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ALL STAR TREK FANS ARE NOW SERVED NOTICE! Please, Please, PLEASE check out the web series "Star Trek Continues". https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqBfJMOAgxpLooYH0WkLpmw It was fan funded and is a 100% original series throwback. They rebuilt the set. They use the same score. They have a similar act...

Another UK MP suspended after allegations are made (BBC doesn't say what they are). What a crazy world. What did he do? I don't know. It was bad. Maybe he told a dirty joke yesterday. Maybe he raped a class of three year olds last night. Either way, he is a bad, bad man. The link suggests it's for ...

jet_lagg wrote:FT, could you take a look at Matt's submit button?

Also Steersman's. It still seems to be working.

Err ... is more like crazy Vietnamese. If you hang around any Vietnamese you will hear things. Like my friend. His 70 year old Father in Law hooked up with a 22 year old on a semi-permanent basis driving his daughters crazy seeing as she was younger than all of his kids. They all blamed the girl of...

Most people get fingered before they board anyway so what's the big deal?

Sunder wrote:According to one of Hemant's hordelings, you can't be "in the closet" if even one other person knows your secret.

Not much point being gay if you've got nobody to be gay with.

I lived in a Village after I left my last job. I refused to give a reason for resigning so some goons dressed as undertakers gassed me and took me to a village where nameless bureaucrats tried to fuck with my brain.

A question for bastards. If the laws of primogeniture are purely about preserving male privilege why is it that only legitimate sons qualify? Although legitimate sons take presidence over daughters the heirs are still blood relatives of both parents. If it was just about male supremacy illegitimate ...

Did Kevin Spacey not come out as gay a few years ago? No, but it was about as necessary as him coming out as white. Anthony Hopkins still hasn't come out as Welsh. I can understand why action stars might be unwilling to come out but are the kinds of people who like Kevin Spacet likely to be put off...

News sites that are admitting the NY attack is terrorism are now calling it the worst in NY since 9/11. Technically it is, but when the ranking system has an attack that killed nearly 3,000 people in first place and 8 people in second place is that ranking system worth a shit? Surely a comparison wi...

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Shatterface wrote:But the big question to me was why all those featured transition from female to male and not female to male.
As if the Trans* thing wasn't already a mind-fuck...

I watched a documentary about dinosaurs in a park that got out of hand when they started transitioning and breeding.

Incidentally, if you Google 'Kobudai fish' half the results refer to them changing 'gender', not 'sex'.

Some thoughts on the tranny fish featured on Blue Planet II How do those who deny the effects of hormones explain how the fish transition? They don't have fingers so it can't be as simply as ticking a different pronoun box on the census. The fish also become much more aggressive when they transition...

There's a sex bias in gene expression . Man and Woman the barricades. Said in response to a Trans* woman explaining how "she" feels more real as a woman... You don’t need to substantiate your feelings though. I mean a biological reality is nice to have, but the feelings are the most important bit. ...

Sometimes it's best not to be able to read the text.

Crazy Swedes.

Allahu Akbar proves nothing. Could be Vikings.

World, explain yourself.

I've now had six shitty weeks of transport problems and if I could switch my emotions off entirely I would. They're like pain. Pain's useful when you need to snatch your hand away from a fire quickly but once you've done that it's worse than useless. Okay, I've burnt my hand. I get the message. Let'...

Hitch was the only one of the Horsemen who could reasonably be called an asshole. I think he'd agree with that and he probably cultivated that image. He was the only one who really mastered anger as a rhetorical tool. The others might be provoked to anger but they couldn't harness it. That's why the...

Dawkins is smart. If he murdered someone he'd get away with it.

I think Peezus should be in jail. I think he's an angry man with few social bonds that would restrain him from committing violent acts. He's cruel to fish and that's a precursor to more serious acts against humans. I don't think he can be reformed and he blames everyone else for his faults. He needs...

To clarify my position on prison: it doesn't work as either a deterrent or a means of rehabilitation. As a punishment it is too harsh for most offences and completely counterproductive. You are far more likely to get people out of the cycle of offending if you can get them into work or training and ...

