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

In other news, HJ Hornbeck continues with his promotion of the benighted claim that sex is a social construct by crowing that â€œa major scientific publicationâ€ [ Nature ] has argued the same thesis. Although I donâ€™t see that the article uses anywhere the word â€œconstructâ€ much less the phra...

A few neck manipulations later, my leg seems to be agreeing about a partial job as a walking-around tool. Bastard! (so yeah, just a pinched nerve, it seems). Back to the usual schedule... Phil- get in to see your doctor, pronto! No more neck manipulations! Summary of prior and recent medical histor...

UPDATE: Sexuality drama from my house.... you may remember from last time.... <snip> So, yesterday my kid calls a family "meeting" and has something to tell my wife and I. "wife and me" ;) <snip> So, the two of them have tried swinging and hated the people.... so they quit this. The are looking for...

h/t Notung: http://www.frankieboyle.com/frankie/free-speech.html

Amy Davis Roth on mammography: http://skepchick.org/2015/02/your-first-mammogram/ or https://archive.today/BWvOB <snip> I am surprised that mammography is still conducted with the press, given both advances in scanning technology and in computer algorithms that can interpret multiple/intersecting 3...

Amy Davis Roth on mammography: http://skepchick.org/2015/02/your-first-mammogram/ or https://archive.today/BWvOB Watson with the first comment: Re: the 2009 recommendation change: yes, doctors have differing opinions but the main thing to remember is that the recommendation is for the â€œaverage wom...

Peezus wrote a thread about a spat between Milo Yiannopolous and Brianna Wu, called "These are not serious or intellegent people" (the title of which seems to be a reference to gamergaters) which Truth Machine (now identifying as "Jim Balter") has been posting in. He started a fight, ironically eno...

no idea about zvan. Know for a fact that laden hates guns and gun culture. Laden once joked that he always had a gun and a pitbull with him (but it was not an obvious joke at first glance). He's written dozens of posts against gun culture. From the comment thread at the link to Laden's blog in Zvan...

Almost Diamonds, 12/2012, "Rushing to Be Part of the Gun Problem" - https://archive.today/a2gCE There are other countries, other cultures where guns are owned and handled more responsibly than they are here. There could be a healthier gun culture here I think. I see bits of it among friends who own ...

FWIW: Ben Zvan photo, 2/2010, "Gun Control": https://www.flickr.com/photos/ben-zvan-photography/4398539180/ Comments below include BZ saying "I passed the test. The outliers are the 10-round rapid-fire" and, after receiving congrats on his controlled shooting w/ gun and w/ camera, "Thanks... I do wh...

Zvan is pro gun, and as someone stated, Laden, too? Do you have sources for that? If you don't have direct links then maybe you know other information or context, where this was stated? That'll to be interesting. I didn't make the claim, but here's some info: Almost Diamonds, 6/2010, "How Well Does...

@Bhoytony. Did you watch that clip I posted of SVU? I know fuck all about gaming or Law And Order, so I'm just going to assume that was an accurate depiction of real-life events. Yup it was spot on. Nothing like a bit of rape and battery after an hour or two of Battlefield. We need to keep teh gril...

For anyone who might be interested, PZ has posted "CFI LA Sources" for his talk there & at CFI Orange County with an exhortation to go read them now: https://archive.today/ENwRz I've added spaces between them but otherwise no edits. "1012" probably means "2012" for the 5th one on the list. Iâ€™m tak...

So basically, I got lucky, really really lucky. I have been hearing reports of wrecked basements, ruined carpets, and sinkholes! So glad to hear you & your home are okay (though your driveway looks a little worse for wear). ... I did manage to get a hold of the contractor on the night of the flood,...

Twice this year the skepchick site has called for new writers for their 'sister sites' "The gig requires a moderate time commitment and offers no pay, except for (possibly) the peopleâ€™s ovation and fame forever." You would think that a regular hemorrhage of writers, plus the dissatisfaction of El...

Ah. Three new entries from end of last semester (quarter, whatever) at Rate My Professor, & tests were among the features of the course felt to be negative by this small subset of students (who call them random, say some questions seemed unrelated to the course material, and that grading was inconsi...

<snip> http://i.imgur.com/ko17w50.png http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2015/02/07/sexism-is-derailing-mathematicians-from-an-early-age/comment-page-1/#comment-911016 Understanding that Myers knows genetics and that the comments below might not apply to his situation, here are some of the poss...

<snip> Humans are animals. Boys play competitive games from childhood. Humans want to hunt, to fight, to run, to jump. I won't apologize for being an animal. Better to acknowledge the dark heart of the animal than to forever pretend we're civilized and separated angels living lives above Christian/...

<snip stuff I agree with> [youtube]tNnHrCtWsDs[/youtube] ^My childhood, incidentally. What this song is saying is not far removed from what McIntosh is saying, except for the addition of an omnipotent, thought-policing agent who watches you all the time to make sure you're not consuming verboten me...

