Random Rants : Someone is wrong on the Internet

[Kozmos]

Well mutations are random, the useless ones just get culled through selection.

 

[shadowplay]

I downloaded Civ3: Complete for Steam and the damn game won't even launch.

 

[cybrxkhan]

play as Chimu while replacing all the random names with Byzantine ones to remind yourself how far away you're from Best Rome.

T_T

Must... resist... gonig into... bad PI forum threads.......

 

[Kennigit]

man, the music player I bought basically 1 year ago after my previous one disappeared magically (and I mean truly by magic) appears to have completely died and the electronics seem definitively dead.

Not only dead but it heats up massively if plugged in [to USB]--according to some random poster online, there normally should be a step down voltage working to prevent such over-heating (USB is higher voltage).

But I don't think I have any replacement possibilities from the amazon purchase and probably no repair option (also, the nearest branch of the corporate chain store is like 200 miles away).

It's apple, who am I kidding. Dumb iPod.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

man, the music player I bought basically 1 year ago after my previous one disappeared magically (and I mean truly by magic) appears to have completely died and the electronics seem definitively dead.

Not only dead but it heats up massively if plugged in [to USB]--according to some random poster online, there normally should be a step down voltage working to prevent such over-heating (USB is higher voltage).

But I don't think I have any replacement possibilities from the amazon purchase and probably no repair option (also, the nearest branch of the corporate chain store is like 200 miles away).

It's apple, who am I kidding. Dumb iPod.

Tim's rule of Apple problems: Never try to troubleshoot, lest the device burst into flames.

 

[Joecoolyo]

I've done that pretty continously since like last autumn

I don't know, you get used to it?

Is there anything specific bothering you?

I've been hating everything I've been doing lately, so everything every day just adds up to me in a terrible mood. Feel joyless, nothing is fun, and there's nothing to look forward too. I dread going to sleep and waking up. I've got no motivation to do anything, and that just makes me feel worse.

I don't want to get used to this. I end up like this every so often and I hate it.

 

[Snerk]

You dread sleep? Hmm, that's pretty much the only thing I enjoy when I'm depressed.

 

[Kennigit]

If you have difficulty falling asleep it is incredibly frustrating though; sleeping may be wonderful and enjoyable and the best part of your day but it can be quite easy to slip into a "well I'm going to bed to try to sleep 8 hours, I know I will sleep ~6 hours, and when I wake up........what then?"

for me I know I love sleep, but sleep is basically just a mini-time travel into the future.

 

[sophie]

So, the news from the Supreme Court led to some really stupid statements over dinner tonight.

I probably would have adopted the trollish way and asked why polygamy is such a bad thing, assuming it's between freely consenting adults.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

So, the news from the Supreme Court led to some really stupid statements over dinner tonight.

My father interpreted the marriage equality ruling as meaning that "monogamy is unconstitutional now." The slippery slope is apparently so steep that allowing two men to marry must mean that a three way marriage must be legally recognized too, and that somehow prevents traditional two way relationships from remaining exclusive. Incest has to be celebrated now too, apparently, at least among siblings of the same sex.

This time my sister was the one who suggested that legalizing gay marriage might cause a great many otherwise completely straight individuals to decide to become gay just because that is considered such a cool and progressive fad. (My father expressed such an opinion a few years ago not as a possibility but as an inevitability, which is clearly crazy.) My mother dismissed this, realizing that it would at most cause people who were already homosexual or bisexual to be open about their inborn preferences and pursue the sort of relationships they already wanted. She still considered that a bad thing though.

My sister questioned as to whether this might open the way to inter-species marriages, and my dad said it would not at all surprise him if a man marries a kangaroo within the next few years.

Both of my parents praised MLK's conservative daughter for heroically standing up to the gay agenda.

My mother said she thinks it is really sad how so many people in the LGBT movement are so hateful and intolerant of conservative Christians. She said they should not be so mean to people of faith who in no way wish them harm or want to take away any rights, but just want to preserve the sanctity of marriage by making sure no one can marry persons of the same sex.

My sister and father questioned whether churches would soon be forced to recognize such sinful unions.

My sister lamented the gays appropriating the word marriage, but clarified that she would really like the religious and civil aspects of marriage to be separated. She has no problem with gay couples having all the same tax benefits, visitation rights, etc. In fact she thinks those things should also be easy for platonic friends or siblings to get through a civil union which would not imply any sort of sexual relationship. She expressed that she would quite like to live together with me under such an arrangement (a prospect which I find unappealing). My parents agreed with her.

Now imagine if you were gay and coming out, or being found out by such a family.

Indeed. I could not possibly imagine having to listen to that as normal dinner conversation, or normal conversation at all.

This decision by your Supreme Court is not going to have the slightest effect on your parents' or your sister's lives. None at all. Their marriage documents will not spontaneously combust. You and your sister will not become spontaneously illegitimate or anything other than what you already are. And if they are at all upset by the idea of bakers being forced to bake "gay wedding cakes," please inform them that there is no evidence that cakes have any sexual orientation whatsoever. They are not gay. They are not straight. They are not anything else. They are just cakes.

I probably would have adopted the trollish way and asked why polygamy is such a bad thing, assuming it's between freely consenting adults.

Lots of polygamy in the Old Testament...

 

[Farm Boy]

I probably would have adopted the trollish way and asked why polygamy is such a bad thing, assuming it's between freely consenting adults.

Don't troll, just point out that barriers to equitable polygamy between freely consenting adults are the next wall of marriage iniquity to tear down.

 

[Joecoolyo]

You dread sleep? Hmm, that's pretty much the only thing I enjoy when I'm depressed.

I spend too much of it thinking about things. And just like below, it's a case of I go to sleep and then I wake up, and then what? I plan things, so knowing tomorrow is going to be the same is just further depressing.

If you have difficulty falling asleep it is incredibly frustrating though; sleeping may be wonderful and enjoyable and the best part of your day but it can be quite easy to slip into a "well I'm going to bed to try to sleep 8 hours, I know I will sleep ~6 hours, and when I wake up........what then?"

for me I know I love sleep, but sleep is basically just a mini-time travel into the future.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Why is it raining so much on Pride weekend anyway?

 

[Borachio]

The raindrops are God's tears of sadness at humanity's lack of understanding that homosexual acts aren't the done thing.

Or something.

Don't ask me.

Ask your local metero-theologian.

 

[bhavv]

You know a lot of religious people also pretend to be fine with homosexuality in public, but meanwhile at home they are the most fundamental homophobic people with their close family and friends.

An easy way to identity this with one simply trick question - ask 'What would you do if you're son turned out gay?'. Such closet homophobes would likely answer something like:

'What? my kids wont turn out gay'
'I wont raise them that way!'
'I would hope they choose not to'
'I would teach them the values of family and then they shouldnt be gay'

... and other such answers, basically anything other than completely accepting it.

 

[choxorn]

Wait, rain is caused by the gay? Then why has California been suffering a drought?

 

[cardgame]

Because God already cried all the tears he had for california.

 

[Takhisis]

Wrong bodily function.

 

[azzaman333]

I thoroughly regret leaving the making of my powerpoint presentation to the night beforehand. I am extremely tired and I just want to sleep, but I need to get this done first.

 

[Takhisis]

You wouldn't be a student if you did.