@dag: I think a lot of people already realize that Roundup Ready seeds are just the first step in a whole lotta trouble agriculturally, and that scheduled Caesareans are just part of the medical industry's money-making scheme...

However, as both are sanctioned and pushed for by very rich and powerful industry interest groups, its going to be hard to convince the populace to fight for change in an industry very few of them actually participate in anymore, or convince women to give up having perfectly round headed babies and keeping a tight va-jay-jay (or so they think anyway)...

As for ADD, well, I think we all know that it is the result of our own video-addled culture... ehem... but, the drugs that we've designed to treat it are just so damn fabulous! I can't wait till my scheduled caesarean babies get old enough to hook me up with pills. 'Bout time our children started giving back a little.

am proposing a new one: IJVIMOM = I Just Vomited In My Own Mouth

Speaking of Miss South Carolina, I ran across this the other day: http://www.bustedtees.com/shirt/misssouthcarolina/female

I am so totally considering ordering one.

WOW! Just fucking WOW! That is so wrong in so many ways that I am at a loss... is this for real?

Plus, images in comments will slow the load time of pages way the hell down, and older threads will likely become littered with 404 errors after a while, as images hosted on other servers are taken down or deleted. All in all, a bad idea. Let's keep this place classy.

I agree on the decision not to allow images in comments... while sometimes I find that it might be handy in the course of discussion, to illustrate something or the other with graphical evidence, I have noticed in other forums that the general quality of discussion seems to fall when people have that power... instead of bothering to type out thoughtful (or at least amusing) replies, they tend to resort to communicating via LOLcats and those godawful animated .gifs that have been floating around the internets since its inception. For Example:

Farhad2000: The GDP is down because... {blah blah blah, more long and extensive background on the matter given in economics-speak Raven does not understand.}

Raven: Okay, but what about the preservation of feminist rights in a country so consistently run by neo-conservative billionaires.... {blah blah blah blah lots of paranoid menstrual ranting}

Choggie: I do likes me some wimmin'... {blah blah blah blah all in choggish and illustrated with a neked pic of Tura Satana.

Farhad2000: {pic of O RLY? Owl}

Raven: {LOLcat Invisible Buttsecks!}

Ant: {proceeds to downvote all comments}

Raven: {Animated .gif of vengeful Jesus flanked by fireball animated .gifs circa 1994, hunted down especially for ant} Oh noes indeed!



Y'all see my point? This is somewhere we don't want to go

Also, I have to agree with CaptWillard that * quality stars are incredibly overused... currently they seem to be handed out like condoms at an AIDS awareness rally.

No prob, after all, lot's of things are cooler than the macarena

In reply to this comment by silvercord:
That was cooler than the Macarena that you did that. Thanks, Raven. Good to see you flyin' around.



In reply to this comment by raven:
*promote

*sexuality *documentary

Sweet! Thanks Lucky!

I would like it if a SiftTalk post was created... I mean, how else would others know if a member is banned? I don't think any of us is in the habit of frequently perusing the profiles of Noobs.

@lucky: I can see the rationale in the case of spam comments... ie the folk just posting links to their websites or products... because those are indeed difficult to get rid of. But I really would feel better if this definition is spelled out somewhere prominently, because I fear it will be misinterpreted as the right to ban anyone a diamond member might feel does not belong here, or could be said to be exhibiting troll-like behavior. But, as much as I or others might dislike trolls, this site should remain committed to free speech and work to protect that right among its users.

That said, I hope you do monitor those banned, but I would almost feel even better if there were some sort of way to make that information public, so others could review it as well, and there can be public oversight of these decisions.

Yes, if instating this was meant to somehow make up for giving everyone gold and above the ability to post embeds from any site then I say, take it back! I am a big enough person to share the powers of free for all post-ability without requiring some unnecessary and potentially abused power being granted in return!

Okay, scratch one off the list:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Bill-Maher-in-Cannibal-Women-in-the-Avacado-Jungle-of-Death

I know it wasn't first on the list, but how could I ignore something like that?

*promote

Damn... that's a lot. Fortunately, my queue was empty at the time so I have nothing to contribute... however, I will be sure to chip in with my promotes, and return as many of these as I can.