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[Saturnus]

Such hot weather was nearly unknown of in last decades in my place, but now with climatic change it's like every years, last year there were even four heatwave periods.

Saw a headline recently that was saying "Good News, this wasn't the hottest July in history for the first time in 5 years!"
Like it was an accomplishment.

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Degenerate in the forum maybe. I bet you're really just an innocent schoolboy IRL

Oh shit...I fucked up. Momma Bonk don't leave me alone with @conzibald ....he does things....unspeakable things when you're gone!

Who do you think is filming? You're calling for the manager of the rapist!

I always wonder about that with those interviews, even ones where they're interviewing a limited crowd, e.g. people at a protest about their political beliefs I wonder how many they have to ask before they find someone talking about how everything is colonialism or everyone with brown skin needs to go back to Mexico to feature on the show.

When people get worked up, they'll do say all sorts of dumb shit. At protests they're already surrounded by like-minded people, so it's probably not that hard to find someone to say outrageous things. If everyone around you feels the same way, the most extreme views don't seem as extreme.

Definitive Ass Penetration although around here we just call it the "Conzi Special", might hit a few holes on the way, but its definitely coming....

Good news, it's quick and painless!

These scenarios don't just arise due to the culture involved. Were there not several decades/centuries where teaching the Native language was illegal. There have been several instances around the world through history where indigenous peoples or cultures have been systematically suppressed and attempts made to eradicate anything that is not approved of by the authorities in charge. Think about the effects of all those Christian missionaries from the European Colonial expansion era. Same as all those forced relocations of communities from areas that were of significance to those cultures just because those forcing the movement felt they had more right to it because they had more power.

You are right, repression is at least a part of the cause for some of these views. But, like I said before, times change.
If you're not going to adapt to try and overcome, you'll get left behind.

Also, a lot of the knowledge we have of those cultures exists because missionaries made sure to write down as much about their history, language, and society as they could. Conquerors, colonists, and explorers were perfectly content to destroy the culture's they found in order to control those people.

You should know that missionaries are called that because they are on a mission. That mission is to convert others to their religion.
That's not as altruistic as you seem to think. The reason they wrote all that down was so it could be used to integrate a people into their religion.
They're not trying to preserve it, they would use it as a method of control.
After the Haiti earthquakes and disasters in 2010, many different missionaries went over to help rebuild. But, even then, a main focus was to re-establish churches or build new ones.

Actual missionaries were usually opposed to the destruction and exploitation they'd find when they arrived. There aren't a whole lot of people who believe strongly enough to dedicate their lives to faith while still being ok with slavery and murder.

This is... just wrong. Maybe the murder, slavery and destruction is uncommon nowadays, but it absolutely has been fair game for thousands of years.

That knowledge that has been preserved till now will only survive for as long as the people controlling it and those in power deem that it is convenient to do so. The moment it's not we're back to 'book burnings' again.

Yes, but in some cases the people who are controlling it are the same as the people saying it's being lost!

I like Reese's Pieces. Although I also enjoy candy corn, so I'm probably just weird. White chocolate Reese's are ok. White chocolate M&Ms however are downright addictive.

I am a big fan of Hershey's Hugs myself. Little white chocolate balls covered in milk chocolate. Don't really like Kisses that much though.

At a protest probably not many. Just walking the streets on an ordinary day they probably talk to about 5 times as many people as they feature in the video.

Way waaay more than 5 times. If we're talking about the man in the streets type videos, they'll interview 100s of people everyday, with one film crew. Many time they will set up multiple filming areas and set up a little sign so people wait for them to show up for the interviews.

 

[nexus55555]

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Who??? Its gone!!!!!

Good night guys!!

 

[ccxvidonaferens]

Plus if England is anything to go by importing cultures without having them adapt to your culture is a recipe for disaster.

While I agree with most of what you wrote I feel I need to add a little to the above statement.

The cultures on both sides not just one need to adapt in order to properly integrate. For instance I constantly hear the argument in the UK that immigrant communities don't integrate, and I end up remembering that for many of those communities the initial immigrants who came across were welcomed by a culture that had signs on many businesses, guest houses/hotels etc that read something to the effect of No Dogs, No Blacks, No Irish. This is the culture you want them to integrate into? It's no surprise that they become insular and self contained because they feel threatened. Then the native community (for want of a better term) starts to view the newcomers with even greater suspicion and so they isolate even more and so on and so on. These things aren't helped by media organisations, politicians and other notable figures who then choose to stoke those tensions for their own ends. That initial hostility ripples out and has effects that are extremely difficult to 'fix' possibly taking even longer to move past than it took to cause the divide in the first place.

 

[-Bonk-]

IDK but i think this thread has not given any coins to anyone for it haha.

