Random thought thread!

Papageno · 2013-02-13T12:08:24.000Z

¡Felicitaciones, Juan! (that’s congrats to you non-Spanish speakers)

RichVR · 2013-02-13T17:43:33.000Z

Juan Rayo:

So I´ve been working for years on creating public policy that addresses violence against children and youth in my country. As some might know, Honduras has the dubious honor of being called “murder capital of the world”.

Today, a proposal I worked on last year was signed into law and is now official state policy of the Republic of Honduras. While I have little faith that current government will actually comply with it, I hope that in the future some people in power might just make it happen.

If one life is saved, ONE, I can die a happy man. Just wanted to share because damn, I´m feeling SO GOOD right now.

Juevos grandes! Felicitaciones! Eres lo mejor.

Juan_Rayo · 2013-02-14T06:44:38.000Z

jajaja Gracias!

Kael · 2013-02-17T08:37:35.000Z

Juan Rayo:

So I´ve been working for years on creating public policy that addresses violence against children and youth in my country. As some might know, Honduras has the dubious honor of being called “murder capital of the world”.

Today, a proposal I worked on last year was signed into law and is now official state policy of the Republic of Honduras. While I have little faith that current government will actually comply with it, I hope that in the future some people in power might just make it happen.

If one life is saved, ONE, I can die a happy man. Just wanted to share because damn, I´m feeling SO GOOD right now.

So awesome, I’m so glad there are people like you fighting to make things better.

Clay · 2013-02-17T14:41:29.000Z

Pogue Mahone:

Norovirus is an unpleasant word but does not begin to do justice to the actual bug.

My whole family has norovirus now. I feel like I’m going to die. They surely do, too. Vomitorium. Incredibly severe diarrhea. I just fainted in the shower. crying in a filthy ball on the bathroom floor

fire · 2013-02-17T15:28:43.000Z

Noro is hell. Sorry, kids.

Papageno · 2013-02-17T18:11:21.000Z

Is that a variant of the flu or something?

Guildenstern · 2013-02-18T14:26:04.000Z

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Time to play Is it racist?

Blips · 2013-02-18T19:09:52.000Z

Can’t concentrate on work due to intense hunger.
Devour plate of food to satisfy stomach’s anger.
Too full to concentrate on work.

Blips · 2013-02-18T19:10:17.000Z

edit -oops double post-

Balasarius · 2013-02-19T06:25:29.000Z

Hey, the forum upgrade fixed this thread. Yay.

HEX716 · 2013-02-19T08:41:40.000Z

Guildenstern:

Time to play Is it racist?

No, it’s more than likely based on store inventory and knowing what has been stolen in the past and trying to prevent that but in the world we live in now were supposed to just look the other way or your racist.

ScottyA · 2013-02-19T09:10:57.000Z

The new Nick Cave album is fucking fantastic.

ibdoomed · 2013-02-19T11:40:49.000Z

Is the economy still deteriorating? I thought it was getting better until I tried to get lunch today and discovered that within the past week or two, 3 places that have been around for at least a decade are out of business. Local joints, not chains (one deli, one bbq spot, and a bakery) and not located even remotely close to each other. Then I tried to go to a burger chain to just get anything to eat and the damn homeless people were camping in the drive through.

Teiman · 2013-02-22T03:31:19.000Z

So…

You can’t directly measure corruption in a society. If you ask people, you will get neutral opinions even on very corrupted countries. You are not measuring here corruption, but moral panic.

To measure corruption you have to ask people what he find acceptable. People in some countries see as normal practice, and not corruption at all, to give brives to the police. Or maybe to brive politicians (the USA lobby system). Or to brive officials in other areas. The more these practices are tolerated, the more corrupt is a country.

A example of how useless other measures are:
Most USA citizens don’t think the lobby system, where people with money can buy laws, as a corrupted system. Because is legal. Only illegal corruption is consider corruption. Wen the corruption is made legal, it fail out of the vision.
Again USA citizens don’t consider economic lobbies using TV to control opinion with reality-altering news networks like Fox News corruption. It don’t break any law, is just “something that people with a lot of money can do”.

If you move to Saudi Arabia, probably the “blood money” a rich family pay to poor family will not be see as “corruption”.

I despise moral relativism. What is wrong is wrong here, in Saudi Arabia and in USA.

Teiman · 2013-02-22T03:31:52.000Z

double post

Clay · 2013-02-28T10:30:39.000Z

I want to play the new SimCity, the new Tomb Raider, and Bioshock Infinite. However, my wife is due to give birth to our second child next week, which means I’ll be playing EA’s new Diaper Change Simulator (with micro-transactions) instead. I mean, I hope they are micro transactions.

Scuzz · 2013-02-28T11:54:56.000Z

Clay:

I want to play the new SimCity, the new Tomb Raider, and Bioshock Infinite. However, my wife is due to give birth to our second child next week, which means I’ll be playing EA’s new Diaper Change Simulator (with micro-transactions) instead. I mean, I hope they are micro transactions.

That is one shitty simulator.

RichVR · 2013-02-28T15:16:07.000Z

27 years later and I’m still traumatized from changing my son’s diapers.

Kael · 2013-03-04T18:28:22.000Z

That game is crap.