>> ^carneval:

dead


Fixed and thanks.

@aaronfr -- it seems to me it is quite likely that there was equipment failure. How is this her fault? Can we tell from this? Did she know she was about to go live? How do you tell when you are in the field? This isn't my industry, I don't know how things work, just impressions from watching movies, docs, TV shows.

My objection is to ever using the phrase "dumb bitch." Call her a stupid idiot, fine. Dumb bitch is directed at her gender. Prick isn't an attack on the male gender.

I won't bore you with why that is so. I am being to suspect a basic gender difference in the way that men and women interact with the world, beginning with childhood. There is a rough and tumble nature to boy's play that, generally speaking, is missing from girls'.

Thanks for your thoughtful and respectful response. I really appreciate the added layer of the field reporter/producer dynamic.

The world is a complicated place. It will never be perfect.

Oop, time for a friendly tumble down the stairs.
>> ^eric3579:

Congratulations on your pregnancy!!! I'm so happy for you!!!! When are you due?

>> ^shagen454:

It's crazy that the bike is flying backwards


You can see it's still tumbling forwards, but is travelling a hell of a lot slower than the oncoming bike.

Yep! That's me! The hall monitor.

Glad to know that you think bk33 crossed the line. That wasn't clear before.

I completely agree with you that this rash of banning has been unpleasant. I completely agree with you that ban-hammering without discussion is wrong and destructive of a sense of good community.

What you might not know is how much I have done to un-ban folks and try to prevent bans from happening. Concrete action, done privately. And not just for the privileged elite who have been around for awhile -- I have been trying to help the sift be more welcoming towards noobies.

Where we disagree is about taking concrete action to make the sift a safe(r) place for everyone. You have a wonderfully thick skin when it comes to rough and tumble games, blankie. It is part of your charm and your humor.

But just because it is fun for you, that doesn't mean the rest of us are having such a grand old time. There needs to be space for everyone. This means some of us have to work on getting a tougher skin. Some of us need to back off from the trolling when it becomes clear that a line has been crossed and things have suddenly become ugly.

TL DR: We all have to adjust to each other, right? Isn't that what a good community does?



>> ^blankfist:

Look at me, I'm a hall monitor, and I like to invoke . Oh teacher! Oh teacher! Did you see that someone over here hasn't done their homework, teacher?!
Hey @bareboards2, I think bk33 did cross the line. I just don't think we're promoting a good community by perma-banning people every week who've been longstanding members, especially on their first offense. I think we need to take a step back from the central planning and recognize that the Sift is a generally good site with generally good people. If you want to see rampant racist comments please go check out YT.

You're silly!

Neither was mine, originally. I was just afforded an opportunity to elaborate, which I love to do....

>> ^dannym3141:

>> ^bareboards2:
Silly is in the eye of the beholder, naturally.... I see a man who looks one way, sounds another, and is making the most profound psychological and emotional statement about human expectations and stereotypes.
This is living proof how someone can be passionate about two very different things -- 1) opera which takes incredible training and dedication and 2) being rough and tumble and incredibly strong, which takes hours in the gym building that amazing body.
Sometimes taking your shirt off is political, not silly.
So for me, this is brilliant and mind blowing.
Doesn't mean it isn't silly to you, of course!

>> ^dannym3141:
>> ^bareboards2:
Hey! How is this silly???

Cos he's got his shirt off


My comment was not meant that seriously

>> ^bareboards2:

Silly is in the eye of the beholder, naturally.... I see a man who looks one way, sounds another, and is making the most profound psychological and emotional statement about human expectations and stereotypes.
This is living proof how someone can be passionate about two very different things -- 1) opera which takes incredible training and dedication and 2) being rough and tumble and incredibly strong, which takes hours in the gym building that amazing body.
Sometimes taking your shirt off is political, not silly.
So for me, this is brilliant and mind blowing.
Doesn't mean it isn't silly to you, of course!

>> ^dannym3141:
>> ^bareboards2:
Hey! How is this silly???

Cos he's got his shirt off



My comment was not meant that seriously

Silly is in the eye of the beholder, naturally.... I see a man who looks one way, sounds another, and is making the most profound psychological and emotional statement about human expectations and stereotypes.

