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Dark Overlord said

50yearslate said

#MeToo is a pet peeve? Do you mean the hashtag or the movement?  

Honestly, i have mixed feelings about the movement. On one hand, it pointed out several rich people who sexually assaulted women (and men) but on the other, it makes it easier to falsely accuse someone of rape and ruin their life because while not directly stated, #metoo has a guitly until proven innocent vibe to it.

  

True, but it is important to note that previous studies have shown the idea of an epidemic of false rape accusations ruining lives to be extremely exaggerated. From a 2005 British Home Office Study (the largest study ever conducted on this topic) – “out of 216 complaints that were classified as false, only 126 had even gotten to the stage where the accuser lodged a formal complaint. Only 39 complainants named a suspect. Only six cases led to an arrest, and only two led to charges being brought before they were ultimately deemed false” which means that out of the thousands of examples, only 1.5% were false and named a suspect. 

Still, while I believe this evidence is fairly conclusive, it’s not necessarily relevant to this as most #MeToo’s were directed at a specific person. Also, you’re definitely right that we should be cautious and file complaints through the proper legal avenues wherever possible. 

Dumb updates. I updated my phone yesterday, and not only were there weird and pointless design choices implemented for things that were already fine the way they were before, but some things actually got more convoluted and difficult to use. I wish you had the option to chose what layout you wanted for each application, so you could just keep what works best for you.

Ahhh Girl said

That, and when they come at the worst time.

Yes, that too. I once went to use my laptop, only to be greeted with an update that started as soon as it turned on. Didn’t even ask or let me know first.

Recording with other people online. Regardless of whether you come to them or they come to you, it’s such a slow process that by the time they’re ready to record their part, you’ve pretty much recorded the entire album, including parts you had originally set aside for them. And it isn’t even like I’m recording a new song every day, there have been situations where I’ve spent months away from a project only to come back and find that nothing new has been recorded since my departure. Then there’s the problem of having time to fully figure out your parts. If the album’s being worked on at a fast pace, you’ll be more open about what to put in your song but after awhile, you start to have a better understanding of the song and close in on specific ideas and by about 6 months, you’ll know EXACTLY what you want and will be disgusted at any outside ideas.

But the worst part is that the only way to get people to do their part is by constantly checking in and if overdone, your bandmates will start to get really pissed off about it, especially if you try to pressure them with a deadline, which is something you should NEVER do online.

As for the Super Bowl, while I didn’t watch it, I was really saddened to hear that PETA’s commercial wasn’t allowed to air. While I strongly dislike PETA for a variety of reasons, I support their free speech just as I would anyone else’s and to see this family friendly ad get denied the right to air is very unfortunate.

Our Superbowl coverage was from the BBC so it didn’t have any American ads, something I was quite disappointed about, but hearing this I guess that’s fine