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

TedDahlberg wrote:http://i.imgur.com/wTAyTTZ.jpg

A love story told in esoteric Swiss-designed trains:

Flirt
http://i.imgur.com/QIyy40Yh.jpg

Tango
http://i.imgur.com/LIZaFXmh.jpg

Kiss
http://i.imgur.com/KOwLz3ch.jpg

Spurt
http://i.imgur.com/M3RWtCNh.jpg

Spatz.
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Twitter launches tool for feminists to silence criticism.

Brianna and Samantha Allen vehemently hate men, for instance. An interesting stance considering they were born biologically male. I think some MtFs trans exhibit the same kind of fanaticism as do some religious converts and some immigrants--they over-demonstrate the cultural markers of the group th...

Kirbmarc wrote:Zvan should really call it quits before it's too late.

Never interrupt your enemy when they're making a mistake.

At least Nugent's intervention has changed PZ's behaviour in one significant way. It has sent him utterly insane. http://i.imgur.com/E2DthvI.jpg What kind of clueless imbecile uses flash on an animal at such close range that the eye reflection causes a lens flare? That cat will be seeing spots in i...

There's not much details yet. The only parameter known is that it was SST's first flight with the new propellant. A sudden explosion might be a huge factor in survival if, say, the ejection system was manual and the co-pilot had more concentration time to react than the pilot. Reportedly there was ...

Brive1987 wrote:How could an Irishman sue an American? Is it even possible?

It's possible but it would be so expensive that it's very unlikely to be worth the money.

I'll be amazed if there are any consequences for Myers beyond him being permanently uninvited from AI events.

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Lindybeige rips up SJW language policing. The meat starts at the 5 minute mark.

fuzzy wrote:Was somebody looking for alpsbuglers?

http://mpnews.com.au/wp-content/uploads ... elwald.jpg

I see your alpsbuglers and raise some alpsdrummers:

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Overall, Australia struck me as a sort of "England 2.0" where they finally figured out the bugs and got it right. Australians are fucked in the head. Their entire last-mile wired telephone and internet infrastructure is a decade past its useful life (because of this, it fails regularly and doesn't ...

Wonder if anyone has told her the pub where the event is sits smack in the middle of the red light district. Forget coffee requests, the drunk & desperate westerners that hang around trying to pick up anything that moves will have a few more interesting proposals for her if she hangs around. Given ...

https://twitter.com/rebeccawatson/status/522897754289635328 Peezus crap! The intellectually and physically lazy professional victim gets an all-expenses-paid trip to Hong Kong, where she'll share her "wisdom" at Skeptics in the Pub. Gotta love the description of the Skepchicks website as "focused o...

jet_lagg wrote:The audio on this thing is intolerable, but I gather a university rep says the threat to Sarkeesian wasn't real.

I'm shocked--SHOCKED--I tell you!

The US - by far the most "Christianized" country extant in the world - has very little Christian committed violence. Leaving aside the wave of right-wing militia violence in the 1990s (culminating with the Oklahoma bombing), there's a very good argument that the invasion of Iraq was a Christian cru...

German humor is shitty.

Oh, sorry, that's their porn.

Matt Cavanaugh -- Is there a reason you haven't yet DMCAed FTB for reposting your writing?

Richard Dworkins wrote:The Data protection act is taken quite seriously here in the U.K. and I'm sure there must be a U.S. equivalent.

There's no equivalent. The US is one of the very few advanced countries with no effective legal protections for personal information.

It was still incredibly classy - IMO - for her to apologize, anyway, especially given how hard that probably was to do. :clap: It was incredibly cowardly - IMO - for her to apologize instead of seeking a restraining order against Skepchick and targeting their Twitter account. Even if prior dealings...

TiBo wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:The Anti-Watson petition is up to 337. Not bad.
Indeed. I was surprised so many ppl are speaking out against a prominent victimhood feminist.

Even odds whether change.org will pull the petition.

As for my supposed hand-wringing, I'd settle for anyone advocating a version of "ends justify the means" managing to articulate a coherent notion of what the "ends" even are in this context. I'd settle for feminism ("SJWs") becoming a target of atheist and skeptic communities. Feminist claims are s...

James Caruthers wrote:What kind of shithole social media website allows Doxxing?

Social media sites which have a large feminist demographic?

I don't think its a coincidence that the two social media sites which have a demographic bias for young women and effectively turn a blind eye to doxxing are feminist havens.

