Nerds. Nerds EVERYWHERE...

#26641

Pitchguest wrote:It's happened.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterflies ... your-eyes/

Ophelia makes a blog post... complaining about... plagiarism.

Ah, but Ophie always gives credit so it's not really plagiarism.

#26642

It appears that Ms. Glenn did plagiarize from someone's comment, though. That's not cool.

#26643

didymos wrote:It appears that Ms. Glenn did plagiarize from someone's comment, though. That's not cool.

Seems that way. Bizarre.

#26644

She and Elyse need to party:

#26645

Also, watch out. She's got a beast inside:

#26646

Oh, and now the "preferred" in "preferred pronouns" is bad:

#26647

real horrorshow wrote:As Stephen Fry so memorably put it:

It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what?

Didn't we have a way to deal with this "I'm offended!" business once? I think it was called... dueling?

I think it'd be kinda "fun" to reintroduce... someone called your mother a fat whore? Up to you to decide if it's "Meet at 12 tomorrow, bring your gun!" or if you in truth wasn't all that offended. I imagine the number of SJWs offended on someone else's behalf would quickly dwindle...

#26648

didymos wrote:She and Elyse need to party:

It bugs me when people drag out silent letters in writing like that. If you're gonna simulate dragging out a word in speech, at least do it right.

Or do it riggggggggght. amidoinitrite?

#26649

The way people use the retweet and favourite functions on Twitter is just retarded. How does some drunkard saying something neither insightful nor funny warrant 15 'favourites'?

#26650

James Caruthers wrote:^I love this video. There's a good point in there for all the SJWs who think that what they "want" is complete and total acceptance from and power over society, and this is what will make them happy. :dance:

I don't know, there's a difference between what SJWs say they want, and what they actually want. They claim to want equality, but it's fairly obvious that what they actually want is power, preferably of the totalitarian kind.

PZ or the horde would not be happy at all in a truly equal society - but I figure they would be very content if someone handed them their own real-life banhammers and gave them free reign to use them as they saw fit.

#26651

I just saw this mentioned on the bbc.

[youtube]EiIxkOah09E[/youtube]

Apparently the new Indian health minister is trying to get sex eduction banned in his country and some Indian comedians made a satirical video about it.
The jokes are a bit hit and miss but it does hit the mark with a few good points about the sexism and hypocrisy of those in power in that country - as well as making a fairly subversive joke towards the end thats bound to provoke tears of rage from the feminist anti-porn brigade.
I'm sure I'm missing a few Indian specific jokes that only our Indian commenter(s) will understand.

#26652

acathode wrote:
real horrorshow wrote:As Stephen Fry so memorably put it:

It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what?
Didn't we have a way to deal with this "I'm offended!" business once? I think it was called... dueling?

I think it'd be kinda "fun" to reintroduce... someone called your mother a fat whore? Up to you to decide if it's "Meet at 12 tomorrow, bring your gun!" or if you in truth wasn't all that offended. I imagine the number of SJWs offended on someone else's behalf would quickly dwindle...

I am looking forward to the day some little SJW prick decides s/h/it's "calling me out" - even better if it's one of the fuckers who gets the cards printed up. My response will be to take it quite literally, in the old fashioned sense. As the challenged party, my choice of weapons will be European longsword. It's been a while, and I was never exactly an expert, but I do know the basics of how to handle one. I'm betting that the average SJW does not. Of course, they could always apologise.

#26653

ROBOKiTTY wrote:The way people use the retweet and favourite functions on Twitter is just retarded. How does some drunkard saying something neither insightful nor funny warrant 15 'favourites'?

The entire concept and existence of Twitter is retarded.

#26654

I was reminded this morning of a song by French artist/catastrophe extraordinaire Didier Super, called RÃªve d'un Monde. here are the original lyrics, see if it sounds like your average SJW (use google translate or something):

Cette chanson, c'est une chanson pour tout ceux qui pensent que le monde sans les mÃ©chants, sans le mal, sans l'Ã©goisme et sans la cruautÃ©, le monde serait mieux.

