Posts by wanderingdriver17

boldcanyon14 said:Look, I can't really speak for the other subforums since I don't keep tabs on everything, but I can definitely speak for my own. Five users were hit with partial bans, and all five already had hundreds of active points and dozens of warnings for off-topic rambling, fighting, and general nonsense. They had two months to shape up, and I personally reached out to them via DM to try and smooth things over.

A few of them are actually clones who have been trolling the Economy section for years. Honestly, I was willing to look the other way if they just started posting on-topic and stopped insulting people under fake names. But when I saw zero progress, I handed out the partial bans.

If you genuinely think those guys are examples of what Gerald Chavez7 meant by "economic discussion," more power to you, but this isn't even 1% of the garbage he’s been dumping in the Economy section that has absolutely nothing to do with the actual subject. Maybe you enjoy reading that stuff, but there are dozens—even hundreds—of users who don't want to deal with it. They report the posts, they complain, and when they see no action being taken, they end up getting dragged into arguments and insults themselves.

When a thread gets so heated that we have to scrub 20 or 30 posts, yeah, some decent posts get caught in the crossfire too. But those posts can't stay because they inevitably reference the toxic mess surrounding them; if I leave them up, the whole cycle starts all over again. It’s entirely on the people writing those posts. If they had just made a clean post without referencing an off-topic argument, it wouldn't have been deleted.

Besides, Kerefek isn't banned from sharing his predictions or whatever; he just moved over to the Alternative section because no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't make those posts fit in the Economy section. If it were true what you guys are claiming, he'd be banned from the entire site to silence him, and no discussion would be allowed at all.

As for the topic he claims was shut down because it didn't fit the narrative, it still exists; it's just under Politics. All the players I told to stop clogging up the Economy section are free to post about it over there, because that's where it belongs. Believe it or not, they're even allowed to argue against the narrative. 😲 Kerefek is still posting his stuff, just on the Alternative board, which proves everything is permitted—it just has to be in the right place. If we start talking about everything everywhere, then there's no point in having subforums at all. We might as well just have one giant chat room where everyone talks about everything at once.

It might not look that way to you, but talking about vaccines, the planet Nibir, global elites, secret agendas, and all that junk in the Economy section is like talking about it in the Food section. It makes zero sense. Even if one single post tries to link something back to the economy, the next ten posts fly off into total nonsense.

boldcanyon14 said:Look, I can't really speak for the other subforums since I don't keep tabs on everything, but I can definitely speak for my own. Five users were hit with partial bans, and all five already had hundreds of active points and dozens of warnings for off-topic rambling, fighting, and general nonsense. They had two months to shape up, and I personally reached out to them via DM to try and smooth things over.

A few of them are actually clones who have been trolling the Economy section for years. Honestly, I was willing to look the other way if they just started posting on-topic and stopped insulting people under fake names. But when I saw zero progress, I handed out the partial bans.

If you genuinely think those guys are examples of what Gerald Chavez7 meant by "economic discussion," more power to you, but this isn't even 1% of the garbage he’s been dumping in the Economy section that has absolutely nothing to do with the actual subject. Maybe you enjoy reading that stuff, but there are dozens—even hundreds—of users who don't want to deal with it. They report the posts, they complain, and when they see no action being taken, they end up getting dragged into arguments and insults themselves.

When a thread gets so heated that we have to scrub 20 or 30 posts, yeah, some decent posts get caught in the crossfire too. But those posts can't stay because they inevitably reference the toxic mess surrounding them; if I leave them up, the whole cycle starts all over again. It’s entirely on the people writing those posts. If they had just made a clean post without referencing an off-topic argument, it wouldn't have been deleted.

Besides, Kerefek isn't banned from sharing his predictions or whatever; he just moved over to the Alternative section because no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't make those posts fit in the Economy section. If it were true what you guys are claiming, he'd be banned from the entire site to silence him, and no discussion would be allowed at all.

As for the topic he claims was shut down because it didn't fit the narrative, it still exists; it's just under Politics. All the players I told to stop clogging up the Economy section are free to post about it over there, because that's where it belongs. Believe it or not, they're even allowed to argue against the narrative. 😲 Kerefek is still posting his stuff, just on the Alternative board, which proves everything is permitted—it just has to be in the right place. If we start talking about everything everywhere, then there's no point in having subforums at all. We might as well just have one giant chat room where everyone talks about everything at once.

