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Lsuoma wrote:Based Zebra appears to have been french kissing the Patrón bottle.!

Any truth to the rumor that it makes Golytely go down easier?

So Trump has cancelled the Chicago rally? Wow. At least he recognizes that there could be a problem and has shown enough concern to cancel it. I wonder if any of the other candidates would do the same. I'm thinking this could spin into a significant tone escalation and you are not even out of the p...

I do hesitate to agitate for a change, just imagining alternatives FT could come up with. ("Among those who are more pedantic than most!!" ;) )

Following up on my whinging about "exclusively" being used to mean "not actually exclusively", I'd like to point out that 5 members here have a "Best [sic] Post Evah!" badge. I would like to request that mine be rescinded. Even ignoring the challenge of trying to process the existence of multiple in...

TW: Many words, no gifs, only 1 image, and evidence of spoons; you may want to scroll past. I. Requirements for tax-emption under 501(c)(3) in US II. Secular Woman’s organizational purpose, mission, & vision; a new take on the meaning of "exclusively" III. Secular Woman supports several specific ind...

Dozens arrested at Trump campaign rally in St. Louis

Proofreading. It's a thing. Not a thing I did with my last post above, though. :p

I don't see an issue with a Patreon circlejerk. It's their money. Even if it's a marketing thing, what of it, it's essentially these people's jobs. I'd delved into the spiderweb about 3 months ago & followed a bunch of the strands; they're extensive. Seems odd that AOD would call those involved in ...

Thinking about it I feel like it's kind of, you know, what they've done to PZ. He's an idiot with fame and those four have fucked him up and eaten off what fame they can get from his endorsement. I would have never heard of a single one of them without PZ (and I didn't hear about any them until Ele...

News reports from 2 months ago said that applications from black students were down 19% and those from the students with ACT scores >30 were down almost 8%. According to this, admissions are down 20% across the board. So it may very well be that the demographics of those avoiding Mizzou are approxi...

Hiring freeze, department cuts ordered at University of Missouri (bolding added below) The University of Missouri will use a hiring freeze and a 5 percent cut to all recurring general revenue budgets to close a projected $32 million shortfall for the coming fiscal year, interim MU Chancellor Hank F...

This. These are the lolz of our days. Skepchick angst and impotent rage at the primaries. http://archive.is/HOx7a Now can someone parse this for me please? A tight race on the Dem side sent 65 delegates Sanders’ way, with Clinton taking the remaining 58. Early polls had Clinton ahead by 20%, so thi...

I find Ape's latest & some of the comments made about it to be over the top - particularly dehumanizing & therefore particularly disturbing. My 2 cents. Free speech for thee, me, and anyone else who cares to, etc.

FWIW, the last post at APF was more than 2 weeks ago, in the RIP A+ thread there.

(IIRC it had had a long-ish stretch of inactivity once before, earlier this year, before a small flurry of last-gasp activity including said "RIP A+" thread.)

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:
KiwiInOz wrote:Confessions from a hot feminist.

#notallfeminists
That's a very good read. It's quite comforting to see more and more people are noticing the SJW madness.

Yes, good read. Thanks for posting it.

Isn't that a basic linguistic quirk? Like in France, where if there's even just one man in a group of 100 women, we use the masculine pronoun "ils". I think we've discussed this before. It would be very interesting to find out the actual origin of this quirk, but I'm neither a linguist nor and hist...

feathers wrote:
Ape+lust wrote:http://imgur.com/vzpsOCP.jpg
The devil is in the details. A very tiny.... detail. I wonder who notices.

It's full of tiny details - how will people know when they've found the one that you see as the special highlight?

(Amazing job, Ape!)

FFS, "It’s the belief that women are people" are they still pushing this bullcrap. It must be true because all the books written before anybody had even heard of feminism used to have 'people AND women' in them. :roll: <snip> It is the case that 'people' used to be used to mean 'men', at least in s...

http://www.everythingenglishblog.com/?p=541 The actual rule governing the use of “a” versus “an” is related to the sound made by the first letter in the following word. More specifically, if the first letter of the following word makes a consonant sound, you should use “a;” in contrast, if the firs...

