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

So you are comparing a downward angled myspace styled fat-girl-but-hiding it photo to her current full frontward facing MTV pick. Not exactly a fair comparison. She has always been a bit chunky, and I will admit that she has gained additional pounds. She is married after all, and has been for a whi...

Why do all these people look older than they actually are? My hypothesis is that most of the causality is from appearance to ideology. Women who lose their attractiveness/sexual power rapidly are drawn to an ideology that minimizes the value of that loss, claims it's sexist to value female beauty, ...

I work in Richmond just so you know that I know my stuff about Chinese drives as good as anyone in Canada, and better than 99.9% of anyone else in Canada.. A Chinese woman in a Mercedes SUV had to pull into a waiting stall at the McDonalds drive in and had to turn 90 degrees to go into the stall. S...

Michael J wrote: My impression is that Thomas believed that the cases are won or lost based on the written submissions and the verbal arguments were a waste of time.

Absolutely, that's his stated position.

about steers and the king of the foreheads start their own thread? Alright, here it is: http://slymepit.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=484&p=343447#p343447 Steersman, reply to my posts there. Let's stick to discussing our issues in that thread. Don't quote my posts here, please. I suggest a forum c...

Less cowed than willingly parasitic. Thomas & Scalia shared one common staff. The only time he ever wrote his own opinion was to add some Tenther point. There may be many reasons not to like the guy, but this isn't one of them. Thomas has authored hundreds of opinions over his career and, if anythi...

p.s. Cruz will stay in until he loses Texas. I'm actually rooting for Trump to win Texas on Tuesday, thinking this will send Cruz packing and turn it into a two man race that Rubio can win. IMO, Cruz is even worse than Trump. Cruz flaunts his disrespect for church-state separation, whereas this isn...

Here's an interesting article at Slate on how 'mansplaining' evolved from meaning a man explaining something to a woman under the assumption that he's more knowledgeable because he's a man and she's a woman to being a crude ad hominem meaning a man has said something a woman disagrees with.

McDerpie has left reality, and any civilised standard so far behind, that there's only one explanation left. She's setting the stage for some sort of backpedal on the lines of "postmodern satire" or "performance art". This is in the style of Bewildered Ape, if not the actual work of that particular...

I'm flabbergasted that Moon got bad reviews. It's such an awesome movie. The music, especially. Sam Rockwell is a hidden gem. David Bowie's son (the former "Zowie") was writer/director/producer. Sting's wife was exec producer. Sam Rockwell is a fucking great actor. That moment in Moon, when he says...

I'm flabbergasted that Moon got bad reviews. It's such an awesome movie. The music, especially. It received mostly glowing reviews. If I recall correctly, there were a few mixed ones that complained about pacing issues. I agree that it's awesome. I saw it shortly after seeing the Star Trek reboot a...

What ever happened to mattress girl Emma Sulkowicz you ask? Why, she has an exhibit coming up. http://www.artfixdaily.com/artwire/release/9172-emma-sulkowicz---self-portrait-solo-exhibit-and-artist-performanc "Participants are invited to interact with Sulkowicz. They can speak with her about anythi...

Brive1987 wrote:Archive of Ophie's article.

Apologies: http://archive.is/wYB3a

With Melanie Brewster, I went with 'duplicitous'. With The Oaf, I'm going with 'ignorant'.

I am "friends" with the Melanie in this exchange. She is actually generally pretty cool. I wrote a personal story that she included in her book about atheism. I think her problem stems from feeling she has to defend the name of "feminism". She is a Woman's Studies prof so she teaches a pile of crap...

Søren Lilholt wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:
That looks like something from Roald Dahl's The Witches.

Correction: that is something from Roald Dahl's The Witches.

Witches? Or something more primal...

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Here's the link to the above ^ https://richarddawkins.net/2016/02/necss-executive-committee-statement-richards-response/ I'm a little disappointed that he chose to address something written by Oafie because it implies she's still in some way relevant when she's not. In my mind's eye, I had envision...

Gould, for ideological reasons, couldn't accept the idea that one's genetic heritage plays a key role in people's lives, so he struggled to "improve" theory of evolution so that the role of genetics and natural selection would be greatly reduced. It's always stunned me that Gould almost entirely es...

Alan Weisman wrote a book called The World Without Us , which is basically a thought experiment in which the human species disappears overnight (not raptured or anything like that). He then describes how plants, fungi, and animals invade homes, buildings, roads, etc., and how long it takes for ever...

SJWs will crumble when some of them will get older. The core of the SJW support comes from college-age people. Give the current generation five years and they'll realize how the world works. Sure, but they can be replaced. My perception is that adolescents are infected with the virus more now than ...

The thing that's really annoyed me about Pigliucci over the years is that for all his talk about how people (especially scientists) need to have better knowledge of the philosophical underpinnings of their ideas, he often resorts to mere argument by assertion. It's clear he knows by now the backgro...