Aujourd'hui moi j'ai fais le rÃªve
D'une humanitÃ©
Plus humaine, sans haine
Et sans mÃ©chancetÃ©.

Une humanitÃ© moins pourrie
OÃ¹ seulement les gens gentils seraient acceuillis
Une humanitÃ© plus pure
OÃ¹ les gens mÃ©chant auraient la vie dure.

Parce que je sais pas vous, mais moi les gens mÃ©chants,
Ils m'foutent les boules
Et si tu regarde bien,
Rien qu'a leur gueule Ã§a se voit qu'il sont pas nets.
Et plus Ã§a va et moins je supporte de les voir passer devant chez moi.

Et s'ils veulent pas comprendre j'ai des solutions:
La dÃ©portation pour tout ces enculÃ©s d'intolÃ©rents
Et les chambres Ã gaz, pour tout ces fumiers de racistes
Et on rÃ©alume les four pour y mettre tout ces sales cons de fascistes.

Et tout ceux qui veulent pas comprendre je les bute!

TF;DR (Too French; Didn't Read): last verse:

And if they don't want to understand, I've got the solution:
Deportation for all those intolerant fuckers
And gas chambers for all those racist bastards
And reopen the crematoria to shove in all those fascist cunts.

And those who don't want to understand, I shall snuff them.

#26655

Oh, forgot to add: Dider Super is a parodist.

#26656

sinister wrote:
Scented Nectar wrote:
didymos wrote:Oh boy! Or girl! Or physically immature gender-non-specific human! The gender workshop on Pharyngula is baaaaack:

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... finitions/
What the fuck was that word mess? Crip Dike must be brain damaged.

Did anyone get through that garble without saying WTF at least a dozen times?
I just sort of stopped reading... it was a weird game where we pretend words mean things Humpty Dumpty style right? Or maybe everyone takes a turn writing sentences until someone calls bullshit, and they have to cite a dictionary?

Maybe Crip Dyke is having a game of Cadavre Exquis with the other voices in s/h/it's head?

#26657

Pitchguest wrote:
ROBOKiTTY wrote:C0nc0rdance recently flounced from Dusty Smith's channel because Dusty was openly advocating recreational consumption of illegal drugs in his last video.

Also, it's been three weeks since Dusty's last activity on his channel. I wonder how the drama has affected his production.
C0nc0rdance is a reasonable person, except when it comes to the recreational use of drugs. He made a video about drugs some time ago, marijuana specifically, and while he went on about the dangers of marijuana, he completely dismissed any arguments to the contrary. Unfortunately that is where his reason and logic goes out the window, replaced with blind dogma. Or blind insofar he only trusts the documents citing how perilous marijuana can be.

I remember I said to him, at the time, that no one has so far died from an overdose of marijuana (namely because you can't overdose on marijuana). I also remember telling him how doctors prescribe marijuana to ADD and cancer sufferers to improve concentration and ease their nausea, which granted he acknowledged but wouldn't go so far as to accept that smoking it recreationally could not cause long-term harm nor that you couldn't get addicted to it. (You can't get addicted to marijuana. You can get an urge, sure, but it's not the same as the chemical induced addiction that you get from, for example, cigarettes or cocaine.) I suppose that's his "blind" spot.

I might be on C0nc0rdance's side a bit here, not because of studies, but because I've seen a few friends abusing pot, and it's not pretty. They were IRL examples of those stoned, "have you ever looked at your hand, really?" stereotypes. Mind you, I'm not against a bit of recreational use, as long as people are reasonable. It's just not my thing, and these days I tend to avoid hanging out with overblown potheads. They annoy me.

#26658

And Five In A ROW!!! C-C-COMBO!

#26659

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:And Five In A ROW!!! C-C-COMBO!

