justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
Once upon a time I was a Republican and then I went to college and turned into the leftist liberal progressive Democrat that hides under your bed and no I am not a man and yes I’m addicted to downvotes, every time I get one it’s like a bump of that sweet smoking gun. Also I do 99% of this on mobile in my bathtub, so if I don’t respond to you it’s because my screen was too tiny to read everything before I got out of the bath.
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justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
4mo ago
I read the Harry Potter fanfiction, I looked up the author and got to LessWrong, I read a lot of LessWrong, found Scott Alexander who mentioned Jordan Peterson. Looked up Jordan Peterson and found RationalWiki. RationalWiki led to SneerClub, which led to the Motte on reddit, and then I followed the Motte off reddit. Motte and Bailey, Bayesian and Embryo selection are the only three I know.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
4mo ago
I think there are just so many people who want a job and are also desperate/naive and there are so many businesses out there that one business can just keep churning through the fodder for years until someone reports them.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
4mo ago
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
3mo ago
Opposing electricity is encouraged in communities that encourage being personally prepared, from my anecdotal experience. The common conception is that in an apocalypse/national emergency/act of war, electricity will be unreliable and so electric cars won't drive.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
4mo ago
Elon Musk’s biography. Honestly, the first page elicited a ton of pity from me for the poor guy. His insane behavior is quite easy to understand when you learn he was beaten by other boys in school as a pecking rank thing to the point his nose broke and his asshole father condoned all of it.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
4mo ago
Meanwhile my parents let me buy It in middle school and I dipped half-way out because I got bored only to then eat the rest of his works like a bag of chips.
Have you read Beren and Luthien, The Children of Hurin and The Fall of Gondolin? I absolutely adore them. They read like real fairytales.
If you like fantasy similar to the Lord of the Rings, I cannot recommend the list from this website enough. I’ve read them all and The Broken Sword, Conan the Barbarian and Gormenghast were absolutely delicious. Especially The Broken Sword.
http://starsbeetlesandfools.blogspot.com/2012/06/suggested-readings-in-fantasy.html?m=1
My anti-piss meds I have to take due to my severe UTI putting pressure on my bladder all day and night are dyeing things to the point it looks like yellow printer ink is pouring out of my Oompaloompa urethra.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
4mo ago
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
3mo ago
I highly, highly, cannot recommend enough the books “Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents” by Lindsay G. and “Running on Empty” by Jonice W. Those books are absolute cheat sheets on how to successfully identify the type of emotional support a person needs and how to provide it, which is likely what your intervention is trying to do.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
4mo ago
Someone over at Amazon asked to copy Netflix’s Love, Death and Robots for their Secret Level show and did not change it up a bit so it doesn’t look like they copied. I’m not complaining because it’s pseudo-Love, Death and Robots season 4 and I eat that shit up like hot cakes, but when I was watching I was :O thinking “Sure hope nobody at Netflix watches this lol someone is gonna get mad.”
I can not recommend the Pac-Man short “Circle” enough though if only for the first watch experience. If it was a plane it coasted, started to descend, took a bit of a nose dive, releveled itself and then just turn around and flew out of the stratosphere. What a weird ass little short lmfao.
It’s terribly frustrating that the far more rich response I had typed while at the laundromat got deleted because my stupid timer went off. I’m going to try to think out loud for a second.
I think it can sound corny, but I want to follow the lessons I learned in my high school statistics class because I think they can apply here to answer your what I think is a critical question.
Since I’m making an objective claim about a general trend, I need the data to prove it, right? Charts that don’t have data behind them are literally air. The claim is that I think the moderators on this site are unintentionally allowing debate fallacies which is driving away the spirit of debate here and therefore the leftists. Ok. One data point I have is that I think therefore I am and I’m really, really liberal (blood bleeds blue and I feel a spiritual connection to donkeys). However, literal one data point for one data pool is also the makings of a useless chart.
Therefore, I would be happy to include in my lurking routine for this site privately copying comments on my note app I believe need to be modded but aren’t being modded and how I think they should be modded but aren’t. I can do this for months so that I have an appropriately large data pool.
What to do with the data? Bear with me, but what follows is an X and Y axis yadda yadda. If my claim is that certain types of debate fallacies are not being appropriately squashed and therefore facilitating an unwelcome environment due to the large conservative majority, I should be able to a) define what those fallacies are b) sort the comments I collected into said fallacies by highlighting which parts I think demonstrate them c) count the number of fallacies and d) declare the amount to be demonstrative of an unconscious bias.
Alright, so hypothetically I’ve proven my claim with valid evidence. What’s next? From my experience on heavily moderated Discords, the most effective way to stop trends in conversations is to know what you are looking for, tell the commenter to stop, and repeat until most regulars know if you do x you’ll hear y, so that the majority of offenders are newbies unfamiliar with the vibes. If I’ve done my math correctly, I should be able to condense the data into like one or two sentences and be like “look out for that”.
