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Steersman wrote:You're not conflating him judging your poll and Gumby's shop with an attempt to suppress those are you? Very different categories, methinks.

"Unacceptable" and "Free Speech" are not compatible.

Ophelia has acknowledged the reference to acid in my face , and stated she was wrong. I will give credit where credit is due. It's a shame that more open direct methods of communication are not used. She could have asked you directly and saved herself a blog post. Or, she could just stay on her meds.

So, wait...if gender isn't fixed or binary, who gets to kick whom in what (if any) genitalia? Is there a chart somewhere? :think: The very same proglodytes who'll in one breath insist that gender is just a social construct, will in the next breath insist that someone is a 'girl born in a boy's body.'

AnonymousCowherd wrote:This has been another contribution to the Slymepit Treasury of Obscure Germanticisms.

Entschuldigung Sie, ist daÃŸ das Sonderzug nach Pankow?

Another from Fincke, I let people say any number of things I find offensive or that I vehemently think are wrong. Because it's not my job to police people's thoughts.... I am opposed to trying to impose my views through censorship. MANY people would silence me as morally offensive.... I won't do th...

You cannot add administrators and moderators to your foes list. O really. Some animals are more equal than others? hahaha. Fuck you and byebye. yes. welcome to the real world, where everyone is not equal, and some people have privileges you do not. If it took you THIS long to realize that this is h...

... most instances of so-called racism are not, in fact, what people generally mean and/or have historically meant when they say racism; they are, more accurately; more specifically, some mix of anti-culturalism, ethnocentrism, general and unfocussed xenophobia, and myriad other forms of "othering"...

Why's that a 'freudian slip'? He's just playing on his reputation of being a 'militant' atheist. Not in the classic sense (i.e. "We've had failures, we've had sex.") I just keep encountering revealing whines from PZ where he wants more respect, wants to be treated like the big boys. I recall one se...

Returning to this discussion after a brief sabbatical from the Pit to deal with Teh IRL, I'm struck by how much it resembles equally futile debates with creationists. One the one side, we have several people raising specific, detailed points, with citation, not to mention common sense. On the other,...

Someone I follow on Twatter has been retweeting a lot of this individual 's tweets, and...well, I'll just show y'all: http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x17/Sublime_Wind/Feminism/forceRape_zpsb4b85dcd.png I really can't tell if serious... :? This might clarify things for you... Renee debunked this ...

Dick Strawkins wrote:
... And what about me? You know, I'm as atheist as those others and I'm probably "atheier" than some of them.

Reading PZ's many freudian slips, one is left with the distinct impression that the other children never played with little Paulie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKNAzl-XN4I&list=SP848F2368C90DDC3D Robert Sapolsky continues his two-part series on evolution focusing on individual and kin selection, behavioral logic, competitive infanticide, male/female animal hierarchies, sex-ratio fluctuation, intersexual competition, imprinte...

Where did I say Matt wants to end all human progress? I believe it was in the schoolyard, lunch period, when you rebutted my arguments with this bit of technical data: Oh noes... we ... we can't do things! Because things have costs! We must stop doing things immediately! * I agree I said he was sci...

I sincerely doubt his ability to understand costs, strongly evidenced by the things he has said. And a failure to understand costs would lead to bad policy. In my corporate career, I handled multi-million-dollar budgets, and always came in under. I've managed my own entrepreneurship with far lower ...

Spence is ably taking care of Matt, which frees me up for the sensible conversation here. Since you've ignored every specific question I've asked you, found yourself proven stupefyingly wrong on the technical details of solar, wind, and light bulbs Actually, that's all lies from you, as anyone can ...

BWAHAHAHA Oh noes... we ... we can't do things ! Because things have costs ! We must stop doing things immediately! What are you, a ten year-old? Your claims so far: 1) "the human overpopulation doomsday scenario [is] somewhat less credible than extinction from asteroid impact, and perhaps slightly...

Spence is ably taking care of Matt, which frees me up for the sensible conversation here. Since you've ignored every specific question I've asked you, found yourself proven stupefyingly wrong on the technical details of solar, wind, and light bulbs, and able to only to respond with pathetic ad hom,...

it's no surprise you thought we were running out of sand. How many of your other claims rely on the same level of understanding? Strawman. I didn't say we were running out of sand. I said there were costs associated with acquiring any raw materials. I picked "sand" out of the top of my head, as I k...

You re-state the obvious. Food production is rising to meet the demands of a rising population. Why am I not surprised you cannot read a simple graph? *Meeting* the demands would be a flat line on that graph, because it is normalised against population. We are *exceeding* the demands of a growing p...

