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

Nice little revisit of The Selfish Gene by Matt Ridley: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v529/n7587/full/529462a.html Underscores the immense impact of the book, contra all the SJWs who can't figure out why Dawkins matters so much. I agree about the immense impact, but that's a funny name for a...

People must be governed and controlled; individualism is not only undesirable, it is dangerous. Uncontrolled individuals might not be afraid point out that the Emperor has no clothes, or in this case, that Coraline has a penis. Transitioning genders is a difficult thing, but easier if everyone else...

A summary of https://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/12004 , in which Coraline Ada Ehmke attempts to shove her female Code of Conduct down the throat of the Ruby programming language. -- continued from [Post 46823] , -- Interestingly, like Coraline, these SJWs are very new members of the community, app...

(Sorry for the length of this post.) Not sure if this has come up here yet, but if not: transgendered slactivist Coraline Ada Ehmke is trying to shove her CoC down the throat of the Ruby programming language: I am the creator of the Contributor Covenant, a code of conduct for Open Source projects. A...

Quick question for those who follow the terribly earnest antics of the FTB/Skepchicks/A+Plussers.

Have they expressed any preferences in the US presidential primaries?

To be honest, I think most undergraduate degrees, other than engineering, are pretty useless career-wise these days. Go for a four year business degree in global logistics..... $80k salary (or there-abouts) out the door. In fact, I would say any degree in Business Administration is fair. At least y...

To be honest, I think most undergraduate degrees, other than engineering, are pretty useless career-wise these days. I have to disagree. A Liberal Arts curriculum trains the mind to think and and reason, and as a side affect prepares the student for any mental work. While I've (almost) never worked...

I've been reading Dawkins's memoir and it's very disappointing; not once in his mansplaining of his life and work in science does he clearly state that it's wrong to talk to women in elevators. He's British, so he takes it for granted that you don't talk to other people in lifts. The lift you walk ...

I've been reading Dawkins's memoir and it's very disappointing; not once in his mansplaining of his life and work in science does he clearly state that it's wrong to talk to women in elevators. He's British, so he takes it for granted that you don't talk to other people in lifts. The lift you walk ...

I've been reading Dawkins's memoir and it's very disappointing; not once in his mansplaining of his life and work in science does he clearly state that it's wrong to talk to women in elevators.

So I was perusing The Raw Story and I came across this interesting little article... http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/20/why-do-people-bag-on-cats-so-much/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29 Apparently, people say mean things about cats beca...

So the visual when she says Asians are fetishized is a Korean "K-Pop" band, a Korean musical style that while emulating Western pop music, is a wholly Korean creation. I don't think that was a K-pop band. K-pop girl bands tend to have far more members than shown in that clip, which seemed to be fro...

In 1989, we had Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing to hilariously and poignantly send up race relations in the US. In 2013, we've got #Imnotyourasiansidekick. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2013/12/17/suey-park-asian-american-women-are-notyourasiansidekick/ For some reason, this ...

Federal judge just struck down Utah's ban on gay marriage, and the Salt Lake County DA is advising the county clerk to issue marriage licenses to gay couples: http://www.ksl.com/?sid=28099570&nid=14 ... featured-1

Sort of like when he shows up on Fox News to shout at the dumbass christians, because he thinks someone in the Fox News audience is going to agree with him and see atheists as reasonable people. :lol: Does he honestly think repeated Fox News appearances make atheists look good? I'm guessing he thin...

BTW, I'm really beginning to fucking hate Google. Their idiotic troubleshooting their incompetence sent me through cookie deletion and I'm having to find/re-establish every password. Plus they want to link every fucking thing I have and they have screwed up half my prior-to-being-Borged-by-Google a...

They all look like pasty white potatoes.

Regarding 'Sedona' Lol watson 'nearly forgot' to plus her bfs Kickstarter? HAHA! I guess I shouldn't feel bad, then, that neither she nor any of the Skepchicks nor SGU nor Phil 'Im an astronomer lemme tell you about vaccines' Plait managed to tweet about Monty Harpers science songs for kids Kicksta...

The whole free software movement is a political statement. Adding a satirical repo doesn't get in the way of your use of others repos, anymore than having "A Modest Proposal" on the shelf inhibits your use of a a bookstore (even less, as a bookstore has physical limits on the books it can contain)....

Software repositories are NOT the venue for sattire. Why not? They are places for you to store source code for software, not to make political statements of any kind. Just like the ER scan machine at the hospital is not the place for napping. Just make a fucking site or blog for that, for Lord Budd...

