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[Nadaka]

My debit card is missing, but I don't want to go to the bank over it because it is probably lost somewhere in my messy apartment, car or truck.

[carabide]

I lost My Sorin Markov......It just got up and left, I think.

[Bauglir]

So I was watching Star Trek: Voyager (hey, shut up, I liked that one) and got to the rape-analogue episode (well, one of them at least). Short version, a character starts having flashbacks of being tied down and some samples of key parts of her anatomy (that would be of interest to the guest star of the episode) being taken from her forcibly, and you can tell fairly obviously from the way everybody responds that this is supposed to be the equivalent of rape but they couldn't get an actual episode about that topic to air.

And holy shit. The moral of that episode seriously was, "Being supportive of potential victims will lead innocent men to suicide." It turns out the whole thing is repressed memories from her past that she's projecting onto this guest star, who freaks out and ends up killing himself trying to escape needlessly, because they discover proof that he didn't really do it, and there was only one character who actually took her side blindly. The rest were all very emphatic about needing to have proof, etc. Which is what I'm complaining about, really, because the implication is apparently that even that is too much credence to give to the accusation.

I'd have posted it in the Progressive Rage thread, but really I don't think there'd be any meaningful discussion of a 13 year old science fiction show's importance, because there isn't a lot. I wouldn't even care that much if it weren't an episode clearly designed to reflect a real-world issue and be anvilicious about what the "correct" response is.

[Dsarker]

So I was watching Star Trek: Voyager (hey, shut up, I liked that one) and got to the rape-analogue episode (well, one of them at least). Short version, a character starts having flashbacks of being tied down and some samples of key parts of her anatomy (that would be of interest to the guest star of the episode) being taken from her forcibly, and you can tell fairly obviously from the way everybody responds that this is supposed to be the equivalent of rape but they couldn't get an actual episode about that topic to air.

And holy shit. The moral of that episode seriously was, "Being supportive of potential victims will lead innocent men to suicide." It turns out the whole thing is repressed memories from her past that she's projecting onto this guest star, who freaks out and ends up killing himself trying to escape needlessly, because they discover proof that he didn't really do it, and there was only one character who actually took her side blindly. The rest were all very emphatic about needing to have proof, etc. Which is what I'm complaining about, really, because the implication is apparently that even that is too much credence to give to the accusation.

I'd have posted it in the Progressive Rage thread, but really I don't think there'd be any meaningful discussion of a 13 year old science fiction show's importance, because there isn't a lot. I wouldn't even care that much if it weren't an episode clearly designed to reflect a real-world issue and be anvilicious about what the "correct" response is.

Wait, wait, wait.

So the show (I haven't seen it at all, so please correct me if I'm wrong) is about a person who has repressed memories of a previous rape-analogue, and these memories cause PTSD? And then someone else, an innocent person, is accused of doing the rape-analogue, and he almost/actually kills himself? And the result is that the group wanting proof that the rape-analogue either did or did not occur (which I'm assuming would be easier to verify in reality than the show) is presented as the good group? Presuming innocence until proven guilty? Goodness forbid!

[Bauglir]

No. The problem is that the group that wanted evidence before condemning him drove him to suicide. It was the investigation that drove him to kill himself, and that only happened because they took her accusation seriously; had they dismissed her out of hand, everything would have been fine, and in the setting that is the only course that wouldn't have resulted in his death. I agree that this was the good group, but the problem is that being the good group led to an innocent guy dying.

Mind, it wasn't a particularly invasive investigation; questions and a 5-minute inspection of his laboratory, which ultimately proved his innocence - but he freaked out and fled before he was informed.

Again, the problem is that even considering the possibility was enough to have disastrous consequences, and that's what bothers me.

[Aqizzar]

My second night of living out of a suitcase.  This has ceased to be bohemian and is now dumb and boring, and is leaving me with way too much time alone with my thoughts.  Thoughts like how restless I get without regular Internet access, how irritated I get with anyone who's doing a job at less speed than I want them to, and how much I love to spend money when I'm out of the house.

More than anything though, it's making me painfully aware of how I have basically nobody to call up on a weekday to so much as hang out, much less crash with.  At 24, I feel like I should have a stable of people I can call up for an afternoon of bullshit and at least a couch.  Where the Hell did I go wrong there...

Also the hotel's bullshit wireless and auto-spamming homepage ate my first attempt at this post.