Interesting â€“ thanks for the links and quotes; the one on the documentary led to a broader discussion and article in Wikipedia which included these criticisms of the concept: Criticisms RAINN, one of North America's leading anti-sexual violence organizations, in a report detailing recommendations...

Countdown to a big A/S celebrity weekend for those in/near LA: First, on Friday February 13th: Watson at LAWAAG then Quiz-o-tron , oops that's Quiz-o-tron . Announcements about that Quiz-o-tron performance from January, including that 2nd link, say "Special guests will include Jennifer Ouellete, Jos...

FWIW, my recent comment on one of HJ Hornbeckâ€™s posts on M.A. Melbyâ€™s blog [Sinmantyx]; heâ€™s deleted it (as he kind of said he would do) as it â€“ horror of horrors â€“ actually questioned his highly questionable â€œhypothesisâ€ [being charitable] that, essentialy, the existence of rape myth...

screwtape wrote:In other news, I have finally conquered shortcrust pastry. I own it. Better than my mother's. :banana-dance:

Carry on.

Samples or it isn't true. :snooty: :drool:

FWIW, my recent comment on one of HJ Hornbeckâ€™s posts on M.A. Melbyâ€™s blog [Sinmantyx]; heâ€™s deleted it (as he kind of said he would do) as it â€“ horror of horrors â€“ actually questioned his highly questionable â€œhypothesisâ€ [being charitable] that, essentialy, the existence of rape myth...

(Referring above to the "just poor" vs "really poor" - who "should" get welfare? thread, the one that compares evidence Blackout needs to produce to support his claim about something that came up in a class once to that needed to support the faster-than-light neutrino claim. Not the "I am sorry for ...

It gets better: Here the author of the triggered post discussed before apologizes to the forum for "being an asshole". What were Blackout's crimes? Basically disagreeing with others about whether there are people on welfare who don't deserve it. Because according at Atheism Plus claiming that some ...

And just because I'm in the mood to post more APF head-scratchers: Debunking pro-life myths by ischemgeek opens with: TW: Discussion of life-saving abortion [ Show ] under which is this (bolding as in original; I have not carried through most of the links from the OP): [*] Abortion is "never" necess...

More from the Arguments Atheists should stop using TW: see mod note thread at APF. TW: TWs & hide-text boxes in the original are not carried through below. The OP included: Another argument we ought to stop using: Equating believers and believing with neurodivergency. A good real example is when ath...

On a lighter note:

Jan Steen wrote:http://i.imgur.com/L82T1Ql.jpg

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Speaking of trigger warnings I just posted this on the Atheism Plus forum: (snipped) You can find the thread here: :popcorn: A reply there: I dunno Kirbmarc, this reads like those people who cruelly parody TWs. Here's the thing about triggers. They can be anything. A smell, a noise, a phrase. You c...

Over at Atheism Plus forum, a thread on "Arguments atheists should stop using" started 2 weeks ago (& still poking along as of 2 days ago). In this thread, we learn that some of the arguments atheists use may be triggering as classist, ableist, and/or because they mention death. The person who poste...

I hope another lurker is okay... Me too, I hope it is just the power outage that is keeping her quiet. She's a toughie, so I'll admit to having a great deal of confidence she'll cope. Weirdly Jesper is more of a cause for immediate alarm. It sounds like he's getting treatment for a psychiatric cond...

I hope another lurker is okay...

Well, the breast implants probably help. Oh, appearance-shaming! While I never! (or is there some reliable way to tell without feeling them?) YES! Please discuss this in-depth. And in a Romanian accent. (Don't ask.) This may be (==is) TMI, <snip TMI> It must still be an addling memory - you attribu...

AndrewV69 wrote:Oh and the 1st woman? You could not even say she was begging for it.

<snip>

Are you suggesting the 2nd woman is/was "begging for it"? :(

Here is the cover girl for the SI swimsuit edition: [.img]https://s1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/a0R5gf4JYTCNLKCXhIGJiA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTtzbT0x/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/omg/2015-02-05/9e9d07d0-acef-11e4-b4da-09ed0bec2a2e_sports-illustrated-swimsuit-cover-2015-1-.jpg[/img] That is also...

screwtape - congrats on finishing chemo!!

Renee - good to see you back here & glad to hear your guy is doing well after his cancer treatment.

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I'm almost certain noone has referred to this before, so I'll give it to you. [youtube]nzF_KmNedtw[/youtube] The man in the video attempts to explain what lies at the core of cultural marxist offshoots like feminism and SJWism. There is some strangeness to his argument, but it doesn't seem entirely...

For those following the Gateway to Reason conference planning with bated breath, 3 bits of info: Stumbled upon this convention-info-repository which has not only the now-outdated venue information, but also DJ Grothe, Abbie Smith, and "Speaker 03 Scientist": https://archive.today/8nR0i ( = archive v...

jet_lagg wrote:What is Watson's gaming background? It doesn't surprise me necessarily. I just never heard her reference anything particularly geeky.

