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:::::WHAAAAAAT!? That...sounds...horrible. O___O...Even in Baton Rouge, we have Kimchi, and we don't have an H-mart. If anything, have you tried to make your own kimchi? That's not too bad.--[[User:Dumpling|Dumpling]] ([[User talk:Dumpling|talk]]) 03:27, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
 
:::::WHAAAAAAT!? That...sounds...horrible. O___O...Even in Baton Rouge, we have Kimchi, and we don't have an H-mart. If anything, have you tried to make your own kimchi? That's not too bad.--[[User:Dumpling|Dumpling]] ([[User talk:Dumpling|talk]]) 03:27, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
 
::::::I have a fear I would stink up my whole dorm, and I have no counterspace and the kitchen is dirty and... You know what, these are just excuses. If I want kimchi, I am going to have to make my own like a self-respecting person and TOO BAD anyone who wants to say otherwise! If I make some friday or this weekend it has time to get perfect just in time for finals week! My fridge is tiny, though. I'll have to store it in one of my extra, dark closets. Good thing I have no roommates to complain about this![[File:knight.gif]] <font face="MS Sans Serif" size="3">±[[File:knightoftldrsig.png]][[User:KnightOfTL;DR|KnightOfTL;DR]]</font>[[User_Talk:KnightOfTL;DR|<sup>yeah, well you fight like a cow!</sup>]] 03:35, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
 
::::::I have a fear I would stink up my whole dorm, and I have no counterspace and the kitchen is dirty and... You know what, these are just excuses. If I want kimchi, I am going to have to make my own like a self-respecting person and TOO BAD anyone who wants to say otherwise! If I make some friday or this weekend it has time to get perfect just in time for finals week! My fridge is tiny, though. I'll have to store it in one of my extra, dark closets. Good thing I have no roommates to complain about this![[File:knight.gif]] <font face="MS Sans Serif" size="3">±[[File:knightoftldrsig.png]][[User:KnightOfTL;DR|KnightOfTL;DR]]</font>[[User_Talk:KnightOfTL;DR|<sup>yeah, well you fight like a cow!</sup>]] 03:35, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
 
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::::::::Hahaha. If you're worried about the smell and the small fridge, use the small baking soda boxes, it absorbs the smell. That's what we use...with our small fridge specifically JUST for the kimchi. Hahaha. Good luck!--[[User:Dumpling|Dumpling]] ([[User talk:Dumpling|talk]]) 04:25, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
 
:Whereas I empathise more with the tamales. [[User:Arlo James Barnes|Arlo James Barnes]] ([[User talk:Arlo James Barnes|talk]]) 20:35, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
 
:Whereas I empathise more with the tamales. [[User:Arlo James Barnes|Arlo James Barnes]] ([[User talk:Arlo James Barnes|talk]]) 20:35, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
 
::Tamales are delicious but are [http://www.string-or-nothing.com/2006/12/05/DAYOFTHETAMALEADIGRESSIONFROMKNITTING.aspx labor intensive to the extreme]. We've stopped tying them shut and now just fold them a different way because it adds an additional few seconds and those few seconds add up when you have 100+tamales. I took photos of making tamales this year for a redux on the recipe (one that isn't hosted on a family member's blog) because we adjusted some ratios but I need to find all of them...<font face="MS Sans Serif" size="3">±[[File:knightoftldrsig.png]][[User:KnightOfTL;DR|KnightOfTL;DR]]</font>[[User_Talk:KnightOfTL;DR|<sup>lavishly loquacious</sup>]] 21:20, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
 
::Tamales are delicious but are [http://www.string-or-nothing.com/2006/12/05/DAYOFTHETAMALEADIGRESSIONFROMKNITTING.aspx labor intensive to the extreme]. We've stopped tying them shut and now just fold them a different way because it adds an additional few seconds and those few seconds add up when you have 100+tamales. I took photos of making tamales this year for a redux on the recipe (one that isn't hosted on a family member's blog) because we adjusted some ratios but I need to find all of them...<font face="MS Sans Serif" size="3">±[[File:knightoftldrsig.png]][[User:KnightOfTL;DR|KnightOfTL;DR]]</font>[[User_Talk:KnightOfTL;DR|<sup>lavishly loquacious</sup>]] 21:20, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

