scoobdog

There is a plan. The problem was that there were a bunch of relatively low traffic boards that were cluttering up the top end, so the consolidation was designed to combine topics based on the relative proximity. Sports didn't serve much of a purpose outside of the same three or four threads and, due to the universality of sports, it made more sense to include those in GD where it would likely get better exposure. Art's, Literature and Music had barely ant traffic so it was best to combine those. Food was pretty much Disco and Packard's food disasters. [adult swim] has so little to offer it doesn't really deserve a separate board, but the people who are most likely to be interested in [adult swim] shows are either a few of us in the Thunderdome or the Toonamites, so it makes the most sense to to merge Toonami with [as] and we can do our own DF take in the dome. There is a huge difference between a plan and success, obviously. Like you said yourself, this board has enough people that an wide open single board like Prospero might even be ideal. It's not really feasible to go that far back but reducing the boards makes the place a lot less unwieldy, and we have time to see how it works in this format. We can always add stuff back as needed, but it's not like we diverged from the existing predominant posting patterns to get here.

I know about the PM. Liars tell stories that sound good. They also know how to set stories up to make them more believable. Remember that thread about the cartel daughter? What are the chances you're hooking up with someone who's supposedly connected to a cartel only to, days later, be potentially kidnapped by someone in a cartel? I'm sure you have a perfectly plausible explanation. What you don't seem to get is that people aren't mad about Fuggs or about your inept attempt to make her seem like a legitimate nurse, they're mad because it's indicative of your attempts to manipulate them for attention. Fuggs has nothing to do with your story having holes in it, but you're reaction to her and is tells us everything we need to know about why those holes are there.

Lol. No. Literally the reason I think you made shit up is because that long post I cut and pasted in the report was deleted by you. I mean, sure, you sneaking Fuggs here so you can pull a stunt doesn't help your believability, but you refusing to own what you told us unprovoked is what matters most. There was no dude pretending to be trans. You didn't unwittingly take a speedball. There was no attempt to kidnap you and send you to Mexico to be a cartel sex slave. It was all a spin on a bad trip.

Wait, how old are her kids?

It’s rightly a fraught subject. Like Sawdy said , this is really a time for listening.

Well, those questions beg for the wrong kind of response.

Probably because either a cop was on trial or was the “victim.” They intentionally don’t ask that question so potential jurors can’t pollute the pool.

Yeah, I dunno.

It only doesn't make sense because I don't think a lot of people use the feed feature to its maximum benefit.

It doesn't work anyway. They don't ask your opinions.

You don't research terminology like a science project. Words continuously evolve as you well know, so you're not determining what a word means as much as predicting how it will be used in the future. The article premises a well established pattern of using generic terms to despecify problematic groups, and reasonably predicts how allied groups can damage their individual causes by trying to create an all-inclusive group. You don't need research to find the logic sound, you need it to address the the results of the prediction.

What research are you referring to?

I better way to frame it is that both pregnant women and pregnant people are impacted. One term doesn’t replace or include the other, but both are equally affected in different ways. The idea that one can be used to minimize the overall impact of the other can’t be ignored, but that doesn’t mean just using the term to refer to non women is a distraction. You just have to conscience refer to both whenever discussing the topic.

I think you all might be interpreting my post as an argument rather than a separate point. Suffice it to say, I might quibble about the effectiveness of the comparison but I whole heartedly agree with what she said and appreciate how important it is to not use inclusion as a means of creating a wedge between women and their allies.

All Lives Matter isn't minimizing the point of Black Lives Matter, it's outright refuting it albeit in a typically passive aggressive way. It's nothing more than rephrasing the typical colorblindness talking point of the system treating all people equally. When it comes to terminology, a phrases effect isn't divorced from its intent and that needs to be accounted for even when attempting to use a purely linguistic example. As I take it from the author of the article, her point identifies how "pregnant people" can be used by good actors as a means of competing amongst themselves for recognition. It's a real danger and the author rightly needs to bring it up now so that everyone is aware of how the terminology is used. I also don't think we've seen it used extensively yet in that form. Starting the debate on it now has the potential of creating a wedge between allies early in the push for women's rights.

No, I do not believe that is what I'm saying like at all.

CTE doesn't explain away his desire to be adored and his willingness to sell out to do it. It's not exactly comparable, but there are a few GOP Latina candidates in Texas along the border region that espouse their credentials as minorities while shilling the pro-life anti-woman bullshit that runs counter to their best interest. People can and will trade values for even a bit of power, and, as sad as it is to see Herschel make a fool of himself because of cognitive decline, he isn't in that position to be exposed unwillingly.

It's hard finding a good token friend these days.

"Grab 'em by the pussy." -Ugly old orange man.

No joke.

Hey, buddy. You want me to make you a special safe space so you can post and not get told to fuck off?

You better hope 2024 doesn't go that way. You might not survive an all GOP world.

Prospero was one big board, and it was pretty good until we got too many people.

You can’t have real friends when you’re constantly trying to manipulate them.