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

[spoiler] This is ridiculous. As cunt says, a minor asking for dick pictures is not breaking the law; an adult who sends her picture of his (or someone else's junk) is. The moderation is bullshit. Making requests or suggestions that somebody break the law is ok now? The implications of that are som...

[spoiler]In the Atheism+ forum blowup over the private area, 2 posters are claiming that they or others could be literally harmed if information they've shared in the private space gets out. Okay, so here we have people who have felt threatened or victimized IRL and at other sites, trying to create...

[spoiler] So I've netflix instant queued it for watching later tonight, and wiki'd it and recognize who made it -- so it looks real good. On a sad note about Netflix and it's stock of movies, there is now, not a single James Bond movie available on Netflix. Like James Bond or not, it speaks to the ...

Coincidentally, just watched Iron Sky last night on Netflix. It is by far my favorite movie about a secret nazi moon base, and possibly the best movie ever made. So I've netflix instant queued it for watching later tonight, and wiki'd it and recognize who made it -- so it looks real good. On a sad ...

Looks as though SkepticalJay has been "vacationed"...

Interesting -- I have run into those near me. It might be a good way to bring up these issues and measure the crown temperature. You might also consider YouTube, or recording a short bit to send into a magazine-style podcast (e.g. The Pod Delusion). The standard on The Pod Delusion isn't super-high...

I haven't been to a conference in sigh, decades, and never a Skeptic's conference. How are presentations picked? Is it relatively easy or relatively difficult to be able to speak at a Skeptic's conference, or do they choose the same old speakers over and over? And/or which conferences would be the ...

From Ophelia's blog - a comment presumably approved: http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2013/01/ill-teach-you-to-mention-acid-in-the-face/#comment-426863 http://www.freeimagehosting.net/newuploads/nb9eo.jpg Hold the phone! I thought linking publicly available information was 'doxxing'...

I haven't been to a conference in sigh, decades, and never a Skeptic's conference. How are presentations picked? Is it relatively easy or relatively difficult to be able to speak at a Skeptic's conference, or do they choose the same old speakers over and over? And/or which conferences would be the e...

I'll close my observation with this quote. It is doubly interesting, because in spite of Louis' disclaimer about picking sides, he clearly has picked one and will willfully ignore anything that might penetrate that position. The irony lies within the last three word sentence. No, it's not hard. In ...

For what it's worth, I like Eucliwood. She's cool in my book. A bit too exasperated at times, but she's not a baboon. The moderation is bull. Somedumbguy, don't be daft. No one gets banned. Really? I bet that's not true. I bet if someone here posted CP they would be banned. I bet if someone here po...

FARK's rules. Note the part about: Don't encourage others to perform illegal acts.

http://i.imgur.com/x4eEWYm.jpg

http://www.fark.com/farq/posting/

..., I finally open up a quote of yours and it's about insulting me? If you want to play the paranoia-minor card, how about you leave me alone? You look kind of creepy insulting a minor whenever you can. What's that about? I'm scared. Did I mention that I've been in contact with agents before? They...

This is ridiculous. As cunt says, a minor asking for dick pictures is not breaking the law; an adult who sends her picture of his (or someone else's junk) is. The moderation is bullshit. A minor asking for dick pictures in a forum where not everyone readily understands she is a minor is asking for ...

Eucliwood. Posts like that make me think you are either 2 different people using the same account or just neurodiverse. Sometimes you can be so rational and succinct and other times you rant on like a mad cabbage. No, it's just a dramatic imitation of the way people like that think. And yay... I'm ...

Lsuoma wrote:Eucliwood is now moderated.

I'll let through all posts that I don't think may create legal liability for me.

Well done, darlin'!

Sigh. One reason I have no blog, or forum, or whatever, is I can't imagine the time it takes to weed through moderation queues.

Thank you for your time.

And worse, when I bring this up, I am suddenly a "foe" to be ignored. Heh. That's a very odd "And worse", but I would suggest not ignoring people on forums in general, and not ignoring people trying to explain that your behavior is borderline illegal and quite likely will cause enormous issues for ...

Perhaps there needs to be an adult consent checkbox when making a new user account. So, someone can make an orgy thread, but I can't jokingly ask for dick pictures? Suddenly my recent posts in general are a solicitation for porn? Get the fuck out of here. This is an act - you're pretending like you...

