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Jan Steen wrote:

Shatterface wrote:Completely random question. Why does a cuckoo egg look nothing like the eggs of the birds who they parasite on?

Wouldn't there be selective pressure to produce eggs that look like the host species?

Because the parent birds apparently don't have the urge to remove an unusual-looking egg once it is lying in their nest. So there is no selection pressure to produce an egg that looks similar to that of the host species.

Therefore, the relevant question really is: why wouldn't the host birds have learned to remove unusually large or differently coloured eggs?

I don't see an easy answer to that one.

This was on QI the other day. They said that the other bird (eg cuckoo) monitors the nest and will kill the mother if she throws an egg out.

another lurker wrote:

Ericb wrote:

another lurker wrote:More fuckwits on this thread too:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyat ... 2359524266

Anyone who blames Islam and not western imperialism is a "wingnut"

So this attack ( ) must have been caused by African imperialism.

No.

Everything can be traced back to western imperialism.

The only reason there is any disharmony in the world is because of white people. If not for white people, the natives would all be

http://i.imgur.com/pfjOCSj.jpg*




*Citation provided for Kiwi, who has exacting standards.

White lesbians?

This could be interesting.
From a brief look at this guy's timeline it seems as if he's not shy about calling out Islam as the evil religion that it is. For instance, he retweeted this:
... and this -
Will the mindless SJWs at Skepticon get their panties in a twist if he gets on stage and starts saying that Islam is evil and that the Paris attacks were the result of that evil, not something something something Western imperialism something something something? Will the ex-Muslim be accused of Islamophobia by the mindless SJW herd?

@ericb

They are trans racial

Saw some Facebook friends sharing this:

http://media2.intoday.in/dailyo//story/ ... 065408.jpg

I can't quite put my finger on why this intrigued me. I found it both offensive and informative. Informed yet naive, if that makes sense.

ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:

Jan Steen wrote:

Shatterface wrote:Completely random question. Why does a cuckoo egg look nothing like the eggs of the birds who they parasite on?

Wouldn't there be selective pressure to produce eggs that look like the host species?

Because the parent birds apparently don't have the urge to remove an unusual-looking egg once it is lying in their nest. So there is no selection pressure to produce an egg that looks similar to that of the host species.

Therefore, the relevant question really is: why wouldn't the host birds have learned to remove unusually large or differently coloured eggs?

I don't see an easy answer to that one.

This was on QI the other day. They said that the other bird (eg cuckoo) monitors the nest and will kill the mother if she throws an egg out.

Is this all a metaphor for daesh and the islamic problem in general? Because it kinda fits.

(But yes, I've read somewhere that some cuckoos act like the Mafia)

ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:

Jan Steen wrote:

Shatterface wrote:Completely random question. Why does a cuckoo egg look nothing like the eggs of the birds who they parasite on?

Wouldn't there be selective pressure to produce eggs that look like the host species?

Because the parent birds apparently don't have the urge to remove an unusual-looking egg once it is lying in their nest. So there is no selection pressure to produce an egg that looks similar to that of the host species.

Therefore, the relevant question really is: why wouldn't the host birds have learned to remove unusually large or differently coloured eggs?

I don't see an easy answer to that one.

This was on QI the other day. They said that the other bird (eg cuckoo) monitors the nest and will kill the mother if she throws an egg out.

Nice.

Guestus Aurelius wrote:Saw some Facebook friends sharing this:

http://media2.intoday.in/dailyo//story/ ... 065408.jpg

I can't quite put my finger on why this intrigued me. I found it both offensive and informative. Informed yet naive, if that makes sense.

As I told someone else on FB: right now, I don't give a fuck about Peshawar or Baghdad or Beirut. Right now, I give a fuck about my country, about a city I love where many of my friends and family live. It doesn't mean I don't give a fuck about those other places generally, but right now they can all burn to the ground and I will still be more aggrieved but the attacks in Paris.

I'm sure the fuckers who talk about other countries like your example probably cry at a relative's funeral and during that time don't give a fuck if some complete stranger dies at the other hand of the world.

Ericb wrote:White lesbians?

This is SJW nirvana.

