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

You made me realize something. The crazy people always want to attribute completely unnecessary violence to a man's insecurity over his penis size or sexual competence. What's this terrible person's excuse? Could it be that women are capable of being just as bad as men? Just do a Google image searc...

We seem to generating a fine collection of 'pitshops' and so I wonder if we might put them to some good use. What do people think of the idea of creating an online store that sells T-shirts, mugs, USB sticks (ceramic pendants?) etc, with the best pitshop images on them, and then use the money gener...

ReneeHendricks wrote:
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Funny. I feel the *exact same way* about FfTBers.

Good. Use your aggressive feelings, boy. Let the hate flow through you.

yep. And while I don't completely agree with her, she did help make some of my vague objections to the "strong woman" character more clear, and how it's sometimes used as a two-dimensional trope by shitty writers. I'm glad that she wrote it and that I was pointed at it. It's almost criminal to me t...

Tribble wrote:Wow. Have you ever looked at Morris, MN? I drilled down on Google Maps. What a depressing, nowhere. No wonder Myers rages at little shit.

Let me revisit: downtown Morris via street view.

http://i.imgur.com/FcrqJ3W.jpg

Has the SkepticInk website redesign been noted or discussed yet? Interesting that they are emphasising thematic groupings of posts now rather than just the (as I thought) ineffectual focus on branded "celebrity".

Brian Dunning pled guilty in April. Does it normally take 6-7 months to be sentenced? Or have I missed something here as well?

ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:
Brive1987 wrote: It's almost as if she's shacked up with a digital content producer ....
Carry on...

I assume she is still "Mrs Adam Isaak"? Of a sorts. I took it as read that her new digi-image was his rebranding.

Rebecca has left the building. No, wait... she's under the vendor's table. http://i.imgur.com/cj3IVwb.jpg IF she does the whole "I'm drinking again, LOL #wasted" schtick on the internet just to get us shrieking, then that's sad. She's creating a problem for herself which needn't be there. IF this i...

PZ is a cunt.

WW2 was not fucking inevitable, whatever the fuck that means.

Vets are both heroes and goddamn victims.

The world was a better place when academic fuckwits like PZ were isolated in the intellectual padded cell of academia. Who gave him the keys to the Internet?

NBC she asked to be rotated out. I guess that means she can be rotated back in?

Still I under-estimated the value to her of immediate self pity and drama over sustained incremental power.

Same mentality I guess shows in her bank account.

Jan Steen wrote:
John Greg wrote:Caine quit her hall monitor position because the horde gave her a hard time?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Caine sez "UnzeoÈŸloka Å¡ungikte".

"I am tired of fighting...from where the sun now stands,
I will fight no more."

Chief Joseph

There are way too many laughs to give it all up. A-fuckin-men to that. I really love the idea that some right proper academics will give Myer's blog a try cos it was rated by a top scienticfic journal as being like one of the bestest science blogs like evah (way back in 2006, that is), and then fin...

These sort of articles should at least try to teach people something they didn't already know. The only new thing I learned from this one was the meaning of the word trebuchet - a medieval war catapult - and even then I had to google it myself, there was no explanation or link to an explanation and...

Caine: stop being a moderator - problem goes away. "Wait, umm, no" Funny how Aneris, John Greg and I never get any shit for being mods (other than a bit of good-natured teasing at first). Maybe it's not because someone is a mod. Maybe it's the moderation policies. Mods in places with iron-fisted mo...

What @Lazy_Savant tweeted was pretty dumb. Not because it was a death threat - obviously it wasn't, only the intentional drama whores at FtB etc. pretend it is - but because it plays right into the infinitely dishonest victim narrative these dingbats flaunt. Zvan just took the lead in the persecuti...

Sorry "monitor"

Caine: stop being a moderator - problem goes away.

"Wait, umm, no"

[meta] The infinitely dull John Morales is phlouncing Pharyngula? http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/10/17/thunderdome-37/comment-page-2/#comment-715612 Caine seems to have a hate-on for him for some reason, calling him a poisonous bigot in that thread. Whatever happened seems to have star...

Caine: I am sick to fucking death of being blamed for anything and everything. I am sick to fucking death of people thinking itâ€™s perfectly okay to treat me in whatever demeaning manner which happens to amuse them at the time. If you happen to be one of those asswarts who wishes to do any of that,...

Re profiling sans the "nested quotes of hell" Harris doesn't say he can "see a jihadist" . You have turned his comment around and effectively knocked down the resulting construct. He says there are reasonable (not infallible) grounds for not expending energy on certain categories of people - given r...