[youtube]7I7Ue2wX6iQ[/youtube]

#26660

LOL. Lofty gets's all indignant over "Myers" being misspelled, then fucks up the quoting and has to try again.

#26661

And I can't spell either, apparently.

LurkerPerson · #26662

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote: I might be on C0nc0rdance's side a bit here, not because of studies, but because I've seen a few friends abusing pot, and it's not pretty. They were IRL examples of those stoned, "have you ever looked at your hand, really?" stereotypes. Mind you, I'm not against a bit of recreational use, as long as people are reasonable. It's just not my thing, and these days I tend to avoid hanging out with overblown potheads. They annoy me.

In Marseilles? I'd be surprised if you can find marijuana at all. Hash is not the same thing. It might get cut and diluted a dozen times before ever making it to euro shores. That shit is much more noxious and toxic than "natural" marijuana. And even then I know of practically no one in europe who smokes it "pure". It's always gigantic spliffs with a bunch of tobacco. Marijuana might not be that bad for you, but the mix of weed/tobacco is more unhealthy than either on their own.

#26663

LurkerPerson wrote:
Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote: I might be on C0nc0rdance's side a bit here, not because of studies, but because I've seen a few friends abusing pot, and it's not pretty. They were IRL examples of those stoned, "have you ever looked at your hand, really?" stereotypes. Mind you, I'm not against a bit of recreational use, as long as people are reasonable. It's just not my thing, and these days I tend to avoid hanging out with overblown potheads. They annoy me.
In Marseilles? I'd be surprised if you can find marijuana at all. Hash is not the same thing. It might get cut and diluted a dozen times before ever making it to euro shores. That shit is much more noxious and toxic than "natural" marijuana. And even then I know of practically no one in europe who smokes it "pure". It's always gigantic spliffs with a bunch of tobacco. Marijuana might not be that bad for you, but the mix of weed/tobacco is more unhealthy than either on their own.

Nice. We're closer to the Italian border (50km) and get more weed than hash. And yes, it's almost always mixed with tobacco.

#26664

didymos wrote:LOL. Lofty gets's all indignant over "Myers" being misspelled, then fucks up the quoting and has to try again.

Canâ€™t any of you dullards spell?

It's a proper name Lofty, you numb cunt. It might be spelt any number of ways and neither a dictionary nor a spell-checker is going to help. My own surname can be spelt about six different ways and they're all correct, in that someone uses that spelling - just not me.

"Meyers" is at least as reasonable as "Myers", which frankly looks like something you'd see in a Jeeves and Wooster story when some aristocrat tried to say 'yes'. Not to mention, a brief glance at the quoted text, makes me think that English is not the writer's first language. But why cut someone the slightest bit of slack when they're evil enough to have an opinion different from your own. Eh Lofty?

#26665

http://i639.photobucket.com/albums/uu11 ... 7b3088.png

:lol: http://i639.photobucket.com/albums/uu11 ... cd70db.png :lol:

To be fair though, I can empathise a bit here; in the sense that I don't want that Jenneke chick to keep pestering me for sex, or keep winning that damn lottery every week.

#26666

http://i639.photobucket.com/albums/uu11 ... cd70db.png

http://events.skepchick.org/files/2011/ ... e-zvan.jpg

#26667

I think she's got more luck with sex appeal.

#26668

papillon wrote:http://i639.photobucket.com/albums/uu11 ... 7b3088.png

:lol: http://i639.photobucket.com/albums/uu11 ... cd70db.png :lol:

To be fair though, I can empathise a bit here; in the sense that I don't want that Jenneke chick to keep pestering me for sex, or keep winning that damn lottery every week.

Wait. did Zvan just refer to her "sex appeal"?!? Good then, she has none. Even if she looked like my favorite porn star ever, her "sex appeal" would be downgraded to minus 9000 by the ugliness of her thoughts.

Fuck that cunt, she's become the person I despise the most on FTB, and that's quite a challenge. Fucking fat cow*!

