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Happy birthday Uncensored!
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And ... today is the 38th birthday of UNCENSORED! BBS.
This is the first place on the internet in a long time that I don't feel like I have to hide behind a persona to be welcomed. Twitter was like that when it started, but it devolved quickly.
There is something therapeutic about logging into a Citadel BBS - even if it is web based. It just feels right. Got my drink, got my keyboard, ready to raise hell.
Glad you're still here 38 years later. Wish I could host The Sanitarium as a Door off your BBS so I don't have to manage my own.
Well, a single Old Fashioned got me the whole way through this time. But there was more traffic anyhow - which soothes my soul.
Well, a single Old Fashioned got me the whole way through this time. But there was more traffic anyhow - which soothes my soul.
Subject: What if I need somebody to test how messaging works?
I spent the weekend demolishing the main staircase in my house (10
steps across two flights) and installing new treads. The project
fought me the whole way through. The results are gorgeous (solid oak
with stain and three coats of poly) but I am now aching all over.
You have STAIRS in your HOUSE?!?
2026-02-22 05:53 from ParanoidDelusions
Subject: Re: gone quiet
Zoe, I'm glad to see you back. Please don't take passionate
disagreement with personal insults. I've been extra conciliatory
People have lost the ability to disagree respectfully. This is endemic to all social media including all old school bbs's.
I mean, the validity of one's opinion doesn't change based on one's ethnicity, religion, or nationality--and one's right or left wing opinions don't make one a horrible person
But an insufferable dick is still an insufferable dick, and big segments of the online population don't give a crap about that--and that applies equally to groypers and smug virtue-signalling left-wing woketards.
I agree completely. Sometimes, I backslide into being an insufferable dick - because of social media - it makes me defensive, and hostile pre-emptively. If I've done that here, to Zoe, to Nurb - to anyone - I apologize. Please bear with me. I want dialog - and I want disagreement - I think it is vital to our particular peculiar experiment in representative Democracy, to be honest. If my side were fully in power - it would be bad for women, for minorities, for gays, for non-Christians. It is the "One Ring," or "Absolute power corrupts, absolutely." The idea that we would do it for GOOD reasons, but the result would be bad. I didn't start off a Conservative straight white Christian - I started off a poor white trash punk kid who hated Reagan - who it turned out, had a vision where now I am spending a week in a $150k RV with a RZR side by side and an $80 truck and $5k of EBikes working remotely just to bring in some spending cash to buy new toys. I was wrong about Reagan - and despite 30 years or so since, and a few bad administrations on both sides - I've *never* slid back into living in a Duplex with an alcoholic father who would sometimes go, "What the kid needs tonight is a good beating."
Not that I'm on a pity pot. Growing up hard gave me drive to make sure my kid would never suffer. And growing up SUPER privileged made her... I make less per year than she does now - because I'm not doing IT and have a job where I can go, "I'm good enough... either fire me or shut up..." but I had to send her $150 via Zelle last week so she could feed her cat and continue to be a pink haired LGBT+ advocate living in Chicago. Because she is my kid - and that is what I signed up for when I did the thing that brought her into the world. Not 18 years - but - "As long as it takes". I mean, she isn't strung out on drugs - she has serious potential. I just have to get her to the place where she finds it. If she fails - I fail. That is a CONSERVATIVE perspective. It is MY obligation. I don't always know that I am doing it right - but I'm doing what I know I can do. She knows where I disagree with her, and we've learned to avoid those topics. But she knows I support her - and that when all other options are gone - she CAN call me and I WILL bail her out. Always, unconditionally.
My mom was that way with me - and a lot of people said "You are enabling that boy." But if my mom could see me now... she would certainly brag to her friends at the Bingo game. I really exceeded expectations. Maybe my kid will too. I hope I live to see it.
People have lost the ability to disagree respectfully. This is endemic to all social media including all old school bbs's.
I mean, the validity of one's opinion doesn't change based on one's ethnicity, religion, or nationality--and one's right or left wing opinions don't make one a horrible person
But an insufferable dick is still an insufferable dick, and big segments of the online population don't give a crap about that--and that applies equally to groypers and smug virtue-signalling left-wing woketards.
Didn't make it the whole way through tonight. I'm in a 5th wheel trailer in the desert and drunk on Kirkland Old Fashioned. We'll see how far behind I get. I'm also on a Macbook Pro. Seriously out of my lane.
Just want you to know that I am in a 5th wheel toy hauler in the desert, the shitters are almost full so it smells a little rank - I may have to hook up and go dump tomorrow - but I logged in just to make sure Uncensored was going fine. I'm glad to see it is.. We got here last Friday. About a week with 2 people seems about max off grid. Thanks to Elon Musk and Starlink - even in the middle of BFE I can still log into a Internet BBS on a 2013 Macbook Pro.
We live in the future.
If you're in the middle of the desert can't you just unload the tanks in the middle of the desert? Isn't that how they dry out the sludge out there anyway?
I have no idea what I'm doing, but I'm doing. Exploring Citadela ... first time :} Read some messages, seem interesting people.