OT: The Avalounge (mod warning - No Politics)

[hockeyfish]

 

[expatriatedtexan]

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.

I don't know why America went from Hank Williams Sr. philosophy of "Well, if you're minding your own business, then you won't be minding mine." to being consumed by being in a state of constant vigilance looking for every reason to be offended and then doing everything they can to destroy that person's entire life over what amounts to a bad timed joke.

We've gone raving mad. Galileo was imprisoned for suggesting the Earth actually rotated around the Sun as everyone else believed the Earth was divine and all the universe revolved around us. So we prove that wrong, but now we've got a high percentage of the population believing that they as an individual are the center of the Universe. The sheer ego and superiority complex that the cancel culture exhibits would be pretty freaking incredibile if it was so f'in sad. So many people with nothing better to do than literally run around and look for reasons to be offended.

I should probably go find another topic to derail because I have a feeling that I've already stepped over the political debate thresh hold of "don't do it" in here.

 

[Snow Arc]

Finally got an invitation to Casa Bonita. I had a good time. Wish they had more of a menu, but the food was definitely an upgrade the last time I went 7+ years a go.
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Anyone been to Casa Bonita recently? I must live vicariously!

 

[hockeyfish]

The French reminding the world that The French are insane. Got to love it.

BTW, love Paris!

 

[henchman21]

The French reminding the world that The French are insane. Got to love it.

BTW, love Paris!

I hate Paris but love rural France.

 

[hockeyfish]

I hate Paris but love rural France.

I never made out of of the city while in France. I kind of regret that in my travels. But I have Paris in my top 5 cities I've been to.

 

[Pokecheque]

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

Not that I believe he should get fired but now I'm curious as to what he said that got someone all in a tizzy.

I have no sympathy whatsoever for people like Kevin Spacey who did not get "canceled" over one incident, but rather a pattern of aberrant behavior. That said, I don't think Gass will be "canceled" for long. He's just laying low for now, sounds like he's not too happy with Jack Black though, who admittedly has COMPLETELY overreacted to an inappropriate, but not that horrible a joke.

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.

Yep...exactly.

And yeah the shoe-throwing incident was hilarious. Much as I hate Dubya, I also came away kinda impressed how unfazed he was by the whole thing.

 

[The Moops]

Not that I believe he should get fired but now I'm curious as to what he said that got someone all in a tizzy.

I have no sympathy whatsoever for people like Kevin Spacey who did not get "canceled" over one incident, but rather a pattern of aberrant behavior. That said, I don't think Gass will be "canceled" for long. He's just laying low for now, sounds like he's not too happy with Jack Black though, who admittedly has COMPLETELY overreacted to an inappropriate, but not that horrible a joke.

His best guess is that because he had replied something pro-palestine on an AIPAC tweet someone went through his tweets and found a "dishwasher" joke about his wife. So HR approached him about his misogynistic tweet

 

[Pokecheque]

His best guess is that because he had replied something pro-palestine on an AIPAC tweet someone went through his tweets and found a "dishwasher" joke about his wife. So HR approached him about his misogynistic tweet

Ha, that's ridiculous. So long as you ain't regularly posting stuff that's outwardly offensive, HR people shouldn't be anywhere near that shit. As a boss here at work I could not give a shit what an employee posts on their own social media feeds, as far as I'm concerned if they're really attacking people and posting stuff that's just plain horrid, that aspect of their personality shows up at work eventually.

And FTR I don't consider anyone who's mad about someone else being pro-Palestine as a "leftist," not a real one anyway. We're finding out how many pretend leftists there are in Congress like Mark Kelly unfortunately.

 

[The Moops]

And FTR I don't consider anyone who's mad about someone else being pro-Palestine as a "leftist," not a real one anyway.

Yes I agree with that, he just didn't think a conservative would have been upset at his joke. But I honestly think it was just whatever they could find no matter what it was.