I broadly agree with you but I don't really recognise that last part in relation to the actual criminals. Our criminal culture isn't really a victim culture for the most part. it is hard to say that the justifications they use are post hoc rationalizations because they are part of a culture. Certai...

I've worked with ex-offenders and some of them can be in and out of prison four or five times a year so not only does prison itself fail as a deterrent but so does the almost certainty that they'll get caught. Their usual excuse is they just can't help themselves. Whatever you believe about the unde...

Apart from The Expanse every TV show I know models it's starships on Navy vessels so the gravity is at right angles to the direction of motion. They also change direction by swooping in arcs instead of flipping round and firing the engines in another direction. It's not just TV though. I read James ...

So, besides being uber politcally correct in the SJW-friendly sense, changing continuity and showing no respect at all for it (Spock having an UNTIL NOW previously unmentioned half sister or sister I forget and HOW they portray Sarek) they now power their Magical Mystery Ship with Mushrooms: https:...

The worldbuilding is a big part of what draws me to Star Trek, so the inconsistencies (especially big ones like world changing tech) are really really irritating. I'm a Star Wars guy. Laser swords, space dogfights, and princesses in bikinis. Voyager eventually got me on board the trek train because...

When you have an sf franchise that has been around for a while you have a choice how to handle continuity. You can go the Blade Runner 2049 route and follow the original time line so that Pan Am is around and people have had flying cars for fifty years or you can do what Asimov did with the Foundati...

The bulk of the criticism is anti-SJW backlash, but there are also plenty of people angry about canon. The spore drive really throws a wrench into things. They even have a fucking holodeck. Bah. On the other hand, I decided to watch every episode of every series in the order they aired and recently...

More iffy "journalism" from David McAfee: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/10/30/witch-trials-are-killing-more-women-than-ever-in-papua-new-guinea/ A witch panic in Papua New Guinea that McAfee states is caused by fundamentalist xtianity without looking into the influence of local ...

I remember six episodes into TNG and it was still a steaming bag of shit that had already done the obligatory 'Planet of the Women' episode and remade 'The Naked Time' because it had no new ideas, and it had had male crew members in skirts, a fucking councillor dressed like a cheerleader, a cuddly ...

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The ears on that Asian guy look totally fake.

Ditto the yellow make-up.

I definitely think there are some dark stories about Pepe Le Pew we aren't hearing about because female cartoon characters are afraid to speak out. Look what happened to Betty Boop when she spilled the beans on Popeye. One cameo in Roger Rabbit and that's all folks.

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Pepé Le Pew is clearly part of rape culture :bjarte:

'Baby, its cold outside...'

I remember six episodes into TNG and it was still a steaming bag of shit that had already done the obligatory 'Planet of the Women' episode and remade 'The Naked Time' because it had no new ideas, and it had had male crew members in skirts, a fucking councillor dressed like a cheerleader, a cuddly K...

R. Crumb says when a boy he was sexually attracted to Bugs Bunny. I don't think it's too much of a stretch to deconstruct the Road Runner with RR as female and Wily E. desperately trying to get out of The Friend Zone. If Wile E was straight he'd be more open about it, like Pepé Le Pew. This is defi...

Chuck Jones always referred to Roadrunner as male. That's why Wile E Coyote keeps trying to catch him. They're flirting. If Wile E was hungry he'd just order a pizza from the Acme Takeaway.

The penal system needs to have an element of revenge for the victim, and more importantly for society. The desire for justice and the outrage at injustice (especially on other people's behalf it seems) is incredibly powerful.... you would think the social justice crowd would understand this! . The ...

So, besides being uber politcally correct in the SJW-friendly sense, changing continuity and showing no respect at all for it (Spock having an UNTIL NOW previously unmentioned half sister or sister I forget and HOW they portray Sarek) they now power their Magical Mystery Ship with Mushrooms: https:...

If someone harmed me or my family badly enough I would have no problem at all jailing them - whether that acted as a deterrent or not. I'm not sure what the objection is to retribution )call it revenge if you want), so long as it is proportionate. I'm not a Christian. I don't have to turn the other ...

