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

VickyCaramel wrote:
Lsuoma wrote:Seeing as Vicky is no longer doing her duty, I'll do mine. Thx pbf.
Does "pfb" stand for?
Post fap blues?
Potential fuck-buddy?

pro-boxing-fan of course.

A child sex/slave scandal involving Hillary Clinton, Obama, and other officials at the highest level of US government? Seems plausible and warrants further investigation. Some drunk bigots harassed and threatened a Muslim woman on a subway? Seems dubious, and we should all remain skeptical. Welcome...

What's with the Pit and bizarre conspiracy theories these days anyway? The Trudeau-Castro connection was pretty soundly debunked by Snopes: http://www.snopes.com/justin-trudeau-is ... ove-child/

Justin looks a lot like his father too. Are Pierre and Fidel secretly brothers then?

I have to point out that the point wasn't that James Alefantis's name is an anagram. It phonetically sounds like "J'aime les enfants" which = "I love children" in French. No it doesn't. Really, they are not similar. Horrible accent aside, in the french world everybody pronounce James in its english...

The pictures kind of look similar, but then there are people who are better at telling facial structures apart. I'm not one of them, but one difference I see is that the real Podestas' noses and mouths are a bit wider. Still, I don't know how those police sketches were generated. For that matter, I ...

MacGruberKnows wrote: At least comhinc knows wrestling isn't real.

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Kind of :nin:

I think it's fascinating that she went off on an admittedly short rant about men feeling radiators and turning heating down that wouldn't have been out of place coming from a SJW. More evidence to support the Horseshoe theory. Hillary is a right-wing authoritarian who tried to coopt SJW rhetoric in...

The horseshoe theory is based on mistaken assumptions. It assumes that politics is a simple left-right spectrum. However, there are multiple spectra that such a simplistic divide does not capture. The liberty-authority spectrum is independent from the left-right axis, and there are probably more, e....

The step that some of us have taken (who have gone back to a more centrist classical liberalism, or to libertarianism) that you're not taking though, is to question whether there's maybe something inherently problematic in socialist theory itself that it leads AGAIN AND AGAIN to that type of scenar...

Snip. When people try to use my label against me by pointing to other so-called socialists who pretend Venezuela and Cuba are socialist paradises, I can very honestly dismiss that criticism, because it doesn't matter what people who call themselves socialists/anarchists think or do, when their acti...

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No, GamerGate just died of it's own. People move2d on with their lived except for those who had other battle to transitioned to, mainly the american election and the rise of Trump. For many, this kept their GG activism alive but with GG transitioning into just one battlefront of many. It did not ma...

I remember when #Gamergate was overwhelmingly left. I've always wondered what happened to trigger the massive rightward shift in the past few years. Did people really think, "SJWs are mean, so I'm abandoning liberal values to avoid being associated with them"? Or did the counter-shaming from an infl...

How does such a small country have so many accents? There's something not right about it. It's a general truism in population genetics and linguistics that you will find the most genetic diversity in the homeland of a language or species compared to elsewhere. People in East Africa, for example, ha...

(Btw, most of you probably know this, but for those of you who aren't familiar with this little curlicue of political history, "libertarian" in the political sense - as opposed to the philosophical sense re. the free-will debate - was in the early-to-mid 20th century an anarchist democratic sociali...

Our Chinks suffer so much! Haha. The butt-hurt is wondrous! OMG... private CHing Chong! We need to teach our Asians how to tell people to fuck off!!!!! Haha. http://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000004706646/thisis2016-asian-americans-respond.html Oh yeah, I'm Chinese-Canadian. I've experienced and w...

TheMudbrooker wrote: I wonder if this would apply to the guys from the local VFW post who have a big flag burning every year? (They gather flags that are torn, faded or generally unfit for service and dispose of them by the prescribed method, which just happens to be burning.)

Somewhat :nin: 'd.

Bless him. https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/803567993036754944 I wonder what the proper and respectful way of disposing of an old flag would be under the Trumpid caliphate. Perhaps it would take the form of an annual national lottery. Each year, all flags flagged for disposal are gathered...

The Graun has a funny article from "anonymous" about how he was "radicalised" after watching a Sam Harris video (seriously), resulting in him learning about the alt-right. The end result, it turns out, was that he was about to chop a charity worker's head off post a Pepe meme, before his concerned ...

