If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

jet_lagg wrote:How many of you played (American)football in highschool?

I did, for one year. It was exactly the kind of toxic atmosphere you might expect. Pointless hostilities between players, Fag this, Fag that. There were a lot of idiots, that's for damned sure.

I know nothing about these things :( Ive always had great gyms with great free-weights close to my house or work (srsly there is nothing around me but LA Fitnesses now :? ) I would just read all the customer reviews, but def check them out in person if you can! LA Fitness: nothing but Cardio Bunnie...

Damion is still being a tool at his blog. Hate the Pit. Hate FTB. Hate everyone who does as he does while not recognizing what he does (rude and jerkoffish comments) while pretending to 'be above the fray' and declaring a pox on all our houses... Doesn't he know what happened to the first guy who s...

"It's OK. It's a quote from the Slymepit. The whole point is to be horrible."
There, that should do it.

I just got to hang out with a Nobel prize winner, who is pumped about checking out my talks/blag and invited me to help with a science communication project he is trying to get off the ground in the US, and he also happens to think my research (which directly relate to his Nobel) kicks ass. But... ...

Thinking some more on the earlier discussion of postmodernism, and different strains within the Left, I was reminded of an essay by Peter Kropotkin, Modern Science and Anarchism (1903), which I've excerpted here. When the metaphysicians try to convince the naturalist that the mental and moral life o...

Post-PZ Myers I get this all the time with students. You can give them a recipe to follow out of a lab cookbook, and they can follow it and it works fine, most of the time. When it doesnâ€™t, theyâ€™re lost, because they donâ€™t understand the mechanism, the theory, the whole big background of solut...

Pfft... postmodernism is just a social construct.

Can anyone work out his h-index? According to his CV, he got his PhD in 2008 and doesn't seem to have done a postdoc, and most of his publications seem to be in the popular press. Just how credible is this guy? The above also applies roughly to Sam Harris. The difference in credibility is due preci...

BillHamp wrote: Make my words though, there is one more atheist left for them to accuse before they are done with their idiocy. Can anyone guess his name?

Victor Stenger?
Jerry Coyne?
James Randi?
....
Hitler?

BarnOwl wrote:
Of course he's such a lab rat, he's spent the entire summer doing experiments, right?

I look forward to his upcoming publications in the scientific literature.

OK. I never really waded through the comment section of an OB post at length before. Just WTF!?!?! How can a group of people be so mentally fucked as to turn the most basic bit of commentary on personal responsibility completely upside down and inside out in defense of their victim narrative!?!?! H...

The sentiment also appears as white supremacists calling their white opponents 'race traitors,' blacks calling other blacks 'uncle Toms' or 'oreos,' Jews calling other Jews 'Self-Hating Jews' for opposing Israeli policies, Gays calling Gays 'Uncle Marys,' Communists calling other Communists 'counte...

I didn't follow that "mangina" discussion, but what you quoted sounds as stupid as "gender traitor", "chill girl" or "sister punisher". No offense intended. Much... The sentiment also appears as white supremacists calling their white opponents 'race traitors,' blacks calling other blacks 'uncle Tom...

Meaningful racial differences? Acknowledging that we're different biologically, skeletal structure, pigmentation, etc, is important. But emphasising our racial differences in the path to see past race, isn't that counterproductive? Beyond the mostly superficial, to quote Shakespeare, if you prick u...

A new low has been hit. Imagine the SchrÃ¶dinger's Rapist scenario - except that the man knows there is a non-negligible probability he will rape the woman, and this probability is higher for him than for most other men. The woman doesn't know that he comes with this increased risk, and he doesn't w...

Guest wrote:Are the current governments of Norway, Sweden and France committed to common ownership of the means of production?

Many socialists are what is called Social Democratic. I am one of them.
Nonetheless, some call themselves socialists, hence the clarification.

If they have the power to do so, Socialists will send the first to re-education camps, and the second to death camps. Fortunately, nowadays in most countries they are restricted to ineffectual angry tweeting. I assume by 'socialists' you mean Leninists/Maoists, and not, say, the current governments...

Meanwhile, over at the Atheism+ Forum, we learn that man-hating feminists don't exist ; that they are an invention of "unthinking mainstream turds". That at least some A-plussers are "actually fairly convinced they don't exist at this point, and a straw-figure created by the media and by those thre...

I'll just put this here, because Watson is a fellow fan of SMBC:
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This trend of labelling everything as "privilege" is really getting out of hand. Get this: You can sit in a regular chair? That's thin privilege! http://thisisthinprivilege.tumblr.com/post/36674162438/all-of-you-who-deny-your-thin-privilege-can-take-this If you are thin and talk about weight-relate...