How the fuck can Melodramatic Melody and all of the other assorted braindeads on Twitter get people banned for a comment on a hashtag that they don't like? IIRC there's at least one committed feminist on the Twitter exec board. I wouldn't be even slightly surprised if high profile feminists--especi...

Tough day, thanks everyone for moral support & kind words & thoughtful considerations about how to address the big picture situation (a hard nut to crack). Please report the Skepchick Twitter account to Twitter if you haven't done so already. Twitter refuses to act on third party harassment complai...

Just saw Skepchick doxxed Skep tickle on twitter, and I'm fucking livid. Messing with someone's livelihood by grossly mischaracterizing a snarky comment they made among friends as something like "spreading malicious rumors" is disgusting. I want to retaliate, but I'm genuinely short on ideas that w...

AndrewV69 wrote:I just heard a Bobcat! Close!

So I started making a lot of noise to let it know I am here. Last thing I want is for either of us to get surprised.

Bobcats usually make more than enough noise not to surprise anyone.

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

O/T, but is anyone else in the US concerned that Ebola cases might not be as easy to identify and isolate as some people seem to think? I'm not so sure it can be dismissed as a problem only for developing countries with minimal healthcare resources. Containment could well be an issue in the US give...

It has been suggested that some content might be put behind a "spoiler" tag, and I think that could be a good compromise, if workable. Probably not too workable as it would require the moderators to enforce a rule that posters of shit to tag their posts appropriately. Difficult to do for unregister...

Whatever belief system I hold, I would reject it as soon as I had to lie to support it. The SJW's are so emotionally wrapped in their own delusions they seem to think lying is a valid way to get to the truth. It's disgusting. SJWs are far more interested in power than in truth. Finding truth and te...

I could imagine a hotel might loan a wheelchair for a few minutes to wheel some drunk into a taxi. I think cooperating with an unknown person who wants to take away a semi-conscious person in a taxi would expose the hotel to a lot of liability. There's a lot of ways a "taxi rescue" scenario could e...

I don't think it's feminists, though I myself do think of the social justice league as Septic Feminists, I would think they think they are more than just feminists. I think "feminists" is the closest thing to a label used by SJWs for self-identification. Not all feminists are SJWs, but there is a m...

Just putting my 2 cents in again to say that I don't think using images of people who clearly have Down's Syndrome to represent a stupid person is cool/acceptable/whatever word sounds non-SHWish enough to maintain my Pit cred. There are so many similar photos available of drunks, rednecks and other...

SJW feminists really have one primary goal: policies that benefit women I'm not sure how true that is for the entire feminist movement. Certainly, there is a sect of politically active feminists who advocate such policies, often successfully. However, the broader movement of feminists never make an...

I'm still hearing people say on twitter "just ignore them, don't give them attention and they'll go away." If that could have worked, it would have worked already. I can't imagine why any activist/new/whatever atheist would think that strategy could work. We don't just ignore religious nutjobs in t...

I've heard that too. I guess to mean...that its a matter of *perception* more than anything. It's rather like the way feminists perceive their vulnerability to violence: both police officers and feminists overestimate the risks they face on a daily basis and both use that overestimation as an excus...

No surprise that con artists like Anita Suckhoseian and Zoe Quim have figured out how to use their sideways smiles to manipulate men. The shock is that it also works so well on news organizations and "proper" journalists outside of the gaming press. It shouldn't be a shock. The primary role for the...

NoGodsEver wrote:Just have to pop in to say 'Hail Satan!'

You called?

2) they have to be twitchy, their lives depend upon it It's a myth that police work in America is extremely dangerous. In 2013, the fatal injury rate for police officers was 10.5 per 100,000 full time equivalent workers . 79 police officers died on the job; 35 were murdered and 39 died in vehicle c...

free thoughtpolice wrote:
Cissies all of you; this is a real axe:
cool axe.JPG
It even has lights!

Time to stop messing around:

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Speaking of shitshow drama, has anyone checked in on Fark to see what's happened since Drew "saw the light?" Is it worth commenting there? He's shot an already dead horse. Fark hasn't been worth commenting on since the major layout change (aka Fark 2.0) happened about five years ago. The site never...

it's clear that everything that is wrong about modern feminism as a movement is symbolised in this despicable woman. She's a fucking disgrace to her species. http://38.media.tumblr.com/0a3783bf2077b010a22f3e389b139539/tumblr_nammcqVqtQ1rdwac3o1_500.jpg http://38.media.tumblr.com/a874671a50a7dead438...

didymos wrote:Also, in a discussion about that, I found this bit of genius:

Um.....

