Escaping the Echo Chamber

[Frelga]

I think what Inanna is suggesting is something like:

Guy: Hi, I like your profile, you seem nice
Me: Thanks, I like yours too
Guy: Cool! Would you like to meet sometime?
Me: Sure, I'm free for coffee Tuesday and Thursday next week. What's your week like?

[yovargas]

I actually had a specific day and general time set with one of those three (ie. "Monday evening"). It was even his suggestion.
*silenceforeeeeveeeeer*

[Dave_LF]

They're probably Russian trolls. I think something like 92% of internet entities are, these days.

[yovargas]

That would explain soooo much.

[Frelga]

I actually had a specific day and general time set with one of those three (ie. "Monday evening"). It was even his suggestion.
*silenceforeeeeveeeeer*

[Inanna]

**wishes I had an Inanna giving me lessons when I was a student

Awwww. I’ll try and remember this when I read some of the nasty comments my students leave (3 out of 10).

Yov,

[yovargas]

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.

[Primula Baggins]

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.

[yovargas]

Darnit!

[Inanna]

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

[Alatar]

Good article Inanna.

[Alatar]

This!

https://www.facebook.com/ABCiview/video ... 259886168/

[Impenitent]

Excellent find! I've shared it all over the place.

Sent from a tiny phone keyboard via Tapatalk - typos inevitable.

[yovargas]

"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

[Dave_LF]

"These days?" "People on the left?" How about "all times and places" and "all people?"

[Alatar]

So, a few radio stations have removed "Baby its cold outside" from their Christmas rotation due to the #MeToo movement. Overreaction?

[Túrin Turambar]

So, a few radio stations have removed "Baby its cold outside" from their Christmas rotation due to the #MeToo movement. Overreaction?

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]

But who decides what has artistic merit? The song has survived over 70 years, so it obviously has something going for it.

[yovargas]

But who decides what has artistic merit?

The radio stations who choose what songs they wanna play?

[Alatar]

But who decides what has artistic merit?

The radio stations who choose what songs they wanna play?

But that’s not what their choice is predicated on in this case.