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Standard disclaimer:Leave your loathing of meta, World of Warcraft, or community diariesoutside. If you think we should be playing your MMO instead, start aguild and write a recruitment diary. Don't leave a comment here andthen get all hurtful when it...
by Moody Loner
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on Thu Mar 16, 2017 at 11:43 AM PDT
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Standard disclaimer:Leave your loathing of meta, World of Warcraft, or community diaries outside. If you think we should be playing your MMO instead, start a guild and write a recruitment diary. Don't leave a comment here and then get all hurtful when...
by Moody Loner
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on Thu Mar 09, 2017 at 03:58 PM PST
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I was never what they call very well socialized. To this day I have trouble watching a film or cartoon whose basic premise is that the stupider people are, the funnier (or more romantically riveting) they are. I’ve never been able to understand the fun...
by siab
25 comments
on Fri Mar 03, 2017 at 12:20 AM PST
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Standard disclaimer:Leave your loathing of meta, World of Warcraft, or community diaries outside. If you think we should be playing your MMO instead, start a guild and write a recruitment diary. Don't leave a comment here and then get all hurtful when...
by Moody Loner
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on Thu Mar 02, 2017 at 11:30 AM PST
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Nota bene: If you manage to read this without losing it, you're not one of the people I'm writing it to/for.
A certain percentage of current postings still devolve into an oh, so simple request:
I am quite willing to discuss ways that we can work...
by siab
37 comments
on Wed Mar 01, 2017 at 08:21 AM PST
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Washington, D.C. — With ticker tape and pomp harkening back to the victory parades of World War Two, all the branches of our military services shined bright on this cloudy day. With ISIS defeated and Exxon rebuilding the oil fields, our troops were...
by El Pinche Tejano
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on Tue Feb 28, 2017 at 09:35 PM PST
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In 2014, Pew released its annual survey showing which news sources were trusted or distrusted, broken down by ideological affiliation:
Some Pew polls from 2015 were more detailed:
Everyone will of course attribute their own...
by Lenny Flank
112 comments
on Sat Feb 25, 2017 at 11:17 AM PST
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Standard disclaimer:Leave your loathing of meta, World of Warcraft, or community diaries outside. If you think we should be playing your MMO instead, start a guild and write a recruitment diary. Don't leave a comment here and then get all hurtful when...
by Moody Loner
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on Thu Feb 23, 2017 at 10:04 AM PST
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Imagine, if you will, a world in which Donald Trump is a fantastic success and truly the most greatest (president, person, manboy) ruler on the flat earth. A world in which all the Democrats, along with the coastal elites and the libtards, are merely...
by John M Webb
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on Sun Feb 19, 2017 at 09:39 PM PST
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The headline is not mine, but rather from USA Today.
www.usatoday.com/…
The article itself is consistent with the previous reporting of the McCain interview, which has been well discussed on Egberto Willies’ recommended list diary...
by VeganMilitia
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on Sun Feb 19, 2017 at 02:52 PM PST
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Dear everybody. Especially everybody who drops a complaint into a diary and walks away.
The Help Desk just took down a diary, on accusations of plagiarism. It had been up for three days. In that time, at least two different people from Welcome New...
by siab
107 comments
on Thu Feb 16, 2017 at 12:50 PM PST
with 135 Recommends
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Standard disclaimer: Leave your loathing of meta, World of Warcraft, or community diaries outside. If you think we should be playing your MMO instead, start a guild and write a recruitment diary. Don't leave a comment here and then get all hurtful when...
by Moody Loner
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on Thu Feb 16, 2017 at 10:28 AM PST
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gjohnsit was one of the writers that I always read here. Past tense read, not current read.
He had an international take on current events, and was a returned Peace Corps Volunteer, as I am. He was a pretty steady poster of diaries, over 700, well...
by Karl Rover
192 comments
on Wed Feb 15, 2017 at 08:26 PM PST
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Today we are launching a number of bug fixes and enhancements to the story editor. For the most part these changes are refinements effecting more advanced uses of the editor. Our design goal for the story editor has been to create an interface that...
by Jason Libsch
19 comments
on Thu Feb 16, 2017 at 12:31 PM PST
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Standard disclaimer: Leave your loathing of meta, World of Warcraft, or community diaries outside. If you think we should be playing your MMO instead, start a guild and write a recruitment diary. Don't leave a comment here and then get all hurtful when...
by Moody Loner
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on Thu Feb 09, 2017 at 10:34 AM PST
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Okay. #ShePersisted. We won the day and maybe even the week. Celebrate that!
But there is another flurry of activity coming soon.
Step two in the showdown over Rule 19 is to deflect racism onto the Democratic party. This is not a casual attack...
by John M Webb
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on Wed Feb 08, 2017 at 11:36 PM PST
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As you might know I often ask or write about musical issues.
Tonight I am asking you to do as the above gif asks… submit *one* song that means a lot to you, so we all can get to know one another.
I submit “Bridge Over Troubled Water” as my...
by BFSkinner
46 comments
on Tue Feb 07, 2017 at 06:33 PM PST
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Standard disclaimer: Leave your loathing of meta, World of Warcraft, or community diaries outside. If you think we should be playing your MMO instead, start a guild and write a recruitment diary. ...
by Moody Loner
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on Thu Feb 02, 2017 at 10:21 AM PST
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And that is just about the level of discourse on this website. Phooey. 12 comments
on Wed Feb 01, 2017 at 04:46 PM PST
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Yes, I’m serious. Well, only because the situation is. If it were just a bit less fraught, I’d be laughing my ass off right now. You think we’ve been working through the stages of grief since the election? It’s going to be nothing compared to what our...
by siab
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on Wed Feb 01, 2017 at 10:57 AM PST
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