An act of evil or a blessing to all?
There was much big news yesterday including Prince getting his own Pantone shade (officially called Love Symbol #2), reports that the Iranian government increased military spending and neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer’s claim that it was hacked by Anonymous before being pulled down by GoDaddy and then Google.
Anonymous denied that it had been involved and released a Twitter statement suggesting it was a publicity stunt, engineered by The Daily Stormer’s founder, since no web service would agree to host his site anymore.
Also, Venice-adjacent SUP yoga blog The Inertia’s comment section became absent.
I was made aware of the issue around 2:00 PM Pacific Standard Time. A concerned BeachGrit reader emailed:
Just an FYI, but The Inertia’s comments section is down. It’s a never ending scroll through ads and old articles. Kinda odd, but they seem very sensitive.
Immediately putting a stop to my birthday celebration, I raced over to The Inertia and saw that it was, indeed, a never ending scroll through ads (mostly how men can get rid of the bags under their eyes) and old articles (mostly about doctors discovering how to make foot calluses “vanish.”)
No comment section at all.
Then I spent the next four hours pondering the various possible reason for its disappearance. Was it:
a) Hacked by Anonymous in order to stop “The khakification of everything in the entire world.”
b) Pulled down by founder Zach Weisberg as a protest against a surge in local Bikram yoga pricing.
c) Disappeared by concerned The Inertia readers who felt the safe space wasn’t safe enough.
d) Accidentally turned off during The Inertia staff’s mandatory Monday colon hydrotherapy n dance party.
e) Taken by scientists examining what happens to human beings who have had their senses of humor completely removed.
f) Other.
What do you think?
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they´ve closed cuz it was only me writing there and since Chas has made me feel embarrassed of doing so ,now they have no comments at all..
“Meet a Woman Who Dropped CPA Life for Van Life so She Could Inspire People to Get Outdoors”
“Here’s Video of a Pink Dolphin Surfing a Freighter Wake; And Apparently It’s Real”
“When Dogs Do Board Transfers”
STOKE ALERT!!!
Shhhhh
These days Rory is more khakis slappin’ crack heads than swampy crack sweat.
Oh shit, we’ve exposed ourselves as inertia readers!
i wouldn’t be surprised if weisburg and ziff are trying to combine the super jew powers to take over the surf industry and declare themselves ZOG.
Hold up a second. If “THE INERTIA GETS COMPROMISED!”, (your capitals Chas), does that mean it is compromise squared or does a compromise on a compromise make it cool?
That was insulting. I thought you knew me better.
The Inertia, so boringly neutral… https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
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It was the commies!
I wear khakis in the heat of summer as a diss to the Inertia. Just as khakis are the embodiment of the Inertia, my mid-summer day’s swamp ass is both protest of the Inertia, and what I consider the most passive/aggressive representation of my complete and utter contempt for them. It’s a shame though that only I know this. Enjoy my sweaty ass crack mess you khakis the Inertia, breathe it in deep. Choke on my swamp ass.
Where do you find khakis in your size? Asking for a plus-size mammalian friend
At Big Lots!
I personally love khakis. They’re timeless…. but THE inertia is indeed suck. I send vibes of swamp ass chokery to them as well.
Extra wide and with pleats?
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXL. No pleats. Used to rock pleats but when I was driving and scarfing down billions of plankton, I was always dropping plankton crumbs into my pleats. So I decided to ditch the pleats.
Plankton crumbs can be a bane. Tiny bits of tiny briny.
Gold Bond and khakis, they go together like sweet tea and seersucker
Nah, it’s Freerider. Fuck that guy.
THE Inertia readers have been avoiding oncoming sections for years. Avoiding the comment section should come naturally.
do you employ a team of full-time writers to come up with this material? damn you are good…
Yes. We are thirsty too. Send beer.
too many segways plugged into one circuit.
To celebrate my 200th upvote I thought I’d write something compelling. I was wrong
I wish you’d have provided a trigger warning before dropping such traumatic info
I read an older article written by a ‘surfer’ girl, with a background in architecture, who suggested that the Decommisioned San Onofre Nuclear plant here in SoCal, be decorated around rather than be torn down . She had no idea that it is imperative it be torn down and properly disposed of–because of something called radiation. She had her drawings and everything. Why would any editor print that?
Perhaps he ran out of yoga articles, and articles on how to remember to wax the rightside of the board each time.
I wonder what classifies as a ‘background in architecture’…
“Yeah, once I looked at a building and noticed it had a gothic roof and a ranch style patio overlooking a cafe made from a shipping container in the carpark. It was post-retro modern.”
so upcycled. was it Santa Monica or Venice?
Adjacent to both. Making it not only upcycled, but a master of quantum mechanics.
‘went inside once’
While doing yoga on a SUP, wearing organic sunscreen, after eating cage-free eggs, while sipping fair-trade coffee, listening to Jack Johnson I became aware of The Inertia’s comment section going dark. I immediately logging on to Beach Grit and felt safe again…
you forgot the avocados
FREE RANGE* avocados
DOLPHIN SAFE* free range avocados
Smashed avocados and deconstructed coffee
And the cocoa ceremony at yoga studio
I had just slipped into my Vissla’s and begun mounting my gopro on my log when I heard the news. I had been planning on commenting on “This Guy Cut His Wrist in Shark-Infested Waters to Prove a Point” — glad that their comment zone is back because everyones comments on here seem to be curated by the big surf brands and the inertia is more for the everyman
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