Amazing how people conflate profiling with skin colour sterotypes. Like there's not a whole array of markers a sophisticated system could use. Special muppetry that. If you want to point to a post of Harris's where he's discussing profiling in terms of OTHER THAN religion/race, by all means, please...

Who saw 9/11 coming? Condi Rice did, in the FBI report warning that al qaeda planned on using passenger a/c as weapons. She lied about the PDB. The neocons had long craved a "Pearl Harbor Moment" to justify their agenda of wars in the Middle East. After 9/11 the chant was "no one could have foresee...

Re jobs and bosses. Fair to say many people have skills relevant to large corps or specialised bodies. Ie not all are suited to entrepreneurial ventures. Chances are the idiot bosses there did not start the business. Most wage slaves are survivors and just want to be allowed to try and do good things.

Amazing how people conflate profiling with skin colour sterotypes. Like there's not a whole array of markers a sophisticated system could use. Special muppetry that.

And this is the Carrie Poppy thing isn't it? And Carrie presumably had permission to start blatting away, and TAM only cam into it because DJ and Phil were at the Party? And is Phil now a Groethe like enemy? Or just DJ? and ...... Jesus.

I've now read PG's account a couple of times. I still don't really understand. What does the below actually mean? I assume she was involved in a uni discrimination process that was meant to be confidential (?) but then wasn't. That she made her accusations without any established supporters and she ...

Who saw 9/11 coming? Condi Rice did, in the FBI report warning that al qaeda planned on using passenger a/c as weapons. She lied about the PDB. The neocons had long craved a "Pearl Harbor Moment" to justify their agenda of wars in the Middle East. Not,this PBS? http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/...

Benson's "Cut open with a rusty blade" OP is 942 words long. Of this 816 are copy pasta from the source. Thanks Benson for a 1:6 or something ratio of informed review vs lifted copy. And lets just extract and review the professional 'freelance' input: Pamela Gay published a wrenching, heartbreaking,...

Not taking sides with the Harris' profiling issue, but to my mind the only reasonable way to deal with that matter is from a systemic perspective, which came through partially in some arguments. There is a system designed to spot some people and it might apply some sort of heuristic. However the ve...

Pamela Gay is a scientist, yet her description of an event is a muddled, confusing hash of innuendo and feelings, padded with reenactments of scenes from BEACHES. Not until the 6th paragraph does she finally -- though fleetingly -- reveal the source of her angst: an attempted boob-grab at a party f...

OK, after doing a little cross-checking I think the most likely place that Pamela Gay's 2008 incident happened was DragonCon of that year. I'm pretty sure that this is a picture from the party in question. No sign of Shermer but here's Pamela Gay with Satan himself DJ Grothe. I'm not sure if this w...

The anti Harris diatribe, even here, is astounding. The guys argument does not boil down to "search the brown boys". That is exactly the stupid simplification I criticised RW of. He specifically says that "ethnicity, gender, age, nationality, dress, travelling companions, behaviour in terminal and ...

OK, after doing a little cross-checking I think the most likely place that Pamela Gay's 2008 incident happened was DragonCon of that year. I'm pretty sure that this is a picture from the party in question. No sign of Shermer but here's Pamela Gay with Satan himself DJ Grothe. I'm not sure if this w...

In PGay's comments OBenson is "heartbroken" over the situation. Lets see I accuse co-workers of sexism branding all with doubt (gutsy) they push back (equal and opposite ... - inevitable), I collapse into a heap and my sisters educate me that I have been assaulted and patriarched. Another day on the...

http://www.freezepage.com/1383768187GPRSMPKWLW Wait, wait - first para: Becky has a like real job with co- workers and everything. And she knows Excel? I think co-worker here is code for "boyfriend" and Excel code for "napkin where I try and work out 52 x $166". Admittedly she is coy shifting from "...

Dick Strawkins wrote:Bingo!

http://i.imgur.com/20vC9Cs.jpg

That's petty clear.

Krauss (off camera) drops pants as a distraction to all.

Right hand restrains.

Left hand moves in for the kill.

Hmm, I blame iPad on mobile phone hotspot for my gibberish. 'pologies

Another picture from the party. For someone who now seems traumatized that Shermer nearly groped her breasts at that party, the following picture doesn't exactly paint her as a shrinking violet on the night in question. What exactly is going on with the guy below? http://i.imgur.com/1TAcYtm.jpg I l...

Best put your umbrellas up. http://www.starstryder.com/2013/11/06/truth-against-humanity/ Am I going insane due to the crazy rhetoric in this post, or is this entire diatribe, complete with "PTSD" claims, due to a drunk guy trying to grab her tits? I mean, that's it, right? It seems to be more beca...

https://twitter.com/rebeccawatson/status/397889961045000192 The world just cant handle a genius of Rebeccas caliber. [youtube]hXud6iXXSqw[/youtube] Usually I am with you on the gems you find on twitter, but I don't get this one. So she plays video games, so what? We should encourage her to do that,...

