Advice Goddess Free Swim
Tired from a really great day doing volunteer mediation.
Kind of hit my stride in the first part of the job -- doing phone intakes (separately with each party) to get both parties to agree to come in for mediation. Maybe it sounds easy. It's not. You have to help them understand why it's in their interest -- and these are total strangers you're talking to.
But having gotten the hang of it, I don' have to think really hard about every bit of it -- and went home merely sort of tired (and exhilarated from some small successes) instead of exhausted like last week and the week before.
I absolutely love it.
I'll try to put up a post in the morning.
For now, you pick the topics.
P.S. One link per comment or my spam filter will eat your post.








NRO cucks says they don't care about the country, they just want money:
"To put matters bluntly, we do not have to like one another, so long as we continue to make money off one another."
https://twitter.com/NRO/status/1049763946629087232
Good response by @RRTIndustries:
""who cares if the country turns into a polyglot, multiracial favela wracked by neverending inter-ethnic strife as long as i'm gettin paid." -- a principled conservative at the National Review"
Snoopy at October 11, 2018 3:53 AM
Democrats encourage people to attack Republicans -
Hillary Clinton - “You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/10/hillary-civility-not-possible-until-dems-take-back-control/
Snoopy at October 11, 2018 3:55 AM
Not tired of winning - JUST IN: White House announces Trump has five new appeals court nominees — for the 2nd and 9th circuits — and eight new district court nominees.
https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/1050177219979595776
Snoopy at October 11, 2018 4:06 AM
CNN is trying to kill people -
CNN Says Mobs Have ‘Constitutional Right’ To Chase Republicans Out of Restaurants
https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/10/10/nolte-cnn-says-mobs-have-constitutional-right-to-chase-republicans-out-of-restaurants/
Snoopy at October 11, 2018 4:22 AM
Amy's lawyer Randazza - CNN is racist
https://twitter.com/marcorandazza/status/1050143381660172288
Snoopy at October 11, 2018 4:32 AM
It looks like Sears may be going out of business. Their creditors are pushing for full liquidation.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/air-force-makes-consequential-awards-to-rocket-developers/
SpaceX lost out on a pile of defense money. I don't really know either way on this one. On the one hand the air force doesn't want to do business with them anymore after the marijuana stuff from Musk. When your CEO flagrantly violates federal law there are predictable consequences. But I also recognize that most of what this money is being spent on is never going to see the light of day.
Ben at October 11, 2018 6:51 AM
Iowahawk invokes Montgomery Scott, hilarity ensues.
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1050130524461621248
I R A Darth Aggie at October 11, 2018 8:22 AM
Whoops.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/36986/major-hollywood-studio-upheaval-after-putting-out-paul-bois
I R A Darth Aggie at October 11, 2018 8:28 AM
Trump's greatest skill is to goad his opponents into even more outlandish behavior than his own. The weirdness field thus leveled, he unveils his secret weapon: a surprising amount of horse sense. That works w taxi drivers where academic jargon does not.
https://twitter.com/wretchardthecat/status/1048591461204209664
Snoopy at October 11, 2018 9:33 AM
Maybe if they feed these AIs with hundreds if not thousands of research papers on intersectionality first, then they may have something that churns out the resumes they want.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jobs-automation-insight/amazon-scraps-secret-ai-recruiting-tool-that-showed-bias-against-women-idUSKCN1MK08G
Sixclaws at October 11, 2018 10:12 AM
Federal judge in Texas strikes down the Indian Child Welfare Act:
https://www.texastribune.org/2018/10/05/federal-judge-texas-strikes-down-indian-child-welfare-act/
"Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sided with the Brackeens, arguing that the law unlawfully “elevates a child’s race over their best interest.”
"U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor on Thursday sided with Texas, ruling that the law is unconstitutional."
ahw at October 11, 2018 10:42 AM
"NRO cucks"
So who are their wives sleeping with, anyway?
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at October 11, 2018 11:39 AM
Gog, please don't interfere with the deployment of this secret language!
Crid at October 11, 2018 12:26 PM
> So who are their wives sleeping with, anyway?
It is short for cuckservative -
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/28/cuckservative-is-a-gloriously-effective-insult-that-should-not-be-slurred-demonised-or-ridiculed/
"'cuck'" is used as a general term of abuse, to describe someone who caves in, surrenders, or sells out"
Snoopy at October 11, 2018 2:07 PM
> secret language!
So secret that the Internet is littered with article after article about the term.
Snoopy at October 11, 2018 2:12 PM
Arkansas Sheriff Poses Inmates In Nike Gear To Mock Colin Kaepernick
https://www.yahoo.com/news/arkansas-sheriff-poses-inmates-nike-182544327.html
Snoopy at October 11, 2018 2:24 PM
A Black man is in the Oval Office again -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdvgxdcfV4g
Snoopy at October 11, 2018 2:28 PM
How HIV activists helped to create the Jeff Flake elevator moment from the Kavanaugh hearing -
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/10/hiv-activists-helped-create-jeff-flake-elevator-moment-kavanaugh-hearing/
Snoopy at October 11, 2018 2:30 PM
Purge of right wing voices continues -
https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1050492967213887488
Snoopy at October 11, 2018 2:38 PM
No, "cuck" is short for "cuckold", a man whose wife is doing the horizontal bop outside of their marriage, a situation that can result in divorce or murder.
Pro tip: quoting an assclown like Breitbart doesn't help your case.
Seriously, this is middle-school level posturing at best. Yes, yes, we're all alpha males with game, not beta cucks, because internet.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at October 11, 2018 2:43 PM
> quoting an assclown like Breitbart doesn't help
> your case.
Is The Guardian august enough for you?
"Portmanteau of ‘cuckold’ and ‘conservative’ shames Republican candidates for selectively leaning left and belittles their manhood. For example, see Jeb Bush"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/13/cuckservative-republicans-conservatives-jeb-bush
Snoopy at October 11, 2018 2:47 PM
Do you understand that forcing two words together to create a 'portmanteau' doesn't mean anything to anyone except the people who already agree that it's totes awesome?
Basically, it's virtue signalling to the right instead of the left, and it makes the user sound a bit of a twit.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at October 11, 2018 2:54 PM
> Do you understand that forcing two words together
> to create a 'portmanteau' doesn't mean anything to
> anyone except the people who already agree that
> it's totes awesome?
Maybe initially, but it is a word that is now in common use - see e.g.
https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/news/a26419/steve-bannon-jared-kushner-feud/
Steve Bannon publicly calls Jared Kushner a cuck.
Snoopy at October 11, 2018 3:03 PM
This is like talking to a brick.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at October 11, 2018 3:23 PM
> This is like talking to a brick.
A brick that fell out from your carefully constructed narrative edifice.
Snoopy at October 11, 2018 3:52 PM
I feel like betas wouldn't be cucks... I mean beta is still pretty high up on the ladder.
They should call them Omega cucks.
NicoleK at October 11, 2018 5:56 PM
Also, remember that as time passes by, the meaning of words change and/or another context is added to them.
Case in point, the definition of Gay used to only meant happy.
Sixclaws at October 11, 2018 6:58 PM
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