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

When I showed up after a few years away I was shocked to see the pit was still going at all. It seemed to me the atheism schism (niche even at the height of its popularity) was ancient history. Of course even when atheism was current events this place was as much about the argument of the week as it...

I don't know why, given what a bunch of miserable assholes you all are, but I expected the pit to end on a more positive note.

FT, happy retirement, and thanks for hosting for such an aggravating group for so long.

"Fake" and "real" don't do much work as concepts from the admittedly basic understanding I have. Even if we're just talking about your mortgage the debt isn't real the way a tangible asset or even slips of paper representing tangible assets are real. There's a ledger somewhere and all parties agree...

But... it is clear that pumping money into the economy and funding this through government debt is also not helping. Government debt is not fake. It is real debt... and at some point the debt must be paid. "Fake" and "real" don't do much work as concepts from the admittedly basic understanding I ha...

I never got any further than supply and demand when it comes to economic theory, but doesn't MMT predict inflation for the real world inputs we saw anyway?

Literally all women are bisexual. What, you'll make out with another chick after a few shots? Announcing oneself like this is kind of a brilliant strategy. You get to ride the DEI gravy train for free.

I loved the Rankin/Bass animated Hobbit movie when I was a kid, before I even knew about the books. There's probably a good 2 hour movie hiding in the Jackson trilogy if someone were to edit it down.

Has anyone watched Rings of Power? I was a Tolkien nerd as a teen and loved the Peter Jackson movies but can't muster even the slightest interest. Rumor has it that the showrunner for Amazon's true-to-the-source-material Conan series fell victim to DEI initiatives, the series getting cancelled, prio...

Lsuoma wrote: ↑
Sun Oct 16, 2022 8:56 am

jet_lagg wrote: ↑ Jesus. This argument has been going on for two years?
Is that just the five minutes or the full half hour?

At the pit we do it for free.

Jesus. This argument has been going on for two years?

What the 1/6 mob did wrong was not recognize soon enough how hostile the state and media (and by extension people who still take the media seriously) actually are towards them. If they had then the "insurrection" would have looked like... well, an insurrection. Professionals with guns. Actual firefi...

Any Michel Houellebecq fans in the house? He has one of the better answers to the euthanasia question that I've read.

https://unherd.com/2021/04/how-france-lost-her-dignity/

If you don't want to play you can just say so :snooty:

Sarah Silverman reminds me of my favorite Frank Zappa song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yDarQW7UZc Is this now a Jewish princess thread? Let me start it off with the greatest of all time, never to be dethroned, the only woman I'd consider leaving my wife for. Well... back when she looked like ...

SO Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $965MM to the Sandy Hookers. Right... Any time now... 3...2...1... What fucking planet do these people live on? LMAO School teachers and school teacher respecters get fucking LIVID if they think you're not taking them seriously. Don't they. No higher crime in t...

You have to appreciate what a multi-layered joke that would have been. Jew that sees Nazi's everywhere, but also Hollywood limo liberal so far removed from blue collar life she doesn't know what a utility marker is.

fafnir wrote: ↑
Wed Oct 12, 2022 5:20 am
Sure. I used to like her too. For me at least, the world in which she was funny is gone.

She's still funny sometimes. Just never on purpose.

But once more I have to press the important question, does it really matter?

Her comic persona is this extreme version of the narcissistic BPD woman saying the quiet part out loud that always made me laugh. Like breaking up with Kimmel via music video (“I’m fucking Matt Damon”) or the standup sketch where she prays to God semen is found in her dead grandmother’s vagina becau...

fafnir wrote: ↑
Tue Oct 11, 2022 5:02 am
Does Sarah Silverman have anything interesting and non-generic to say about anything important?

Does it matter?

Brooklyn. At first I thought they were trying to get him on a technicality (I'd read earlier the city required registration of some kind), but when the question was posed there were blank stares all around. Cops are not very knowledgable of the law in my experience.

I dog-sat for my new neighbor who was driving overnight to Vegas, so I gave her an OC spray for the trip. I buy those on sale, too, and always keep a couple around to hand out. A buddy of mine got stopped by some officers for carrying one of those and issued a summons. I was pretty drunk and couldn...