It might not look that way to you, but talking about vaccines, the planet Nibir, global elites, secret agendas, and all that junk in the Economy section is like talking about it in the Food section. It makes zero sense. Even if one single post tries to link something back to the economy, the next ten posts fly off into total nonsense.

boldcanyon14 said:Look, I can't really speak for the other subforums since I don't keep tabs on everything, but I can definitely speak for my own. Five users were hit with partial bans, and all five already had hundreds of active points and dozens of warnings for off-topic rambling, fighting, and general nonsense. They had two months to shape up, and I personally reached out to them via DM to try and smooth things over.

A few of them are actually clones who have been trolling the Economy section for years. Honestly, I was willing to look the other way if they just started posting on-topic and stopped insulting people under fake names. But when I saw zero progress, I handed out the partial bans.

If you genuinely think those guys are examples of what Gerald Chavez7 meant by "economic discussion," more power to you, but this isn't even 1% of the garbage he’s been dumping in the Economy section that has absolutely nothing to do with the actual subject. Maybe you enjoy reading that stuff, but there are dozens—even hundreds—of users who don't want to deal with it. They report the posts, they complain, and when they see no action being taken, they end up getting dragged into arguments and insults themselves.

When a thread gets so heated that we have to scrub 20 or 30 posts, yeah, some decent posts get caught in the crossfire too. But those posts can't stay because they inevitably reference the toxic mess surrounding them; if I leave them up, the whole cycle starts all over again. It’s entirely on the people writing those posts. If they had just made a clean post without referencing an off-topic argument, it wouldn't have been deleted.

Besides, Kerefek isn't banned from sharing his predictions or whatever; he just moved over to the Alternative section because no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't make those posts fit in the Economy section. If it were true what you guys are claiming, he'd be banned from the entire site to silence him, and no discussion would be allowed at all.

As for the topic he claims was shut down because it didn't fit the narrative, it still exists; it's just under Politics. All the players I told to stop clogging up the Economy section are free to post about it over there, because that's where it belongs. Believe it or not, they're even allowed to argue against the narrative. 😲 Kerefek is still posting his stuff, just on the Alternative board, which proves everything is permitted—it just has to be in the right place. If we start talking about everything everywhere, then there's no point in having subforums at all. We might as well just have one giant chat room where everyone talks about everything at once.

It might not look that way to you, but talking about vaccines, the planet Nibir, global elites, secret agendas, and all that junk in the Economy section is like talking about it in the Food section. It makes zero sense. Even if one single post tries to link something back to the economy, the next ten posts fly off into total nonsense.

boldcanyon14 said:Look, I can't really speak for the other subforums since I don't keep tabs on everything, but I can definitely speak for my own. Five users were hit with partial bans, and all five already had hundreds of active points and dozens of warnings for off-topic rambling, fighting, and general nonsense. They had two months to shape up, and I personally reached out to them via DM to try and smooth things over.

A few of them are actually clones who have been trolling the Economy section for years. Honestly, I was willing to look the other way if they just started posting on-topic and stopped insulting people under fake names. But when I saw zero progress, I handed out the partial bans.

If you genuinely think those guys are examples of what Gerald Chavez7 meant by "economic discussion," more power to you, but this isn't even 1% of the garbage he’s been dumping in the Economy section that has absolutely nothing to do with the actual subject. Maybe you enjoy reading that stuff, but there are dozens—even hundreds—of users who don't want to deal with it. They report the posts, they complain, and when they see no action being taken, they end up getting dragged into arguments and insults themselves.

When a thread gets so heated that we have to scrub 20 or 30 posts, yeah, some decent posts get caught in the crossfire too. But those posts can't stay because they inevitably reference the toxic mess surrounding them; if I leave them up, the whole cycle starts all over again. It’s entirely on the people writing those posts. If they had just made a clean post without referencing an off-topic argument, it wouldn't have been deleted.

Besides, Kerefek isn't banned from sharing his predictions or whatever; he just moved over to the Alternative section because no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't make those posts fit in the Economy section. If it were true what you guys are claiming, he'd be banned from the entire site to silence him, and no discussion would be allowed at all.