Guestus Aurelius wrote:Saw some Facebook friends sharing this:

http://media2.intoday.in/dailyo//story/ ... 065408.jpg

I can't quite put my finger on why this intrigued me. I found it both offensive and informative. Informed yet naive, if that makes sense.

Watching a stranger get punched in the face evokes different sensations and emotions than watching a friend getting punched in the face or getting punched in the face yourself.

Hemant's comment section is currently swimming in some of the dumbest fucks that ever fucked a dumb.

And he absolutely deserves it.

Sunder wrote:Hemant's comment section is currently swimming in some of the dumbest fucks that ever fucked a dumb.

And he absolutely deserves it.

You're Jim Smith, right?

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:I will say this: culling the islamists is only part of the solution. Another part, possibly as needed, if not more, is to cull the fucking SJWs and affiliated morons who keep defending those vermins in the name of "tolerance", or because it's all "the West's fault". They're as dangerous as the terrorists themselves. No wonder the far right is rising in Europe.

Western-raised Islamist terrorists and SJWs are both manifestations of the same problem, specifically over-privileged but alienated youth who find meaning in their lives through ideologies of hatred. Both groups despise the societies they live in despite being raised with access to all of its benefits. Both groups seek to destroy the society that raised them. The only difference between them is that Islamists use weapons while SJWs weaponize social interaction.

I don't think there's any easy solution to the problem of alienated rich kids.These people typically aren't lacking for things that could be provided, such opportunities or material goods. What's wrong with them is the complete lack of a moral compass and a sense of social belonging. These are not things that can be retrofit onto defective adult personalities. Worse, being from rich backgrounds, these people have too much family power to be locked up en masse.

It strikes me that alienated elite kids are a social manifestation of the control fraud problem (abuse of power by insiders), which is essentially unsolvable.

I am not. I usually try to be less angry when I post outside of the pit. This is my venting space.

@Phil: Yes, that's precisely why I found it offensive. I should have stressed that it really did piss me off.

I also hadn't even heard about the recent Beirut and Baghdad bombings. So it's like, thanks for bringing that to my attention, but why do you have to do it in a way that minimizes what just happened in Paris? Why do you have to do it in a way that suggests everyone mourning should feel guilty for their Eurocentrism?

Additionally, there's something fascinatingly naive about the worldview expressed there. I mean, do all my friends sharing this on Facebook honestly believe that it's racism that motivates the Western media to focus its coverage on events in the West? And look, I get it, we're all people, we should all care about what's happening around the globe, and we should all be pushing for world peace. That's all fine and dandy in a feel-good, idealistic kind of way. But that's not how the world works. We all have the right—the obligation, maybe—to care most about what's happening closest to home, about our own values and our own security. That doesn't mean we should turn a blind eye to what's happening elsewhere, or that we shouldn't care about anyone but ourselves, but Western civilization is under attack, and god dammit I live in the West.

There's a fucking war brewing, and I know what side I'm on.

I think this is why the attackers carried their passports:

Deputy public order minister Nikos Toskas, said in a statement:

On the case of the Syrian passport found at the scene of the terrorist attack, we announce that the passport holder passed from Leros on October 3 where he was identified based on EU rules ... We do not know if the passport was checked by other countries through which the holder likely passed.

I got this from the "live" BBC feed.


They probably want Europeans to turn on the migrants. Good for recruitments.

Short version: It's Dear Muslima but used to dismiss issues which actually matter.

"Hey, this holy book that people claim to believe in says that murdering certain people is okay. You think that has something to do with all the murdering?"

"Nah, it also says 'don't kill people' on some of the pages, so that cancels out."

Service Dog wrote:I don't know if Carlin is right about Washington Insiders being too smart to believe their own hype.

The invasion and occupation of Iraq is a good demonstration that large swaths of Washington insiders are dumb enough to believe their own hype.

If Washington could see through its own hype we wouldn't have IS because there would be functioning states in Iraq and Syria keeping their Islamist dirtbags in check.

IS is the direct result of Washington believing it was a good idea to dismantle the Iraqi state.