[youtube]97a0uhi8Xc4[/youtube]

She may also have made a patreon-funded video or 2 about gaming.

http://i.imgur.com/MTI29yP.png?1

Note the ad alongside PZ's One True Atheism post.

Here's a later archive link than the one previously posted, probably has additional thoughtful suggestions from the Horde on what to call heretics: https://archive.today/l4urN

Re Benson's expressed preference for ballet over football (quoted above, can't find now & on phone, thus haven't provided links below either): Ah, ballet, where the ugly parts occur behind stage to make things lovely for the audience. Google ballet and each or any of the following: - unrealistic exp...

[ Post 15689 ] Over the course of the day I was able to read the script from HJ Hornbeck's "EBF2" ("Evidence-based Feminism 2") talk and glance over his references, looking about 3 of them up online. (Tribble, thanks for your comments on features of false accusations, a day or so ago.) In some post...

Jamila Bey has been added as an FTB blogger:

Myers announcing it: https://archive.today/E2fC9

Bey's first post: https://archive.today/v5voT

In completely different news... this is fucking awesome. http://metro.co.uk/2015/01/31/woman-gives-birth-to-twins-despite-being-genetically-born-a-man-5043466/ Chick with AIS has a womb and gives birth (egg donor). Headline at link: "Woman gives birth to twins despite being genetically born a man" ...

Too big to embed, FTBCon3 vid views one week on - http://i.imgur.com/4sYAy9U.jpg Even FtB doesn't like Szvan. Good to know. Holy crap. Looks like people who use youtube don't like any of these people very much. Good catch re the FTBCon video which has # of views disabled. From checking a few, it lo...

In completely different news... this is fucking awesome. http://metro.co.uk/2015/01/31/woman-gives-birth-to-twins-despite-being-genetically-born-a-man-5043466/ Chick with AIS has a womb and gives birth (egg donor). Headline at link: "Woman gives birth to twins despite being genetically born a man" ...

Haha!!! So now we know: Nerd actually pulls that "I am a scientist/skeptic" bullshit with his poor wife. What a cunt. http://i.imgur.com/oZ19kRt.png "And I wouldn't let her get away with her rationalization, as there was no reason...". So I pulled the garment rack from its seating, turned to the Re...

Whoa. "Armed Gamergate-r Crashes Mother's Prius en route to Brianna Wu's House"

Wu claims dude was coming after her. Dude claims she rigged his mother's Prius to crash.

I signed up for Swedish back in 2004 when I was working at T-Mo: I could literally walk out of my building, cross SE 38th, and be at Swedish Factoria. My long-time dentist is in the same building too. Now I'm at Amazon, I can do the same with the Swedish Primary/Urgent Care clinic on Boren. You nee...

Haha!!! So now we know: Nerd actually pulls that "I am a scientist/skeptic" bullshit with his poor wife. What a cunt. http://i.imgur.com/oZ19kRt.png "And I wouldn't let her get away with her rationalization, as there was no reason...". So I pulled the garment rack from its seating, turned to the Re...

Haha!!! So now we know: Nerd actually pulls that "I am a scientist/skeptic" bullshit with his poor wife. What a cunt. http://i.imgur.com/oZ19kRt.png "And I wouldn't let her get away with her rationalization, as there was no reason...". So I pulled the garment rack from its seating, turned to the Re...

Does anyone know what that fat old fraud Meyers is on about with this washcloth comment? http://i.imgur.com/QXWF4wP.png I was never into Tombraider, so is this an in-game reference, or a literal request ... From the OP, it sounds like he's saying the latest one is realistic enough to need to wash h...

... Myers did not literally say Slymepitters are rapists. He did not spell it out; he merely made a statement that left "Slymepitters are rapists" as the only logical conclusion as to his meaning. The only alternative I can see is that Myers was suggesting, or Myers' supporters are suggesting, that...

Love the disclaimer. Yes, I had a 2cm polyp, likely an adenoma, removed about three centimeters up the rectum from the anus. The doc said there might be some rectal bleeding, but I've passed around 15ml of fresh blood so far, which seems a bit excessive. 2 cm - whoa, glad you had that colonoscopy. ...

And you see, Aratina, why I think you substitute your ideology for morality. As I said before, morality might be best described as a way to take sides so it depends on ideology. Or, to state my reaction charitably: morality might not be "best described" that way. Been skimming over aratina's drivel...

Skep tickle wrote:<snip alcohol + sex scenario>

Oh, and also, in case it makes as difference in your moral calculations: What if Person A and Person B are ideological allies, versus if they're ideological foes?

Over at Nugent's blog Aratmolesterina Cave wrote: Wait a minute! The only â€œfantasyâ€ that falls apart would be the one where PZ said that Slymepitters are rapistsâ€“he didnâ€™t. I agree with this Aratina's comment quoted here (without having seen the context). Myers did not literally say Slymepi...

Aratina's view of morality may not be completely summarized by these 2 familiar phrases, but they seem to be components of it: "No harm, no foul" "Intent is not magic" Aratina, others have posed situations of risk, some of which you've commented on. Could you comment on the one below? Person A and P...

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