Incidentally, I'm not denying that the universe - including the mind - are physical systems that obey the same laws of physics. It's just that when it comes to ethics this observation is a deepity. It tells us jack shit about morality. It's like saying there's no such thing as the colour 'orange' be...

Of course, most modern scientist are materialists (or naturalists). This means they think that, ultimately, everything has a material explanation rather than any kind of miraculous explanation. This must mean that everything is, by definition, deterministic. Even if we say that many processes are m...

Where were some fish on last night's Blue Planet II that changed sex. Not gender, actual sex. Fucking fish. They're worse than the Swedes.

A couple of relevant quotes from Mind : Either we dispense with all morality as an unscientific superstition, or we find a way to reconcile causation (genetic or otherwise) with responsibility and free will. .... I believe that science and ethics are two self-contained systems played out among the ...

Initial thoughts on Stranger Things Series 2 . No big spoilers and I'm only on episode 2. They now have a genuine Goonie in Sean Astin and Paul Aliens Reiser is also here, asking people to trust him. The Ghostbusters fancy dress stuff was funnier than anything in last year's movie, with the kids dan...

Determinism triggers something deep in people's intuition that disturbs them, though when asked how its truth would or should affect what we do in concrete terms those same people either say it "not at all" or reveal themselves to be fatalists. I don't know of even a single self described fatalist ...

In any case, somewhat apropos of which, think you suggested or argued earlier that Jerry may have been influenced in that direction by Pinker; was just reading some of the latter's How the Mind Works and he certainly seemed anything but dogmatic on the issue. To be honest I can't even remember Pink...

[.tweet]https://twitter.com/JewsForLinda/status/924061197770592257[/tweet] https://twitter.com/JewsForLinda/status/924061197770592257 Rule 35: If it exists, there are Jews for it. Yea. You've probably already seen this but Jerry has a recent post on it as well: I think Jerry either reads the Pit or...

Blue Planet II was fucking amazing.

Even if it's true that better educated people voted Remain, all that suggests is that people voted in their own interest since the EU benefits the better off (generally more educated) over the poor (generally less educated).

You know what we don't hear anything about anymore? Covfefe. Apparently it was so important at one time that everyone had to have an opinion on it yet the world now gets along like it never happened and it was a lot of fuss about fuck all.

To be honest, people who misquote the bible piss me off too.

Sanders at least TRIED to criticize identity politics in the left: Bernie Sanders said Monday that the path to success for Democrats has to be through more than just identity politics, adding that it’s simply not enough for the party to base its appeals on diversity. “It’s not good enough for someo...

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https://twitter.com/JewsForLinda/status ... 7770592257

Rule 35: If it exists, there are Jews for it.

As I heard the story, Neil put a roofy in the coconut, she drank 'em bot' up He put a roofy in the coconut, she drank 'em bot' up He put a roofy in the coconut, she drank 'em bot' up He put a roofy the coconut, she call the doctor, woke 'I'm up And said "doctor, ain't there nothin' I can take?" I sa...

On the bright side, while Zinnia's Doctor is pissing their time away checking for signs of pregnancy and running smear tests, her prostate may be plotting ironic comeuppance.

For whatever reason, I felt like checking in on whatever Zinnia is up to. This made me laugh. https://twitter.com/ZJemptv/status/918538527209648129 Please, pretty please, tell me this idiot is not wasting the time of a real gynaecologist... It's another example of how so much transidentity is based...

The accuser says (s)he's: 1. Transsexual 2. Homosexual 3. Muslim 4. Republican. That's Hontas Farmer, whose blogpost David 'Dropped-As-A-Baby' McAfee based his blog post on. Tchiya Amet, who was raped by NdGT with a coconut, appears to be a real, Steersman-certified woman, but also very very whacke...

The NDGT accuser says that because of him, "there is one less female galactic astronomer." I only minored in astronomy, but I've never heard of a "galactic astronomer" as a professional title. It sounds like something a little kid would make up as in, "When I grow up, I'm gonna be a galactic astron...

I think Jerry often crosses the line into abuse. It's the same with his obsession with determinism. He's not content to argue his point, he has to accuse his opposition - including Daniel Dennett - of closet theism.

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