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At the same time the homelessness problem in this city is absolutely atrocious, it's honestly pathetic the city allows things to be the way they are. Homelessness disproportionately affects the LGBT and black communities but I have to wonder how many of those businesses and households have done anything, let alone anything substantial to try to help solve the problem. I imagine most of them think their little lawn signs are contribution enough.

This city has a few cool points to it, but overall it's pretty sucky. I think I'll be leaving soon.

IronBornCorps posted...

It's stealing a cultural aspect of another's community whilst it's still being used to marginalized a group.

Hair is a great example. Braids, plats, dreads, cornrows ect...have rich African heritage. For the most part, when a famous white person has used one of these styles, they are met with praise, or at least gain notoriety, either which helps their brand and makes them more money.

To this day, there are still jobs that view those hair styles as unprofessional, and black people are fired from jobs, disqualified from sporting events, and have less products and stylists available who know how to properly groom black hair.

TLDR; MGK and Bo Derrick can wear cornrows without consequence, but a black person applying for a job maybe viewed as less professional for having a "non-white" haircut.

And yet the majority of black women straightening their hair isn't cultural appropriation?

Sahuagin posted...

I guess ideally if a minority culture invents something popular, it would be nice if that minority culture could benefit from it

And yet many of the people who say things like this get incensed when the majority culture invents something popular and benefits from it.

Mead posted...

its safe to assume theyre doing it to say white power

Is it really though? College aged guys are kinda known for doing stupid shit, so is it unfathomable that they would agree to all do the "look at my dick" usage or to ironically do it in the racist manner? Like even something much, much more overt like the nazi salute can be done by someone without them literally being a neonazi.

I'm still waiting for a new Style Savvy for the Switch, even just a remake of Styling Star in HD would be great though.

No happy ending here I suppose.

Their leader is an absolute badass?

Imagine how much better the world would be if we picked leaders based on fighting tournaments.

I was considering see that tonight but ended up seeing the Forever Purge instead. It was dumb and boring.

KodyKeir posted...

Gotta love that radical centrist attitude.

I'm not a centrist, and even if I was that wouldn't somehow make what I said wrong, nor does the other part of your post about who is how right or left.

Also, I'm bored. What is there to do in this city anyways? I always saw the space tower and the tent city.

...while hiking?

I was up in Glacier National Park last week and it was full of people, many of them with their kids and such.

Now for women, if they want to wear impractical clothes to go hiking (like nearly all of them were) that's fine. As adults they can decide what they want to do and suffer the consequences. Hell sometimes I ride my bike in jeans just because I like wearing jeans even though they're bad for riding.

Also if this was the city (or almost anywhere that wasn't a mosquito, bee, tick, poisonous plant, sharp rock, and slippery slope having mountain), like were I am now in Seattle, I wouldn't have any issue with it since wearing such clothing is sensible in this heat and urban environment (as long as they put sunscreen on all that exposed skin).

But in this case either the parents picked out the clothes to bring on their trip and are utter fools, or they let the kid pick and didn't bother checking and vetoing the poor (but understandable) decision making of their child. I don't know, just seems like bad parenting to me.

Just "Biden Sucks"? Around here they have giant "Fuck Biden" flags on their trucks. It's stupid but as others have said, not drastically more so than all the #not my president crowd who cried on Twitter for 4 years straight, and outright lunatics like the transformers guy who had that "he will not divide up" stream or the chick who did the severed head of Trump """joke""".

Politics makes you stupid on both sides, who knew?

I'm just doing my part to protect the human race, how rude.

https://i.imgur.com/ooP5xGS.jpg

wwinterj25 posted...

Regardless of age of consent a teacher has a code of conduct to follow. Fair, next.

Since when does breaking a code of conduct mean you should be given jail time? The teachers are also supposed to be fair and impartial towards their students, if one grades something subjective, like an essay lower for a kid they dislike and higher for a kid they do like should they be locked up for that?

Also in most colleges a professor can date a student as long as they don't ha e any classes together, is that breaking the code of conduct? If not, would it be alright for a high school teacher to date a student as long as they weren't actually one of their teachers?

Since making this thread the thing I described in the OP has happened three more times. I'm in an Indian reservation and apparently just letting dogs roam around without leashes is just a thing here. I was fixing a flat tire (the amount of broken beer bottles along the roadside is almost comically absurd) in town and I mentioned what happened to a guy who I was talking to and he said the dogs are normally docile but probably came after me because "they aren't used to someone who looks like you", so the dogs are racist too.

Man I need to get out of here.

DDirtyDastard posted...

Maybe you should stfu.

Nah.