 

[expatriatedtexan]

The idea that Twitter is completely anonymous, but has no problems ruining a 16 year old kid's life over a bad joke or something is just genius. We should get kids as young as 8 or 9 to show a mistake so we can kick 'em out society even earlier... little ungrateful punks. Wasn't even a decade ago they were parasites infecting their mothers and stealing their health.

 

[UncleRisto]

And let's also draw really clear lines regarding the Middle East as if anyone really gives a ratdick about either Israel or Palestine.

 

[henchman21]

The idea that Twitter is completely anonymous, but has no problems ruining a 16 year old kid's life over a bad joke or something is just genius. We should get kids as young as 8 or 9 to show a mistake so we can kick 'em out society even earlier... little ungrateful punks. Wasn't even a decade ago they were parasites infecting their mothers and stealing their health.

It is honestly kinda crazy that this isn’t satire to some.

And let's also draw really clear lines regarding the Middle East as if anyone really gives a ratdick about either Israel or Palestine.

The British attempted this once.

 

[expatriatedtexan]

It is honestly kinda crazy that this isn’t satire to some.

I know, I actually appreciate the comment pointing it out, just in case someone else didn't understand. I started to feel like everyone must be thinking, damn he's a bigger jackass than normal today. *LOL*

The world just seems to have gone upside down on me with some aspects of how we approached building the internet and the way we react and interface with it. And for crying out loud, here I am yelling at clouds again.

*LOL* 'Night y'all.

 

[Hasbro]

Anyone tried Fubo or other streaming services with Altitude?

 

[Snow Arc]

an inappropriate, but not that horrible a joke.

Totally disagree, nothing personal

 

[Avs91]

Anyone tried Fubo or other streaming services with Altitude?

Fubo works blackout free since it's the 'local' network (alt). It's just expensive, $95 per month since you gotta have the 'regional' add on. But otherwise, yeah works fine.

 

[sethro109]

Anyone tried Fubo or other streaming services with Altitude?

That's what I ended up going with. It's alright, but there is a noticeable stream delay. Don't expect to be chatting about the game in realtime without getting 30 seconds to 1 minute spoiled on what's about to happen.

 

[Avs91]

That's what I ended up going with. It's alright, but there is a noticeable stream delay. Don't expect to be chatting about the game in realtime without getting 30 seconds to 1 minute spoiled on what's about to happen.

Oh yeah I forgot about that my buddies have cable (charter/spectrum) with DVR so they just pause it for a few that way we can text in 'real time'

 

[sethro109]

Oh yeah I forgot about that my buddies have cable (charter/spectrum) with DVR so they just pause it for a few that way we can text in 'real time'

Those are some good friends.

 

[Hasbro]

That's what I ended up going with. It's alright, but there is a noticeable stream delay. Don't expect to be chatting about the game in realtime without getting 30 seconds to 1 minute spoiled on what's about to happen.

I never do much GDT anyway. A lot of the time I'm just watching the DVR of games in the mornnig.

Fubo works blackout free since it's the 'local' network (alt). It's just expensive, $95 per month since you gotta have the 'regional' add on. But otherwise, yeah works fine.

Still a bit cheaper than Direct TV.

 

[The Moops]

Anyone tried Fubo or other streaming services with Altitude?

Yeah, that's what I use. We're paying for it for our AirBnB, so I use it to watch the Avs games too. There is a way to bypass the blackouts on ESPN+ though but it's kind of a pain

 

[henchman21]

Yeah, that's what I use. We're paying for it for our AirBnB, so I use it to watch the Avs games too. There is a way to bypass the blackouts on ESPN+ though but it's kind of a pain

Please tell me you have the thermostat set to 80.

 

[expatriatedtexan]

Please tell me you have the thermostat set to 80.

And he's been filling draining and refilling the pool daily to boot.

 

[expatriatedtexan]

I ever tell youl about the time I made an Air BnB remove its hidden cameras because they didn't want what the rock was cooking?