Wasn't really a fan of the Evil Dead franchise, other than maybe the first movie. I really liked Drag Me to Hell (2009), also directed by Sam Raimi, though.

Don't think this was posted.

Rereading my post, I see I didn't express myself clearly. I was joking just a bit, but I meant to say (as you point out) Protestantism eliminated the pagan (and paganish) elements of Catholicism---Maryolatry, praying to St. Anthony to find your missing retainer, and (at least in theory) Plato and A...

It's arguable in any case whether paganism really was exterminated from Europe. There's a case to be made that it just got subsumed under Christian orthodoxy. The veneration of saints and Mary, the wholesale adoption of old festivals, the paranoia towards witches, etc all suggest paganism just put ...

So your party doesn't win many election I gather. :D Actually, my party (the NDP) has consistently won in my riding practically my whole life. :snooty: While Trudeau wasn't my first choice, I was fine with him winning. You don't need to be salty to realize that democracy (assuming what we have can ...

<snip a lot of interesting reflections> How can we fix democracy? Honestly I don't think it's possible. The only hope is to pour money into AI research for the explicit purpose of designing AI to rule over human societies. We need a system that is beholden to no one and nothing but life itself and ...

This sort of thing has been tried before, by Charlemagne against the pagans, and by the Spanish Inquisition against the Jews. It turns out that even when the options are torture and death or conversion, a significant number of people will pick torture and death. Charlemagne won out against the paga...

Why take sides? American sanctions and authoritarian communism were both responsible for Cuba's poverty. China is doing fine because it abandoned communism long ago and went straight to fascism. For a country as large and populous as China, it would take serious incompetence to keep it from becoming...

I've recently seen people post Churchill's famous "democracy is the worst system of government except for all others that have been tried" and had other people respond as though it were a legitimate criticism of democracy. Both disapprovingly and approvingly I might add. That quote is no indictment...

Who said 'Beetlejuice' three times? My bad. :dance: Some humor The Black People song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYjqBqrZVTY The White People song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkjsPuCl0p4 The Asian People song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpNkfaMCFqE The black people one is slightly chuck...

RIP Castro: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-38114953?ns_mchannel No no no no. (prob'ly ninja'd) Castro died in 2006. Conservapedia SAYS SO! :D Each time I have reason to check out that site, it seems to become a bit crazier. They have a stupidly long article trying to link atheism with ...

RIP Castro:

Nitwit needs to learn a thing or two about Capitalism. There is only ONE industry that gets away with cost+ pricing...the DEFENSE INDUSTRY. If you are permitted a certain % over cost, then costs have a magical way of becoming quite high. That's where $900 hammers and $1500 toilet seats come from. S...

Laurie Penny doesn't know how to buy furniture. https://twitter.com/PennyRed/status/801804520691011584 https://twitter.com/PennyRed/status/801804990331453440 I wouldn't criticize her for partaking in the corporatist-capitalist system while complaining about it. That's exactly what makes the system ...

You may recall that I'm in the process of moving house. I've (briefly) met most of my new neighbours, including a nice east Asian couple, who have (or have adopted) English names. But I'm terrible at remembering names - it always takes me a while before they "stick" - which can lead to embarrassmen...

Tigzy wrote:Do you still identify as a robot cat, Kitty?

Always.

I was once bored and googled the name 董龙望. It sounds innocuous in Chinese, and the part that isn't the surname means 'dragon gazes from afar', so a fairly lofty-sounding name. When you write it out in pinyin, it's Dong Longwang.

And yes, there is someone with that name.

It actually kind of intrigues me why parts of Chinese phonology, when anglicized, are considered funny by English speakers. If I have to guess, I would say that English speakers associate reduplication (repetition of [parts of] a root word, with or without modification) with primitiveness or babyta...

China's LingLong launches DingDong smart home speaker http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38074089 Can't wait for Suey Park's response. It actually kind of intrigues me why parts of Chinese phonology, when anglicized, are considered funny by English speakers. If I have to guess, I would say that E...

Owen Jones: white gay people are racist because they're don't want to date non-white gay people. [snipimg] I bet he cheers on Milo Yannopoulis, who dated plenty of black men. Oh wait...that's fetishising, which is also racist. It's an interesting question why interracial preferences work out this w...

