Posts by Nicole Morgan5

Ryan Vaughn7 said:Honestly, Mr. Bujanec doesn't have the bandwidth for lawsuits over, *sniff*, some juvenile Nazi delusions. He’s much more preoccupied with his night out and working out payment terms with his attorney.

And frankly, even Joe Biden doesn't have the time to sue the criminal, totalitarian communist party he used to belong to.
He’s probably out partying right alongside Bujanec, and since opposites attract, who knows? Maybe they end up sharing a suite at some high-end hotel together.

Just read through Joe Biden's gems and stop trying to convince yourself that this audio recording was "edited and taken out of context."

Adam Collins4 said:Pick a side: was it because of what I wanted, or was it because he actually broke the rules? Pick one.☕

And here you are, lecturing me about "passions"—which you’re clearly bringing into this thread too—while making random jabs at my liberal views...🤣

The issue isn't people disagreeing; the issue is the types who jump into a perfectly reasonable debate just to throw insults and provocations that have absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand. That’s the real problem.

As for that guy you mentioned, he’s just an old troll account that pops up whenever someone needs a target.

I haven’t been on the forum since yesterday. And let's be honest—you were always one of those more aggressive posters over on the Newsweek boards, weren't you? Even back when I was serving as a moderator under my other handle (not on the Newsweek section, mind you), I used to get nothing but heat from you on that same PDF thread. Why is it that certain people just can't help themselves?
You aren't exactly the little darling you pretend to be, Mr. Engineer. 🍿

Well, Shotokan finally got hit with that ban you wanted 🤣 though, if we're being honest, they probably earned it.

And to the rest of you up "there"—maybe dial back the drama a bit? It might make things a little less toxic for everyone involved.
When it comes to the political threads, let’s face it: it’s rarely about the strength of an argument, solid links, or actual scientific data. It's almost entirely driven by raw emotion. You really ought to keep that in mind; it makes dealing with the usual forum "injustices" a whole lot easier to stomach. 🕺

Michelle Palmer6 said:So, what you're saying is he's been gone since the beginning?

Not dead, per se, but ever since the turn of the millennium, it’s been all about "slowly dying in your memory" (as the band says, anyway) 🙂

Linda Price5 said:Are you aware that there is an entire demographic of people who spend years reading through Reddit without ever bothering to leave a single post?

You know... you really should have kicked things off with "Do you know if..."? As it stands, this whole sentence structure feels more like an answer than a question. But honestly, what does it matter? It’s all the same in the end. 🤔

Do you actually think there are people out there who "regularly" browse Reddit as guests—just lurking in the shadows without ever registering an account or posting a single damn word?! 🤣

What exactly do we discuss around here? Is there a central theme, or is it just a chaotic free-for-all? I find myself wondering if there's any semblance of order amidst all this chatter. To all our registered members... Whose number hasn't really seen much movement over the years—not that it should, right? I mean, since 2005, it’s just stayed stubbornly flat. Isn't that exactly how it's supposed to work?

Besides that, quite a large number of people from my era have drifted away from Reddit for all sorts of reasons. Why does it always happen like that? One day the community is thriving, and the next, you look around and realize so many familiar faces are just... gone. It’s strange, isn't it?

Michael Morgan5 said:I just took a quick peek at the numbers, and we’ve got about 3,500 people hanging out online this Saturday around 12:30 PM.
I wouldn't go so far as to say the site is dying, but let's be real—trying to compete with Facebook and those other mindless distractions is an uphill battle when it comes to grabbing the attention of younger users. And if you aren't capturing the youth, you're basically fighting for scraps.

For me, Reddit is still my go-to whenever I need some actual, high-level expert advice in a pinch. I don't really have the patience for the endless, shallow chatter found elsewhere.
Ever since I started using the 'ignore' button to filter out the idiots from the subreddits I actually care about, I have to say this place has become one of my favorite corners of the web, even if I mostly just lurk and read.

My mistake; one thing is the total number of users currently logged in, but that’s entirely different from how many actual active members are on Reddit.
That’s the figure you were looking at.
Out of those 3,500, only about 400 are registered members, while the rest are just "guests"—you know, random people who stumble upon Reddit via a Google search looking for some specific info.