WTF... LSuoma, this nutcase is going to land you into an ocean of troubles. decius, I finally open up a quote of yours and it's about insulting me? If you want to play the paranoia-minor card, how about you leave me alone? You look kind of creepy insulting a minor whenever you can. What's that abou...

I am not a lawyer Justin, but if you have any lawyer friends, you might want to talk to them about when the line between talking shit and defamation is crossed. Just to clarify, I am saying the cumulative amount of unwarranted, fantasy shit talk towards Justin regarding this conference, combined wi...

I think we need to be careful how much reading of FTB we do. Browse using adblock. Don't allow JavaScript. Don't allow images. Read what you read using freezepage and then only by looking at it through two mirrors. There is clearly something in the pages they are serving that causes hallucinations a...

Looks like Greg Laden has been stretching the truth again and has gotten himself in a little bit of hot water. Of course once someone calls him out on it, he responds with "Finally, why is a skeptic defending a science denier? RU one of the rapeapologists and so you must disagree cuz it's me?"! Rea...

So thanks to Abbie Smith's passing reference this morning of Contagion along with a bunch of other movies about viruses that I had seen, I sat down and watched Contagion.

Now I want to restock my 3 day earthquake supply kit....

And buy a shotgun.

I don't know if this is obvious to anyone else but... IMHO on a structural basis alone, this the worst forum I have ever participated in. Who thought that basically one ubber long thread that encompassing all topics was the way to go here? Frankly, it is unwieldy, difficult to navigate, and impossi...

Hmm. Double post after retrying on an error message from the server.

Pharyngula IS intimidating. Deliberately. This is a feature, not a bug. It's not for everyone. Just like I don't necessarily want to post at Place X because their environment doesn't suit me (for example I'd be fucked if there were a no swearing policy. I loves me a swear I do), I don't expect that...

Pharyngula IS intimidating. Deliberately. This is a feature, not a bug. It's not for everyone. Just like I don't necessarily want to post at Place X because their environment doesn't suit me (for example I'd be fucked if there were a no swearing policy. I loves me a swear I do), I don't expect that...

Svan has called Benson's open and raised.

Can I pick the side that doesn't dehumanize people? Because fuck Louis, that's why.

The 'pit gets more members who comment that the 'pit is not as evil as it seems from the outside. Technically referred to as evilness transcendence, an unusual fact of some communities on the net is that no matter how evil it is portrayed by others on the outside, on the inside it can be a pretty d...

What is this I dont even [youtube]4c1ftt-TV6Q[/youtube] Some cheerleader escaped from the kitchen and wants to hurt my brain? No, really this stuff is fascinating. I'm so ignorant of it. Sadly, I have to confess that having watched the first minute or so of it, I am now downloading Contagion (havin...

From the Book of Flounces

People assume that twitter is a straight progression of cause to effect but actually from a non-linear non-subjected viewpoint it's more like a ball of wibbly-wobbly threaty-wheaty. ...stuff.

But I figure that anyone that does pay attention to them, if they do read a comment thread, they'll be able to pick up on the bullying and the banning. Exactly. Do that, and Nerd Of Redhead, Brownian, Sally Strange, Caine etc. will be on you within the hour to do the slymepits heavy lifting. Forget...

About engaging them on their own boards. I don't see much of a problem with it, just don't use the same username you use here. Use a plausible email address and be polite. It's ridiculously easy to stir up the hoarde with sound polite argumentation and it makes PZ looks like a giant asshole when he...

Just to be a prat, I am going to take a different attitude. At some point, everyone will say something stupid, something they regret. It's not my job to express regret, sorrow, disappointment, condemnation, expressions of shunning, or anything over something stupid someone else has said. An enemy of...

I am fucking around with some religious fundies on a large messageboard atm, and they are fond of saying 'just don't have sex if you don't want babies'. In fact, they go so far as to say that a married man and woman should abstain from sex their entire lives if they do not want to have children. Th...

[spoiler] I'm a bit late to the game here, but regarding circumcision: I'm circumcised, and I've never felt upset about it at all, nor can I think of any ill effects I've suffered because of it. If anyone here is circumcised, and wishes they weren't, can you explain why? Ditto. Whenever I hear ludi...

[spoiler] It's time to re-establish the atheist / skeptic community and exclude them from it. They can have their feminist conferences and the actual skeptics can do the actual skeptic work. I know people are going to say "You're just like the FtBers" and the answer is "No we aren't. You can come h...

It's time to re-establish the atheist / skeptic community and exclude them from it. They can have their feminist conferences and the actual skeptics can do the actual skeptic work. I know people are going to say "You're just like the FtBers" and the answer is "No we aren't. You can come here and di...

