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

This just seems like a money grab to me. I get not going to the cops but why the hell would you want to have a "sit down meeting" with someone you believe violated you? https://jalopnik.com/after-montreal-woman-accuses-him-of-sexual-assault-f1s-1826425916 Yeah, that's really strange. Like the way s...

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Seriously? https://twitter.com/kane2028/status/1002202621250334721?s=21 Bam. Starbucks is dead to me., (Assuming that's real - can anyone confirm?) Apparently it's not. (I'm actually surprised anyone would have thought it was real.) https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sign-starbucks-racial-bias-train...

Looks like Heina Dadabhoy has taken a new direction in life, lol! https://twitter.com/heinousdealings/status/1000808626360082432 (Obviously someone has taken over her former twitter handle, which means those she has blocked are now no longer blocked. Please PLEASE(!) don't take that as a license (to...

Wow! It's only been 4 years. I'm sure it is just a minor thing that has been holding up Heina Dadabhoy from processing those refunds, and folks should be expecting them any day now. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/skepticsguidetoislam/a-skeptics-guide-to-islam/posts/856938 That she isn't held ...

Wow! It's only been 4 years.

I'm sure it is just a minor thing that has been holding up Heina Dadabhoy from processing those refunds, and folks should be expecting them any day now.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sk ... sts/856938

Finally, a film Nicolas Cage doesn't overact in. if he played a corpse, he would overact. In Cage's defense, he was the star of one of my favorite movies of all time: "Raising Arizona" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093822/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPnv2NXMx8g Bingo! My exact opinion too. I'v...

14 "hours" = 8 hours regular plus 4 hours at 1.5 times regular. IOW, 14 = 8 + (1.5 x 4) So if $250 per day up to 12 hours, (8 regular, and 4 overtime), that's a regular hourly rate of $17.86 (and $26.79 per hour of overtime beyond 12 hours). Sounds like they guarantee you pay for 12 hours, even if y...

I've been toying with the idea of sitting down and writing something more coherent than the rambling posts I've written here. I was actually thinking about calling a potential book something along the lines "Islam: A Skeptical Introduction" just to a) don't violate copyright but b) still being a ma...

Hokey smokes! An actual interesting and analytical post over at The Orbit that isn't self-absorbed drivel, or nanny-policing/moralizing about other people's behavior. It's from their newest blogger Juhem Navarro-Rivera, about the demographic changes in white evangelical congregations. I don't think ...

Heinous dealings indeed. Will there ever be a "A Skeptic's Guide to Islam"? ... Perhaps she and PZ put up a bet who could procrastinate the longest. Nobody's gonna beat her any more, for sure. While "procrastination" is probably the most charitable explanation for Heina Dadabhoy's behavior during t...

A recent comment from one of Heina Dadabhoy's Kickstarter backers, about the book she got $10k to write (and then after years of repeated excuses and firm promises, when silent). Given that Heina has demonstrated an abject disregard for the 342 backers of this project, and evidently lacks the integr...

The Orbit-Con is just around the corner folks! I do hope they will find the space to discuss David Silverman. Maybe they can shoe-horn him in when they discuss the wrong-think if Steven Pinker. https://the-orbit.net/orbitcon/2018/04/09/behold-the-orbitcon-schedule/ How about we suggest additional p...

World Wars tend to happen when superpowers go isolationist, rogue despots begin to get ideas beyond their station and conflicts are allowed to fester.. Trump has the right idea in this regard. He is not afraid of reminding twerps like Kim Jong-un where their place in the pecking order is. His deliv...

Big things are happening over at The Orbit: First, a massive addition to the pool of bloggers there: they added one more 4 days ago, which is either at 4.3% increase of all bloggers in their stable, or 20%, if you count just active bloggers. And as I'm sure everyone here is aware, it's just under a ...

Less than 2 weeks before OrbitCon 1, that online conference The Orbit promised to hold if they made their Kickstarter goals (which they did; 2 years ago). Looks like folks over there are getting hyper active in the run up to it: four (of the 22) bloggers over there have actually put up a substantive...

I agree America's welfare system is a deterrent to Islamic immigrants ... Europe are fucking idiots Well, maybe. But consider that they can't get here using simple means (walking across a border, short train or boat ride, etc). So the ones we get are generally a notch above the average. But we sure...

I am formulating a question and it is something like this... "I am what most people would call a hard atheist. I obviously can't prove there is nothing supernatural, but without proof of the supernatural I live my life under the assumption that the supernatural is not real. My belief is that people...

Echo chambers result in lower traffic. Just look at FTB and The Orbit. ... The Orbit gives a who 'nother meaning to the term "Echo Chamber": just 5 of the 22 bloggers managed to put up a post in the last 30 days, and only one garnered a comment (by the obscure person targeted in a "call out" post a...