The one good side I guess is that I am capable of patience.  Walking and driving around downtown for three hours was pretty cool.  Driving is normally a natural steroid for me, but I'm incredibly blase when I have nowhere to go.

[ToonyMan]

The one good side I guess is that I am capable of patience.  Walking and driving around downtown for three hours was pretty cool.  Driving is normally a natural steroid for me, but I'm incredibly blase when I have nowhere to go.

He understands now.

Anyway, ugh classes.  I want to sleep but then again I want to do my own thing before sleeping...and tomorrow is Wednesday.  Glorious Wednesday of essentially living on campus for the day.  I'm even on campus right now.  :V

I want to go home.  ;_;  I miss my bed.

[Zrk2]

Why are you living out of a suitcase, Aqizzar?

[Lectorog]

Why are you living out of a suitcase, Aqizzar?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

A full grown, living oak branch fell on my powerline, smashing through a fence and stringing the whole thing through another tree.  The meter box is hanging from the side of the house by the main wire, and somehow the lights didn't even flicker.  Holy sheep shit, where's the utility guy...

The power company guy decided that it would be illegal to leave the power on, and that it would be illegal to fix the system himself.  While a giant pain in the ass in itself, this has its upside.

I'm staying in a hotel for the night, chiefly one of the coolest hotels in town.  I just called in for the night from work 'cause fuck those guys, while watching the bright lights of the big city over a martini from the bar's patio after flirting with the bartender.

I'm feeling downright... bohemian.  This is pretty cool.

My second night of living out of a suitcase.  This has ceased to be bohemian and is now dumb and boring, and is leaving me with way too much time alone with my thoughts.  Thoughts like how restless I get without regular Internet access, how irritated I get with anyone who's doing a job at less speed than I want them to, and how much I love to spend money when I'm out of the house.

More than anything though, it's making me painfully aware of how I have basically nobody to call up on a weekday to so much as hang out, much less crash with.  At 24, I feel like I should have a stable of people I can call up for an afternoon of bullshit and at least a couch.  Where the Hell did I go wrong there...

Also the hotel's bullshit wireless and auto-spamming homepage ate my first attempt at this post.

The one good side I guess is that I am capable of patience.  Walking and driving around downtown for three hours was pretty cool.  Driving is normally a natural steroid for me, but I'm incredibly blase when I have nowhere to go.

There's the full story.

[Aqizzar]

You really didn't have to do that.  Indeed, you can spoiler those giant quotes and that'd be great.

Why are you living out of a suitcase, Aqizzar?

Storm knocked a tree onto my powerline, and between the incompetent city, incompetent electrician, incompetent insurance company, and whatever nebulous incompetent person left an out of code electrical system on the side of the house (me mostly), it'll take at least two days to get the power back on.  I don't say incompetent because it's not instantaneous, more for the "at least two" days part instead of "one" like I'd think.

Sure I could stay at the house and read a book by candle light and eat takeout.  But why?  I don't consider myself less manly for not wanting to live like people did no more than 60 years ago.  I consider myself smarter than everyone in history before that, because we invented TV and air-conditioning for a reason.

[Vector]

Bah, my body is made of aches and pains.  Asstacular.

[TherosPherae]

Guess who else got a visit from the Sinus Fairy? Me, and about half the people I know.

It like nature suddenly went "Holy shit, it's September already? EVERYONE GET SICK NOW"

[Heron TSG]

My handwriting is getting so bad it's ridiculous. Most of my writing-based courses were online last year, meaning that literally more than half of what I actually write down each day is in Japanese. What this means is that my handwriting is becoming distinctly less readable... hanai and harai strokes plus roman characters looks a lot like cursive, but without the universal knowledge of what it looks like. On the other hand, not lifting my pen actually is improving my writing speed.

WPM on a keyboard: 100-120
WPM writing neatly: 25-30
WPM gobbledegook that only I can read: 60-70.

It's like a secret code!

[Aklyon]

Again fit trying to fit the large tubular peg into the small square hole. The Internet is not yours to squish into national boxes, its a global thing.

[Vector]

Bah, my body is made of aches and pains.  Asstacular.

Sudden memory: I have no pain medication

Other realization: I am probably going to be in pain for at least four hours

Other other realization: The last few episodes on my cd of GitS are not working

Other other other realization: this computer is crappy and pretty much can't play games

Faugh.