Posts by Nicole Morgan5

Paul Thompson3 said:To be brutally honest—and I mean this in the most straightforward way possible—you’re just a coward at heart, and nothing is going to change that. You could master three different martial arts and pack on twenty pounds of muscle, but the second a real confrontation hits, you’ll still just be that same scared little kid inside. The only thing that would actually change you is some massive, life-altering trauma—the kind of rage that snaps something deep inside you. But since that would make your life a living hell, honestly? Be glad you’re relatively "normal." A guy who chooses to throw down just to save face—risking jail time and missing his kid growing up—is a coward. To some people, that's no big deal; to others, it’s everything. If you think being a man is all about fighting rather than standing your ground and living by your principles, then you’re even more of a coward—especially if you think characters like those thugs from *South Central* are role models for masculinity. Protecting your own, regardless of the fallout? That’s what matters. Everything else is just child's play.
The only time I feel the urge to settle things physically is when I’m feeling weak or dissatisfied with myself. When I’m actually feeling strong and capable, I just feel superior to the whole situation—and frankly, that’s a much better way to live.

You have much deeper issues than the person who started this thread.

Regarding that fear of getting into a fight, or that freezing up when the adrenaline fails to kick in—when there's no "fight or flight" response and you just shut down—that’s simply weakness taking over. You end up three times more vulnerable than you actually are. You fix that by joining a boxing gym, a karate dojo, or an Aikido club. With a little "professional guidance," you can actually build some real confidence.

The goal isn't to become some street thug; it's to stop that paralyzing fear from seizing you when things get dangerous.
In a gym, you’ll take hits—some controlled, some not—but you’ll develop confidence because you’ll feel comfortable within those "controlled" environments.

That’s where you learn that 90% of problems can be solved just by having the right posture and presence.

Besides, you’re clearly struggling with a massive ego because you’re terrified of the humiliation of getting hit a few times.
That’s coming from an experienced martial artist who dealt with the exact same thing until he was sixteen or seventeen. I can't even remember the last time I got into a real scrap "out in the wild," but I see these idiots all the time on the road—since I spend a lot of time driving—who jump out of their cars to try and lecture me with force.

Believe me, they usually scramble back into their cars pretty quickly without anyone needing to land a single punch. :klap:

Some people build confidence through hard work, some are just born with it, and then there are the types who snort coke just to feel brave, only to have the adrenaline hit them in the wrong place instead of giving them actual courage.

You really ought to have included the specific post where you demanded someone prove the absurdity of water having memory—that’s precisely why the moderator responded the way they did.

Here is your original post;

Look, when someone puts forward a hypothesis claiming that water is some sort of "living entity" possessing its own memory, shouldn't the burden of proof rest entirely on them? Why should the person pointing out the nonsense be the one forced to defend themselves?

My apologies if I’ve intruded uninvited, but I simply couldn't stay silent on this one.🤣

rustydrifter10 said:It’s just their own little internal way of messing around; nobody is actually getting insulted, and the bans only last about an hour. Honestly, don't sweat it. By the way, if someone feels like they've been unfairly flagged, they can always take it up with Apemant themselves to file a complaint about any bans or whatever else goes down.

How exactly do you define "internal" in this context?! Is it a matter of perspective, or perhaps a question of structural integrity? One must wonder...
Is that actually covered in the rules?
If there isn't anything currently listed, I would be most grateful if someone could see fit to add it. It’s an open secret on Reddit, isn't it? When moderators have been tight with certain users for ages, they basically get a free pass to insult them whenever they feel like it. Why? Because at the end of the day, that user is just one of the moderator's buddies. And let's be honest—who's actually going to file a complaint against a friend? No one. It's all part of the inner circle's little game.
So, I mean, am I actually allowed to just wander onto the Philosophy subforum and tell that executioner that he... That absolute menace of a beast. And once I finish this pack of cigarettes, I suppose I’ll just mention that I actually thought the executioner had caught onto me? It’s almost like our own little inside joke, isn't it? After all, I have been lurking on Reddit for such a long time...

What does a newcomer actually say when they first wander into the Philosophy sub-thread on Reddit? Is there a protocol? A certain way one ought to present oneself before diving into the deep end of existential dread and logic puzzles? Or do you just stumble in, drop a half-baked thought about the nature of reality, and hope someone doesn't immediately tear your argument to shreds? I often wonder if there's an unwritten code of conduct for the curious soul entering this digital arena.
What does some young newbie actually know? They think a yellow card only lasts an hour, and then they claim the reason for a red card is because there weren't enough emojis used... or some nonsense like that. Honestly! 🤣

ironcanyon26 said:I need some technical assistance here. I'm running Windows 7 on my PC, but I have a printer for which there are absolutely no drivers available for this OS.
Is it possible to install Windows XP, or perhaps another operating system that actually supports my printer, and then just use XP specifically for printing tasks?
The device in question is a Brother fax machine. It’s fast, reliable, and works perfectly fine—I really don't want to waste money on a new one right now.