... you end up with sex being so sacred that even consensual sex is condemned as rape. Not a SJW has ever responded to my question of: what if both of them were drunk? Given the attractiveness of the typical Female SJW, isn't it a given that the man engaged in any sexual encounter with a female SJW...

But it looks like The Orbit has delivered most of their trinket awards. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1033564734/help-launch-the-orbit/updates "The Best of the Orbit" ebook is still to come. And that online conference they were going to have (which should be a lot easier to organize since the...

Every so often one of Heina Dadabhoy's kickstarter backers drops a comment over at her "Skeptics Guide to Islam" kickstarter page inquiring about the status of her book. She hasn't posted an update or comment since nearly 3 years ago (when she enthusiastically announced a "hard date" of Dec 2015 for...

Hello?

Following on from the guest alert re the Orbit and a couple of tweets that were spat out as a consequence .... And Lo! Like a Christmas miracle SZvan rises from her deathbed to make more promises. Is this the most pathetic effort ever to crawl away from a promise? What a fucking laundry list of exc...

Following on from the guest alert re the Orbit and a couple of tweets that were spat out as a consequence .... And Lo! Like a Christmas miracle SZvan rises from her deathbed to make more promises. Is this the most pathetic effort ever to crawl away from a promise? What a fucking laundry list of exc...

Brive1987 wrote: ↑ Hmmmm. So website addresses now resolve to hyperlinked thumbnails ...

I was able to just get a bare link without the thumbnail by putting [.url] ...[./url] (without the dots) bracketing the link.

(took me a while the figure that out, tho)

So probably not a surprise to anyone here, but The Orbit apparently never sent out backer rewards from their Kickstarter, which completed over a year and a half ago (taking in $10K, more than twice their original goal). I guess Stephanie Zvan learned from Heina Dadabhoy's experience that delivering ...

I understand I am supposed to discount PWatson as a not clever enough kook. So. Help this idiot out. Which bit of this video doesn't deserve a standing ovation and why? https://youtu.be/otgKNKiPYdU He makes an interesting point about the suppression of the moderates emboldening the more radical. BT...

I kind of liked having the post # in the message header; it was helpful to find where you had left off after a reload (which always seems to leave me in a random place) or a return after a short diversion.

So the point of the article was the Dems should immediately fire Franken because he kissed a woman without asking consent and what the hell lets throw in something he didn't do which isn't relevant to the point of the article. My takeaway on what the point of the article was is that in order for th...

some guy wrote: Well, that it's an arguably important factual issue about what Franken did (although disproving that wouldn't really exonerate him), but in any event it is not essential to the point of the articl There is a legal difference between squeezing her breasts and not touching her. ... I ...

A pretty fair assessment from the responsible right: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/453816/al-franken-allegations-liberals-second-chance-virtue But particularly damning is that he was photographed squeezing her breasts while she slept on a plane. The picture tells a story that Franken can’t ...

A pretty fair assessment from the responsible right:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/4 ... nce-virtue

So I think I discovered why people are double and triple posting. If you hit the submit button multiple times (I did it 3 times on my last post) while it is still visible (because the web site is reacting very slowly), you will get multiple posts. FYI, it hit it 3 times deliberately to see if that ...

So I think I discovered why people are double and triple posting. If you hit the submit button multiple times (I did it 3 times on my last post) while it is still visible (because the web site is reacting very slowly), you will get multiple posts.

"Top student" The way Watson slides them in, you could almost miss what this tweet was really all about. http://i.imgur.com/DsnYfnC.jpg Umm ... three people, 50% of them were high... how does that work... Again assuming beccy was one of the three "top students"and high, her subsequent success in li...

"Top student" The way Watson slides them in, you could almost miss what this tweet was really all about. http://i.imgur.com/DsnYfnC.jpg Umm ... three people, 50% of them were high... how does that work... Again assuming beccy was one of the three "top students"and high, her subsequent success in li...

"Top student" The way Watson slides them in, you could almost miss what this tweet was really all about. http://i.imgur.com/DsnYfnC.jpg Umm ... three people, 50% of them were high... how does that work... Again assuming beccy was one of the three "top students"and high, her subsequent success in li...

Apparently transracialism is now a real thing: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/11/13/transracial-man-born-white-says-he-feels-filipino/858043001/ "Ja Du hasn’t told his family yet because he believes they will laugh at the notion of changing your ethnicity." Ya think? That brings...

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Some serious manspreading there.

One question was "Hi Bill. If the Sun is hot, why is space cold?", which 10th grade science students could easily answer. He obviously didn't know and tried to make a joke. [.quote="Bill Nye"]There is a fantastic amount of space in space. I mean it's not all that cold, is it? It's 3 Kelvins. Toasty...

