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

As far as I can tell from her biography , she isn't actually an engineer and doesn't teach engineering courses. Both her background and current position are at the School of Engineering Education . It does mention a B.S.E. [whatever that is] in Chemical Engineering from Princeton Univ. We could ass...

https://twitter.com/Toni_Airaksinen/status/940346869095501831 Intersectional Engineering, where academic rigor is for shitlords, science is colonialist and racist, and "other ways of knowing" are accepted :bjarte: This is getting much worse than the Creationism fad. The article is titled "Rigor/Us:...

Rachel Bloom as Rebecca Nora Bunch, a lawyer originally from New York City. Rebecca suffers from symptoms of depression and anxiety. She is prone to impulsive decisions and delusions. Rebecca uproots her life and relocates to the suburb of West Covina, California, in an attempt to win back her chil...

I've been researching the phenomena of hipster racism and it appears to be a big problem. Hipster racism is thinking that you can use someone else’s culture as a prop. Another pervasive example of hipster racism is the staggering number of white people who don’t seem to understand that there is no ...

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Post numbers are back.

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The expanded gender options are a start but there should be at least 64.

Can't be exactly 64 - that's a power of 2. Much too binary.

Guest_d2e60302 wrote:
Well 404'd already
It's in google's cache atm. Search for quillette marcuse critical theory.

Is this what you're looking for?

http://quillette.com/2017/11/21/wilfred ... al-theory/

Imagine a world where the Emos and the Goths were protected identities which you couldn't make fun of or roll your eyes at without being fined or losing your job. Imagine that saying "it's a phase, you'll figure it out eventually" is called bigotry. Imagine that prominent Goths and Emos get intervi...

The first thing that came to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Jolyon_West#LSD-related_death_of_an_elephant As a result of a rather weird set of circumstances, I once cooked dinner for Dr. West. Elephant seasoned in purple haze? Manzo alla voronoff, actually. I had heard the elephant story ...

The first thing that came to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Jolyon_West#LSD-related_death_of_an_elephant As a result of a rather weird set of circumstances, I once cooked dinner for Dr. West. Wow. That's a crazy story. I wonder what reasons they had to believe LSD would induce a musth-li...

Danielle Muscato, sack of stupid. Just another indication he's more attention-seeker than "activist." https://imgur.com/TyNFTAS.png The first thing that came to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Jolyon_West#LSD-related_death_of_an_elephant As a result of a rather weird set of circumstances,...

feathers wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
Hey Matt, is it possible you have an older mouse, or a dirty mouse that is double-clicking?
I'm using a trackpad, and I hit 'submit' with my dick.
Does it bounce?

Why not just use Baker Miller Pink and maybe solve a few behavioural problems as well? Baker-Miller Pink is a tone of pink claimed to reduce hostile, violent or aggressive behavior. The color is also known as P-618 , Schauss pink, or Drunk-Tank Pink.[2] and was originally created by mixing one gall...

Can't remember the source (I think Penn and Teller discussed this?), but a study found that long term exposure to secoind hand smoke increased a non smokers risk of lung cancer from 1 in 100k to one in 80k. Somehow, this became "exposure to second hand smoke increases risk of ling cancer in non smo...

Re: Wheaton. There's a time and a place to make certain statements. In the immediate aftermath of a mass shooting when someone says something that 90% of the population understands to mean something along the lines of "love, charity, and human solidarity are important and will ultimately triumph" i...

For whatever reason, I felt like checking in on whatever Zinnia is up to. This made me laugh. https://twitter.com/ZJemptv/status/918538527209648129 Please, pretty please, tell me this idiot is not wasting the time of a real gynaecologist... All I know is, when it comes time for a colonoscopy, zir d...

That idiot theTruePooka is trying to reanimate the corpse of A+. Because it's a double-inversion (anti-anti-SJW), it'll be entirely different, so don't let the look and smell fool you. The smell of A+ corpse will be difficult to miss. OTOH, in strong enough concentrations pentamethylenediamine, aka...

It's fun to watch public intellectuals smirch their reputations by turning flaky on Twitter. https://twitter.com/AlizeeYeezy/status/922828180842532864 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Kotsko Whereas POCs living in our society haven't benefitted at all. Or the many Chinese peasants who no longer l...

They are delusional, we do what works, not what is fair. We are not Dunnocks and human males are more likely to compete for females with violence. This is the way we are wired. We could look at some ancient societies where a chief/king would be succeeded by his sister's oldest son. This way he knew...

It feels like you can be gay, straight, bisexual, trans and be accepted,” he says. “All I want is for the pup community to be accepted in the same way. We’re not trying to cause grief to the public, or cause grief to relationships. We’re just the same as any other person on the high street.” http:/...

This is legit.... but completely useless and amounts to little more than virtue signalling. I don't think it's completely useless and I think it is far more than virtue signalling. On the assumption the tickets cost money, + the beer company was demanding people spend a few bucks to buy tickets + t...