Sunder wrote:"Hey, this holy book that people claim to believe in says that murdering certain people is okay. You think that has something to do with all the murdering?"

"Nah, it also says 'don't kill people' on some of the pages, so that cancels out."

Funny you say that:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyat ... 2359691569

The Starship Maxima Bair • 2 minutes ago

The Bible does contain instances of God-approved genocide. True. The New Testament clearly states that we're done completely with that way of doing business.

On Skepticon livestream now: Fallon Fox, trans MMA fighter

http://skepticon.org

Shatterface wrote:This is what I don't get: why were they carrying passports?

Because anyone who tries to travel through a border post without a passport will be refused entry.

Already one friend confirmed dead at the Bataclan. RIP Guillaume.

Fuck, Phil, so sorry to hear that.

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Already one friend confirmed dead at the Bataclan. RIP Guillaume.

I'm sorry for your loss.

katamari Damassi wrote:Was FA commenter Starship Maxima an FTB regular? S/h/it's trying to be an enforcer in the FA Paris attack threads and is attempting to do it in classic horde style, but I don't remember the name form there.

I'm pretty sure they're an out-and-out religious apologist. I know JazzQueen is, but I thought SM was supposedly the more tolerated one around FA. But today they seem indistinguishable.

Condolences, Phil.

So sorry to hear about your friend, Phil :(

Guestus Aurelius wrote:Saw some Facebook friends sharing this:

http://media2.intoday.in/dailyo//story/ ... 065408.jpg

I can't quite put my finger on why this intrigued me. I found it both offensive and informative. Informed yet naive, if that makes sense.

So Europe should react to the failed integration of Muslims by taking in even more Muslims? Seems legit.

Some people might be "blaming a refugee crisis for the terrorist attack", but at least as many are legitimately worried about how the current numbers of refugees (and economic migrants taking advantage of the refugee wave) will make the integration problems even worse down the line.

Maybe there would be less concern if many of them didn't immediately start whining about being victimised by their rescuers:

[youtube]Td3VNr7ZJvs[/youtube]

We are the refugees living at Norrbygarden camp Fagersta seending our message to the Swedish government and people to help us to get over our suffering at the camp from the bad treatment and the bad food.

:bjarte:

Ape+lust wrote: http://imgur.com/JQpiPhI.jpg

They hired an English food truck? Let me guess -- they also booked a German comedian.

guys the skepticon 8 livestream just went nuclear. a bodybuilder just asked her if her testicles/penis/testosterone was in the same (cheating) category as anabolic steroids...

they kicked him out... and the crowd went wild...

fuzzy wrote:May make a daytrip to Septicon8 tomorrow, got no wind in the sails tonight

Based on those photos, you may increase attendance by 33%.

"Was coming out trans harder or coming out atheist harder?"

"About the same / I guess Atheist..." (pretty funny anecdote about speaking in tongues)

She's not doing bad in this Q&A... COMMIE THOUGHTS?!?!?

Parody Accountant wrote:guys the skepticon 8 livestream just went nuclear. a bodybuilder just asked her if her testicles/penis/testosterone was in the same (cheating) category as anabolic steroids...

they kicked him out... and the crowd went wild...

Wow that was some good fireworks. Sounded like he may have earned a reprieve at the end, you could sort of hear him off in the background thanking her after she answered. Fingers crossed for some more stuff like that.

@acathode :


Welcome to Sweden

[youtube]3KSJY0c8QWw[/youtube]


Only one comment from me. Are you guys trying to atone for going viking a long time ago? If so why? I thought it was mainly the Danes who did that?

No, islamic terrorism is a religious problem. Islam is the problem.

In any case, this is just more of the same proglodyte bullshit of 'oooh, we need to figure out what we did wrong to make those po' widdle terrorists terrorize.' They did it cuz they're fuckwads, and we need to bomb the living shit out of them.

McIntosh is the mother of all cunts. Dispatch him to ISIS to ask what the West did wrong to hurt their fee-fees.

Parody Accountant wrote:guys the skepticon 8 livestream just went nuclear. a bodybuilder just asked her if her testicles/penis/testosterone was in the same (cheating) category as anabolic steroids...

they kicked him out... and the crowd went wild...

they actually had a crowd?

