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| Topic | I feel like these are two legitimate reasons for not voting. |
| spanky1 11/06/18 10:30:32 AM #15 | SunburnCostanza posted... spanky1 posted...Anarchy_Juiblex posted...If you can't parse the candidates into the classic, "lesser of 2 evils" you're just too uninformed. Oh I'd vote democrat. :) I can definitely see the lesser of two evils. This topic isn't about me. I'm thinking about other people's point of view. I'm trying to engage in empathy. --- |
| Topic | I feel like these are two legitimate reasons for not voting. |
| spanky1 11/06/18 10:26:00 AM #13 | Anarchy_Juiblex posted... spanky1 posted...Like if you're a liberal you'd say someone is uninformed . . . But I never said anything about being unable to tell the difference between the candidates. I'm saying the differences may be something you don't care about, or they may equally represent what you want to happen. You'd be informed about them, and still not hold one over the other. Like I could be super informed about pan pizza and thin crust pizza, but at the end of the day I just can't say which one I like more, because I like them both equally. --- |
| Topic | I feel like these are two legitimate reasons for not voting. |
| spanky1 11/06/18 10:21:40 AM #8 | Anarchy_Juiblex posted... If you can't parse the candidates into the classic, "lesser of 2 evils" you're just too uninformed. That just sounds like a post from the point of view of a very partisan person. Like if you're a liberal you'd say someone is uninformed if they vote for Ted Cruz, and if you're a conservative then you'd say someone is uninformed if you vote for Beta. --- |
| Topic | I feel like these are two legitimate reasons for not voting. |
| spanky1 11/06/18 10:20:13 AM #5 | Caution999 posted... If you don't vote, then you don't get to complain tbh You can definitely complain at the lack of candidate options. If neither one represents what you want, then why wouldn't you be able to complain? --- |
| Topic | I feel like these are two legitimate reasons for not voting. |
| spanky1 11/06/18 10:16:22 AM #1 | They're kinda the same reason, but from different angles. One is neither candidate cares or campaigns on the issues that you care about, or doesn't have a stance on your chosen issue, or doesn't plan on doing anything about it. If nothing you care about is an issue to either candidate, then why would it matter who gets elected? You'd be equally unhappy with both. The other one would be, you agree with half the stuff from one candidate, and the other half of the stuff from another candidate, and neither group of issues are more important in your head than the other, so they're both equally appealing. You would legit be just as happy with either one winning. People have a tendency to say "well you can at least vote for the lesser evil, you don't have to like them!" But what if to a person there is no lesser evil? What if they're perfectly either undesirable or perfectly desirable? --- |
| Topic | So I finally watched the first episode of The Good Place. |
| spanky1 11/06/18 10:07:16 AM #1 | This is a show that always came off as bizarre to me because it looked so incredibly cookie cutter NBC broadcast TV with zero bite. You know how all those prime time TV shows are just so bland and appeal to old people? And yet, everyone online seems to rant and rave about it. Just seemed so weird to me. I mean it looks like something my mom would love and she's in her 70s. Anyway, I finally gave the first episode a chance. Blew me away. It's amazing and I'm gonna keep watching. Love the concept of the afterlife, love the setup, main character is a real qt3.14, Ted Danson is actually entertaining. I also finished the first season of Bojack Horseman, which is another show that looked dumb but has high praise. I guess I'm going through all of those lately. Anyway, that's a good enough show, it's funny and all that, I still don't think it's hooked me like it has so many other people. To me it just seems like depression porn. If you love watching characters be super depressed and never happy then it'd be a great show. I think it's funny and I love all the animal jokes, but it's not as deep as I was hoping. It's just Bojak repeatedly realizing he's not happy and not a good person with downer endings. --- |
| Topic | Blizzard made an April Fool's joke back in 2014 about releasing a mobile game. |
| spanky1 11/05/18 1:54:38 PM #1 | |
| Topic | Trump's base is weird. They all hate immigrants and are terrified of Muslims. |
