Posts by Kracklite
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Hard News: Narcissists and bullies, in reply to Lilith __,
Also, how can this WHOLE ARTICLE never use the R word?? Even once?
Possibly to avoid triggering? That would be my generous interpretation.
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Hard News: Narcissists and bullies, in reply to Jolisa,
Well then, my fingers are forming very interesting knots. I'm glad that Jackson's and "JT's" behaviour is being called out so quickly (if anyone insists on being called by their initials, you can be sure that they're an arsehole).
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Hard News: Narcissists and bullies, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Well, desperately crossing fingers here, but I'm hoping that this affair provokes sceptical discussion of the rape culture epitomised by "Willie and JT", but my hopes aren't high. I have the sinking feeling that blokes like them will make sure that it's once again normalised.
This case may be astounding and shocking, but I don't think for a moment that it's the first - it's only the first that has had publicity.
Still, maybe that in itself may drive some change...
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Hard News: Narcissists and bullies, in reply to Russell Brown,
OK, I managed a couple of minutes of that and no more. Jesus Aitch Tap-Dancing Christ in a Side Car. And that idiot Shearer was thinking that "JT" would be an "asset" to Labour?!
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There's a good discussion initiated by Karol on what Rape Culture means on http://thestandard.org.nz/its-not-just-about-cyber-culture-judith/ by the way. I suppose trigger warnings apply as there are some trolls.
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Hard News: Narcissists and bullies, in reply to Kracklite,
Er, replace the "No" with "Sorry". I don't mean to be adversarial.
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Hard News: Narcissists and bullies, in reply to Kumara Republic,
divide-and-rule
No, it's not divide-and-rule in the sense of setting one side against another. Instead, it's worse: it means ensuring that there is no half versus another half - rather it means escape being defined as ostracism.
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Hard News: Narcissists and bullies, in reply to Russell Brown,
Sadly, a lot of the pressure on other kids to fall in line seems to be coming from young women.
Terrible, but not a surprise to me, I'm afraid. A friend of mine once said that the cheapest way to oppress people is to get them to do it to each other.
I received a demonstration of that when I received an essay from a female Somalian refugee defending the practice of of female "circumcision".
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Hard News: The Big 2012 US Election PAS Thread, in reply to Bevan Shortridge,
He's still writing SF I see...
Now now, let's avoid the cliches. Good SF relies on reasonable and consistent extrapolation from known facts using known principles (with the odd bit of artistic licence such as FTL).
I think that he's using the historiological approach of the counterfactual, which similar to, but nonetheless distinct from hard SF, proposes an alternative to a known fact and extrapolates from that alteration. In this case, he's taking the assumption that Obama is evil incarnate with infinite powers and competence (the unifying characteristic of all conspiracy theorists is that they assume conspirators to be far more competent than history has shown anyone else to be). I expect further thought experiments from him based on the premise that Zeta Reticulians caused the explosion of the Hindenburg and the Mickey Mouse Club had access to time travel technology (suppressed by the Illuminati of course) which enabled them to cause the downfall of the Roman Empire.
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Pete Sime,
He struck me as a forthright and capable chief executive.
I have a violin, but I seem to have lost it down the back of my sofa, probably because it’s so very, very small. I’m sure his salary will compensate for my loss. Nobody forced him at gunpoint to take on that job or to accept his paychecks or his responsibility.
The buck does stop with him on operational matters, though.
Exactly.
I'd like to add: now I know why David fucking Shearer knew why the roof-painting beneficiary was a bludger - it was just so easy to access his files!