expatriatedtexan
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Unfortunately, he's still too young. Who's the best US player on the tour that is 35 or older?
OT: The Avalounge (mod warning - No Politics)
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henchman21
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I can't believe the position of the Colorado Avalanche link changed on the HF homepage, just add to the pile of my personal hatred for Alex Meruelo
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Man...such devastating news today. I really don't want to get into politics but... Dr. Ruth's loss is staggering. I remember listening to her on the freaking radio as a 10-12 year old boy. The idea of some strange grandmotherly Jewish/German lady doling out advice on sex and relationships via radio to a prepubescent kid in Texas during the early 80s is just wild. I already thought the world was getting smaller before the internet became a thing. 
Richard Simmons too!Man...such devastating news today. I really don't want to get into politics but... Dr. Ruth's loss is staggering. I remember listening to her on the freaking radio as a 10-12 year old boy. The idea of some strange grandmotherly Jewish/German lady doling out advice on sex and relationships via radio to a prepubescent kid in Texas during the early 80s is just wild. I already thought the world was getting smaller before the internet became a thing.
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henchman21
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If you ever think you're not living through history, you're simply not paying attention.
Alright they canceled Kyle Gass. I'm officially over cancel culture
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I expect and am always disappointed with the way politicians and journalists stoke the flames of anger more than anything else. But these folks are trying to cancel a more or less rather obscure musician who piss-poorly played an off the cuff remark. It certainly wasn't a planned line but he did say it. This isn't something to cancel someone over. Sure call for an apology if you need one, but to rob a man of his ability to work over this? Man, until the American public starts canceling our Senators and Congressmen for much, much worse anyone going after this dude is just a holier-than-though Karen looking to display their incredible morality by putting on as massive a display superiority. Most of these folks don't actually want to cancel this person specifically. They just want to be known as the person that canceled someone. As I said earlier in another post, America really has fallen into a mob rule mentality and personally I think social media drives a lot of that.
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I kinda feel this 'consequence' culture (just another stupid name for cancel culture) as they are terming it was a bit inevitable. The pendulum has just swung to the right. It is beyond stupid, puritanical, and authoritarian. It was when the left was doing it too. What I absolutely hate the most is the doxxing of people for a bad comment.... there's a segment of the right that is calling up people's places of work and actively trying to ruin peoples' lives. That is flatly unacceptable (the left has done this too in the past). Kyle Gass will survive and come out the other side. Might be a while which is still stupid, but he'll be okay. The average person who said something stupid on twitter getting their place of work called repeatedly so that person gets fired is the absolute worst.
People should absolutely not be canceled for stupid thoughts, doing something childish, making a bad joke, etc. If person murders, rapes, etc... they absolutely deserve it. But here's the thing, let the legal system take care of it. Our legal system is far from perfect, but we have it for a reason. It is like we read The Scarlet Letter and decided the punishment was just.
People should absolutely not be canceled for stupid thoughts, doing something childish, making a bad joke, etc. If person murders, rapes, etc... they absolutely deserve it. But here's the thing, let the legal system take care of it. Our legal system is far from perfect, but we have it for a reason. It is like we read The Scarlet Letter and decided the punishment was just.
This just happened to a friend of mine. Someone contacted his job and tried to get him fired for things he said on Twitter. Luckily he didn't get fired, but it was pretty insane considering. It was someone on the left btw
henchman21
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This stuff is just absolute nonsense and I despise it. The normalization of this has got to stop.
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It really sucks.
Back in the early internet days (1996-99) I was posting a lot on Usenet. I was loud, was posting under my real name and had many shitty opinions (like many people in their early 20's). I do not have a very common name.
For those who don't know, Usenet was like a giant network of internet "groups", we were sending emails to particular groups and everyone could reply to the emails so it created discussions that way. It looked like that:
Anyway, long story short a few years later Google became very popular and indexed all those discussions so everyone searching for my name could find all those embarassing posts. They have disappeared from Google only recently, they stayed up for 20 years.
I got pretty lucky...only once I met someone and was asked if I was that person.
There's a biggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg difference between making fun of someone/group and wishing death upon someone. There's nothing funny or joking when wanting evil to take place.
Yeah my friend uses his real name on Twitter, so it was kind of on him hahaIt really sucks.
Back in the early internet days (1996-99) I was posting a lot on Usenet. I was loud, was posting under my real name and had many shitty opinions (like many people in their early 20's). I do not have a very common name.
For those who don't know, Usenet was like a giant network of internet "groups", we were sending emails to particular groups and everyone could reply to the emails so it created discussions that way. It looked like that:
Anyway, long story short a few years later Google became very popular and indexed all those discussions so everyone searching for my name could find all those embarassing posts. They have disappeared from Google only recently, they stayed up for 20 years.
I got pretty lucky...only once I met someone and was asked if I was that person.
Yes famous comedy duo Tenacious D was very clearly intending to incite violence
henchman21
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It was clearly a joke... and the same people mad about it are the ones that want to absolve Trump of inciting violence.
Here's the thing though... it is like people forget this stuff has always existed. One of the most popular punk shirts in the 80s was Ronald Reagan with a bullet hole in his head. The Dead Kennedys.. for Fs sake. Rush Limbaugh made a career out of attacking the Clintons relentlessly and making outlandish statements including those about assassination attempts against Bill. There probably isn't a soul alive in the mid 00's who didn't see the Bush shoe throwing and find it at least slightly funny.
People need to relax and not try to control everyone else.
It is kinda crazy honestly. Arguably one of the problems with social media is anonymous accounts with no accountability... but the lynch mob of accountability when people are not anonymous is just completely unhinged and you're stupid for even taking a chance with it.
That shit is still funny as f***. I don't care who you are
Yeah, pretty rookie mistake. I used to have the same username on every site (and easy to dox me since it was my Github username as well - since I have that everywhere professionally), but I got around to changing that luckily. But I've calmed down the spicyness in my rhetoric as I've gotten older as well, so maybe not needed as much
