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« Reply #360 on: November 11, 2017, 07:26:49 pm »
Seems like my argument is supported in the literature:

Yes it is, which is why I posted it when I found it. 

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« Reply #361 on: November 11, 2017, 09:26:05 pm »
Why ?  How does that change the premise?

You need to laugh more.

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« Reply #362 on: November 12, 2017, 10:38:59 am »
You need to laugh more.

Inscrutability is hard to make funny, David S. Pumpkins not withstanding.

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« Reply #363 on: November 12, 2017, 11:40:13 am »
Is 'tagging' possible on here ?

If so - can we tag anecdotes in the news that have little impact to policy, or potential for interesting discussion.  I am thinking of 'outrage ****' as a tag, ie. "this individual did something morally unacceptable and we are collectively SHOCKED... SHOCKED I SAY."

I come here to use my brain to express ideas, and to use my brain to ingest ideas.  Outrage **** constipates that, greatly.

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« Reply #364 on: November 12, 2017, 11:50:50 am »
Is 'tagging' possible on here ?

If so - can we tag anecdotes in the news that have little impact to policy, or potential for interesting discussion.  I am thinking of 'outrage ****' as a tag, ie. "this individual did something morally unacceptable and we are collectively SHOCKED... SHOCKED I SAY."

I come here to use my brain to express ideas, and to use my brain to ingest ideas.  Outrage **** constipates that, greatly.

Be careful what you wish for.  Outrage is in the eye of the beholder. 

Or would it be a tag just for your use?
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« Reply #365 on: November 12, 2017, 11:58:22 am »
Be careful what you wish for.  Outrage is in the eye of the beholder. 

Or would it be a tag just for your use?

Tagging as a function is for everybody.  And I have to guess outrage **** is pretty easy to categorize.  Maybe people are responsible for tagging it from their side of the street only.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/kelloggs-accused-racism-after-janitor-11410842

Some idiot at Kellogs put one black guy on something, cartoon form.  It was a janitor.  Stupid.  So complain to Kellogs and fix it.  It doesn't need to be in the news. 

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« Reply #366 on: November 12, 2017, 12:11:15 pm »
Tagging as a function is for everybody.  And I have to guess outrage **** is pretty easy to categorize.  Maybe people are responsible for tagging it from their side of the street only.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/kelloggs-accused-racism-after-janitor-11410842

Some idiot at Kellogs put one black guy on something, cartoon form.  It was a janitor.  Stupid.  So complain to Kellogs and fix it.  It doesn't need to be in the news.

Maybe it doesn't, but someone thought it was wrong.  Maybe others of the same mind think we should know about it.

Isn't one of the topics we often discuss, on here and the other site, the vast number of people with a sudden propensity to take offense at the merest self perceived slight, and demand the most disproportionate consequence imaginable?

I think we would be lesser people if we didn't mock them for their fragility.
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« Reply #367 on: November 12, 2017, 12:16:14 pm »
Tagging as a function is for everybody.  And I have to guess outrage **** is pretty easy to categorize.  Maybe people are responsible for tagging it from their side of the street only.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/kelloggs-accused-racism-after-janitor-11410842

Some idiot at Kellogs put one black guy on something, cartoon form.  It was a janitor.  Stupid.  So complain to Kellogs and fix it.  It doesn't need to be in the news.

That is kinda weird.  It reminds me on the time Arsenal FC, a London football club, decided to replace a stand at one end of their ground.  To hide the construction, they built a life size facade and painted the crowd on.  Then someone noticed all the faces were white.  Thousands of them.  A quick repaint was ordered.

Edit>  Actually, I was curious about this incident as I hadn't heard of it since it occurred, so I looked it up.  The criticism was for not enough non-white faces, not none at all.

Then it got into the realm of the Pythonesque.  I assume this article is humour, but you never know...

http://barrettsonthisday.anorak.co.uk/uncategorized/2111/highbury-mural-unveiled.html
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« Reply #368 on: November 12, 2017, 12:19:17 pm »
Maybe it doesn't, but someone thought it was wrong.  Maybe others of the same mind think we should know about it.

Sure.  How does tagging it prevent that ?

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Isn't one of the topics we often discuss, on here and the other site, the vast number of people with a sudden propensity to take offense at the merest self perceived slight, and demand the most disproportionate consequence imaginable?

Yes, exactly. 

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I think we would be lesser people if we didn't mock them for their fragility.

Yes, feel free to mock people who you will never meet, an **** out of millions, maybe one who lives in Texas or on a campus in the UK.  Let's do that.  Let's talk about it, and maybe tag it...

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« Reply #369 on: November 12, 2017, 12:21:32 pm »
That is kinda weird.  It reminds me on the time...

Yes, this is a 'who cares' story to me.  The kind of news that gets plenty of play already and nobody with any background knowledge of history, policy, government is fully qualified to opine on.  That's a valid type of online discussion.  Kind of like "did you see the guy wearing that weird hat ?"...

I am saying I'd appreciate a way to file those away so I can focus on stories that I CAN'T find everywhere on the web.

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« Reply #370 on: November 12, 2017, 12:25:32 pm »
Yes, this is a 'who cares' story to me.  The kind of news that gets plenty of play already and nobody with any background knowledge of history, policy, government is fully qualified to opine on.  That's a valid type of online discussion.  Kind of like "did you see the guy wearing that weird hat ?"...

I am saying I'd appreciate a way to file those away so I can focus on stories that I CAN'T find everywhere on the web.

Go back and read my edit.  Funny article.

Sure, tag them if you want.
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« Reply #371 on: November 12, 2017, 12:35:57 pm »
Go back and read my edit.  Funny article.

Yeah but ... I just said ...

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Sure, tag them if you want.

Do we have tagging ?   I don't see it.

But you know what'll happen.  The argument will be then become about what was tagged and by whom, instead of the subject itself.

Maybe a 2nd from somebody on the other side of the street.   
 

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« Reply #372 on: November 12, 2017, 12:39:49 pm »
Yeah but ... I just said ...
   

It just seemed like you had replied too quickly to have seen my edit.
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« Reply #373 on: November 12, 2017, 12:51:09 pm »
It just seemed like you had replied too quickly to have seen my edit.

Fine.  Out of forum courtesy I went to the link you insisted I read.  I don't know why you think it's funny.  It's another "PC world gone mad" article that I probably first read in the 1990s.  Maybe the first time a moral majority Republican got caught out for misbehaviour I found that funny but repetition reduces the number of laughs over time.

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« Reply #374 on: November 12, 2017, 12:54:23 pm »
Fine.  Out of forum courtesy I went to the link you insisted I read.  I don't know why you think it's funny.  It's another "PC world gone mad" article that I probably first read in the 1990s.  Maybe the first time a moral majority Republican got caught out for misbehaviour I found that funny but repetition reduces the number of laughs over time.

Different strokes, I guess.  I thought it was funny.

I didn't insist you read it.  I just have this thing about being misunderstood.
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