THE NEW Miscellaneous Talk That Doesn't Deserve A New Thread Thread Thread (Part 2)

Maybe it would be better for this community if I would leaveโ€ฆ (Iโ€™m not satirical)

Why do you think so? And why would you leave?

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im pretty sure they didnt mean youโ€ฆ
if they did there shouldve been a comma

they probably just typed down an expression.

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Please donโ€™t leave, youโ€™re a really great part of the community, and the forums wouldnโ€™t be the same without you! Iโ€™m sure they didnโ€™t intentionally write your name there, too, I think it was just intended represent a sigh.

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I didnโ€™t even realize that could be read as his name lol

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I believe it was more the exclamation โ€˜aahโ€™, as in โ€˜oh rightโ€™, and not your name

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For a moment there, I was confused as to why @aah31415 felt concerned by the message as he was not part of the discussion between @TeaKing and @zenzonegaming. Itโ€™s only after your message that I realize itโ€™s because their username begins with โ€œaahโ€. Rest assured @aah31415, I was not talking about you.

:slightly_smiling_face:

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You canโ€™t eat the cake and โ€ฆ eat it too. It is clear at this point that it is the cake you eat every year that causes the sickness.

it doesnโ€™t always make me sick, just most of the time

Toxic cakeโ€ฆ Each to their own, I guess.
Anyway:

At least on Mac the new UI works slightly better than the old one, though it is still laggy ab.

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Iโ€™ve got no clue who that is and googling doesnโ€™t also help. So based on previous experience I would guess that it is again someone who has very one-sided garbage opinions. And no one is really interested on these forums to take the time and dissect such argumentation videos. At least thatโ€™s my prediction.

Is โ€˜abโ€™ an abbreviation for โ€˜as Belgiumโ€™โ€˜, as in "Cthulhu belgium it, this connectionโ€™s laggy as Belgiumโ€™?

@hhyyrylainen I do enjoy breaking down a bad argument. However, most of the time when a disingenuous actor makes a series of arguments, it takes so long to pick apart everything thatโ€™s wrong with it that itโ€™s unlikely to overcome whatever damage might be done by showing them saying it. And very often โ€˜debateโ€™ videos are actually just people trying to look badass by putting down their opponents.

@blackjacksike Whatโ€™s the debate on?

Yes. Exactly.

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Ah yes, the Gish gallop - Wikipedia which is usually favoured by one side of the โ€œdebateโ€

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Yes, thereโ€™s a lot of money to be made in that. There are whole media networks built around it.

I debated joining the er, debating societies at uni, as I though it would be really useful to learn how to explain things in a way that people would more readily understand, and be more likely to accept. But, theyโ€™re always based on convincing people of something regardless of the reality. Itโ€™s Platoโ€™s main criticism of the Sophists - although Plato was guilty of it just as much as they were.

The users page seems to be working again

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THE CURSE OF BLINDNESS HAS BEEN LIFTED
(Thrive forum user page empty)

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I was reading: How to Delete Uploaded Files? - support - Discourse Meta

and to my shock I read, what I kind of knew already, that uploads are only deleted if the latest version of a post doesnโ€™t reference them. And deleted posts count as the latest version. So before deleting a post if there are uploads in it that need deleting, the post needs to be edited to remove the image links to allow the automatic orphaned image deletion task to delete them.

I see. Well, I canโ€™t remember all videos Iโ€™ve watched a couple of minutes of.