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posted by martyb on Friday December 25 2020, @08:00PM   Printer-friendly

[2020-12-25 22:18:22 UTC -- Corrected typo (with thanks to maxwell demon) --martyb]
[2020-12-25 21:32:03 UTC -- Updated with staff info and reformatted the story. --martyb]

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday December 26 2020, @03:38AM (12 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday December 26 2020, @03:38AM (#1091353) Homepage Journal

    See, that's where you fail at life. Winning is achieving your ideal life. Not anyone else's idea of what that should be. I'm so close to mine right now that it complains when I eat garlic.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 26 2020, @03:53AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 26 2020, @03:53AM (#1091361)

    "There are levels of existence we are prepared to accept." The Architect, of the Matrix, floating on a tiny boat, towed by a Toyota Echo (to give you some scale).

  • (Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Sunday December 27 2020, @04:00AM (10 children)

    by fakefuck39 (6620) on Sunday December 27 2020, @04:00AM (#1091619)

    literally by your own definition I don't. winning my ideal life means traveling and seeing the world - at 41yo, I've lived in several countries and visited about 40. i've lived in several states and visited 49. it's my entire family being completely financially secure - as in pay off the parent's house, support my younger siblings while they get on their feet, repair my sister's house when it falls apart, send my nephew to a good school. it's getting lots and lots of sex with hot young girls so I could get that out of my system before settling down and getting married, and having a very large pool to select my wife from, so I could get exactly what I want. It's having an emergency fund of 10 years of living expenses if I can't work, and enough saved for retirement so I can live off the interest alone. It's helping people with charity and helping people in need get good jobs - I pissed away a good mil on that over the years. It's growing as a person by seeing the world and not thinking inside the box I was born in.

    for you, it's fishing on a lake. and that's totally cool. what you don't get is when you claim "you win at life" - you only win at your own life. for a general statement like that, "life" is not your life - it's society's life. and at that, while being a good person, you lose. Which is perfectly fine, just your claim is clown-level stupid.

    You defined your perfect life as the one you got now. But that's not life in general. That's just the little box you live in. Or for a better comparison, the well The Mighty Frog lives in.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 27 2020, @05:58AM (5 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 27 2020, @05:58AM (#1091642)

      Anyone up for creating SN login "dryhump39" to shadow this entitled jerk?

      • (Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Sunday December 27 2020, @11:15PM (4 children)

        by fakefuck39 (6620) on Sunday December 27 2020, @11:15PM (#1091838)

        why not you? this way you can stop posting across a bunch of threads pretending to be different people, thinking i'm actually reading most of your replies. i love that meth house scene in breaking bad. are you enjoying digging that hole? what's funny is that fixation on shit that you got going on - that's a mental disorder and likely autism. it's something you literally have to live with till you die, or pop pills with nasty side effects daily. and there's zero you can do to change that and have a normal, enjoyable, rewarding life.

        • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday December 29 2020, @12:59PM (3 children)

          by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday December 29 2020, @12:59PM (#1092438) Homepage Journal

          Same question to you re: editing. You don't have time to push even a story or three during your morning coffee? Or even hop on IRC and spend literally two seconds pasting a url to make a bot submission?

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          My rights don't end where your fear begins.
          • (Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Tuesday December 29 2020, @01:46PM (2 children)

            by fakefuck39 (6620) on Tuesday December 29 2020, @01:46PM (#1092450)

            Alright, look man, trust me, you don't want me here editing shit. I'm here to let out the toxic shit annoyances of the day build up, talk about tech and make fun of idiots. I would rather literally pay for you to hire a dev to build a presorting type spam filter so the editors you do want on your team have less work to do and can get some decent shit on the page like you used to have. do you really want a story starting with "fakefuck39 posts a story submitted by runaway?" that doesn't even look good on text.

            and there are like 2-3 people here who just single me out because i made fun of them too much, and comment offtopic shit and downvoat every comment i make. this means if I submit a story, they're going to keep doing that in their ritalin-fueled focus session, and make the discussion about some slashdot spammer from 5 years ago, instead of the topic.

            so really think about this. yes, I got a shitload of time - i've been laid off and just bumbling around europe w/ my wife. i got nothing to do but look at the black sea right now and buy beef at the farmer's market. but there's baggage here that comes with this account. it would be more productive, for you, to just get cash for development help. i know, materialistic shit. but it's about results you want, and shit costs money sometimes. not the really important shit, but this is "entertainment" shit, not important shit.

            think a few days, then let me know. if you still want this, i'll give it a roll. but if it ruins the discussion, i'm out of the human spam filter business and no hard feelings.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 31 2020, @03:48PM (1 child)

              by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 31 2020, @03:48PM (#1093258)

              I'd hire you, as long as your spam filter removes all of your comments too. Starting with yours. And remembering you. Forever. And sells the filter data to all other blogs / boards. No, gives it away, free.

              • (Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Thursday December 31 2020, @04:06PM

                by fakefuck39 (6620) on Thursday December 31 2020, @04:06PM (#1093268)

                I see, so you, a guy whose account karma is downvoted so low by the readers here, that you have to resort to AC just to write more than 4 comments per day, will hire me for this site whose readers prevent you from writing comments, to improve the comment quality of this site?

                cool. buy the buzztard a $1000 subscription. this site, which upvotes me and downvotes you into oblivion, is always happy to gave your cash. If you do that, I guarantee I will not make fun of a single person here for a year, get my entertainment on techdirt instead.

                deal?

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday December 29 2020, @01:13PM (1 child)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday December 29 2020, @01:13PM (#1092443) Homepage Journal

      I don't get/have to live anyone else's life, so of course it's only considering mine. Sounds to me like you have some serious issues with materialism and envy.

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      My rights don't end where your fear begins.
      • (Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Tuesday December 29 2020, @01:37PM

        by fakefuck39 (6620) on Tuesday December 29 2020, @01:37PM (#1092447)

        yes yes, people who want to be secure and stable even if they can't work for health or other reasons, take care of their family and siblings and parents, be able to see the world and travel - they have serious issues with materialism. that's the explanation that's reasonable. because if it's not, you would be a complete loser at this life of yours. but you're a winner buddy, so it's got to be the materialism thing.

        tell me, if you get cancer and are in bed for 10 years, eating up about 250k/year in finances, too sick to work and on meds. how are you, your kids, and your wife doing at that point? any younger siblings who haven't made it yet and are in debt, and need a helping hand - how are they doing now? how about you wake up and there's fire around you, and you can't walk or see again? you still enjoying that boat?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 31 2020, @03:54PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 31 2020, @03:54PM (#1093262)

      If all of that first paragraph is true, I'm quite impressed. But you exude much ire, negativity, and unhappiness, so I'm sad for you. But maybe you vent it all out here, and you're otherwise happy? Or maybe you're building up your unhappiness here; maybe it's not therapeutic for you (or anyone else) but reinforcing the negativity?

      • (Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Thursday December 31 2020, @04:10PM

        by fakefuck39 (6620) on Thursday December 31 2020, @04:10PM (#1093270)

        I'm here to be an asshole. I don't hide it - that's what anonymous internet forums are for, and it is helpful to have an outlet for that. You being sad or happy for me is irrelevant - your opinion on anything is irrelevant. You're confusing comments on an internet forum with talking to a group of people. They're not.