| spanky1 11/05/18 11:30:59 AM #32 | Wait, huh? Most trump supporters are in the south, and the south is where illegal Mexicans come in. Texas, for instance, is full of trump supporters, and there's a huge illegal immigrant population there. --- |
| Topic | New Hampshire is my most forgotten about state. |
| spanky1 11/05/18 10:33:50 AM #1 | I just heard someone say it and I actually had to think about it for a moment. I was like, wait, wtf? That's a state? I mean c'mon what even is New Hampshire? --- |
| Topic | "Pride and accomplishment" vs "Do you guys not have phones?" |
| spanky1 11/03/18 4:19:00 PM #5 | |
| Topic | Saw some Jehovah's Witnesses walking in the neighborhood just now. |
| spanky1 11/02/18 4:25:09 PM #5 | Menardii posted... Guide posted...You can just tell them to put you on the exclusion list. I learned that from a JW friend. It's the "do not call" list. --- |
| Topic | I heard Candlejack is back in town, be carefu |
| spanky1 11/02/18 2:53:21 PM #17 | UnholyMudcrab posted... Dammit it, people, you don't cut your sentences short if you don't say his name. That's not how the meme works. Say what name? --- |
| Topic | I heard Candlejack is back in town, be carefu |
| spanky1 11/02/18 1:24:28 PM #9 | |
| Topic | How is the Fallout 76 beta? |
| spanky1 11/02/18 10:41:10 AM #21 | |
| Topic | So Apu is offensive but Raj (BBT) is okay? |
| spanky1 11/02/18 10:39:50 AM #78 | It sounds to me that the reason Apu is considered offensive is simply because he's too popular a character and their aren't any other popular indian characters. Which is a shitty reason to say he's offensive. --- |
| Topic | Migrants traveling to US sue Trump, gov't; claim violation of constit. rights |
| spanky1 11/02/18 10:35:35 AM #41 | Caution999 posted... Antifar posted...spudger posted...Still doesnt mean we can just take all those ppl The thing is, these people aren't going to go live in the country in the middle of nowhere. They're going to live in a big city, where over population is alive and well. --- |
| Topic | Migrants traveling to US sue Trump, gov't; claim violation of constit. rights |
| spanky1 11/02/18 10:32:38 AM #36 | Antifar posted... Youngster_Joey_ posted...What are they seeking asylum from, again? Why don't they take up Mexico's offer of asylum then? --- |
| Topic | As a surgeon, hands down the absolute worst type of patient to deal with... |
| spanky1 11/02/18 10:30:24 AM #15 | Dash_Harber posted... Yeah, I was born and raised as one. I left when I was 14 or so, but they have incredibly strict rules about transfusions. Most aren't stupid enough to actually let it go far enough to kill them, but there are a few who have died over it. The problem is that the organization spreads propaganda about blood diseases and how there is all sorts of alternatives to transfusions like devices that 'clean' your own blood and put it back. I think most are stupid enough, actually. Here's the cover of a watchtower magazine praising the deaths of the children pictured: http://www.answerjw.com/cftf/comments/deadkids.gif They all refused blood and died for it. And I don't know how long ago you left, but the governing body isn't nebulous at all anymore. Back in the day they were, I remember, but now they appear on their broadcasts shows and in videos shown at the meetings and all that stuff. Everyone knows their names and faces and who they are now. It's really different from back in the 90s. Keeping up with the JWs is a masochistic hobby of mine. --- |
| Topic | As a surgeon, hands down the absolute worst type of patient to deal with... |
| spanky1 11/02/18 12:48:50 AM #13 | DanHarenChamp posted... had a GI bleeder JW in the ICU. Dude had like JW bodyguards around the clock taking shifts making sure he doesn't get blood products. Its crazy. I respect religion, as I am religious myself, but their philosophy is insane. EGD controlled his bleeding ulcer but his hb was like 5.0 and he was so weak he could barely get from his bed to the bathroom. He'd get dizzy every time. I mean correct me if I'm wrong but they say blood represents life that only god is allowed to give. I mean if you interpret that correctly, then you shouldn't be having any medical intervention done at all because 'only god can control life'. But to literally interpret it as just blood alone doesn't make any sense. Alternatively god gave humans the intelligence to be able to develop advance medical procedures. Not making use of that and allowing yourself to die would in turn be disrespectful to god. They do believe that blood represents life, but not really the whole only god can control life angle. They mostly do it simply because the bible says to abstain from eating