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2019-02-20 at 6:33 AM UTC in Hottest 2004 cam girl
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2019-02-20 at 6:31 AM UTC in Anyone here ever hitchhiked?
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2019-02-20 at 6:30 AM UTC in I've come to appreciate Finny over the years.I want to reiterate that I have considered the case where I end up running Totse's fourth iteration (if either Lanny COMPLETELY UNDERSTANDABLY gives it all up, or, everyone leaves en masse because they don't like how Lanny runs things)...
But I straight up will not.
NOT. FUCKING. WORTH IT.
And you can all thank INFINITYSHOCK (not Lanny) for that.
I've seen what Lanny has to deal with, and I just straight up do not care enough to deal with that kind of shit.
I suppose there are other candidates here.
But apparently ZERO from the pro-finny camp, because otherwise, there would be an alternate site out there. -
2019-02-20 at 6:27 AM UTC in I've come to appreciate Finny over the years.
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny well the crux of the issue is that lanny banned a poster because that poster posted a post in a thread that he was told to not to,
irregardless of whether that post was on or off topic, which in fact, was ON TOPIC.
everything else after that was the result of the radicalization that lanny brought and inflicted unto this community.
And it's seriously never occurred to you that shit like that is maybe WHAT INDUCED that radicalization? -
2019-02-20 at 6:22 AM UTC in It's a good thing tumbleweeds and the sound of crickets is so valuable a commodity
Originally posted by MORALLY SUPERIOR BEING V: A Cat-Girl/Boy Under Every Bed #meth #molotoveverything #omghax
Now that's the ticket!
Originally posted by MORALLY SUPERIOR BEING V: A Cat-Girl/Boy Under Every Bed Anyway the issue isn't getting totse files and throwing them up on AWS, that's easy, it's structuring them and fixing them up so that they are presentable. I don't know what the files you have look like, but the ones on totse were all line breaks and strange characters.
Generally you'd use a CMS, could be something like Wordpress, more like Typo3 for such a large number of files. Those are both PHP, which is outdated. Something in node like Ghost or something built on Keystone JS (both would be awkward), or even a Python app like Django CMS.
You just don't want to be going and trying to arrange so many files by hand.
I was just going to build my own (rather simple) CMS myself in Flask. I prefer Flask over Django because it has less boilerplate code and all that. You can create a very simple, bare bones web server in like 5 lines of code. And what I love about that is that, once you've mastered Flask (and I think I can claim that I have, since I use it for like 100 different hobby projects), it's so smooth and easy to maneuver when you want to create something with minimal dependencies.
And my plan for dealing with presenting the content is actually kind of a reverse-engineering ==> re-engineering procedure.
I use Beautiful Soup (an XML/HTML web parser library for Python) to extract the content from each article (author, date submitted, title, article content, description, etc).
Next, I essentially recreate the exact same HTML and CSS in my custom CMS.
Finally, I just have to host the data that's unique to each article, which means that my initial estimate of ~3GB is WAY, WAY higher than what I actually need.
Originally posted by MORALLY SUPERIOR BEING V: A Cat-Girl/Boy Under Every Bed Oh and textfiles.com is still a thing.
Damn, that's right. I forgot about that site.
Ah well, I'm still gonna do it. It might still be at least somewhat effective. -
2019-02-20 at 6:13 AM UTC in The Day Drinking Thread
Originally posted by Ghost I haven't had a drop of liquor all year (since new years)
I have a lot of friends who have absolutely no interest in liquor as well, but they usually tend to love stimulants.
I'm not super keen on stimulants, but I love liquor.
I think people really do fall into distinct categories for preferred class of drug.
And that's actually kind of an interesting phenomenon because it may be a sign that literally every habitual drug user is self-medicating in some way.
This might sound sad/depressing, but it's actually incredibly revealing. Once CRISPR-based gene editing becomes common-place, we may not even need drugs...
Imagine ending the war on drugs, shutting down all violent cartels, completely unclogging the prison system, and basically rendering every citizen on Earth a happy and productive individual, all in one fell swoop...
Shiiiiiit. -
2019-02-20 at 6:07 AM UTC in I've come to appreciate Finny over the years.I'm seriously getting bored of this whole debate.
It's always the same old arguments from either side, being countered with the same old counter-arguments from either side.
I don't even care about his posts in the meat thread, he would go into every damn thread and post a bunch of racist / anti-black memes and/or request dick pics from everyone.
THAT IS OFF-TOPIC POSTING.
It's not even really about being illegal or not, according to US law, it's about having to maintain certain rules for the forum in order to maintain at least a certain degree of order.
If you want absolute chaos, go to 4chan or something like that.
Also, I'm STILL waiting to hear someone from the pro-finny camp to tout the virtues of the shoe marketing spam we get.
It's pure fucking hypocrisy.
If you support finny's spam, you also have to concede that shoe sales spam is valid. -
2019-02-20 at 5:53 AM UTC in The Day Drinking Thread
Originally posted by ECAP This is truth ^^^^
And while I agree you’ve gotta be careful with the opiates you gotta be even more vigilant with booze
Day drinking every now and again is a brilliant sport
However I’ve fallen into the day drinking turns to round the clock drinking before you know it you’re down the rabbit hole
Remember kids alcohol withdrawal can kill you. This is not true of opiates and other drugs many uneducated think are far worse than booze.
Keep a handle on this shit zooks and you should be fine, let it rule your life and if it don’t kill you you’ll end up wishing it did
You're right that alcohol withdrawal is technically the only potentially fatal form of withdrawal.
And, after writing my post to DietPiano, I felt a bit hypocritical. However, I stand by it because, while alcohol is in so many ways way worse than opiates, there's something about that opiate addiction that just fucking BLINDSIDES you. It did to me.