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Hello and welcome to RationalWiki. Please pull up the nearest goat and enjoy your stay! Anarcho Symphony Noise Swatting Assflys is how I earn my living 16:16, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Shouldn't it be Dame of TL;DR? Sophiebecause liberals 21:31, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
'Dame' just doesn't roll off the tongue in the same way, you see. KnightOfTL;DR (talk) 22:07, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
Not that I'm trying to impose stereotypes... Sophiebecause liberals#
ts;dr. ТyYarrr 21:53, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
Ahah, it seems I have stumbled upon good company! KnightOfTL;DR (talk) 22:07, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
Just wait till you discover userboxes :D ТyTalk 22:14, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
Oh... Dear... Lord... No... Scarlet A.pngnarchist 22:19, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
Oooh oooh! and randomized colored sigs :D ТyLonely. Ever so lonely. 22:22, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
But are they tools, or are they toys? Should we be more responsible in their usage? WHAT WILL THEY DO TO THE CHILDREN?! KnightOfTL;DR (talk) 22:25, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
Userboxes are harmless toys... ТyLonely. Ever so lonely. 22:32, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
But what is that ellipsis for? Do they hide some sort of hidden secret? ... nah. KnightOfTL;DR (talk) 22:33, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
Damn, well, some people find flashy random sigs a mite bit annoying. ТyYAUA 22:34, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
It is pretty hard to annoy me unless you try and convince me that aluminum causes Alzheimers or some-such garbage. KnightOfTL;DR (talk) 22:36, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
Then all should be fine. ТyLonely. Ever so lonely. 22:44, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
What, aluminum doesn't cause Alzheimers? I remember reading that years ago. Guess I can cross that off my "list of irrelevant trivia I know" now. Dang. Star of David.png Radioactive Misanthrope 05:40, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
No, it does not. This misconception arises from a prominent Alzheimers study that found slightly higher levels of aluminum in the brain tissue of affected individuals, but no further link has ever been found in any study proving alluminium somehow causes Alzheimers. Unfortunately, it became a slight hysteria before that: blaming things such as aluminum cans, foil and cookware as causing Alzheimers. This was very embarrassing for me, actually; a goofy woo-spouting professor of mine recently tried to convince the class that cans and pans were going to put holes in our brain, not knowing that someone in my family was part of the study that discovered the aluminum and it was not in any way causal. "Sir, I have someone on the phone who helped do the study you're misquoting. He says you're wrong." KnightOfTL;DR (talk)
So how many nutty professors do/did you have? Peter Monomorium antarcticum 06:10, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
So far, two... but they consistently made/make two or more crazy statements a class. Multiply this by more than 15 classes in a semester, and the result is one very frustrated Knight of TL;DR furiously trying to find her happy place.KnightOfTL;DR (talk) 06:13, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
Same kind of woo? Or would they fight it out if in the same room together? Peter Monomorium antarcticum 06:30, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
Different woo, but overlap. The Asian Lit teacher was a yoga fiend, and pretty much used the class as a way to tell us how inferior our culture is and to show us 'facts' about science. He did a lot of the 'ancient wisdom is true' stuff, and repeatedly tried to prove that the absurd things said in the books he taught (all indian religion, I was very sad we didn't get to read Romance of the Three Kingdoms or Journey to the West...) were somehow accurate according to 'science' or because of ancient secrets the industry/government doesn't want you to know. The human biology teacher is a diet woo and government conspiracy person. He has SOME valid ideas, such as the fact that the corn, soy, wheat industries have enormous power in government, and agriculture is duplicitious and is sweeping itself under the rug... but that's NOT a secret. It's only a secret if you don't pay attention to the world. But he also sprinkles in lots of diet woo to make 'western diets' seem much worse than they really are. Where the two professors overlap is their hatred of the 'drug industry' and their mistrust of medicine. Lit teacher wants us all to go back to herbs and 'natural' remedies, and Bio teacher thinks 80 percent of doctors in Europe practice homeopathy, which "unlike WESTERN MEDICINE which treats the symptoms only, homeopathy is the opposite and treats the root cause!" This is especially baffling about the bio teacher because other than his 30-minute woo speeches at the beginning of each class (he once wasted three classes by showing us a horrible logic-error-ridden documentary that I should put up on this site as a bad thing one of these days), he keeps teaching stuff in class that proves homeopathy WRONG. You know, like human biology, that he's supposed to teach? I should just make a page dedicated to "Shit Bad Professors Say" and let people gawk at it. It is shameful these people are educators and honestly listening to them makes ME embarrassed.KnightOfTL;DR (talk) 16:02, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
You pay for this? I would have walked out. Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 16:54, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
I unfortunately have taken/am taking these classes as part of an education requirement, and few other options are available to me in these particular fields without having to go to a 100+ student class of basic chemistry or basic history that I already know. Although a lot of the class is taken up by crap, it would be even more useless to attend a class that I already passed in high school. You can thank the budget cuts to the US education system: although my school is one of the better ones of the bunch, it is still a state school and therefore is hurting bad right now. The available diversity of classes has definitely dropped since I was a freshman here, and they are desperately trying to pour MORE freshman in to pay their bills. My tuition is expected to increase substantially next year. Damn you, school; why must you have the best journalism program in the area, but be a state school that is getting no money? KnightOfTL;DR (talk) 17:00, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
No, no, no - aluminium causes autism. It's coffee that causes Alzheimers, right? Peter Monomorium antarcticum 05:47, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
Coffee reacts with mercury in vaccines to make a magic death atom that gives you a super duper combination of alzheimers, autims, and aids. AutizheimAIDS. KnightOfTL;DR (talk)