Benson reasserts the value of equality feminism. Feminism isn’t the belief that women are magical god-like beings. It’s the belief that women are people coupled with the belief that people should have equal rights. Burn witch. http://archive.is/Dd0Ql FFS, "It’s the belief that women are people" are...

Feminism is just the belief that women are people coupled with the belief that we need to unsettle dominant Western assumptions, narratives, and representations which tend to privilege the natural sciences and often emerge through the co-constituted processes of colonialism, patriarchy, and unequal...

ffs wrote:Don't think I saw this posted

http://thefederalist.com/2016/03/07/wha ... gressives/

Strong article

Thanks - good read. (Only quibble was his appearing to paint all "liberals" w/ same brush)

http://phg.sagepub.com/content/early/20 ... 23368.full

Blech, must remember to preview. Meant this: Whoa! Anyone else see what I am seeing? I have seen that type of look before, and I have come to associate it with a certain type of personality (nothing about sexuality in case you are wondering if that is what I mean) [.img]http://www.nature.com/polopol...

@Skep Tickle One datapoint I thought you might be interested in: Maryam Mirzakhani . <snip> Yes, I know of her - made the news when she won the Field medal in 2014. Whoa! Anyone else see what I am seeing? I have seen that type of look before, and I have come to associate it with a certain type of p...

Meanwhile, women in every country but Japan are far more likely than men to get advanced degrees in any field: ... (Not sure "any field" holds water, but out of spoons to check further into it tonight) Interesting though. Let us know when you do have the spoons? Sure - "women in every country but J...

There's a reason why there are fewer women in STEM fields or politics. Unlike feminists I don't believe that this is because of "Patriarchy" but because STEM and politics require some attitudes which aren't widespread among women for evolutionary reasons. Of course there are always exceptions, and ...

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Matt Dillahunty is credited at the end...

He's just one in a very long list of Dark Matter's Patreon supporters that scrolls by, but still :)

Skep tickle wrote:Leaping over 65 unread posts to drop a pointer to "Debate: Free speech is threatened on campus" live from Yale, starting at 3:30pm EST (in about 10 minutes):

http://intelligencesquaredus.org/

Oops I meant 6:30pm EST

Leaping over 65 unread posts to drop a pointer to "Debate: Free speech is threatened on campus" live from Yale, starting at 3:30pm EST (in about 10 minutes):

http://intelligencesquaredus.org/

I still haven't listened to the SGU segment w/ Galef & Novella père but am going to take exception to the title of the clip on youtube: "Free Speech vs Social Justice". Free speech & social justice aren't in opposition - unless "social justice" is code here for "authoritarianism", which would be a s...

Hey here's something I didn't see picked up. Novella on SGU having a "special report" on free speech and social justice - with special guest rogue Julia Gallef (sp?) who can be out spoken. I'm just about to listen - but I caught Novella bellowing something about "free speech doesn't mean you can sa...

From 10/2015 but not outdated:

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Re: http://brive1987.wix.com/clowncar#!schism-history/py7ih There is still a misspelling in 2012 section "Fake Jewellery-Gate" should be "Fake Jewelry-Gate" Brive would be culturally appropriating the North American English spelling if he made that change. On the other hand, J-gate occurred in Nort...

Skep tickle wrote:MSNBC severs ties with Melissa Harris-Perry after host’s critical email

Her side:

MSNBC severs ties with Melissa Harris-Perry after host’s critical email

What's the point of moral outrage?

blitzem wrote:Campus activism just got real:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35673426

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North-West University in South Africa closed ‘indefinitely’ after students burn buildings in council row

So if you were Black I can see that the assumption that you are being persecuted because you are Black can be an easy one to make, and not understand that the primary reason is that you are poor and therefore legitimate prey in the eyes of the police. Being Black may just be a bonus. That matches m...

