“uncorrupted” is in the eye of the beholder i guess
― maura, Monday, 26 November 2018 16:28 (five years ago) link
Enlightenment not all its cracked up to be
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 26 November 2018 16:32 (five years ago) link
Where's the Dark Wikipedia?
― pomenitul, Monday, 26 November 2018 16:35 (five years ago) link
https://www.conservapedia.com/ iirc
― sign up for my waterless urinals webinar (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 26 November 2018 16:36 (five years ago) link
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page (nb, was more fun in the days when human beings still possessed the cognitive ability to discern blatant lies from facts)
― Fantasy Eyelid (Old Lunch), Monday, 26 November 2018 16:39 (five years ago) link
There's also https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/Main_Page
― pomenitul, Monday, 26 November 2018 16:41 (five years ago) link
And the arch-Enlightened version: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page
― pomenitul, Monday, 26 November 2018 16:42 (five years ago) link
Finally! Guess I'll stay on ILX after all
― Evan, Monday, 26 November 2018 16:46 (five years ago) link
i figure i'll eventually get killfiled by everyone and then i'll take the hint and scoot
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 26 November 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
looking at/reading what other people complain about is one of the most depressing ways to spend one's time― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, November 25, 2018 3:55 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, November 25, 2018 3:55 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i find myself thinking this w/politics on social media and it *almost* doesn't matter what side you're complaining about. i have friends whose entire life is apparently based on complaining about politics or social justice. i think what's grating is not the fact that they're complaining, but their complaints show up in meme or link or cartoon form and there's zero discussion, it's just dropping something on their page and leaving it sitting there.
complaining just leads to arguments and it's never worth it, i mean made a mild complaint via instagram about the shitty ad campaign for the new Grinch movie and wound up in an awkward back and forth with a friend who worked on the film in post production and somehow i tried to saved myself by saying no actually i was interested in seeing it, so she invited me to check it out the next day, and i invented a birthday party i had to go to. so she's going to send me a screener.
― omar little, Monday, 26 November 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
wikipedia is pretty incredible imo, its community has its biases and significant problems but there are also awesome people (some i know personally) who are not straight white male nerds who are actively working to improve it. kind of amazing that it exists tbh
― marcos, Monday, 26 November 2018 17:27 (five years ago) link
Ain't that how social media arguments always end: being sent a Grinch screener
― jmm, Monday, 26 November 2018 17:29 (five years ago) link
looking at/reading what other people complain about is one of the most depressing ways to spend one's time
― Siegbran, Monday, 26 November 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
the internet is neither good nor bad. or it is both good and bad. there are things i hate about it but like just don't go to those dumb places? i havent read a buzzfeed article in months. twitter i spend about two minutes before deciding it is mostly annoying, i will probably deactivate soon.
but like, every day i find new music & art that blows me away or adds meaning to my life in some small way or provides a new idea or state of awareness. every day i read about something i didn't know before. there are huge repositories of scholarship and knowledge on the internet. libraries and archives digitize and post amazing content every day.
― marcos, Monday, 26 November 2018 17:32 (five years ago) link
w/ ilx i am not hugely active here i think maybe because i struggle w/ wanting to share more of what is meaningful to me personally in order to better connect w/ people here (since i like a lot of you) but also i value ilx as a place where i have more anonymity than on instagram or whatever where i am sharing my art and personal photos or twitter where i talk about stuff that matters to me in my professional field (though i don't really engage on twitter that much anymore). obviously i have shared a lot of personal things here but lately i've been using other venues for that stuff. i think having better IRL connections w/ friends and family means that i post less here too.
― marcos, Monday, 26 November 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
love the awkward sitcom vibe of omar's Grinch story, makes me think the problem with social media is it puts an unmanageably large number of people in a coworker-like social space: constant proximity but no real closeness
― rob, Monday, 26 November 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
Democratizing the dissemination of perspectives is both the best and worst thing about the internet. At the same time that it eliminated certain barriers of access, the population of planet earth mistook ease of access as an implicit suggestion that all of our opinions were of equal value and were equally worthy of dissemination. ILX is one of the few internet haunts I've found where the ratio still largely favors signal over noise (present company excepted, natch). Which is why I have not yet left ILX for good.
― Fantasy Eyelid (Old Lunch), Monday, 26 November 2018 17:59 (five years ago) link
downvoted u 4 that
― F# A# (∞), Monday, 26 November 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
screener feedback: get smashmouth on that ost
― Tom: I do all the bills. (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 26 November 2018 18:27 (five years ago) link
xpost Sorry, I deserved that for forgetting to include a hashtag (#trenchantinsights).
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― Fantasy Eyelid (Old Lunch), Monday, 26 November 2018 18:28 (five years ago) link
(I just barfed so hard while I was typing that.)
― Fantasy Eyelid (Old Lunch), Monday, 26 November 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
upvoted u now
― F# A# (∞), Monday, 26 November 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
like my comment
and somehow i tried to saved myself by saying no actually i was interested in seeing it, so she invited me to check it out the next day, and i invented a birthday party i had to go to. so she's going to send me a screener.
genuine lol, best possible outcome for an internet gripeyou're right that it doesn't matter if i personally agree with the gripe or not (be it about music, politics, anything), the result is the same
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 26 November 2018 19:41 (five years ago) link
for me at least on one hand (w/those i "agree with") the complaining feels like constant negative energy vs positive action, like a candidate running on why their opponent is trash vs what they want to do to improve things. i understand things are not good but i think it just contributes to a sense of trench warfare and helplessness. and obviously when i see someone posting anti-#metoo cartoons that's another kind of depressing.
and now here i am, complaining!
