Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
A BT spokesman said: "This is a stunning visual comment on BT's transformation from an old-fashioned telecommunications company into a modern communications services provider."
I think you're more perceptive than me, at least of some things. But I haven't seen you getting into stupid arguments all the time, no.
I said sophist because I can never leave out pointless rambling. It looks like a pseudo-intellectual thing, but in reality I just can't seem to organize my thoughts very clearly.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Heh, everything on my laptop is still zoomed in from where I was posting in bed last night.
Oh, and another bizarre thing from 1992: Since NT wasn't out yet, no one was aware that "portable OS/2" and NT were and are the same thing; John Dvorak predicted that the future of Windows would be a Windows layer running on something VMS-ish, and he was right.
John Dvorak was around in 1992? I remember his column from when Mother bought me a PC Magazine subscription when I was 13, but I had no idea he'd been around that long.
I said sophist because I can never leave out pointless rambling. It looks like a pseudo-intellectual thing, but in reality I just can't seem to organize my thoughts very clearly.
Oh god, I'm the same way.
I actively try to avoid arguments these days because I can rarely articulate my views well enough to come off as anything but a pissy brat. Also because I lack the ability to divorce myself emotionally from topics I feel strongly about, though I think I'm better about this now than I was a year or two ago.
I worry this makes me anti-intellectual, in a way, because instead of participating in online debates I find myself indulging in silly nonsense instead. I also worry it negatively affects my competence as a moderator, because when debates get heated I can do little other than say "knock it off", even when one side is clearly wrong.
I actively try to avoid arguments these days because I can rarely articulate my views well enough to come off as anything but a pissy brat. Also because I lack the ability to divorce myself emotionally from topics I feel strongly about, though I think I'm better about this now than I was a year or two ago.
I worry this makes me anti-intellectual, in a way, because instead of participating in online debates I find myself indulging in silly nonsense instead. I also worry it negatively affects my competence as a moderator, because when debates get heated I can do little other than say "knock it off", even when one side is clearly wrong.
This was in no small part why I quit posting in OTC. But then I went on BTL and people said that often it seemed like I had something worth saying but I didn't contribute, so I figured I should try being a bit more bold about saying what I think.
I don't think it's anti-intellectual though because Internet debates aren't usually all that intellectual anyway.
As for the moderator thing, I wouldn't really expect you to take sides unless one party was being actually bigoted or otherwise terrible.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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DON'T LEAVE ME HERE
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
^That's an illusion
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Incidentally, I'm graduating tomorrow
But that was a bad post, so have a couple of creatively mutilated K6s instead
It's like the Knight Bus of payphone kiosks.
I said sophist because I can never leave out pointless rambling. It looks like a pseudo-intellectual thing, but in reality I just can't seem to organize my thoughts very clearly.
I just want to be honest, I guess.
Throw away the rest of your music and get this
I don't think it's anti-intellectual though because Internet debates aren't usually all that intellectual anyway.
As for the moderator thing, I wouldn't really expect you to take sides unless one party was being actually bigoted or otherwise terrible.
Legendary.
*indulges in silly nonsense*
*departs*