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Re: Random Thread
Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2025 4:57 pm
by lëtzeshark
Random: I didn't realize my one big suitcase weighed as much as it does (5 kg/11 lbs!), and with the weight limits as low as they are, I guess I know which suitcases I'll try to take back with me this winter instead. (Especially since I have a lot of snacks to take to my mother and brother and particularly given the mailing suspension still in place...)
Re: Random Thread
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2025 10:30 am
by Travis B.
I for one don't think Nazis are going to take over the Zeeb because zompist refuses to ban Nort and xxx on the basis of their largely-private politics. There is no evidence that they are planning a fascist takeover of the board as certain people have indicated will happen if we don't make examples of the few people they can try to stick the "fascist" label on, regardless of how accurate the label is in the first place.
Re: Random Thread
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2025 12:04 pm
by Starbeam
My gripe was more that Zompist knew of them doing/ acting on awful things/ being bigots or communing with them at the least, but since they're really not, there's no reason for me to keep being upset
Re: Random Thread
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2025 3:21 pm
by alice
Man in Space wrote: ↑Fri Nov 07, 2025 4:22 pm
I wrote: ↑Fri Nov 07, 2025 3:16 pm
Man in Space wrote: ↑Thu Nov 06, 2025 4:48 pm
Alice: Thanks to my new laptop, I have brought my sound-change applier into the 20th century with modern programming techniques and methods.
Don't put words into my mouth, man
I'm still trying!
These were your words:
alice wrote: ↑Sat Jul 19, 2025 2:59 pm
Thanks to my new laptop, I have brought my sound-change applier into the 20th century with modern programming techniques and methods.
I just said "words", I didn't say whose
@travis: I'd like to say that Bob is my uncle, but unfortunately he isn't.
Re: Random Thread
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2025 10:17 pm
by malloc
Once again my car is having problems. Perhaps it's just the sudden cold snap messing with the battery and tire pressure, but it looks like I may need a new battery and refilled tires.
Re: Random Thread
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2025 4:09 am
by Raphael
malloc wrote: ↑Mon Nov 10, 2025 10:17 pm
Once again my car is having problems. Perhaps it's just the sudden cold snap messing with the battery and tire pressure, but it looks like I may need a new battery and refilled tires.
Good luck!
Re: Random Thread
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2025 10:11 am
by linguistcat
malloc wrote: ↑Mon Nov 10, 2025 10:17 pm
Once again my car is having problems. Perhaps it's just the sudden cold snap messing with the battery and tire pressure, but it looks like I may need a new battery and refilled tires.
At least the tires are an easy one to fix. Most gas stations also have air pumps (sometimes coin operated, sometimes free if you talk to the clerk), mechanics shops might check and fill them for free. And if worst comes to worst you can get a motorized pump for car tires pretty cheap.
Re: Random Thread
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2025 2:36 pm
by alice
linguistcat wrote: ↑Tue Nov 11, 2025 10:11 am
malloc wrote: ↑Mon Nov 10, 2025 10:17 pm
Once again my car is having problems. Perhaps it's just the sudden cold snap messing with the battery and tire pressure, but it looks like I may need a new battery and refilled tires.
At least the tires are an easy one to fix. Most gas stations also have air pumps (sometimes coin operated, sometimes free if you talk to the clerk), mechanics shops might check and fill them for free. And if worst comes to worst you can get a motorized pump for car tires pretty cheap.
There are any number of jokes here about "hot air", but I'm not going to lower myself to that level.
Re: Random Thread
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2025 7:47 pm
by malloc
The tire pressure indicator went away today so perhaps it was just the cold. I checked the tire pressure and none of them appeared dangerously low. Let me just say that winter is my least favorite season, even if technically it's not winter yet.
Re: Random Thread
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2025 5:27 am
by Ares Land
malloc wrote: ↑Tue Nov 11, 2025 7:47 pm
The tire pressure indicator went away today so perhaps it was just the cold. I checked the tire pressure and none of them appeared dangerously low. Let me just say that winter is my least favorite season, even if technically it's not winter yet.
November is worse, in some ways!
Re: Random Thread
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2025 7:15 am
by rotting bones
zompist wrote: ↑Thu Nov 06, 2025 5:26 pm
You said "our arguments", so I assumed you were referring to yourself.
Obviously I believe in putting coherent left-wing thought out there, and I hope it helps. It's more likely to help waverers rather than actual right-wingers.
I had an effect as well. What I did was present a vision of leftism largely decoupled from subjective moral considerations. This was important, but mostly for leftists to shore up their convictions and non-leftists who had genuinely been convinced by arguments.
zompist wrote: ↑Thu Nov 06, 2025 5:26 pm
You claimed that the board would go back to "Nazism". The ZBB is not a corporation or even some kind of cooperative. It's my personal forum, so your accusation is an attack on my personal integrity, as well as the admin work that keeps the board relatively benign.
Like Raphael said, there was a time when the ZBB was only marginally better than 4chan.
Re: Random Thread
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2025 7:17 am
by rotting bones
Travis B. wrote: ↑Fri Nov 07, 2025 9:11 am
The thing is by equating bradrn's political beliefs with neoliberalism you effectively ascribe political beliefs to him that he may not have simply on the basis of that neoliberals are commonly called 'centrist' and bradrn also describes himself as a centrist. On this basis you could call broad swaths of the population 'neoliberal' simply because they aren't right-wing but aren't consciously left-wing either.
bradrn himself may or may not be a neoliberal, but the centrist politicians he supports almost certainly are. In today's political environment, no one else calls themselves a centrist.
Re: Random Thread
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2025 7:27 am
by rotting bones
Random: Karma is the Gambler's fallacy.
Re: Random Thread
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2025 7:30 am
by Raphael
rotting bones wrote: ↑Wed Nov 12, 2025 7:27 am
Random: Karma is the Gambler's fallacy.
Hm. Now that you mention it...
Re: Random Thread
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2025 7:53 am
by Man in Space
Was (Not Was) wrote:
open the door
get on the floor
everybody
WALK THE
DINOSAUR
Re: Random Thread
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2025 8:03 am
by bradrn
Man in Space wrote: ↑Wed Nov 12, 2025 7:53 am
Was (Not Was) wrote:
open the door
get on the floor
everybody
WALK THE
DINOSAUR
Oddly enough, I actually know the song… but what’s its relevance?
Re: Random Thread
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2025 10:02 am
by WeepingElf
bradrn wrote: ↑Wed Nov 12, 2025 8:03 am
Man in Space wrote: ↑Wed Nov 12, 2025 7:53 am
Was (Not Was) wrote:
open the door
get on the floor
everybody
WALK THE
DINOSAUR
Oddly enough, I actually know the song… but what’s its relevance?
Well, this IS the
Random Thread
But I have no idea what Man in Space was trying to express this way, either.
Re: Random Thread
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2025 12:50 am
by Ahzoh
I finally got to see an aurora in my lifetime. They're a lot more visible in camera, sadly.
But I could still faintly see them with the naked eye, enough to know that they're there.
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Re: Random Thread
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2025 4:54 am
by bradrn
Amazing! Sadly here in Scotland it’s been too cloudy to see anything…
Re: Random Thread
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2025 7:21 am
by Raphael
Ahzoh wrote: ↑Thu Nov 13, 2025 12:50 am
I finally got to see an aurora in my lifetime.
Congratulations!