no good choices there
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Thursday, 11 April 2019 22:49 (five years ago) link
well one has undermined American democracy and the other one is facebook
― be the 2 chainz you want 2 see in the world (m bison), Friday, 12 April 2019 00:13 (five years ago) link
i'm loving the old school cuddlestein mountain vibes of deethelurker's return
― cheese canopy (map), Friday, 12 April 2019 02:24 (five years ago) link
This is pretty easily the best place on the internet. Some of the music discussion is good. The people are okay. But really, it's the only interface I can barely stand to look at. And none of my dumb friends from high school are here.
― jazzed (it's a boy!), Saturday, 13 April 2019 03:17 (five years ago) link
The people are okay.
Hey!
― alomar lines, Saturday, 13 April 2019 04:52 (five years ago) link
Even though I'm maybe 15% as enthusiastic and optimistic as I was the last time I was a regular? Wow, this site must be a LOT darker than it used to be! Anyway, Facebook (or certain groups in it and my similarly political friends) has turned me into a leftist libertarian/free market socialist, and there's a wider scope of political dialogue than would be found here on ILX, where as far as I can tell most everyone still reduces libertarianism to the caricatures of Roger Adultery and Murray Rothbard (if not a complete misinterpretation of Ayn Rand).
― The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Saturday, 13 April 2019 17:03 (five years ago) link
"Free market socialist" seems to me a contradiction in terms. The only tool society has to police markets to force them to serve broad social needs rather than serve capital's never-satisfied desire for ever-higher profits and monopoly over markets is government oversight and regulation, iow, unfree markets. If "free market socialist" actually means "strictly regulated market socialist", then I'm in your corner.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 13 April 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
dee is anarcho-communist, this is canon now
― be the 2 chainz you want 2 see in the world (m bison), Saturday, 13 April 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link
Y'all never heard of "social democracy"? That's the economic system I adhere to and doesn't sound at all "communist". Especially the way it exists in the mixed economies of the Scandinavian countries, who all also happen to rank the highest in global freedom indexes. BTW, one of my FB friends is a co-founder of the Libertarian Socialist Caucus (Mike Shipley).
― The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Saturday, 13 April 2019 19:06 (five years ago) link
trouble with the scandinavian countries is that they have a lot of space, a lot of resources and really no poverty to speak of
it's a great system if you can afford it
idk. surely libertarian socialism is an admirable end-goal but there's a hell of a lot of work to be done before it can be implemented anywhere with a serious poverty problem
― imago, Saturday, 13 April 2019 19:11 (five years ago) link
As I understand the term "social democracy" it would align pretty darn well with strictly regulated markets and align very poorly with any version of libertarianism or randian free market capitalism I have ever encountered. In which case, I'm in your corner, despite the confusion of terminology over your identity as a "leftist libertarian/free market socialist".
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 13 April 2019 19:11 (five years ago) link
― imago, 13. april 2019 21:11 (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
That's not really true of Denmark.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 13 April 2019 19:27 (five years ago) link
I'm not sure people think of Denmark when they talk about Scandinavian Social Democracy, it's always Sweden or Norway.
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Saturday, 13 April 2019 19:30 (five years ago) link
It helps that they’re all ethnostates
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Saturday, 13 April 2019 19:48 (five years ago) link
Yeah, that's pretty much the key thing
― Frederik B, Saturday, 13 April 2019 20:10 (five years ago) link
and lj should be mod, yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JkIs37a2JE
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 13 April 2019 20:20 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hHSH9sJUEo
― omar little, Saturday, 13 April 2019 21:35 (five years ago) link
why would being an ethnostate help with social democracy?
most ethnostates are not harmonious social democracies and sweden has had quite a bit of immigration: wiki sez a third of swedes have at least one parent born abroad.
― ogmor, Saturday, 13 April 2019 23:43 (five years ago) link
jamiroquai is a hot couch guy ime
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 14 April 2019 00:07 (five years ago) link
hot couch guy is one of the most evocative descriptions spawned in recent years imo
― mh, Sunday, 14 April 2019 02:55 (five years ago) link
What does it describe?
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 14 April 2019 06:50 (five years ago) link
ilx is pretty much the last public place on the internet i like and i will continue to make empty threads for emo albums until someone stops me
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, April 9, 2019 7:05 PM (five days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
respect
― flopson, Sunday, 14 April 2019 08:29 (five years ago) link
I'm a bit over participating on the internet. Ive said all I need to say online over the last almost 20 years, and I'm a boring, middle aged stepmom now. NO one cares what I think. I'l happily read stuff from others though.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce)
i am also boring and middle aged and i think this pretty much sums up where i'm at too. well said!
― the late great, Tuesday, April 9, 2019 6:48 PM (five days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
just keep posting heaters
Even though I'm maybe 15% as enthusiastic and optimistic as I was the last time I was a regular? Wow, this site must be a LOT darker than it used to be! Anyway, Facebook (or certain groups in it and my similarly political friends) has turned me into a leftist libertarian/free market socialist, and there's a wider scope of political dialogue than would be found here on ILX, where as far as I can tell most everyone still reduces libertarianism to the caricatures of Roger Adultery and Murray Rothbard (if not a complete misinterpretation of Ayn Rand).― The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Saturday, 13 April 2019 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Saturday, 13 April 2019 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Is your favourite super mario character wario?