Howdy there! I noticed you're in journalism in some capacity, and I was wondering if there's a particular site you use to follow industry news. I already read Columbia Journalism Review, but I thought you might know of something more centralized; i.e. a sort of public JournoList. Oh, also: welcome!--ADtalkModerator 05:28, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Yes, I am a journalism student. I don't follow industry news quite as strictly as I should (alas, I am an undergraduate!) but I will say the Columbia Journalism Review is an excellent place to start that I spend a chunk of my time on. I would also suggest checking out AP (they have a very thorough industry news report) and The State of the News Media, which is an annual review performed by Journalism.Org- run by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. Both are very thorough and good sources to learn what's what. KnightOfTL;DR (talk) 06:03, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Demoted to Sysop

You seem like fun. Get drunk on power. --MtDPinko Scum 08:32, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Welcomes

Maybe "Audaput" sounded like a credible name but with so many spam accounts being created I'd hold off welcoming anyone until they'd made at least one non-spamming edit. Redchuck.gif ГенгисIs the Pope a Catholic?Moderator 14:55, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Oh. Sorry. ._. I am very new (see:few days) and I really didn't notice that. I'll bear it in mind. The last wiki I was on had a bot that handled welcomes, so it's really all new to me. Thanks for the heads-up though. KnightOfTL;DR (talk) 14:58, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Journotalk

What do you think of the new NPR handbook?--ADtalkModerator 21:05, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