I recall NYC has some insane laws on the books concerning "gravity" knives. If you can use gravity in any way to get the blade out it suddenly qualifies for a new legal category with associated heavy sentencing. Probably not applicable for those since they look light, but reading about it was enough...

Speaking of BLM, they truly are lovely people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ui0zyBG_mA The whole woke movement opened up an avenue to power and made the only barrier one's own conscience. What happens when you start selecting for power lust and stop selecting against sociopathy? Anyone? Bueller?

But... back to this break-up sadsack chick-- she's haunting me. GF & I are unlike that couple. But I'm disturbed by the amount of dysfunction they allowed to accrue, before giving-up. Gives me an impulse to quit immediately, rather than bit-by-bit become like them. Not sure if you're just musing or...

This sounds very compelling. The Russians will never confess to the fact that they accidentally destroyed a key part of their own industry. I was struggling to explain why any country would intentionally destroy the pipeline. It is much easier to believe the Ruskies just fucked up.... haha. I'm sur...

Turns out I know one of the jurors for the Alex Jones trial.

On the birding front the last hummingbird holdout has finally gone south and I miss her terribly. More than the leaves changing color her absence makes the approach of winter a constant thought. No more OCD monitoring of the feeder worried that they'd start dropping out of the sky after 10 minutes w...

I regard Alex Jones as at-least 3/4 nonsense. But some portion of that remaining 1/4-- is of value... I reckon there are probably other people for whom 25% is not a passing grade. I guess the devil is in the details. Life is not a classroom and I honestly think we'd be better off if more journalist...

Allow me to share my own signature technique, which will surely enhance your status on the range: As you squeeze-off each round, yell: MO! ZAM! BEEK! When it's time to switch out targets I like to furrow my brow and mutter something like, "it's time to get fucking serious." Then pull out the heavy ...

For my birthday, I received an all-metal, near-exact BB gun replica of my Beretta. (Not cheap, but I am loved.) Fires copper plated metal BBs. I've been using it to practice my draw and it's great, can shoot cans from the front porch without heading to my range. My EDC is the Ruger LCP Max. I think...

But I've never seen such flagrant and widespread crime, unconfined to 'bad' areas. And an unapologetic shabbiness-- from the truly fucked-up drug zombies/ to the rap kids who like to pose as filthy strung-out vegetables. Both groups kick-over trash cans, openly shoplift, yell profanity, fight in th...

At the end of a long workday-- GF told redhead to take cab home-- and charge it to our boss. Rather than stand on the subway platform at night. Redhead confidently said, "You sound afraid, like you're new in the city!" GF said, "You sound like you don't realize how bad it's gotten." Have you notice...

Do the Airsoft clubs attract vets? That was the impression I got when I had a look at my local one. They were serious as shit. But I've seen a video of a 'match' from elsewhere and it was a bunch of nerdy LARPers milling about, getting picked off one by one by an active grunt. My friend's an ex und...

Type of fire - very, very important! The section commander orders the type of fire to be employed (rapid, bursts or deliberate) thus ensuring the group don't go mental and needlessly waste ammunition. Note: "Deliberate" is a steady rate of fire (one round every 2 to 6 seconds) and is the default ra...

Oh, and to put things into perspective - my happiest time in the Army was when I was a lowly corporal and was given command of my own section. Imagine having ten guys, all trained/coached to your own personal standards, reacting instantly to your orders/hand signals by laying down a blistering tsun...

I don't think you need an education in criminal law to understand trying to cave someone's skull in goes beyond run of the mill brawling. You just sort of know in your gut it's murder. Of all the fights I was in or witnessed as a kid nobody ever stomped on anyone else's head.

Haha... I like your half age plus 7 years formula. Maybe when my wife kicks the bucket I will hunt for a 37 year old. That's the spirit! It's not my formula, but it always sounded about right. I have friends with stable happy marriages and age gaps larger than that. If you're only concerned with a ...

The way that she said it, so casually and matter-of-factly, really caught me off guard and reduced me to a cackling mound of breathless uselessness. If only I was twenty years younger - challenge accepted! Youth is wasted on the young and knowledge is wasted on the old. What good is knowing anythin...

Anyway, I'm just curious if this is yet another symptom of growing old? I find myself sitting in front of my computer, music playing in the background, looking at various flashing icons (people trying to contact me for voice chat, gaming, social media etc) but I simply cannot be bothered. Am I alon...