I suppose alcohol could too, but I genuinely do only day drink occasionally.
I'm actually too addicted to various hobbies and interests that I straight up couldn't day drink every day or I'd feel guilty for neglecting my other life's activities. -
2019-02-20 at 5:51 AM UTC in The Day Drinking Thread
Originally posted by DietPiano Yeah, I was a dope addict most of 2017. I don't take Crouton to get high though, I take it as a mood lifter and for pain. It's not a crutch for me by any means though. It doesn't seem to give me wd's or cause me to crave it though. I think the part agi and partial antag limits its addictive potential in low/moderate doses somewhat. I know what you mean though, I gotta be watch myself
I don't know too much about Crouton... I remember trying it once like 12 years ago, and it didn't do much. But I might have not taken enough, or it might have not been quality stuff, I dunno.
I was also drinking poppy pod tea all the time back then.
Maybe that gave me a certain degree of tolerance that made Crouton less effective.
I know CWE codeine eventually became essentially useless when I was in the throes of daily heroin use. Even like 300mg of codeine would barely do anything.
Opiate tolerance is a bitch, that's for sure. -
2019-02-20 at 5:47 AM UTC in Anyone here looking to accumulate wealth rapidly?
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2019-02-20 at 5:45 AM UTC in Anyone here looking to accumulate wealth rapidly?
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2019-02-20 at 5:41 AM UTC in Whats your Meyers Briggs
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2019-02-20 at 5:40 AM UTC in Whats your Meyers BriggsEven though I've taken this test like a hundred times, and it's always the same result, which is actually kind of interesting...
One major thing about MBTI is that it was developed based on Jungian concepts, which are generally not considered all that empirically verifiable, and is also mainly used in a non-scientific capacity - whereas lots of other personality tests developed over the years are a lot more scientifically sound in various ways.
MBTI seems to be pretty longitudinally/repeatedly reliable (i.e. it will give consistent results over time from the same person).
... I still never remember which one I keep ending up as. I'm pretty sure it's INTJ. -
2019-02-19 at 10:59 PM UTC in The Day Drinking Thread
Originally posted by DietPiano I literally don't personally know a single person who habitually use cannabis (more than once every other week, on average) who I consider to be "successful". This isn't true for alcohol, cocaine, even dope and meth.
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Weed is wurst.
Same here. Never seen a truly "successful" pothead (and wrapping it in quotes is decent, because so-called "success" is subjective).
Originally posted by DietPiano Crouton is like weed, but isn't exclusively for unsuccessful people.
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Crouton is the best background drug. Besides Vicodin.
DietPiano, I'm gonna say, and don't take this the wrong way at all, BE CAREFUL WITH OPIATES... Even Crouton.
Have fun, sow your oats, by all means.
But just bear in mind the following...
I used to think opiates were no big deal. I could do heroin one night (snorting it, not IV... YET), and then not even think about it for months.
The thing is, that eventually catches up with you and addiction sets in weeks before you even realize it.
I'm not throwing that out there to be a buzz kill, but because I know from personal experience that we all have blindspots, and one of mine was the addictive potential of opiates/opioids.
They are fun as fuck, absolutely, but NOTHING in life is free. -
2019-02-19 at 10:53 PM UTC in The Day Drinking Thread
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2019-02-19 at 10:53 PM UTC in The Day Drinking ThreadI've been thinking of making a "Thank"-bot that would just Thank every post it sees.
Programmatically, that would be scarily easy.
But, it would dilute the value of the whole Thanks system. So I won't. -
2019-02-19 at 10:50 PM UTC in I've come to appreciate Finny over the years.
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2019-02-19 at 10:45 PM UTC in I've come to appreciate Finny over the years.
Originally posted by Obbe Did he have to make a judgement call? I don't know if I agree with that. You don't have to read anything you don't want to read here.
I used to appreciate moderators who would help prevent discussion derailment, move off-topic posts and punish repeat offenders. But Lanny can't be here 24/7 to play janitor. People will post off topic bullshit in almost every thread, and usually nothing will be done about it. But maybe it's better that way. Don't feed the trolls and the shit will sink and the cream will rise to the top. The truth, the posts, that really matter will shine through the bullshit and if your topic doesn't maybe that's because it's just more bullshit.
Anyway… I don't think Lanny actually had to do anything. He did, and this is his website, so we have to deal with that. But he didn't have to do anything at all.
And implementing the ability to ignore or block specific users might have been a better choice.
Clearly you get it.
A lot of people don't realize that having an INTERNET FORUM is a privilege, not a right.
Free speech applies to EVERYONE, but posting on an Internet forum means you are not only speaking on behalf of yourself, but also on behalf of whomever is providing you with the pulpit to speak from.
Thus, the one providing the pulpit has to make discretionary decisions.
Lanny did EXACTLY that, and he was not in the wrong with how he did it. -
2019-02-19 at 10:43 PM UTC in I've come to appreciate Finny over the years.
Originally posted by ohfralala Fight me.
Lol, how does your ban even work? I don't understand how the world works anymore.
Also, why would you request to have yourself banned?
That has never worked for ANYONE who got to a point in their life that they're requesting a self-ban.
I say that out of love, not judgment. We all been there. -
2019-02-19 at 10:40 PM UTC in I've come to appreciate Finny over the years.
Originally posted by -SpectraL The Temple of Totse belongs to everyone, not to Lanny, and this place flies under its colors.
DUDE This is NOT the Temple of Totse.
Trust me, if ANYONE on here can get where you're coming from, it's ME.
But this is straight up incorrect.
Lanny PAYS to keep this site running, and he DEVOTES TIME to maintain it.
When Jeff Hunter was doing what he did, he had an entire team of admins, and then, and entire (much bigger) team of mods.
Please tell me you see the difference.
