Welcome new friends in the cross thread

"story645" (story645) 06/25/2015 at 10:35 • Filed to: None

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‘allo one and all and give a hearty hello to the newest member of our cozy club, Jezebel’s official community subblog (yes, they’re blessed with two community subblogs for reasons I kinda sorta understand) !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .

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The cross thread goes up every Thursday, usually some time between 9:00AM-1:00PM EST. Every week it is published to a different member blog (Whitenoise, Hackerspace, Groupthink, Odeck, Tay, Oppo, Backtalk, Clashtalk, and now Powder Room) and shared out from there, and even I’m not quite sure why I did it that way.

Let me know if you’d like to host a cross thread. The only real requirement is that you coordinate with me for the shares. If there’s a blog you’d like added to the mix, let a mod/owner of that blog know. I love new members, but ask for authorship privs to streamline the hosting/sharing. If your blog would like to be a member but does not feel comfortable with that request, we can discuss some other arrangement.

And if your blog would like out of the thread, let me know too-this is supposed to just be a get to know your neighbors open thread, not something troublesome. (And once upon a time it was ostensibly supposed to be the Thursday Tech thread)

CB > story645 06/25/2015 at 10:41

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Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Oppo!

I have nothing to go on about. Other than I think I’ve gotten a field placement position for my program set up, which means no more interviews. Fuck interviews.

How is everyone else doing?

$kaycog > story645 06/25/2015 at 10:47

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Welcome new victims friends! I need a nap.

EL_ULY > story645 06/25/2015 at 10:47

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Just workin... hello cross thread peeps. Haven’t posted in forever. Apology to my LaLD and OPPO buddies

UI 2.0 > story645 06/25/2015 at 10:48

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Good Morning! Saw Inside Out yesterday, I love it! But I wish I had a date when going in seeing the movie. The lava short... ;_;

schwoopipoop > CB 06/25/2015 at 10:48

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I am studying for an exam I have tomorrow morning! The interview process can be quite the slog

ScatterOfLight22 > story645 06/25/2015 at 10:49

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Hallo friends! *waves*

Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif > story645 06/25/2015 at 10:49

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I’m just working away. Hello Jezebel silly gooses!

Jiffy > story645 06/25/2015 at 10:50

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Well hey there, Oppo. I really should make more of a point to mosey to the other sub-blogs outside GT...

Sometimes I’m shy, okay?!

CB > schwoopipoop 06/25/2015 at 10:52

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For sure. And good luck with your exam tomorrow! What subject is it?

Lexador > CB 06/25/2015 at 10:52

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Congrats on the placement. I’m with you on fuck interviews. I was just asked to withdraw an application because I’m out of the country on the only day they’re doing interviews. Seems like an odd way of running things, given that I’d be available two days later.

Ishamael > story645 06/25/2015 at 10:53

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The Cross thread is at a different time this week... suspicious...

Patrick Nichols > story645 06/25/2015 at 10:53

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So I have an issue that maybe one of you can resolve. I’m looking for an inexpensive way to wirelessly hook up my headphones to the tv in my bedroom.

The problem is that I got a FireTV stick and usually watch a show or two before falling asleep, but with the AC on I have to keep the volume up too high for my girlfriend to fall asleep sometimes. I know I should’ve bought a roku, but I didn’t forsee this issue. Does anyone have any ideas for a wireless transmitter from the headphone jack or red/white audio output that has a receiver that only has a headphone jack? I like the couple sets of headphones I have and would prefer not to get a new set.

New Friends Monkey gif for your time

CB > Lexador 06/25/2015 at 10:55

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Thanks! And that seems pretty odd. Maybe it’s better off that you don’t work with that company if that’s how they do things.

kemperboyd > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif 06/25/2015 at 10:55

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HIYA

Flerby > story645 06/25/2015 at 10:55

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Hello All!

Hows the day going? I just had some guy email about an invoice question but then out of no where he was like “Really the main issue is that your emails cause my outlook to crash.. fix this now”. I grabbed the wrong ticket out of the queue this morning apparently. Should be an adventure especially because its probably not something on our end.

Hillbillarincess > story645 06/25/2015 at 10:56

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Morning friends!! I have a thing to talk about and that is the fact that I just got a major promotion at work (me with one year experience now leading people with 10 times that much) and am scared out of my mind about screwing it up. Yes I am excited and my employers seem to have complete faith in me and weeeee pay raise! And all I have to do to succeed is be organized and always triple-check my work but I am already waiting for the first irreparable screw-up. Watch this space. Oh dear.