One question was "Hi Bill. If the Sun is hot, why is space cold?", which 10th grade science students could easily answer. He obviously didn't know and tried to make a joke. There is a fantastic amount of space in space. I mean it's not all that cold, is it? It's 3 Kelvins. Toasty. Complete nonsense...

Hello Skepticon world! We’re very super a lot excited to announce a last minute addition to our lineup: a panel! Introducing: Diversifying Atheist Voices Even after years of work on the problem, the atheist movement is still largely represented by white cishet men. We’ve put together a panel of pod...

I'm thinking cancel the hotel reservation and just make it a day trip to the zoo on Saturday. I suspect you will see more shit-flinging, chest-thumping, and hoop-swinging at the "conference" than the zoo. Yes, that zoo. The question remains for me, day=trip only versus taking in Friday workshops an...

So lanyrd.com, having remained in "try again later" mode for at least the last two moths, now gives a 503 error. RIP. So here's the Skepticon schedule from eventsxd.com lightly edited to make more readable in text. https://www2.eventsxd.com/event/4338/skepticon10/sessions Skepticon 10 Nov 10 - 12, ...

PZ Meyers, 3 days ago: [.img]https://i.imgur.com/Y6H7RMh.png[/img] The Minnesota Maggot, today: https://i.imgur.com/jnegRcf.png So is PZ assuming that all womyn "unfairly trespass" against men? And is he implying that the proper response is to for men to just let it happen if the woman doesn't back...

Dec 2019! Put it on your calendar! The date that Heina Dadabhoy's "A Skeptic's Guide to Islam" will finally be released! Congratulations Heina! Just a few tens of months for the publisher to do that final formatting and get a healthy stock printed up for the big release! We all can't wait. (I hope s...

I noticed this "Women in Tunisia are finally ..." story. It was on the BBC and given the same headline. Funny thing is, if you read the details it's not actually an advance for women in particular, but rather a liberalisation which benefits both sexes. You could equally headline it "Tunisian non-Mo...

I'd bet my left arm that if you put Greta and Becky in charge of anything, it would immediately become a race to see who could abdicate the most responsibility, followed by finger-pointing over whose fault it was that nothing got done on time or at all. They would absolutely not get along under suc...

I'm not really a fan of infowars but I have to say I do like this fella :lol: https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/908844130889080834 I wish Thunderf00t would learn how to edit videos like this guy does. T-f00t's version of this exact content would probably be 30 minutes long. He's edited it ont...

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rayshul wrote:... I mean what am I going to add? I guess I can feed and clothe them.
And that's about all you can do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nurture_Assumption
(It's a good read, too.)

Well, that, and selecting the peer group your kids hang with.

rayshul wrote:... I mean what am I going to add? I guess I can feed and clothe them.

And that's about all you can do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nurture_Assumption
(It's a good read, too.)

Probably I've been ninja's on this (as I am 8 pages behind), but now they are removing names of Confederate Generals from military bases:

http://www.duffelblog.com/2017/08/army- ... ort-trump/

I just checked in on Heina Dadabhoy's "A Skeptic's Guide to Islam", and the release date for the print version is still Dec 7th (of this year!). It's been a bit over 5 years from the start of the Kickstarter campaign to support her as she wrote the book: 342 backers gave her nearly $10,000. Since He...

... I remember thinking that a lot of people who hold that class & culture cause this sort of thing would rethink it after actually dealing with some of these folks in person for more than a minute. A lot of the people who subscribe to politics with these assumptions don't come from backgrounds tha...

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Holy shit! After watching that classic, youtube suggested this, which I hadn't seen when it came out last year.
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Gefan was f'ing brillant!

I'm a pescatarian, though I reckon I could transition quite happily to veganism, given my penchant for the low hanging fruit - that is Peez's self-proclaimed 'vegetarianism'. Is it okay for vegans and/or vegetarians to do oral sex, or is that not allowed? (I'm guessing it would be okay to get, but ...

I wasn't planning on trying to fix it myself, I just hoped it might be an easy repair and I might be able to get it back by Saturday. That's not looking likely. I also appealed for advice on Arsebook, and have the names of two guys who specialise in this kind of thing, from two friends who are prob...

Anybody know anything about guitar amplifiers and how to fix them? The band has a gig on Saturday. The had a run-through this afternoon without our drummer, and we'll have a last-minute full-band run through on Wednesday evening. And this evening my amp decided to fall over and cough up blood. As I...

gurugeorge wrote:My favourite verbal flourish: "Like a Frenchman trying to park a Sherman tank inside a breakfast pastry." :lol:

Speak of Sherman's, who knew they were chick magnets?

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