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

"More Keynes and Mill, less Marx" would be a good plan for most leftist parties anyways. One big problem is that political ideologies unite (at least) three things which should not be united together. 1) A set of goals 2) A grand theory 3) A set of methods claimed to hold the solution to achieving ...

Abear didn't mind the tripwires at the Cautionary Tale to Cisgenders post :p

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Are we gushing about the new Planet of the Apes trilogy? It's the rarest of type, each movie better than the last. Another vote for Serkis. The cgi Caesar is more moving than 99% of real actors.

MtM transgender is a thing? This is a complete game changer in the oppression Olympics. We're going to clean house after this, lads.

If You Don’t Understand Science, Shut Up Quoting the dictionary terms of gender, holding up an “elementary bio book”, or referring to Bio 101 to defend positions when challenged is a bad idea. It will not stand up in an argument with a PhD in gender studies and it is not adequate to dismiss cutting...

The one fucking time I don't use preview...

As Diversity & Comics says, if the best thing you can say about a movie is that Michael Keaton, who does a great job in everything he's in, did a great job in this movie, you're in trouble. Truly, SJWs ruin everything they touch. This is rather odd. I actually enjoyed the latest Spidey film, and I ...

The shows haven't even been written yet. All of this as usual boils down the the writers & the director. Dr. Who's "problem" still remains. It is primarily rooted in being a kids show and I am now an adult. So not really a problem. The show just isn't designed for me. Apparently Whittaker is on rec...

This is rather odd. I actually enjoyed the latest Spidey film, and I didn't sense any particular infection with SJWism. It was also miles better than two of the original Spiderman films, and the second (and possibly the first) Garfield Spiderman film. On the other hand, it could be more to do with ...

https://preview.ibb.co/jTwRVF/Screen_Shot_2017_07_17_at_9_21_59_AM.png The vagina "can host a life form"? That's the uterus, you ignorant twat. Well. if you're going to be pedantic, The Doctor is not a "human life form". If we're being pedantic then shouldn't it be pointed out that the TARDIS being...

The characters are visually based off Back to the Future, but the concept isn't. The closest they come to time travel is when they freeze everything for a few months and end up fracturing reality.

The stories had been becoming increasingly silly in recent years anyway... I am frequently disappointed too. But a key thing to remember is that Dr. Who was originally created as a children's show. That is the target curve for how far they will go in story lines. You just have to accept it for what...

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The reasoned and calm speaker gets shouted down while mental patient is received with rapturous applause. This country is doomed. Also, I'm not sure why I bother watching these videos. I know they're only going to make me angry.

Leibniz was right and we live in the best of all possible worlds. What a horrifying thought.

I found that my usual unprompted answer was... "well... that depends"... but the questions all lack a certain background. For example. One question asked if it was okay to pass around a human hand in a jar around a biology class. My first reaction was to ask "what type of biology class"? It is not,...

Matt Cavanaugh wrote:Fuck i just had to put down one of my horses. 28, had him 18 years. Biggest sweetheart ever.

Shit. Sorry, man. Even when you know it's coming it's not easy.

My personal favorite.

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PZ has found Clementines whine piece. The associated cartoon shows how his side sees the world. https://i2.wp.com/freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2017/07/garbagehuman.png?ssl=1 Demonstrates how they think it's fine to hold a specific individual responsible for the actions of others that you h...

Actually, the main point of the Kahneman and Tversky research is that humans don't do Bayes in their heads, because, for example, we don't take base rates into account. Consider the "very much like" to be overstating things then. The existence of the base rate fallacy just becomes one more argument...

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:Lauren Lane once offered Dicky sex in exchange for a mere letter of recommendation. If she wants monetary donations, she's gonna need to sweeten the pot a bit.
Is that documented? If so, that's pretty low.

Oh! Oh! You have to read the Heina Dadabhoy exchange! Comedy gold.

Math based on what ? Carrier briefly touches upon the problem of premises and the "garbage in, garbage out" issue of Bayes' Theorem, but offers no solution except "premises you can be fairly certain are true". But "premises you can be fairly certain are" are statements "about what's probable, witho...

