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

The po-mo bullshit about science as a social construct is the same argument used by creationists and intelligent designers to support creationism. To be fair, there are several aspects of how science is practiced that are, to a certain extent, social constructs (in that they are agreed-upon princip...

What do you guys think of the theory I saw in the comments at WEIT? Someone guessed that Karen really CAN'T be more honest because CFI spent good money to investigate the claims she's now retracting. If she does the right thing and says, "Look, I'm a psycho and I lied. That's what psychos do!" perh...

With that, Iâ€™m changing how I blog. Until now, Iâ€™ve felt bad about blogging because Iâ€™ve felt that if it isnâ€™t a long-form essay, itâ€™s not worth posting. I will instead use this place as a place to post short things. Reblogging others, posting videos. I used to do that, when I was but a w...

nb. Craig Packer is a white, male scientist who studies lions.

Of course. I was simply saying, as you already did, that if you believe that O.J. Simpson's acquittal was unfair, the jury or the prosecution were to blame (the defense attorney were simply doing their job). What was unfair about the Simpson acquittal is how it later led to Kim Kardashian becoming ...

I believe that she was fighting any settlement tooth and claw but both lawyers and her husband were telling her that she was toast if it went to court. That's why the wording is so weird - it is all that she would agree too. I think Radford made a mistake in not demanding more from her. She is goin...

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lawsuit-defense#/story Multiple lawyers? Insurance? No itemization, Karen? I'm wondering if she decided that she'd really rather keep some of that moolah than "give a voice to harassment victims" after all. Alternately, I wonder how many lawyers she hired to tell ...

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I'm no Based Zebra, but some of that sounds like TMJ to me. But why would a tenured prof be suffering stress? Must be something outside of work.

Sorry to interrupt, but I have a question to which I could never find the answer. Why aren't sway-bars taken into account when calculating the desired amount of shock damping? Is it as simple as "we only care about pitch, so who cares about the bars" or is there a deeper reason? I ask because my ca...

Tony Parsehole wrote:Reminder to self: read the whole thread before posting

Have you noticed how selves aren't listening these days? I blame video games.

Can Peezus take down anybody? He is so unimportant. I bet his students are going to get terrible grades in the next week or two as Peezus finds somebody whose life he can affect. He's a tenured professor. Is he teaching any classes in the summer? If he is, it's likely because he gets an insane amou...

Sulman wrote:Once again he has weighed in on a subject in lockstep with Watson.

Yep. His own decision was clearly to ignore the settlement, but, as soon as his mistress spoke, he had no choice. Someone in SF needs to break into her apartment and steal back his balls.

We auto engineers.... Sorry to interrupt, but I have a question to which I could never find the answer. Why aren't sway-bars taken into account when calculating the desired amount of shock damping? Is it as simple as "we only care about pitch, so who cares about the bars" or is there a deeper reaso...

If Taslima Nasrin is injured or killed during her CFI/FTB move to the US or Sweden, then it will be the fault of Michael Nugent with an assist from everyone here. How the fuck do I come to that conclusion? Michael Nugent and friends do actual social justice work. We tease the CFI/FTB crowd for doing...

fuzzy wrote:

Now you've gorn too far!

I have no issue with Caitlyn's photo op, unlike 99.99% of most transgender people, she was under the enormous microscope of media for decades and decades. It really does seem to be very brave to be in your 7th decade and fight all the straitjacketing of gender roles that being America's Decathlon C...

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My main reaction to seeing this Caitlyn (nÃ©e Bruce) Jenner picture for Vanity Fair was: Holy Shit! They are getting quite good at that sort of surgery. Fuck. At this rate, I'll be owing RoboKitty an apology soon.

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Excellent draft. But needs moar dandruff.

" For Young Couples, {financial} Dependency Spawns Infidelity " http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/for-young-couples-dependency-spawns-infidelity Thatâ€™s one finding of a new study that looks at patterns of infidelity among young married Americans. It finds husbands who contribute 70 percent...

Oh no, that makes it worse! Because gender is a social construct, when you misgender someone you are actually performing a sex change on them without their consent. :ugeek: It's far worse than that. What if they are wearing a T-shirt that says: "Kill All Men!", or "Die Cis Scum!"? If you misgender ...

Do the people setting up the A+ Commune know that you need a permit and an approved structure to have more than three farm-like animals in Portland? And pigs aren't allowed at all, so no bacon, so fuck it, anyway.

