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

Epigenetics news: Study of Holocaust survivors finds trauma passed on to children's genes New finding is first example in humans of the theory of epigenetic inheritance: the idea that environmental factors can affect the genes of your children Genetic changes stemming from the trauma suffered by Ho...

But I kind of agree, or can at least sympathize, with your previous comment about Islam: I just made some comments on Facebooks that... questioned unfettered islamic immigration to Finland. I also just may have bought my first home and I'm starting in a new job next Monday. I'm kinda scared. Apropo...

I mean I'm starting a new job next Monday with +33% salary and just negotiated my first appartment with my bank and the seller (for >200k euros)... and what I get here is "get help, creep"? Err... Again, yr sentence mafe it sound like you wore a straight-up swastika design on your hoodie, and I'm s...

I mean I'm starting a new job next Monday with +33% salary and just negotiated my first appartment with my bank and the seller (for >200k euros)... and what I get here is "get help, creep"? Err... Never mind that, Aneris just went off half-cocked and thought you were a Nazi. Congrats on the new job...

This from a guy who actually got his ass kicked from wearing a hoodie in highschool with a swastika being thrown in a trashcan. I should think you did get a good kicking - a Finn wearing a swastika is appropriating Aneris's culture. :whistle: We appropriated them (from a Swede) before the Nazis did...

I think multiculturalism can work under the "Melting Pot" approach. The new SJW reversion to separate but equal is doomed to fail. A melting pot approach isn't really multiculturalism, at least not in the normative sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melting_pot The melting pot is a metaphor for a...

http://imgur.com/y9w90Yw.png I can't get the height of Sastra. She's not really part of the pack of raging baboons, she also posts on WEIT and seems quite reasonable. Yet she keeps hanging around in the baboons' dung heaps. She's been a fixture at Pharyngula from soon after it moved to Scienceblogs...

Apartheid South Africa was very interested in classifying people's colour accurately, and even they had to move people from one category to another in some cases. So #transracial is very much a thing. It's reasonable to say that racial categories are fuzzy and to some degree arbitrary, less so to c...

Godfrey retired a moment too soon (or just in time?) His transblack identity is now embraced by progressives. http://www.vox.com/2015/8/19/9180389/the-shaun-king-controversy-explained But is there any way to figure out who's right, and whether King is black or biracial? Unfortunately, no â€” because...

Russell Blackford writes on on the the open letter to the Prime Minister and President of Bangladesh protesting the lack of/focus of action by the Government on the murders of atheist/secular bloggers. Impressive list. Not sure why the Prime Minister & President would put much stock in the opinion ...

In other news, reality is once again failing to conform to social justice expectations. http://phys.org/news/2015-08-racial-attitudes-blacks-multiracial-congregations.html Troubling questions about multiracial congregations' potential to address racial inequality are raised by a new national study d...

Screechy Monkey, from Ophelia's post: Notice how, when â€œtheyâ€ want to take credit for something, suddenly â€œthe Pitâ€ does have a particular point of view that can be attributed to it? When they want to avoid criticism, ah, well, then theyâ€™re a diverse collection of individuals and some of ...

I suspect it is likely that the interviews were legitimately performed, unless Mantilla is totally unethical and also completely stupid - because she's a known TERF and she knows how people feel about TERFs, questions would have been asked. She may have an alibi of sorts from the TERF accusation if...

Ape+lust wrote: http://imgur.com/D1R5Agj.jpg

http://static.gamesradar.com/images/tot ... 726961.jpg

While the Fascist Tit is around: is the "Let's fight hunger" banner at the bottom of the page supposed to link somewhere? Or do I need to go in through the back channel to get access?

Initially it was assumed that trafficking was mostly a problem in the sex trade, but after protections for victims were put in place, more people in Finland have actually sought help for trafficking in other professions (especially in the restaurant and construction businesses). That makes sense fr...

As far as I know there are actually two 'Scandinavian models' for the regulation of prostitution. The most famous one - the Swedish model makes it illegal to purchase sex but not to sell it - which, to me, always sounds like a way to encourage blackmail! Since one person in the transaction is commi...

Service Dog wrote:
Tigzy wrote:
'Grow a hipster beard??'
http://i.imgur.com/7jPFLzY.png
'Girlfriend, I married one!'
She married Aham. And so did he.

