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They DDoS’d this place a couple of days ago. You can see the new visitor record. There are also those spam threads every so often but idk if it’s bots making them

Probs Arvy after his Active Measures campaign got stopped in its tracks.

I'm not sure if it's just an American thing but I'm absolutely sick of how much of modern politics is just stereotyping and strawmanning. There doesn't seem to be the desire to have good-faith debates or to discuss ideas with the intent of challenging oneself, but rather a battle of who can make their ideological opponents look as unappealing as possible. I've fully-grown adults engaging in literal power-fantasy bullshit that presents themselves as the sane heroic tough guy and their opponent as this insane degenerate lunatic. Literally on par with playing with dolls. The amount of times I have seen trans people presented as deranged pedophelic autogynophiles and leftists as commies who hate men and whites is absurd. Obviously I'm biased when I say some of this but I find it so tiring and unproductive. Why focus on petty bullshit when some actual serious stuff is happening?

its not an American thing, I see it all over Europe too. I think its an "engagement driven media" thing, but also history repeating itself.

Ideally politics should be extremely boring and be purely center around policy. What policies should be changed, eliminated or implemented?

Instead its just finger pointing and head shaking.


At any rate, I find the real world does not contain as much of this shit as the web would have you believe. Most people are actually pretty cool and not interested in this either. Throw away your smartphone.

Social media makes people self centered as the world tries to take everything from them; they react by lashing out at people that don't look like themselves, the last untouched thing at the center of their insular universes.

But I agree with Cupz there is a lot more love in the world than you'd know from your phone. There's no happiness in trying to inoculate yourself to madness by micro-dosing trauma

another banger Cupz post

Cupz wrote: At any rate, I find the real world does not contain as much of this shit as the web would have you believe. Most people are actually pretty cool and not interested in this either. Throw away your smartphone.

Couldn't have said it better. Most of the people in various communities I talk to tend to be this. They're more than willing to sit down and have a reasonable discussion.

Makes me wonder how much of a difference just disconnecting for a week would do for my mental health.

honestly this has been very insightful. Thanks guys

Gotta get it off my chest a little bit, but I'm still harboring a certain mix of anger and depression over how my state's recent election went. I don't have much room to air it out IRL so I have to restrain myself from going full on angryosaka sometimes.

oh no more spam and it's only tuesday! Good luck mods!

glad to see it's all been reported already

More spam reported. Seems the bots are circumventing the system

If we do go back to an anti-ddos/botnet system, can we get one that still works in a nerdy non-js browser like lynx or dillo?

VERY sexy look, would render great in emacs

Waterbagel wrote:VERY sexy look, would render great in emacs

To the max!

Perhaps one way to deal with the latest botwaves is to make a sub-forum called something cute like "I Saw Drones" or something and anyone who creates a thread there is banned. The bots seem to be making threads in all sub-forums.

I keep reporting them, but Holland playing on the TV so I guess Ae is busy

You know me too well, Mexi!
I’ll change the captcha tomorrow to something related to the new album. If that doesn’t help, I’ll go back to signing in via email, as it was before there was any talk of a new album. Let’s just keep our fingers crossed for progress on the updated forum. The captcha there is more modern.

Cupz wrote:Perhaps one way to deal with the latest botwaves is to make a sub-forum called something cute like "I Saw Drones" or something and anyone who creates a thread there is banned. The bots seem to be making threads in all sub-forums.

It can also second as a suicide booth because that would also allow humans to join in on the fun. Maybe instead of "I Saw Drones", call it "The End Of The Tunnel".

How about "I saw cunts"