Michael Moore is being investigated for sexual assault on 4 young girls. :popcorn: http://www.conservativecolumns.com/?p=12020 See, there's no real source on this. This is what I thought would happen as a result of the Weinstein hysteria. There's going to be a firestorm of accusations now, and Twit...

You forgot Margaret Mead pulling trains in Samoa and calling it 'field study''. Only for Derek Freeman to do some asking around after the fact, and find out things might not be as they seemed. "Of course we don't really do those things. We were fucking with that white bitch. Did she actually put th...

You'll need to re-read Lyall Watson's Supernature (which is probably in the same dusty box in the attic as the collection of von Daniken exposés) to get all the details. Don't forget to play Mozart to your tomato plants and to stick electrodes into cacti as a free energy source. I remember some oth...

https://trekmovie.com/2007/09/14/a-good-day-to-die-star-trek-boldly-going-into-funerals/ You don't suppose that somebody will dig up one of these graves in the future, and some future SJW will say this was proof that Humans worshiped the Klingon God Kayless ? http://people.virginia.edu/~sfr/enlt214...

instead of direct democracy, partially so that they can protect a populace against its worst impulses. Big changes like the UK leaving the European Union are supposed to be difficult in such a system. I'm neutral on Brexit, but it wouldn't be "anti-democratic" for MPs to kill it - its their job to ...

Ugh. But this brings up a point I would like to ask the dog-loving 'pit; dangerous dog breeds like pitbulls or inbred breeds like pugs-shouldn't they be spayed and neutered out? I'm all for taking care of extant animals, but isn't it cruel to continue breeding them? Pit bulls can be great dogs, but...

Btw, re. Thomas Smith's use against Sargon of some survey re. gender prejudice in "blind" cv tests or whatever it was - I seem to recall a survey recently showing the opposite result, that people were more likely to favour female applicants in blind tests. Damned if I can remember what or where it ...

Even "casual racism and sexism" are acceptable when employed in the defense of The Correct Opinion. Well done, Meyers, proving once again that you have zero honor, pride, self-respect or worth. https://i.imgur.com/amVzHe5.png Eminem, who spends most of his life surrounded by black people, needs sch...

On the other hand I think it has probably gone down in the anals of history.... Enough of Zinnia Jones' bunghole already! I should eat breakfast BEFORE I check out my daily dose of the Pit. Yeah, some stuff reported on the Pit lately definitely counts as prep for that projectile vomiting competitio...

Macho pursuits dominate assessments of risky behavior, reinforcing gender stereotypes By University of Exeter Oct. 5, 2017 – Women can be just as risky as men – or even riskier – when the conventional macho measures of daring – such as betting vast sums on a football game – are replaced by less ste...

Some people are afraid of dying without a priest to give absolution. Peezus is afraid of dying without a priest within stabbing distance. IIRC, Peez, in his death bed fantasy, throttled The Last Priest with his bare hands. I'm sure he had a tight grip around something when he wrote that. Diderot sa...

Rotherham Councli have been nominated for an award for their exemplory Social Services. https://twitter.com/RMBCPress/status/915591592483975168 Unbelievable. It's comparable to Henry Kissinger getting the Nobel Peace Prize. Actually, it's far worse. The Nobel Peace prize is at least partly aspirati...

As the films are in the noir genre (or noir-SF sub-genre anyway) - they are set in a world of inevitable corruption, which there is no hope of remedying). So they are in fundamental opposition to the SJW worldview where the world is a fucked up place - but all problems would be resolved tomorrow if...

Meanwhile, in Wimbledon a man reading a bible on a train causes mass panic: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-41466140 Passengers forced open the doors on a busy rush-hour train and climbed on to tracks after becoming "panicked" in the carriage. It happened outside Wimbledon station in sout...

https://web.archive.org/web/20170930133717/https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/09/29/wtf-did-i-just-read/ Pharyngula is up in arms over some scifi short story PZ dug up about men and women stranded on a distant planet who must regenerate the race and end up lobotomizing the last women into...

https://twitter.com/cvanderakt/status/908580609097945093 18 minutes of some pretty catchy music, also, ode to the yoni. I concluded that the designer hates women. The models looked ridiculous. I gave up after six minutes. I spotted no women in that video. The lack of vaginas on the models was more ...

Suet Cardigan wrote: I seem to remember Larry Niven writing a story about a future where the rich live in luxurious, sealed off arcologies while the rest of the world was basically like Blade Runner. Can't remember the title.

Oath of Fealty by Niven and Pournelle. (Pournelle died on September 8th.)

https://twitter.com/cvanderakt/status/908580609097945093 18 minutes of some pretty catchy music, also, ode to the yoni. I concluded that the designer hates women. The models looked ridiculous. I gave up after six minutes. The great thing about that is each time you think you've reached peak stupid,...

One thing I forgot to mention is that I am chemically modified. I'm taking 50mg of sertraline (Zoloft) per day, now working to 25mg/day. I was originally prescribed citalopram (Celexa) but it made me sick, nauseous, and gave me a dry mouth. Even though they are both apparently SSRIs, the chemical s...

