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I had a technical interview that went moderately well! The questions were kind of easy, but at the same time, I know I did better than many programmers would have. Woohoo! One more phone interview, and then an on-site. Ah, this is bad. I'm getting optimistic again. Last time that happened I missed my flight to an interview in Michigan, had to book a replacement flight, got there two hours late without any sleep, and didn't get the job. LET'S NOT DO THAT AGAIN, EH?

SMNC is not terrible, but it's not great, either. I wonder if they'll ever make it great. It could be. ): Someone talked about this around me recently. It sounded interesting. U:

Well, that's interesting. I thought I got pretty involved in the discussion about humor. Part of the reason I stopped, in fact, is because I was afraid if I kept going I'd start screaming at some fools at the internet. As far as I'm concerned, everyone who disagreed with me is well-see-you-almost-made-me-do-it. Trust me, if we'd had this discussion in the real world, with our mouth-holes, I'd have called everyone involved stupid multiple times. Not necessarily because I think people are idiots. It's just, uh, I can get too emotionally involved in things, and that's kind of a default go-to thing when I get flustered. But at least in real life people can take my extreme overreactions for what they are: a dumb dude talkin'. I try to moderate myself on the internet because 1) I have time to actually think about my responses, instead of being put on the spot, and 2) it's hard to read text the right way! C'MOOON! Well, that's interesting. Again! I am of the opinion that completely objective observations should involve zero emotion. SCIENCE! Or whatever. The motivation for making those observations can, of course, be overflowing with anger, disgust, desire, etc. Maybe even the results make you excited as all hell. But when it comes time to make those observations, you gots ta reel it in, guy! It is straight-up crazy to present them with emotion. It taints your argument. It marks you as someone involved. Someone biased. That's bad! In my opinion. I'm sorry you feel that way. You're wrong. The misunderstanding, I guess, lies in that I'd rather not waste my energy continuing to argue about things when we've already reached a stopping point. Running around in circles is hardly constructive, and that's a point we had reached in discussing of humor. Following that, I made an observation and drew a conclusion from that observation, and was subsequently accused of intentionally perpetuating bigotry (based on the previous discussion, granted, but it was used as leverage to dismiss my observations). Given this insult to my person, fuck that. I have better things to do! Just for the sake of saying it: had it been a dismissal of my conclusion, rather than my observation, I'd have been much more forgiving. Conclusions - especially on a topic such as this - are almost always subjective, unless you're dealing with hard numbers and statistics. The rest of your post is interesting but has nothing to do with why I posted the way I did, so I'm not going to respond to it. Also, you may be interested to know that you've made me self-conscious now, so I went back and spiced things up with more exclamation points and a couple ALL-CAPSes. You've also forced me to turn this into the thing I hate most! A thread derailment about me. ): Scrobbs: Pretty much everybody has these kinds of thoughts, no matter how much they might deny it. Men for women, women for men, whites for blacks, blacks for whites. Sometimes they're negative thoughts, sometimes they're positive. It doesn't even really matter what the thoughts are. It's how we act on them that makes us who we are, that marks as as good or bad people. I wouldn't spend so much time worrying about random thoughts that might occur to you. At least not until you go on a murderous rampage. Then you can start worrying! (I mean, not that we shouldn't always strive to better ourselves. Just don't let it bother you!)

I gave in and started watching Community and oh man this is great.

I tried to learn piano once (as my trumpet teacher also knew piano), but it went nowhere fast. I don't even remember why. Maybe she thought I sucked. OR MORE LIKELY I WAS A GODLY TRUMPET PLAYER AND SHE DIDN'T WANT TO RUIN ME. Man the more I think about it, the more I miss playing the trumpet. I need to get a sound-proofed room! Or a house. U:

um "okay" Given that I'm talking about the public perception of what feminism is actually all about, according to your logic, I'm more entitled to objectivity than someone, quote-unquote, in the know. However. I did my part! I have no interest in continuing to talk about this. The previous discussion re: jokes, humor, etc.? Hell yes. Not this accusation of perpetuation of bigotry. Now, I'm out. It's possible you were joking, in which case, I apologize. But given my experience in this entire thread so far... I doubt it?

Yeah, I can jive that kinda feelin'.

Thank you for literally being the first person to ever actually give me a good reason for why New Simpsons isn't as good as Old Simpsons! As someone who has watched little of either, I've always wondered, but none of the blindly raging fanboys ever explain it to me. ):

I miss playing an instrument. ): Unfortunately, the only one I was ever really any good at is a NOISY one. Hard to play trumpet in an apartment complex. In other words, I'm jealous! Grats.

lolwat Nice, ThunderPeel.

