Yeah, almost every woman I know has had some degree of stalking. I get really annoyed that you have to go to each of those websites (peoplefinder, whitepages, etc) that aggregates your information (age, places you have lived, relatives) to have them remove it.
― Yerac, Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:43 (five years ago) link
ilx conversations about rights and morality are some of the least enlightening conversations on the site we're much better when we stick to whatever pop album cosmo loves this month
― Mordy, 6. december 2018 17:16 (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Fixed it
Also, I tried to phrase my own controversial opinion about Star Wars and it's weird: I can say 'the new films are worse than the prequels' and it feels sorta right, but if I say 'the prequels are better than the new films' it feels completely wrong.
Also also Tuomas is Finnish
― Frederik B, Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link
xp yeah my closest friends in high school were stalked too -- like aggressively. one found a guy she kissed once hiding in the bushes with a baseball bat, another was sent a barrage of notes through the mcdonald's drive-thru and then her own mailbox, and then there was me. here's my controversial opinion: being a secret admirer and surveilling your love object from afar is pathological if you are an adult (teens get a temp pass)
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:48 (five years ago) link
also wtf who gets their music information from cosmo?!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:55 (five years ago) link
think that a new hope and empire strikes back are fair offerings also tbf
― puppy bash (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:55 (five years ago) link
xp Yes Finland!
― Yerac, Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:55 (five years ago) link
I want to visit Finland
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:56 (five years ago) link
estonia has cheaper drink
― puppy bash (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:57 (five years ago) link
ireland has better posters
Didn’t that Tuomas sighting happen in Spain? Making it even more improbable
― rob, Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:58 (five years ago) link
Any Estonians among us?
― pomenitul, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:00 (five years ago) link
You guys need to remove yourself from the paradigm that there are billions of people in the world. I run into people all the time. There is like 100k people max. This is my controversial opinion.
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:01 (five years ago) link
yeah, i can only remember that they saw him. I was over ten years ago?
― Yerac, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:01 (five years ago) link
The small world conspiracy. I want it to be the new flat earth.
Nothing short circuits my brain quite like randomly running into someone I know somewhere I would never have expected them to be. It seems statistically impossible that it happens as often as it does.
― I sponsor many ceremony dances in my beautiful pink roses palace (Old Lunch), Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:02 (five years ago) link
It completely is
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:03 (five years ago) link
I mean, yes, 'somewhere I would never have expected them to be' usually = Chicago in my case so maybe not that strange but also I can go years without running into people I know who live in the city so it's still pretty damn strange.
― I sponsor many ceremony dances in my beautiful pink roses palace (Old Lunch), Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:04 (five years ago) link
Glad you’re on board with the truth
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link
I walked up to a train stop in Chicago once and there was exactly one other person waiting for that particular train -- and it was someone I knew from Iowa
― mh, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link
Dude my randomly assigned roommate in copenhagen—a city in finland—was, back at UVA, college roommates with my friend from high school in new jersey.
The day before thanksgiving i was taking a train home—packed train, stops at newark airport not just my hometown—and the person in front of me was someone I used to lifeguard with.
On and on
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:10 (five years ago) link
I had a layover in an airport in some state I don't even remember but that I'd never been to before and haven't been to since and, oh hey, what's up daughter of my mom's good friend who is also hundreds of miles away from home.
― I sponsor many ceremony dances in my beautiful pink roses palace (Old Lunch), Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:13 (five years ago) link
(I hope everyone is appreciating these top-notch controversial opinions.)
― I sponsor many ceremony dances in my beautiful pink roses palace (Old Lunch), Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
if someone posted an obviously embarrassing photo, of course i would always think that was out of line/mean
What if every photograph of you is embarrassing?
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:15 (five years ago) link
Nothing short circuits my brain quite like randomly running into someone I know somewhere I would never have expected them to be. It seems statistically impossible that it happens as often as it does
This actually happen to me in Copenhagen, bizarrely enough.
