That why I held out with MySpace for so long before I finally relented to migrated to Facebook . . . at least Facebook, you could actually fully customize the appearance of your profile, you could embed music and videos on your profile, and there was also that blogging featuring.
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J_Scarbrough wrote:You could do a lot of customisation with Myspace, true, and it had usefulness and usability beyond the basic bad coding of crappy facebook, but my issue with MySpace was that it encouraged people to make profile pages that exactly resembled all the crap we used to joke about with bad free websites made on Geocities and Angelfire etc XD
That why I held out with MySpace for so long before I finally relented to migrated to Facebook . . . at least Facebook, you could actually fully customize the appearance of your profile, you could embed music and videos on your profile, and there was also that blogging featuring.
I mean they used huge mismatched images and background, millions of links and font, hundreds of animated gifs, and auto-playing music. This was the mid 2000s and yet for some strange reason people were exactly replicating what we all laughed about in he mid 90s. XD
Has anyone confirmed whether “Tom” from MySpace is/was a real person. I did have a college friend who knew someone who claimed to know him in real life. The reason I bring this up is because I was recently rewatching the Agent Smith interrogation scene from the Matrix (1999) and Neo’s full name was Thomas Anderson, which shares the same last name as “Tom” from MySpace.
J_Scarbrough wrote:Tom was every user's Number One Friend.
I just remember whenever somebody registered an account on MySpace, Tom was always the first person who was on your friends list.
When DD instituted our silly friend system, which doesn't do much, we copied that Myspace thing which was just becoming popular at the time. Afterall we started before Myspace hahaha! But we didn't do friend stuff till we came back from the dead in 2006 I think.
Anyway, Volte was everyone's friend because he was our creator and founder XD
It's sad and strange how sexist our culture still is I find- in weird ways.
Mostly from guys, especially young men who think women should be more "feminine" (It's 2023 man, get with it you idiots), but also from women as well who continue to talk about the "female experience" as something other and unusual… A weird kind of internalised sexisim where being male is seen as normal and the default while being female is unusual and unique.
That's just so ewwww when you think about it. Our culture is still massively unblanced. Still male focussed.
Even though we seem more equal now and we've made great strides the existence of that type of thinking indicates we have a long way to go.
It is all male point of view. Men just don't get it so women are all mysterious and different. Can't be that men are too busy with beer and football to pay attention to the needs, wants and desires of another person. Oh no, it's mysterious and "feminine ".
That'll be the guy who's barely ever spent fifteen minutes talking to a woman other than his mother. XD ;p
I love having fun with these archetypes and stereotypes. Yeah, they were fun in 1930s movies even "battle of the sexes" Hepburn and Tracy movies but can we get a new shtick?
My former doctor who was an old codger well into his 80s before he finally literally dropped dead in church one morning (no really, that's actually how he died) had a philosphy that he was known for: "Women are meant to be loved, not understood."
I've never been one for the dating scene, and I've always considered myself a married-to-my-work kind of guy anyway, but from the perspective of other friends and peers of mine, men my age have absolutely no idea what to do or say around women anymore, a lot of which seems to have stemmed from the whole #MeToo Movement and a resurgence in modern-day Feminism. Apparently, chivarly is the new cheauvanism, so if a man tries to be polite and mannerly for women, like hold doors open, pull chairs out, help them in or out of a vehicle, that's all seen as sexist and misogynistic now… but on the flip side, apparently if the men go so far as to split the check at dinner to keep things fair and equal, then women lose their shit over the man not being decent enough to pay for the whole meal himself.
Is it any small wonder I've never been interested in dating? I only ever fell in love with one woman in my entire life, she used to be a friend of mine, I pined for her for years, though she never returned my feelings because she couldn't see me as anything more than just a friend. In hindsight, I'm glad nothing ever progressed between us, because long about the middle of the previous decade, I gradually saw more and more of her true colors, and realized what a bitch in sheep's clothing she really was: racist, homophobic, xenophobic, misogynistic (yes, she was a misogynist), bigoted… I'll bet now that she lives in Florida, she feels like she's in paradise with all the shit DeSantis has been stirring up down there.
J_Scarbrough wrote:
so if a man tries to be polite and mannerly for women, like hold doors open, pull chairs out, help them in or out of a vehicle, that's all seen as sexist and misogynistic now… but on the flip side, apparently if the men go so far as to split the check at dinner to keep things fair and equal, then women lose their shit over the man not being decent enough to pay for the whole meal himself.
Your whole post is interesting and brings up some points to think about, so I'm not just pulling this out of context to put you in a certain light , it's just that I wan t to to talk about this stuff specifically. :)
Culturally many people Do want to to be seen as their gender, they identify with it strongly and they love to act that role- whether it's a man holding a door or a woman having her chair pulled out for her…
BUT when we get right down to it we're NOT men or women or any of the other genders, we're humans.
I've always found that's the best way to interact with others. As soon as you start thinking in terms of gender it's like thinking in terms of "race" or class in that it changes how you think and act around that person. It harms communication. Just think of them as a fellow person like yourself.
Now if you want to be romantic or intimate that's a different matter entirely XD
There's a song from Camelot that summed it up nicely. Arthur can't understand Gwen so he remembers advice he got from Merlin. To handle a woman "you love her, simply love her." Worked for me for thirty years.
And the couples counseling back when we first got married didn't hurt either.
