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

Not sure I understand this as I see mostly the jump back to the start position and not very much smooth motion at all. Is this another of those illusions that need binocular vision to see it properly? I have superb binocular vision and I perceive the image in the same way you do. From this sample s...

Not sure I understand this as I see mostly the jump back to the start position and not very much smooth motion at all. Is this another of those illusions that need binocular vision to see it properly? Have you tried moving back, away from the monitor? We only perceive smooth motion when the jumps a...

As I watch it, sometimes it seems like it has turned almost 90 degrees, and is about to continue on to do the full 360. At that point something in the illusion breaks down, and my brain slaps itself and says "hey, dude, it's not really doing much of anything". The key to the reverse-contrast illusi...

"Therefore shoddy and inept application of words lays siege to the intellect in wondrous ways." Context as Other Minds: The Pragmatics of Sociality, Cognition, and Communication You need to understand social context, Steersman. I suggest starting from the book above, which explains how evolution ha...

They're all human - what more do you want? I have no idea how my kids will identify as they are a mix of Welsh/Irish/Scots/Burmese and possibly some parts not actually known. That was one enormous gangbang then! Did you take pictures? Possibly as I wasn't there ;) but our ancestry across the family...

OK, My CAPS lock was on, I could not sign in until my fourth try, and then only if I answered: Which of the following will not kill you if you breathe it: sarin, tabun, soman, molten lead, helium?: This question is a means of preventing automated form submissions by spambots. The correct answer is ...

[youtube]ob-qmfvnQVo[/youtube] "There's no text-book on how to be multi-racial and be OK with it." I, like, totes get where she's coming from! There's, like, no text-book for me, either. It's, like, soooo unfair. I'm a mix of English, Welsh, Irish, and probably Scottish, with some Yurpean thrown in...

In general, "liberals" don't get this. Lots of people on the left have a different view of "honor" than people who are more right leaning. Noam Chomsky typifies a kind of thinking that proposes the ethic of "honor" is morally bad. He just doesn't believe in honor. In my mind, it is not honorable fo...

Clarence wrote:Here's a nifty video. Too bad I hate the sound, so turn that down. The video is awesome though:

[youtube]m_Loc7qX7FI[/youtube]

Needs some of Bank's Culture ships

For those wondering: http://www.sstack.com/resources/sstack/images/libraries/content/How_to_Tie_a_Mecate.jpg I was expecting something more like this: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/76/1a/fd/761afdce7cf265e2f743af7c932f310d.jpg Well you are obviously more widely educated than I am! :o

It's come to this: NYC Will Fine You $250,000 For ‘Misgendering’ A Transsexual And in one fell swoop they have erased otherkin. I am deeply sorry Matt. Pouncetugs. As a trans*equine, I have the right to tend bar wearing a bosal and mecate, and to take a dump right where I stand! For those wondering...

snip I would just note that you will not realise how a privilege hearing is until you lose it. It can happen overnight and aid and implants will never give back what you have lost and can be useless or a very poor substitute.Sudden hearing loss affects your whole life :([/quote] I don't think the i...

What the fuck is 'hearing privilege', Christian or otherwise? Hearing isn't a privilege, it's the default setting. It's not a privilege if privilege is something 'unearned' because hearing isn't something someone can earn. It's not like you steal someone else's hearing. That's one of the most retar...

Okay, I'm logged in now. Forgot my password before. Anyway. I'll be blunt. This news hit me hard. It hit me hard when I first heard he had cancer, but I thought at least another ten years. Two years if he's lucky... god. I don't know how to cope. The worst thing is I don't have anything else to foc...

:cry: Via Ed Brayton - highly amusing letter with the plus that Trump's campaign could hit some trouble

http://static.politico.com/7a/81/2f7852 ... plaint.pdf

I expect the FEC will be far too slow though :(

Plus I'm disappointed that y'all aren't sufficiently squicked-out by Rebecca Watson. Buncha PZ Myerszes creepos in here. sWith a different personality Watson could be likeable - with regards to the lady you refer to Surely the only question you need to answer is could you live with her without the ...

After a period of unemployment and a change of careers into substance misuse counselling for which I have finally finished my initial training and brought a vial of naloxone home today. I have received a phone call tonight offering me a job working with the last milking herd in a 10 mile radius. Th...

Snip I don't live in a country that needs to have any affirmative action program (oops! Just scored -500 SJW points right there!) and while I can see the sense that affirmative action has unintended consequences, it is also wrong in two more important senses - some of you don't need to apologise fo...

[.img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVJR-RAUYAA7tKv.jpg:large[/img] It's a pretty accurate description but I'd argue that it leaves out some deeper sociological causes which have inspired the "radical" interpretation of religion (which isn't "radical" as much as traditional and authoritarian). IMHO t...