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 14 April 2019 08:39 (five years ago) link
trouble with the scandinavian countries is that they have a lot of space, a lot of resources and really no poverty to speak ofit's a great system if you can afford itidk. surely libertarian socialism is an admirable end-goal but there's a hell of a lot of work to be done before it can be implemented anywhere with a serious poverty problem― imago, Saturday, 13 April 2019 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― imago, Saturday, 13 April 2019 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
We'll just hit your trust fund harder.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 14 April 2019 08:47 (five years ago) link
Grow up will you, for even five minutes of your tiny, tiny life.
― FernandoHierro, Sunday, 14 April 2019 08:50 (five years ago) link
No
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 14 April 2019 08:51 (five years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, April 14, 2019 1:50 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
hot couch guys, of course
― mh, Sunday, 14 April 2019 13:55 (five years ago) link
My trust fund? Lol
― imago, Sunday, 14 April 2019 13:59 (five years ago) link
Can't you two just act like every thread is a golf thread?
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 April 2019 14:02 (five years ago) link
Clutch from Tom D there
― imago, Sunday, 14 April 2019 14:05 (five years ago) link
just keep posting heatersabout teaching
― flopson, Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:29 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― be the 2 chainz you want 2 see in the world (m bison), Sunday, 14 April 2019 14:23 (five years ago) link
It’s tough when you’ve got over the initial heady enthusiasms of youth to think about what can be interesting and entertaining enough to post about. Hopefully new enthusiasms come along though.I personally avoid the internet and ilx when I’m feeling irritable and disagreeable (best for everyone) -which can be for long stretches at a time.
― Luna Schlosser, Sunday, 14 April 2019 14:45 (five years ago) link
Heaters?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 15 April 2019 05:28 (five years ago) link
We're all about heaters. I guess.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 April 2019 05:36 (five years ago) link
if nobody answered andrew farrell upthread, hot couch guy
if you can, ignore the article and read the tweets. they are truer to the concept than the commentary, which paints a too-specific (and kinda hacky) image. real hot couch guy hours in the tweets tho
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boot Edge Edge" (Will M.), Monday, 15 April 2019 15:22 (five years ago) link
I get the initial "hot couch" concept of it being a faux-leather sticky situation, but imo the concept of a dude who spends way too much time on the couch, maybe even sleeps there regularly, is the base for me
coffee table covered in fast food containers and empty cans/bottles, maybe an ashtray or bong that is always sitting there. game controllers and tv remotes.
I've... approached hot couch times in my life
― mh, Monday, 15 April 2019 15:26 (five years ago) link
i feel like an important element of hot couch guy is that, like, he always has people over to crash after drinking/getting high, so it's less about him sleeping on his hot couch and more about you/someone else sleeping on his hot couch.
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boot Edge Edge" (Will M.), Monday, 15 April 2019 15:31 (five years ago) link
i clean my couch environs on the reg, theres ways and means of gittin er done without slipping into hotcouching
― fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Monday, 15 April 2019 15:35 (five years ago) link
this thread in particualr was what spawned the hot couch guy thing iirc
Hey man we’re all going to hang out at this dudes place again for some reason even though he has like three places to sit, smokes inside, plays the same shitty rap and the only source of light is from one shitty overhead— smiling again (@intellegint) February 24, 2018
― ciderpress, Monday, 15 April 2019 15:58 (five years ago) link
Thank you all for coming together as a community for me!
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 15 April 2019 17:35 (five years ago) link
warming the cockles of your couch
― fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Monday, 15 April 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
there was a great bar conversation I overheard a couple years back where these guys were talking about having all lived together in a rented house and it was the house version of hot couch
i'm also reminded of an ilx thread where -- I think it was gr80? -- was talking about taking a shower at someone's place and there was loose change in the bathtub, had been there long enough there was a green crust cementing the pennies
― mh, Monday, 15 April 2019 17:47 (five years ago) link
the lack of diversity around here can be pretty glaring. everybody i know on twitter has been talking toni morrison for days but here only 6 new answers?
― marcos, Thursday, 8 August 2019 15:23 (four years ago) link
yes
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 8 August 2019 15:29 (four years ago) link
idk that I have much of value to say about her. Read a bunch in college as part of lit course curriculum, obviously an amazing and hugely important writer.
but yeah I suppose one would have expected more traffic on ILB on her passing.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 8 August 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
I come here because I want a break from books.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 8 August 2019 15:33 (four years ago) link
I read Sula and Song of Solomon in college. They were both great books, but I don't remember enough about them to have made any comments of significance.
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 8 August 2019 15:35 (four years ago) link
it depends on what kind of "diversity" you want to see on ilx... after the shooting in my hometown two weeks ago, I was fed more local posts, and got to see plenty of "thoughts and prayers" people that I usually filter out, as well as friends, who have fairly compatible political values to me, apologizing to people for being "too negative" and "too divisive" about calling for gun control and blaming the current government on the increase in racist mass murderers.
But yeah, my fb feed has been heavy on Toni Morrison since she passed ... I don't expect ilx to mirror my irl community, like if it did, I wouldn't post here?
― sarahell, Thursday, 8 August 2019 15:42 (four years ago) link
I was meaning to post the following in that thread, which would have brought it up to 7 new answers:The most “I don’t see colour” thing I ever heard was when my friend claimed not only that he didn’t realise Toni Morrison was black, not having seen an author photo, but that he got halfway through reading BELOVED without realising the CHARACTERS were black
― YouGov to see it (wins), Thursday, 8 August 2019 15:53 (four years ago) link