Lexador > CB 06/25/2015 at 10:57

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It’s not even a company, it's a state office!

Patrick Nichols > Jiffy 06/25/2015 at 10:58

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Well you’re out of the greys now so maybe someone will see your comments. We’re probably the least formal group around here so feel free to stop by. If you decide one day you would like authorship, I believe the tag is club openings for those threads.

All I Hear Is Static > story645 06/25/2015 at 10:58

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Guise, I don’t fully understand the Powder Room. That link that says “what is the P.R.?” just takes me to the page and I feel like I’ve been tricked by that link before. I’m a GT person and this whole “Jez has two official community subs” thing, well,

Lexador > Jiffy 06/25/2015 at 10:59

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Haha I get that. I’m a GT denizen but am sticking my toe into ODeck for my science and nerdy fixes.

CB > Lexador 06/25/2015 at 10:59

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... and yet I am not surprised. That’s concerning.

Jiffy > Patrick Nichols 06/25/2015 at 11:00

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Cool beans! I’ve got authorship on GT and a couple of the related blogs (Room for Seconds, Jungle Gym) so I should mosey over. I’m finding more little corners of Kinja that I’m enjoying, so I’ll probably lurk and comment more! :-)

story645 > Ishamael 06/25/2015 at 11:00

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it’s never really at a consistent time ‘cause I’m not good at the scheduling thing and kinja won’t let me schedule shares of a scheduled post.

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > story645 06/25/2015 at 11:01

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Who are you?

Did you get in touch with the other Oppo runners to clear this project?

CB > Patrick Nichols 06/25/2015 at 11:02

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Have you considered a really long cable instead?

Patrick Nichols > CB 06/25/2015 at 11:03

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Actually yes, but I roll around in my sleep a lot.

RobGronkowski'sPartyBusDriver > story645 06/25/2015 at 11:03

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Yeah I tried doing that once for a post. Makes me wonder why there is even the schedule option in the first place.

CB > Flerby 06/25/2015 at 11:04

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... how does that even make sense? Only your emails? Are you Hackerman (the greatest hacker in the world)?

Jiffy > Lexador 06/25/2015 at 11:04

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Yes! ODeck seems like my kind of crowd, so I’ve begun poking my head in over there too. SO MANY SUB-BLOGS

Lexador > Jiffy 06/25/2015 at 11:05

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If you follow the blogs and check your dashboard instead of the individual sites, I find it easier to keep up with the smaller sub-blogs that way.

story645 > All I Hear Is Static 06/25/2015 at 11:05

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Well actually Jez only has 1 official subblog, which is Powder Room. It’s basically supposed to be home to formalish pieces that fit the Jezebel style. GT used to be a semi-offical Jezebel community blog and sorta ended up demoted to a subblog made up of Jez readers.

story645 > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman 06/25/2015 at 11:06

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I am the person who hosts/posts these cross threads almost every week for I think over a year now...and oppo has been a member for more than a few months...

livesquiggles > story645 06/25/2015 at 11:06

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Hello. I’m tired, but it’s not like I’ve been up for 36 hours or anything. Wait. I have.

Also, y’all/y’uns/youguise should read this post by story on how to not be creepy on the internet .

story645 > RobGronkowski'sPartyBusDriver 06/25/2015 at 11:07

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It’s so the flagship blog editors can schedule shares from the verticals for either prime veiwertime or to fill gap times without having to be around at those time.

Jiffy > Lexador 06/25/2015 at 11:08

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Yes! I’ve found that too. I’ll have to go and add those to the ones I currently follow.

All I Hear Is Static > story645 06/25/2015 at 11:10

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That was a perfectly succinct response. Thank you! (Also, I’m thrilled that GT is no longer explicitly tied to Jez.)

Doesn’t Jez have a whole slew of official subblogs, though? The Muse, Millihellen, Pictorial, the weird one where they publish intra-office memos, etc?

Lexador > Jiffy 06/25/2015 at 11:10

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I found out about Dashboard through a random comment so now I'm all spreading the word

ottermann > story645 06/25/2015 at 11:11

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Did someone say cross thread?

Jiffy > Lexador 06/25/2015 at 11:12

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You are a wonderful human being. Obviously. Now that I’ll be lurking in new places, I feel like the new kid walking into the lunchroom on the first day of 7th grade.