This is living proof how someone can be passionate about two very different things -- 1) opera which takes incredible training and dedication and 2) being rough and tumble and incredibly strong, which takes hours in the gym building that amazing body.

Sometimes taking your shirt off is political, not silly.

So for me, this is brilliant and mind blowing.

Doesn't mean it isn't silly to you, of course!


>> ^dannym3141:

>> ^bareboards2:
Hey! How is this silly???

Cos he's got his shirt off

6 minutes!

It appears that the Sun got hold of this CCTV footage of a man so impossibly wankered he appears almost indestructible.

CCTV -- there to protect and entertain.


Incredible how the earth shakes like that and he stays poised and balanced the whole time.

Considering the way the plane tumbled in free fall to the ground and exploded in a large ball of fire, I wouldn't call it amazing if only 7 out of 160 people on board died, I would call it a fucking miracle and immediately convert to Islam.

[Wow, this sorta tumbled off topic but we'll see where it goes.]

      1.] Slavery bit

Declining profitability & the industrial revolution ended slavery.
Federal regulations were implemented later, mostly as political platforms.

If you're Britain, and the paid-workers of Brazil or Cuba can produce more sugarcane at lower prices compared to slave-workers.. which side of slavery would you support?

If you're an American plantation owner, how much money are you willing to waste rebuilding your business after every, rapidly increasing slave revolt?

If you're an American or European Labor Union supporter, are you going to buy sugar or textiles from companies that don't pay their workers?

[No, you might even start a petition to enact legislation.]

      2.] Regulation ≠ Improvement

You and @peggedbea seem to think I'm implying that oligarchs should be allowed off some magical leash called regulation.

What I should have articulated first, was the understanding that:
Regulation & incentive - sticks & carrots - work counter-intuitively, more often than not.

Think about it. Is it the people typing up the regulations or the management?
Is it the workers writing up the wage laws or the owners?

If you're a small business owner who you can't afford to pay your workers minimum wage, you're out of the game before you can even start.

Regulations are the Oligarchs best tool to maintain or expand their power.

Mostly because folks like you & Bea legitimize their authority thru your support of regulation as the best thing since sliced bread.

      Lastly

While I support truly free economic exchange, I also support single payer universal health care.

It's possible for them both to exist together at once.

The sooner more people are allowed into the market..
the sooner capitalist fundamentalist healthcare oligarchs will be overlooked because someone offers a better service.

[Again, are you gonna buy from the small, local owner whose minimum wage is slightly below your standards.

..Or the giant multinational conglomerate who uses Southeast Asian slave labor.]

These things tend to work themselves out.

Attempting to elicit obedience from the oligarch only causes problem for all of us you aren't powerful enough to game the system like they can.

Hence, why free economic exchange - yes even the darker side - is necessary for true liberty.



>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

http://videosift.com/video/Ber
nie-Sanders-slaps-down-Rand-Paul-Health-care-as-slavery?loadcomm=1#comment-1205705

[redacted]

>> ^Mcboinkens:
To be fair, what has the ISS accomplished? It seems ignorant to ask, and the budget is much, much smaller in comparison, but if we are arguing what spending could be cut, pretty much anything could be a target.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN-gR9040fw

Because it's what's next. Right now it seems a drowsy step as we tumble into the larger stellar neighborhood, but every step we take away from our cradle ensures that it will not necessarily be our grave. The distances involved seem insurmountable, but so too did the distance between Eurasia and the Americas might have seemed to an ancestor, astride a hollowed out log (and even then, the Polynesians navigated unimaginable distances with tech that was hardly better than that ancestor). We need this as a species. I believe but cannot prove that a greater malaise has infected us as a species due to light pollution. Take a city kid out to a field in the middle of nowhere, and show him the Milky Way in all its glory, and he will gasp in transcendental delight. We no longer see such wonders, except as static images in books and on TV. We do need to feed the masses of humanity, but I believe that an understanding of our place in things makes us more likely to see that we are 'trapped' here, and need to care for our fellow prisoners, and that we will never truly escape unless we all go as one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVbnRbTi5XA

At least since the 19th century:
http://u1.ipernity.com/1/20/22/4152022.e4726e8a.560.jpg

>> ^sirex:
sarcasm detector is broken - since when was gynastics manly ?