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My LOPP inbox was 96% full, went to delete some spam messages and somehow deleted everything by accident. 
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Sorry, didn’t see this until just now...ClosetOfExhaustion wrote:anything happen with that BG?
We lucked out BIG TIME! Recently, a giant eyesore of a mansion was built right next to our house. The owners of that place spared no expense and got everything weather proofed in whatever way it could be. Because of that the wind barely did anything to our house because their house worked as a barrier. If it hit on the other side of the house my guess is it would have been destroyed like most of the houses behind ours. The dunes and walkway leading to the beach were destroyed... but the rentention wall survived! Minor flood damage in our store room and everything in it is ruined but that’s nothing! Sad to say it looked like the town will need a larger recovery.
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Accidently got vegan egg "nogg" at the store.
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Just got an answering machine text message mentioning me by name several times and issuing vague threats about how they're watching me and know where I live and will find me eventually. If I die we've had a good run
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- all kidding aside I'm so unnerved : (
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Liffey?
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If they know where you live why would they need to find you? Hopefully this guys threats are as empty as his head.
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Are you going to tell the police?
Do you have a nemesis?
Do you have a nemesis?
Soma wrote:answering machine text message
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Turns out it was a 'prank' by this autistic guy I know. I only mention his condition because I'm beginning to suspect he doesn't really grasp the nuances of human behaviour. It's still a pretty surreal thing to stumble upon when you're expecting a message about TV licensing
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undo wrote:Soma wrote:answering machine text message
Idk he sent a text message to my phone and it was read out by a computer
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Yeah, that probably would not sit very well with me either.
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Just found out that the "ok" hand gesture has been appropriated by white nationalists and now I don't know how I am supposed to celebrate when I am raining down threes on motherfuckers.
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The same way you always did. Don’t let them appropriate your shit!
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/09/15/coast-guard-officer-ousted-florence-duty-after-viewers-claim-he-made-white-power-sign-tv/?noredirect=on
One could argue that sharing articles about it actually helps spread the idea and that in doing so, I'm actually playing right into their hand here.
This is kind of a jumping off point to a ton of shit that's been on my mind for the last 3 years but I won't go there now. You've probably heard it all before, anyway.
The idea that the hand sign is a secret symbol for white power owes its mainstream spread to a viral troll campaign aimed at making liberals and the media look gullible. In February 2017, 4chan’s /pol/ board discussed ongoing tactics to try to get the idea to go viral. “To any who haven’t seen the original thread, our goal is to convince people on twitter that the ‘ok’ hand sign has been co-opted by neo-nazis,” the original poster of the thread wrote.
As BuzzFeed has reported, the board was gleeful when the okay hand sign started to get mainstream traction. As the campaign spread, however, the symbol was simultaneously adopted by the alt-right — an umbrella term for those on the far right who embrace white nationalist views — and the pro-Trump Internet, both of whom seem to primarily use the gesture to “trigger” liberals who believed the hand sign was a decoder ring to detect secret Nazis.
One could argue that sharing articles about it actually helps spread the idea and that in doing so, I'm actually playing right into their hand here.
This is kind of a jumping off point to a ton of shit that's been on my mind for the last 3 years but I won't go there now. You've probably heard it all before, anyway.
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"Nazis appropriating the OK sign as a white power symbol to trick liberals and the media into thinking that Nazis appropriated the OK sign as a white power symbol and then ridiculing liberals and the media for thinking that Nazis appropriated the OK sign as a white power symbol by using the OK sign as a white power symbol" is perhaps the perfect encapsulation of how very stupid our current times are.
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undo wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/09/15/coast-guard-officer-ousted-florence-duty-after-viewers-claim-he-made-white-power-sign-tv/?noredirect=on
The idea that the hand sign is a secret symbol for white power owes its mainstream spread to a viral troll campaign aimed at making liberals and the media look gullible. In February 2017, 4chan’s /pol/ board discussed ongoing tactics to try to get the idea to go viral. “To any who haven’t seen the original thread, our goal is to convince people on twitter that the ‘ok’ hand sign has been co-opted by neo-nazis,” the original poster of the thread wrote.