Ishamael > story645 06/25/2015 at 11:12

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Ya that pisses me off... having to log on just to share a post. Which normally I’m good at but today I was off.

Ishamael > story645 06/25/2015 at 11:13

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I like the schedual most of my bigger posts I always try to share at key times. 10:30-11:15 tends to be optimal times. Sometimes I’m kinjaed but others who knows. Today the Crossthread actually bumped me bellow the fold on TAY.

Aikage > All I Hear Is Static 06/25/2015 at 11:14

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One is for Glorious hags living in squalor, the other one? I don’t know!

Aikage > story645 06/25/2015 at 11:15

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What’s an oppositelock

livesquiggles > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman 06/25/2015 at 11:16

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Story has been running these threads every week for at least as long as I’ve been on Kinja (roughly 18 months). I’m sure I’ve posted on several Oppo-hosted cross threads since late last year.

story645 > All I Hear Is Static 06/25/2015 at 11:17

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Sorry, I meant official community blog. Yes, anything on the dropdown or .jezebel.com domain is an official sublog.

For Sweden > Jiffy 06/25/2015 at 11:20

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If you like GT there’s no reason to be shy

PyramidHeadcrab Zamboni > story645 06/25/2015 at 11:20

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Jezebel is such a bizarre blog. Feminism and celebrity gossip? Yeah, break down those female stereotypes by backing them. Seems legit. And some of the commenters on there? Holy shit - equality seems to be the enemy to these people; simply respecting fellow human beings is somehow racist and sexist and every other buzz word. These guys are nutters.

story645 > Ishamael 06/25/2015 at 11:21

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Sorry about that. :/

And I’m annoyed that I’m back to having to refresh the page on every share. Such a pain.

For Sweden > story645 06/25/2015 at 11:23

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Hello new people, have a good day!

story645 > Hillbillarincess 06/25/2015 at 11:23

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Congrats!

All I Hear Is Static > story645 06/25/2015 at 11:24

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Gotcha! :)

livesquiggles > Aikage 06/25/2015 at 11:25

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I’ve wondered the same thing many times. I guess I haven’t asked for the same reason that when I’m in France, I don’t ask what is France.

Santiago of Escuderia Boricua > Jiffy 06/25/2015 at 11:25

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Oppo is a little harder to follow than GT just because there are so many more authors and posts

Jiffy > For Sweden 06/25/2015 at 11:25

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Well played, Sweden.

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > story645 06/25/2015 at 11:26

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I’m OK with it as long as there’s no shitposting.

A lot of bad stuff has happened with such things in the last 8 years I’ve been on here

Jiffy > Santiago of Escuderia Boricua 06/25/2015 at 11:28

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I kinda dig that though, because I get bored when there are lulls - especially when I’m at work passing the time between busy spurts... I’m okay with tons of content.

Ishamael > story645 06/25/2015 at 11:29

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meh it doesn’t last long on TAY anyways doesn’t really matter they do well for themselves due to the subject matter.

k2b: da man trynta steal mah bloggy!!!!!!! > CB 06/25/2015 at 11:31

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I’m thinking this is one of these goobers that has his stuff so bunged up he needs text-only.

MadPiglet > story645 06/25/2015 at 11:34

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Oh, hey crossposters! Hope everyone is having a lovely whatever-day-this-is. Thursday? Probably.

I just swept up enough dog hair to make a whole ‘nother dog.

Now I’m thinking really hard about cleaning out my truck so What’s-His-Name doesn’t whine about how gross it is since he gets to drive it all weekend and I get to take his car on a road trip to a friend’s wedding.

MeanNormaJean > story645 06/25/2015 at 11:35

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DrJohannVegas > Patrick Nichols 06/25/2015 at 11:36

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http://www.amazon.com/SmartEra%C2%AE…

Something like that? What you want is an RF transmitter/reciever. You could go Bluetooth as well, but the price (and quality) goes up quite a bit.

http://www.amazon.com/Portable-Bluet…

Also, shameless plug for the Soundboard, your Kinja stop for audio questions... http://soundboard.kinja.com/

For Sweden > livesquiggles 06/25/2015 at 11:38

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But seriously what is France and why don’t they just call it Frankreich like normal people

DrJohannVegas > ottermann 06/25/2015 at 11:38

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Well, you suave son-of-a-gun, now that you cross-threaded it, it’s time to tap it. Tap it real good.

Wait, I meant this tap. You’ll probably want a bottoming one.

