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For Rey's abilities to not be nonsensical Rey's feats involve flying a ship with Jedi reflexes when she's about twice the age Anakin Skywalker was doing the same thing and the same age as Luke who casually bragged about how the torpedo shot other trained Rebel pilots said was nearly impossible was ...

For Rey's abilities to not be nonsensical Rey's feats involve flying a ship with Jedi reflexes when she's about twice the age Anakin Skywalker was doing the same thing and the same age as Luke who casually bragged about how the torpedo shot other trained Rebel pilots said was nearly impossible was ...

TFA was the first Star Wars film in a decade. Of course it's going to outperform TLJ. Star Wars hype peaked already. Agreed, some drop off is expected. But if the 50% dropoff continues, that would be much larger than expected. We'll get some visibility with this weekend's figures, although Sunday p...

The True Fan narrative that this somehow broke the franchise is being given far too much credibility here. This movie had the second highest opening weekend of all time (right behind The Force Awakens). It's doing fantastic with the critics, many of whom are saying it's the best Star Wars movie sin...

Finding out she was created by the force to balance Kylo was a more satisfying answer the parentage mystery than anything else I could have thought up. You thought a giant deux ex machina was more satisfying than an explanation organic to the plot could have been? Explains a lot about your opinion ...

I was willing to overlook Rey's Mary Sue-ness in TFA because I was confident that we'd later discover her parentage gave her super powerful inate force abilities (my personal theory was that she was a Kenobi). So now I just have to concede that she is indeed a Mary Sue, and Last Jedi commits the ca...

The only Star Wars spoiler I need to know about is: did that complete douchenozzle J.J. Abrams make it? If so, then he is The Spoiler. But credit to him for bringing peace to the old Star Trek/Star Wars nerd war by turning both franchises into steaming piles of excrement. (As I understand it, he's ...

Ape+lust wrote: ↑ jugheadnaut

Spoiler tags are available in the new toolset.

I haven't seen the movie yet :o

My apologies. Realized after I posted I should at least have had a spoiler warning before the second paragraph. I wasn't originally going to go into any specifics.

The new Star Wars is as good as they say. Most regard Return of the Jedi as the weakest in the series, and while I'll always love it I have to agree the best moments in it only work because of the steam that had been built up in Empire Strikes Back. This on the other hand builds a new a new entry t...

John D wrote: ↑ Rucka Rucka Ali is pretty good.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_snt45unyqY&t=1072s

Wouldn't have taken him for a full-bore objectivist. Although he argues for it better than most.

Somebody should investigate why Wilfre Laurier employs -- actually writes checks to -- a freak like Nathan Rambukkana, whose ... research addresses topics such as digital intimacies, the relationship of intimacy and privilege, hybridity and mixed-race identities, the social and cultural aspects new...

Matt Damon Shares All His Bad Opinions on Sexual Misconduct “I do believe that there’s a spectrum of behavior.” Vulture and the commenters to this tweet ain't having none of Matt Damon's hot take that there is any difference between a butt pat and rape. The pushback is always fiercest when a statem...

Kimberle Crenshaw, who came up with Intersectionality, should be Time Magazine's shitposter of the era. She's active on twitter, https://twitter.com/sandylocks, but I've never heard her interviewed, on anything. But it would be great to ask her about the intersection of Intersectionality and Listen...

The 2% was pulled out of her arse by Susan Brownmiller. The 8% is the FBI's figure for unfounded accusations. "2-8%" is essentially "somewhere in between a genuine figure and a completely made-up one". The 8% end of the range is used to give the rangeempirical sheen. However, motivated speakers the...

As far as I can tell from her biography , she isn't actually an engineer and doesn't teach engineering courses. Both her background and current position are at the School of Engineering Education . From it's web page has an explicitly identity politics based mission ... From Purdue's " Our People "...

https://twitter.com/Toni_Airaksinen/status/940346869095501831 Intersectional Engineering, where academic rigor is for shitlords, science is colonialist and racist, and "other ways of knowing" are accepted :bjarte: rigor “has a historical lineage of being about hardness, stiffness, and erectness" Pa...

That's exactly why we NEED some kind of New Deal, social democratic alternative to give millennials more chances of getting out of debt/wage slavery. Because the alternative is that millennials will vote in for any authoritarian that will promise them that. Back when the unemployment was 10% in the...

And as Peterson, Haidt, Harris, et al. have pointed out, it has gone from prohibiting certain speech and acts, to compelling them. And that is fundamentally different, and dangerously illiberal. Next step: We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us: so long as he resists us we never destro...

Looks like Laurier is out for some revenge, rather than change: ‘Ominous’ signs that Lindsay Shepherd’s job, not free speech, is target of Laurier probe The most interesting revelation in this article is that when Shepherd's lawyer asked for the complaint against her he was told “I do not believe t...