I'm a bit late to the game here, but regarding circumcision: I'm circumcised, and I've never felt upset about it at all, nor can I think of any ill effects I've suffered because of it. If anyone here is circumcised, and wishes they weren't, can you explain why? I'm Jewish, circumcised, two kids, an...

Well, a discussion on rape culture is long overdue and could actually result in less rapes. There's just so many problems with starting that discussion that it's probably impossible at this juncture. The biggest problem is getting people to accept the concept that most people in our society think t...

Though I've long loved Randi, and considered myself a scientist and engineer, I've never associated myself with organized Atheism or Skepticism. I have to say, if the level of scholarship or thinking is exemplified by with what I read at FTB, where on a daily basis I see logical fallacy, twisting of...

Not only did I think that was a very response, but indeed a very good response.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2013/01/17/shermer-and-the-myth-of-feminist-persecution Sorry, just leaving this here. There are some lulzworthy comments. Indeed. My own comment on the topic: The thing is Ed, that neither you nor Ophelia nor all of the pack braying at Shermerâ€™s heels have ...

http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/ ... ersecution

Sorry, just leaving this here. There are some lulzworthy comments.

http://i.imgur.com/40PO0.jpg

I have a question - which I dont know if anybody can answer : just this why does UN Aids (the United Nation's organization to combat the spread of HIV) - why are they pursuing the circumcision of ~20 million adults and children in sub saharan africa and pretending that this will provide a barrier t...

While I like most of Shermer's article, any mention of nazis is ridiculous and a rookie mistake. Ridiculous because it's a disproportionate comparison and the same argument can be made easily without blowing it up with hyperbole and a rookie mistake because you just hand in your opponent the key to...

Surprise, surprise! PeeZus, in his eagerness to show off his engagement with social justice issues, misrepresents this WSJ article about 2013 federal tax rate changes for Merkins. The graphic he posts as reflecting the WSJ's ignorance of "poor people" is actually presented in the article as example...

I'd really like to take a short course in Bayesian Inference. I know how the math works from probability way too long ago. I know it's a very big deal in the computing world now, in large part due to how Paul Graham championed it to fight spam. And I know that in the area of scientific induction, th...

they're all sexist. they're all elitist. they're all racist. it took social justice warriors and a heap of feminist to really turn me into a curmudgeon and I resent it. anything that can fuck these assholes over the better. they are their own worst enemies, the sad part is their message is so overw...

they're all sexist. they're all elitist. they're all racist. it took social justice warriors and a heap of feminist to really turn me into a curmudgeon and I resent it. anything that can fuck these assholes over the better. they are their own worst enemies, the sad part is their message is so overwh...

I don't know if women can't do "thinky", as Ophelia Benson puts it, but I am pretty sure she can't do thinky. I read Shermer's new piece, and I read Benson's response, and Shermer compares Benson/A+/PZ/RW/... to Salem Witch Trials McCarthyism Spanish Inquisition Previous social movement purges, incl...

I like that picture, women in the future will have good abs :D In keeping with the topic of Sci-fi and vile misogyny, I offer for your enjoyment Star Trek TNG's Tasha Yar: Le barf. I have to sort of agree with the "barf". I never really liked the Tasha Yar character. You know who I always found sex...

Off topic of what's being discussed in the thread, but I just ran across this while doing some side research into the eugenics movement of the early 20th century: For a generation we black folks have been the sexual scapegoats for white American filth in literature and lynching. Every time a black ...

Not getting sex from the person you're supposedly in a sexual relationship with at least every once in a while- somewhat bad. Problem?? If you're not getting sex from them, then you're not in a sexual relationship with them, kinda by definition. Might have been you were in the past; it might not be...

rayshul wrote:...

Well, I have to crash.

If your relationship is working for you, your husband, and kids, more power to you.

I don't think a lot of people are working on your plain.

Later!

rocko2466 wrote:You broke the whole site. That's what you did.

As Windy (I think) put it earlier....

Nomen est omen.

Sighned,

Some Dumb Guy

:(

Trying to unwind the quotes and elide the irrelevant and apologies if I mangled the attributions... [spoiler] I am not obliged to do shit for my husband and he is not obliged to do shit for me (beyond keep my house clean). I don't really get the obligation thing. I'm assuming it comes when you enter...

Hmm. Clearly I broke something in spoiler tag land.

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