I have an incredibly high opinion of it! NPR has always been one of my personal favorite news sources, even before I decided I wanted to be a reporter, and the new ethics handbook is just fantastic: both acknowledging past errors (such as the miscall on Gabby Gifford's 'death') and striving to do better in I think a rather inspiring vow to good principles. Some of my favorite parts:
"Our goal is not to please those whom we report on or to produce stories that create the appearance of balance, but to seek the truth."
"When we find that we can't deliver all the answers to important questions, we explain what we don't yet know and work to fill any gaps in our reporting."
"We avoid hyperbole and sensational conjecture. We may sometimes construct hypotheticals to help explain issues and events, but we reveal any fabrication, and do not otherwise mix fiction with our news reporting."
"Under no circumstances do we skew our reports for personal gain, to help NPR's bottom line or to please those who fund us. Decisions about what we cover and how we do our work are made by our journalists, not by those who provide NPR with financial support."
"We have opinions, like all people. But the public deserves factual reporting and informed analysis without our opinions influencing what they hear or see. So we strive to report and produce stories that transcend our biases and treat all views fairly. We aggressively challenge our own perspectives and pursue a diverse range of others, aiming always to present the truth as completely as we can tell it."
"Mistakes are inevitable. When we make them, we correct them forthrightly, reflect on what happened, and learn from them."
"We don’t allow what is sensational to obscure what is significant."
Oh NPR. You are after my own heart. On another note, there is astoundingly good word choice in the new handbook as well. For example, treating all views fairly is not the same thing as treating them equally. It's perfectly fair to discard an incorrect viewpoint for a more correct one. Yet the wording is elegant, honest, and friendly. What a way to stick it to mistakes, funding bias, and pandering! KnightOfTL;DR (talk) 21:33, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
One of my big bugaboos is that tendency towards false balance in the media, so yeah it's good to see this (assuming they live up to it). I think they're having the same evolution as Obama: they've realized, painfully slowly and after great lengths to the contrary, that nothing they do will make them anything less of a monstrous bugbear to the right - so they might as well just do a good job.--ADtalkModerator 21:46, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Yeah, that's kind of a hard part in journalism ethics. Even on a non-pandering news site, when one creates media that the WHOLE public should see and be informed about, it can be worrisome to turn potential readers and listeners away. Especially when some news sites are turning to at least partially supporting themselves with ads, the hits really count. But the adage holds true: Try and please everyone and you'll end up pleasing no one. Best to worry about just doing the absolute best job possible.KnightOfTL;DR (talk) 22:43, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

An apology

I overdid the snark, and I apologize. P-Foster Talk ""Santorum is the cream rising to the top."" 14:41, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Don't fucking apologize, you braindead moronic retarded homo. GodothasArrived (super crazy fun time!) 14:42, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
It's OK, you don't have to. I get lessons in vigilance every day. Really, that was an illuminating post to me: most of what I have been following has to do with that Zimmerman hasn't been arrested yet. But really, there are other aspects of this case just as important, substantial as just the arrest. Thinking about how I could have messed up and realizing that I have been remiss in following an entire half of the events is very valuable to me as an experience. Initially, I was a bit Grr at you, but that fades away pretty quickly. The fact that there's something to take away from the whole affair when I make an error usually makes up for any human initial 'argh' I may feel. ±Knightoftldrsig.pngKnightOfTL;DRgarrulous en guerre 14:49, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

I like you already.

