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You definitely intend to start living sometime soon.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 24 2020, @09:56PM (1 child)
I had typed up a retort to your comment about "shithead trolls" but I'm choosing not to post it. I'm not interested in continuing a war of words. Just as you think I'm a "shithead troll," I've thought you were drunk on power. As long as both parties choose to respond in kind, those perceptions won't change, and nothing good will come from it. That's why I'm stopping.
Have you ever noticed that the political journal entries get 100 comments with no problem but most of the news stories posted by the editors get maybe 10-20 comments? Perhaps there's a longer residence time in the "recent journal entries" than for actual news stories, but I doubt that's the reason. I think people just like to beat each other over the head, figuratively speaking.
I took a break from my work this afternoon to take a walk. I'm waiting on some jobs to complete and there's not a whole lot I can do until they finish running. I've gained about 30 pounds since taking my job about eight months ago and I really need to lose that weight. Some of that is due to being more sedentary and some is due to making poor decisions from the stress of dealing with a boss who is neither particularly respectful nor particularly competent. Because of the extra weight I need to lose, I sometimes get lower back pain while walking, and it causes me to walk a bit awkwardly. It's my fault for not taking action about this sooner. As I was walking and minding my own business, two women were raking a lawn when I walked past and felt the need to mock my walking for no good reason. I hadn't said anything to them, hadn't gestured to them, nor had I ignored any efforts from theirs to be polite. They weren't interested in being polite or civil. They had loud music blaring laced with profane and violent messages for all to hear. I doubt they had any interest in civility. They just felt the need to be assholes for the sake of being assholes.
From what I can tell, there is a non-negligible amount of people who really seem to enjoy being assholes to others. Quite a few more just love to argue even when nothing productive will come from it. I strongly disagree with many aspects of your political views and I have some objections to how this site is run, but there's no reason we can't be civil to one another. I'm making the choice not to fire back with some retort that further escalates this. Arguing about politics is mostly a waste of time here, too. Almost nobody is changing their views. It's just the usual suspects beating each other over the head, figuratively speaking.
This comment is not an attack on you, but observations about how things seem to work. It's unfortunate.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 24 2020, @11:13PM
Like I said, man, the tone you get back from me on site matters is entirely up to you. This sort of stuff is my profession and I'm quite used to compartmentalizing and behaving in a professional manner in regards to it. I do not silently endure being insulted to my face though; I'm good enough at my job that I don't have to.
As for story discussions... Yeah, there's only so many things about gravitational waves being detected from something where they hadn't been detected before that you can say without much deeper knowledge or repeating yourself. Politics is people though and there is always more to say on that front. Don't look to change anyone else's views, you're not going to because it's literally not possible. Only you can change your views; ditto for the rest of humanity. So use the arguments as crowdsourced internal debate and be willing to change your own views. That's primarily why I discuss politics at all. That and I enjoy mocking idiots. Feel free to consider that a character flaw if you like but I don't. I consider it negative reinforcement in the hopes that they'll put at least a little thought into their argument next time.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.