Why don't you start giving away coins for milestones. First on every 100th
gets 5,000 Undercoins. You can afford it haha

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[Underlord]

Why don't you start giving away coins for milestones. First on every 100th
gets 5,000 Undercoins. You can afford it haha

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NOOOO!!! If we do that you can technically afford it as well.....

 

[El Buho]

I enjoyed Fubar, I haven't seen Poker face yet, would you recommend it? Have you seen Sneaky Pete on amazon prime that's one of my favorite "crime-a-dy"s

Poker Face is very good, with a "Colombo" twist because you see the crime happen and then Charlie (the poker face girl) goes on to solve it.
I will check out Sneaky Pete.

 

[Saturnus]

Incest? Clearly a fuckable relative if he/she looks like me... xPPP

Oh yes, but she is a good girl.
Much too good, for now.

It's a lot harder to burn every copy of a book than it is to take out a small community. Especially these days with cloud storage and digital media. The fact that people in power can become a problem isn't really an excuse to not do what you can to preserve your community and culture.

That's what I'm trying to say.
It's like being Amish. Don't bitch about the cars going too fast when you're riding a horse by choice.

nobody need coins anymore, it's frustrating to give you, like, 1-5k coins when you have 800k+, and don't make me start talking about the fact that half of this thread is good morning / good night. I have no idea where I failed, but I definitely failed with this one

The easiest way to fix that would be to arbitrarily take coins for every perceived slight.

I have tried all of those and the pretzel ones (that's my cheat candy I buy if I see a new version when at the gas station) the only one worth it is the chips. Worth it might be a stretch it was the only good one at least.

The Reeses pretzels taste like every other candied pretzels, though! Well, except the white chocolate preztels

peanut butter is delicious

As for your other two points I

I would watch, just so I can be on the other side of the pop rocks snorting for once.

Come on man I don't think it's cool to post a pic of @StephanieD without even tagging her

She must really love bananas

 

[-Bonk-]

NOOOO!!! If we do that you can technically afford it as well.....

I gave so many away, i'm very very poor

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Now you on the other metallic hand, are what ? close or around 800k ?

 

[sentinel13]

While I agree with most of what you wrote I feel I need to add a little to the above statement.

The cultures on both sides not just one need to adapt in order to properly integrate. For instance I constantly hear the argument in the UK that immigrant communities don't integrate, and I end up remembering that for many of those communities the initial immigrants who came across where welcomed by a culture that had signs on many businesses, guest houses/hotels etc that read something to the effect of No Dogs, No Blacks, No Irish. This is the culture you want them to integrate into? It's no surprise that they become insular and self contained because they feel threatened. Then the native community (for want of a better term) starts to view the newcomers with even greater suspicion and so they isolate even more and so on and so on. These things aren't helped by media organisations, politicians and other notable figures who then choose to stoke those tensions for their own ends. That initial hostility ripples out and has effects that are extremely difficult to 'fix' possibly taking even longer to move past than it took to cause the divide in the first place.

Yeah, I think there's something to this. If you kick them all to the ghettos and freeze them out of multiple rungs of society, then of course they're going to form highly insular enclaves and build a support system of their own. If you want people to integrate, make it easy for them to do so.

 

[M0RPH10U5]

Lurking....

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[User_48178]

I think we disagree fundamentally on our outlook on this. You appear to be more on the optimistic/idealistic side of the scale where I slide more into the cynical/pessimistic side. Don't misunderstand me. I would like for the fullness of time to prove me wrong, I just don't think it will.

You might be the only person in my entire life to call me an optimist. But I'm not being optimistic, I'm just willing to let events from centuries ago be the past. Learn from history without stagnating in it. The atrocities native Americans endured don't justify trying to hide away their culture in the modern day. The more that knowledge is shared and written down the less likely it is to be lost.

Never tried white chocolate mnms will buy next time i see them. Baked potato pizza sounds like it would be amazing, did they have different "flavor pizzas"? if not what came with that?

That's the only potato flavor, but they've got some others like taco and BLT. The baked potato has potato slices, bacon, chives, butter, on a mixture of mozzarella and cheddar with a ranch sauce that they also use for their buffalo chicken pizza.

Cloud storage does a terrible job in keeping info. its much easier for information to be lost when a server goes down or some data is corrupted or people stop paying to keep the lights on. there's a scary % of how much of the old internet is gone. Books preserve better. Also there's an arguement that not every culture and religion should be preserved. some are good and some are just as hateful and wrong as the cultures destroying theirs. Plus if England is anything to go by importing cultures without having them adapt to your culture is a recipe for disaster. The old immigration system the US had allowed cultures to survive and even thrive (there are more 'Irish' Living in America than in Ireland for example) but allowed them to integrate themselves into American culture without losing their Identity. The only cultures that don't seem to integrate well are some sects of muslim theocratic areas. If you walk down the streets of london you might mistake yourself for having walked into Iran. Similar things happen to the people of those cultures in Myanmar, China, india, Sweden and they bring very little positive changes to the culture in the melding pot since they refuse to meld in. Instead we get situations where genocide happens and Sweeden goes from lowest rate of violent crime in the world to having hundreds of hand grenade related crimes each year. Even Japan is having issues with their immigration causing a MASSIVE increase in crime and they're mostly only bringing in college educated people from the US and EU.