Aham, or Ahab? :think:

Two people have been stabbed to death in a Swedish Ikea. Possibly another outbreak of toxic masculinity. The suspects turn out to be asylum seekers, so there will probably be less talk about toxic masculinity and more about regrettable but isolated incidents. Maybe they were simply stabbing up? htt...

tee-hee. [.youtube]LefCz-bG9bQ[/youtube] It's very satisfying to see Laurie Penny getting ragdolled and I suppose that's why this clip has been posted on here every ten minutes for the last three years, but I wonder if the posters realise what a huge gaping cunt David Starkey is. I've seen him desc...

Aneris wrote: Could it be that the PZ Myers is just learning a new useful term, called â€œSocial Justice Warriorâ€, abbreviated â€œSJWâ€ â€” maybe he recognizes them now, when they come to his timeline (and not just Dawkins' or Harris').

I hope they're watching this with :popcorn:

Europe is not the US, it's not an continent emptied of people by war and disease, and the foreign cultures coming in aren't being broken down for parts and harnessed for the creation of a new one as in the melting pot, they're coddled and encouraged and strengthened and hailed as symbols of opposit...

And I do note that rural white nationalism/underground white nationalism is alive and well in scandi countries that have supposedly banned that kind of hate speech and are super progressive/SJW. Because you can't ban beliefs. Yeah, so awful how there are still inklings of ethnic nationalism, you kn...

This is what Melby posted: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CLqsmWWUwAEld0q.png http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/health-science-technology/growing-up-trans/meet-the-prom-queen-who-was-born-a-boy-but-is-now-just-a-girl/ Hormone blockers â€” which until 2007 were not even an option for transgender ...

I find it interesting that "female friendly erotica" is distinct from "porn". Is Greta Christina's collection of stories "female friendly"? Anyway this distinction shows that Taslima Nasreen isn't a prude like Ophie, just a misandrist ideologue who wants to censor the porn that caters to men. There...

The reason she hasn't left yet? Straight from the horse's mouth, and you'll love this one, it's an absolute cracker...Ophelia Benson, she who won't even answer a yes or no question because fuck you for daring to ask me, she who piles the manure on old white men for daring to tell women anything.......

It is anti-Semitic to hold Jewish stone age morons to different standards than other stone age morons. Here's another one. http://www.vocativ.com/news/216341/saudi-king-demands-french-police-remove-female-officers Saudi King Salman has demanded French authorities not post female officers on the pub...

If a transwoman is already a woman, then what are they transiting to, or from? Put into more feminist approved language: If gender is just whatever you say it is, why do transwomen need to be such gender essentialists that they can't express their femininity without surgery constructed tits and pus...

These groups have incentives other than just "attitudes about paternity", they include status and the concurrent ability to conclude satisfactory economic and social activities for the entire group and which is why female members of the family will actively participate in the process. I'm sure that...

Oh NOW they decide to understand that every kind of person has done terrible things to all other kinds of people throughout history. "Scalping" isn't anti-Native American. sambarge says July 28, 2015 at 5:57 pm â€œ Offensive to Native Americans, you see. The earliest recorded instances of scalping ...

Meanwhile, protecting women so they can have babies leads to society strictly controlling sexual access to women , which means limiting their freedom and severely punishing those who go off the reservation. So in the name of keeping women safe, parents murder their daughters for having the wrong bo...

Reading the whole post it is obvious that PZ is disappointed not just because of the commentators but also because the other bloggers didn't form a cohesive group . It wouldn't surprise me to see other bloggers start to peel themselves off when Ophelia leaves. He's disappointed because the commente...

Does HorneyBecker read the pit? If not would one of you lurkers pass these on to him? The subject is Haplodiploidy *Fun fact: the signal for male development in utero is not exactly the same as the signal for male development at puberty, and itâ€™s possible to be unable to produce the fetal signal ...

This thread is so much fun. WMD Kitty redeems herself: WMDKitty -- Survivor 25 July 2015 at 5:15 pm A â€œclarificationâ€ wherein the entire first paragraph is nothing but smearing certain commenters? Are we really going to accept this bullshit? Ok. Itâ€™s too late for this (but then it probably al...