blood. Even though the original scripture was talking about showing respect to the animal life you killed that you're about to eat by pouring its blood back to the ground (almost like a native-style ritual to show respect to natural life), JWs have interpreted that as meaning not a drop of someone else's blood can enter their body in any way, transfusions included. So they're completely missing the entire point of the scripture and being pedantic about it to the point of killing themselves. It's a self-imposed form of martyrdom. Houston posted... Y'all should just learn to go with the flow. Do your job to the best of your abilities, and that's all you can do. Patients have a right to make their choices, don't let it get to you. The problem comes when a member who may not fully believe it, or perhaps a child, is highly pressured into it by their JW peers or parents. That's when it becomes a problem. Members are threatened with disfellowshipping and shunning, even minors, if they resort to saving their own lives by taking blood. --- |
| Topic | Jehovah's Witnesses girl came up to my house. |
| spanky1 11/01/18 10:44:47 PM #14 | Fun fact: they've been paying millions in child abuse court cases lately. 35 million payout is the last one. --- |
| Topic | As a surgeon, hands down the absolute worst type of patient to deal with... |
| spanky1 11/01/18 10:42:29 PM #10 | They do it for (misguided) Biblical reasons at the end of the day, but it's criminal how they really push the "dangers of blood transfusions" and how there are "so many better alternatives" to soften the blow of having an insane medical rule. The rhetoric inside the religion is disturbing, that's where that smug attitude comes from. --- |
| Topic | Jehovah's Witnesses girl came up to my house. |
| spanky1 11/01/18 10:36:36 PM #12 | Are you sure it was a JW? Sometimes people get them confused with something else. --- |
| Topic | 45 on TV right now |
| spanky1 11/01/18 5:06:48 PM #27 | Just a side topic: I saw articles going on about how racist an ad Trump tweeted was, about how a killer was let in over the border and he was an illegal immigrant and democrats let him in blah blah blah. I mean it's a shitty ad, but I didn't find any racism in it at all. It was about illegal immigrants, not a race. I lean liberal but it kinda pisses me off when news like CNN puts these spins on things, it just causes more divide. The ad isn't racist. It's xenophobic at worst, anti-illegal immigrant at best. --- |
| Topic | Dunkin Donuts is miles better than Krispy Kreme |
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| Topic | I think Anthem looks pretty good. >_> |
| spanky1 11/01/18 1:41:07 PM #1 | I mean no it won't be game of the year, yes it sucks that this is what Bioware has fallen to, but still, looks like a pretty fun co-op action game to me. --- |
| Topic | Actor cut off arm to pose as veteran to land roles |
| spanky1 11/01/18 1:40:13 PM #2 | |
| Topic | I need help naming my main boss in my DnD Champaign. |
| spanky1 11/01/18 12:28:07 PM #11 | |
| Topic | Listening to Metallica - ...And Justice for All |
| spanky1 10/31/18 3:39:41 PM #29 | Hardwired is their best album since their old stuff. It shouldn't be lumped in with St. Anger. --- |
| Topic | Some women have what is called a "castration fetish" |
| spanky1 10/31/18 1:34:04 PM #7 | |
| Topic | Daily fetish reminder and purity |
| spanky1 10/31/18 1:33:11 PM #2 | |
| Topic | Got a personal pan pizza and breadsticks from Pizza Hut for lunch. :) |
| spanky1 10/31/18 1:26:00 PM #8 | |
| Topic | Got a personal pan pizza and breadsticks from Pizza Hut for lunch. :) |
| spanky1 10/31/18 1:19:50 PM #3 | |
| Topic | Got a personal pan pizza and breadsticks from Pizza Hut for lunch. :) |
| spanky1 10/31/18 1:14:03 PM #1 | |
| Topic | Things your body does that you're not sure everyone else does |
| spanky1 10/31/18 11:40:08 AM #27 | C_Pain posted... I'm an ear rumbler but there's a portion of people with that. That last one is just an ASMR reaction, isn't it? --- |
| Topic | Don't bitch about politics if you don't vote next Tuesday |
| spanky1 10/31/18 11:33:38 AM #15 | RedZaraki posted... spanky1 posted...I never really cared for this line of reasoning, actually. What if there are no politicians who have the platform that you hold? Why would you vote for anyone then? For instance, if making crocs illegal was your life goal, and that's politically all that matters to you, and no candidate is campaigning on making crocs illegal, then why vote? And you could then bitch and moan about how no candidate that falls in line with your beliefs exists. It's an absurd example but there are more realistic versions of it. Nobody is campaigning to end the war on drugs and make weed legal. Nobody is going on about prison reform and eliminating for profit prisons. Stuff like that is important to me but nobody cares about it. And what about people around me? 50% of the population will be happy with who's elected, and 50% will be mad. It'll turn out that way whichever way I vote. Bitching about the candidates available to vote for is a perfectly legit thing to bitch about imo. --- |
