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Full Moon Fever on cassette
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

ShadowKirby17 posted...

furb posted...

2018 Subaru WRX Limited

Can't drive a manual, so no STI.

I'd recommend learning how. It's a lot of fun.

I think i will. I tried to learn as a kid, but i lived in the mountains and stalling on hills sucks
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

2018 Subaru WRX Limited

Can't drive a manual, so no STI.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

I just bought an Analogue Super NT

Thing is rad
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

bring back john stockton
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

No. Cold Y should still be a thing. 34 year old here. I have more in common with Gen X people.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

You do not have to utilize a right to retain it.

Not sure why choosing not to vote should be an impetus to remove ones right to do so
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

FLUFFYGERM posted...

Giant_Aspirin posted...

i like how this article claims "the left has a data problem", implying a systematic misuse of facts and data to push an agenda across an entire political philosophy, and then cites a few examples about the ACA. is this the same sort of "dishonesty" TC continuously talks about?

does this mean i can cherry pick a few instances in which right-wing publications omitted or misrepresented facts and then claim "the entirety of the right are a bunch of liars who are never to be trusted"?

the ACA was a single example. there are more i didnt paste. the general agenda is that the left misuses data and misrepresents data to justify more government spending/involvement in everything

Dude. That isn't a "leftist" problem. That's a bad researcher problem.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

I'm a social scientist.

I would get laughed out of a room if I did "They know that their policies are right, and their studies should validate this, yet the data just wont cooperate...."

If anything too, doesn't this prove that the researchers aren't bias? Shouldn't they be loading the results to confirm their hypothesizes then?

The point of doing research is to prove or disprove the hypothesis the nulls. If predicted results are returned, of course you're going to look at your theory and research to see if you missed something. After sufficient testing and results, confirming findings after adjusting hypotheses and adding new data, result in rejection of premise and theory.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

I overclocked a computer around a decade ago.

I got around 10 more FPS out of my system during games. I had to run the thing with the floppy drive removed though to keep it from frying. Increased air flow.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Whataboutism is horrid. Every group is responsible to hold themselves to decent standards regardless of how others acts. That's leadership and personal responsibility and moral fortitude.

Justifying one's own bad behavior based on the other's bad behavior ends with every tooth gone and every eye blind.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Well, we know the road to dehumanizing fellow people is healthy and will certainly end well.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

I have more respect for underscored than words rammed together.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

The Deer Hunter

Her during the wedding scene is one of my ultimate crushes.


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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Misato is the best choice
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Entre Nous
Analog Kid
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

phonies itt
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

In a crisis, would you bar a man from entering a woman's bathroom or vice versa? I hate how that looks like a rhetorical question, but apparently it is not.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

17 years

Habit, I barely post. Most of my old favorite boards are dead.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

We have had political commercials that feature heavy allusions to children getting nuked, and somehow this is too much for people?
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Sophmore in high school. Made account to talk about Tekken Tag. Also made the account not long after I got in an arguement with myJV basketball coach and quit. So I haf more time for vidya games then! And posting on messageboards.

I had been lurking on yhe site since 98 when I found it via gamesages.com.

I had two alts. n00b Sailboat and Mr. Roboto. Forgot their login info and they got purged
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Hi
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Wait until the Susan story arc
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

World design is def better than 2.

Personally, I was just worn out of things by 3. I thought it was a great game, but it just didn't grip me.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Nero wasn't the last emperor

comparison invalid
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

I just finished eye of the world.

I am not usually into fantasy but i loved it.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

I remember Ayn Rand in one of my graduate level political theory classes.

I had read Atlas Shrugged the summer before grad school. I read most of it on a train trip fro Chicago to Flagstaff, AZ hilariously enough.

I was initially taken with it, but I felt extremely reviled by it by the time I hit Galt's speech.

