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To everyone who joined these forums at some point, and got discouraged by the negativity and left after a while (or even got literally scared off): I'm sorry.
I wasn't good enough at encouraging people to be kinder, and removing people who refuse to be kind. Encouraging people is hard, and removing people creates conflict, and I hate conflict... so that's why I wasn't better at it.
I was a very, very sensitive teen. The atmosphere of this forum as it is now, if it had existed in 1996, would probably have upset me far more than it would have helped.
I can handle quite a lot of negativity and even abuse now, but that isn't the point. I want to help people. I want to help the people who need it the most, and I want to help people like the 1996 version of me.
I'm still figuring out the best way to do that, but as it is now, these forums are doing more harm than good, and I can't keep running them.
Thank you to the few people who have tried to understand my point of view so far. I really, really appreciate you guys. You are beautiful people.
Everyone else: If after everything I've said so far, you still don't understand my motivations, I think it's unlikely that you will. We're just too different. Maybe someday in the future it might make sense, but until then, there's no point in arguing about it. I don't have the time or the energy for arguing anymore. I will focus my time and energy on people who support me, and those who need help.
-SoulRiser
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Alright, the school censorship on Internet has gotten out of hand. Schools think that they have the RIGHT to censor any website they want regardless of the content. Even some of my teachers complain that my school blocked educational sites for no reason. I will be building my own proxy server this weekend and be issuing the address to people in the resistance. Because ENOUGH IS ENOUGH and I shall not be silent to the injustice around me.
PS. Even if I get caught, I would at most be suspended for a few days and my proxy becomes blocked. I would not be arrested because I am not violating any relevant law in the US. Even in the event that my site is blocked I can distribute my code to other interested people.
Are you aware of the fact that presidential debates are hosted by a private company which pretty much agrees to bar third party candidates? the networks have a kind of unwritten agreement that this company doing the hosting is the only forum they will broadcast. If any other rival company wished to host a debate the republicans and democrats could simply choose not to go and the networks could choose not to air it.
What freedom were you talking about again?
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(08-13-2016 10:57 AM)HSHARK Wrote: Alright, the school censorship on Internet has gotten out of hand. Schools think that they have the RIGHT to censor any website they want regardless of the content. Even some of my teachers complain that my school blocked educational sites for no reason. I will be building my own proxy server this weekend and be issuing the address to people in the resistance. Because ENOUGH IS ENOUGH and I shall not be silent to the injustice around me.
PS. Even if I get caught, I would at most be suspended for a few days and my proxy becomes blocked. I would not be arrested because I am not violating any relevant law in the US. Even in the event that my site is blocked I can distribute my code to other interested people.
Remember that schools pretty much have the right to suspend constitutional rights.
(08-13-2016 10:57 AM)HSHARK Wrote: Schools think that they have the RIGHT to censor any website they want regardless of the content.
They do. Their network, their rules.
That said, if they aren't smart enough to prevent workarounds, then it's their own damn fault if their censorship tactics don't work. Good luck.
Oh yes, I forgot that morality is synonymous with the law.
Hello, traveler.
This is an ancient account I have not used in a long time. My views have changed much in the intervening months and years.
Nonetheless, I refuse to clean it up. Pretending that I've held my current views since the beginning of time is what we in the industry call a lie. Asking people to do so contributes to moralistic self-loathing. "See, those people have nothing damning! I do! I'm truly vile!"
Because you can never be a good person with a single blemish on the moral record, I thought that simply entertaining some thoughts made me irredeemable. Though I don't care for his writing style, William Faulkner presents a good counterexample. He went from being a typical Southern racist to supporting the civil rights movement. These days we'd yell at him for that, probably.
People are allowed to change their views.
Nevertheless, this period of my life has informed some of how I am today. In good ways and bad ways. To purge it would be to do a disservice to history. Perhaps it will not make anyone sympathetic, but it may help someone understand.
If, after reading all this, you still decide to use the post above as evidence that I am evil today, ask yourself if you have never disagreed with the moral code you now follow. In all likelihood you did, at some point. If some questions are verboten, and the answer is "how dare you ask that," don't expect your ideological opponents to ever change their minds.
(08-08-2016 05:36 AM)Hansgrohe Wrote: Those are rather basic, but pretty decent, though I'd be cautious. Touching fecal matter in general is a health hazard (and you might be known potentially as the poop kid), and TPing could get you sent to prison these days sadly.
One good way at defeating popular kids was drawing attention towards yourself. Don't do something that makes you look like an obvious attention whore, but don't just stand there and do nothing, either. Do something magnificent that'll draw attention to you, positive or negative, and you'll have your own reputation. Remember to protect this, too. The best way to do this is to do something similar to a spectacle - something that keeps everyone in awe because it is so mysterious.
Communicating with popular kids is another can of worms but it can be done is through communication; learn their methods of communicating. It used to be that you had to stalk but with the advent of social media, it's so much easier these days to learn how these people communicate. Think like a diplomat; speak to them. Using a generic one-size-fits-all voice isn't too effective. But speaking to their level, that gets them.
Remember to keep a good relationship with the teacher - this got me out of big trouble during my senior year; don't be extravagant, but show your passion and knowledge. By doing this, you'll find it much easier to get away with shit.
But the most two most important things: be bold, but be yoursef. Don't just fantasize about how things could be. Instead, plan ahead and put it in action. The world is full of brilliant thinkers who never act on their great ideas; don't be that sad nerd who spends his outside life just playing video games and jerking to porn all day; think boldly. And the most important thing that you get told: be yourself. Don't try to directly copy other styles, keep your own swagger. Improve upon it, but keep your distinctness. No one likes an imitator or another bland conformist.