Just install Windows 8.1
It should be able to automatically locate the correct driver for your printer without any fuss.

As for XP? Throw it straight in the trash. 🤣

redscout46 said:Honestly, such wonderful advice from everyone here. Because of this whole issue, I actually went to see a psychologist once, but they seemed completely out of their depth, so I was passed along to a psychiatrist who just decided the answer was antidepressants. Then, I tried a different psychiatrist, and they reached the exact same conclusion.😵 But this idea about working nights? It's actually quite intriguing. I find myself thinking about it intensely because, honestly, I am ten times more creative and focused during the overnight hours than I am in the morning, when my bosses can clearly see that I'd happily watch them and the rest of the planet burn.😁 The only minor hiccup with the night shift thing is... well, what kind of job can a woman actually land? I'm not exactly cut out to be a security guard or a janitor. And let's face it, the old-school nocturnal trades aren't really on the table anymore.😵 So, if anyone has any bright ideas, please, do shout!😉

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...I mean, why not just scour the Craigslist ads for some elderly lady who needs help splitting wood? Then, after you've hauled three feet of logs into the pile, ask her if she can sleep.
Our grandparents—who spent their entire lives doing grueling physical labor out in the fields—never struggled with insomnia.
Insomnia is simply the fallout from an imbalance between emotional and physical energy (whatever that might actually imply).

I would say you completely missed the mark on the topic of 😬

Specifically, the whole issue regarding yellow card appeals.

Try this: wipe both graphics drivers completely. Shut down the machine, then go back in and install just the Intel integrated graphics first, making sure to run the latest updates.
Once that’s finished and everything looks solid, only then should you attempt to install the AMD integrated driver.
The whole point is to have both running simultaneously... though, honestly, I'm not entirely certain if you need to tweak some specific setting in the BIOS to get them to play nice together.

lonebadger6 said:Even if we briefly ignore the fact that "Adam Morales45," "lonebadger6," "Matthew Young35," and the rest aren't actual human beings—just digital handles on a private forum, which makes calling anything they do "censorship" a bit of a stretch—it still isn't censorship. In my view? It’s simply corrective action. Keeping people in their lane.
By that logic, you could argue that banning someone from pitching liquid silver consumption in a thread about cancer is "censorship," but... well, those are just the rules.

And sure, there's garbage everywhere and modern media is generally a disaster, but putting the New York Post in the same category? That’s an insult to common sense. It’s as absurd as claiming the flat earth theory holds any water.

So, I suppose you are the ultimate authority on our common sense and emotional development. 🙄
We should probably just wait for your guidance on what to read on the web, since you're clearly brilliant enough to know exactly what's best for us all. 🤣

Thanks for that. Take care of yourself. 🥱

btw,

Discussing colloidal silver on the Alternative sub-forum is NOT censored. 😬

Censorship is a dangerous game.
Why on earth would anyone assume the New York Post is some kind of bastion of natural science or rational thought? It’s hardly a scholarly journal, is it?

Sensationalism is everywhere; you see it on every single site out there, including Monitor☕

George Sanders37 said:Reddit is a private forum, and as such, we don't have access to its financial records—nor should we, really. As far as I'm aware, there isn't even a mechanism to donate money directly to support the site.

Would people actually donate money to a forum? Once upon a time, maybe. But today? Given the current state of things here? I am absolutely certain the answer is no.

Oh, is that so? 😵

I suppose when I finally hit that massive jackpot in the Powerball and try to offer the owner a fat stack of cash to upgrade the servers, he'll probably just turn me down, won't he? 🤣

Jerry Ruiz36 said:---cut--- there are people out there racking up 10k posts in just six months on those chat threads.

On any standard US message board, chat messages don't count toward your thread post total.
But then again, this is a pretty bizarre corner of the internet, isn't it? So I suppose it doesn't really matter. 🤣

...what if we introduced a Verizon user status for forum members who donate $50 toward a new or higher-quality server? Or just to help out the moderators, admins, or supermods when they’re stuck digging through endless posts, or even just helping the average users navigate their own writing.

As a reward, maybe Verizon members could get entered into an annual giveaway worth something like $350—maybe a decent monitor or some other PC component.

I honestly think we’d see plenty of Verizon members if the boss would just come clean about how much cash is actually needed to get the vB script running smoothly without all this constant "stuttering." 🥱

If I were a moderator, I’d probably lose my mind dealing with the impossibility of keeping up with bans or slow response times for regular users, because let’s be real: these aren't exactly professional working conditions. 🍿

I don't usually wander over to the philosophy subforum, but I clicked on the thread Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) - General Discussion thinking it was under Psychology, and wouldn't you know it—I find myself 411 pages deep into this mess; what am I even reading here?! 😵
It’s clearly just a massive chat room at this point, but I honestly cannot wrap my head around how this one moderator is handing out disciplinary warnings to another mod without any rhyme or reason.