Nothing forcing cement to be made with carbon based fuel. That's the way we do it today, because that is the most efficient way to do it given our current tech. Most certainly not the only way of doing it. All you need is the right mix of materials and energy input. The energy could come in any for...

One day after I post Avril Lavigne's new video here, Jerry Coyne writes about it on HuffPo. Says he "found it during desultory browsing of the Internet". Is it possible he reads the Pit? ;) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jerry-a-coyne/rock-and-roll-is-dead_b_3832003.html I do see daily UC IP hits in...

Lsuoma wrote:enn ist das NunstÃ¼ck git und Slotermeyer?

I nearly died laughing over that one!

Jesse is a frakking Weeble.

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Meanwhile...We have confirmation of another unsourced and anonymous accusation of rape. http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr01/2013/7/16/11/anigif_enhanced-buzz-5425-1373987326-18.gif This time, doggie-style. I had a cat who used to "answer" the phone. She'd knock the receiver off the hoo...

I'll just leave this here for the hell of it. Global food production normalised by population. food_for_thought.jpg You re-state the obvious. Food production is rising to meet the demands of a rising population. But that's not the point . This increase in food production you so gleefully point to i...

Sand for concrete got me. components.jpg Silly, science-ignorant me! Sand is only the second-biggest component of concrete. And of course, the elves just leave all these materials at our doorstep each morning. It is not the sand that matters. It is the cement. Cement is manufactured with a carbon b...

Die Gretl, im Kabaret, Seidenstrumpfe usw., als sie pinkelt -- ekelhaft, wa? My German is not up to the job so I am switching to English to answer. As far as I am concerned as long as everyone is a consulting adult they can go ahead without any objections from me. Yeah, but now I've got that image ...

Thought I'd take a gander at Greta's blog to see what this leading activist was up to. Saw her plugging this event that she was appearing at. I had to laugh because In Berlin, a night of fisting shows and golden shower displays usually falls under the category of a typical weekend Dett iss zum kotz...

Thought I'd take a gander at Greta's blog to see what this leading activist was up to. Saw her plugging this event that she was appearing at. I had to laugh because In Berlin, a night of fisting shows and golden shower displays usually falls under the category of a typical weekend Dett iss zum kotz...

Your description of oolon reminds me if the vilain from Curtain , the guy who made just little comments to make people lose their shit and commit murder. Of course, oloon is such an incompetent turd, the worst thing he could ever achieve is trolling the easily trollable SJW crowd. What an unmitigat...

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another lurker wrote:Solar cooking in Africa:

http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/South_Africa

You racist! How dare you deny brown people more wealth?

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Once again, you seem to fail to get that that is rather an argument for my side - after all, it's an example of the technical advance you consider a myth. I'd still prefer to hear it from a specialist than an internet nonentity. I think we've entered Jesse Powell territory here. I've provided numer...

Albert Einstein wrote:Sand for concrete got me.

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Silly, science-ignorant me! Sand is only the second-biggest component of concrete.

And of course, the elves just leave all these materials at our doorstep each morning.

Oooh, nasty chemicals. Presumably nasty chemicals made in an evil science lab, not like those lovely natural chemicals that are perfectly in tune with the environment. Please -- Molecules is molecules, duh. Tanning chemicals are caustic. They must be manufactured somewhere, and must be disposed of ...

Given that you don't seem to know that much about our current levels of technology, nor about what is a trade journal and what is a scientific journal, I think your utterances on the subject can be filed under "irrelevant". At his blog, TP reveals his vast expertise on solar: I have a friend who is...

I don't get it. Do these feminists have magical vaginas or something? What are the odds of being raped so many times on so many different occasions in such an esoteric microcosm of society? It defies odds by orders of magnitude. It isn't even logical, especially given that rape in the U.S. has decr...

The Bar Rape OMG... (sorry if this has been posted before) From Brian Fields' FB thread https://www.facebook.com/fieldsb/posts/10201789083034817 fieldsthread.jpg So is Janice Rael the person who previously posted anonymously about Shermer plying her with wine in 2006? She was too drunk to remember ...

I spent all of seven minutes on this:

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Take it up with Matt - he's the one who thinks that technology is static. You've got more straw men than a cornfield in Iowa! I most certainly do not discount technological advances. I simply find it imprudent to base our public policies on new advances before those advances have actually been real...

What you said was, in so many words, that increasing the prosperity of the poor increased consumption and since you think consumption is a Bad Thing, you, ergo, are opposed. And you are really not in a position to complain of straw men. 'I'm rubber; you're glue' -- is that really all you've got? It...