Cute. He's trying to make himself the forefront of a movement/trend. He tried with mythicism, polyamory and now Bayes. Poor fella is trying to have an impact, besides possibly helping spawn the new generation of antibiotic resistant STDs. He's been trying to do that for ages. It's what Proving Hist...

I got that bit. Why do you find it stupid though? It seems like an important question.

Though it's a de facto public platform Twitter is still legally private... {snip} Many public fora are privately owned. One example is the first ten feet of my front lawn, adjacent to the road. The reason why it isn't clear whether Twitter is a public forum is the need for an account to have full a...

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It's a Swastika.

Fucking of course it is. There's no way he didn't see it.

Has the Trump Admin ever said that Trump's tweets are official statements from the President? If so, then not only do they need to be archived and somehow kept available (even if he deletes them) [official records act], but I can actually see some merit to the lawsuit on 1st A grounds. Log out and ...

This confirms it for me. Tariq Nasheed is a deep cover right wing troll.

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Honestly, the only thing I can remember from it is him telling a story about repairing a radio when he was 9 or 10, by rearranging the tubes. It would've made for a nice anecdote if it were a paragraph but I think it went on for a couple of pages, and I remember thinking "why am I reading this?" I ...

Many years ago I read his autobiography Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, and I can't remember the specific reasons, but I found him insufferable. I didn't finish the book which is a rarity for me-I hated Don Quixote by page 50 and I finished both volumes. My guess is that his insufferability stem...

So yeah, Coyne doesn't even have his foundations correct. Determinism might not be true. I think it's worse than that though because he doesn't seem to realize the free will argument is way more complicated than the physics involved. Plenty say that the idea of libertarian free will is completely in...

How much of the insane afrocentrism out there is just overcompensation for the lack of any noteworthy historical achievements? No inspiring architecture to look at. No lasting cultural contributions to point to. Even looking at my own humble Scandinavian background I can say at least we managed to g...

Coyne's determinism fetish is getting tiresome. In a post on some edgelord 19yo kid who killed endangered birds for kicks, Coyne says: I’m tired of people getting off for torturing or killing animals that can think and feel, like cats being shot with arrows. Let them go to jail. Why? Because althou...

British ISIS recruiter Sally Jones is now "homesick" https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/882124578855821313 Fuck her to the ground, I'd say. She went out to help a genocidal organization, let her suffer the consequences of her actions. Is there anyone here who disagrees? ISIS is as close to evil as ...

Wow. https://twitter.com/phillyd/status/882414724263976960 I woke up to this and am still trying to wrap my head around it. It's like CNN put together a panel tasked with finding a way to make themselves less sympathetic than Trump. "Assblasted CNN throws self into pit of scorpions. Report at 11."

Just heard that ANOTHER SJW, anti-GamerGater, who was a mod at neoGAF (whatever the fuck that was), is a [redacted]. Amir0x was his name. Fucking cunter. That's one for the fucking list. I'm not even surprised anymore. So while the SJW ranks are being decimated by horrible, illegal, amoral stuff, t...

The story is getting a bit twisted, at least with regard to the number 350. The Williams originally claimed to be better than any male outside of the top 200. After they both lost a set to Braasch (who claims to have had two beers just before the first set), they updated their claim to being that t...

Sexist John McEnroe suggests Serena is not the best tennis player in the world. No one really disagrees, but WHY oh WHY did he have to say it? WHY? Because he was asked is NO excuse. Williams also agreed, but that's just because she has internalized misogyny. She did? The response I saw was this. I...

Well I shared it because it's as funny as Godfrey, but that account and those replying all appear to be real.

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This is what hate looks like.

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So they agree she violated convention policy, but decided no action would be taken. I didn't have high expectations, but an outright "it's okay when we do it" is about as low as it gets.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a free .cbr .cbz reader? I decided to see if Dave Sim was as bad as I've always heard. ComicRack: http://comicrack.cyolito.com/ The best. This ends all rational discussion. Seconded. I read through all of Cerebus using it not to long ago and was well pleased. D...

So if you ever run across anyone complaining about (((jews))), see if you can side track them into a discussion about the latest example of a "nigger" blaming whitey for all their problems. Then point out that they blame the (((jews))) for everything. So what makes them any better than their "nigge...