As for the topic he claims was shut down because it didn't fit the narrative, it still exists; it's just under Politics. All the players I told to stop clogging up the Economy section are free to post about it over there, because that's where it belongs. Believe it or not, they're even allowed to argue against the narrative. 😲 Kerefek is still posting his stuff, just on the Alternative board, which proves everything is permitted—it just has to be in the right place. If we start talking about everything everywhere, then there's no point in having subforums at all. We might as well just have one giant chat room where everyone talks about everything at once.

It might not look that way to you, but talking about vaccines, the planet Nibir, global elites, secret agendas, and all that junk in the Economy section is like talking about it in the Food section. It makes zero sense. Even if one single post tries to link something back to the economy, the next ten posts fly off into total nonsense.

boldcanyon14 said:Look, I can't really speak for the other subforums since I don't keep tabs on everything, but I can definitely speak for my own. Five users were hit with partial bans, and all five already had hundreds of active points and dozens of warnings for off-topic rambling, fighting, and general nonsense. They had two months to shape up, and I personally reached out to them via DM to try and smooth things over.

A few of them are actually clones who have been trolling the Economy section for years. Honestly, I was willing to look the other way if they just started posting on-topic and stopped insulting people under fake names. But when I saw zero progress, I handed out the partial bans.

If you genuinely think those guys are examples of what Gerald Chavez7 meant by "economic discussion," more power to you, but this isn't even 1% of the garbage he’s been dumping in the Economy section that has absolutely nothing to do with the actual subject. Maybe you enjoy reading that stuff, but there are dozens—even hundreds—of users who don't want to deal with it. They report the posts, they complain, and when they see no action being taken, they end up getting dragged into arguments and insults themselves.

When a thread gets so heated that we have to scrub 20 or 30 posts, yeah, some decent posts get caught in the crossfire too. But those posts can't stay because they inevitably reference the toxic mess surrounding them; if I leave them up, the whole cycle starts all over again. It’s entirely on the people writing those posts. If they had just made a clean post without referencing an off-topic argument, it wouldn't have been deleted.

Besides, Kerefek isn't banned from sharing his predictions or whatever; he just moved over to the Alternative section because no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't make those posts fit in the Economy section. If it were true what you guys are claiming, he'd be banned from the entire site to silence him, and no discussion would be allowed at all.

As for the topic he claims was shut down because it didn't fit the narrative, it still exists; it's just under Politics. All the players I told to stop clogging up the Economy section are free to post about it over there, because that's where it belongs. Believe it or not, they're even allowed to argue against the narrative. 😲 Kerefek is still posting his stuff, just on the Alternative board, which proves everything is permitted—it just has to be in the right place. If we start talking about everything everywhere, then there's no point in having subforums at all. We might as well just have one giant chat room where everyone talks about everything at once.

It might not look that way to you, but talking about vaccines, the planet Nibir, global elites, secret agendas, and all that junk in the Economy section is like talking about it in the Food section. It makes zero sense. Even if one single post tries to link something back to the economy, the next ten posts fly off into total nonsense.

boldcanyon14 said:Look, I can't really speak for the other subforums since I don't keep tabs on everything, but I can definitely speak for my own. Five users were hit with partial bans, and all five already had hundreds of active points and dozens of warnings for off-topic rambling, fighting, and general nonsense. They had two months to shape up, and I personally reached out to them via DM to try and smooth things over.

A few of them are actually clones who have been trolling the Economy section for years. Honestly, I was willing to look the other way if they just started posting on-topic and stopped insulting people under fake names. But when I saw zero progress, I handed out the partial bans.

If you genuinely think those guys are examples of what Gerald Chavez7 meant by "economic discussion," more power to you, but this isn't even 1% of the garbage he’s been dumping in the Economy section that has absolutely nothing to do with the actual subject. Maybe you enjoy reading that stuff, but there are dozens—even hundreds—of users who don't want to deal with it. They report the posts, they complain, and when they see no action being taken, they end up getting dragged into arguments and insults themselves.