Had my Switch for 3.5ish years and my joy on are still fine. Maybe the people with drifting ones should take better care of their stuff.

What I mean by owned animals includes livestock with pets. Either way animals that are the property of someone. I ask because as I was biking out in the country just now I was chased by some pretty big dogs and I had to... "take care" of one of them when it made a lunge for my leg.

I don't think the dogs were being violent neccesarily, probably just defending what they see as their turf even though it was a public road. That said I don't feel bad in the slightest to be honest, since even if I killed both of them that would still probably be less financial/emotional pain for the owner than how much I would have sued him for if they had bitten me and made me crash. Plus as a human I place my own safety far above that of any beast.

Calm down, I didn't hurt the dog, I just squirted it in the face with my water bottle to blind it for a sec while I booked it out of there.

As far as trends go I'm with adjl, but I did tell myself I would keep up with technology and not be one of those old people who has to call someone over to their house to start a DVD player or turn on a computer. So far even if I haven't been adopting newer tech that quickly I still know how most of it works.

Your real problem is that you're on reddit at all.

BUMPED2002 posted...

so many people have so much hatred in their hearts.

Why are people automatically disregarding the former Chief's claim that it was a poorly thought out joke? I know I've said/done "worse" things to black friends of mine (and white, asian, jewish, etc.), but only because I know we're good enough friends that I wouldn't get my ass kicked for it or genuinely hurt their feelings. I don't know, where I'm from it seems pretty common to talk shit and make jokes about people you were close to, maybe even more so than people you actually hated.

Obviously in this climate and in that particular profession it was idiotic for him to do that, and I don't even disagree with him being fired, but for poor judgment skills, not for being a racist. Unless more stuff like this can be pulled up going back years I think it's inappropriate to just label the guy a hateful bigot or whatever.

Metalsonic66 posted...

I guess if I ever visit Montana, I need to make it appear as if I'm down on my luck

Just because I'm riding around on a bike with all of my worldly belongings strapped to it and I haven't been able to wash my clothes or shower/shave in like a week doesn't mean I look "down on my luck".

"Men are truly wild"

That's a pretty sexist and low resolution way of thinking.

Dude wtf.

So just a bit ago I got to another little town after a hard day of biking up mountains against a strong wing in this heat and I was really hungry. The grocery store was closed already so I went to a nearby bar/restaurant (first time I've ever been in a bar) but the waitress I talked to said they weren't serving food since they had so few people in the kitchen and I ended up just getting two cans of soda.

After I left, the lady who runs the place comes out after me and tells me that she'll personally make me something since she recognized I wasn't from town and must be a traveler who wasn't already aware of the kitchen thing. Not only did she bring me out some food but also another can of soda and a cup of ice water. I tried to give her a $20 but she refused it and wished me safe travels.

I guess if nothing else I can give them a shout out here. If you happen to be in the town of Belt, Montana go check out the Harvest Moon Saloon. You probably won't get free food like me, but it will be good food.

You guys keep saying "pointed" but based on the story shouldn't the proper word be "placed"?

Cruddy_horse posted...

You're using some backwards logic here, if the place where guns are being fired and are more commonly found are strict about gun safety then anywhere else should be doubly so.

Are you also implying the guy meant to point it at faramir? If so then he definitely shouldn't have a gun.

My logic is simply that at a place where guns are expected to be fired, pointing a gun at someone is a bigger deal than pointing a gun at someone in a place where the gun would never actually be used except in exceptional circumstances. I also make a distinction between a gun being held and pointed at someone and a gun being placed on a table where it couldn't possibly misfire except in the most freak or freak accidents since no one was touching it.

As for if the guy was deliberately placing it in such a way, who knows, not you or I anyways.

Cruddy_horse posted...

It violates the first rule of Firearm safety which is a massive no-no, anyone who is flagrantly ignorant about where his gun is pointing at all times shouldn't have a gun.

Who says the guy was ignorant of where the gun was pointing? Also this happened at a restaurant, not a gun range where people go to actually, you know, fire their guns.

faramir77 posted...

I've been to Montana several times. I got in an argument with a guy at a restaurant about 8 years ago because he put his pistol on his table while he was eating and the barrel was pointed straight at me.

That would be pretty uncomfortable I suppose, but arguing with him or telling him to move it probably actually slightly increased your chances of being shot somewhat ironically. That old couple who treated me to lunch were both armed and pulled out their guns when the subject came up as to how different the place is from the city I'm from. The guy who gave me a ride had several guns laying around in his truck too. Accidents can happen for sure but I guess I trust people who are that open and comfortable carrying them around to have some idea what they're doing.