Matt Cavanaugh wrote:Yeah, I'm cruisin' for a bruisin' (ban), too:

https://disqus.com/home/discussion/frie ... 3507320564

But I want to be a pansexual forest sprite every day!

BBC story about 9 thing invented by women: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-40923649 Apparently Grace Hopper invented software. :think: :think: Also, they need a good copy editor: Hopper also helped popularised the term "de-bugging" that we still use on computers programmes today, after a moth was rem...

The L'Oreal troon is on Channel 4 news, doubling down on the "all white people are racist" statement. She broke down at the end, but the upset is only due to her losing her lucrative modelling contract, I'm sure. Is that too cynical? I'm so tired of this bullshit. L'Oreal is gonna lose its market s...

I have had a persistent thing with transpeople who I've been friends with, then they've gone trans, and then about six months later they lose their motherfucking minds in an abusive, psychotic way, either calling for murder of people or going on the streets threatening to bash people, etc, total fu...

Oh, and I think I've discovered who the real Randy Marsh is: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/reddit-porn-amazon-storage/ From TFA: Motherboard estimates it would take anywhere between 23 and 293 years to watch 1.8 petabytes of porn depending on the video quality. You also have to take the lengths of...

And welcome back Pitchguest, fingers crossed for you da. I haven't thought of that in a dog's age https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZhB2p38eBo I enjoyed it at the time - but the music in the trailer is a bit much...perhaps I'll watch it again. I've never seen the movie, but I saw the play on Broadwa...

One of the most ironic things about the modern Left is how its morality is so very Christian (all equal), yet (because of epistemological relativism) it's consciously held as a "leap of faith." Figure that one out. The Modern (SocJus) Left is a cult without an eternal reward. It's a senseless sacri...

Appros of nothing... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tFESDCz7Zw It's always good to see that citizens of other countries are as retarded as Americans. I grew up in rural Oklahoma, and while Oklahomans may be pretty stupid (see for example Governor Mary Fallon) they aren't THAT stupid. Try that shi...

ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:
deLurch wrote:
https://imgoat.com/uploads/645920e395/39123.jpg
"REGSTIATION".

Fuck me, these people take no pride in anything they do.

Silly me, I thought that must be some sort of dinosaur-themed sex.

Also the protagonist of the movie, and arguably the most human and complex character, is actually a Mexican bandit. Played by a Jew from Brooklyn. [SJW mode on] OMG cultural appropriation! Latino-face! [SJW mode off] Going back to sanity, Eli Wallach was perfect for the role. Tuco is one of my favo...

Kirbmarc wrote:Also the protagonist of the movie, and arguably the most human and complex character, is actually a Mexican bandit.

Played by a Jew from Brooklyn.

The Commander has just had a spot of illness, and some of my dreams were more vivid than usual. The other night.... ...I was dreaming I was a judge in a court room. The court was menacing, intimidating, and we were all wearing those stupid wigs the judges wear in Blighty. Anyway, the courtroom is p...

A general power for problem-solving and information processing exists that influences a whole range of aptitudes and skills. But faulty logic, or an insane worldview like postmodernism, can derail even a genius. Kind of like buying the newest PC with the fastest processor, then installing Microsoft...

What exactly defines intelligence, your academic achievements? your ability to remember data or to work out complicated equations? I've met many people with these skills who have had no common sense whatsoever and in some cases dangerously so, I've equally met people with no qualifications and who ...

The average IQ of an American of African decent is 85. That is one full standard deviation less than the national average. I find it helpful to remember that Ashkenazi Jews are a standard deviation above Europeans. It puts things in perspective when you start getting too gloomy about what a 15 poin...

Becky's tat gets overtaken in "dumbest ever" stakes. She really can't win a trick, even as she performs one. http://i.imgur.com/WkjaA4A.jpg http://www.news.com.au/national/rush-hour/rush-hour-the-stories-you-need-to-know-today/news-story/e0bb6b56dcf01ce5ee968ac353b4ae82 Not even close. https://www....

The Washington state law says that people can be ticketed for eating or drinking IF it results in erratic driving. So you can sip your coffee without fear is it doesn't result in poor driving. My concern is that it will be abused by certain officers looking for an excuse. The law really gives a bro...

Lsuoma wrote:Anybody here read The Laundry novels by Charles Stross? The latest one is amazing!

Read the first two. Quite good - it's as if Len Deighton started writing fantasy.

Which one is amazing?

[ When I was 10 my dad said, 'sure, son, go ahead and read Breakfast of Champions! ' At 11, my mom said, 'well, you really like science fiction, so I'll buy I Have No Mouth And Must Scream for you!' Did you see Equus at a young age too? I have a funny story about that. I saw Equus on Broadway when ...

Checking in on Dick: Skepticon asked for money again on June 8 to defray the cost of Dick's suit. Howdy Skeptiworld, We’ve talked about it before, but Skepticon is still facing down a long and difficult lawsuit. Unfortunately, this means that we need to spend time and energy on fundraising for BOTH...

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