I don't know if any of you are familiar with the author Margaret Atwood. She's an old-school feminist and I often don't agree with her, but she is taking the accusation-is-enough crowd to pieces on twitter. [sniptwitter] Because she is known for being pro-feminist this has triggered a lot of people...

:dance: Welcome back. :dance: :dance: We'll see if this lasts. Who? At least one of our people died. (Beyond all expectations, it wasn't Phrench Phil.) I had to go and look. RIP John Greg. :( I was in similar straits last year, but through a series of unlikely events, things got a lot better. Since...

I kinda sorta missed you. Glad you are an ok Kitty and Trump didn't succeed in grabbing you. Surprised to see you're still around. I've actually been checking in once in a while hoping I'd find someone who disappeared roughly a year after I stopped posting regularly here. No such luck, unfortunatel...

CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: Welcome back.

Ohai.

feathers wrote: :o I've awoken the Robokitty from their eternal slumber!

:fpig: Just checking in to see what the place is like after Trumpocalypse.

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Please tell me that's a mistake. One on the left is her younger sister, or so. Please?

It's real. She even blogged about it on Jezebel: http://jezebel.com/when-your-fat-pic-go ... 1749947791

I'm almost leery of asking this, but: Are there people who prefer, request, & expect alternate 1st person and, more importantly for others to know, 2nd person pronouns? I mean, I might interact with someone who's alternately-pronouned, during which interaction I might mistakenly use "you" when the ...

What happened to Gumby and Robokitty? I wish I knew. I think the Kitty posted a short farewell and left for personal reasons of a fair amount of hostility towards Kitty's otherkinesque stance as a Kitty. Robokitty (or someone using that 'nym) posted recently in the comments at Nugent's. I'm not her...

While we're on this topic:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelwmiller/h ... -to-shower

Iâ€™m not at all trying to deny that many people think the word is racist. But again, I think youâ€™re conflating the fact that many people might make those connections with the question of whether that connection is at all justified or is not the consequence of some serious cognitive illusions. An...

I live in a state (and a country, for that matter) where bloated agribusiness uses and pollutes water in a needlessly wasteful manner, on a gargantuan scale. Water-intensive crops are grown in arid, desolate areas where no one in their right mind should even want to live. I'll be damned if I'm goin...

Also, I wash my hair about once a year, and I collect my dandruff and mould the flakes into the shape of cat ears.

You don't sweat? Just how sedentary are you? http://www.today.com/health/daily-shower-bad-your-skin-its-better-soak-smear-2D79325796 I don't know how hot your part of Straya gets, but generally people don't sweat enough that they need to shower daily. But it really depends on how long you shower fo...

â€œPolysemous is a word loverâ€™s favorite, since itâ€™s about the meaning of words â€“ lots of them in this caseâ€. :-) But interesting analysis. However, it seems that youâ€™re merely describing or embellishing the fact that many people â€“ but hardly all people â€“ have very different sets of c...

There's something fishy about this story .... could it be true? I take it she doesn't ascribe to PZ's whitesplaining that race is a social construct. http://i.imgur.com/xCv6u3t.jpg Showering daily is a waste of water, especially if you live in a temperate climate and are relatively sedentary. Anyon...

Tony Parsehole wrote:HAHAHAHA.
Kibmarc's title :D

Uncle Parsehole really should get one too, for his tireless trolling over the years.

I figure any Muslims inside any Western country who espouse such claptrap, or who in any way support those who do, should be getting the bum's rush, a "reverse kidnapping" that, before they have a chance to blink, sees them deposited in the middle of the Saudi Arabian desert. Why stop at Muslims? W...

And the vultures are already circling, waiting to pounce: http://fusion.net/story/37985/us-and-eu-politicians-use-charlie-hebdo-attack-to-call-for-more-internet-surveillance/ Despite the fact that the suspects were already known to the authorities, the politicians are still going in for a power grab...

You stated, categorically, that the current use of right-left terminology is exclusively economic. I defy you to find a single serious lexical or encyclopedic resource that backs this up. I believe you've said in the past that when faced with overwhelming evidence that you are wrong, you readily ch...

McIntosh really is detestable scum.

That is fair, Robokitty. I am NOT saying that people shouldn't be allowed to change their positions. We are all works in progress. If we're the same at 60 as we were at 20...that's a problem. I like the rest of what you said. Just don't want you or others to think I denounce ALL changes of mind. Ac...

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