Random Rants LXIX: Life is a Dismal Chore

[JohannaK]

Intervening the finances of an autonomy without due process, arresting people without due process, searching postal offices and lawyer's offices without a court order, suppressing pro-referendum publications from *private* associations, banning pro-referendum meetings *outside* Catalonia...

Madrid is going full Orban and you are cheering by their side. I will grant you that fascist was too emphatic a word, but I am morally repulsed by your position.

 

[Sommerswerd]

They should just party like its 1861... let's settle things the old fashioned way... its always more fun, doing things the hard way.

 

[JohannaK]

India and the civil rights movement are our examples, so that's not gonna happen. What would you do if you had legitimate grievances that your government refused to listen to? If it negotiated with you and then backtracked four years later and never accepted to even discuss the issue for seven years after?

What would you do if reform is simply impossible because those who want reform are simply enough that it will never happen? Would you be defeated and go home? Would you riot? We want to vote, and we will.

 

[Akka]

Intervening the finances of an autonomy without due process, arresting people without due process, searching postal offices and lawyer's offices without a court order, suppressing pro-referendum publications from *private* associations, banning pro-referendum meetings *outside* Catalonia...

Last I heard, spanish courts (including the highest one) have deemed the referendum illegal, so these searches seem to respect the process.
What doesn't respect any due process is the whole referendum, but somehow THIS doesn't seem to bother you.

Madrid is going full Orban and you are cheering by their side. I will grant you that fascist was too emphatic a word, but I am morally repulsed by your position.

You're morally repulsed by someone who don't support illegal and unconstitutional attempt to secede ? Might be time to check your moral priorities.

 

[Synobun]

Moderator Action: This is not the thread for debating the Catalan independence movement. Please redirect these points to here.

 

[Lohrenswald]

studies isn't going well
I don't at all feel capable of doing the midterm in a few weeks, but I get the feeling of not being up to par even if you disregard tests and assignments
My main problem is like work structure and "ethic", so while I feel abhorrently lazy I don't feel completely stupid, so there's that
still bad though

 

[Takhisis]

Argh, I have midterms this week!

 

[Ajidica]

So, I discovered that my roommate enjoys drama and when she has an issue with me, rather than talking face to face she texts me (when we literally are ten feet away) and reaches out to everyone else but me to "get their opinion on it".

Any advice for defusing a drama queen?

 

[Takhisis]

So you are asking anybody else but her to get their opinion on it?

 

[Kyriakos]

So you are asking anybody else but her to get their opinion on it?

Coffin'ed it.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

So, I discovered that my roommate enjoys drama and when she has an issue with me, rather than talking face to face she texts me (when we literally are ten feet away) and reaches out to everyone else but me to "get their opinion on it".

Any advice for defusing a drama queen?

Direct confrontation ?
Start an earnest conversation every single time you see her touch her phone until she gets the hint.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

Sounds like someone has confrontational issues (and I mean her)

Every time she texts you with a dramatic problem, open with "And how does that make you feel?" Repeat some variation of this until you get an angry response. It's effective at getting to the point. I piss people off all the time doing that. It works.

 

[Takhisis]

Good God, Lemon! Aren't you a psychologist?

 

[Takhisis]

Grrgrgrgrr. I hate it when vidjamagame designers just decide that their creation is a huge Idiot Plot with everyone carrying an Idiot Ball at the same time.

 

[Kyriakos]

Grrgrgrgrr. I hate it when vidjamagame designers just decide that their creation is a huge Idiot Plot with everyone carrying an Idiot Ball at the same time.

The ball is a lie.

 

[Takhisis]

The ball might have been in the creator's pocket all the time. Create quite a few individually superb scenarios and great artwork and then join them together with whatever you have left. Grgrgrgrr.

 

[Akka]

So, I discovered that my roommate enjoys drama and when she has an issue with me, rather than talking face to face she texts me (when we literally are ten feet away) and reaches out to everyone else but me to "get their opinion on it".

Any advice for defusing a drama queen?

Direct confrontation, each time she sends you a text go so her and ask her WTH is this about.
And if this doesn't fix it, probably change roommate ASAP - because enduring a drama queen is just impossible and it tends not to be a behaviour that changes.

 

[Commodore]

After thinking about it, I have come to the realization that I enjoy K-pop way more than a man of my age should.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Good God, Lemon! Aren't you a psychologist?

If I had expert knowledge on the human psyche I'd also abuse for my own amusement.

Grrgrgrgrr. I hate it when vidjamagame designers just decide that their creation is a huge Idiot Plot with everyone carrying an Idiot Ball at the same time.

What game specifically ?

 

[Sommerswerd]

After thinking about it, I have come to the realization that I enjoy K-pop way more than a man of my age should.

I think this is a "rave" not a "rant"

Also... I was just in Ohio again this month. I got a speeding ticket in Mahoning County

But I got to see family and open up the throttle on my brand spanking new car... so I guess that balances it out.