As BuzzFeed has reported, the board was gleeful when the okay hand sign started to get mainstream traction. As the campaign spread, however, the symbol was simultaneously adopted by the alt-right — an umbrella term for those on the far right who embrace white nationalist views — and the pro-Trump Internet, both of whom seem to primarily use the gesture to “trigger” liberals who believed the hand sign was a decoder ring to detect secret Nazis.
One could argue that sharing articles about it actually helps spread the idea and that in doing so, I'm actually playing right into their hand here.
This is kind of a jumping off point to a ton of shit that's been on my mind for the last 3 years but I won't go there now. You've probably heard it all before, anyway.
Definitely agree with that! On the scale of this message board it's not a big deal, but not sharing or "debunking" hate or fake news is a huge bugaboo of mine. I think the "fact check" culture in the era of Trump has done consumers a huge disservice. I've been tooting this horn for a few years now, but the reality is that the pace of content is so fast that people are required to spin clicks out of everything and criticizing other peoples' shit is one of the easiest ways to do that.
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seems to dumb to be hopeful for the future these days
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Just so everyone is clear, my original post was a joke. I do not actually think that the "ok" symbol has been appropriated by white supremacists nor, unfortunately, do I rain threes down on the motherfuckers.
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jesus jones wrote:seems to dumb to be hopeful for the future these days
By most objective measures the world today is drastically better than it was a generation or two ago. I do think there are arguments not be optimistic about the future from this point on, but I rarely hear them from actual pessimists, much less see people act on them.
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Ratto is the rare member of the sports-page generation who recognizes there are equal pleasures to be found in the age of newspapers and the age of blogging. “The trick to me was, don’t pander to a generation you’re not a member of,” Ratto said. “But don’t act like the cranky old bastard, either, who wants to talk about the ‘good old days.’ Because for the most part, the good old days were way shittier than the days now.”
https://www.theringer.com/2019/1/25/18196892/the-world-according-to-ray-ratto
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I've spent the last four hours calling people on the phone to cancel subscriptions and do all this other miscellaneous bullshit before I get ready to leave the country. I'm a supremely patient man but if another person asks me about a four-digit code or password that I obviously don't remember I am going to fucking snap. 
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After a friend of mine passed away I kind of intentionally avoided ever knowing the circumstances of exactly what happened. I just figured it would never help bring me any closure and I just didn't really think I could handle it. Three years later, I ended up talking to his ex-girlfriend over Instagram and she gave me all the details about his suicide (how he did it, who he contacted beforehand, what he said to them).
Pretty rough stuff. It's been three years since it happened and it doesn't affect me that much anymore, but shit...
Pretty rough stuff. It's been three years since it happened and it doesn't affect me that much anymore, but shit...
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jesus jones wrote:seems to dumb to be hopeful for the future these days
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WP64 wrote:After a friend of mine passed away I kind of intentionally avoided ever knowing the circumstances of exactly what happened. I just figured it would never help bring me any closure and I just didn't really think I could handle it. Three years later, I ended up talking to his ex-girlfriend over Instagram and she gave me all the details about his suicide (how he did it, who he contacted beforehand, what he said to them).
Pretty rough stuff. It's been three years since it happened and it doesn't affect me that much anymore, but shit...
Sorry to hear about that. I lost someone to suicide and it’s something you never get over, even if you weren’t super close.
In related weird news, my wife had a dream about an old guy friend. He was sobbing and she was holding his hand, and he said his wife left him. My wife looked him up on Facebook and after scrolling through his wall she finds out that his wife committed suicide a year ago.
My wife has had multiple instances of psychic type occurrences through her dreams. It’s insane.
