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Off Topic / Re: Black Lives Matter hi-jacks orlando shooting morning ceremony.

« on: June 29, 2016, 02:51:40 AM »

i guess people just didn't orally accept that black people have committed more crimes

i think it's pretty easy to accept that, because it's pure statistical data. but it's just that: statistics. it ignores the factors that actually contribute to that figure. it assumes that crime is in a simple relationship with race, and that's obviously not the case. in reality, it's an incredibly complex issue that warrants much more discussion than simply "x people do more crimes, therefore they are more criminal." because everyone knows that people don't just commit crimes for no reason, crime happens as a response to people's intricate needs and desires. and it's baffling that someone would just ignore this myriad of factors just because it supports their prejudiced conclusion. tez seems to expect people to just accept these numbers as if the matter is as simple as that, but it isn't, and that's what the problem is.

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Off Topic / Re: Black Lives Matter hi-jacks orlando shooting morning ceremony.

« on: June 29, 2016, 02:39:00 AM »

Stereotypes are derived from common, outstanding attributes and behaviour patterns. While stereotypes might be outdated and in some cases oversimplifed, they exist on the basic human need to simplify patterns down to their most basic level. It's a survival skill our ancestors became excellent at to help them identify threats in their environment which has kind of backfired in this modern society.

It is ridiculous to assume people can easily overcome what is part of basic human nature, and still serves some use in today's environment (for example, you probably wouldn't want to walk up to some guy in hoodie brandishing a knife).

i was debating whether to post basically this so i'm glad mcjob did it for me. in truth, stereotypes also aren't always necessarily considered a bad thing, sometimes they can actually be positive and make people more successful (that doesn't make them fair, but it's miles better than having negative stereotypes). but there's a vague point where suddenly you end up in a situation where you're making a lot more assumptions about people than might be fair, and those assumptions, when adopted on a large, society-sized scale, can definitely contribute to very difficult, long-standing problems of prejudice that do, in fact, affect the lives of other people.

wait hold on why are we ignoring the fact that tez's stats say that black people commit more crime and instead opting to argue over how tribal he and his stats are

either because they've decided it's not worth their time to argue with tez about things that seem obvious to them or because we've moved on to other things. probably a combination of both

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Off Topic / Re: Last 2 Digits of your Blockland ID = Where ur from

« on: June 29, 2016, 02:28:20 AM »

rwanda

outstanding

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Off Topic / Re: Black Lives Matter hi-jacks orlando shooting morning ceremony.

« on: June 29, 2016, 02:26:19 AM »

How is stating facts collected by the FBI tribal

i may well have this wrong since i haven't rly kept up as well, but i think it's the fact that he was using those facts to construct the argument that uhh...black people are like, naturally terrible people

which is uhh

pretty tribal. on a scale of 1-10 it's probably pretty up there it has to be said

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Drama / Re: Tenzuni: self-proclaimed tribal

« on: June 29, 2016, 02:24:09 AM »

while i agree that tezuni was being really weird and it made my poor sjw soul tremble with fear and discomfort, i think it's hilarious that this topic which was probably not necessary and almost certainly impulsive and petty just happens to also misspell the problem user's name in the title

EXPLAIN THIS

Sorry i dont get it can u help me

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Off Topic / Re: Strawberry Milk or Chocolate Milk?

« on: June 29, 2016, 02:19:44 AM »

both chocolate milk and strawberry milk are bad

Get right the heck outa town buster brown

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Off Topic / Re: Window 10 is almost a year old.

« on: June 29, 2016, 02:16:17 AM »

i still think it's weird that, since windows 8, they've really liked to basically have two separate control panels, and some things are pretty much only plainly accessible in the gross one

in win8 it made sense that you had a desktop control panel and a metro one, but in win10 it just seems redundant. i naturally prefer the original one that i'm used to, but sometimes i find that they've moved certain things or that newer things are only available in the simplified one. which i wouldn't necessarily have a problem with if it weren't "user-friendly" to the point where it seems to hide a lot of options that would be very useful, such as "do not automatically restart my computer thanks"

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General Discussion / Re: Blocktale Poll

« on: June 29, 2016, 02:08:49 AM »

yeah man go for it, not really any reason not to

even though it was incredibly unclear what it even was before you clarified

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Off Topic / Re: upcoming ben 10 reboot and oh boy what the forget

« on: June 29, 2016, 02:03:05 AM »

what are these acronyms

teeen titans go and power pupfp girls

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Forum Games / Re: me irl 2

« on: June 28, 2016, 11:19:57 PM »

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Off Topic / Re: Window 10 is almost a year old.

« on: June 28, 2016, 11:00:19 PM »

oh also this is a good thing that's happening

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3089438/microsoft-windows/microsoft-backs-off-click-the-x-trick-in-windows-10-upgrade-pitch.html

shouldn't have done that in the first place, but at least they're backing out on the decision

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Forum Games / Re: me irl 2

« on: June 28, 2016, 10:52:24 PM »

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Off Topic / Re: Strawberry Milk or Chocolate Milk?

« on: June 28, 2016, 10:48:35 PM »

there is "lactose-free milk". it's not actually lactose-free, it just has extra lactase for digestions. seems to work pretty well.

ya i haven't tried anything like that but i should cus milk is good for big boys like me

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Off Topic / Re: Black Lives Matter hi-jacks orlando shooting morning ceremony.

« on: June 28, 2016, 10:37:53 PM »

yeah nintendo reuses their IPs (why wouldn't they, they have some of the strongest ones out there) but at least they aren't afraid to try to innovate/experiment with them

also how the forget did we start talking about nintendo

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Off Topic / Re: Strawberry Milk or Chocolate Milk?

« on: June 28, 2016, 10:21:00 PM »

i like milk a lot but i think i've now realized that i'm lactose intolerant :(

i'll still have the occasional glass...........and then stain the stuffter in the morning./...