Maybe the kids are just "playing around," but issuing strikes and points isn't some playground game.

Just take a look at why William Gonzalez3 is tossing out red cards and read his justifications.

And then there's William Gonzalez3's post where he calls a guy a moral monstrosity and a degenerate—and apparently, that’s perfectly acceptable behavior here;

I can't tell if @Apemant is some kind of masochist, accepting all these strikes and points that are dragging him toward a permanent ban with such strange relish, but the fact remains: this senseless distribution of penalties cannot be brushed off as mere "banter."

In my opinion, the site administration really ought to give William Gonzalez3 a serious talking-to, because this whole situation feels utterly unhinged and unprofessional.

Look, I'm not acting as anyone's lawyer, but this specific brand of "joking around" absolutely grates on my nerves; is it any wonder that a subforum with such immense potential only sees about ten active users a day?

rustydrifter10 said:Profiles aren't just deleted.

Look, this isn't some limitation of the vBulletin script itself—it’s a forum policy decision. The software actually provides a way to perform a mass prune of both users and threads. ☕

There's no function to mass delete users by a profile field, but you can prune users by user group. So you could do this:
- Create a temporary user group, note the id number.
- Execute this SQL query:
Block Disabled: (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.
But replace X with the id of the temp group you created. (If your db has a table prefix you'll need to modify the query to include it).
- In the adminCP go to Users -> Search for Users and search for users in your temp user group, make sure the list of users looks like the ones you want to delete.
- Go to Users -> Prune/Move Users, select your temporary user group and enter '0' for the 'Has not logged on for x days' field. Press 'Find'
- On the next page select 'delete' and press the 'Go' button.

As far as I can tell, the acronym isn't even LOM, it's actually SOM 🤣

A few years back, all those family practitioners were required to specialize in general or family medicine just to run their own private practices... so, who really knows if that old medical association even matters anymore? 🤣

Honestly, I moved on from all that nonsense about two years ago when I finally picked up a VLC Media Player



The subtitle situation is mostly manageable now—I mean, sure, you might run into some out-of-sync issues where they lag by maybe 20 seconds, but there are six different color options available. You can scale them up or shrink them down however you please... I don't even know where to start, it’s such a relief.

It usually only crops up like that when I'm downloading some older classic film.

Is there anything more profoundly absurd than this? A little box? Just a tiny, insignificant little container sitting there, yet it somehow manages to hold the weight of our entire discourse. Is that not the ultimate irony? We spend all this energy, all these heated arguments, dissecting the grand architecture of our society, only to end up staring at a mere trinket. A small, hollow vessel. Does it represent the emptiness of our promises, or perhaps just the triviality of the moment? One wonders. Truly, one wonders. Adam Morales45 says:
Alright, gentlemen, I have to ask—could someone please explain to me why you are busy deleting and censoring everything in this thread regarding Josipović?

Listen, @kotulice, I’ve known you longer than I’ve even been using this handle... Honestly? I’m going to marry you. 🎉

William Gonzalez3 said:Just so we’re all on the same page here—and I really feel this needs to be stated clearly—it turns out Vesna Pusić has essentially bought herself a sponsored handle. She paid good money for that status. And because of that, any posts mentioning her background? Gone. It doesn't matter if the facts are 100% accurate; they'll be scrubbed clean just to protect the arrangement. Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

So, you call that "Financial Democracy," do you? And you think that’s perfectly acceptable? Honestly, I have to wonder... is it? 🥱

redmoose70 said:Can anyone else weigh in on my initial question? I mean, what’s the actual average lifespan—in years, mind you—of data sitting on a mechanical hard drive? Just trying to figure out if I've made a massive blunder here... I certainly don't want to repeat the same mistake twice.

Technically, it could "last" 100 years, provided the drive itself remains functional.
That’s the answer from the gentleman above.

darkotter35 said:🙏🙏🙏

There’s a referendum on the table to slash 50% of the staff in the federal bureaucracy and local government offices.

Where am I supposed to go to sign this?

Brilliant!

In that case, I’ll start my own referendum to abolish payroll deductions for Social Security and Medicare.
Really, what could be a better solution than just mass layoffs? It’ll surely cause private sector wages to skyrocket by 40% overnight.

Then you can decide for yourself—if you're feeling adventurous—exactly how much you want to contribute toward your retirement. But good luck paying $3,000 in cash for an appendectomy. Heaven forbid you get actually sick; then your parents might have to sell their house and end up on the streets just to afford you proper medical treatment. 🙂

ambercrane722 said:Just a little psychological warfare, right? It’s a two-way street.

But really, how 😉