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:
feathers wrote:Radiologist? Did the DGSI build a longwave antenna into your leg?
Maybe...

http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo35 ... ajr2gd.jpg

Looks a lot better than the last x-ray

Alexa is a little misleading as it is a relative ranking. The following is weekly page views for the past 12 months. There is a downtrend but it is slower. No prizes for guessing what the large drop was from. Untitled.png The actual visitors is even more stable. This is because Ftb has already filt...

His words were reported mostly accurately, but they were entirely divorced from their context so that readers would think he was seriously suggesting that labs should be segregated by gender. The missing context (everything he said before and after about the importance of women in science and not l...

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:
Gumby wrote:
Thanks ch20.

If I could figure out how to do this shoop, i'd be real happy.

http://i.imgur.com/arhsyd0.png
Is this a stereoscopic image? Like, I have to squint to see the 3D?

3D privilege again!!! I can't even....

Scott Alexander on his latest view on SJWs and the media responses,

http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/11/09/lo ... the-mouth/

Just wondering. I got into Dawkins back when he was most famous for being the writer of The Selfish Gene, The Extended Phenotype and The Blind Watchmaker, not for this New Atheist thing he was lumped in with, and when I hear his name it's those science books that pop instantly into my mind. Anyone ...

I still joke about being homeless, but I've had a room for over a month. It's 5'2" wide by under-8-feet long. I sleep on a yoga mat on the floor & can touch all 4 walls at once. It has a window. I don't know what its original purpose was. Laundry room? Walk-in pantry? The couple whose apartment I'm...

That last statement is just flat out wrong and appears to be the result of getting your information second hand from the notoriously unreliable media. Nowhere has Oculus said that they will bundle a PC with the Rift. Every thing Oculus has said on the subject is available here: https://youtu.be/QlvX...

<snip> Folks like Crossan, who wish to unpeel the layers to reveal the essential Jesus, envisioning him as a docile, ecumenical preacher of peace, would not like at all the real man underneath all the dross & gloss -- a fundamentalist, politico-religious revolutionary who sought to overthrow the He...

If you replace the boring 1 and 0 with a and b you get: ((x*a + x*b) 1 + (x*a + x*b) 2 + ... (x*a + x*b) n ) / (2 * x * n) which goes to x((a + b) 1 + (a + b) 2 + ... (a + b) n ) / x(2 * n) which goes to n (a + b) / (2 * n) = (a + b) / 2 What justifies breaking the original series into a series of ...

- Snip Actually, your statement is not quite correct. It actually does sum to 1/2 in a very precise sense, not in some average sense. Essentially, one needs to define a "Summation Machine" with some reasonable properties, and then such sums can be computed, including the other one I showed (it sums...

<Snip> If he is, he'll be second against the wall when the revolution comes! I hate those fuckers. The only thing worse are old people with those little rubber change purses who have to pay exact change to the penny. They'll be first.[/quote] You think that's bad? How about people who bring more tha...

Just to show my ignorance on this how does this sum to 1/2? If you plot alon a grap with the Y axis being the sum of the series and x the number of terms all points will be 1 or 0. The"average" of this would be a half but any sum must be only 1 or 0. Short answer only please :) [/quote][/quote] It ...

[quote="H. Korban"]Re Math: I belong to the small subset of people who do math all day, every day. When I am not writing equations I am writing code. (I mostly write C++, Lua and Python. I hate C++, but well, it delivers the performance I need.) In any case, I find that to properly understand math (...

Billie from Ockham wrote:
CuntajusRationality wrote:[youtube]puSkP3uym5k[/youtube]
I see your Jake Shimabukuro and raise you one Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain:

[youtube]pLgJ7pk0X-s[/youtube]

Having seen both Jake is far superior

Parody Accountant wrote:
InfraRedBucket wrote:These smash parties? Is this a "thing"? Did I miss the memo about this? Is it an American thing? (being from the UK)
No. This is a new kind of stupid.

Is this not a modern version of a potlach? :?:

<snip> Over the years I have been to several different states in the USA and the one thing that struck me was that the majority of the population appears to be quite insular or parochial. My impression was that the majority of Americans only consumed local news, and perhaps were vaguely aware of som...

Parody Accountant wrote:The edit button is spelled 'preview' ;)

Doesn't work as I suffer from the usual seeing what you thought you have writen rather than what you have actually written :(

“People at the school thought it might be a bomb … because it looks exactly like a f*cking bomb,” he said during a panel discussion with Mark Cuban, Jorge Ramos, George Pataki, and Chris Matthews. “It’s not the color of his skin. Somebody look me in the eye right now and tell me. Over the last 30 y...

“People at the school thought it might be a bomb … because it looks exactly like a f*cking bomb,” he said during a panel discussion with Mark Cuban, Jorge Ramos, George Pataki, and Chris Matthews. “It’s not the color of his skin. Somebody look me in the eye right now and tell me. Over the last 30 ye...