The reason I'm bringing this up is because back in 2005, we used to see 3,500 or even 4,000 "online" too, but they were mostly guests. Even back then, the count of active members hovered around 1,100 or 1,200, just like it does today.

I remember one single time when it looked like there were maybe 1,500 members, but I couldn't even browse the site because the server completely choked under that much massive traffic from active members.
God, it's now 2015 and the server is still crashing with just 1,500 users actually "ON" the platform. 🤦

Adam Collins4 said:What’s the point of sending the link when I already filed my report nearly 48 hours ago?

Plus, there's this whole habit of trying to bait people by throwing out labels like "commie" or "socialist"...

It's always the same tired routine—same old tactics—which basically means they don't have a single valid argument left to make.

Every single time we get close to an election, you start pushing those leftist agendas again, don't you?🤣

It just occurred to me lately, sort of out of nowhere... 🤔

I was thinking back to those Saturday nights about a decade ago. I used a different handle back then—only had maybe five posts to my name, and I don't even use that account anymore—but I vividly remember when we’d have 1,000 users online at this exact hour.
Fast forward to the middle of 2015, following what feels like a standard progression of realizing one's own limitations... Reddit is basically the biggest web forum in the country, if not much wider. I recall seeing a map once that Unknown shared, which showed our massive presence stretching across Central and Southern Europe, actually! Given that, we really should have hit that three-thousand concurrent user mark by now.

Is our community actually dying, or has it just gone into hibernation? 🥱

Who is—if anyone even can be blamed—actually responsible for this?

Are there specific reasons behind the decline, the stagnation, or the slow death of Reddit?!

Oh, sure, you’ve clearly transcended all ego, frustration, and depression. You’re just perfectly zen, basking in the sunlight and living that macrobiotic lifestyle while the rest of us miserable souls are grinding away at work, losing our minds over corporate managers, and searching desperately for some magic trick or piece of advice to help ourselves, let alone anyone else.
We’re pulling ten-hour shifts, coming home absolutely drained, and quite frankly, we don't have the mental bandwidth to sit around contemplating spiritual battles or enlightenment.

It’s easy to reach "enlightenment" when you spend your life being idle and lethargic—you probably weigh barely 110 pounds at 6'3", leaving your entire nervous system in standby mode. But hey, why bother with actual effort when you can just fleece people for money to sell them colloidal silver and other nonsense?

Forgive me if I don't belong to that circle of idiots and charlatans—or rather, those modern-day pickpockets who find such sophisticated ways to swindle the last cent out of hardworking Americans.

@Andrew Price3

The Psychology subforum—much like the actual scientific discipline itself—bears absolutely zero connection to your endless ramblings.
Why not take your little threads "down a notch" over on the Alternative or Fringe Science boards? Stop trolling this space.
I honestly can't bring myself to read or participate in this forum anymore because of you illiterate, self-proclaimed healers, armchair psychoanalysts, and the whole lot of you. You even had the audacity to get my 80-year-old mother worked up on some late-night astrology talk show, making her $48 just to ask about her son's health.

Go on then, go find some manual labor, plant some corn, volunteer somewhere, or actually help people without all this esoteric nonsense.

Stop trying to sell us smoke and mirrors; we see right through you.

Eric Gray2 said:Whoa... 🤔 🙂

They have a point regarding surrendering to fear, I suppose.
There are certain psychological phenomena observed in people suffering from panic attacks—those who feel they are suffocating. A doctor might simply tell them, "Fine, then suffocate," or "Just pass out already." And strangely enough? You don't actually choke or lose consciousness.
Once you face that head-on, you’ve essentially conquered that specific brand of panic for good.
Back when I was younger, I dealt with these terrifying choking sensations myself. Neither my psychiatrist nor my psychologist could touch it; it wasn't until I saw an old-school neurologist that things changed.
The man was absolutely blunt with me. He just snapped, "Well, then just suffocate already!" It sounds absurd, I know, but the attack stopped within minutes and hasn't returned since.

As for the "upper" part of the text? Well, if it sits wrong with you, it sits wrong with me too. I can't stomach this bit about HE being able to reach you and all that... it feels a bit too much like esoteric nonsense, doesn't it? 🐔

hollowscout57 said:How do you guys deal with injustice? When things just aren't fair, how do you find peace—do you try to lie to yourselves to get by, or do you lean into the idea that there’s some kind of higher purpose behind all the chaos?