So here's how my day went yesterday. I started off in some small town with about 100 people in it, about to start on a stretch of the state that was incredibly desolate and hilly, about 80 miles to the next town while it was about 102 degrees out. Out of nowhere some dude hops of of his truck asking me where I'm heading. I tell him I'm heading west and he immediately tells me I can put the bike in the back and get a ride from him since he's heading that way.

Mind you, this guy doesn't even know my name yet, I could be a serial killer or something and he offers to drive me that distance. I accepted and during the ride when I mentioned my money issues off hand he literally pulled out a wad of cash and handed it to me. He also gave me a bad ass knife and some "road soda" (beer) before droppings me off, a good 20 miles further to my destination than he was going himself.

After that I stopped at a restaurant/c-store to charge up my bike a bit and this old couple, again comes out of nowhere asking why I was out in that heat and even after explaining I had only ridden about 30 miles that day so far they insisted on buying me lunch and giving me a bunch of tips for traversing the mountains since I'm getting close to them. After they leave (giving me their number telling me to call them if I need anything) the waitress gives me some free ice cream before I hit the road. There was also a random woman who asked about the bike and asked if I needed any money without me even hinting at anything money related.

Later towards the evening after about another 30 miles I passed by what looked like a ghost town (it practically was since most of the building were rotting and the total population was about 25) and went into investigate only to be called out to by a woman if I needed anything. After talking to her for a bit she invited me into her house (by far the nicest in the town) and gave me a bunch of food and history lessons on the area before offering to let me spend the night there with her. Again, I'm just some random dude from an eastern city who isn't personable (I forgot to properly introduce myself in each of these encounters) or charismatic in the slightest. The idea that a woman living alone would invite a strange male stranger into her home for the night is difficult for me to comprehend. In the morning she loaded me up with food and when I told her the town I was planning on stopping in today she called up a friend who lives there and set me up with a free place to sleep tonight.

This level of kindness just isn't natural, religious men is one thing but this is just crazy. Also this area is suffering from an intense drought that is destroying the local cow industry so prices are rising and everyone is having a tough time of it and yet still they would help a person like me.

Housing prices are way too fucking high anyways because of artificial scarcity and other forms of manipulation for them to even be brought up as a valid point for anything.

^^It is odd, even with the age thing (apparently she was actually 18 when it happened but still), what really got me about it though is that the case was not reported on at all until after it was over and she started trying to seal the information. Like I watched the local news fairly regularly and they had no problem mentioning sex crime stuff, often reporting on a given case several times from arrest to conviction. That this one slipped entirely under the radar is even more weird than her lack of a punishment to me.

https://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/courts/20190704/access-to-molest-case-files-disputed

https://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/courts/20190910/no-ruling-on-bid-to-seal-records

jsb0714 posted...

It is common knowledge

Then why are people perpetually suprised by things like this happening? I just shrug and go back about my day.

Huh. There was a case in my home town of a women, 19 years old I believe, getting caught in the act having sex with a 13 year old boy she was tutoring and the boy told police she had done it multiple times as well as providing him with alcohol and she hardly even got a slap on the wrist.

Like the sex related charges were dropped and she didn't serve any time at all in jail or prison and only got a few years of probation or something. That and her case was never brought up by the media until she tried to have the record of the case sealed. She was also the daughter of the head public defender in the city though, so maybe that had something to do with it.

Anyways, it's nice to see greater equality in the legal system. For far too long it has demeaned and insulted women by assuming them less culpable for their crimes and giving them lighter sentences, treating them almost like they were all minors or something. Sexism has no place under the law.

Zeus posted...

That's the stupidest fucking deranged brainwashed absolute drivel and hogwash I've heard in a long time. I've had a credit card for longer than most of this board's users have been alive and I've never once been "sucked into their system and piled up debt and [interest] payments" and... what, did you say mortgages? This whole fucking thing is a rib, isn't it? Got me there!

Clearly my insight has caused so much cognitive dissonance within you that you couldn't understand my post. Credit cards have nothing to do with mortgages, at least not directly, but it's all part of the same financial system designed to exploit most while truly benefiting few. People in the states call the social credit system China is implementing ridiculous and dystopian, while participating in an even more dystopian system that they can't even recognize since it has been in place for so long here and they've been conditioned to accept it as normal.

Imagine being denied a job or housing you're qualified for or can prove you can pay for just because you haven't borrowed enough money from the banks and lived life consuming more than you need. You don't have to imagine it, since that's actually how it is.

...Did half of you even read the OP before you started typing or was the title, you know, the one from Duckbear of all people, the clickbait king enough for you?