Old_ones wrote:
Billie from Ockham wrote:As Mark Twain once said: "Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."
Does that mean broccoli is what happens when the cabbage gets a PhD? :think:

Broccoli is a college drop out!

Interesting article on victimhood culture in The Atlantic from the article: "Victimhood cultures emerge in settings, like today’s college campuses, “that increasingly lack the intimacy and cultural homogeneity that once characterized towns and suburbs, but in which organized authority and public opi...

deLurch wrote:
Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:What about my feels? What about if my feels tell me Myers should be fucked right into the ground? That doesn't count?
OK. We well place pz myers between you on a trampoline, and a slab of marble. If that isn't a death sentence, I don't know what is.

But death sentence for whom? :snooty:

Greatest Hits Album, with bonus Poop Blackface Selfie: http://imgur.com/a/lfVFJ What drug/drugs cause a lot of constipation? Opiates? Many of the heavier pain killers. Tramadol can back you up for days. Even codeine. If mixed with alcohol this would also explain her blackouts. The main point with t...

In Watson's defense, Radford is not clear. There is an underlying threat of a legal lawsuit, but one simply has not been initiated. I personally would have chatted with a lawyer. I don't think I would need a full $4k for that type of a chat as no lawsuit appeared to be imminent. But if your busines...

dog puke wrote:
Malky wrote:Is this in Hilbert's hotel?
Sorry for the double post

Are you trying to prove Hilbert? :bjarte:[/quote]

Just making room for one more :?

Is this in Hilbert's hotel?[/quote]

Sorry for the double post

Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
Bhurzum wrote: That's nothing! Try wrapping your skull around "Waaah function collapse" if you want a real mind-fuck. The "double slut experiment" explains it nicely...
Can't touch me, homey -- I got a time-share in Hilbert Space.

Is this in Hilbert's hotel?

Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
Bhurzum wrote: That's nothing! Try wrapping your skull around "Waaah function collapse" if you want a real mind-fuck. The "double slut experiment" explains it nicely...
Can't touch me, homey -- I got a time-share in Hilbert Space.

Is this in Hilbert's hotel?

quotes snipped... In my case I had to get tough. Everyone's situation is different, but I learned that the roles truly do get reversed after a certain point. I became the parent and my parent became the child. The hardest part for me was overruling her overwhelming and perfectly normal desire to sta...

[quote="Shatterface"][quote="Spike13"][quote="Ape+lust"]Hahahaha!!

[url=https://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/carbon ... -muhammad/]Carbon dating suggests

OK, folks. I have created a trigger which will create a username for guest posts of the form "Guest_xxxxxxxx" where xxxxxxxx is a lower-case hex string. The string is created by hashing a subset of the posters IP, which means that guests posting from the same IP will always show the same username. ...

OK, folks. I have created a trigger which will create a username for guest posts of the form "Guest_xxxxxxxx" where xxxxxxxx is a lower-case hex string. The string is created by hashing a subset of the posters IP, which means that guests posting from the same IP will always show the same username. ...

Updated the wall of Rebecca's Patreon sponsors: http://imgur.com/pZR70Oz.jpg These are just the guys who have a selfie avatar, most patrons don't. There are women patrons, but they're a tiny subset. It looks like Rebecca is still drawing on the same older, dweebish types of guys she's been surround...

feathers wrote:
CuntajusRationality wrote:https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/73 ... 9a6724.jpg

I like the suggestion to "look inside".

Feel free to give it a go

I find Alastair Reynolds writings to be good hard Science Fiction Have read all of his books apart from the latest one. A fantastic imagination and a great storyteller. An astrophysicist who used to work for the European Space Agency so he knows his stuff. The only one of his I did not like was Cen...

I find Alastair Reynolds writings to be good hard Science Fiction Have read all of his books apart from the latest one. A fantastic imagination and a great storyteller. An astrophysicist who used to work for the European Space Agency so he knows his stuff. The only one of his I did not like was Cen...

katamari Damassi said: I got tired of browsing the sci-fi section and just seeing books based on TV shows, movies, video games, or it was part of a never ending series and either featured the word "dragon" or "sword" in the title. Me too, to some degree. I have never been able to understand how or ...

Thanks. Though I took a look at the article and I'm really no wiser as to what Damion's handle is supposed to be saying or alluding to. Ideas? It's sometimes used so as to prevent otherwise recognised brands or names appearing in search engine results. So the POTUS could post as B4rach 0b4ma. Myers...

free thoughtpolice wrote:Ed Brayton doesn't have a banner up yet on Patheos although you can find a few archived posts. :think:

Can be found here: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/

Yes, that's the standard pit welcome -- someone will be along with your basket of lynx soon, I seem to have mislaid mine. Welcome, and fuck off with joy :D[/quote] Make sure that you study those links before you comment here. They will explain Pit culture and history so that you don't make any mista...

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