Honestly, I struggle with it so much. It’s genuinely painful for me when I realize that certain things are completely out of my hands, and no matter how hard I fight or what I do, it feels like it doesn't even matter in the end.

Well, really, it always comes down to how you manage stress—how you react to it—because "injustice," for you, is simply a stressor.
To someone else, what you're experiencing might not even qualify as an injustice; someone else might look at the exact same situation and see something entirely different.

You have to toughen up a bit, focus on a positive future, and stop taking everything so personally.

btw;

It was also stressful for me to read where you wrote that you lie to yours ?!
One cannot "lie oneself" (or "lie to oneself"); one can only lie to yourself. 😁
You can hit yourself, experience yourself, pamper yourself, or put makeup on yourself, but you can certainly tell yourself fairy tales; you can sing to yourself; because, you can't exactly sing your own self, can you? 😉

Look, Mom, just install Windows 10 and everything will be perfectly fine. 🥱

shadowheron49 said:Honestly, I have to say that "chills" is a much better way to describe what’s been following me around lately.
Fear is its own thing... it hits you suddenly and then vanishes the moment you walk away from whatever spooked you.
But these chills? They don't just go away...
They follow you everywhere, keeping all your senses dialed up to eleven and on high alert, just like pure terror would, making you jump at the stupidest little things you’d normally never blink at... and once you realize what actually scared you, you're just left wondering whether to laugh or cry.

Since this feeling isn't constant, Thank God, but when it hits and lingers for a few days from sunrise to sunset... man, it is seriously, seriously nasty to live through.

Did you seriously label "Thank God" as the ultimate salvation for the deceased?!

If I were as certain as you are about some "beautiful life after death," I wouldn't give a damn about anything else; when I die, how it happens, who’s left behind, all that nonsense...

Faith has to be absolute. Otherwise, you're just lying to yourself, spinning deeper and deeper into a psychological loop that's nearly impossible to escape.

This "chill" thing? It isn't real.
Just stay mindful of the fact that you will eventually pass away. Other than that, I wish you a productive, fun, and healthy life. 🙂

Living things—plants included—they don't just die, do they? If they didn't, we wouldn't even be here right now. We’d still be stuck in the era of the "first humans," or perhaps those first people would have already wiped themselves out entirely due to the sheer scarcity of food and an overcrowded planet.

Man will eventually master the art of creating drugs that slow down the aging process, I suppose. But do I truly believe we'll ever see lifespans exceeding 150 or 200 years? Not a chance. Because every extra year gained simply introduces a fresh batch of new diseases, which then requires yet another cure, and so on, ad infinitum...

A solid thought, and wouldn't you know it, we've already found our first moderator for this subforum 😉

I’ve cycled through just about everything out there, and honestly? The absolute standout for me was Handbrake.
It’s surprisingly light on my system, barely touching 30% CPU usage. Meanwhile, those supposedly "professional" paid suites—you know the ones—completely redline my processor to 100% for no reason. And I'm running an i5-2500k, so it isn't exactly a potato.

To make matters worse, most of those overpriced tools actually produce a lower quality conversion when you're moving from DVD to Xvid or MP4. Why is that?

The latest update for Firefox YouTube video downloader handles everything automatically—if that’s what you’re into. It pulls from YouTube or just about any site where it "detects" a video clip, so there's no need to bother typing in some long, tedious URL.

It offers a whole suite of direct download options, automatic conversion into whatever format you prefer, and a bunch of other useful little perks.

cosmicsailor56 said:So, I've got Windows 8.1 running on this machine now, whereas it used to be Windows XP.
Specs: AMD ii X2 250; 3.01 GHz; 1 GB RAM, 32-bit OS, 64-bit Processor
If I'm grasping the terminology correctly, I'm not actually compressing anything; I'm just unpacking RAR and ZIP folders.
Thanks.

1GB of RAM and Windows 8.1?!

Honestly, thank goodness the OS even boots up, let alone that you can actually get any work done in it. 🤦

wiredangler71 said:Maybe pick up a peaceful martial art—something like Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu or maybe Tai Chi—or find a sport that forces you to hold your ground and push back. Just be careful you don't accidentally wake the beast inside, because you never really know what’s lurking in the shadows once it's out. 😲

He'll learn how to keep that "beast" under control during training, won't he? 😒