DiltoGeggins

There are people here who aren't joiners of political movements that can be summed up in 3 emojis or less. That doesn't make them more, or less worthy.

If a political cause encourages its members to be contemptuous of anyone who doesn't blindly accept it, then that cause is the problem not the solution.

Politicians don't yank my chain. I always saw them as proprietors for the cult of personality. Desperate celebrities who hitched their ride on the shoulders of marginalized people. The Elvi of retail politics.

I don't maintain a list of enemies. Too much fucking work and even if I could make that happen, it would make me the most pointless not-OK butthead in the room.

The wisdom of the path was strong yea verily. Now it's just words in grandfolks' journals. Not the answer.

...Nor am I on the correct path.

...Nor are you...

...Nor are the latest greatest class of daemons extraordinaire.

very pleasing. very very pleasing.

Hopefully I'm not repeating an already known issue.

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edit: just to clarify this particular sequence of events. It usually happens when I navigate into a post. And I stay there. And then later, sometimes even after leaving the window, and I come back and try to navigate back to the main page. The navigation is unresponsive. Then when I go to leave the hexbear website, it lets me but only after I "okay" a message that says, "Leave site? Your changes won't be saved".. so somehow the website thinks I am writing a comment even though that is not the case.

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edit2: appears that these are the errors I am getting from within the console:

Failed to load resource: net::ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED 2client.js?v=1:2 Uncaught TypeError: e is not a function at client.js?v=1:2:904615 at Array.forEach () at Object.call (client.js?v=1:2:904584) at C (client.js?v=1:2:909616) at Object.t [as push] (client.js?v=1:2:909921) at Object.Q [as event] (client.js?v=1:2:914009) at ae (client.js?v=1:2:210176) at HTMLDocument. (client.js?v=1:2:209738) client.js?v=1:2 Websocket closed. (anonymous) @ client.js?v=1:2 (anonymous) @ client.js?v=1:2 e.dispatchEvent @ client.js?v=1:2 e.handleEvent @ client.js?v=1:2 handleCloseEvent @ client.js?v=1:2 client.js?v=1:2 WebSocket connection to 'wss://hexbear.net/api/v3/ws' failed: e.tryConnect @ client.js?v=1:2 (anonymous) @ client.js?v=1:2 client.js?v=1:2 Websocket closed. (anonymous) @ client.js?v=1:2 (anonymous) @ client.js?v=1:2 e.dispatchEvent @ client.js?v=1:2 e.handleEvent @ client.js?v=1:2 handleCloseEvent @ client.js?v=1:2 client.js?v=1:2 WebSocket connection to 'wss://hexbear.net/api/v3/ws' failed: e.tryConnect @ client.js?v=1:2 (anonymous) @ client.js?v=1:2 client.js?v=1:2 Websocket closed.

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I find that in certain situations, I cause my session with the website to freeze.

I am not certain what leads to this, but I think the cause has something to do with the fact that I've told Hex Bear I want to comment, or make some other edit on the current page. (From what I can ascertain though, I haven't intentionally gone into such an editing mode.)

The workaround is that I navigate away from the Hex Bear website, usually by doing a search for "hex bear". Then, I navigate back into a fresh Hex Bear session. When I do the first step above, I get this message, "Leave Site? Changes you made may not be saved." I click yes and that allows me to find Hex Bear and start my new session.

Just curious if anyone has encountered this? I am one of those end users who gets lost easily and thus causes mayhem to happen on occasion.

Thanks so much, if you want me to provide more detail, just holler...>

edit: it happened on the new megathread just now https://hexbear.net/post/276470 (The Einstein thread) my cursor wasn't focused on the comment field or anything I could tell. When I would go to click on the "hexbear" link at the top of the page there was no response. when I went to the url field and navigated away from the page, there was that message, "Leave Site? Changes you made may not be saved."

This article is oldish, it was written all the way back in 2004. I just wanted to share this because it shows another facet of the submersibles world, where every day people build their own submersibles from kit plans. I remember kit plans from back in the day before the internet, when passionate people would subscribe to magazines like Popular Mechanics and (usually) use tons of fiberglass and other materials to build whatever functioning contraption their hearts desired. This is on other end of the spectrum to billionaires descending thousands of meters below the ocean surface, but as of the date this article was written (2004), there were no fatality accidents involving certified submersibles. (I don't know if that safety statistic has changed since 2004, but I was quite impressed with that record either way.)

Here also is a link to one of the main personal submersibles communities, called http://psubs.org/ Personal Subs dot Org.

There are many other resources out there. I've been spending a little time celebrating them and learning something about this fascinating hobby and community.

Cheers.

edit: Here is a list of known incidents involving submersibles since 2000. With the exception of Titan and Nautilus (The Danish submersible intentionally sunk as part of a murder plot, in 2017) , all have involved 1 or more submersible (most often appear to be submarines) involving naval vessels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_submarine_and_submersible_incidents_since_2000

I was going to try and change the spark plugs in my motor, I think they're due. I know my engine specifications but I don't know where online to find the proper gap for my engine. Does anyone happen to know a good resource where I can look something like that up?

https://hexbear.net/create_post?community=philosophy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Good_Place_(book)

I read this book, The Great, Good Place years ago for a college course and it stuck with me. I first encountered it back in the days of myspace, friendster, etc, the days of relative innocence, of "look ma, no hands!!" Then along came sites like reddit and digg, becoming mainstay even though ultimately tragic flings (Digg) and long-term affairs (reddit, a 16 year journey participating in promise, devolving to ruin). Did social media become the great new places? Or something entirely different?

By the time I turfed reddit I was done anyways, so full of frustration and anger over what could have been, the feeling consisting mainly of being ground underfoot. The Great, Good Place argues that "third places"--Where people can gather, put aside the concerns of work and home, and hang out simply for the pleasures of good company and lively conversation - are the heart of a community's social vitality and the grassroots of democracy. But with the advent of social media, its quite possible they've gone the way of the dinosaur.

I tried some other places, but either they were the online equivalents of round files for spam to be dumped in, or so full of outright racist bloat masquerading as "free speech", that it made my blood levels rise just like as on reddit. Try as I might, I couldn't "hang in there" and make it work, to filter out the bad for truth of finding the occasional good in a place.

Somehow I stumbled upon this site (Hexbear, touted as a place for leftists to gather) and it has me hopeful. Striking similarities to the comradery of discus, combined with the social bookmarking that structures like reddit once offered. Hoping there is political diversity that I can learn new things, and not feed from the same plate day after day, a plate that's been about as far left as you can get since back in my mid-eighties Oly/Evergreen days.

And now for the final question of my rant: Digg, what happened to ye???!!!! Such promise! I've ne'er seen a possibility drained of all potential in such a sudden, and final way. Ok, ok, probably not the best question to end a post that found its way onto the Philosophy forum. So perhaps I ought frame the question along these lines: in this day and age, with the internet going through in one day what took a year back in the early days, do we stand the chance of achieving a great, good gathering place that won't subside into commercial ruin?