Jesus fuck I just journeyed over into ATF and it feels like this forum is on the verge of collapse. What the fuck is going on? There’s like 5 different threads I’m not caught up on but apparently JT, microbet, and cassette are leaving?
I know this gets said a million times so I’m gonna assume I’m speaking for many when I say that this forum and community are incredibly valuable to me. I don’t know what I can do to help but I hope those involved in whatever the fuck is going on reconsider leaving because this place won’t be the same without any of you.
— To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.
Out, out, brief candle!
Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.
There is absolutely no way your involvement (or anybody else’s) is going to improve any part of the situation. I’m really pleading with everybody here to not participate. No matter what your intentions, you can only make things worse.
Not a Rogan fan but remember someone called him short. He would take out people with his leg kicks alone. For some reason this video reminds me of a bar fight with one of my friends and his friend he got sick of. He was a minor league hockey player and we were day drinking once and he got pissed at other dude and kicked the bar stool out from under the guy and started ground and pounding him lmao. It was like a Steven Seagal movie bit for real.
So we went from people wanting to do podcasts to people asking for temp bans.
When I am bored at work I usually log into the forum and look if something interesting happens. Aside from Covid it just is very US focussed. The UK thread gets posts but not a lot of discussion. The China thread is basically dead. I understand and agree that unfortunately the US are in the driver seat for most topics. If there is no change happening in the US there wont be much change happening in the rest of the world so we curl up into a ball live our lives and hope nothing bad will happen to us. Yet around us the world is on fire. Honestly when was the last time you read about “good news”? Hell I watch “The dodo”-videos on yt to get some feel good.
I dont necessarily agree. You dont need diversity for the sake of having diversity. That often leads to fruitless discussions because on side argues in bad faith and ignores the science. If there are posters that have really different opinions or are cool with the status quo they seldom openly admit that they are fine that there is only a minority of people on this planet that has somewhat of a “good” life. They dont want to see the consequences of our doing.
If people agree on most things then the next step should discuss how we change things and achieve those goals. Posting and discussing problems in forum wont change anything. It might be a feel good thing because we know and acknowledge that there is a problem but what do we do to fix it. Is it enough to just go to elections anymore? Do we have to leave our comfort zone. I personally I am fully aware that just going to elections and trying to live my life a certain way wont be enough longterm but the next step is just a huge barrier for myself. I rely on kids doing the leg work and getting the messages out there.