Posted at Pharygule: My old friends and Pharynguliltes. I think the most important person in history is Genghis Khan, whom slaughtered the ruling class, the landowners and politicians and spread the enlightenment throughout Eurasia. Do I have any allies here that are in favor of violence and hangin...

ERV wrote:
Skep tickle wrote: I'm in love.
I believe Ed Clint is getting his PhD at a prestigious Cali university in Evolutionary Psychology/Anthropology or some such.

POSEUR!!

Wooo! UCLA representing!.
Interesting that Sam Harris and Victor Stenger also went here. Maybe being in LA makes you doubt the existence of god.

Skeeve wrote:Wow, this guy really didn't like Becky's talk at Skepticon:
Science denialism at a skeptic conference

He just swatted a fly with a bulldozer.

While it's true that limiting the intake of animal protein is recommended for people at risk of stones, a low protein diet is not. And protein limits don't top the list of dietary recommendations either: The top of that list is to increase water consumption. For the most common calcium oxalate stro...

Steersman wrote: The Protein Myth; Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine:

PCRM is essentially PETA. The lack of citations for their claims should also be a red flag.

Dick Strawkins wrote:http://i.imgur.com/rdNDi.jpg

And with that, I have a new sig.

Someday, as Laden fears, his son will gain access to a computer and discover all the horrible things said about him. And by him.

Mykeru wrote: Disumbrationist:
2. Guests are guests. Relatives are relatives. Across the board, my relatives get away with far more crap than any guest does. Forum asshats get away with nothing: Go fuck yourself, cupcake.

And a pleasant day to you and yours as well, sir.

We have been having a silent little cold war over the way the toilet paper roll hangs. Nothing is said, but she''ll change it to roll under and I'll switch it to roll over and so it goes. Problem solved. Also, your sister needs to be told what in means to be a guest in someone's house. It's kind of...

ReneeHendricks wrote:LOL I said Oolong instead of Oolon - I blame tea drinking.

Oolon is how oolong (tea) is pronounced in Japan. It's also the name of a pig that abducts little girls in Dragonball.

JackRayner wrote:The CDC says that if you consume a single alcoholic drink per month then you are a "regular drinker"....

Those stats are surprising. Only ~ 60% of adults 18+ drank at all in the US in 2009? In most industrialized countries 60% of the people taking the survey would be drunk while doing it.

welch wrote: I had the same expectations from this as when I donate a dollar to an angry hobo: I saved myself the time of setting it on fire.

Wait... the dollar, or the hobo?

Cancer's a funny thing , by JBS Haldane (Evolutionary Biologist, Polymath). I wish I had the voice of Homer To sing of rectal carcinoma, Which kills a lot more chaps, in fact, Than were bumped off when Troy was sacked. Yet, thanks to modern surgeonâ€™s skills, It can be killed before it kills Upon ...

I just had the open relationship discussion with my husband, prompted by the Slymepit. He says, I won't cheat on you because I love you. I'm like, well what if I said it was okay. He says, Well I don't know it would be a lot of effort. That's an interesting reaction. It's like you asked him to remo...

Wooly Bumble Bee - both barrels: http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2012/10/its-all-trolling-when-you-come-right-down-to-it/#comment-313966 Sorry, that's too much 'I'm taking my ball and going home.' If you're going to support Greta Christina, you have to support her as-is. We already...

soldierwhy wrote:
Ing:Intellectual Terrorist "Starting Tonight, People will Whine"
17 October 2012 at 10:28 pm

How do you respond to the accusations that you raped and killed a 9 year old girl in 1991?

"What's it with you and rape? No one's raping anyone..."
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http://www.gretachristina.com/thinking.html From the link: It's just that whenever I hear a phrase like "that's something women only do to please men," my Dworkinite Early Warning System goes off like a fire alarm. It's good that she has such an alarm; I fear, though, that it is in need of a routin...

There is certainly no one in Atheism+ or Freethought Blogs who could get a response like he did, who lectures as well, and has the intellectual chops he does. ... It needs everything, intellect, achievement, linguistic skill, but most of all, passion. I dont think one even needs to be an academic -...

I got a chance to hear Richard Dawkins speak last tuesday, and during the talk something crystallized in my mind: there is probably no one in the atheist movement who could replace him. The talk was held in a smaller room, but the room was completely full: people standing, sitting on the aisles. His...

This is a small conference that happens in Orange County, California every year. The person who started it and works hard to put it together was very excited to get PZ Myers and Greta Christina as speakers in 2013. (I don't think he follows all the drama) http://freethoughtalliance.org/fta/annual-c...

