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So, now you know. :\

(amazing how quickly one can go from optimistic to pessimistic. granted they're about two entirely different topics!)

Today ran the gamut from feeling half-sick, to feeling decent in the afternoon and then great tonight. In fact, heather and I met at Outback for dinner and it was fabulous. Our waiter was a riot, and their coco-berry drink is delicious. Mmm. I have leftover Alice Springs Chicken for lunch and life is pretty good.

The LJ news is still exploding with comments, but I don't have the energy to catch up on all the comments anymore. Things appear that they could be improving, but it could all just be talk too. Time will tell.

In the meantime, a meme created by tavalya_ra

"Interests I Don't Support" Meme
Let's try something.

According to Barak Berkowitz, CEO of Six Apart, listing something in your profile as an interest means you like or support that thing. I quote the CEO himself:

Both in the instructions for profiles and in other places on the site we make it clear that interests listed should be evaluated within the context of “I like x”, “I’m in favor of x” or “I support x”.

Well, Mr. Berkowitz, you're wrong. Interest does not mean support. In some cases, it doesn't even mean liking the thing. And prior to your statement, interest has not been interpreted to mean this. According to Mr. Berkowitz, the following statements are true of me:

I support claymores (which as we all know are gigantic killing swords)
I support lost souls.
I support harry dresden and harry potter (i.e. wizards are eeeevil)
I support werewolves.
I support vampires.

If you think this is absurd, go through your own interest list on your profile and state what Mr. Berkowitz thinks you support.

*sigh* Mine's lame, I know. I didn't even have two more to fill out the actual meme! Oh well. You get the idea. ^___^

Management royally sucks sometimes. I say that about work, and now I say it about LJ. I'm sure most everyone has already heard about the deleted journals drama, but if not here's one link:

http://liz-marcs.livejournal.com/267358.html

This is actually the third or fourth post on the matter, and she links to the earlier ones on there as well. She also links to the latest news article, the requests for an LJ statement start on page 6 and currently are up to page 23 or 24.

What's crazy is that I do think getting rid of actual pedophile communites is a decent thing, but they didn't carry it out well at all. Far too many non-criminal people and journals have been affected, and who's to say that the next purge will actually target criminal actions. Or who defines those criminal actions. If they really did delete all those journals based on an interest search, that's just way too vague. There's lots of interests that have at least a double meaning, and if they managed to delete an abuse-survivor community or individual, then they obviously aren't looking for context. It's appalling and disturbing.

God. Oh, OOPS. Watch out, the anti-religious people will be calling next.

Edit: haha! The Killers are on the radio. Whatever their new one is, but it does seem like funny timing. :)