Southern wrote:
Joseph Porter, KCB wrote: Agreed, there's something very wrong when satire is forbidden.
Software repositories are NOT the venue for sattire.

Why not?

Wow these guys are taking this joke all the way. There is nothing in that repo other than speech and pretty innocuous speech at that. It is pretty shocking that github, bitbucket and now google have taken these parodies down. Google especially with all their bullshit about DMCA notices and the chil...

The latest Harris survey on religion is out. Unsurprising: belief in god increases with respondent age, decreases by generation. For questions about religious belief, Independents and Democrats have very similar percentages, which are always significantly lower than percentages for Republicans. (So ...

To attempt to refute the cosmological fine-tuning with a puddle argument (as opposed to a privileged planet claim, where the puddle argument has some applicability) it to display scientific illiteracy. You should try to avoid assuming science fiction writing (Adams and his puddle argument) trumps a...

Ape+lust wrote:Look out, here comes the future. It's the APlus Junior League with the finest scenery-chewing you'll ever see packed into a rant.

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What PZ did to Shermer is terrible, but what PZ, Jenn McCreight, and Beckybooze have done to atheism is far worse: they've tried to turn something that was about a universal negation -- "I do not believe in any gods, not now, not ever" -- into an particularistic affirmation -- "I believe in race-cl...

Brive1987 wrote:The thread is hilarious.

http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3370

Holy PeeZus on a pogo stick!

I was sitting around dwelling on the fact that some people think I'm just insulting, the implication being that the FTBullies don't deserve to just be insulted, and was trying to think of the worst things the bullies have pulled off. You know, to justify my being an asshole. Number one on my list w...

Yes, and to get that (the kind of life you describe) you need big molecules (you can't do it with what the big bang produces, hydrogen and helium and a wee bit of lithium). You need molecules that can store information. You need at least carbon. And to get carbon you need stars. Therefore no stars ...

You are arguing about things even the experts don't know the answers to. I think I just worked out why there aren't more women in atheism. Not elevator-rapists? But we know Watson is a cunt. Thats been verified. Wait, I thought Cunt was PZ Myers? That would make Becky Cunt's Canadian girlfriend. Ma...

VickyCaramel wrote:You are arguing about things even the experts don't know the answers to. I think I just worked out why there aren't more women in atheism.

Not elevator-rapists?

My LOL for the day. Mocking people for having ginger hair is like racism and it's also anti-semitic: https://twitter.com/JochemDeVr/status/412910658338820096 https://twitter.com/JochemDeVr/status/412917075368091648 https://twitter.com/JochemDeVr/status/412919426179022849 Next week: How the struggle...

And fine-tuning is not just for existence "as we know it" if by existence you mean life. It is fine-tuning for any kind of life. If we take the strong Darwinian stance, all we need for life is: * a replicator (heredity) * that mostly replicates accurately, but sometimes doesn't (variation) * and li...

Thimbledick is a skeptic. He doesn't need evidence.

It's "I feel safe and welcome at the Slymepit."

That, and wearing ceramic coprolites not made by her, are what makes Sulky Amy cry.

ROBOKiTTY wrote:Requisite basket of goodies for the new user:
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/CFJ/7072.jpg

A picnic lunch for Dick Cheney?

Amusingly enough, I'm friends with a few people who are actually (semi) pro magicians. They've shown me any number of tricks and how they work. Knowing that, and knowing how hard it is to do even the simplest trick doesn't ruin anything for me. In many cases, it makes the skill of doing the trick w...

welch wrote:Hell, watching porn still doesn't recreate the entire experience you get when you actually have sex.

Wait, what??

Now you tell me this?? Oh, all those wasted hours searching Femtube.com for "blue wig + elevator + cephalopod".

I've met both. You can appreciate my disdain for the hypocrites. But I also have little patience for people who base their veganism or vegetarianism on a concept of animal consciousness and well-being unsupported by scientific fact, or even first-hand experience. Nor can I applaud those who claim m...

Ok, but it's not just me, is it? Her face does look like a potato.

Mykeru wrote:
ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote: http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa18 ... os/50c.gif

See how Bert refuses to validate Ernie's voice?

Put a blue wig on Ernie, a glass of wine in his hand, he'd look like a certain potato-faced goddess of the Skepchicks....

