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

The Brooks article was interesting, and I say that as a person who's not a particular fan of his. I think I might check out the Dream Hoarders book he mentioned. I fall squarely in that aspirational upper middle class USAian demographic, and although my parents weren't especially well-off financial...

deLurch wrote:
shoutinghorse wrote:Reports now of an exploding fridge being the cause :?
I have never heard of a fridge exploding in my life. ...

Here's one: [youtube][/youtube]

"[t]hou gazest" seems to be standard: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22thou+gazest%22&oq=%22thou+gazest%22&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.9758j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 "Gazest" is the best gaze! (Better than a mere "gaze", and the somewhat better "gazer"; and it's surely not looking with a lisp.) I wo...

... If you really feel threatened, then: If you are right-dominant, move and plant your left foot twenty-four inches leftwards (from your perspective) of his actual right leg. Swing your right leg through this newly-formed gap and plant your actual right foot right behind his actual right foot. PUS...

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: NPR is blatantly partisan and SJW.

I think many partisan sites are naively partisan. Mostly because they lack self-awareness, and are focused more on their goals than on their principles. I'd put NPR in that category.

... Arguments about a priori plausibility usually fall on deaf ears. I'm not sure why you would say that. The publishability of a methodologically sound investigation that tested a clear prediction of a particular hypothesis and found that the prediction was not borne out would *greatly* depend upo...

Genuine question: Can I find papers in STEM fields that are of the order: I looked for effects of Y on X but could not find it? It is not common (but it does happen) where that is the main finding of the investigation. Where a particular hypothesis makes a clear and unambiguous prediction about the...

I love PZ's opening "oh I saw that paper days ago and instantly recognised it as fake gender studies" :lol: :lol: As if he was just happened to be perusing the journal before the real story broke, and the topic interested him enough to start reading that particular article. (Or, it's a hint of what...

Do office blocks and skyscrapers in America have a number 13 floor? Also I heard that Americans are more superstitious because there were originally 13 colonies. Usually they do have a 13th floor, but every once in a while I'll discover one that skips that number. (How many legs does a dog have if ...

All's quiet on the Heina Dadabhoy front: no Orbit posts since last December, which is a strong clue she is hunkered down putting the finishing touches on her book. I have every confidence that it will be released as scheduled in December. Shortly there after she will put to use that money she got fr...

Kirbmarc, and others. You said it already. It’s no big deal for you to invite a Neo Nazi to a stream as a legitimate opinion when it happens to agree on a single issue with yours. There's the issue: it's not about "agreeing on a single issue" is "defending their right to free speech". This isn't a ...

Kirbmarc wrote:
free thoughtpolice wrote:Sounds like there will be trouble:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politic ... -1.3043267
Putin is welcome to present evidence to the UN.

Like Colon Powell did a few months after 9-11?

The debate was about Service Dog asserting ... I was skeptical, since I found these Anti-SJW YouTubers as unreliable and as furthering an Alt Right narrative. I then laid out how ... , and Service Dog executed this script faithfully ... It became clear that ... Service Dog denied my assessment ... ...

Brive1987 wrote:And then, unexpectedly, a little sugar bubble floated into my mouth.

http://i.imgur.com/ssNzFs2.jpg
.........

all genocides involve a genocidal process, not all genocidal processes lead to genocide.

I'm pretty sure that to make money from YouTube, people have to actually watch your videos.

TheMudbrooker wrote:Little Big Man

[youtube][/youtube]

:nin:, sort of

I'll give a shout out to three Kevin Costner westerns .. Wyatt Earp .. Dances with Wolves and at a stretch The Postman The latter is a bit schmaltzy at the end but still an entertaining movie IMO. Oh fuck, why did I let out Dances With Wolves? ... Dances with Wolves was vastly inferior to the movie...

On this day in history: two years ago Heina Dadabhoy posted her most recent update to her generous Kickstarter backers, letting them know that her publisher had set a "hard date" of December 2015 for the release of her book. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/skepticsguidetoislam/a-skeptics-guide...

Quizotron tonight! Starts in about 40 minutes! Anyone in SF planning on attending? (or peeking in the door?) https://sfsketchfest2017.sched.com/event/8wNy/quiz-o-tron-with-rebecca-watson-and-guests-bonnie-burton-trace-dominguez-ashley-paramore-seth-shostak-will-smith-ariel-waldman-and-justin-robert...

Over 11 mins long. Even when I might agree with some things he says in the past , he does have a habit lately of repeating the same point as if no one gets it the first time. A lot of his recent stuff could do with editing down and being half the length. Agreed. If you look at some of his recent ho...

free thoughtpolice wrote:Brive: For dog training as well as bigdick evidence check this guy out:
[.youtube][/youtube]

Screw that. This one's much better:
[youtube][/youtube]

Rebecca's Patreon Christmas bubble popped. She's still given obscene amounts of money for each video, but some of the insanity has subsided. http://imgur.com/4AhEtYn.png As long as loser beardos like this hang their fantasies on her, she'll get paid to fuck around. She'd better be looking for a rea...