My understanding of what happened with Garisson Keillor is that he was consoling a grief stricken coworker, had his hand on the bare back of her backless dress, and moved said hand up underneath the dress. (I suspect that means into the bra strap area). Sorry, no more details that that. Keillor did...

While this is somewhat old news, I recently came across the fact that as a group, evangelicals have swung hugely on the question of “can an elected official who commits an immoral act in their personal life can still behave ethically and fulfill their duties.” In 2011, 30% answered yes. In the runu...

While this is somewhat old news, I recently came across the fact that as a group, evangelicals have swung hugely on the question of “can an elected official who commits an immoral act in their personal life can still behave ethically and fulfill their duties.” In 2011, 30% answered yes. In the runu...

Remember folks, always believe the victim. ;) :( :cry: Another day, another predator vanquished. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DO9PWqTUEAA8zgL.jpg That bastard Franken abused her into it. He's probably a scoutmaster too. The Dems are telegraphing that 2018 will have a big-time reprise of their at-lea...

I came across this local SJW-inspired skirmish today: Toronto music teacher sues after principal, VP call folk song racist In a nutshell, a music teacher taught a 19th century folk song alluding to the loss of the traditional indigenous way of life to her class for inclusion in a school concert. The...

What a bunch of fucking fascist assholes. Where is Laurier located? I'm fixing to drive up there at kick those guys in their cunts. Laurier is the semi-developed conjoined twin fetus of the much better known University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario, whose campus it adjoins. When I was in high s...

shoutinghorse wrote:No Stocking from South New Jersey this Christmas then.

:twatson:

She'll get all the arguably decent coffee she wants when she inevitably descends to her barista at Starbucks ground state.

This just in. Jenny Kiss reporting on Kevin Logan's assault on Blair white where he stomps on her hand. More evidence that you can't trust male feminists. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dg6tT63mpI And par of Jenny, she lies about Kevin Logan being involved. She lies for attention. I don't have a ...

[.quote="jugheadnaut" One question was "Hi Bill. If the Sun is hot, why is space cold?", which 10th grade science students could easily answer. He obviously didn't know and tried to make a joke. [.quote="Bill Nye"]There is a fantastic amount of space in space. I mean it's not all that cold, is it? ...

jugheadnaut wrote: This issue, which has always been infested with dubious assumptions, has pretty much burned itself out, with most current global population forecasts topping out at under 10 billion before equilibrating at a lower number. The worlds oceans are declining in productivity and are ov...

Someone just gave a righteous and well-deserved reaming to Bill Nye on a Reddit AMA. http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=104410 Not only that, he exposed himself as a complete ignoramus in a subject area he claims to care the most about. I’m Bill Nye and I’m on a quest to end anti-scientific ...

Ape+lust wrote:https://imgur.com/ZGHNJfs.jpg

RC looks like he's finalizing a Bayesian calculation on whether this one has a vagina.

Introducing more birth control in growing countries might help, but if the societies in those countries don't change it might not be enough. It almost certainly wouldn't because the impetus behind large families in third world nations is that you need healthy kids to help support the rest of the fa...

The lower bound of the likely range for ECS given in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5; refs 1, 2) was revised downwards to 1.5 °C, from 2 °C in its previous report3, mainly as an effect of considering observations over the warming hiatus—the period of slowdown of global average temperature inc...

(Global warming) may even be net beneficial... No. This isn't a situation where you have multiple different mechanisms that potentially cause devastation, and modest potential benefits that don't balance. On the con side you have more destructive weather events, changing precipitation patterns that...

Ivery mild CO2 induced global warming could be net beneficial. As is frequent in these sort of back and forths (even when they occur in good faith, which is rarely), we've gone from way out in the Bailey (there is no good evidence that AGW won't be catastrophic/"really bad") to the teeth of the Mot...

... and which side in the debate would be calling the other one 'globalist' ? I think you're using the term 'globalist' in a very different way than it's commonly used. It seems to me there are two distinct ways that 'globalist' is currently defined: 1) Favoring more global governance, or at least ...

Nope. You're still adding together harm done to one group of people and benefits accruing to a completely different set of people and 'netting' this together. It's this Stalinist thinking which I'm objecting to. And what you say about 'even distribution' give it away. That's the way rational cost/b...

A question for anyone who thinks global warming is a net good: if it wasn't happening would you support making it happen? If raising the temperature and CO2 would increase farming productivity do you think it would be worth subsidising? ... and which side in the debate would be calling the other on...

A question for anyone who thinks global warming is a net good: if it wasn't happening would you support making it happen? If raising the temperature and CO2 would increase farming productivity do you think it would be worth subsidising? It would require profoundly more evidence to even consider, bu...

