In addition to the above posts, I'd suggest making yourself a ringtone that you enjoy. I'm currently using Dance With The Dead - Mask , which would go well with your avatar 8) i gave my contact list a ring tone... everything else (all unknown callers) it plays a clip of the menu from the Monty pyth...

pmward wrote: ↑Wed Dec 02, 2020 5:33 pm
I hope you're right that "peak politics" will pass and things will settle back down. I love the political philosophical discussions.

IT always has in the past.. i am sure it will again..

pmward wrote: ↑Wed Dec 02, 2020 3:59 pm

l82start wrote: ↑Wed Dec 02, 2020 3:55 pm in a thread about sticking to investing, the trump bad - politics posting has gotten pretty thick,

Yeah I guess it probably would be a hopeless cause splitting it off to a different site.

LOL agreed

in a thread about sticking to investing, the trump bad - politics posting has gotten pretty thick,

what are we protesting about again?

lmao
good one...

didn't i just post a recommendation that we ALL play nice?

if its in good humor and teasing giving each other a hard time is fine ...

be nice guys... if you want to end this kind of conduct you will stop feeding it.... or is what you really want is to be the louder troll?

welcome...

And if you don't split the politics off to a separate forum, and you want this to continue to be an investing forum only for the alt-right pro-Trumpers please at least have the courtesy to let us all know so we can quit wasting our time here and find somewhere else to go that isn't going to be host...

And if you don't split the politics off to a separate forum, and you want this to continue to be an investing forum only for the alt-right pro-Trumpers please at least have the courtesy to let us all know so we can quit wasting our time here and find somewhere else to go that isn't going to be host...

i wont speak for Xan but i suspect we will keep things as they are.. he created a politics section to help deal with the influx of politics into everything. and it has cleaned up the other discussions area. we are ALL getting burned out on the state of the world today and on the divisiveness it is c...

politics has become all encompassing lately and its sad but we are in strange times... lock-downs, corona, trump being an ass, the specter of tyranny rising, economic and employment hardship, and an election gone wrong... please be nice and try to avoid the adding to the toxic side of all this... gr...

the politics section can be blocked by the user at his own discretion, i am sorry if taking personal responsibility for you viewing and posting choices is difficult.. but it would not be in keeping with the forums ethos to impose top down government (admin) restrictions on what you can and cant talk...

SomeDude wrote: ↑Mon Nov 30, 2020 10:42 am Does anyone know how to delete a post? I tried to edit it a few times to get the quoting right and it ended up posting a bunch of extra times..............

Done

processed foods is a likely answer, also the difference between home made with traditional grains and industrial production with GMO and Fortified food like substances...

i am not personally in favor of blocking, however there is a dramatic difference between intelligent debate and trolling, and the trolls don't add to the debate ... they wont be missed by those who no longer see their posts.. blocking a poster is a personal choice, i hope the frustration with trolls...

glennds wrote: ↑Sun Nov 22, 2020 1:58 pm

Tortoise wrote: ↑Sun Nov 22, 2020 1:51 pm A thread with almost exactly the same title already exists:

https://www.gyroscopicinvesting.com/for ... hp?t=11504

Sorry, didn't realize that. I'll see if the moderator can delete this thread.

merged...

Pointedstick wrote: ↑Sat Nov 21, 2020 11:17 pm FWIW My team has been working on the Plasma Mobile version of the PinePhone.

very cool!!

libram 5 has done a few early release versions so far, they are mostly a phone geek beta test toy, but it shows promise and commercial versions are on the way?, no idea when, release dates are a bit loose

i am curious to see it though..

purism is working on a linux phone, "Librem 5" its a interesting project, open source, same OS as their computers..

i am taking a chance on purism, mostly to support FOSS OS and security forward computing. I am currently on a ubuntu 16.?? OS converted desk top, which works fine for my needs, i have a purism laptop that i haven't had the time or the energy to transition into my main computer yet, and i expect doin...

yep.... its not politics alone that is a grind, its partisan election politics.. some of the best political philosophy discussions i have seen on the internet have been here, and many have had some overlap with economics and investing... over the years the pattern has repeated, election seasons driv...

the politics (in general not just here) is driving me out a bit too... hopefully after the election the new politics section can mature into a political philosophy section, with the high quality discussions that i don't see much anywhere else. orange man bad - Alzheimer's patient crooked, are not fu...

One of the issues that several of us have had is the explosion of "microthreads" that make the forum much harder to navigate. Two people in particular have been driving this. May I respectfully suggest that thoughts that fall under the heading of an existing thread be posted on that threa...

agreed i wouldn't change fundamental aspects of the forum ... a little thread clean up now and then is not a bad thing..

i don't think banning is a option that would be in keeping with the forums ethos, splitting threads were things get off topic makes sense, i would encourage news article posters to consolidate if they are planning to post news links, having them all in one place would clean things up a bit.. back fi...