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I brought this experience up to some classmates and the professor during a sidebar chat during a break in the lecture. My professor said something like this. Everybody should try reading her (meaning political theorists/scientists). He want on to say it was funny. Like 99 percent of everybody that reads her finds the works self indulgent and mean, but the 1 percent become utterly obsessed. No middle ground. Lots of people read Locke, Kant, Marx, Jay, Madison, Hobbes, and many political theorists. Some people love them, some people hate them, and many just are in the middle -- they see some value in it but reject some of it too. Rand does not have this effect on people. Most hate Objectivism to its core but a small group becomes obsessed.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

I read direct philosophy texts in high school for fun.

My first official course was Intro to Modern Philosophy. A 100 level course I took in fall 2003.

We read the following in the following order:

Meditations on First Philosophy
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Hume)
Critique of Pure Reason (Kant) -- we didn't finish this one but got about haflway through it.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

CrimsonWaffle posted...

Sorry I don't mean to derail this topic, but what is a good way to get into philosophy? I've wanted to for a while now, and watching The Good Place has helped pique my curiosity. Should I start reading texts, or maybe take a class, what's a good way to start?

I'm advocate of reading direct texts. Get annotated ones if you can.

i would start with the following, because they are short but essential:

The Meno - Plato
Meditations on First Philosophy - Descartes

You'll get a taste of ancient philosophy (Plato) and, the foundation of a lot of modern philosophy (Descartes).

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For an intro into Existential Philosophy, I would suggest Irrational Man by William Barret.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

You aren't Stormthuman are you?

Back when I played, going back to the 2005-2007 range on Earthen Ring.

There was this Tuaren Warrior in our guild. His original name was Stormthuman. The guy was in our raiding guild, but he ran a side guild. The guild was all chinese gold farmers he somehow bought and paid for. He had farmer defect to him because he paid better rates apparently than the Chinese bosses. It was extremely loyal to his friends and was a decent fury warrior too. He had that dopey giant sword that Nef dropped at one point, when it was cutting edge weaponry.

I got to be friendly with him. He was some sort of business major, or claimed to be, at a US university. He practically owned the market on our server for a good while.

One time, he wanted some rare BOE equipment to hock on the auction house. At least, I think that was it. It had something to do with those bosses that could be summoned in Silithus, but only after you got an asinine amount of drops of Twilight Paper or something from the Twilight cult. This was after they remodel the Silithus from its original look. I think stacks of the Twilight paper got Cenarion Circle rep and you needed exalted to do the summons.

I was slowly grinding my way up for fun. He gifted me like 1000 sheets of the paper so I could get the rep. The only thing was I agreed to help summon the monsters he wanted to farm. Which I did. The sheets he accrued through his farmers and would have an immense gold value in their own right!

Ah the item was Encrypted Twilight Text. Just looked up.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

My first vehicle was an 89 s10. It had an extended bed and sweet flood lightd and even a sun roof!

My first time driving back from college. It was around a 3 and half hour drive home. It was early october and on a really twisty country road.

It was raining reallt hard. I thoughy I hyrdoplained once and recovered. Around a mile later, going down a bend on a hillside, my truck starts fishtailing.

I lay off the gas and breaks and start counter steering. Evertime i centered, it would slide out again. Bank to the right was slight drop off into the woods. Left was a guard rail with a drop into a steep hill down into a creek bottom.

I lost enough speed and I commited to the woods, but my truck ended up completely sideways across both lanes of traffic. Thankfully, nothing was coming and I got the truck straight and into a nearby driveway.

The rear driver side tire had blown out. My only spinout and it was horrifying even though I was going 40 or so at the time.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

New Age Retro Hippie
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

I was never a big fan of German Idealism for that reason. I thought they got carried away with it. Like Kant and his structures in Critique of Pure Reason; wasn't it something like the Categorical Imperative or something -- I know there was a lot of "categories" and "manifold* thrown around. Hegel had his historical dialectic. I know Fichte and Schelling have their structures too. Even Heidegger gets carried away with it, to be honest!