*you know I'm not much for these types of attacks, but the Huge Zvanatee deserves this kind of abuse (at least, it's not violent, or, you know, resulting in innocent people being jailed or dragged into mud for the convenience of some self-entitled fat cow. Like Zvan).

#26669

*sigh* Just learned my great great great great-cousin* passed away yesterday. He's the one who taught me to like rugby. Is 2014 my all time shittiest year yet?

*my father's cousin. He was just really great, great, great. He was a great guy! (Thanks Lano and Woddley)

#26670

didymos wrote:Also, LOL @ Nat trying to be deep:

Doesn't hold a candle to Edith SÃ¶dergran:

I am no woman. I am a neuter.
I am a child, a page-boy, and a bold decision,
I am a laughing streak of a scarlet sun...
I am a net for all voracious fish,
I am a toast to every woman's honor,
I am a step toward luck and toward ruin,
I am a leap in freedom and the self...
I am the whisper of desire in a man's ear,
I am the soul's shivering, the flesh's longing and denial,
I am an entry sign to new paradises.
I am a flame, searching and brave,
I am water, deep yet bold only to the knees,
I am fire and water, honestly combined, on free terms...

And her excuse was that she was an early 20th century modernist poet dying of tuberculosis.

#26671

Guestus Aurelius wrote:
Scented Nectar wrote:
didymos wrote:Also, LOL @ Nat trying to be deep:

Ok, are they all on massive hits of acid? Or is it just common variety psychosis? What the fuck?
It makes sense if you think of SJWs as idiots.

But it's like they indulge in their idiocy and embrace it. They must be willful idiots.

#26672

Guestus Aurelius wrote:
Scented Nectar wrote:
didymos wrote:Also, LOL @ Nat trying to be deep:

Ok, are they all on massive hits of acid? Or is it just common variety psychosis? What the fuck?
It makes sense if you think of SJWs as idiots.

But it's like they indulge in their idiocy and embrace it. They must be willful idiots.

#26673

[youtube]u1Kb4JZGpA0[/youtube]

I can listen to someone of any political persuasion and enjoy as long as they aren't an authoritarian religious zealot. This far-left marxist-communist makes some good points about society, SJL ideological tendencies, polidicks in America and the return of old authoritarian propaganda (the bit about The Dark Knight and lying being the highest good.)

#26674

Gumby wrote:
Scented Nectar wrote:
You know, I'm picturing at conferences, people armed with dictionaries and scaring away pesky SJWs with them. Like vampires and crosses or something.
http://i.imgur.com/Jk3KSeu.jpg

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

#26675

feralandproud wrote:
Even though it may be an unpopular opinion, I gotta admit I view this kind of like I view Suey. I mean it's been what? 3 years or so? Did Ms. Glenn never hear of A+ until now? Why would anyone want to drag them back in to the spotlight? Other than the usual suspects, the whole herd is largely irrelevant.

Isn't she talking about her video, rather than A+ itself? Seen the video, seems to be about drama in general rather than A+ specifically.

#26676

ROBOKiTTY wrote:C0nc0rdance recently flounced from Dusty Smith's channel because Dusty was openly advocating recreational consumption of illegal drugs in his last video.

Also, it's been three weeks since Dusty's last activity on his channel. I wonder how the drama has affected his production.

There were a couple of videos yesterday accusing him of antisemitism. His big crime was asking why the jewish part of the holocaust gets brought up more than the others killed in both the holocaust and other mass slaughters in the world. He also believes that 5 million were killed rather than 6 million since the only evidence for 6 million was a verbal estimate someone gave, whereas better evidence only shows 5 million. He also brought up the very good point that almost no one currently alive was a part of that war. It wasn't our fight. [that's all paraphrased by me, but you get the idea]

He doesn't deny the holocaust at all. He just doesn't revere it like some do.

None of that is antisemitic. But, of course, the usual religious apologists are acting like he's committed some crime. As far as C0nc0rdance goes, I don't get it. Dusty has always been open about his feelings about drugs.