DrJohannVegas > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman 06/25/2015 at 11:40

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k2b: da man trynta steal mah bloggy!!!!!!! > story645 06/25/2015 at 11:40

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HELLO NEIGHBORS! Still got no job, still DGAF. It’s hot outside and I still have some severance.

story645 > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman 06/25/2015 at 11:40

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Did you get in touch with the other Oppo runners to clear this project?

I mean, I think a moderator gave me authorship privs just so I could post this, so I think so. I just looked it up and Oppo joined in 8/21/14, so it’s been almost a year. I can’t find/remember the post. If it’s an issue, I’ll contact the oppo mods about it.

oldwomanyellsatclods > EL_ULY 06/25/2015 at 11:40

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Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > story645 06/25/2015 at 11:41

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Well hello other people from the internet.

schwoopipoop > CB 06/25/2015 at 11:43

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Management Science, the science of management! It’s pretty cool though, I’m one of those people that kinda like math.

TheD0k_2many toys 2little time > story645 06/25/2015 at 11:45

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Everyone needs one of these

story645 > PyramidHeadcrab Zamboni 06/25/2015 at 11:47

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/sigh, why do you only come into my thread for the advancement of friendships and breaking down of kinja stereotypes to stir up trouble? Everybody else across the kinjaverse knows how to behave themselves.

Yes, I agree with you that sometimes some of the Jez commentators can be a bit much...but that’s true of commentators on all the kinja flagships.

HammerheadFistpunch > story645 06/25/2015 at 11:48

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I found PR on that race and gender aren’t the same article that was mostly very good. I made a comment on it, which is normally a scary thing for someone from oppo to do, but I haven’t heard a peep on it since so I guess it was okay? Either that or that no one reads the gray comments. I can’t decide.

story645 > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman 06/25/2015 at 11:50

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As I’ve mentioned a few times now, these threads have been going for about a year now and I can only remember a few semi-kerfluffles that didn’t even escape the thread. I mean I might have serious rose colored glasses on here, but I think what’s been happening is that the people participating in this are the sort who are cool with ir.

allytigre > story645 06/25/2015 at 11:50

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Hello!

Can I ask you informed people some naive questions?
Why might it be that I am grey again after previously being ungrey? I did have a period of inactivity due to ~life~. Is this automatic? Is there a rule?

If a person (user like myself, not someone with a recognised platform here at kinja) writes a blogpost, how or when might anybody see it? Is the only route to seeing a non-promoted person’s writing deliberately clicking on their username? Is there somewhere where these users’ posts are aggregated?

Thank you and forgive the ignorance. Good day!

ALSO: Anybody live in Québec???

Xyl0c41n3 > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman 06/25/2015 at 11:51

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Snap, Story is like the least contentious person on all of kinja. They’ve been posting the weekly cross thread on all the major sub blogs every Thursday for ages. They have gamecats’s approval, too.

Santiago of Escuderia Boricua > Jiffy 06/25/2015 at 11:51

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Sometimes it’s still not enough. That’s why I started reading GT

Patrick Nichols > DrJohannVegas 06/25/2015 at 11:53

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With the second one could I transmit with just one and receive on my iphone?

ottermann > DrJohannVegas 06/25/2015 at 11:53

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PyramidHeadcrab Zamboni > story645 06/25/2015 at 11:54

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If you think friendships can exist without discussion and conflict, you are delusional.

story645 > HammerheadFistpunch 06/25/2015 at 11:55

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Yeah, it was probably fine. It could also have just slipped through the cracks, which happens sometimes on kinja.

HammerheadFistpunch > story645 06/25/2015 at 11:57

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Its not that I really want or need eyes on it because its not that my point is that amazing or anything. I was more just surprised I wasn’t inundated with responses given the nature of the topic. Anyway, thanks for the response.

story645 > PyramidHeadcrab Zamboni 06/25/2015 at 11:59

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I was only beeing semi-serious, but seriously do you think accusing me of being delusional is helping your case? Dude, there are ways to disagree and have discussions, but it needs to be couched in a respectful manner. Not by lobbing ad-hominem attacks at people. That cross the line.

story645 > allytigre 06/25/2015 at 12:01

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Well, this is oppositelock. Are you sure you were ungray on oppo? Ungreying is per kinja level and it looks like you’re usually a GTer.

If you write a post on your personal blog, your best bet for getting people to see it is to ask an author on a groupblog (like GT) to share your personal post to that group blog.