Adding my Happy Birthday wishes for you, com. Hitchens looks like a nice companion. :)

(By "Sunday at midnight" I meant midnight Saturday, heading into Sunday)

Jesus it's like you people have lives and family and shit. http://i.imgur.com/b0XgycG.png So far only four people have signed up for Saturday and I still don't have a time. How about Sunday at midnight UTC - that would be*: France, Germany, Switzerland - 1am Sunday Hong Kong - 8am Sunday Brisbane -...

Sorry to butt in. I have a question for the medically minded members here. I wouldn't be so cheeky as to ask for actual medical advice, but I've been looking for some general information and have drawn a bit of a blank. I have Otosclerosis, as the result of which I am pretty much completely deaf in...

RE: The US Election So I have been paying attention because I enjoy politics but haven't thought much about it because I assumed I wouldn't be voting. I assumed that because I registered to vote back in October but never heard from back from them. I assume they just decided not to let me vote becau...

Couple of areas I'd like to have you clarify, if you would be so kind. See in particular the portions in green. I'm de-emphasized in gray the sections you answered to my temporary satisfaction. :) Steersman - couple of questions for you, if I could. Below I'm using your definition of "woman" (human-...

I salute your having the spoons to do this Skep. But this is a man who says his mother was not a woman in later years. Publicly. To make a point. On twitter. [.tweet]https://twitter.com/SteersMann/status/691901935159476224[/tweet] Yes, but I can't help rubbernecking as the car does donuts in the li...

Steersman - couple of questions for you, if I could. Below I'm using your definition of "woman" (human-who-produces-ova-or-bears-young, as opposed to a human-who-does-not-produce-ova-or-bear-young). I'll put woman in blue below to clarify that I'm using your definition. 1) What is your term for a p...

Anyone who's thinking of going to the Reason Rally (June 4 in DC), PM me.

re: The Next Slympepit hangout As the last one went so well - I was thinking: - perhaps those that did not take part in the first one should be given priority. (As a newbie - I would even be willing to give up my privileged [!] position for someone else) - as the first hangout proved secure and was...

<snip> <snip> <snip> Why not just put a bow on it & call us hysterical ? ;) Definitions aren't necessarily complete, just good enough to convey the sense of the word. I'm going to guess this happens more often with nouns but that's purely a guess. Approaching a definition that's descriptive as if i...

I hit the submit button at Nugent's too soon, not having seen until too late Phil's sage advice not to rehash (or help prolong the rehashing) of Steers' recent "women who don't make ova are not women" argument. So (not that it follows) here's a shameless reposting: Steersman, you seem to think that ...

I think of it like a search warrant. Even though those are sometimes misused, the terrorist in question is a valid search. It's way outside of being a basic privacy issue. It's like a landlord refusing to open a high-tech lock on a tenant's door when there's a search warrant, with the tenant being ...

Salman Rushdie: Iranian state media renew fatwa on Satanic Verses author with $600,000 bounty

Where do the snowflakes come from? Part one

Black, Democrat student called ‘Uncle Tom’ for defending free speech ...(Zack Wood is) the leader of an unofficial student group (at Williams College) called Uncomfortable Learning that seeks to challenge students to think outside the progressive and preppy college’s so-called Purple Bubble by brin...

A Pit shooper might fit the bill?

Winner of transgender beauty pageant stripped of her title because she was 'not transgender enough'

OT, but I showed this in the hangout. This is from the 2012 TAM....only 3 1/2 years ago. http://i.imgur.com/uEAg1Fv.jpg?2 Left to right: Bryan Bonner, Matthew Baxter, Karen Stollznow, Ben Radford, Blake Smith, Ross Blocher and Carrie Poppy So it's all true, then! Clearly there are almost no women a...

Suet Cardigan wrote:Aron Ra mansplains to CHS that she's not feministing properly:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CbslGzGVAAEN8-1.png

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