That's as far as I can go. I found this useful in dismantling this one particular person. Go out with a bang.
(08-13-2016 10:57 AM)HSHARK Wrote: Alright, the school censorship on Internet has gotten out of hand. Schools think that they have the RIGHT to censor any website they want regardless of the content. Even some of my teachers complain that my school blocked educational sites for no reason. I will be building my own proxy server this weekend and be issuing the address to people in the resistance. Because ENOUGH IS ENOUGH and I shall not be silent to the injustice around me.
PS. Even if I get caught, I would at most be suspended for a few days and my proxy becomes blocked. I would not be arrested because I am not violating any relevant law in the US. Even in the event that my site is blocked I can distribute my code to other interested people.
Remember that schools pretty much have the right to suspend constitutional rights.
It's a shame. It's like schools don't respect the Constitution that they're supposed to teach us about.
The real rules, the rules of simple cause and effect, of merit and damage, are relevant no matter what the written law is. Tyranny and counterproductivity have no place that they haven't swindled. If it exists and chiefly causes damage for no good reason, then it only stole a spot from something good. It doesn't truly belong, and it doesn't deserve power, and it doesn't deserve protection.
(08-13-2016 10:57 AM)HSHARK Wrote: Alright, the school censorship on Internet has gotten out of hand. Schools think that they have the RIGHT to censor any website they want regardless of the content. Even some of my teachers complain that my school blocked educational sites for no reason. I will be building my own proxy server this weekend and be issuing the address to people in the resistance. Because ENOUGH IS ENOUGH and I shall not be silent to the injustice around me.
PS. Even if I get caught, I would at most be suspended for a few days and my proxy becomes blocked. I would not be arrested because I am not violating any relevant law in the US. Even in the event that my site is blocked I can distribute my code to other interested people.
Does this mean schools also ban gay marriages? I demand a lawsuit!
Remember that schools pretty much have the right to suspend constitutional rights.
It's a shame. It's like schools don't respect the Constitution that they're supposed to teach us about.
You don't have it too bad. I remember one school whose staff would say "Alright you can use this one site" and the rest of the internet was blocked. Of course its still bad mind you but, at least you have some sites. Sorry, for saying that.
(08-13-2016 10:57 AM)HSHARK Wrote: Alright, the school censorship on Internet has gotten out of hand. Schools think that they have the RIGHT to censor any website they want regardless of the content. Even some of my teachers complain that my school blocked educational sites for no reason. I will be building my own proxy server this weekend and be issuing the address to people in the resistance. Because ENOUGH IS ENOUGH and I shall not be silent to the injustice around me.
PS. Even if I get caught, I would at most be suspended for a few days and my proxy becomes blocked. I would not be arrested because I am not violating any relevant law in the US. Even in the event that my site is blocked I can distribute my code to other interested people.
Remember that schools pretty much have the right to suspend constitutional rights.
Pretty much? No,they flatout DO.
Hidden stuff:
"CONSENSUAL incest is not wrong. (Abuse victims: being abused by a relative does not make it wrong for others to have consensual incest, any more than rape by a stranger makes all sex wrong. Sex and assault/molestation are two different things.) An aversion became common in humans that aided in population growth as one disease couldn't wipe out the human race. That's not a problem anymore.
Consensual incest is very common. You know people who have been involved, whether you know it or not.
There is no rational reason for keeping laws or taboos against consensual
incest that is consistently applied to other relationships. Personal disgust or religion is only a reason why one person would not want to personally engage in what I call consanguinamory, not why someone else shouldn't do it. An adult should be free to share love, sex, residence, and marriage with ANY consenting adults. Youthful experimentation between close relatives close in age is not uncommon, and there are more people than you'd think out there who are in lifelong healthy, happy relationships with a close relative. It isn't for everyone, but we're not all going to want to have each others' love lives, now are we? If someone thinks YOUR love life is disgusting, should you be thrown in prison?
Some people try to justify their prejudice against consanguineous sex and
marriage by being part-time eugenicists and saying that such relationships inevitably lead to “mutant” or “deformed” babies. This argument can be refuted on several fronts. 1. Some consanguineous relationships involve only people of the same gender. 2. Not all mixed-gender relationships birth biological children. 3. Most births to consanguineous parents do not produce children with significant birth defects or other genetic problems; while births to other parents do sometimes have birth defects. 4. We don’t prevent other people from marrying or deny them their reproductive rights based on increased odds of passing along a genetic problem or inherited disease. It is true that in general, children born to consanguineous parents have an increased chance of these problems than those born to nonconsanguineous parents, but the odds are still minimal. Unless someone is willing to deny reproductive rights and medical privacy to others and force everyone to take genetic tests and bar carriers and the congenitally disabled and women over 35 from having children, then equal protection principles prevent this from being a justification to bar this freedom of association and freedom to marry.
Some say "Your sibling should not be your lover." That is not a reason. It begs the question. Many people have many relationships that have more than one aspect. Some women say their sister is their best friend. Why can’t their sister be a wife, too?
Some say “There is a power differential.” This applies least of all to siblings or cousins who are close in age, but even where the power differential exists, it is not a justification for denying this freedom to sex or to marry. There is a power differential in just about any relationship, sometimes an enormous power differential. To question if consent is truly possible in these cases is insulting and demeaning.
Some say “There are so many people outside of your family." There are plenty of people within one’s own race, too, but that is no reason to ban interracial marriage. So, this isn't a good reason either. Let consenting adults love each other the way they want!"-Keith Pullman
Today at school, I was using a workaround for GoGuardian, my school's Chromebook monitoring software. So, the tech guy (A big black dude) found out about this, and he didn't suspend me. at least[/Hidden] i'm not suspended.