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As if that’s the only problem currently being debated in US politics…

As if that’s the only country being discussed, posted from, or affected by climate change

We need to have a Trading Places feature where posters can live in each other's circumstances for a week, learn to empathize and then post as the other person.

ilm already full of posts about Macca sins

(xp) It's OK we're used to everything being about the US by now.

America has colonised our sub boards

I volunteer to trade places with literally anyone else

I don't want any of you talking to my family so I'm going to have to withdraw from the Freaky Friday scheme. Nothing personal

I’m not wasting my Trading Places on anyone a) not rich and b) who I’d feel bad about robbing.

If Elon Musk is in the news for giving away all his Tesla stock and then dying in a tragic Cybertruck autoasphyxiation accident, it wasn’t me.

Certain economic and social structures only work on a small scale. A self-selecting community, maybe a town, maybe a small and mostly ethnically homogeneous country.

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson)

my frustration is that the people i want to be in community with can't make it work even on a small scale. to make those economic and social structures work you have to have, well. there has to be a certain amount of _stability_. the dream of a stable, sustainable, small community - i mean it didn't work with places like oneida, and it's not gonna work any better with queer people. and look:

When I respond to someone, I am always and only responding to their words on the screen.

at the risk of engaging in tedious semantics, i don't think that's true! there's no reason to assume that people who complain about capitalism _don't_ engage in local community. everybody fills in what they don't know about people from somewhere inside their own head. in my case, i just assume as a default that everybody i talk to is also a severely traumatized polyamorous transgender communist. and then i get confused when people suggest i should try and get library funding measures on the local ballot.

for the record i think basically well of everyone here. a lot of this is that my memory isn't great and i have difficulty keeping track of people i might have grudges against. if anybody thinks poorly of me, i mean, that's their business. i've said and done some fucked up stuff, but basically i like myself and think i'm a good person - to the extent that i'm not gonna go out of my way to try and change anybody else's opinions of me.

I volunteer to trade places with literally anyone else

― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal)

neando, i like you enough that if it was actually possible i might just take you up on that. you deserve a week's vacation.

everybody fills in what they don't know about people from somewhere inside their own head. in my case, i just assume as a default that everybody i talk to is also a severely traumatized polyamorous transgender communist.

I'm 6'2", but I don't think of myself as tall, so I walk around subconsciously expecting other men to be as tall as me, and then I meet them and am often left thinking, Wow, you're really short! What's up with that? It's a dumb thing to think/believe/expect, but I can't seem to shake it.

lol thank you for helping us fill in our concept of you

you should kick. you afraid of you?

To the non US posters, my reference to US Politics was not intended to center the US, but to refer to where this conflict originated… also, it sounds like old people get a much better deal where you live… speaking as someone who is likely to die sooner than ilx’s millennials… I have a shit ton of anxiety about the affordability of health care, the social security system, and affordable housing that is accessible for people with mobility problems… because those are things that I am going to be dealing with sooner and I think a lot has to change pretty damn quickly

just looking at the first paragraph, the title of the journal, and the masthead reminded me how long I've been out of academia because I don't know what the title of the magazine means (I probably did at one point, or maybe it's newer trendy term that I'm too old to know), I did recognize the name of a former professor whose class I rarely showed up for, and I confess at first it made me think of the bird vomit eating thing ... reverse peristalsis.

but it has an @

lol maybe it doesnt and i’m guessin wrong if so sorry

haha well no, it’s an “&.” and i know the derivation is etc, but i’m too proud to look up the symbol name

*reading ilx feedback* thanks all, here is to more abstract bitching about capitalism while doing nothing whatsoever on the ground to abolish it.

I will never vote for anything again, ever.

don't think abolish capitalism is o the ballot anyway, alas

film poll results should improve marginally if nothing else

Good stuff, deems.

... oops, that was meant for the football thread but...

lol im tweaking noses today is all

film poll results should improve marginally if nothing else

― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 bookmarkflaglink

That's right

Just checking because I haven’t read that thread much, but are people pissed about the abstract vs literal thing and being weird about that now, or am I just reading this thread incorrectly

you lib!

I’ve said so many things in the past, in general, I assume that at least one of them was completely unforgivable

I GOT THE BLUES!

what kinda blues you got, austin?

MY AMP'S BROKE! IT WON'T MAKE NO SOUNDS!

okay, what shade of blue is that?

I GOT THE JOHN CAGE 4'33 BLUES!!!

that's right. you are infinite.

film poll results should improve marginally if nothing else

I pledge that as long as I’m running the year-of poll that RCV will be retained

Is that actually what a pregnant horse looks like?!!

Currently on the Site New Answers page there are 16 threads on baseball... this seems a tad excessive.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

We've got great obp round these parts

Not many homers though, and there's a lot of pickoffs

you can hide particular boards from displaying in sna in preferences - I had to do this to iltmi years ago because it was spoiling my day every time I saw that 'names for different farts' thread

Yeah that’s a good shout, zing can’t do that but you can at least mute threads for the same reason & strongly recommend it.

I'm not that bothered tbh, it's just that I said in another thread that there seemed to be a lot of baseball threads all of a sudden ... and there is!

Also, people seem allergic to making new threads on ILE/ILM, probably not great for sna activity if they’re camping out in decades old threads. It’s not like they charge you money to start a new one. I haven’t seen Civil War but like why not just start a new thread for it rather than posting in one for a six year old film? There’s so many discussions that are interesting that get buried in ancient threads. Anyway.

xp you’re always welcome in my ilb thread Tom, if you can’t beat us… ❤️

I agree with gyac, let reasonably new threads prosper

i think necrothreads are of the fascinating quirks of ilx but it is, like... a layer of complexity that takes probably years to get used to. no other message board does it this way because it doesn't make sense lol

I like old threads because I like to see what people thought 24 years ago.

TS: creating a new thread because the appropriate existing thread has 'problematic' posts and getting dragged for not using the existing thread vs bumping the thread w/ problematic posts and getting dragged for unearthing these old problematic posts

banned if you do, banned if you don't

Always look to revive decades old threads if it's covering what I am looking for. It's tidy, and shows the history of what people were thinking (not least myself).

It's actually interesting to see toxic posts in a different light, today.

it's good that people have to confront their views from 20 years ago, but for those of us who weren't there it can be a but of an unpleasant shock when we're just looking to chat about a band we like or w/e

If there's already a thread that covers the exact topic you want to talk about, post in that thread. Example: [band name] C/D threads.

If there's a thread on a topic that organically expands to include related topics, either post to that thread or start a new one. Example: University Challenge thread, which became the general UK quiz show thread over time but could easily have been split off into multiple threads.

If there's a thread about a specific topic and you want to talk about something loosely related to it but not really, start a new thread! Example: that Annihilation thread - if it was an Alex Garland thread then that'd be fine, but honestly, why NOT start a new thread for a completely different film?

(NB: this is entirely personal opinion and not a mod edict or anything)

i agree on the Annihilation thing, which is one of the reasons why i started it today, because people might not have realized we were talking about it, but also anybody looking for a thread on Annihilation years from now is going to be confused at the lengthy discussion of a completely different movie in the middle of the thread.