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

I hate you people for making me get a twitter acct. It's incredibly slow on my ISP.

I assume that you all keep re-posting this picture because you're trying to figure out if the left leg of the woman in the center is (a) digging into the sand, (b) bent back underneath her, or (c) monstrously huge. Correct? I mean, it's not like you all are going to back up Snarkeesian by saying tha...

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Call me a hyperskeptic, but unless the guy is pedaling backwards, the bits and pieces flying out of his ass are going the wrong direction.

My default prediction these days is that people will double, triple, or quadruple down before either running and hiding or actually fessing up. At the risk of parroting Jon Stewart (back when his show wasn't all about him), folks are banking on the laziness and cowardliness of the media; they know i...

jugheadnaut wrote:If I were her, I'd stay under the radar for a while. Between the pictures and the multiple eye witnesses, this has gone way beyond reasonable suspicion or even probable cause. If they charge her, it's likely to stick.

"I was being raped, you bastards!" in 5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ...

http://i.imgur.com/sxsvTJp.jpg http://www.michaelnugent.com/2014/09/17/recent-media-misrepresentations-of-the-atheist-movement-and-the-role-of-pz-myers-in-the-culture-of-demonising-people/comment-page-1/#comment-997769 If there is a just god, first, I'm sorry, dude, but you really needed to give me...

Great rebuttle of Herr Meirs attack on Games & Sommers. Not directly at Meyers, but it just shits on his, and those of his ilk, BS: https://medium.com/@cainejw/the-factual-feminist-a-factcheck-f5ae584f56da Wow. I don't know the background of the author, but I can tell you that the middle section on...

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Mykeru wrote:
Hate to say it,

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But both you guys are a bunch of massive pussies.
If that's a Transformer, we're all doomed.

I had assumed it was the bad guy in the new Saw movie.

Of course! Those aspects of a "victim's" story that are embarrassing and don't add up are to be ignored; after all, this is a victim of the worst crime since coffee-in-a-elevator. Everything else, however, again regardless of whether it adds up, must be taken as iron-clad fact due to the rule of aff...

OK, stupid OT question: I made a tweet with @MelodyHensley in it, but I have no followers; am I correct that only she can see it?

Just to confuse things, didn't she make a report in March? Yes, but if she tries to claim that her recent claim to have made a report just after the wave of threats was actually referring to the stuff back in March, she'll be rightfully seen as being full of shit. She needs a report at the same tim...

At the risk of doxxing myself, Sean and I are both from Maine and I've met him. He's good, but I wish that he'd gotten more feedback before going with his current 10 Point Plan for secularism. Plus, it wasn't at all clear to me that we needed a whole new secularist group in the first place. There's ...

I just went through the entire comment section for that Polygon story ... nothing on WHEN Snarky made her police report. Given that video that included the conversation with the police liaison about a week ago, in which the SF officer says there's no recent report, I'm more convinced that Snarky onl...

I agree, Jack, but would add this: It seemed to me that atheists in the US were close to seriously helping the secularists, but have now been distracted for several years by social-justice BS. If you talk to folks like Sean Faircloth, you'll learn that The Schism has cost them a lot of momentum. So,...

The more interesting omission from the Polygon story (to me) is this: no date for when Snarky made a report to the SF police ... could be yesterday for all we know. If (1) the actions of the skeptics have forced her to make a belated report to the police and (2) it turns out to have been faked and (...

Actually, criterion A does make stipulations about the stressor. Yeah, I was a bit sloppy in my rant; it was, after all, a rant. The key is that the stressors -- and remember that the APA is totally hooked on the diathesis/stress model of mental illness -- are all observables and none require a spe...

austin wrote:Check your privilege.

I wish Cristina Rad were from Prague, instead of some place in Romania, because I've always wanted to tell someone to privilege their Czech.

Also, for folks who seem to have enjoyed my rant on PTSD, I've decided to refer to Melody as having PDST: People Disagree and Sometimes [they] Tweet. The first tweet that I make may be in reference to this.

austin wrote:Me thinks we're seeing what they call in Chaos theory a bifurcation.

Remember, you don't have clear evidence of a truly chaotic mechanism until you've shown that it can also produce stable trifurcations. But maybe that's what we have now: SJWs, Horsemen, and Pitters.

Which is why I think if you really want to get them, support gender egalitarianism, with the view that it's "More Feminist than Feminism", that is, it's stronger in terms of the equality it desires AND the likelyhood of it being effective. Feminism+? Sign me up! Sad thing is, I actually originally ...