Service Dog wrote:I want to read SJW ANIMAL FARM.

It's called Non-human Person Farm, shitlord.

Reading comprehension failure. Apologies, FTP.

Didn't that start out that Carrie Poppy told PZ and that Allison thought that she would remain unnamed? If she had told Poppy and expected anonymity it also makes her a moron. Actually if she is a friend of either Poppy or Myers, also a moron. I'm sorry, but are you trying to suggest that telling y...

Its almost funny to me that I still care about this incident, because I find none of the characters involved in the drama in any way sympathetic. Yep. To me, by far the most sympathetic character in all of the rift stories is Elevator Guy. But that's only because we know almost nothing about him an...

Not necessarily. Heavy emotional involvement can cloud rational judgement. If she told the truth (or what she remembers as the truth) she was obviously emotionally compelled to act in any way she could think of, so she trusted a friendly acquaintance. If X years later your clouded judgment allows y...

Really? wrote:So what you're saying is that Plait is a shitty feminist who is defending Shermer and is silencing victims.

Well, I was only saying that that is possible, but, yes, I guess that would also make him a shitty pomo feminist.

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Kirbmarc wrote:
I don't know about the "rich". He's in divorce and hadn't we concluded that he's basically jobless?

Yep. Also, if Dr Richard Carrier PhD were rich, he wouldn't be advertizing for ex-hookers.

I know feminists like to pull statistics out of their arse but fuck me where does this one come from. .... Archeology excavation of this feminist ass-stat: http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/03/women-own-1-of-world-property-a-feminist-myth-that-wont-die/273840/ You know what, self? I'm n...

I know feminists like to pull statistics out of their arse but fuck me where does this one come from. https://twitter.com/the_author_/status/604605801693622272 I can only assume that they are talking about mothers looking after THEIR OWN CHILDREN which you are suppose to do as other people very rea...

Has Plait ever commented on this? It seems a pretty serious allegation that he was told Shermer was a rapist and yet still continued working with him, both in terms of inviting him back to TAM, and in being a co-host with Shermer in the failed skeptic TV series pilot, 'The Skeptologists'. I, person...

Suet Cardigan wrote:There's no difference between a fist and a font?

I beg to differ. No-one has ever had a font up their arse.

Given the level of kink in the Catholic church, it would not surprise me if you turned out to be wrong about that claim. And the holy water would be slightly helpful.

I don't blame Alison for wanting to get her story heard, assuming that she's telling the truth (or at least what she is genuinely convinced is the truth). I blame PZ for writing a horrible, sensationalistic, emotionally manipulative piece about Alison's story and for lacking the ethics and the writ...

Suet Cardigan wrote:ED article of the day is about Bahar "kill all white men" Mustafa

https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Bahar_Mustafa

Speaking as an aging male, could you please use an acronym other than "ED" for encyclopedia dramatica? Pretty please.

jimthepleb wrote:...quite possibly my anthropomorphising animals I have an affection for.

Too bad that that kind of self-awareness isn't contagious.

You need to keep in mind the huge difference between what most people mean by "memory" (i.e., declarative memory: the explicit recall of facts and events) and conditioning, which is what you're seeing in your horses, Matt.

Tribble wrote:My daughter was talking about that this morning. I was just "No, not eating. Ever."

Vegemite and Marmite are intended to be eaten?! Around my house, we use it as a bug repellant.

You dirty harasser apologist. He's obviously deleting comments not to trigger the delicate sensibilities of his audience. I know that you're joking, but that is a typical defense that I've seen for "cleaning" the comments. As I was trying to say, I don't have a problem with deleting comments as lon...

It's simple: by deleting the comments and adding â€œthey love to harass victims of sexual assaultâ€ he gives the impression that this was the nature of Brive's interaction. Even if there was an element of it, PZ Myers once again replaced a source with his own assessment and thereby denies that any...

As to Pitchguest's issue, note that, in Sweden, a child must be awarded to a biological parent, if one is available. My suggestion is to contact one of the Swedish MRA groups and see if they can help. I'd also say that I sympathize, but I feel weird doing that, one nym to another, but I still do. My...

Innocent people can easily have their lives ruined in the "trial by public opinion". Just think about Richard Jewell, an arguably heroic figure who had to struggle with the misconceptions spread by the media and fueled by the idiotic carousel of popular opinion. Richard Jewell is a great example of...