Oh fuck. It's even worse than that. Pigliucci has gone full SJW. It is a well known truism of the ethics of comedy that “good” (in the ethical sense) humor punches up, not down. A serious philosophers shouldn't use "punching up" or "punching down". Also, this isn't a "well known truism". It's an id...

Pigliucci has been claiming that scientists should be claiming to be knowledgeable about philosophy of science. He should heed to his own advice and, as a philosopher or science, don't claim that he's knowledgeable about the nature of sarcasm, satire, or free speech. (By the way he's praised the id...

https://twitter.com/FeministCanada/status/697861378439278592 Ah, yes, and feminism is merely the belief that men and women should have equal rights. So why doesn't garbage like this get pushback from those that consider themselves mainstream feminists, especially since the source is named as if it ...

dogen wrote:
Ah yes, the "Dr" Richard Carrier product line...

It inspired probably my best pit shoop (not saying much). Here again is Amy Roth's Jizzy Night, peer reviewed by Dr. Richard Carrier.

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https://twitter.com/BlissTabitha/status/699142898089009152 I think we're supposed to believe Obama had Scalia whacked so he could replace him with one of his lizard people overlords. Drudge is leading with this so I expect it to get some play in certain right-wing fever swamps for a while. So I gue...

rayshul wrote:FANS. FANS. NOT FAGS.

The goyim know.

Shut it down.

Wasn't Stan Laurel the slimmer of the well known comedy duo though? South Park reference perhaps. Or maybe she thinks you're that crazed Eminem fan, Com. CaughtUpLockedOut According to Urban Dictionary , it's likely from the Eminem song. There's one theory that it's a portmanteau of 'stalker' and '...

From my Nov./2014 SC post: Anyway, here are estimates of death in the next two years for each judge based on this table: Conservatives: Scalia: 10% Kennedy: 10% Thomas: 3.5% Roberts: 2% Alito: 3% Liberals: Ginsburg: 9.5% Breyer: 8% Sotomayor: 1.3% Kagan: 0.8% Probability of at least one judge dying:...

What are the chances the Repubs will block Obama from replacing Scalia and demand they wait until they elect the next president? :think: Who would Trump pick? Probably his sister . He's already referred to her as the sort of judge he'd be looking to nominate for the Supreme Court. Although my guess...

Counter-evidence...

http://i.imgur.com/EF5Jp86.jpg

His intellectual artillery is softer than lace,
But be careful, ladies, he wants to cum on your face!
Dr. Richard Carrier!

H. Korban wrote:I am sure somebody already linked to some news article about the LIGO announcement already. Below is the paper which came out in Physical Review Letters, the top journal for physics (its open access):

http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10 ... 116.061102

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OK, I retract my 'meh'.

Heart black as coal, fat as a barge,
A malevolent twit, SJW Madame Defarge!
Stephanie Zvan!

Without looks or talent, she's a goddess to nerds,
Slacking though life, wielding a feminist scourge!
Rebecca Watson!

[youtube]V9O2Jy2y8sQ[/youtube] Defenders of the Earth, Defenders! Out of the sky his rockets ignite! Jets into battle, flies faster than light! Flash Gordon! Lord of the jungle, the hero who stalks! The beasts call him brother, the ghost who walks! Phantom! Defenders of the Earth, Defenders! Master...

I've seen fanboys justify every conceivable plot hole in Star Wars using tortured logic, speculation, and appealing to expanded universe shit that the average film goer will have no knowledge of, so I'm sure you can do the same here. It entirely misses the point I usually try to make, which is that...

I agree, but the present situation has given me psychological insight into how brutal authoritarian regimes get popular support. I certainly don't hate Muslims, or even a sizable minority, but I see members of ISIS, Al Qaeda, the Taliban and their supporters as being literal human vermin. Add in th...

Islam is a hate group. They promote actual violence, actual misogyny, and religious bigotry. There are very good grounds for banning it. I didn't expect this kind of authoritarian thinking here, and not just from Steersman. If this is a joke at Steersman's expense, feel free to laugh at me. But the...

Shatterface wrote:
Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Maybe gravitational waves could give us some insight about FTL warp drives?

Yes, I'm a dreamer.
We already discovered the warp drive. Don't you have it in France yet?

Probably not, because at the present time it can only be powered by Lindy West uncrossing her legs.

Ok, but we are still talking Star Wars/Prometheus trivia on the day it was announced WE OBSERVED GRAVITY WAVES FROM COLLIDING BLACK HOLES!!! For the record, my mind is completely and ongoingly blown by the announcement. I feel as though I'm living in a different world. (I think having just watched ...

You don't like Memento ?!? I like the movie, but somehow I hate the actor. It's just one of those things. Is it because his face moves like it's controlled via pulleys and nylon cables from across the room? His specialty seems to be characters that are keeping it together on the surface, but are ac...

