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-UE
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-UE
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You know, whenever you post anything of this sort, I feel some grim sort of smug self-satisfaction. I mean, I've been, so to say, unsupportive of Chavez and his lot the whole time. Now it turns out folks agree it actually wasn't a Glorious Bolivarian People's Revolution of the People, and you likely aren't even a paid CIA agent. It feels like I was right, or some other stupid shit like that. Yeah, I know it's silly. I just wanted to say that.
edit: I don't speak Spanish, what does "breves del machete" mean? "Short Knife"? 'Cause a news program with "machete" in its name sounds kinda badass.
See my title line. Here's a webchat if you don't want to/can't grab an IRC client for any reason.
Also, this is probably one of the very few times I've ever really looked at the activity page for any length of time.
Oh don't worry, it's always good to be right on the internet.
You know, looking at the people who were working under him, it's actually kind of impressive that he managed to keep them at bay. "Chávez was the contention wall for our crazy ideas." as the president of the parliament and huge lunatic once said.
"Short [news?] of the machete". I have no idea what machete it's referring to.
@TheConductor: As UE said. Our channel is #ijbm on the network Espernet. You can get to it quickly through the webchat link he provided (http://webchat.esper.net) or by using any IRC program to connect to irc.esper.net and #ijbm.
@Counterclock: I'm replying to that in the thread where that came up.
Well, shit. Any recommended IRC clients for OS X? And while we're at it, any recommended clients for Android?
I've heard of Colloquy, X-Chat Aqua, and Adium for MacOS, and AndroIRC for Android. Dunno if they're any good though.
Due to recent changes to the modteam, I've updated the rules thread. Their text should be a bit more streamlined now, too.
For some reason I find it dorkily charming that you continue to number the various incarnations of the thread.
Also, I use AndroIRC on my tablet. It's good for when I'm too tired to operate a computer properly but refuse to go to bed. :P
Another AndroIRC user here. Works nicely for me, aside the send button only working in portrait, but that's apparently something weird on my end as a friend of mine says it works fine for him.
As for Mac clients, the ones GMH listed are pretty much the decent ones I know of, but Colloquy has a tendency to enable a disconnect-after-channel-idle-for-x-amount-of-time option by default. Also, Adium = Pidgin for Mac, so it could be handy if you have other IM services you use too.
Also, just remembered to mention: if you have Verizon service, they block IRC over mobile data. Something to keep in mind.
I tried to use XChat but for some reason it failed to connect. Maybe my connection just sucks.
Also, stupid user title ahoy!
Does Madoka make bad puns in the series? Like, is that behavior in-character for her? It seems like it might be but I don't remember any instances of it.
^^ Try Pidgin or Adium (it would help at this point to actually know which OS you're using).
She made that Dog-Alien pun early in series with Lan.
I'm on Ubuntu.
Okay, Quassel fails to connect too.
^ I don't remember any alien puns early in besides a reference to the "ware ware wa uchuujin" thing.
Aside from that, I think there was something...
Okay, here's what Quassel got
I am supposed to put the stuff listed here in the "server" box, right?
If you're using a version of X-Chat, you should just put "irc.esper.net" in the server list, or "irc.esper.net/5555" (or some other number) if you want to choose a specific port.
I think my school blocks port 6667 for some reason but I get away with an alternate port. Try 5555.
If you're using standard URL notation, it's irc.esper.net:5555 . Possibly irc://irc.esper.net:5555 .
Huh, the 5555 works. Thanks.
About 40 percent of my wardrobe consists of sweaters, polos, t-shirts and jackets I've obtained with committee/board/crew volunteer work. The end goal is 80 percent.
my aunt gave me a useless lecture full of useless advice and now I have to find a summer job in less than four weeks
yay
^ Ouch, good luck.
I use Colloquy and it's always worked really well for me. The only problem I can recall is that automatically blocking users isn't as user-friendly as it could be.
And I guess I want to let this one out. I know I've sounded candid and everything when posting about Venezuela, but the truth is that I've been on an emotional rollercoaster, feeling full of hope one hour (and probably feel like posting) and desperate the next, and being single-mindedly focused about these things all day long. And well, I'm worried...
Not really...
The thing is, I really, really, really don't want to have to leave. That, plus being too focused on this, well, I haven't really done anything. At all.
Also, just to clarify, I'm not worried about the economic crisis, I'm worried that the roblutionary boligarchs might survive it, too. Things simply won't get better while they stay in power.
I was going to make yet another Venezuela post on some dire news, but I no longer feel optimistic enough to bring myself to do that. Instead I'll talk to you about this country. I'll try to make this the last time I post about this unless something big happens. As you can tell from the video, it's going to be corny shit, but whatever, it's important to me.
Once upon a time (not right before Chávez, earlier than that) Venezuela was a land of progress, we built lots of hospitals, great universities (including the one I'm currently in), the dam with the highest power capacity in the world at the time (now third), and maintained a top tier oil company, among other things. It was a haven for refugees throughout the hispanosphere, for victims of economic difficulties, civil wars, Colombia's guerrillas and paramilitaries, and dictatorships such as Franco's or those on the South Cone, etc.
About that, when our deputees went on a denouncing tour a few days ago, some Argentine congressmen particularly sympathised with them because they had themselves been refugees here during their 70's dictatorship. I tear'd.
Anyhow, some party politics here, some neglecting the poor there, catching the dutch disease, corruption like whoa, culminating with the XXI's Century Revolution.
So, sometime during the mid-to-late 00's I became convinced that the revolution wasn't getting anywhere anymore (the good things Chávez did, he did early on), so I was hoping that it would end soon, so that whatever came next could make use of the opportunities the revolution had been missing and give us a chance to work towards restoring what had been wasting away, and if that new government doesn't, no matter, we'd elect another one.
Oh, how wrong and naïve I had been thinking that Chávez had been doing anything but to turn our country from being a place to live in, to being a place to form part of a system to perpetuate him, his image, his views and his circle of friends, and friends of friends, and so on. And here we are.
So...
This country had me, educated me, gave me the chance to live a fulfilling youth. It's my home. I love Venezuela, that's why I wanted to be there and be part of it to see it grow and prosper, to become what it once was and then more.
Alas, there's a good chance that won't happen in my lifetime.
So...
Living through a nationwide crisis has taught me a few things that I thought I'd share.
^ you know, I'd have posted some random shit, but this post makes me feel like I should first post something equally thought-out, or at least relevant.
Do it faggot.