― omar little, Monday, 26 November 2018 19:59 (five years ago) link
constant negative energy vs positive actionexactly
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 26 November 2018 20:08 (five years ago) link
however ilx def provides a place for people to complain without much fear of reprisal, so if there is a safe space for the pettiest of petty complaints i guess it's here where it isn't likely to hurt anyone aside from the people who choose to participate (actively or passively) in that thread?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 26 November 2018 20:12 (five years ago) link
makes me think the problem with social media is it puts an unmanageably large number of people in a coworker-like social space: constant proximity but no real closeness
that's part of why I wandered off for a while this year. lost a few of the real life situations where I've been able to candidly be *me* and I have too many situations where "coworker voice" is the norm. in lieu of those outlets, my online persona, as it is, became some exaggerated version of my inner voice where the ability to be candid was overriding my ability to actually be interesting.
the worst part was realizing all of my offline conversations, with few exceptions, were all coming out in coworker voice. lost the ability to code-switch and everything was just flat. the partial anhedonia of perpetually stilted conversation
― mh, Monday, 26 November 2018 20:29 (five years ago) link
FWIW I'm glad your voice has rejoined the chorus.
― Fantasy Eyelid (Old Lunch), Monday, 26 November 2018 20:38 (five years ago) link
that's a wise observation mh -- i know the feeling of being stuck in a mode and losing the ability to effectively code switch (the partial anhedonia of perpetually stilted conversation otm, like being around strangers all the time and always on guard --> feeling super blank) glad you have reset!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 26 November 2018 20:38 (five years ago) link
― mh, Monday, November 26, 2018 2:29 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
hmm this had never occurred to me, but yeah i know what you mean
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 26 November 2018 20:39 (five years ago) link
thanks for touching base mh
― j., Monday, 26 November 2018 21:06 (five years ago) link
that is such a good way of putting it.
― maura, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 03:48 (five years ago) link
I think I get why ppl leave ilxor for good but this is very nearly the only internet I actually like anymore and sometimes ppl smile at my posts so that’s why I stay fwiw
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 03:52 (five years ago) link
I've actually started to gravitate towards Reddit lately if you can believe that. If you ignore the fact they have toxic pockets theres actually some good/funny reading to be had in the TV show chats and things like legaladvice and "lol internet" subs like insanepeopleoffacebook and such.
I'm a bit over participating on the internet. Ive said all I need to say online over the last almost 20 years, and I'm a boring, middle aged stepmom now. NO one cares what I think. I'l happily read stuff from others though.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 05:01 (five years ago) link
at this point I think of Facebook as an interactive RSS feed for updates from bands I like and publications I read, occasionally interspersed with good #content from friends and some adverts. But it's easy enough to block your LADbibles and whatever.
ILX has generally healthy and respectful debate - if I post something and it's nonsense and poorly thought out etc the rebuke tends to be more "nah I think you are wrong and here is why" as opposed to "you are an idiot what is wrong with you?"
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 10:39 (five years ago) link
more cultural setbacks for momus: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ds9163yVAAAXl_x.jpg
― mark s, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 11:33 (five years ago) link
The people have spoken!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 12:30 (five years ago) link
Momus eh
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 14:17 (five years ago) link
Is that a literal, actual instance of hey you kids get offa my lawn? Or a tongue-in-cheeky commentary on the phenomenon? Can't tell.
― Brian Oenophile (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 14:42 (five years ago) link
is it just me or is posting volume in precipitous decline
― Nick Chiveon (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 21:31 (five years ago) link
its our post retirement phase i think we should enjoy it
― fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 21:34 (five years ago) link
like, after fours hours off ilx, the last thread I read will be 1/3 the way down on sna, so I click it expecting to see a handful of new answers except THERE ARE NO NEW ANSWERS
Xp
― Nick Chiveon (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 21:35 (five years ago) link
ILX has moved to Florida
― Nick Chiveon (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 21:36 (five years ago) link
People seem to congregate in a few big threads and not really post in others (I read most things on SNA, but I like where I like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and don’t have a view on some other stuff, pretty normal I’d say)
― gyac, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 21:39 (five years ago) link
honestly twitter has sort of ruined me in terms of the constant churn micro-fascination hit i'm looking for any given second
i feel much less inclined to post here, even on things that interest me greatly. just imagine i was going thru hitting the heart button on a bunch of your posts. i miss the narrower and more established community and longer post length here but the energy isn't there to post, myself, for a bunch of reasons. (tho i did go on at length about RDR2 didn't i)
― goole, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 21:39 (five years ago) link
I miss you.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 21:43 (five years ago) link
seconded
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 21:45 (five years ago) link
it's best when there's some event or common interest to actively discuss. The 120 songs under 120 seconds poll has been a lifesaver this past week.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 21:45 (five years ago) link
yes
― Nick Chiveon (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 21:49 (five years ago) link