Buried as Inaccurate

There's a huge problem on digg today that needs to be addressed. Okay, actually, there's a lot of them, but I'll just focus on my current pet peeve for now. Several of the top digg users are under attack from the non-top digg users for being...Well, for being THEM. They insult some of the more popular diggers and actually end up with more diggs than those they stepped on to get there. It's nothing more than envy, and I have the evidence to prove it.

Case and point: An article submitted by #1 digger MrBabyMan was taken and subverted today by a less well-known member to reflect their own personal hatred of MrBabyMan. The sad part is, it worked. They not only managed to hit the front page first, but at the time I type this, the anti-MBM article has 821 diggs and the original has only 284 diggs. This means that now, the digg mafia is more interested in insulting their own than reading interesting articles.

MrBabyMan's article isn't even bad. It's a great picture, with a strong point, and a funny message. It's also anti-government, something that I think all diggers can agree on. The problem is, there are many people who are refusing to digg these articles simply because of the guy who found it.

Now, why are these people refusing to digg for these people? I mean, besides my conjecture of jealousy. Well, there are several arguments I've heard (read) that generally revolve around the same ideas: MrBabyMan stole an article, MrBabyMan gets his articles on (Insert Website Here), MrBabyMan gets his articles on the front page easily and I don't, MrBabyMan raped my wife and killed my pa. They are all either about jealousy or where they came from.

First of all, it shouldn't matter AT ALL where the articles came from. I don't go on Reddit. I only use stumbleupon when I'm bored shitless. Fark is foreign, and I dare not step in 4chan without protective gear. I simply don't have the time (Or the will) to browse the ENTIRE internet looking for some quality articles. So quite often when he submits from these locations, it's new to me as well as several other people. And that's probably why he submits those: He wants to share them with everyone who's not on that particular site, but is on digg. As for stealing, the only times I've seen him 'steal' is when he finds an article that someone else submitted some umpteen days ago, and it never got past 10 diggs. He then resubmits the article so that everyone has a chance to see it when it hits front page. And if anyone can get an article on the front page, he can.

As for the jealousy, just grow the fuck up. I'm all for maintaining the status quo--I hate rich people and authority as much as the next digger. But I know that I'll never get to the top by mudslinging those who are on top. Does Digg's favorite candidate, Obama, campaign by insulting those above him? No, he works his ass off and climbs his way up. If you admire Obama like I do, then be like him and take the high road. Just keep submitting, trying different methods, and build up your friend pool until you can hit that front page. Blaming your failures on someone else is childish, and I have no respect for those who fall to such lowly methods of self-promotion.

Now, I'm going to go submit this and try again. Odds are it won't make front page because it goes against the general opinion, it's self-submitted, and I simply don't have the posse to go up against upper diggers. But I will learn from the failure, and press on. Because that's what adults do.

EDIT: Apparently, now MrBabyMan is thinking about quitting Digg: Here's the relevant twitter post. If you're reading this, MrBabyMan, I don't think you should go. That's all I have to say that hasn't already been said.