Why isn't it common knowledge that the American legal system is a complete clown show by now? People seem to be aware of it when there's a case they personally don't like the verdict of but then they go right back to being oblivious/supporting it when something they do like.

Zeus posted...

Credit cards make more sense than using debit.

Nope. This is just American brainwashing, same with cars being the end all, be all form of transportation. They want people to think like this so they can get you sucked into their system and pile up debt and intrest payments and mortgages. No thanks to any of that.

I don't understand why people get married in the first place these days honestly. If you really love someone, why would you want to force them into a binding situation that is messy to extricate themselves from?

If I could kill every single insect in the world with the press of a button I would. Consequences be damned.

I believe there was a movie made with this as the concept, all of the main characters having useless powers. I haven't actually seen it myself but I remember being told one of the guys had the power to turn invisible, but only when absolutely no one was looking at him, including things like security cameras.

Cacciato posted...

Oh yeah I was being sarcastic. I definitely agree it hasnt.

It has arguably gotten worse considering I quit my job and let my lease run out before doing this so if things really keep going sideways I'm actually boned.

Huh, now that I think of it I guess that means that I'm actually a homeless person right now.

Kanatteru posted...

[in a monastery] wow... it's just like the house in fata morgana

Now if I came across an old abandoned mansion/monastery out in the middle of nowhere with a cute, if creepy maid I would totally call off the trip and stay there. I don't even care that it would end in tragedy.

So it's halfway through Monday and nothing had changed so I looked into it and apparently the transfer I started last Friday in the PayPal app just didn't go through for some inexplicable reason. It worked on their website, but that means I have to live off $16 on a walmart gift card (the nearest walmart in the direction I'm traveling being over 100 miles away) and about half a days worth of snacks that I have on me for at the very least 3 days.

This is going to be fun.

MrMelodramatic posted...

Or just do away with gendering the award at all

And then when men win most of the time people will complain and either ramp up giving out token awards or say they women should have their own category so they don't have to share the spotlight with men.

Zeus posted...

Again, why don't you have a credit card? >_>

Because I'm not the type of person to ever buy something I can't afford. I've also never taken out a loan for the same reason. Ironically this makes financial institutions and other people see me as untrustworthy, since I haven't let them screw me with interest and fees, but that's a whole nother issue.

Besides, if I did have a credit card in some alternative universe I probably would have just lost it at the same time and place, unless you're saying I should carry around multiple cards which I find extremely silly. except in this fringe case of me losing one, other than that it would just be redundant.

That (and all this talk of sexualizing children) reminds me of a hypothetically I asked once but didn't get a satisfying response to.

Say you have a trans teenage boy who hasn't had any hormonal treatments or surgery and thus still resembles a teenage girl from the outside but is accepted as a male socially and such. Would it be inappropriate for him to go shirtless at the pool since bystanders might not realize he was a male or would it be inappropriate to stop him from going shirtless at the pool since that would effectively be denying his gender identity?

The above two posts are basically a shorter and a longer version of what I was going to say. People are so desperate for labels to attach to themselves these days to explain away their problems as something they have no control over.

I know I'll get shit for this but completely irregardless of however reality may or may not be, whether women truly are oppressed or not, they have a biological predisposition towards feeling like they are.

Basically evolution has run in such a way that women are more prone to see/recognize danger more often than men so that they can respond more quickly to protect themselves and their children since whatever danger they're recognizing probably comes from something physically more powerful than them. If an ancient man sensed danger it could be a situation where he might be able to fight (or even one where he would be compelled to fight) instead of flee, but an ancient women often couldn't and wouldn't have even been expected to fight so fleeing and seeking help was the go to. Just like how creating artificial light hasn't erased our evolutionary fear of the dark fully even though we live in much, much, much more peaceful times that danger sense women have is still active and will ping because of things that often aren't truly huge issues.

I say all that but men actually have the opposite problem in that they often underestimate danger or write off warning signs (which is one of the main reasons young men die so much more doing stupid stuff than young women do) so maybe my manly dullness is what is making me think what I think.

Cacciato posted...

Glad to see your decision making has matured over the years.

I'm currently laying(freezing)in a wet tent in a wet sleeping bag in a hidden nook alongside the perimeter of a national park that is known to have bobcats, coyotes, rattlesnakes, bison, and other animals that could maim me because I didn't have the $15 to spare to get into the park proper. I also have a ton of food including meat in the bags on my bike 5 feet from the tent.

I don't feel like my decision making has improved much.

I've recently seen a landscape very similar to that in North Dakota. It blew my mind since I figured as a state bordering Canada it must just be cold and have a bunch of trees since that's what I picture the entirety of Canada to be like.