Sarah Silverman (who I think is very, very funny, YMMV) recently lied through her arse about being underpaid for gigs earlier in her career and was swiftly put in her place by the promoter involved. While she apologised for that specific instance she said it still reflected a larger issue. That ree...

1944 To Have and Have Not: Humphrey Bogart 45, Lauren Bacall 19 1990 Hamlet: Mel Gibson 34, Helena Bonham Carter 24 Now I know why you won't register an account. Because you're the kind of person who would draw a link - any link - between Bogart/Bacall's To Have and Have Not and Gibson/Bonhead-Cart...

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:In French it would be "amant". But it works for both sexes, more or less, so I guess we're still fucked.

In contrast, if you refer to a male mistress in Italy as a "goomah" (which is Italian for mistress) prepare for a serious ass-whoopin'.

#NotAllEuropeansAreTheSame

Really? wrote:There's no male equivalent of the "starlet." Sometimes feminists won't admit something.

In my opinion, the true failure of sex-positive feminism is the continued lack of a word for a male mistress.

http://i.imgur.com/VsLCZ9h.jpg Theory Number Two As way of background, note, please, that "Tony" is bald, with a chin-beard, and the picture was taken from down low while "Tony" was driving a car. Note, also, that he has a smarter-than-thou expression, as if he just finished recording a brain-dump ...

http://i.imgur.com/VsLCZ9h.jpg I had to stare at this (and cover parts with my fingers) to finally see it "correctly." (Note to Steersman et al .: this would actually qualify as an illusion, in contrast to that rotating woman you're rather hung-up on.) I won't comment of whether Tony is more attrac...

Why does Throwaway use a picture of a rapist as its avatar? Don't they know that ducks are one of the worst rapists in the animal kingdom? That's their normal way of reproducing. I think you'll find that Mallards are the worst offenders. White ducks are merely rapey by comparison, although that one...

I shit you not. I always thought Tony had a .... umm ..... er ..... shuffle .... distended (?) lower lip. :? Finding out today it was an optical illusion is like when that song lyric turns out to be something quite different to what you've been belting out. http://i.imgur.com/VsLCZ9h.jpg No matter ...

PZ has described the account a few times and in a few different ways. She apparently DID accuse him to the dean...after PZ had her detained by a female grad student. PZ protested his innocence, apparently, and the accuser made the accusation to the dean or chair maybe who did NOT report the very se...

But every single goddamn one is ignoring that Ogvorbis raped three girls and PZ was accused. I'm a bit confused about the P Z Myers part of the above. My understanding is that an undergrad threatened to accuse him of rape. P Z ran to his boss and, in the end, the undergrad never actually made the a...

My favorite bit in that Pharyngula thread is this quote from Amphiox (to Joshua): "Lots more people share PZâ€™s idea of freethought than yours." P Z Myers' commentariat really believe that, don't they? And they can drive, vote, and procreate, too. Maybe "favorite" was the wrong wrong word. Oh, and ...

ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:
comhcinc wrote:mausterbating counts as exescise right?
"Mausterbating".

That is quite an image for anyone who speaks German and English.

Note to self: self, pick up some more kittens from the shelter on the way home tomorrow.

http://i.imgur.com/BMDg99S.png I really loved that series, especially The Birthgrave . It's probably her best. The female lead is quite strong ... although, IIRC, she does get raped at least once. I will wait to be told if I'm a good person for liking a book with a female protagonist or a shitlord ...

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Touareg wear dark blue. And it seems to work. No idea.

Yep.

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The military gives out free contraceptives. No questions asked. Yet women fail to take them. Despite at least two branches of the service having mandatory pre-deployment requirements that explain where and how to get birth control while deployed. Is there a reason why this happens relatively freque...

Godfrey is not infallible.

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Or does ze really believe that gender norms can stand defiantly?

It's about research ethics. I've been trained to scream "patriarchy!" and "misogyny!" whenever anyone claims that it's all about ethics in something or other. But then I noticed that some of the unethical people at the Univ of Minnesota are female and almost all of the subjects (who didn't provide ...

I hope Oggy's just a liar, because that would mean no kids were actually raped. We all do. Well, except Peezie Myers and his merry gang of child rape apologist, because they wouldn't dare not to believe a "victim". We just went through this (for the umpteenth time) with the Univ of Virginia / Rolli...

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