Karmakin wrote:Which is why I think if you really want to get them, support gender egalitarianism, with the view that it's "More Feminist than Feminism", that is, it's stronger in terms of the equality it desires AND the likelyhood of it being effective.

Feminism+? Sign me up!

Yes. Perhaps I jumbled things up a bit. Haven't actually memorised the DSM definitions. I'm a slacker. By 'criteria', I was referring to the set of possible causes laid out by the DSM gods, or at least referred to by those explaining the definition. That was in fact my point, that symptoms are all ...

There are some practitioners who will diagnose PTSD resulting from circumstances not covered by the criteria, and not without reason. The important factor in a diagnosis is the symptoms. If you have PTSD symptoms then you have PTSD regardless of whether the cause is officially sanctioned by the DSM...

I'm late to the Avicenna party (other than agreeing with Phil that diagnostic criteria should be respected) and I'm wondering if it's a given that the nym Avicenna refers to this? http://www.avicennaproject.com/home/4569234906 No, it refers to this dude: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avicenna That's...

You misunderstood my meaning. I agree with Harris and I agree with what you wrote. I didn't mean everything is either instrinsic or extrinsic with no middle ground. I meant that intrinsic is an all-or-nothing term, like 'unique'. If a property has any non-intrinsic aspect, that property is not intr...

I'm late to the Avicenna party (other than agreeing with Phil that diagnostic criteria should be respected) and I'm wondering if it's a given that the nym Avicenna refers to this? http://www.avicennaproject.com/home/4569234906

...... It's not motherfucking PTSD. Call it what you like, but PTSD it is not. End of it. BHOTI might be better. Butt-Hurt On The Internet. M'kay then. Have you notified the Psychiatric profession yet? I really think they should be told. At least person who helped revise the DSM already knows. No s...

I agree. Sullivan really isn't doing Harris any favors by interpreting him as defining the gender differences as "essential". Harris used the inartful phrase "to some degree intrinsic". Something is either intrinsic or it's not. I disagree with both you and Sullivan; Harris was exactly correct. The...

tina wrote:Page 666 eh? The Page of the Beast

Pet peeve ... it's "DCLXVI ... the numbering of the beast" as in "Romans bad." The Arabic "666" is just Hollywood.

Jeebus! A fucking Bayesian diagram with no trigger warning?!

Tribble wrote:http://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/7.154 ... raphic.jpg

We are officially at war.

I just joined twitter and started surfing around. Found this in a Dawkins convo:

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another lurker wrote:Anyone ever eaten fetus?

Yes, it is a delicacy in some places.

http://www.citizen.tv/three-extremes-2- ... VJMMq.html

Only the first third is needed.

I somehow expected that. Can you imagine how shitty it is to manage a Google search when the city you live in is called Nice? Count your blessings that this is all text and not speech. Where I live, when you SAY the name of where you happen to live, they ask you how your brother- or sister-in-law f...

jugheadnaut wrote:http://www.shemazing.net/wp-content/upl ... watts1.jpg

I'm sure that this is inappropriate in some way, but what's the deal with her thumbs?

Becky's on the case too: http://skepchick.org/2014/09/dear-innocent-people-murdered-in-witch-hunts/ She's playing the "literal witch hunt" card. I hadn't read her self-written bio before just now. I particularly enjoyed: "She travels around the world delivering entertaining talks on science, atheis...

Oddly, in a number of states, the Cop is incorrect and the SJW is correct. Ex, in NJ, a "crime" is synonymous with felony. The general term for a criminal infractions is "offense." This is why reading the specific wording of the stop-and-ID law is important, rather than relying on a map on some wik...

Cop: "What's your name?" SJW: "I ain't tellin'." Cop: "You have to, because I have reasonable suspicion that you committed a crime." SJW: "No, I was only jay-walking; that's a mere civil infraction, not a crime." Cop: "Um, lady. Civil infractions ARE crimes." SJW: "Yeah, maybe according to the dicti...

Well as I said, he's not my attorney, but I think he's a pretty well respected attorney around these parts. If you wouldn't mind asking him, I'd love to hear the answer to this/these questions: Does being stopped for a civil infraction (which is what jaywalking is in Phoenix) obligate the person st...

[quote="JacquesCuze"]It seems all she needed to have done, since this was Arizona, is provide her full name./quote]

That is correct. During a Terry Stop, in a state with stop-and-ID, all you have to do is give your name.