Hillary's "white Americans" comment causing quick firestorm

In another bad sign for Hillary Clinton's sinking campaign, the blogosphere is all over her racially divisive comments to USA Today about her white support, & the verdict is not good. The broad consensus is that Hillary's comments are clearly deepening rifts in the Democratic party & hurting the party's chances in the fall. Are ya listening supers?------------This is ridiculous. And I've been saying it for AGES now. Hillary Clinton continually proves herself to be rude, presumtuous, stupid, and deceitful, and yet she still has supporters? How does this happen? I really want one of her supporters to explain this to me, because so far, there are only two things positive I can think of to say about Clinton: 1. She has marginally more experience than Obama, and 2. She has nothing to do with Rev. Wright. And I can strike down both those with evidence, as well as common sense. I'll focus on the common sense first.Clinton has experience. Yes, she does. But the problem with experience is that it's only useful if you know how to use it properly; to learn from your mistake experiences, and to build upon your successful experiences. Just look at current president Gee Dubya, he's got loads of experience, and he still fucks everything up. And I know what you're thinking, how do we know that Clinton will fuck up? I mean, she's not as bad as Bush, right? Wrong. She has at some point or another stated that she thinks we should bomb Iraq, that guns should not be controlled, that the war was necessary, and has managed to go in the exact opposite direction the very next day. Also, this whole current PR slip-up just screams Bush all over. And don't get me started on her incredible spending powers, or her lies about Bosnia...I'm sure some of these are taken out of context, but it can't ALL be contextual problems. Plus, she surrounds herself with incompetent people who seem to think that democratic primaries work the same way as the Republican ones. They don't.And who's to say Obama will do better? He may have the ability to use experience, but without the experience, he's useless, right? Again, wrong. Obama has less experience than Clinton. Let me repeat that: LESS experience than Clinton. This means he has experience, just not as much. And that experience alone has made his campaign one of the most powerful in years! I mean, to be not only the first black candidate, and to have that horrid middle name, and even be one of the youngest candidates in decades, yet he still manages to overcome all that and knock out the big league veteran players! If his ability to lead can do that, just imagine what it'll do for the nation. And still, there hasn't even been one successful attempt to take anything he said out of context or anything...Even the Rev. Wright issue (talk about that more in a moment) was handled masterfully. He's been touted as a 'rockstar', who's all talk and no bite, but realize, people that politics are 90% talk. And even if you disagree with that (That is technically just an opinion), talk alone won't get him this far. He's written an entire book outlining his plans to change America as the President (Including how he plans to go about initiating them), he's done work to clean up the south side of Chicago, he was one of the first people who was against the war in Iraq from the beginning (Clinton was pro-war at first), he has been one of the most powerful and consistent politicians in this country. The only reason you don't hear his name as often as Clinton's is because Clinton was banging a previous president...That does wonders for press coverage. Experience would be a boon, no doubt, but if he can go this far without it, that's reason enough to elect him. I prefer results over speculation, tyvm.And now onto the Wright issue. Come ON, people. Get over it. He has apologized for Reverend Wright, and said several times that he disagrees with it. One of the commentators on the attached digg article said "These comments are considered offensive but Rev. Wright's BS isn't?" Nobody is arguing that Reverend Wright's comments aren't offensive. They most definitely are...In fact, I agree with what he was trying to say, and I was STILL offended. Saying "God Damn America" is going way too far in my book. But Obama has done all that he honestly can to make up for it. He's said sorry, and said that he doesn't do everything his preacher tells him to. And if you think about it, it makes perfect sense--Would you listen to your preacher if he started spewing (allegedly) anti-American propaganda? No, you'd say, "whatever" and either move on with your life or get a new preacher. I've got news for you, America: He won't be his preacher if he makes it to the white house. And besides, what more do you expect him to do? Pretend like he never had anything to do with the guy? Pretend like he didn't know his old preacher was like that? Those are called lies, and frankly, I'm sick of lies. Obama did everything he could to denounce Wright's comments without lying to America, and for that, I commend him.But I have digressed. These comments from Clinton are different from those of Wright's in one major point: A candidate actually said them. Wright is not a candidate, nor will he ever be (hopefully), and Clinton is. If Clinton's old preacher said this, I wouldn't give a shit because that is nothing compared to what Wright said and I don't give a shit about Wright. But it wasn't Clinton's preacher, it wasn't even one of her high-ranking cronies, it was Clinton HERSELF. And I don't think I want a president saying shit like that. It's dumb. And personally, I think dumb people need to GTFO of the country. Not uneducated people, I have no problem with undereducated people...I mean people who are too dumb to know fact from fiction. People like Bush, Clinton, and anyone who thinks the Bible is fact but science isn't. There's a reason for the phrase "scientific fact", and it's not an oxymoron.Since I'm on a pissy tirade, let me just close by saying Obama is NOT a muslim, he is NOT a terrorist, and if you think his name has anything to do with the person inside, you're a retarded douche. I'm done ranting. Seeya.

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Amazing Cave Castle

The following article is actually from bored-space.com. You can check out the original article here.

Amazingly built into a cave, Predjama castle is one of the most visited castles in Europe.














Predjama castle and its caves are situated about 12 km from Postojna, world famous
for its extensive karst cave. Castle was built-up into the ovehanging rock and vista to that combination of a nature and man work is really great. Walk throug the castle halls is an unique event. Very realistic man size dummies are presenting ancient life of the castle. There is also a museum collection and ancient armoury. The cave behind the castle is called Erazmova Jama, after a knight living in the castle, and has 4 levels. The deepest level is water filled, the river flowing through is called
Lovka. The castle is built into the huge entrance of the middle level. An exit from the top level to the plateau was used as secret entrance in the middle ages, today it is filled with rocks. The story goes, that the castle was besieged, but the people in the castle had the secret entrance, and so they had enough to eat. They loughed on the besieger and threw down fresh fruit, to discourage them.