Rowan Kaiser's writing has always left me with the impression that he's as sharp as a butter knife.

By that I mean he looks to be as sharp as a knife made of butter.

Okay Pit, what should I be watching on Youtube or other video sites this weekend? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v2L2UGZJAM http://www.youtube.com/user/AgentJayZ/videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pVWfzsgLoQ http://www.youtube.com/user/mikeselectricstuff/videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

+ Reddit admins are beginning to realize reddit witchhunts are often wrong and have internet tried and convicted the wrong people + Reddit moderators are now under some truly stupid restrictions from the Reddit admins to keep all sorts of shit that Reddit admins consider doxing off the site OR have...

They should send these people back to the academy, or take away their gun license or *something.* Stupidity is rampant in all countries and in every police force, but at least in some countries those responsible for keeping the peace aren't armed with weapons that can kill you at the push of a butt...

My impression of the US is that it's not that employee friendly though. It's not something to do lightly. Anyone who sues their employer in the US can pretty much forget ever working any job above fast food for the rest of their life. Employers do background checks in the hiring process to exclude ...

http://i.imgur.com/rMtX1me.jpg

Who fed and watered Melody Hensley after midnight?

sinister wrote: Go to the damn doctor and maybe you won't have to be a dark black hole in an uncaring world.

Emphasis on the "maybe."

I went, but the end diagnosis was something treatment resistant that has defied all efforts for well over a decade. Not all mental disorders are treatable.

Another point of defacto unequal treatment for women is the lack of attention by workplace health and safety regulators to the health and safety implications of dress codes for women outside of the industrial and trades sectors. For instance, there are strong cases to be made that employers shouldn'...

"Romantically you could say that we are all made of stardust. But the truth is also that we're all just nuclear waste." -- Jim al-Khalili, Atom

My wife's friend has just pointed out a new trending(?) hashtag. #Feministsareugly. From what I quickly looked at it on her phone, it seems just to be a lot of teen-feminists complaining and posting selfies, but I didn't see any evidence of anyone actually ripping the piss. Most uses of that tag se...

I agree. I think the feminists see patriarchy everywhere except where it really does exist. I think this is a function of their lack of empathy. The only things feminists seem to get worked up about are things that either impact them personally or they imagine could impact them personally. Honor ki...

The new FTB logo hand also looks vaguely like the hand in one of the international symbols for "no entry":

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

This seems appropriate on so many levels.

This is the Sunshine Coast. Another possibility is she was just looking for a ride there. Ah, never mind then. I thought you were another of the pit's Greater Vancouverites. Fireworks nights on the Sunshine Coast are almost certainly safer than Vancouver's semi-controlled riots. I dunno what to thi...

ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:
didymos wrote:
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That is is an indicator of mental health problems. Best wishes to her in getting some treatment and resolution.

It's just the typical young feminist humblebrag: "I'm so beautiful I can have any man I want just by looking at him."

(Seriously though this really is a high trust area so it was probably in all innocence when she asked me if I am going to the fireworks show later on tonight ... even if she did bring it up three times, invites to a community event should always be taken as simply that. An invitation to join a comm...

Multiple posts on Jaclyn Glenn, but until just recently missed the news that ~100 HIV researchers died in the plane shot down over Ukraine. Given Russia's own demographics and HIV infection rate, the ultimate cost of that part of the shoot-down might be higher than all other costs of Putin's Ukrain...

You do realize that a MacBook Air starts at $899.00, right? Which is not "much more expensive" than a t series. The base T440 configuration is $40 cheaper than the base 11" Air configuration, but the configurations aren't equivalent. An 11" Air is an overgrown phone with a high glare screen, 128GB ...

I cleaned up a virus infested PC for a friend of a friend and I told him I would come up with a list of gay porn sites that it should be safe to visit seeing as his browser of choice is IE (He is around 85 years old and a bit of a technophobe). IE isn't a vulnerability if it's set up according to E...

My needs are minimal, surfing, torrents, word processing, possibly some gaming now that you've intrigued me with mods. Oh, and a lit keyboard is a must. Lenovo T series. Overkill for your computational needs but physically well-built, much cheaper than a Mac, available with backlit keyboards, IPS s...

Really? wrote:Is there anything of use on Tumblr?

There are some decent image sharing pages on Tumblr. That seems to be about it.

The value of a tumblr page seems to be inversely proportional to its wordcount.

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