My understanding of the Beckley News v Hanks decision is that whether an investigation occurred is not relevant to the question of reckless disregard. The only issue is what the alleged defamer knew at the time. Do you know of a case where the plaintiff impeded an investigation? My understanding of...

My understanding of the Beckley News v Hanks decision is that whether an investigation occurred is not relevant to the question of reckless disregard. The only issue is what the alleged defamer knew at the time. Do you know of a case where the plaintiff impeded an investigation? My understanding of...

The conflict is clearly that in his Brief Carrier wants to create the impression that he had to move his blog from FTB against his will (causing him untold damage). He doesn't tell the judge that he had claimed earlier that he left voluntarily, allegedly in the interest of FTB. Either he is lying n...

Are there any studies on physical limits of sexual dimorphism? ... With respect to size, it can get pretty extreme, and it is not always the male that is bigger. Check out the anglerfish in this click-baity article: http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/blogs/9-most-dramatic-examples-sexual-dimo...

katamari Damassi wrote:No way! If Santa let McCarthy live for Wonderful Christmastime, then he didn't kill Michael over that song.

Patton Oswalt on Christmas Shoes:
[youtube][/youtube]

Man, that was funny. (Long, and slow to get going, but I was LMAO)

Still, I'm curious what kind of "science experiment expected to generate considerable publicity" they had in mind. Would it have involved the interactions of semen with young female students' faces? Extra laughs for the "Peer reviewed academic journal publication" – the spunky monkey is truly patho...

Not sure if this has already been posted, but here's a copy of Carrier's latest filing in his lawsuit - Brief in Opposition to the Motion to Dismiss. Filed 12/22/16. http://docdro.id/ZKSyLON Gotta love the narcissism of Sticky Dicky. Yet again (as with his initial complaint filing) Carrier is alway...

Looks like Amazon has "delisted" He ina's book: it no longer has a detailed page with cover art and expected publishing date, and you can no longer pre-order it. In its place, though, is a sort of dead page that says it is out of print, and shows a publication date of November 1, 2013. The really in...

M'lady! Allow ME to keep you in the manner to which you're accustomed. It shall be my privilege! With Adam out of the picture, hope burns brightly in Beardo Nation. http://imgur.com/4McqLZg.jpg $60+ per video more than last week. ... See! Adam was just holding her back! I can't wait to see the amaz...

I'm with Vicky; teach the controversy. Science has not 100% completely disproved the existence of bigfoot yet, so we should be open minded about it. Yeah, all the "evidence" used to prove his existence is crap, but there is soooo soooo much of it! (This is not at all like the existence of god, or vo...

10 years of research, they still haven't found anything harmful about vaping... That's just not true. http://www.lung.org/stop-smoking/smoking-facts/e-cigarettes-and-lung-health.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/ You want to argue that they are less harmful that cigarettes you may have a case bu...

It looks like SJW/feminist types reported Bearing to the fresh Channel. Just the sort of sneaky, underhanded tactics we expect from them. Didn't someone from the Pit report Weepy Amy for copying PacMan? Fucking SJWs... And I'm pretty sure it was a pitter who tracked down and alerted the artist abou...

This has been making the rounds on FB. Jack Webb lays out the truth to the activist youth of the day.

... Speaking of no posts since September, I see book-shy Heina hasn't posted either. She must be saving her creative muse for that book she is 3.5 years late in delivering. ... Perhaps you are not aware, but release of her book has been pushed back to Dec 2017, so if she makes that deadline (she's ...

Boy, if the election results were not bad enough for millions of fans of our favorite Orbitoid author, check this out: http://www.ipgbook.com/a-skeptic-s-guide-to-islam-products-9781634310284.php?page_id=32&pid=PTS Heina Dadabhoy's publisher has slipped the expected release date of her soon-to-be-be...

Faraci has confirmed that his victim must be telling the truth. https://twitter.com/devincf/status/785187367980118016 Has he admitted his guilt or not? On one hand he apologizes, on the other hand he says he doesn't remember. At the very least he is admitting that what she claimed he did is, in fac...

Heina taking the right stance (re: Chess championship in Ian http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/sports/american-chess-player-boycotts-championship-that-would-require-her-to-wear-a-hijab.html)....let's see if her "fellow SJW types" disagree or quietly fume. https://twitter.com/reasonrally/status/7851...

Regarding Watson's Youtube output, it looks like she was pumping out about 5-7 videos a month, going back a while. IMO, that seems like a pretty good pace for topical commentary. Unfortunately, it would appear that no one is actually watching them: typical view count is in the order of about 5k view...

Dickie's lawsuit is DOA. Skepticon's attorneys completely shredded it, with the threat of a retaliatory ass-auguring as lagniappe. https://www.docdroid.net/eUs7E9S/skepticon-response-redacted.pdf.html#page=4 It should be noted that this is not Skepticon's answer to Carrier's complaint. It is dated ...