I'm on Dusty's side here. Completely.

Here are 2 videos from yesterday accusing him. He's Witch of the Week on youtube.

[youtube]K6WmDfT7sNk[/youtube]

[youtube]xHXfcaIg0KY[/youtube]

I should probably unsub from these 2 morons. They are in the same apologist crowds that cry "islamophobia!" at any scrutiny of islamic crap.

#26677

didymos wrote:Jesus fucking Christ. Ophie already has FIVE posts up about Jaclyn Glenn's video. FIVE.

Benson is a firm believer in "Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill".

#26678

Pitchguest wrote:
ROBOKiTTY wrote:C0nc0rdance recently flounced from Dusty Smith's channel because Dusty was openly advocating recreational consumption of illegal drugs in his last video.

Also, it's been three weeks since Dusty's last activity on his channel. I wonder how the drama has affected his production.
C0nc0rdance is a reasonable person, except when it comes to the recreational use of drugs. He made a video about drugs some time ago, marijuana specifically, and while he went on about the dangers of marijuana, he completely dismissed any arguments to the contrary. Unfortunately that is where his reason and logic goes out the window, replaced with blind dogma. Or blind insofar he only trusts the documents citing how perilous marijuana can be.

I remember I said to him, at the time, that no one has so far died from an overdose of marijuana (namely because you can't overdose on marijuana). I also remember telling him how doctors prescribe marijuana to ADD and cancer sufferers to improve concentration and ease their nausea, which granted he acknowledged but wouldn't go so far as to accept that smoking it recreationally could not cause long-term harm nor that you couldn't get addicted to it. (You can't get addicted to marijuana. You can get an urge, sure, but it's not the same as the chemical induced addiction that you get from, for example, cigarettes or cocaine.) I suppose that's his "blind" spot.

Here's an excellent article on marijuana which calls out the woo (fake medical claims) while being positive about its recreational use and valid medical claims. http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/med ... s-science/

#26679

didymos wrote:Jesus fucking Christ. Ophie already has FIVE posts up about Jaclyn Glenn's video. FIVE.

Is there a smiley of someone laying out a trap and another person falling right into it? Because...that.

#26680

Pitchguest wrote:
ROBOKiTTY wrote:C0nc0rdance recently flounced from Dusty Smith's channel because Dusty was openly advocating recreational consumption of illegal drugs in his last video.

Also, it's been three weeks since Dusty's last activity on his channel. I wonder how the drama has affected his production.
C0nc0rdance is a reasonable person, except when it comes to the recreational use of drugs. He made a video about drugs some time ago, marijuana specifically, and while he went on about the dangers of marijuana, he completely dismissed any arguments to the contrary. Unfortunately that is where his reason and logic goes out the window, replaced with blind dogma. Or blind insofar he only trusts the documents citing how perilous marijuana can be.

I remember I said to him, at the time, that no one has so far died from an overdose of marijuana (namely because you can't overdose on marijuana). I also remember telling him how doctors prescribe marijuana to ADD and cancer sufferers to improve concentration and ease their nausea, which granted he acknowledged but wouldn't go so far as to accept that smoking it recreationally could not cause long-term harm nor that you couldn't get addicted to it. (You can't get addicted to marijuana. You can get an urge, sure, but it's not the same as the chemical induced addiction that you get from, for example, cigarettes or cocaine.) I suppose that's his "blind" spot.

The addiction thing is what I find to be amusing. The US military drug policy, even back in the early 1980s was to rehabilitate people who were addicted to alcohol or chemically addictive drugs, such as barbiturates, amphetamines and heroine. BUT, if you smoked pot, you just had a moral flaw and it was automatic discharge.

In the mean time, the US Government was still pushing an understanding of marijuana along the lines of Refer Madness.

