Sunset Rose

Slowly reaching a point to where I can accept that a great percentage of young others around me will have radical and outlandish ways of thinking and no amount of conversation I have with them can help that. It reminds me of when I was a kid and my friend's mother would get so fed up with something she did and say 'I've tried yelling, I've tried bargaining, I've tried pleading. I don't know what to do with you anymore.' and she said it all the time. I don't do acceptance very easily so I'm sure I'll keep fighting the good fight when it comes to me but for the most part it's an acceptance that people have very different ways of thinking and to me they seem less capable for it and there's not much I can do to help that. Their feelings are their rules, their phones are their consciences.

And the people bowed and prayed,
to the neon god they made.

The misuse of apostrophes is running rampant. You do not use them to indicate a plural version of a word,
(ex.
Incorrect: The mailbox is filled with envelope's.
Correct: The mailbox is filled with envelopes.)

-whatever this misuse would be called is not a use case,
(ex.
Incorrect: The toy company sue'd the comic company.
Correct: The toy company sued the comic company.)

-and the only reason to use an apostrophe in the case of it's is for a contraction of it is.
(ex.
Incorrect: Its not it's fault. It doesn't know better.
Correct: It's not its fault. It doesn't know better.
(Same story with doesn't- it's a contraction of does not. That's (that is) what the apostrophe indicates.))

And people wonder why I quit.

Do you ever ask yourself why you bother? Why it matters when you know some people are just not worth it? Sometimes I get so caught up in trying- either directly or indirectly- to help alter someone's (or a group of someones') actions or thinking in a more productive direction that I forget that they aren't worth the effort or thought invested. Complacency, ideology and feelings are the law of the world, not critical thinking and common sense. I should remember that the next time I begin to care.

https://youtu.be/y988VBv_Uwk

" See the world though the eyes of coal, the sprawling wasteland of my soul
A mind of darkness, heart of light, I am Onyx, black and white "

Often times now when I look at the debate sections it just seems like long response chains are just winded examples of one person reaffirming their hatred for another or that person's opinion.If they don't agree, respect that. If they changed your mind, they have a right to know. When they make a point, consider it. They can be right, you can be wrong, and that's okay.

Sounds like I missed a pretty fun convention in Bronycon. Oh well, it would probably have been a little strange for the last one to be the first convention I ever attend anyway. Also plane tickets are expensive. I'm glad that many people had fun there.

Thank you FiM

This one-day index search thing is pretty awful to be honest. I don't know to what degree it helps performance but it makes trying to find old posts or status updates (which was already a complete pain in the butt due to administration's failure to fix the search function. For years now.) a lot more difficult. The user experience gets worse and worse.