(Global warming) may even be net beneficial... This is a glib claim which could do with breaking down. By the 'net' part do you mean for the entirety of the people on the planet ? Is this based on a calculation that after a raise in temperature the planet can produce more food or something ? Becaus...

It's clear that global warming is an extremely bad problem, with dire consequences that will entail not just suffering and privation, but which will be extremely expensive , and that time is rapidly running out to avoid or dampen those consequences. No... it's not clear at all. Provide evidence tha...

I don't doubt this one bit. People simply aren't as a selflessly and anti-individualistic cooperative as communism requires them to be. I think that the same is true for pure libertarianism as well, though, since it never happens and states always do have some sort of say in the economy, usually to...

Since there's some confusion over the percentage of renewable sources in overall energy consumption I feel like I'm missing something and want to take a closer look later. That said, just going off the pie chart you were looking at and assuming coal is primarily used to generate electricity, the PV...

I think that calls for a Thuderfoot-style debunking, although there is some weasel wording right up front by specifying just electric demand. Isn't the desire long term to replace all current fossil fuel based energy consumption with solar or other renewables, so that, for instance, when we do go t...

I was responding to Matt's claim that the U.S. could now meet it's energy needs entirely through solar, and only a relatively small area for solar panels would be required. I basically agree with Vicky. The 15% from renewables figure is only the proportion for current electrical production, and if ...

[quote="KiwiInOz" The US Government is the largest venture capitalist out. The iPhone (for example) wouldn't exist if the basic research hadn't been government funded. Leave the market to sort it and you get back to feudal overlords and dark ages.[/quote] An excellent argument can be made that gover...

Bullshit. The entire electric demand of the US can be met with 500 square miles of photovoltaic. That's a mere fraction of the total roof surfaces alone. I think that calls for a Thuderfoot-style debunking, although there is some weasel wording right up front by specifying just electric demand. Isn...

Wind, solar and other green sources are never going to supply us with enough energy no matter how efficient we get. Bullshit. The entire electric demand of the US can be met with 500 square miles of photovoltaic. That's a mere fraction of the total roof surfaces alone. I think that calls for a Thud...

In general, I am not in favor of incentives and the idea that the government should manipulate the energy economy. If you leave that to the market alone, they will keep selling fossil fuels if they have to kill the last bird in the last tarpit before they turn to alternative energy. Only in a fairy...

jugheadnaut wrote: Not only that, the Trump campaign did not 'accept' the information. It was released on WikiLeaks. Unless the whole thing was orchestrated by the Trump campaign, for which there is zero evidence, there's nothing here. At this point, the only parties we know paid for and took owner...

Did they hack those servers? Do we have proof beyond the mainstream media conclusion made by people who wanted to blame the Russians without acknowledging the leaks themselves? They had the information before it was released through wikileaks and were offering it to Trump via Papadapolous at that t...

Hacking those servers was illegal. A russian agent illegally stealing private information is not whistleblowing and accepting that information which is valuable to you and also is a product of espionage to influence an election is tantamount to overthrow of legal government. When you get your law d...

Name one thing that Trump and the congress has passed. Nothing so far. The stock market is following the same trend as under Obama so far. That demented hillbilly Trey Gowdy just launched more phony investigations against Clinton even though she isn't in office. For someone that thinks Trump is a t...

So I'd say all "autoethnographers" deserve a Honorary Cunty Award for being navel-gazing buffoons who want to be paid and called researchers to write diaries and watch TV and movies. That basically describes Melissa Click's entire academic CV . I think an underestimated facet of the SJW mission is ...

I don't know if Michigan is different than the rest of the country but schools are funded through property taxes, and schools in poor neighborhoods get fuck-all because of that. The state of Vermont is the only exception that I know of. Twenty some years ago they voted in a more egalitarian system ...

And yet, nearly without exception, when a government service is contracted out, costs go down dramatically. Turns out the shareholders and yacht are peanuts compared to having some cost discipline and telling public sector unions to go screw. You think private entities don't behave differently when...

What's wrong with private prisons? There are no more problems with private prisons than public ones as far as I can see. It's a silly idea even on paper. Prisons do not even remotely work in a market context. They're the classic libertarian fantasy solution of "anything government can do we can do ...

When the gay marriage debate was first gathering steam, I thought the solution was obvious. Make the civil/legal aspects of marriage the sole concern of government and make it available to any pair of adults,under a name other than marriage. The term 'marriage' would be completely privatized. This ...

Kamala Harris has a bad track on due process. https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/906388629320110081 Through her career, Harris has been a bit of a triangulator, at least by California standards. Unlike Bill Clinton, whose triangulation made him a broad spectrum moderate, Harris' triangulation has m...

Of these three points one is relatively trivial (if two contracts give you the same kinds of rights, does it really matter how you call them?), but a change in name, from "marriage" to "civil unions/partnerships" shows that many don't see it as such. The matter here is social, though, not legal. Wh...

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