby its cold outside" from their Christmas rotation due to the #MeToo movement. Overreaction?
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But who decides what has artistic merit? The song has survived over 70 years, so it obviously has something going for it.
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The radio stations who choose what songs they wanna play?Alatar wrote:But who decides what has artistic merit?
I wanna love somebody but I don't know how
I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
-The Decemberists
I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
-The Decemberists
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But that’s not what their choice is predicated on in this case.yovargas wrote:The radio stations who choose what songs they wanna play?Alatar wrote:But who decides what has artistic merit?
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