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brainkandy87 t1_j0524q9 wrote

Good God how is this dumbass advice upvoted?

  1. Don’t use The Pirate Bay. It’s not 2010. There are much better sites to download from.
  2. Don’t torrent shit without a VPN.
  3. Incognito mode is for hiding your porn history or bypassing the News Leader’s paywall, not hiding your IP or whatever this was supposed to be.
  4. If you are going to use a live stream site, use uBlock Origin to block all their awful ads.

Damn.

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VoidDemon0226 t1_j04nvc6 wrote

Reply to comment by renny065 in Positive Springfield Growth by VaderTower

Agree with this! There's a lot we can do without needing to wait for what the city can or won't do.

Any person can help our unhoused neighbors. You can collect donations and hand them out, hold food drives or cook for the local community, get a group and you can achieve a lot.

Pessimistic to say, but our system is not going to always be there to provide. We can step up to help and provide support without any government official giving us the okay or waiting on the tax support.

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PalPubPull t1_j04i35y wrote

Absolutely. This seems like a weird analogy, but I've been obsessed with interrogation videos recently. I often see interrogators who are ineffective and effective, and then during one of the videos I learned a famous interrogation quote along the lines of "If you're arguing with them, you've already lost."

It psychologically makes a lot of sense. And I feel it's the same with everyday interactions.

Of course the interrogator empathizing with a murderer/rapist/child porn criminal finds it disgusting and worthy of punishment. Also not for a second am I relating someone with differing views equitable to these criminals. However, the point is they can have an ongoing discussion with them, even though they have the exact opposite views. Their motives are different than you or me, and even in the conversation they're clearly against those views, but they can understand how they came to have these views.

Through conversational techniques, they can inform someone of their rights that they don't need to talk to them in any capacity (in fact an interrogation would be thrown out in a second if there's any indication they don't understand their rights), but over and over and over the criminals disregard their rights to try and talk their way out of a situation, due to the interrogators technique. Then, the same criminal insistent on hiding their crimes, over and over and over, completely confess to the crime, their motive, and how they did it.

I find it fascinating, and not too dissimilar to talking to someone with a different viewpoint. Of course it's often not as black and white as these criminals, as in the basis of their views have merit in one way or the other, and often I learn things I never would have discussing things with them, but ultimately it just goes to show empathizing is 10000x more effective than just attacking someone, as it opens the door for actual conversation rather than instantly attacking the other person.

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WendyArmbuster t1_j043zkh wrote

I would love to see more skateparks, mountain bike trails, bike jump parks, pump tracks, RC car tracks, and an RC airplane flying field with a runway.

I would prefer to see more owner-occupied residential, of all types.

I would love to see (or hear) enforcement of excessively loud mufflers.

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SeedyG7 t1_j0400st wrote

Everywhere has issues but you shouldn’t be criticized for wanting to watch a sport you like. Don’t know why people are dragging you for this when we are all guilty of buying products that are built/made in less than ideal conditions (phones, shoes, etc.)

With that being said, I have seen games on at most bars I have been to. Georgia Mac’s has had games when I have been there and I am sure any bar would accommodate (especially outside of Sunday for NFL).

Don’t let the moral authorities on the Springfield Mo subreddit tell you how to live.

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