My unit's AO was Al Anbar Province, a section of land about the size of Texas I thought "there's no way that can be the case". I checked and Texas is something like five times the size of Al Anbar. I think that the 'pit should now have a long heated argument over the size of Al Anbar vs. Texas. I a...

You cannot consume that which has not been produced. That sentence is inane. Repeating it ad nauseam will not make it any more valid. See if you can follow this logic. Take shoes: True, I can't "consume" a pair of shoes until the cobbler "produces" it. But the cobbler can't produce the shoes withou...

Keep an eye on this: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/08/28/secular-coalition-for-americas-edwina-rogers-featured-in-the-washingtonian/ Interesting. I'd take issue with the bit where it's claimed that Grover Norquist and Richard Dawkins are natural antagonists. If Dawkin's were to ...

FlyingV wrote:
Tony Parsehole wrote:
So it's went from Shermer practically pouring wine down a woman's throat to him putting Â£500 behind the bar and saying "drinks are on me".

*facepalm*
I can't wait until they turn this into "Shermer was trying to rape the entire bar."

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(I have barn work to catch up on today, so I'll only be able to clean up The Prussian's pile of manure a little at a time) I will happily lump you in with Ehrlich etc, given your statements that the poor becoming wealthy would be bad. When you use Straw Man fallacies, do you consciously do it, or ar...

Oh don't get me started on Avril Lavigne. Her fanbase has a schism to rival Slymepit/FTB. It's the epic of Bandaids vs Albaexodus. And how can you not appreciate the raw tonnage of WTF in her latest video? [youtube]uuNTO31FlY8[/youtube] Y'all know that Blind Lemon Jefferson actually wrote Sk8er Boi?

I'd have strong doubts if an FtB commenter claimed they didn't have clinical depression.

Beeswax! You know what Rio Favela really needs? A shiny new nuclear reactor!

Hugs are now considered foreplay? Did I just wake up in Victorian times? MRAs are a bunch of prudes. LOL Now just a sec ... that was not what was going down. That is a complete misrepresentation of the situation. For your information MRAs are all rapey and shit. Do not hug them. Because like sexual...

Hey gang! Room for one more in the cheap seats? :popcorn: We just need some gay porn! Perhaps if they take off their shirts :P *wink* *wink* If it's Summer, I'm typing naked. I believe it's night-time in Prussia at the moment, so our transhumanist friend must be tucked into his home-made cryogenic ...

:handgestures-thumbup: I want you to keep your water too. Don't let the morons in Scrapscummento have it!!! Well, let's see. I voted for Brown, and now he wants to send my water down South. But if Meg Whitman had won, she'd have patented water, and charged me for what I pump out of my own well. I'm...

windy is a kind and caring woman, look what she did for the 'pit: http://slymepit.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=359 the great population debate has it's own thread now! OK, I went over there to concede my racist agenda and to bow down to the Prussian's superior subscriptions to trade journals inte...

another lurker wrote:
Early Cuyler wrote:I can pack everything i own into a 16' U-Haul.

Live near resources so that you aren't dependent on long supply chains.
I assume that you put your job in the U-Haul also?

I have a suspicion that Uncle Early lives in that U-Haul.

I pointed out that it has been shown that in terms of raw materials and so forth, our planet can support 1 trillion comfortably. No, some idiot-savant engineer wrote an article in a wanker engineering journal. Nor would any sane person describe a planet-wide Shenzen as "comfortable." You people nee...

There's no worries about water in California, just ignorant bullshit being spewed by the uneducated. In another couple of years, there will be an "El Nino" and we'll have a surplus of water, same as all the times before the current water shortage. Tell me, Mr. Gittes -- if there are no water worrie...

California = mediterranean climate. Add water, and you have some of the best farming land on the planet - or so I have heard. Absolutely. And now they're suffering from growing rice and all those other water-intensive crops while using primitive distribution infrastructures and blaming it on the go...

There's no worries about water in California, just ignorant bullshit being spewed by the uneducated. In another couple of years, there will be an "El Nino" and we'll have a surplus of water, same as all the times before the current water shortage. Tell me, Mr. Gittes -- if there are no water worrie...

I bet The Prussian would have something to add on the splendiferous benefits of transporting rare dihydrogen-oxide in plastic containers on diesel-fueled container ships and trucks halfway around the globe, but he appears to have flounced for safer-space pastures.

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another lurker wrote:without bottled water, all of the first world would be stuck on the toilet with diarrhea from rampant e.coli.

Because that shit happened all the time before Fiji Water was invented.

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