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[Bohandas]

Anyway, I think windows has an option somewhere to make a few things larger, might be worth investigating.

Ugh, doing this caused all my desktop icons to reset themselves, seemingly based on alphabetical order. Only it forgot the alphabet.


And considering how I have an obsessive need every icon in just the right place, this upsets me a little.

Install the program "Desktop OK"

[Sergarr]

Actually, what I've also noticed is that the quantity of Youtube comments seemed to have gone on some weird exponential curve. There are so many comments dated 2014-2015 that it feels that recently people just started shitposting everywhere for the sake of shitposting in a positive memetic feedback loop, like a machine. Maybe that explains the steadily lowering average memory length...

[DoctorMcTaalik]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/11/11/university-of-missouri-police-arrest-suspect-in-social-media-death-threats/

Holy shit.

[Loud Whispers]

Actually, what I've also noticed is that the quantity of Youtube comments seemed to have gone on some weird exponential curve. There are so many comments dated 2014-2015 that it feels that recently people just started shitposting everywhere for the sake of shitposting in a positive memetic feedback loop, like a machine. Maybe that explains the steadily lowering average memory length...

This can probably be traced to how Google changed the youtube comment system to more resemble facebook, itself changed to resemble more twitter to result in twofgbleokktube

[SealyStar]

Apparently many people in Youtube comments have no clue that 144p mode didn't exist until the last year or two.

That rate of memory loss is frankly frightening.

Why the hell would anyone watch 144p video? Don't just say "bad internet connections" because they would have been even worse when YT started and TIL they didn't have that back then. Actually, I thought that it was only there as legacy support from the days of weaker internet.

Is it so people can watch videos on hacked Gameboys or something?

[SealyStar]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/11/11/university-of-missouri-police-arrest-suspect-in-social-media-death-threats/

Holy shit.

Oh, on the subject of more serious WTF, can someone explain what the Mizzou bullshit is? My knowledge of it is "some racist incident > protests > president resigns > more protests > neo-Nazi violence" but literally every other relevant detail has escaped me, and I can't imagine how any reasonable people on either side could have reacted the way they have were there not something more to it.

inb4 "there are no reasonable people on either side", which may well be it.

[Aklyon]

Apparently many people in Youtube comments have no clue that 144p mode didn't exist until the last year or two.

That rate of memory loss is frankly frightening.

Why the hell would anyone watch 144p video? Don't just say "bad internet connections" because they would have been even worse when YT started and TIL they didn't have that back then. Actually, I thought that it was only there as legacy support from the days of weaker internet.

Is it so people can watch videos on hacked Gameboys or something?

Its basically for music-only videos, last i'd checked. Except they sound like crap at that resolution anyway...

[Graknorke]

Oh, on the subject of more serious WTF, can someone explain what the Mizzou bullshit is? My knowledge of it is "some racist incident > protests > president resigns > more protests > neo-Nazi violence" but literally every other relevant detail has escaped me, and I can't imagine how any reasonable people on either side could have reacted the way they have were there not something more to it.

inb4 "there are no reasonable people on either side", which may well be it.

The students protesting are definitely unreasonable, the journalists are understandable but with misplaced intentions, and the neo-nazi stuff was fake.

[SealyStar]

Oh, on the subject of more serious WTF, can someone explain what the Mizzou bullshit is? My knowledge of it is "some racist incident > protests > president resigns > more protests > neo-Nazi violence" but literally every other relevant detail has escaped me, and I can't imagine how any reasonable people on either side could have reacted the way they have were there not something more to it.

inb4 "there are no reasonable people on either side", which may well be it.

The students protesting are definitely unreasonable, the journalists are understandable but with misplaced intentions, and the neo-nazi stuff was fake.

That makes sense. I figured the students were unreasonable, after hearing about the "SAFE SPACE MEDIA STAY OUT" sign in a public space and from the fact that college students haven't done sincere protesting since the 1970s. Nonetheless, I was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt about the hyperbolic "NEO NAZIS ARE GOING AROUND MURDERING BLACK STUDENTS" claims just because there were so many of them, but I can totally imagine that it's just that - hyperbole.

[Loud Whispers]

Oh, on the subject of more serious WTF, can someone explain what the Mizzou bullshit is? My knowledge of it is "some racist incident > protests > president resigns > more protests > neo-Nazi violence" but literally every other relevant detail has escaped me, and I can't imagine how any reasonable people on either side could have reacted the way they have were there not something more to it.
inb4 "there are no reasonable people on either side", which may well be it.

Liberal arts professor says something racist (maybe?) > protests (well, internet outrage) > protests > racist yikyak death threats > protests > turns out yikyak death threats were false flag > lawyer up I am besmirched > protests again > erm... > proffies apologizing over what? > ok now they're stepping down > ahhhhhh

[Baffler]

So, complete and utter chaos that not even the people involved in it have any idea about?

That was the impression I got from the whole thing.

[TheBiggerFish]

Oh, on the subject of more serious WTF, can someone explain what the Mizzou bullshit is? My knowledge of it is "some racist incident > protests > president resigns > more protests > neo-Nazi violence" but literally every other relevant detail has escaped me, and I can't imagine how any reasonable people on either side could have reacted the way they have were there not something more to it.
inb4 "there are no reasonable people on either side", which may well be it.

Liberal arts professor says something racist (maybe?) > protests (well, internet outrage) > protests > racist yikyak death threats > protests > turns out yikyak death threats were false flag > lawyer up I am besmirched > protests again > erm... > proffies apologizing over what? > ok now they're stepping down > ahhhhhh

Except, weren't they calling for, like, civil discussion of something or am I mistaking that for something else?

Anywho: This.
This nonsense.

[quot author=TheMediumFish link=topic=135884.msg6593468#msg6593468 date=1446771372]

[kuote author=Hotplate link=topic=135884.msg6593313#msg6593313 date=1446767784]
Just remember; as in real life, making a Kopey of a coppie of a copy of a copy is soemtimes okey.

a copy of a copy of a

Thot dat was the xk@# for a moment.

I will copy your thoughts into this thingy.
[\quote]
[\quote]repotting because swallowed up in RP debate

The backslashes to the closequote tags are my fault, everything else was left as was.

[SealyStar]

Oh, on the subject of more serious WTF, can someone explain what the Mizzou bullshit is? My knowledge of it is "some racist incident > protests > president resigns > more protests > neo-Nazi violence" but literally every other relevant detail has escaped me, and I can't imagine how any reasonable people on either side could have reacted the way they have were there not something more to it.
inb4 "there are no reasonable people on either side", which may well be it.

Liberal arts professor says something racist (maybe?) > protests (well, internet outrage) > protests > racist yikyak death threats > protests > turns out yikyak death threats were false flag > lawyer up I am besmirched > protests again > erm... > proffies apologizing over what? > ok now they're stepping down > ahhhhhh

But why did the president step down if it was just a random professor who said something racist (maybe)? I understand he represents the whole college in a way, but unless there's another missing piece it would have made more sense for him to help convince the professor to quit.

[Bouchart]

It's an unruly mob, which only wants to cause anarchy and chaos.

Give them a whiff of grapeshot and this should all go away quickly.

[Orange Wizard]

Because that all worked so well the last time.