After a working lifetime of intellectual employment (research scientist, computational scientist, DBA, TPM, technical manager) I find my interests shifting strongly towards doing shit with my hands. I've picked up my old hobby of electronics and I'm starting to work with wood (oo-er, missus). I've ...

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Not really a musical but honorable mention for the opening credits.

Quadruple post!

John D wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 05, 2022 11:18 am
Team America is the Best Musical in history.

Did you get a chance to see Book of Mormon while you were in New York? Cannibal! is an underrated piece of work and I've always wondered about their follow ups.

I also switched to Twitter after the pit. It was a lot of fun and I liken it to a drug addiction. Been clean for two weeks now and I feel so much better.

Honestly quitting boozing didn't have as pronounced an immediate affect my my wellbeing.

Bhurzum wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 05, 2022 9:47 pm
"Cops" was top tier entertainment!

"Planet of the aids" isn't even on my radar.

That and The Real World marked the beginning of the current era. Are kids forced to memorize those air dates in school? They should be.

Although doctors aren't perfect they are the best bet we have. It is sometimes a good idea to have questions at the ready for the doctors and to have them explain treatments. If I want to look for more detail on the internet I make sure to look for science based accredited sites like WebMD. Paying ...

Yeah, I've been considering getting chickens too, but I probably don't have space. For me it isn't about the price so much as noticing how expensive eggs have been getting and that there have been a few weeks where they aren't available. That doesn't seem like a problem that is going to go away any...

Steersman wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 31, 2022 11:56 am
But hopefully that 20 bucks is just your initial investment and the price per egg should go down.

I didn't actually do the math, but that was meant to be something like the amortized price. Sound investments they ain't.

Funny birds though. The cat gets a huge kick out of ambushing them.

The trans chicken question has been settled according to Steersman's exacting standards.

Between feed and materials for the coop I figure this egg cost me around twenty bucks. But you can't put a price on quality.

We do not know how this will play out. My wife says she doesn’t want to end up like the woman in the next bed. There will be a lot of decisions to make in the months and (let's be optimistic) years to come balancing quality against longevity. Everyone knows they're going to die, but it's one of tho...

free thoughtpolice wrote: ↑ “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”, is a law of propaganda often attributed to the Nazi Joseph Goebbels.

Last I checked it was a time honored pit tradition to lay Nazi pipe.

Harris is kind of an idiot. I mean obviously not like in the did poorly in school, will never read above the third grade level or understand basic algebra sense. But he's an idiot. I remember back in day he had this excruciating debate with a security specialist over whether we should profile Muslim...

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 28, 2022 6:30 am
I'm also not gonna shoot her. So, unless she has a heart attack, she's gonna wheeze and piss all over herself until at least tomorrow. At least she's feasting on canned cat food until then.

Eesh. For what it's worth I think you're spot on about animals dealing better with pain than anxiety.

:clap:

That's uncanny

It's odd how they'll be on death's door then rally out of the blue. This spring I lost a cat that had been suffering kidney failure for some time. In the winter it got bad enough his hind legs went out entirely, to the point he couldn't stand up in the litter box. The same day we had set as a deadli...

You might have to pour on some drama here. Tell her you realized you can't carry on without her and you need her to listen to the nurses and take the medicine. You're obviously the one that provides the stability and money in the family, but people fight a lot harder and put up with a lot more hards...

free thoughtpolice wrote: ↑ Democrats 2020: defund the police
republicans 2022: defund the FBI and DOJ

The police can occasionally be useful.

This is exactly the behavior I've been seeing, but only from one of the hens. My wife still insists it's a rooster that identifies as a hen. They're about the age where we should start settling question via the Steersman test. Wait and see.

Cancer update. Indeed… we arrived and the doctor had not received authorization. My wife had a fit but she forgave me for keeping this from her… and… they did get authorization and all was well. Hell. I misunderstood your earlier post to mean they'd called you apologizing they had to reschedule and...

John D wrote: ↑ This fucking cunt calls to warn me that they don't have the fucking paperwork done. God Damn. I am in a really bad mood right now.

Bureaucrats gonna bureau. Hopefully they have someone over there that can start knocking the right heads.

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