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[Baffler]

Someone told me today, "Baffler, for someone so distinctive you just have no presence whatsoever" when I said hi to them.

I'm not sure how to interpret this, and I didn't get a chance to respond. Did I sneak up on them? Do I frequently sneak up on them? Are they saying I'm a wuss? You'd think I don't speak English for how much I don't pick up on. I don't think it was meant to be insulting.

This would hit me so hard.  I pretend to have presence, arguably have it with my friends.  But in the end...  I'm not there.
They're saying you're strange but you hang back, I think.

That makes sense. I don't really take offense since it's probably true and I can respect that kind of honesty, but just because I'm not offended by their pointing it out doesn't mean there isn't a problem in there. Maybe I should be more assertive.

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/02/01/464457884/can-extreme-exercise-hurt-your-heart-swim-the-pacific-to-find-out

that's one looooooooong swim.

That's some dedication. I wonder how many other people there are in the world who could even have a shot at swimming 8 hours a day for months on end? The pacific isn't a pool either, he's fighting the waves as well as the water.

[Cthulufaic]

I'm actually getting invested in a thread I started on old computers and stuff on my local county's forums, which considering how racist and the amount of trolls there are, is kinda weird.
I guess it's like a disease you catch when you legally turn 18, you start to get invested in your community.

[BlackFlyme]

I'm actually getting invested in a thread I started on old computers and stuff on my local county's forums, which considering how racist and the amount of trolls there are, is kinda weird.
I guess it's like a disease you catch when you legally turn 18, you start to get invested in your community.

So we're naming our tapeworms now, or is it more like having a child? 

Also, county forums are a thing? The closest I know of for me is r/canada.

[Cthulufaic]

Also, county forums are a thing? The closest I know of for me is r/canada.

Probably not, but I guess some person decided that it would be neat to have a forum for everyone in the county to communicate with each other and so they made the forum.
I can PM you a link to it if you want, but do be warned that since there is no effort required in being anonymous there are a lot of racist trolls around.  Though, some of those may just be normal racists.

[Tack]

I don't really take offense since it's probably true and I can respect that kind of honesty, but just because I'm not offended by their pointing it out doesn't mean there isn't a problem in there.

Gotta say, love that attitude. It's something I strive for.

[Bauglir]

Trying to copy paste this guy's email threw me for a loop until I figured out what they did. Kinda brilliant, actually.

[Putnam]

https://xkcd.com/1137/

[IcyTea31]

Clever. I'm guessing that's there to throw off spambots lurking for publicly posted addresses, since it all but requires human action to be converted to an usable form, and not just to be a troll?

[Shadowlord]

you're assuming that bots couldn't be coded to look for that unicode control character and reverse everything just the same as humans can

[Putnam]

you're assuming that bots couldn't be coded to look for that unicode control character and reverse everything just the same as humans can

Isn't that literally what's happening when you use it anyway...

[Shadowlord]

pretty much, but if the bot is just scraping text from the page it might ignore it and get the backwards text (something has to process it to reverse the text)

[smjjames]

Um, why did the ameripol thread get locked? I know things got a bit heated between maniac and a few of us, but it didn't seem to rise to the level of needing moderation.

[Shadowlord]

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[Orange Wizard]

EQC druids

EQC stands for NZ's Earthquake Recovery Commission, and as such should have nothing to do with druidism.

[Rose]

EQC druids

EQC stands for NZ's Earthquake Recovery Commission, and as such should have nothing to do with druidism.

That sounds like it has everything to do with druids.