| Topic | Things your body does that you're not sure everyone else does |
| spanky1 10/31/18 11:29:08 AM #24 | eston posted... I'm able to do this thing with my head that I don't quite know how to describe. It feels like I'm using muscles in my head to exert a small amount of pressure just inside my ears, and it creates a low rumble that sounds like wind passing through my ears. It's a completely voluntary thing, and I don't think it's audible to anyone sitting next to me. I can sustain it for several seconds, or I can do it bursts. Sometimes it sounds like some earwax is sticking together when I do it. I can do that, and I think most people can too. All it is is kinda moving muscles to slightly move the shape of the ear canal, which creates a sound. Or maybe it's the sound of muscles actually flexing at the sides of your head. I have some things: Sometimes if I yawn too hard I "pull" a muscle below my chin. It hurts really bad and lasts for ten seconds or so, and I have to put pressure on it for the muscles to settle down. I can "pop" my ears, if that makes sense. Like you know when you change elevation and your ears pop? I can pop them and unpop them by either flexing or sniffing. I never did know if this is just a totally normal human thing that everyone can do or if I'm just weird. --- |
| Topic | Don't bitch about politics if you don't vote next Tuesday |
| spanky1 10/31/18 11:23:38 AM #6 | I never really cared for this line of reasoning, actually. What if there are no politicians who have the platform that you hold? Why would you vote for anyone then? For instance, if making crocs illegal was your life goal, and that's politically all that matters to you, and no candidate is campaigning on making crocs illegal, then why vote? And you could then bitch and moan about how no candidate that falls in line with your beliefs exists. --- |
| Topic | Red Dead Redemption 2 = largest 1st weekend in entertainment history with $725M |
| spanky1 10/30/18 5:23:07 PM #25 | Why are people hung up on Rockstar's cut in this topic? The story is about the total sales, that's all it is. God damn fucking pedantic CE. --- |
| Topic | Been and Jerry's decided they hate money |
| spanky1 10/30/18 5:13:13 PM #60 | All those replies in the tweet look a lot like how my facebook singles group looks whenever politics come up. It's like they all go insane or something and go on and on how the left is unhinged and snowflakes and crazy. It's so creepy. --- |
| Topic | Antartic scientist stabbed colleague for telling him the endings of book. |
| spanky1 10/30/18 2:42:33 PM #4 | Huh, that's actually something I never thought of. Committing a crime in Antarctica. There's no government, no laws. Nothing is illegal. How could another country convict you? --- |
| Topic | Why is it so widely accepted that Kanye is a genius? |
| spanky1 10/30/18 2:40:15 PM #35 | I've always noticed this and I have a theory. The man is not a genius in way. He may make music that you really like, sure, but there's nothing genius about him. However! He's so incredibly arrogant and proud and high on himself, that it literally changes people's perspectives. People, over time, start to feel like they just can't outright hate on him when they criticize him. They have to at least give him SOME kind of credit. It's like a meeting halfway kind of thing. He says he's the most amazing thing in the world. The truth is he's just another musician. So what's the halfway point between those two? He's a troubled genius who is a savant at music but has problems. --- |
| Topic | PSA: The stock market crash is here |
| spanky1 10/30/18 1:17:33 PM #33 | My year to date returns is currently sitting at -5.11% That's a negative before the number. --- |
| Topic | Got a sugar cookie from Wendy's. :) |
| spanky1 10/30/18 1:14:27 PM #5 | SaithSayer posted... Now you need breast milk from a Cambodian immigrant. That would be sweet. --- |
| Topic | Got a sugar cookie from Wendy's. :) |
| spanky1 10/30/18 1:12:59 PM #3 | |
| Topic | Got a sugar cookie from Wendy's. :) |
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