What I did like about Heidegger, compared to a lot of the other Germans, sans Nietzsche, he made his structures personal and relevant to every day problems. Depression, suicide, care, alienation. He and Nietzsche, I feel like, are the only Germans who really do this. The rest seem so infatuated with their systems, and I feel like, where the room for humans and their daily problems?

I like Camus a lot because his philosophy seems to be alive. His language does feel trapped by structure. Plus, I like his core topic: philosophizing and living in an absurd world. I think he provides a good ethical framework for how to live knowing you're going to die.

I am going to bed now, so don't expect anymore, sorry! I may read this topic tomorrow though.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Romes187 posted...

William James

I took an American philosophy course (from a South African); we read William James and Richard Rorty. I got my worst philosophy grade in that course. His brand of pragmatism and the pragmatic rule never clicked with me.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

I read Being and Time as well as Being and Nothingness during the same course. They were optional reads, but I did them for papers.

My professor was a huge Heidegger and Nietzsche guy. He was going to Catholic seminary school in the 60s, and they had them read a bunch of Existential stuff. Right when a lot of it first got translated to English. He decided not to become a priest after reading the stuff, and got his doctorate in it instead. He was a great guy and I loved the Existential course I took from him. I took my ancient philosophy course with him, my ethics course, and my course on The Republic with him. Great professor!

I think Camus is more optimistic. Even though Camus wrote an entire book on suicide!

Heidegger is almost too much. Being and Time is amazing, but those Germans love their dense philosophy tomes. I did not have a course on him, and I think I need one to really get it.

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I really like Jose Ortega y Gasset too. Beautiful writer!

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I took a 400 level German Idealism course. This course featured the hardest thing I've ever read.

Wissenschaftslehre by Fichte
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/johann-fichte/#SystOverJenaWiss

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My department was big on reading direct texts. They rarely, if ever, taught from textbooks.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

gunplagirl posted...

Somewhere between Sartre and Camus but more towards the former.

I read Being and Nothingness and did my final on it for a 400 level Existential philosophy course. But for me, Camus felt more alive.

My feelings on Nietzsche

My issues with Nietzsche is he is quite adept at critiquing modernity, but his forward looking element is lacking. I love the artistry of Thus Spoke Zarathustra and its marriage of philosophy within the scope of a story; however, I think he relies on prophecy too much, with the coming of the New Man. Nietzsche also does not sufficiently explore the ramifications of how a society of New Men would function either, for me at least.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

My top two would be be Camus and Heidegger.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Asagi is the top of the power rankings
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/You Never Give Me Your Money reprise into The End

I love the whole medley in Abbey Road but this part specifically.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

I am 34. My parents are not divorced and I had a happy childhood. I have a good job and a post grad degree.

I never really thought about kids much other than maybe if thr situation was right. The concept spooks me. It is a huge commitment and very expensive. I want to do it right but I am doubtful I can. Plus, I like the freedom too. And this world is sometimes a nasty place.

This year, I was dating a girl I really liked. It was getting serious. I knew she really wanted kids. At first, I thought ok, i can work this. But a realized that maybe I can not. I broke up with so to not waste her time. I still have really mixed feelings.

I still do not feel confident about kids and i def know I camt be in a relationship where they are expected.

I have one niece and I am happy enough just spoiling her.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

I loved Sting as a kid, even his surfer phase. I was like 12ish when he started the Crow gimmick, and I loved it.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Eraserhead didnt need primary colors
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Halloween Harry

List is bad
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

the latter
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

Last phone I bought was an s7 Edge when it was new. I rolled into my local provider ready to cut a check for one. The display has the MSRP on it.

They refused to sell it to me. Said I needed to put it on a payment plan, and I would then be free to pay it off in full whenver in two months. This was at my cell phone provider's store too.

I said, you won't take the 800 or whatever it costs right now? Lady said no. I was stunned, but i said no deal. I'll stick with my el cheapo phone then, and walked out of the place. I went to a a Best Buy the next day and bought it for cash off my debit card.

Still can't figure it out.
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane

yeah it's dumb
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You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues. Then the next day, pierced brains.
-Jane Lane