#26681

didymos wrote:Oh, and now the "preferred" in "preferred pronouns" is bad:

Being polite is a microaggression now? Wanting to respect people, by deferring to their self-determination over and above the facts of biology, makes you A Bad Person?

Just...argh.

Note also how they have suddenly declared this to be true, now everyone in the whole world is suddenly Bad because we don't immediately and retrospectively kowtow.

These people. These horrible cunting people.

#26682

bhoytony wrote:http://i639.photobucket.com/albums/uu11 ... cd70db.png

http://events.skepchick.org/files/2011/ ... e-zvan.jpg

Well, Svan, there's no worries there. Nature, in all her glorious cruelty, has taken care of that for you.

#26683

didymos wrote:
Pitchguest wrote:It's happened.
http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterflies ... your-eyes/
Ophelia makes a blog post... complaining about... plagiarism.
Ah, but Ophie always gives credit so it's not really plagiarism.

There are limits. When 50-90% of your work is copied straight from another source wholesale, you really didn't add much to it.

#26684

Per my comment at JREF

Interesting. Ben legal is down.

If it remains down the possibilities range from BR acknowledging fraud in his evidence though to KS burning some of the 60k on a possible counter suit (per her fundraising comment). I'll leave you to ponder the probabilities.

It leaves me in a quandary though. I am only happy analysing evidence in the public domain, provided by the stakeholders. No public evidence, no analysis. I am not interested in idyl whimsy. If the evidence has been withdrawn, for any reason, then the public court must once more adjourn. No doubt the legal one will grind on.

It will be interesting to wait and see.

#26685

deLurch wrote:
didymos wrote:
Pitchguest wrote:It's happened.
http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterflies ... your-eyes/
Ophelia makes a blog post... complaining about... plagiarism.
Ah, but Ophie always gives credit so it's not really plagiarism.
There are limits. When 50-90% of your work is copied straight from another source wholesale, you really didn't add much to it.

I was being facetious. What she does may not be plagiarism in the strict sense, but it's a very slim difference.

#26686

SÃ¸ren Lilholt wrote:
didymos wrote:Jesus fucking Christ. Ophie already has FIVE posts up about Jaclyn Glenn's video. FIVE.
Is there a smiley of someone laying out a trap and another person falling right into it? Because...that.

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2013/ ... 5qvry8.jpg

That's the best thing I can find.

#26687

SÃ¸ren Lilholt wrote:
didymos wrote:Oh, and now the "preferred" in "preferred pronouns" is bad:

Being polite is a microaggression now? Wanting to respect people, by deferring to their self-determination over and above the facts of biology, makes you A Bad Person?

Just...argh.

Note also how they have suddenly declared this to be true, now everyone in the whole world is suddenly Bad because we don't immediately and retrospectively kowtow.

These people. These horrible cunting people.

Isn't even asking a microaggression in itself?

As for Jaythenerdkid, the correct term is "that stupid idiot".

For example, imagine you meet one of the following individuals - all members of the New Zealand based 'queer avengers' trans activist group.

http://gendertrender.files.wordpress.co ... engers.jpg

Do you call them she? he? or something else (s/h/it?)?

As they are trans activists you might think that they would themselves prefer that you used 'she'.

But if you don't know they are trans activists then they are pretty indistinguishable from male transvestites, most of whom prefer 'he' as a personal pronoun.

So what do you do?

It's really a no win situation. You have to ask them, and it's possible that even this asking will outrage those so inclined.
I suppose you don't have to ask - you could guess- but that's a gamble too.

#26688

Atheism Nerdsplained:

Actually you miss one point. What does your atheism mean? What it should mean, is that you also disbelieve in the society based upon biblical patriarchy, sexism, bigotry, etc. Why should you accept a biblical society with those problems? What is wrong with treating people as people, with respect and dignity? That is what atheism means to those who think beyond the dictionary definition. Those who arenâ€™t too afraid to ask what should be the consequences of being an atheist.
The hivemind of the dictionary defintionist is a waste of something that could be good.