Fucking tapatalk. Apologies for the quote borking

Google gives its considered opinion. http://i.imgur.com/oelYcuu.jpg HAHAHA! :dance: I swear this is true -- I once did a "similar images" search with a pic of Arthur Chu and the Best Guess for it came up as "Fat Asian Nerd." The AI apocalypse is already upon us. We just didn't notice because it's b...

Personally I have a hard time imagining mellowing out with Franchesca. She comes across as incredibly racist. Her MTV work has me in awe that they would put something like that on the air. And it appeared from her twitter account, that her opinions expressed there are not just the creation of MTV. ...

In my view it's the "no bad tactics, only bad targets" concept at play, and I do not like it. I think it hypocritical to say something is bad in principle and then go ahead and do the same when it suits you. Were it me I would very much make a meal of 'look at how hypocritical Sarkeesian is being' ...

That sounds very much like saying retaliation is exactly the same as unprovoked attack, even after the attacked party has exhausted other options like appeals to reason. The tactic desceibed only works if the "harassed" party sticks to their guns and says it really did subjectively affect them. If ...

(and maybe if this tactic is used against the SJWs often enough we can get them to talk about changing the recipe...) Which is the entire strategy. Force them into a situation where the only options are to admit the only true rule is allegiance to your own tribe, or to agree the rules are too easil...

(and maybe if this tactic is used against the SJWs often enough we can get them to talk about changing the recipe...) Which is the entire strategy. Force them into a situation where the only options are to admit the only true rule is allegiance to your own tribe, or to agree the rules are too easil...

What I was trying to get at was if it is OK to lie in order to achieve something of value. My suspicion is that Sargon is being dishonest - and that the stakes are not really high enough to justify it. Although it may very well be an entertaining or even effective strategy. But as I said above - I ...

To be fair, the rest of the comics are pretty amusing. Any suspicions you may have had after seeing a panel of new atheists being beaten by strong womyn role models are soon confirmed though. Here's a self described Communist fan fic that's a little too sincere its glorification of Marx. http://exis...

This is agonizingly unfunny...

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The staunch SocJus fans like PeeZie or Everyday Misandry Feminism? Absolutely a cult, as batshit insane as Scientology. The New Left in General, however, which includes people like Sanders supporters, aren't all part of the SocJus cult but many of them have a caricatural view of the GOP. Just like ...

I'm not a fan of the Republicans. I just think that they might be genuinely convinced of what they say, and not secretly Nazis using "dogwhistles". I meant you were giving the social justice crowd too much credit by trying to come up with a way for a well meaning individual to arrive at their concl...

I'm wondering about one thing that the SocJus Brigades say. They seem to be convinced that Republicans are white supremacists, and that it's not just a phase with Trump, but a feature of the Reps as a whole. They declare that Republicans HATE women and non-white people, they want to kill them or se...

Imam Tawhidi seems like a good guy. https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/-g6n5WtE2tWwEo0kvftByzJtUoubFr5Y-YCsJ1TjFmJwSiyZxu_cVHFd0hLjPxveCg7ptQgI45ecfY9HR9VhO3fqArjvmpKF8U0BJJw=w350-h263-nc I was only introduced to him this week, but what are the red flags exactly? He seems like he's on our side...

The latest at Slate Star Codex Against Murderism is worth a read. I especially like his point that the consequentialist definition of racism (i.e. anything with negative consequences for a minority race is racist regardless of the intent of the actors) is the most defensible, the most likely to be u...

So who is excited about the soon to be released transformer movie? Enjoy the trailer preview. [youtube.]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOuxPMz7bgQ[/youtube] I've not seen any of the others - do you think I will still be able to follow the plot? You wont' be able to follow the plot, but not because...

Shatterface ninja'd you. Myers is being retarded, trying to force new meaning on the word long after a consensus has been achieved.

Mykeru gets a shout out over at Pharngyula. It also doesn’t help that when someone like Steve Shives does directly attack the regressive atheists, he gets a ton of demented alt-right squirrels throwing 90 minute long raging monologues by talking kangaroos or suits of armor or chattering cow skulls. ...

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