After that, I can privately send you and other mods the whole thing. It is the best objective method I can think of at the moment to prove my claim, and also a way to condense a complex solution. Look it’s also hard because I think everyone’s a special snowflake and deserves unique consideration blah blah blah but also I think there’s, what, two mods? I think ya’ll don’t have enough bureaucracy to do that. The question of “how to moderate a community” is one that will never have an answer but should still be asked. All things considered, I do appreciate the effort and think there is genuine charity in the mods’ efforts.
Edit: And no I don’t think banning will work because you will drive away otherwise potentially valuable contributors who just aren’t familiar with the rules and vibes. I think what will work instead is clear, consistent and concise moderation: “please don’t do x, read the sign please”. It’s exhausting as a moderator to give a lot of chances for repeat offense before resorting to banning but I believe eventually the community will self-moderate.
Edit edit for brevity and a little humor to lighten the air: Or, you know, as a liberal, like, raise your taxes and get some more bureaucratic administration to reinforce your in-need-of-redefining environmental regulations, Orange Man Bad, yo.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
3mo ago
For the last two months I've driven down to the coffee shop every day and write for an hour and a half on loose leaf paper with a variety of pens to finish the my personal fictional multi-chapter story. I'm so far at the ninth chapter with close to two hundred pages. I've already written a complete story outline. Currently, I'm working on the draft, which I do on paper so that I don't have to worry about battery time limits. After the draft, I intend to go back with a highlighter and red pen to make edits, then translate the whole thing into the second draft on Google Docs. Then I will be done and will post it on the nonprofit open source repository I like to frequent.
The only drawback so far is that I keep getting excited about ideas in-between the story beats on the outline, which extends the story, and that's added like a lot of extra pages, so it's just taking a lot longer than expected. Also, the coffee shop I go to doesn't let you use the study room in the back unless you buy something and they have a $5 minimum on cards. I'm thinking of changing my location from the coffee shop to a secluded parking spot and using the backseat of my car and some pillows to write with my legs as support, although I worry it'll affect my speed. Hopefully whatever I do will result in getting closer to the climax of the story. I refuse to get excited about the project until I've got the draft done.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
3mo ago
Switching from folding my laundry at home to folding my laundry at the laundromat has so far been a 10/10 experience for me in terms of getting the laundry fully done. Also, I really enjoy the aesthetic of nicely folded laundry in the basket when I pack it all up instead of the usual pile. The only drawback is all of the TVs are set to sports and I don’t know any of the rules of the common ones.
Additionally, I have now handwritten written up to 9 chapters of my personal story on regular looseleaf line paper going at a total of eyeballing 150+ pages. Unfortunately the story got longer, so I’m still on the rising action. I’m at a bit of a drag in the story so I’ve gotten into the hobby of testing out the hundred or so pens in my boyfriend’s pencil case every two pages. My findings so far are;
Sharpie S.Gel: 3/10 my boyfriend says at a glance it makes the most legible and aesthetic writing, but it’s a drag in terms of speed so I rank it the lowest tbh.
Pentel Wow! BK440: 3/10 it wrote pretty fast but the ink is faded and it’s pretty shitty in terms of comfort so it’s #2.
Uniball Signon207: 2/10 it has nicer ink than the BK440 the but writes almost as slow as the S. Gel which is a pain and is pretty thin in terms of linework.
Uniball Vision Elite: 4/10 it’s slow but can pick up speed if you find the right rhythm but super heavy on the ink so it’s satisfying.
Pentel EnergGel 0.7mm metal tip: 5/10 my current speedster and to-go, it has the dark ink of the Uniball and the fastest speed with a rubber grip that’s on another level. It takes me places.
Pilot Dr. Grip Gel: 5.5/10: love her. The gel grip is the best out of all of them, which is why it’s above the Pentel, but it’s just a little slower it. It makes up for in a nice dark thinnish line. I’m waiting to find something with comfort of the Dr. Grip and the speed of the Pentel.
Bic Round Stic M: 3/10 it’s fast but it sucks to hold it bites into my finger especially when the speed picks up.
Bic Soft Feel Med: 2/10 they added a grip to it and somehow made it worse and slower.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
5mo ago
Severance is an extremely valuable tool for teaching people about the work life balance and what that truly means. The severance technology is a metaphor for the corporate attempt to split the work/life balance while the show demonstrates that even if they had a machine that could do it it still wouldn’t work. Reintegration and combining the two is the way. It helped my not-the-sharpest-knife-in-the-drawer dad snap out of his miserable work experience.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
5mo ago
In the tedious but ongoing marathon that is the road to curing my dysthymia, I’m coming to the end of my menstrual cycle, which will make it fourth months in a row. I’m already in record territory when the third one happened, but this fourth one is, quite frankly, amazing. The status quo has been one-to-two cycles a year ever since I began puberty and I’d like to think I’m prepared for an infertility diagnosis in the future, but I’m a little more optimistic I’ll dodge that RNG bullet with these developments, and if I don’t have to hear such dismal news from a doctor somewhere down the line, I’ll take those silver linings.