I'm boycotting GitHub from now on. Censorship is stupid, and I don't hold the silly view that censorship of free speech by so-called private entities is not really censorship of free speech. Amen to that, ROBOKiTTY. While legalistically censorship by a private entity is distinct from government cen...

I'm sure Cunt could do it.

It is oh so hard to call myself a Humanist when I am associated with these nitwits. I do have a bit of skin in the game. I am a long time AHA member and I am a Humanist Celebrant. Young liberal idiots just piss me off. I will try to take the high ground and see how much rage it creates. Chris Stedm...

It gets even better. There's plenty more, dinging just about every warped idea justice warriors have floated. https://github.com/FeministSoftwareFoundation/C-plus-Equality This whole thing is under active "development", including trolls: https://github.com/FeministSoftwareFoundation/C-plus-Equality...

Books to consider: Pascal Boyer "Religion Explained" Thomas Metzinger "The Ego Tunnel" These are two of my favorites, and I am surprised they are not more popular. I also loved "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" which was already mentioned, and Pinker's new one "Better Angels of Our Nature" (yes... I read t...

Don't forget to read Dawkin's The Selfish Gene , Pinker's How the Mind Works , or Dennet's Darwin's Dangerous Idea and Consciousness Explained (though the last is very dense for a lay-audience book). I agree with Mykeru. If the book was dense (and I found it to be, perhaps not dense, but heavier re...

I've just received my copy of Neil Shubin's Your Inner Fish. I hope it's good! It's a quite good comparative anatomy/embryology book aimed at the lay reader, and fun read. It might have been a bit more dense in parts, but it's very well written. Ok, thanks (and to Tribble as well). I have read Dawk...

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:I've just received my copy of Neil Shubin's Your Inner Fish. I hope it's good!

It's a quite good comparative anatomy/embryology book aimed at the lay reader, and fun read. It might have been a bit more dense in parts, but it's very well written.

My cat died yesterday and you show me a cute animal? I'm so triggered and shacking with rage, I better take 6 weeks off to recover. Your so selfish, you should have been thinking about my feelings, me, me ,me , me, meeeeeeeeeeeee. Welcome back Jack. Is it a joke about your cat? I hope so. No joke (...

Never had to, but I don't have any in-principle problem with killing for meat. I just wouldn't kill as a hobby. I don't think (most) hunters are into causing pain. But If the messy bit is not fun/rewarding, why not do it with a camera? Obviously the killing is an integral part of why people find hu...

Dobby wrote: (BTW - Regular lurker, first-time poster, I will proceed to go fuck myself now...)

Only if you have your own enthusiastic consent, autorapist.

Woah, hang on a moment. Who the heck (I feel a little uncomfortable swearing when talking to ROBOKiTTY) has hacked your account? Where has all this intellectual bulldust come from? Let's just restore the balance here: http://i.imgur.com/eYm6E33.jpg I guess ROBOKitty isn't just another kitty face, y...

Since we're talking about pronouns, here's a pronoun story from the early 1900's. Even though the culture can be misogynistic, Chinese languages are quite egalitarian. For example, there was no distinction between masculine and feminine in pronouns. The third-person pronouns in written Mandarin had...

[ Dan Savage recently recounted being involved in some kind meeting with an university student group in Portland. Each person introduced themselves and said their preferred pronoun. For the rest of the meeting Savage referred to students as "hey you" because he couldn't keep track of the preferred ...

Oh, this is amazing. We've known for a while that crows can use tools, but he's using a tool to play (actually, more than one tool, if you consider the roof incline and the snow): [youtube]n7hiuXjXJEw[/youtube] To me, this is just more evidence than Man is just another animal, that we arose from Com...

And, FWIW, I never believed it when he said it. I never called him out on it, I wish I would have. Maybe if more of us called him on his dishonest bullshit in the old anti-creationist/intelligent design days he might of gotten a bit embarrassed and not gone down this path... But I, and others, didn...

You guys lay off PZ! Everyone knows, when a preacher gets hired by a church, he shapes his sermons to the needs and values of his flock. Otherwise, the tithes don't keep flowing in. In good King Charles's golden days, When Loyalty no harm meant; A Furious High-Church man I was, And so I gain'd Prefe...

ROBOKiTTY wrote:Actually "your most serene highness".

Ah, missed that. The -issime is a superlative suffix! Thanks!

The reason that it is not correct to treat people differently based on their race or ethnic group is usually stated as being because there is no difference between the different groups. I think this is the wrong way of looking at things. I think that the more rational reason for not discriminating ...

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