One month before 9/11, I predicted an islamic terrorist attack on Wall Street.

The morning of 9/11, I stood on my roof, watched smoke pouring from the towers, and said 'well, we had that coming',
until I realized I was standing within earshot of a neighbor who worked there.

At the time, my prediction and opinion that we had brought it on ourselves-- were based on US refusal to distance ourselves from
an especially harsh summer oppression of Palestine, by Israel. My politics were close to The Nation magazine, back then.

Today I'm less progressive and socialist because those require me to believe progressives and socialists know which direction 'progress' is, and know, or care, what they must do to keep compulsory socialism from degenerating into corruption or stalin.

Nor can I be a hawk, because I don't trust hawks to be competent and un-corrupt with their license to conduct killing sprees.

Where does that leave me? Maybe an isolationist libertarian-by-default, on the basis of "this is why we can't have nice things", so don't fucking charge me for Obamacare, or use my taxes to conduct fucktarded overseas war blunders.

Or it might even make me a fascist-in-waiting. If some giant robot frankenstein hybrid of Eisenhower/Heinlein/Stanhope/Twain/Cena/Batman emerged, maybe I'd support him conquering the world to save us from ourselves, like Alexander the Great.

'Well, we had that coming," I'd say.

This seems appropriate today, while thinking of Paris:

[youtube]7k2vQgC_hbc[/youtube]

another lurker wrote:Never thought I'd say it, but I agree with Ann Coulter:

http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2015/ ... is-attacks

The "worst" tweets about the attacks are, big surprise, the tweets that don't kick Muslim ass.

Never thought I'd say it, but I might agree with Newt Gingrich.

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Already one friend confirmed dead at the Bataclan. RIP Guillaume.

So sorry Phil. Many condolences. It all leaves me speechless and heartbroken.

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Already one friend confirmed dead at the Bataclan. RIP Guillaume.

Very sorry to hear that, Phil. My condolences for your loss.

http://media.breitbart.com/media/2015/1 ... 20.351.png

m/national-security/2015/11/14/mizzou-campus-activists-and-black-lives-matter-complain-about-paris-stealing-the-spotlight/

Condolences Phil. Not as tragic as #Mizzou and Yale Halloween costumes. But what is?

What we know so far:
http://www.theatlantic.com/internationa ... ks/415953/

These are from Breitbart, by the way.

http://media.breitbart.com/media/2015/1 ... 03.271.png

windy wrote:So sorry to hear about your friend, Phil :(

Guestus Aurelius wrote:Saw some Facebook friends sharing this:

http://media2.intoday.in/dailyo//story/ ... 065408.jpg

I can't quite put my finger on why this intrigued me. I found it both offensive and informative. Informed yet naive, if that makes sense.

So Europe should react to the failed integration of Muslims by taking in even more Muslims? Seems legit.

Some people might be "blaming a refugee crisis for the terrorist attack", but at least as many are legitimately worried about how the current numbers of refugees (and economic migrants taking advantage of the refugee wave) will make the integration problems even worse down the line.

Maybe there would be less concern if many of them didn't immediately start whining about being victimised by their rescuers:

[youtube]Td3VNr7ZJvs[/youtube]

We are the refugees living at Norrbygarden camp Fagersta seending our message to the Swedish government and people to help us to get over our suffering at the camp from the bad treatment and the bad food.

:bjarte:

Why so many young adult menz? I thought the Syrian refugees were mostly wimmenz and childrenz and babbies. That's what NPR told me.

That's terrible Phil, your worst fears confirmed I'm sure.

Of course another reason to add regarding the choice of the band and venue could well be that they are American. A horrific way to maximise the impact of the attacks. The France - Germany football match would have further stretched security services last night also. An interviewee on BBC news today said that as Isis suffer more defeats and losses, as they have in the last few days with the Kurds re-taking Sinjar, that these type of attacks may increase as they lash out to try to keep some power. Sobering thought.

Oglebart wrote:That's terrible Phil, your worst fears confirmed I'm sure.