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
small world conspiracy
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
You can't take a train from Copenhagen to New Jersey...
― Frederik B, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
Unless...
― Frederik B, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:18 (five years ago) link
i was in whole foods in vancouver a year or two back, i walked past a couple, the man looked like a high school friend of some of my childhood friends, who had lived in the suburb of glasgow i lived in during my teenage years, about half a mile from where id lived. i'd last seen him when i was 17 or 18 and he was 20 or 21 respectively. so it had been over a decade. i didn't think much of it til i was walking home and came to think it was almost definitely him, this was confirmed by a whatsapp exchange with a friend who had last heard from him when he was moving to vancouver to work at UBC
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:18 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZvChurdd_w
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:19 (five years ago) link
the thanksgiving anecdote was this year. i was going from new york city to new jersey for thanksgiving.
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
I usually discount most transportation coincidences if you share an origin or destination. I've been on planes to and from my city that happened to have people I know on them (and got nachos with a friend-of-friends at the Denver airport once) because there are only so many planes to and from here tbh
― mh, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:22 (five years ago) link
i was on a megabus from boston to new york city and my cousin was on the bus! forgot about this one
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
i've got more of these. but seriously, there are not that many people per megabus.
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
At O'Hare, I once ran into 3 people, separately, that I knew.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:27 (five years ago) link
yeah, seriously. and do you really think that would happen if, as they say, 215,000 people pass through that airport every day? *source: wikipedia
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:28 (five years ago) link
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, December 6, 2018 9:01 AM (thirty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I'm adopting this worldview
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link
I’m finally spreading confusion and magical thinking around the world, exactly as I intended when I first got my teacher certification
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:36 (five years ago) link
wouldn't it be more likely to run into someone you know if there were *more* people passing through?
o'hare's one of the largest transport hubs in the world. it'd be weird if I ran into someone I knew at, like, the burlington, vermont airport and we were there for completely different reasons
― mh, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
large population hoax for sure. we're all at the mercy of all that large pop $$$ out there.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
Trϵϵ word username
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
you're more likely to both be at the same airport if it's a super busy one but I would think you'd be less likely to ~encounter~ the person(s) when they're one among thousands.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:40 (five years ago) link
but probability and stats can be very counterintuitive so wtf do I know
it just never seems like there is as many people around as they say
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
My ~controversial~ extrapolation from the small world conspiracy: they want us to think that it's currently 2018 CE and so the world has 7.7 billion people. It's really 30,000 BCE.
― jmm, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:45 (five years ago) link
i think it's about making people feel that they are insignificant, causing them to undervalue their own labor power and accept low wages
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:46 (five years ago) link
So I know that there's probably like +/- a dozen people who basically share my exact same schedule and commute and who I probably only notice maybe a couple of times a week because, y'know, multiple trains, multiple cars, lots of variables that keep the same people from running into one another all the time even under those circumstances. And yet I've still somehow randomly run into at least four different out-of-town friends on the train.
There seriously can't be more than like 400 people in the world, I'm now convinced.
― I sponsor many ceremony dances in my beautiful pink roses palace (Old Lunch), Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
so, the under-1000 people contingent of small worlders are considered lunatics by the main flank of the community FYI
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:48 (five years ago) link
they're like the no plane 9/11 guys
some opinions and intuitions i have had lately that i have not been able to reconcile with some other opinions and intuitions i have:
there are no objective truthsvalue is something we ascribe to things and is not inherent to any one thingthe number of things which are out of our control is so vast and so completely outweighs the small number of things that appear to be in our control to such an extent that i think determinism is probably true and free will/moral responsibility is mostly an illusion
i am not a clear or intelligent enough thinker to really hash any of these things out or think in great detail how they conflict with other basic assumptions i have and practices i engage in. i know philosophers have articulated and refuted these statements to such a fine degree of precision over thousands of years but i find it truly overwhelming to get far into these readings
― marcos, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:50 (five years ago) link
3% of earth's population died in 9/11
― rip van wanko, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link