Meh. 6/10. Or if you correct for personality 3/10. The SJW trademark look of anguish definitely doesn't help, not does that weird stare down thing she does at the end. But I think she's a guaranteed 9 if she just had a relaxed smile on her face. I won't argue with the personality correction, though.

[youtube]bc6Z7AEEao8[/youtube] So, in Sargon's latest the disconcertingly gorgeous woman in the intro frame says the following (11:30): I stand with Melissa Click because she knows that just because the media has to make a deadline doesn't mean they can disrespect stories, narratives, and communitie...

Couple days old. https://twitter.com/NARAL/status/696485576040714240 I am pro choice as they come but fuck me fetuses are human. These people really do only think of themselves. It's especially bad given the dialogue makes clear the fetus is full-term. If NARAL is among those fanatics who believe a...

Ahhh... the memories...back when people actually wanted some of that action... Becki advertising her pants.jpg But if you comment on her t shirt in an elevator, would that be sexual harassment? Yes. Women have the right to totalitarian dictatorship powers with respect to their sexuality. They can u...

Ahhh... the memories...back when people actually wanted some of that action... Becki advertising her pants.jpg Here's my speculative psychological analysis of Watson. She was probably a wallflower most of her life, but when she reached her peak attractiveness in her 20's she suddenly started gettin...

Is there any reference to rape victims? Is there any reference to "rape threats" (i.e. mean comments on the Internet)? No. Dawkins' "Dear Muslima" was about the fact that the originating incident wasn't worth mentioning, because it really wasn't worth mentioning. Neither were the trolls who sent Re...

He is a really talented rapper. He is a failure at just about everything else but as a rapper maybe the best in his generation. I'll take your word for it, since I clearly don't have an understanding of the appeal of rap and think almost all of it is awful (there are a few Eminem and Beastie Boys t...

Tigzy that was awesome! It's genuinely a deep and abiding mystery to me why most people under 30, and those who pander to them, think Kanye West is a genius. It has the feel of him making a deal with the devil to be a music superstar, but instead of actually granting him talent, the devil just delu...

Tigzy that was awesome! It's genuinely a deep and abiding mystery to me why most people under 30, and those who pander to them, think Kanye West is a genius. It has the feel of him making a deal with the devil to be a music superstar, but instead of actually granting him talent, the devil just delu...

Help me out here. I have been thinking about Dawkins 'stupid' and 'offensive' comments on Twitter. And I have been thinking about the storm of outrage that the Friendly Atheist asked Blumner to defend him against. The problem is, where is the outrage? There are a few op-eds in places like HuffPost....

In any case, I don't think Robyn is even going to notice this latest coordinated assault from the FTB/Skepchick bunkers. FTB is...well, not what it once was. And Skepchick was never all that in the first place. It's now getting to be a bit like those stories you hear of the Japanese soldiers who ne...

Yep. The elderly, educated, white guy on the sidelines is the one who decides to punt with three minutes left in the fourth and down by 14. Stupid black guy in the huddle probably wanted to go for it. 4th down is the one area where NFL coaches routinely make mathematically sub-optimal, if not insup...

I've got the same thing with redheads, although it's not nearly as strong as it used to be. I blame it on being exposed to the nuclear level hotness that was 1980 vintage Victoria Principal just as my testosterone levels were rising. My "imprinted" trigger is erect nipples, thanks to Farah Fawcett ...

And, speaking very broadly from personal experience only, Asian women have white women beat on the personality front, too. No, it's not that they're submissive or demure. Quite the contrary for Chinese women, who tend to be very assertive. It's more that they're much less likely to be highly self-c...

I'm skeptical of finding any universal theory of sexual attraction that won't immediately be subverted by scores of mutually exclusive outliers. People are just too complex. My personal theory of my own person is that I like doing things I shouldn't do. Hence, unavailable women are more attractive,...

comhcinc wrote:
jugheadnaut wrote: But, he has a great record mostly because he just understands the game at a level higher than his competition.
...Or because he cheats. ;)

Can't it be 'and'? ;)

Belichick may be the only one (surprise, surprise) who knows what he's doing here. Well yeah cause the cheating you know....... :D He understands how to utilize small statistical advantages better than anyone else. I wouldn't be surprised if there's still some subtle stuff he's directing that techn...

I took comh to be saying you needed to be educated, not intelligent, to be a good QB, and statistically blacks lack the same education afforded whites. Either way I don't see why it matters, IQ/education, whatever. It's football. Doesn't the coach handle more in terms of tactics anyway? Yep. The el...

Neither. Winston went through a football machine, probably several. He's a nice enough kid, incredibly athletic, but stupid, and entitled as fuck in so many ways. However, the really great quarterbacks are smart , where the stupid ones tend to have moments, but they can't do so regularly enough to ...

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