Of course another reason to add regarding the choice of the band and venue could well be that they are American. A horrific way to maximise the impact of the attacks. The France - Germany football match would have further stretched security services last night also. An interviewee on BBC news today said that as Isis suffer more defeats and losses, as they have in the last few days with the Kurds re-taking Sinjar, that these type of attacks may increase as they lash out to try to keep some power. Sobering thought.

Had the suicide bombers detonated in the ground Merkel would have been lynched.

BarnOwl wrote: Why so many young adult menz? I thought the Syrian refugees were mostly wimmenz and childrenz and babbies. That's what NPR told me.

Indeed, every report I see has crowds consisting of around 90% of men under 40 in leather jackets.

Parody Accountant wrote:guys the skepticon 8 livestream just went nuclear. a bodybuilder just asked her if her testicles/penis/testosterone was in the same (cheating) category as anabolic steroids...

they kicked him out... and the crowd went wild...

The crowd sounds like 10 people.

Probable motive:

Concert review: The Eagles of Death Metal
by Jason Shaltiel
Tel Aviv Barby Club 13th July 2015

‘I would never boycott a place like this,” pronounced lead singer Jesse Hughes of The Eagles of Death Metal during his band’s performance at Tel Aviv’s Barby Club Sunday evening. Prior to Sunday’s Israel debut by the band, Hughes had received a letter from Roger Waters, the former frontman of Pink Floyd and an outspoken supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, asking him to reconsider performing in Israel.

http://m.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/ ... NEMTBBM0M=

Oglebart wrote:

BarnOwl wrote: Why so many young adult menz? I thought the Syrian refugees were mostly wimmenz and childrenz and babbies. That's what NPR told me.

Indeed, every report I see has crowds consisting of around 90% of men under 40 in leather jackets.

A Czech friend at work had told me this a few months ago, and I didn't want to believe her at first. Of course her friends and relatives in Eastern Europe are seeing the situation first hand.

Service Dog wrote:At the time, my prediction and opinion that we had brought it on ourselves--

Don't tell countries not to engage in geo-political activities, teach terrorist not to terror.

Ericb wrote:[quote="another lurker"

No.

Everything can be traced back to western imperialism.

The only reason there is any disharmony in the world is because of white people. If not for white people, the natives would all be

http://i.imgur.com/pfjOCSj.jpg*




*Citation provided for Kiwi, who has exacting standards.

White lesbians?[/quote]


Well you're jumping to all kinds of unwarranted conclusions.

katamari Damassi wrote:

Parody Accountant wrote:guys the skepticon 8 livestream just went nuclear. a bodybuilder just asked her if her testicles/penis/testosterone was in the same (cheating) category as anabolic steroids...

they kicked him out... and the crowd went wild...

The crowd sounds like 10 people.

9 of them went wild

Parody Accountant wrote:

katamari Damassi wrote:

Parody Accountant wrote:guys the skepticon 8 livestream just went nuclear. a bodybuilder just asked her if her testicles/penis/testosterone was in the same (cheating) category as anabolic steroids...

they kicked him out... and the crowd went wild...

The crowd sounds like 10 people.

9 of them went wild

Did they take the time to review each others' stickers first?

Matt Cavanaugh wrote:

No, islamic terrorism is a religious problem. Islam is the problem.

In any case, this is just more of the same proglodyte bullshit of 'oooh, we need to figure out what we did wrong to make those po' widdle terrorists terrorize.' They did it cuz they're fuckwads, and we need to bomb the living shit out of them.

McIntosh is the mother of all cunts. Dispatch him to ISIS to ask what the West did wrong to hurt their fee-fees.

It just occurred to me that McIntosh once compared gamergate to ISIS. So apparently this jackass thinks that Gamergate and ISIS are equally bad, but he feels more responsible for the actions of ISIS than the actions of Gamergate. Gamergaters (but not ISIS) are just terrible people who need to be opposed and ignored.

What a broken mind this man has.

Apt.
"Paris? Who cares?"

Phil I'm truly sorry for your loss. My condolences

https://i.imgur.com/wOT66PD.jpg

I would totally play Fallout 4 if I was able to.