In relation to my dysthymia, I can only assume a correlation between my treatment and one of the side effects which is supposed to be decreased stress. It feels like a two-sided blade; if decreasing my stress is a side effect of curing my mood disorder and also happens returns a natural menstrual cycle, the gulf of change implies an equally deep breadth of stress. It’s been a-given (for everyone else, lol) that stress will shorten or interrupt cycles; what are the implications if mine have been virtually eliminated most of my life? Hilariously stressful, that’s what they are. The universe has a wonderful sense of humor, but sometimes it’s confusing figuring out what the joke is. Alexa, play “Charlie’s Inferno” on repeat.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
3mo ago
Uh, I can give a confident “no” to that question.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
4mo ago
I read that famous Harry Potter fanfiction by Yud and slippery sloped all the way here.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
4mo ago
I have been on an SSRI for two years to treat my dysthymia, which I’ve had my entire life. It took six months for the SSRIs to fully get into my system at the right dose. They have been incredibly successful for me; they have turned the mountains into hills, and through a combination of medicine and therapy I’m on the road to winding it down this year and getting off of because I’m seeing the results me and my doctor were looking for. I did get fat, but getting fat is worth it lol, plus when I get off of them I’ll go back to normal.
Imo, mental health should be treated the same as physical health. If you had a headache, you could go without painkillers and try to tough it out on your own, but you could also save yourself a lot of time and energy by taking a painkiller in the meantime while you’re trying to sort out the cause of the headache. SSRIs are the same, but I would not start them without clearly defined health goals so you know when to stop them. You are not going to lose yourself in them lol, you have to gradually build it up and will have plenty of time to adjust to any mental changes.
The only drawback for me so far other than getting fat is you can’t miss a dose or your brain will start to glitch out with vertigo and things Will Not Feel Good, but Idk, people with migraines carry around pain meds, the diabetics have insulin, and the sad have their SSRI. At least one of the three is curable.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
4mo ago
One time I had to wait two weeks for my refill and by the time I got it I was glitching out of the damn Matrix.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
4mo ago
That’s what I’m talking about (=´∀｀)人(´∀｀=)
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
4mo ago
I can assure you I have 100% organic home-grown cage-free open-field breasts.
Heard (5000% not trying to be sassy I just think getting modded doesn’t deserve much more than an acknowledgment and a yes sir. I said a while the modding here is not for me so if I’m gonna keep posting here I’m 1937467% not arguing with the mods)
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
6mo ago
I wish again I could properly express my sincerity when I say your-this response is very much in line with the kind of conversation I am looking for and I am verily satisfied and optimistic. I made specific claims and feel you are directly addressing them, therefore listening to me, and continuing the conversation yadda yadda. That's the best anyone can ask for on this forum.
"You think it does, I think it doesn't. C'est la vie."
and
"This is an obvious strawman"
and
"the question, "Is it reasonable to ask the question, 'Do leftists care about child rape,' and it is it reasonable to answer it with 'No?'" and these are 2 fundamentally different questions and you are eliding between the two."
and
"the words you added to your synopsis of my comment fundamentally changed the meaning of my comment."
and
"Where did you ask this question?"
are all elements of your response I think are valid and worth time and attention to answer because they are, at least to me, objective rigor and commentary. Unfortunately, I just don't want to do that right now and likely won't in the future if I don't now in this response. And honestly, if I'm not willing to take the time to respond to your points the way I want you to respond to mine then the onus is on me to concede and take responsibility for inappropriately closing the argument. My apologies for the frustration, -50 points to house Leftist, I shouldn't start debates if I'm not willing to see them to the end. Since I am not responding to your points, I think it is fair to say you are correct. I dunno, if I say, "Cats don't drink milk." and you say, "Yes they do." and then I run off without responding, the winner that's left is "yes they do" unless I come back and pick back up the argument.
Anyway, long-winded way of thank you for responding, sorry, I'm wrong, and trying my best to point big arrow signs that say "THIS IS WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR".
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
3mo ago
Well, I agree it's all down to subjective opinion, so I just wanted to know what yours are.
I didn’t expect this on my February bingo card but I had to report a business to the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division for wage theft and illegal termination because like four hours before my first day of training began they sent me my paperwork and there was a gigantic list of straight-up illegal wage deductions including “out of dress code on property” for $100 each “offense” and a line that said they’d terminate for “discussing pay rates with anyone”. I have a bit of a psychological knee-jerk shyness to positions of authority in business so I had to max out all of my bravery points to do it because then the recruiter kept spamming my phone trying to “explain why we had the rules please reconsider” until I busted out the i word, so go me, stickin’ it to the man. (//∇//)\
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