I mentioned cloud storage and digital media more as a way to spread information rather than as some kind of secure lockbox to hide it in. I also don't think the US needs to worry about native Americans supplanting the national culture or forming grooming/rape cults like England, and Europe in general, has seen with muslim immigrants. But this whole conversation is getting way too tangential for something that started with ccxvidonaferens defending oral traditions and secrecy based on historical injustices. All I'm saying is that if people want to preserve their culture and history there's more effective ways than restricting access to the knowledge and relying on oral traditions.

 

[User_61141]

The easiest way to fix that would be to arbitrarily take coins for every perceived slight.

 

[anon670-1]

As I do my backreading tonight, I'm enjoying a delicious pack of

Spoiler: Beer

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To help me pass the time.

Yes I am necroing this from 600 pages ago. How was this? My mouth starting watering so bad looking at this, but sour beers are so hit and miss

The Reeses pretzels taste like every other candied pretzels, though! Well, except the white chocolate preztels

I would watch, just so I can be on the other side of the pop rocks snorting for once.

I see the issue i phrased it wrong, I meant if I see a new variant I haven't tried yet I buy not the pretzels. I mentioned the pretzels sperate because they weren't named in the post I was replying too.
we a couple months to figure out the logistics of the poprocks we might be able to work that out

I gave so many away, i'm very very poor

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I know we have face palm but I would love an eye roll reaction for posts like this haha

 

[Underlord]

I gave so many away, i'm very very poor

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Now you on the other metallic hand, are what ? close or around 800k ?

I mean why even give coins way let those people learn to be yappers haha

 

[-Bonk-]

Tax the Underbitch....i mean Underrich. It doesn't use them to help the community. Perhaps
there should be a 20k cover charge for it to enter this thread. Not like this would break it's
bank haha

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And hi brother Guz

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[conzibald]

At the beach with some friends

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But this pervert kept following us around, I think he was drunk.

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i am waiting ro my opportunity to strike!

Degenerate in the forum maybe. I bet you're really just an innocent schoolboy IRL

 

[User_61141]

Tax the Underbitch....i mean Underrich. It doesn't use them to help the community.

sleaze costing 1k coins and every time you receive a facepalm you lose 1k coins

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And hi brother Guz

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[darqfybre]

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Who??? Its gone!!!!!

Good night guys!!

Indeed. GN Nex

 

[ccxvidonaferens]

I mentioned cloud storage and digital media more as a way to spread information rather than as some kind of secure lockbox to hide it in. I also don't think the US needs to worry about native Americans supplanting the national culture or forming grooming/rape cults like England, and Europe in general, has seen with muslim immigrants. But this whole conversation is getting way too tangential for something that started with ccxvidonaferens defending oral traditions and secrecy based on historical injustices. All I'm saying is that if people want to preserve their culture and history there's more effective ways than restricting access to the knowledge and relying on oral traditions.

I object to this characterisation of my argument.
What this started as is me talking about our hubris as a species in thinking that everything we create or record will survive forever due to current technology. For context here are my original remarks, which began the conversation you jumped in on part way through.

This makes me think about how a lot of people seem to think that these days because of advances in modern technology that we are leaving a complete record of our age that future generations will be able to learn from and it makes me wonder about generations past who probably thought the same thing. I mean think about all the things that were carved into stone tablets that haven't survived till the present day and what is more durable than stone. What was lost when the Library of Alexandria burnt down. Not to mention other disasters such as volcanoes, earthquakes or fires that could have destroyed works of art or literature. Or even the various wars and book burnings etc....

Sorry that was probably a little much for a saturday evening. I just wonder sometimes at our hubris as a species I guess and how much of what we see around us will actually survive to future generations.

 

[Slumdum]

nobody need coins anymore, it's frustrating to give you, like, 1-5k coins when you have 800k+, and don't make me start talking about the fact that half of this thread is good morning / good night. I have no idea where I failed, but I definitely failed with this one

Well uhhh, I'm sorry for contributing to the good morning and goodnight posts....

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I gave so many away, i'm very very poor



Now you on the other metallic hand, are what ? close or around 800k ?

Bonki, you're never poor, when you're with the Slum!

Oh you were doing a bit..