[ You obviously didn't read the complaint. It's got sticky all over it. No but I looked over it. ... So as I said, you obviously didn't read the complaint. Yeah, a lawyer probably tweeked and packaged the verbiage into a *somewhat* coherent legally sufficient complaint, but there is little doubt ab...

He also uploaded a copy of the complaint. To be found here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/q5dd6fnybataueu/CarrierLawsuitModi.pdf?dl=0 Interesting little petty thing in Dr Richard Carrier's Complaint. In stating who the parties are, he writes: "Plaintiff Dr. Richard Carrier (hereinafter 'Dr. Carrier' .....

Hemant joins the party: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/09/24/dr-richard-carrier-has-sued-several-atheists-and-their-blogging-networks-on-charges-of-defamation/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed He also uploaded a copy of the complaint. To be found here: https://www.dropbo...

Hemant joins the party: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/09/24/dr-richard-carrier-has-sued-several-atheists-and-their-blogging-networks-on-charges-of-defamation/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed He also uploaded a copy of the complaint. To be found here: https://www.dropbo...

The complete guide to Clinton scandals. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/tracking-the-clinton-controversies-from-whitewater-to-benghazi/396182/ Some of the Clinton health concerns are starting to rub off on me. I am not ready yet to put my tinfoil hat on but I would like to see t...

There's something fishy about her calculations. If she's paying $2,312 on income of $9606, then she's in a 24% tax bracket. For a single person, she'd have to have a total income in the six figures to be in that kind of tax bracket. Does anyone think that Watson makes at least $100,000/year? :liar:...

Brive1987 wrote:For those interested here is the 800 women's final in full.

Both races.

The linked video is an earlier race in Monaco, not the Olympic finals.

jimthepleb wrote:
Ape+lust wrote:You guys with video trouble. Are you still using Flash? Try going to YouTube and switching your default to HTML5.

https://www.youtube.com/html5
Yeah I'm on html5 still the same issue. Pain in the arris.

Same here. No embedded yousetoobs

Matt Cavanaugh wrote:... The >100% turn-outs did occur. All documented. ...

http://www.factcheck.org/2013/01/voting-conspiracies/

You gotta love the pit. One person just called me a creationist while another just said the scientific method is [not?] very good. Not mad at anyone btw. I am just enjoying the back and forth. I didn't say the scientific method was not good. I did say that the specific formulation in the image you ...

You gotta love the pit. One person just called me a creationist while another just said the scientific method is [not?] very good. Not mad at anyone btw. I am just enjoying the back and forth. I didn't say the scientific method was not good. I did say that the specific formulation in the image you ...

Yes, but the evidence refuted their hypothesis. If they'd twisted the evidence to support their hypothesis the study would have been bunk. Accepted, there is a tiny, tiny bit of validity in that they will change their minds when presented with overwhelming evidence contrary to their preconceptions....

I have to say that I heartily disapprove of pitters donating either to Amy's or to Dicky's as yet hypothetical fund. ... I don't think you have much to worry about. Amy is only up to $765 and that includes Beckybooze's whole double sawbuck. It's been amazing to watch the different reaction to this ...

I donating once I get home, but keeping it anonymous. I'd encourage everyone to do likewise ... No thanks. Would prefer the SJW to blow their own money (which they will; here's another opportunity for them to virtue signal). Particularly since ultimately this is reinforcing their "epistemology". Be...

Apparently Dick Carrier is going after Amy Frank, the former President of Arizona SSA. https://www.gofundme.com/AmyFrankFund?rcid=09a01418573611e69b8ebc764e04c5a7 Huh didn't see any pit names on there. Were you expecting some? BTW, here would be the perfect place for Watson to pass along the excess...

Brive1987 wrote:Carrier ... He is elyse without the vomit and shit.

Quite true. (But he does have that semen thing; gotta grant him that.)

I'm very curious why Carrier thinks his stragegy will work for him, when he certainly observed how well it worked for Radford and Shermer. Everything is so predictable right now: the people he threaten go ebegging to fund their defense, and ain't nobody but himself to fund his prosecution. Defendant...

Someone earlier asked if Carrier ever weighed in on the Radford/Stollznow case. He did: https://archive.is/96lBB His "epistemology" is right in line with the standard SJW approach to things. In particular, note his update, made post-final settlement, where he endorses the summary by someone, which a...

Question, does Richard Carrier count as a public figure? Most people don't know him. But he has published 7 books, with an 8th on its way in October. And he has often received public speaking gigs because people know him. And he certainly tries to present himself as a public figure. Short answer: y...

Dadabhoy was bothered by my query because it occurred soon after they had joined the same blog network I was then part of ... Maybe he asked her when, as a kickstarter backer, he was going to get that book she was supposed to write. (Or maybe he asked for that refund she "hard promised" she was goi...

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