The talking head in the studio says: "there's no law that says someone just walking on the street needs to show ID." That's correct but TOTALLY FUCKING IRRELEVANT. This was clearly a Terry Stop, not just an officer chatting with someone on the street. In Arizona, you MUST provide ID when asked duri...

I look at it this way...the cops are not necessarily experts on *your* legal rights. Play it safe and kiss ass. The bullies will not have an excuse to kick that ass. I agree, but I still do two things before taking an out-of-state trip: check which states that I'll be passing through have dual-cons...

[youtube]4-A0Y1y66V4[/youtube] Wow, I hate the media. The talking head in the studio says: "there's no law that says someone just walking on the street needs to show ID." That's correct but TOTALLY FUCKING IRRELEVANT. This was clearly a Terry Stop, not just an officer chatting with someone on the s...

(lots of snipping) Today was personal case in point. So I call the number and before I even stopped reading the violation (I only said 'Failure to move...') she cut me off and told me the ticket was $81.50. You can get a good dash-cam for $81.50. Would have paid for itself. Just sayin'. Or am I miss...

To me, this is the key: They know that to accuse someone of misogyny is to equate -in most peoples minds- the former, it is a practice of extreme othering, of defamation of those who call them out their behaviours and attitudes. They are simultaneously changing the definition of words -- allowing th...

Maybe that slave remark had something to do with house slaves having easier jobs than the field slaves? Oh, my. You didn't just write that, did you? Field slaves worked longer hours, did more physical work, lived in worse conditions, and usually died younger. House slaved were more likely to be rap...

That's not what I meant!

Can you stop with the quoting? Words evolve. By the time that you click Submit, the post that you are quoting doesn't mean what it did back when it was written. In fact, my request that you stop quoting doesn't mean what I meant when I wrote thirty seconds ago.

Skep tickle wrote:I don't know her history w/ FtB/A+/Skepchick. Are they likely to accuse her of internalized misogyny and of being a chill girl & gender traitor...or will they let this pass w/o comment?

She plays with rockets with gazillions of thrust. Nuf said.

You mean Carolyn Porco, Cassini mission Porco, Highly credentialed and accomplished scientist Porco, apparent model for Jodie Foster in Sagan's Contact Porco, supports a known misogynist. What has the world come to. Her tweet made my day. I just wish that I'd been there when Peezus saw it. What ama...

I was nodding respectfully until this: Dig but a little, and you always find that it's really a story about black people who have absolutely no respect for the police, or what the police stand for. (emphasis added) Usually , maybe. Often , almost definitely. But always ? Nope. A agree that it's hard...

EdwardGemmer wrote:At this point can we ~~induct~~ indict Richard Dawkins as an honorary Slymepitter?

FTFY

Tribble wrote:I actually prefer women to wear more clothes, less revealing than not. I like the mystery. To be tantalized. To have wonder.

Glad we agree on something.

- Mohammed Omar

austin wrote:I've only been here a little while, but you are totally awesome. This job is a lot worse than herding cats I'm sure.

I'd simply say "+1" to the above (as I also am new and this is totally awesome), but only if I knew whether we were talking about fuzzy or hairless cats being herded.

I think Harris has debated enough creationists and religious fanatics to be able to spot one when they attack him I also think he is the most softly spoken assassin that you could imagine, and his general approach is to assume the best in people, while feeding them all the rope they can handle I ho...

Sam Harris: Iâ€™m Not the Sexist Pig Youâ€™re Looking For I believe the rage blogging has already begun at FfTB. :popcorn: It's an interesting read. He flat-out admits to being sexist ... albeit pro-women. He gives a very good summary of the sexual dimorphism position in general, but not a very goo...

Name one substantial contribution to science or atheism by a (prominent???) SJW that is currently widely recognized in this generation in the science/atheism community, much less possibly to future generations? After watching, very carefully, the entire session in Dublin (which was on communicating...

Mykeru wrote:And the Irish have no word for foreplay.

Bullshit. It's "Guinness?"

The list and problems goes on from there. A bit interesting if you like that sort of thing. The key, for me, was how the number of Inuit words for "snow" was taken by the Whorfians (who will be lined up against the same wall as the Bayesians when I take power) as a reason to believe that Inuits wou...

Also, ever noticed that, while Inuits have 27 words for snow, the Greeks had a whole bunch of words for the shape of a butt?

What's up with that?

Trigger warning: cats with hair

screwtape wrote:You must have read Burgess to know about being steatopyginous.

One of our previous cats was named "callipygous." After five years with the same vet, she finally said: "oh, I looked up the name of your cat ..." - quick glance at our daughter - "... wow."

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