DrJohannVegas > Patrick Nichols 06/25/2015 at 12:02

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I’m not entirely sure how Bluetooth receive works on iphones, to be honest. I suspect that you won’t be able to use the phone as a receiver, but maybe it’s possible?

To answer your question more generally, yes. With the second one, you are getting a small device which makes any 3.5mm input a Bluetooth signal, so anything that can receive is fair game. If you want to go to a pair of RCA outputs, you might grab a converter while you’re on there.

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > Xyl0c41n3 06/25/2015 at 12:03

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Got it, thanks!

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > story645 06/25/2015 at 12:04

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Perfectly fine then

PyramidHeadcrab Zamboni > story645 06/25/2015 at 12:06

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It would be nice if I could go 30 minutes on the internet without someone using Latin to dismiss me... What I’m saying is, conflict is sometimes a good thing. Conflict is how I generate my best, and most meaningful, discussions. If you go through life looking for flowers and sunshine, you’ll never find it; you can’t have those things in a world of human emotions without a good storm to knead the soil and disperse the clouds.

allytigre > story645 06/25/2015 at 12:09

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Okay thank you, no, I did not know these things! I was ungrey around Jezebel in the past, I have only recently discovered/explored the wider world. That explains things.

Thanks for your very helpful reply (:

story645 > PyramidHeadcrab Zamboni 06/25/2015 at 12:15

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I’m not trying to use latin to dismiss you, and I’m sorry you felt that way, it’s just the term that popped into my head for personal attacks. Either way, those are not okay and basically automatically change the tenor of the discussion into something unproductive.

I’m okay with conflict, and hell I’ve had long disagreements with people on kinja that were somehow even halfway productive (dunno how). But, a prerequist for those sort of discussions is to stay civil throughout and give the person you’re arguing with the benefit of the doubt. Coming in with guns blazing without also acknowledging your own prejudices is just a recipie for disaster.

artiofab > PyramidHeadcrab Zamboni 06/25/2015 at 12:18

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conflict is sometimes a good thing

From the last time I talked with you, I agree that you think that conflict is sometimes a good thing. But. Conflicts in conversation are pointless unless one (or preferably) both parties are willing to learn from the conversation.

Person1: I believe this.

Person2: These points of evidence are why this is wrong.

Person1: You’re wrong, I’m right.

^ That is a conflict in conversation that is useless.

Person1: I believe this.

Person2: These points of evidence are why this is wrong.

Person1: Dang I was unaware of those things. I will take them into my neurons and see how they interact with my thoughts.

^ That is a conflict in conversation that has some use.

story645 > Xyl0c41n3 06/25/2015 at 12:19

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Story is like the least contentious person on all of kinja

PyramidHeadcrab Zamboni > artiofab 06/25/2015 at 12:23

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I agree.

artiofab > allytigre 06/25/2015 at 12:26

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There’s some Kinja users who live in Québec (happy day after La fête nationale?) but I don’t know how to rally them. What’s the rallying cry for Québec?

PyramidHeadcrab Zamboni > story645 06/25/2015 at 12:26

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And what gives you the authority to determine what is and isn’t civil, o lord? To put it gently - I think you’re in a bit of a bubble, unprepared for the sorts of people you don’t choose to associate with. That’s a problem for a person that preaches civility; some people don’t operate on that wavelength of yours.

Emerald > Patrick Nichols 06/25/2015 at 12:29

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Likely your best selection for solutions: http://en-us.sennheiser.com/wireless-tv-he…

Cheap? Not really, though they do go as far down as $80.

allytigre > artiofab 06/25/2015 at 12:32

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Something to do with poutine, I think?

I am English living in a not-very-cosmopolitan town. I keep trying to find somebody to ~relate~ to or something, haha. Thank you for your reply (:

Emerald > Aikage 06/25/2015 at 12:33

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Opposite lock is something that happens when you drift a rear wheel drive car around a corner. The wheels point in the opposite direction from what they would typically going around the bend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposite_…

dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter > ottermann 06/25/2015 at 12:37

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I did this yesterday. Was an important bolt too.

Aikage > Emerald 06/25/2015 at 12:38

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Ah Thanks!

story645 > PyramidHeadcrab Zamboni 06/25/2015 at 12:45

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And what gives you the authority to determine what is and isn’t civil, o lord?

On the cross thread? That I host it. If you’d like to start a more debate oriented cross thread, you’re free to do so.