#26689

Well, according to Jay, you CAN ask. You just can't say "preferred" when you do.

#26690

rayshul wrote:I think she's got more luck with sex appeal.

Zvan's launching a sex appeal? Is this on Kickstarter or something, like the guy with the potato salad? I don't she'll have much luck. People want to eat a tub of potato salad, not fuck it.

#26691

didymos wrote:Oh, and now the "preferred" in "preferred pronouns" is bad:

Oh, for fuck's sake. Do they want to be addressed with some specific pronouns? Fine, although they should understand that it's always a matter of personal choice, and they can't demand others to follow their orders. But do they really think they have the right to police other people's thoughts? Who the fuck do they think they are, the supreme source of morality in the universe? (Of course they do).

Fuck them. It's totalitarian shit like this that actually makes me want to call them trannys or shemales to their faces, just to knock them off the high horse. If they think they have the right to decide what other people should think, they can stuff their girlcocks up their fat asses.

#26692

Tribble wrote:The addiction thing is what I find to be amusing. The US military drug policy, even back in the early 1980s was to rehabilitate people who were addicted to alcohol or chemically addictive drugs, such as barbiturates, amphetamines and heroine. BUT, if you smoked pot, you just had a moral flaw and it was automatic discharge.

In the mean time, the US Government was still pushing an understanding of marijuana along the lines of Refer Madness.

It's not at all physically addictive, although like anything else, it can become psychologically addictive (like biting your fingernails). There are a lot of false stats though from addiction centers.

The false stats are due to court cases in which the judge offers a marijuana smoker the choice of rehab or jail. They almost always choose rehab and play along when the rehab considers them addicted and in need of their treatment.

#26693

I like this kid:

[youtube]bRGC-Zu3kBA[/youtube]

#26694

Tribble wrote:I like this kid:

[youtube]bRGC-Zu3kBA[/youtube]

8 minute video from a smart kid, utterly demolishes three years worth of FFtb mind wank. Seriously is there anyone who actually reads that blog network and considers it a source of serious discussion.

#26695

didymos wrote:Atheism Nerdsplained:

Actually you miss one point. What does your atheism mean? What it should mean, is that you also disbelieve in the society based upon biblical patriarchy, sexism, bigotry, etc. Why should you accept a biblical society with those problems? What is wrong with treating people as people, with respect and dignity? That is what atheism means to those who think beyond the dictionary definition. Those who arenâ€™t too afraid to ask what should be the consequences of being an atheist.
The hivemind of the dictionary defintionist is a waste of something that could be good.

Dear me. Lister should never have encouraged him to break his programming. He really can't manage when he goes off script. For starters, let's look at that word believe. It has more than one meaning. When I say I don't believe in god. I mean I don't think god exists. If I say I don't believe in bigotry (to borrow one of Nerd's terms) It means I don't approve of it. I know full well that it exists. This is one reason why atheism does not necessarily imply any other non-belief.

We can pass over the fact that neither the society I live in, nor the one Nerd lives in, actually derive much of their nature directly from "biblical patriarchy". You know, all that smiting and stoning and sacrificing your children.

"What is wrong with treating people as people, with respect and dignity?" Nothing at all Nerd. I suggest you try it sometime.

"The hivemind of the dictionary defintionist is a waste of something that could be good." A bunch of people who have little in common except that they don't believe something is about as far from a "hivemind" as can be imagined. And what's the "good" thing we could be? Is it you Nerd? Given the option, I'll take my lethal injection now.

#26696

Za-zen wrote:
Tribble wrote:I like this kid:

[youtube.]bRGC-Zu3kBA[/youtube]
8 minute video from a smart kid, utterly demolishes three years worth of FFtb mind wank. Seriously is there anyone who actually reads that blog network and considers it a source of serious discussion.

OMFG did he... Did he use the N-word as a derogatory epithet? I can't even... To the Fainting Couch!!!!!