OK, after doing a little cross-checking I think the most likely place that Pamela Gay's 2008 incident happened was DragonCon of that year. I'm pretty sure that this is a picture from the party in question. No sign of Shermer but here's Pamela Gay with Satan himself DJ Grothe. I'm not sure if this w...

On a calmer note, I guess a problem here is that of all the markers Harris mentions people zoom in on the racial, he defends and pretty soon the debate is all about race. No-one wants to see a line of people be spectrum machined into the left and right lines. But I don't think this is actually Harri...

http://www.popsci.com/blog-network/unpopular-science/i-have-detected-ghost-science?dom=PSC&loc=recent&lnk=1&con=i-have-detected-a-ghost-with-science Regarding her latest column, it looks like she's giving up any pretence of writing anything about real science, even that of the fringe variety, and d...

The anti Harris diatribe, even here, is astounding. The guys argument does not boil down to "search the brown boys". That is exactly the stupid simplification I criticised RW of. He specifically says that "ethnicity, gender, age, nationality, dress, travelling companions, behaviour in terminal and o...

http://www.popsci.com/blog-network/unpopular-science/i-have-detected-ghost-science?dom=PSC&loc=recent&lnk=1&con=i-have-detected-a-ghost-with-science Regarding her latest column, it looks like she's giving up any pretence of writing anything about real science, even that of the fringe variety, and d...

To be fair to Harris he does say that if you have to rely on airport security, you are basically fucked. BUT if you do go that route and if your particular terrorist of the day is of that persuasion then leave white granny alone with your limited resources. Also Boston probably doesn't help your ca...

I'm shocked. Bjarte Foshaug is a RW patreon support. Would'a guessed?

http://i.imgur.com/0YGFPAB.png Fuck me, but Caine has some serious problems. I am starting to feel sorry for laughing at her, now that I read she is lacking the three fucking hundred fucking dollars she needs to buy fucking pencils. http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/10/17/thunderdome-37/c...

Not only does profiling work, but every single one of us, including everyone in A+ does it every single moment of every day ... it is basic human nature to assess people and situations based on prior information we have ... stereotyping people is not actually a bad thing, it allows us to very quick...

DownThunder wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:I'm confused. Is it cows or toilets? I'm whip-lashing here!
http://flipflopranch.com/wp-content/upl ... xpect1.png

If you think of a cow on a toilet, it all makes perfect sense.

Where the hell does a picture like that even come from? :D

Right as I linked NSC's video, Peezus put up a post as well. And the commentariat are quick to accuse him of tone trolling and giving the other side too much credit. Yeah, I saw that. Pretty damn funny. Too sad that NSC has left, otherwise, we would have had a lolz-fest watching the horde turn to N...

Damion has sampled A+ now. http://www.skepticink.com/backgroundprobability/2013/11/03/sampling-the-a-plus-forum/ Why? Dunno - as once again it's apparently a valuable primary source for something, but not so valuable that he will comment himself "here and now". I guess one day someone will review th...

@1985 I assume "A Person Paper on Purity in Language" is old hat to most. But I only came across it today. http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html Basically equivocates racism and sexism and then does a clever substitution thing to *shock* *awe* and make you think. Got me thinki...

Tony Parsehole wrote:Are we still ripping on Foshaug?
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:clap: :clap: :lol:

. Why Rebecca Watson is a low intellect blight. Note also how she connects "Dawkins" --> "far right" --> "Muslim hatred" --> "persons of colour" --> "profile" --> "harassment" --> "shockingly irrational" -->"Sam Harris That's a conceptual gish gallop that Von Daniken would be proud of. She has beco...

Wow this atheist sure is angry.

http://i.imgur.com/9fX8y4M.jpg

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Why Rebecca Watson is a low intellect blight.

Note also how she connects
"Dawkins" --> "far right" --> "Muslim hatred" --> "persons of colour" --> "profile" --> "harassment" --> "shockingly irrational"
-->"Sam Harris

That's a conceptual gish gallop that Von Daniken would be proud of.

. Why Rebecca Watson is a low intellect blight. Note profiling <> body searching. It is simply a way to limit a potential target population given limited resources. FWIW Harris personally doubts airport security is worth much at all. His point is that if you do go down this road, and you are targeti...

Thanks for the "fuck off"! I've been lurking and guest posting for a while. I was kinda "out of the movement" for a couple years and I couldn't believe how vicious the FTB faction became while I was away. They're lunatics and they don't even care about the ideas they claim to hold most dear. And I ...

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