You know the real reason men don't understand women? Many men don't know how to listen. They know how to do stuff and talk at people and occasionally follow directions (poorly) but not listen.
Empathy begins with listening. Understanding begins with listening. And when you're listening, you're not talking or spouting your opinion but Understanding the other person's wants, needs and desires. One mouth and two ears because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.
But then I've worked very hard at developing these skills and fucked up a lot and still do a lot, but at least I know how and not waving my arms in the air claiming I don't understand. Let me listen awhile, I might get it. If you smell wood burning that means I may even be thinking on it.
LOL no
"Men think like, women think like…" No. This is still part of old sexist patterns.
Even if you say "Oh, women have superior reasoning and empathy…"
It's still the same old sexist patterns.
Yes there are certain biological differences that have an influence and certainly cultural stuff but realistically we don't think that differently at all. Even on sexual stuff guys.
Most of what we think are differences are just perceptions and culture, not reality.
Definitely culture. However at the present time we are stuck with it and Western cultural ideas of gender identity are rapidly supplanting other models.
Males are raised differently from females and that leads to most of the perceived differences. They're perceived, not real beyond a certain point, but that point does exist. But it's a field that is constantly changing and developing.
They are rapidly tracking down the actual alleles that activate certain proteins to determine sexual identity the whole nature versus nurture is sliding back the other way. But then I'm always wrong because I'm a man and as any post feminist married man knows if a man speaks in the woods and there is no woman listening, is he still wrong?
Undoubtedly any single man inevitably is. Lol.
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RIP Paul Reubens, aka Pee-wee Herman.
I grew up watching Pee Wee's Playhouse. This legit made me sad.
PEE-WEE'S PLAYHOUSE was just a little before my time, but PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE pretty much already become a cult film, and it was not uncommon to see it being broadcasted on cable when I was growing up, whether on Disney Channel or HBO . . . I can even remember when TV Land began branching out into airing movies instead of just reruns of classic TV shows, it was the first movie they ever aired.
It's sad he died. He was a very clever man. But for everything he did weirdly I love him for his silly turn in Buffy The Vampire Slayer most. the movie, not the silly spin off TV series.
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It's so annoying how little the rest of Australia thinks of Perth. We're an extremely isolated capital, even in global terms, we're thousands of kilometers away from the rest of the capitals (they're all SUPER close together), but the size of our state is almost half the size of the entire continent. Multiple countries could fit inside this state.
Anyway, I was reading an article headline about "Why is Australia experiencing a warm winter, a climate scientist explains".
Well my state, the biggest in the country has NOT been experiencing a warm winter, in fact temperatures have been bellow average by a significant margin and the coldest on record in some instances.
It would be NICE of them to acknowledge that fact.
Yes climate change is a thing and global warming is real, but it doesn't happen uniformly and some places will cool down because of shifting ocean currents and things. It would be cool of them to acknowledge that instead of just going on with one flat simplified narrative that ignores reality.
Here in Central Europe, we currently had a cold and rainy July, with resumption in August. Some children have never experienced anything like this, after all the hot summers before. Global warming is happening elsewhere, for example in Norlisk, Northern Siberia. It's ten degrees warmer there than here. And let's not even talk about Texas and Baghdad.
That's why I persist in calling it climate change. The general trend worldwide is warming but there's plenty of other things changing because of the warming trend and it's not just hot weather.
New Jersey has always been known for triple H summers (hazy, hot, humid) but not where you can't breathe. Part of it is me aging but they put up that heat advisory and I stay inside.
Yes, I've also heard the Climate Change Not Global Warming sermon a time or two before, but I have to say it's real AF.
Last week is so far the only week this entire summer season where the temps have risen over 90F (32C) . . . and the thing of it is, that actually used to be normal for us up until about 2007 or so; since then, the new normal has been consistently over 90F (32C) for a vast majority of the summer season . . . there were even a few summers in the early 2010s where we saw temps rise as high as 105-110F (40-43C) - one day, it even got up to 115F (46C), which was the highest temps we've ever had.
But it's not just the temps that have been a problem with us, it's the durations of the seasons as well: spring has been coming earlier and earlier, and summer has been lasting longer and longer, which has been diminishing our fall and winter seasons steadily. 2019 was the worst: 90+ degree (32+) weather persisted not only through the entire month of September, but even well into the first week of October, which was insane, because those months, the temps usually drop well into the 80s (26-31) and the 70s (21-26). Our fall seasons are not particularly colorful anymore, and the foliage will start turning green and blooming even by Valentine's Day. I have to tell you, as a fall and winter lover, this really sucks . . . I honestly cannot remember the last time we had a normal/average/seasonal winter season where it actually stays brisk and nippy for the duration of the months of December through February.
The problem is our politicians . . . here in Amurka, our politicians rule with an iron fist, especially the far right GOP, who have been screaming for years the Climate Change is nothing but a liberal hoax . . . then again, they also said COVID was a liberal hoax . . . honestly, just about everything is a liberal hoax to them. Either way, this is why nothing will ever be done about the climate, at least here in the U.S. of A., because as long as the science-denying politicians call the shots, we're basically screwed.
When empirical data is seen as an opportunity to build powerful machines, no one complains.
But when empirical data are somehow seen as threatening, there are recently influential "think" tanks that declare them a (liberal or whatever) hoax. To my knowledge, this did not exist in the 2nd half of the 20th century, and I consider this tendency a clear sign of the breakdown of a science-based society.
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