Seriously, the top comment on that video is some fool whining that he had to stop it at the word nigger in case his two-year old heard it. It's called Anti-Feminist advice on Rape Culture: Part 1. Wasn't that a clue that it wasn't intended for pre-schoolers?

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Scented Nectar wrote:
Tribble wrote:The addiction thing is what I find to be amusing. The US military drug policy, even back in the early 1980s was to rehabilitate people who were addicted to alcohol or chemically addictive drugs, such as barbiturates, amphetamines and heroine. BUT, if you smoked pot, you just had a moral flaw and it was automatic discharge.

In the mean time, the US Government was still pushing an understanding of marijuana along the lines of Refer Madness.
It's not at all physically addictive, although like anything else, it can become psychologically addictive (like biting your fingernails). There are a lot of false stats though from addiction centers.

Yeah, I've experienced that. When I quit smoking it took me seven years to not have the desire (physical action) of smoking even though the nicotine addiction was long, long, long gone (about two weeks, maybe less).

The false stats are due to court cases in which the judge offers a marijuana smoker the choice of rehab or jail. They almost always choose rehab and play along when the rehab considers them addicted and in need of their treatment.

I've generally found that when there is some time of incentive (usually money) involved, many so-called problems/dangers to become hugely magnified, often to moral-panic level, and honesty is the first casualty in dealing with the various situations. Even worse, the movements (and their organizations) tend to mission creep and hanging-on well past any useful purpose while continuing to find trivial issues they can magnify or, in many cases, just make stuff up to stoke the coffers.

Occupy Wall Street is classic. The SJW hordes over-ran it and destroyed it from within as they all had to be the 'special snowflake leader' with their uniquely insightful worldview and demands, the flip side of conservatives and conservatism, which (apparently) is to be expected: http://tinyurl.com/nxgucu5

â€œLiberal social movements might struggle to develop solidarity and formulate shared goals within their ranks, both because liberals want to maintain unique beliefs and because they underestimate the amount of agreement among their members,â€ Stern explains. â€œConservative social movements might initially capitalize on perceiving agreement to galvanize their ranks, but their inaccurate perceptions could impair group progress when actual agreement is necessary.

I just wish I could get to the whole study, not the run-downs. http://pss.sagepub.com/content/25/1/137 But I'm not going to use my wife's University Library account for something this trivial even though she's really cool about it.

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Seriously, the top comment on that video is some fool whining that he had to stop it at the word nigger in case his two-year old heard it. It's called Anti-Feminist advice on Rape Culture: Part 1. Wasn't that a clue that it wasn't intended for pre-schoolers?

Dumb parents always blame the media. It's never their fault for letting their children see or hear something that was obviously not intended for them. It's media that it's not "kid friendly" enough.

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Pitchguest wrote:It's happened.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterflies ... your-eyes/

Ophelia makes a blog post... complaining about... plagiarism.

From the comments:

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Isn't that a bit of a 'female privilege' argument? I thought life for women on the internet was one long ordeal of harassment, rape threats and PTSD?

The last time I saw a rant like that it was a MGTOW whinging about feMRAs getting special treatment in the manosphere...

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Isn't that a bit of a 'female privilege' argument? I thought life for women on the internet was one long ordeal of harassment, rape threats and PTSD?

Only for those who aren't "cute".

The problem here is that radfems are incredibly obnoxious and aggressive to everyone ("I'm reading, fuckface", etc,). Since the Internet is the wretched hive ofscum and villainy, if you are an annoying dick you'll get death threats, rape jokes and such.

When women who are actually polite show up, many of course try to flirt with them, but others are simply far more pleasant with people who are pleasant. It's a natural reaction.

If the SJWs weren't dedicated to being professional passive-aggressive whiners, maybe they'd realize that they get more people to agree with them oi they were polite. But no, requesting a degree of politeness and civility is "tone trolling" (i.e. doesn't allow them to feel like victims of the Evil Men.)