So much for Tl;DR. I read it all. Including the userboxens. Haha. Kimchi for lunch? YUM. Actually, eating that right now. --Dumpling (talk) 19:27, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Ohhh I wish I was eating kimchi right now. But unfortunately the town my university is in has a terrible supermarket that doesn't carry it. And I'd ask my family to send me some, but they're afraid the fermentation of the kind I like could cause mailing problems (exploding due to pressure changes, etc). I'm craving it so badly right now. What I would give for a local H-Mart...!
To tell you the truth, I am a fan of your work as well. Your essays are fascinating to me; I have a very neutral cultural background, either skipping a generation (From great-grandmother to my mother to me) or re-engineered (it is my secular jew mother, not my mexican granfather who makes guacamole and tamales), or borrowed from family friends. Hearing about your experiences is pretty incredible to me. ±Knightoftldrsig.pngKnightOfTL;DRgarrulous en guerre 20:17, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
GASP! They don't carry even the fail 'Kimuchi' Japanese kimchi in the supermarket? (Don't get it. It's not that's great anyways. HMPH.) Interesting. Exploding kimchi. That'd be fun. Hahaha. NO it wouldn't. It'd smell horribly.
And...woah. O___O...Erm...thank you. I don't remember when I wrote that essay. I just know that it was some time ago. I'm glad you found it fascinating, and I would have to say that my experiences...were...interesting, but it's those experience that make me, well, me. --Dumpling (talk) 02:46, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
My university is in the middle of ski/rock climbing country, and the primary population of the village (not town, village) is the students that don't know kimchi from ketchup. There is an enormous aisle of frozen foods and pre-prepared foods and junk foods and single-person meals, but their meat aisle and their produce aisle and other making-things-from-scratch aisles are pathetic. They only have one kind of chili pepper and it's called a 'hot pepper.' I have tentatively identified it as some kind of emasculated Jalapeño. Darn it, I can't cook with this. :S ±Knightoftldrsig.pngKnightOfTL;DRlongissimus non legeri 03:15, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
WHAAAAAAT!? That...sounds...horrible. O___O...Even in Baton Rouge, we have Kimchi, and we don't have an H-mart. If anything, have you tried to make your own kimchi? That's not too bad.--Dumpling (talk) 03:27, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
I have a fear I would stink up my whole dorm, and I have no counterspace and the kitchen is dirty and... You know what, these are just excuses. If I want kimchi, I am going to have to make my own like a self-respecting person and TOO BAD anyone who wants to say otherwise! If I make some friday or this weekend it has time to get perfect just in time for finals week! My fridge is tiny, though. I'll have to store it in one of my extra, dark closets. Good thing I have no roommates to complain about this!Knight.gif ±Knightoftldrsig.pngKnightOfTL;DRyeah, well you fight like a cow! 03:35, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
Hahaha. If you're worried about the smell and the small fridge, use the small baking soda boxes, it absorbs the smell. That's what we use...with our small fridge specifically JUST for the kimchi. Hahaha. Good luck!--Dumpling (talk) 04:25, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
Whereas I empathise more with the tamales. Arlo James Barnes (talk) 20:35, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Tamales are delicious but are labor intensive to the extreme. We've stopped tying them shut and now just fold them a different way because it adds an additional few seconds and those few seconds add up when you have 100+tamales. I took photos of making tamales this year for a redux on the recipe (one that isn't hosted on a family member's blog) because we adjusted some ratios but I need to find all of them...±Knightoftldrsig.pngKnightOfTL;DRlavishly loquacious 21:20, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
100+ tamales? Jesus, that's a lot of tamales. (Incidently, "That's a lot of tamales" sounds like the punchline to a joke that doesn't exist yet. I think you should solve this problem.) Star of David.png Radioactive Misanthrope 03:23, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
Hot tamales and they're red hot. Yeah she got 'em for sale... Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 03:28, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
Well, when you make tamales, it sort of involves a large amount of ingredients by the nature of the recipe. I suppose you can make HALF a pork shoulder, or use HALF the amount of lard (yes, they are bad for you), but because they are labor intensive to make you might as well make all of them. The point being you steam all of them and then freeze most of them and take them out only when you have to actually eat them. These are the kind of thing you gotta get at least two family members and an afternoon to make. And you have to make the meat mixture a whole day beforehand, too. This is approximately 50 tamales: one batch in the steamer and we had something like three or four of these batches this year.±Knightoftldrsig.pngKnightOfTL;DRlongissimus non legeri 03:45, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
Speaking of tamales, did you know that Michelle Obama, is, in fact, a secret diabolical elitist, because she likes tamales? Neither did I  :-) Star of David.png Radioactive Misanthrope 04:18, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

So

if you are of the media type of interest, you must understand that field has been destroyed f real integrity, more or less? I apluad you then. --il'Dictator Mikal 22:31, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

I wouldn't say entirely destroyed. But I will say that not only does the outlook not look good on many fronts, but that the way news and media is circulated is also changing. But the thing is that there will always be news or some kind of news media. So while I may inherit a mess of ash and wreckage, it will be my responsibility to make something of it. Somebody's got to do it. I plan on at least being one somebody who's not a crazy person.±Knightoftldrsig.pngKnightOfTL;DRgoing galt: the literal crazy train 22:40, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
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