When a thread gets so heated that we have to scrub 20 or 30 posts, yeah, some decent posts get caught in the crossfire too. But those posts can't stay because they inevitably reference the toxic mess surrounding them; if I leave them up, the whole cycle starts all over again. It’s entirely on the people writing those posts. If they had just made a clean post without referencing an off-topic argument, it wouldn't have been deleted.

Besides, Kerefek isn't banned from sharing his predictions or whatever; he just moved over to the Alternative section because no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't make those posts fit in the Economy section. If it were true what you guys are claiming, he'd be banned from the entire site to silence him, and no discussion would be allowed at all.

As for the topic he claims was shut down because it didn't fit the narrative, it still exists; it's just under Politics. All the players I told to stop clogging up the Economy section are free to post about it over there, because that's where it belongs. Believe it or not, they're even allowed to argue against the narrative. 😲 Kerefek is still posting his stuff, just on the Alternative board, which proves everything is permitted—it just has to be in the right place. If we start talking about everything everywhere, then there's no point in having subforums at all. We might as well just have one giant chat room where everyone talks about everything at once.

It might not look that way to you, but talking about vaccines, the planet Nibir, global elites, secret agendas, and all that junk in the Economy section is like talking about it in the Food section. It makes zero sense. Even if one single post tries to link something back to the economy, the next ten posts fly off into total nonsense.

cosmicgull52 said:I particularly liked his claim that because he never caught COVID, the virus simply doesn't exist for him. 🙏

Gerald Chavez7 said:I don't really get what your problem is—you aren't even part of the Alternative crowd...

No, these aren't posts from the Alternative boards; they belong right here on the Economy section 😲 ...and I mean literally through hundreds, if not thousands, of posts (and unfortunately, I can still see your deleted ones). Every single year since roughly 2011, you’ve been predicting the total collapse of the US, falling even deeper into the rabbit hole.

You had a bit of luck throughout most of 2022, mostly because the main board didn't have any active moderation going on—Wand had basically checked out, and I was just sticking to the sub-sub-forums... But once boldcanyon14 stepped in, of course, he cleaned things up and we all agreed on the partial changes. The Economy section isn't going anywhere.

boldcanyon14 said:The only sad part is that you still clearly don't get why you were banned. Or rather, I bet you do, but you prefer playing the victim and clinging to these conspiracy theories about "information suppression" instead of looking at your own posts to find the real reason.

Just look at the nonsense you write here, in a thread where you're begging for access back to the subforum where you totally lost your mind. Do you seriously think anyone sane would let you back in after all that blowing up and subtle disrespect? But sure, let's just claim it's all some massive conspiracy against you. It could never be your own fault, right?

If it makes your life easier to believe you're always right and the entire system is out to get you, go for it.

For years, you were essentially exiled from the Economics section because you turned it into your own little playground to rant about COVID, wars, vaccines, chemtrails, globalist agendas, shadow governments, Nirvana planets, and whatever else. You act like some enlightened guru, turning every single topic into the exact same repetitive debate. So fine, go around telling everyone you were banned over an immigrant labor thread if that helps you sleep better. We won't mention the hundred warnings you racked up across ten different threads or the frantic DMs begging you to calm down.

By the way, there *is* a thread about immigrant labor, featuring the exact same crowd and the exact same arguments as the one in Economics. Only now, it's in Politics, which is where it belongs since it didn't fit under Economics. In fact, most of the posts there are actually against importing labor. There goes your theory about "suppressing information" and "controlled discussions." Just like always with your posts—you're just shooting blanks.

quietangler47 said:Roommates and Regrets

I’m picking up where I left off in that previous thread—which, for some reason, got shut down. Should this have been moved over to the psychology subforum? Honestly, I’ve never quite wrapped my head around how the moderation here works, but I’ll try to calmly lay out the rest of what I couldn't say there...

So, here's the deal: I took in a girl who just turned twenty, and we’re living in a tiny apartment together. I am seriously torn right now between whether I should kick her out, move out myself, or just somehow push her away from my life entirely.