Well, that was the point. I wasn't passing judgment on feminism, its contractors, detractors, definitions, or connotations in any capacity. I was attempting to make a purely objective observation on what it meant to people (whether or not I succeeded is, of course, another matter entirely), and then a subjective assertion on what it would take to change things. I don't feel the need to express any sort of emotion for something like that. Do you? I honestly don't care if I'm misquoted. If/when it happens, I'll make an effort to clarify for and/or correct the misquoter. Beyond that, it's out of my hands, anyway.

Yeah I was never saying people SHOULD come up with a new word. Just that it'd probably be necessary. It doesn't matter how much information is freely available to prove people's perceptions wrong - those perceptions are STUCK. It takes a collective desire to reinform on a massive scale. Something like that... just isn't really a feasible thing to expect to happen ever. It would take an enormously huge event to change things. The nuclear bomb of feminism (except, you know, a good thing, instead of killing a bunch of people).

Well, the problem is, this response makes no sense in the context of what I said. I'm only talking about the public perception. As far as my post is concerned, I don't give a shit what the word actually implies. Yufster expressed dismay that people don't know what feminism actually is all about. I submitted that, "well, that's probably impossible to change". Never once did I actually supply a definition of the word, or even attempt to, so your shutting me down kind of made little to no sense, and was also kind of dickish (although I actually didn't think you meant it that way, or I would've reacted more harshly). But! I'm not offended, so don't worry about it. Just know for the future or whateverrrrrrrrrrrrr.

AFAIK it still does well. New Simpsons has its own set of fans. I'm 25 and I've only ever seen like maybe twenty or so episodes of The Simpsons. I've never been a big fan. Not to say I don't like it, but it's nothing special to me. Sorry for ruining your life, Jake! My parents wouldn't let me watch it when I was younger, and by the time they would, Futurama was always more my schtick. U: I could've sworn I heard it was going to be finished soon, though. But that probably happens every two years, so what do I know.

I'm, uh, only responding to Yufster.

Well, it is, as you say, in the name. It takes a LOT to change an assumed definition or connotation of a word. It doesn't help that, any time feminism gets any publicity, it's at the hands of a woman. Sometimes it's an absurd fanaticist, sometimes it's an entirely reasonable human being, but almost always it's a woman. I think the only real way you're going to get your wish is if someone comes up with a completely new word for the movement. Even that would be a hard sell, since one of the biggest points the movement attempts to make is that women get the short end of the stick. After all, how many people, to this day, refer to tissues as "Kleenex"? Marketing has so ingrained the word Kleenex as being synonymous with tissues that some people don't even realize they're using a brand name. I didn't, for the longest time, as a kid. Feminism's, uh, "marketing" has worked out in much the same way, just... whereas the Kleenex company got what they wanted... feminists didn't.

): EDIT: Yay!

Yes, a single colon goes like : : : : : : : Since I'm weird and I use backward smilies, like so - ): - it fucks ERRYFING up. Although it's kind of an appropriate troll, since I explicitly use backwards smilies to avoid their image equivalents. (I'm not a fan of images for the most part.)

This thing is ENORMOUS. Every picture I see makes it bigger! I kind of want it, but hey, no income, so that's not something I have to worry about!

That's my new favorite, as well.

Murder of crows. Group of crows is called a murder.

I use Alt-Q,W,E,A,S,D for items! And then control groups are the numbers.

I mean it's arbitrary in the sense that everyone's line is different. I thought this was clear, since I said that probably an annoying number of times in one of my posts somewhere. I stand by what I said, although I apologize for any confusion.

It is kind of insincere, and intentionally so. It wasn't really an apology, except in the sense that I'm apologizing to you for wasting your time. You and others keep trying to tell me I'm wrong to believe the way I do! As I think I've displayed, I hold to these beliefs very strongly. Nothing thus far has changed my mind, and you're now only repeating what's already been said, but in a slightly different way. EDIT: And, hah! Thinking on it more, if nothing else, this debate has only further cemented my beliefs. I make fun of my roommate for being Asian all the goddamn time. I've called him a third-world savage (even though he's obviously not), and made fun of his language skills (even though he speaks perfect English and, in fact, English is one of Singapore's four official languages), and etc. He, likewise, mocks me for being a fat, lazy American. I mean, none of these things are really that... funny. I'll be the first to admit. We're just friends mocking each other. Yet, we're also both undeniably people. If you find this kind of, uhm, "humor" acceptable, I'm going to assume it's because we're friends and that makes it okay. Yet another arbitrary line, much like the one you draw for abortion.

I don't consider uh poop jokes to be offensive! Stupid, probably. Rude or crude, sure. Offensive, no, not really.