In other news, in order to make the women around me feel safe, I've taken to wearing a shirt that says POTENTIAL RAPIST in large Helvetica caps. With this gesture, I'm telling the women around me "I'm okay with being labelled a potential rapist, even if I'm not, because when I lie to you it makes yo...

Oolon is certainly most dishonest about how s/he goes about arguing. For the record, Oolon is a "he". On FtB, he links his comments to his website: oolon.co.uk All .uk names are registered with AnalTUBE, which provide a publicly searchable database of, e.g: http://www.DIXXX.gov This shows that the ...

By the way, I looove Dillahunty's latest video. He describes his 'experiment' to demonstrate the sanity of the A+theism forums, but says that his experiment never went to completion. Ha! No no no. Matt, you walked into the Large Moron Collider, where particles of stupid and lazy are crashed into eac...

welch wrote: FUUUUUUUCK. Well, I fixed the title at least. The URL will stay misspelt. If nothing else, it's a honeypot. "your arguments are invalid because you misspelled dissension""

Merriam-Webster gives 'dissention' as a recognized variant of 'dissension', so I wouldn't worry too much.

Michael K Gray wrote: Germaine Greer, anyone?

Here's her on 'cunt.'
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This place isn't that different from Pharyngula, you pat each other on the back about how 'sceptical' you all are and 'no argument is banned'... We pitters don't porcupine people arguing with us, we respond with the force of our sceptical branes! I think you may be all too used to all the agreement...

He says near the end of the article that his resignation is to stop the attacks on the SCA. The SCA is going to get attacks - because it's a group that touches on controversial subjects - and they chose him . This issue has ended the worst way possible: it's over, but nothing has been resolved. The...

http://skepticink.com/justinvacula/2012/10/04/i-resign-my-leadership-position-with-secular-coalition-for-america/ "I resign my leadership position with Secular Coalition for America" If what Justin did was morally wrong, he should apologize and perhaps resign. If what he did wasn't wrong, he should...

But here in the land of words are just words, intent is king... Racial slurs seem to be absent. (Or at least a Google shows lot of "niggers" but they are all in scare quotes - I realize I've not been reading much here so this could be my error) Are you all self censoring for ethnic slurs when you j...

TheMan wrote: Just wow... Matt was being sneeky but for good reasons...he was testing the fairness and objectivity of the forum.

Mene, mene, tekel upharsin.

But for example this section clearly indicates that she isnâ€™t seeing that every man that she or her sisters meet is in fact a rapist â€“ and is, in consequence, not a case of the â€œmind projection fallacyâ€: When you approach me in public, you are SchrÃ¶dingerâ€™s Rapist. You may or may not be ...

Godflesh - 'Flowers'
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Foetus - 'I'll meet you in Poland, Baby'
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Carcass, 'Embodiment'
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For instance there is the relatively recent post at Camels with Hammers on â€œSchrÃ¶dingerâ€™s Rapist and SchrÃ¶dingerâ€™s Racistâ€ discussing an article on the former. Schrodingers Rapist is classic Mind Projection Fallacy : the person who believes in Schrodinger's Rapist is confusing their uncer...

Long story short, the rating scale indices they use are only ordinal scale measurement and that doesn't allow for the kind of arithmetic and statistical analyses they performed. Everyone does it, everyone shouldn't, because it imputes more into the data than is actually there by treating it as inte...

Johann the Cabbie wrote: I responded that I don't do public speaking, but I'd be happy to debate him in writing.

Extra trolling points: say you don't want to debate him because you are hesitant to appear in public with the leader of a Hate Group.

Searching ScienceBlogs recently and I came across this old (2010!!!) Pharyngula thread. As some of you know, there are a few whiners out there on the internet who have put up a pretense of shock and horror that I do not try to censor free expression in the comments here â€” you can say what you want...

ALL CAPS, MOTHERFUCKER!
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Calculating the rate of stranger rape from the data available is nontrivial and would require either access to statistics software ($$$$$) or a spreadsheet and a fair bit of skill. Statistics software is not necessarilly $$$$. R is absolutely free. I've never used it, though. Thanks to Spence for p...

While you are shuffling your decimal places there :whistle: the other problem with this calculation is that it assumes independence. Yes, it assumes independence; this is as much as can be done without additional data - more of a back-of-the-envelope calculation. I wouldn't actually expect the prop...

In the case R=0.62% or 0.00062, the number is closer to 0.01232 or 1.23%. Sorry, typo. It's 0.0062. The calculation is correct. No, it's NOT correct, shit. It is actually closer to 12%, as steersman said. (11.7%) Final Answer. Adding graph to show my contrition. x = rape rate. If this isn't right t...

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