She came from a domestic violence shelter, so she’s dealt with some heavy family stuff. Initially, I felt nothing but sympathy for her, but lately, it feels like life is just throwing one shock after another at me. First, her parents thought she’d committed suicide and had the police showing up at my door, then she started bringing guys back to the apartment... now I’m getting the distinct impression she isn't just using these guys, she's using me too, treating me like some sort of surrogate mother. After I started that last thread, an older woman from next door actually knocked on my door and lectured me, saying I need to look out for the kid, that she's basically still a child, that I should help her get a job and whatnot... Look, I *do* all that, but I’m just so frustrated. I come home and there’s some guy sitting on my bed—someone she considers just another "friend"—and they’re practically making out right in front of me, only for someone else to show up the very next day...

I’ve already told her straight up: no guests. But does she listen? Not even a little. To make matters worse, the girl can't even remember my name, which is pretty ridiculous considering it’s a super common American name. Sometimes I genuinely wonder if something is wrong with her, like, is her head actually okay? And this whole thing with the older guys she hangs out with is terrifying; one of them has a real temper and gets aggressive. I’m honestly scared she’s going to end up a victim of more violence or something even worse.

The guilt is eating at me. Part of me knows I need to get out, but then I start questioning if that’s the right thing to do. Should I wait until she gets her first paycheck to see if she’s actually exploiting people or if she’s just broke? But deep down, my gut is screaming at me to just run for the hills. My perfumes are disappearing, my makeup is being used, my food is being eaten... she’s lounging on my bed and using my towels... I really can't take it anymore.

I have this nagging feeling that there might be something deeper going on with her, like all of this can't just be a series of coincidences...

Kenneth Diaz8 said:How does someone actually land a seat on a board of directors? And can you pull it off without carrying a political party membership card?

Robert Martin23 said:I don't think you get it. Your computer knows you better than you know yourself at this point... it basically picks the ads for you.
It just serves up whatever hits those subconscious triggers you didn't even know you had. 😛

David Torres87 said:Given how demanding those diagnoses are, you can't realistically expect to grind for eight hours straight. It wouldn't work even for someone perfectly healthy. In an environment like that, you're basically just a punching bag for everyone's verbal abuse. Healthy people walk away, while you're left at risk of a total breakdown. Handling money requires constant focus, too. Staying unemployed isn't the answer, but neither is destroying your health for a paycheck. Do you have any specific skills?

Gary Myers said:I started this job at the beginning of the year. It’s not high-stress, and I could see myself sticking with it long-term since it's actually somewhat interesting. The downside is that I'm officially classified as having just a high school diploma, so my pay reflects that, even though I have a college degree.

The issue is my cubicle mate. Ever since I joined, the vibe in our workspace has been "heavy"—if I can even find a better word for it. When I first started, she wouldn't even talk to me for the first couple of weeks. She’d only speak up when we needed to coordinate tasks. She told me straight up that I was the fourth new hire in a single month and she just didn't have the patience left for anyone else.

In the months since, it's been a cycle. One minute she's taking her frustrations out on me, the next she's venting at a few other people. It's hard to listen to, especially because she calls them names—not to their faces, obviously, but once they leave the room or hang up the phone. She's constantly criticizing. Because of all this, the atmosphere in our office has never felt relaxed.

During the "quiet" phases—when she's directing her anger toward others instead of me—we occasionally chat, but even then, you can feel the tension. We never actually laugh together.

She mentioned once that she's open to new ideas, but I get the feeling she actually hates it when someone suggests one. Once, she shut down an idea I had, calling it useless. I dropped it. Then, a while later, she brought up the exact same idea herself, acting like it was some brilliant concept and wondering why I hadn't thought of it.

I’m almost never included in conversations with the staff members she actually gets along with. When they come into our room, they’ll duck into another office to whisper or just close the door. And if I try to strike up a casual conversation with them, she’ll often cut me off, even though she wasn't even acknowledging my existence two hours prior.
Mostly, she only talks to them when she's gossiping about people she doesn't like.

Day by day, I'm finding it harder and harder to show up to work. I'm stuck...

Chris Myers said:Starting this new thread based on some posts I saw in other PDFs. If there’s already an existing one and I missed it, please merge them.

I hear all the time that Americans are a financially illiterate nation. People claim it's because of everything from a failing school system to leftovers from the old regime, or just plain laziness when it comes to learning, plus a lack of decent financial education available...

What's your take? How do we fix this mess?

Please share any examples from your own circles that either support or debunk this idea...

Sarah Booth29 said:I'm with you on that.