I wish I could still be surprised by these things. A secular Muslim woman writes a book about the spread of reactionary Islam and the need of reform, and Swedish SJWs accuse her of only acting on behalf of "liberal white men" :doh: http://www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/article21147990.ab People who lack ...

We should probably stop before the question of the historicity of jesus's semen comes up. :) Too late, you've sparked a memory of me reading about Jesus bring Lazarus back to life with his spunk. I think it was John Allegro writing in "The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross". Something about circle jerk...

so what you're seeing is like veteran comedians around a smokey poker table at 4 a.m., hours after the audience drove home to sleepâ€¦ trading insider barbsâ€¦ funkadelic bebop musicians trying to one-up each other trading solos after drugs you haven't even heard-of have pulverized their lizard bra...

I'm still waiting for the SJWs to fanatically start attacking every nature-documentary ever made, since they so often note behavioral differences between males and females of the same species. Since animals like spiders, snakes, lions and fishies have neither culture nor societies, obviously there ...

A little off topic - does anyone know if Cordelia Fine's Delusions of Gender has been throughly responded to, or is it currently the last word? I haven't read the book, but I don't think it makes sense to ask that about a popular science book / science polemic. Even if it's a very good one, like "T...

Here's the original: https://freeprideglasgow.wordpress.com/2015/07/17/free-pride-drag-performance-policy-response/ ... This is why, after much discussion, the trans and non binary caucus decided not to have drag acts perform at the event. ... The decision was taken by transgender individuals who w...

Tony Parsehole wrote: Godfrey has had his fun tonight.

[youtube]-1GadTfGFvU[/youtube]

Perhaps more likely we glossed over Soviet atrocities because they were our allies in WWII? This, with a side order of the fact that Soviet atrocities were harder to detect and less thoroughly documented than Nazi atrocities. Also, the Holocaust happened right under the noses of us Europeans (who s...

Even the IMfuckingF thinks the EU is being to harsh on Greece. http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33531845 Is the EU trying to solve a financial/economic problem with one of its members or is it trying to teach Greece a lesson? Understandably, the other Eurozone countries are reluctant to create a pr...

If you're white and your name is Brown, is that (a) cultural appropriation, or (b) otherkin-ism? Ever more confused. c) your ancestors were POC and your whiteness is socially constructed The same way that historical names like "Halfdan the Black" prove that Vikings were actually Africans: http://me...

comhcinc wrote:So hey I got mes a job.

conga rats!

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/unc ... 1207215628

Six times in Finland for 2013: http://yle.fi/uutiset/finnish_police_fired_guns_only_six_times_in_2013/7701005 Kinda lot (especially considering population size) compared to England/Wales, I guess. Our gun ownership rate is about 45/100 where as it's 90/100 in the US and just 6/100 in E+W, so kinda ...

You might consider why people are reacting poorly to your latest escapades. It is because you are a right cunt. You can't admit when you're wrong, you insult first and then act surprised when people insult in return. You don't understand when people are joking feel free to pontificate anyway. You c...

Greta is unable to conceive that someone might have beliefs which are genuinely more important than making money: http://freethoughtblogs.com/greta/2015/07/08/why-are-people-bigoted-even-when-it-costs-them-money/ I guess she'll do -anything- for an expensive pair of Fluevogs. Christina's analysis l...

"Sexy Sex Sex!! (for Cash on the Barrel!)" - https://archive.is/ChFYb from 4/2012 According to this piece, Carrier was one of several FTB bloggers who posted pieces disagreeing with Nasreen's early FTB post "Sex Slavery must be abolished" in which she equated all kinds of sex work with sex slavery....

PeeZus calls Amy Alkon's article about Bora "pushback against equality": There were no legal issues. This was not brought to court. He is not currently in jail. All it was was that he was discovered to be biased in the execution of his work, and therefore wasnâ€™t doing the job he was expected to d...

And among them was the cool new musical duo Monster on Sunday, Steve and Tally Cass. The both of them were awesome and beautiful company. And I was really keen to hear their first album. Not only because there is a dearth of good hip new atheism-anthem music ... (emphasis mine) https://web.archive....

How would you define " essential Liberty"? I define it as any right specifically granted by the Bill of Rights, but you and Benji might disagree. That could be a good first approximation, but a bit unhelpful to us non-Muricans in practice. [youtube]3bYkNptOJns[/youtube] Happy birthday in advance, U...

In the words of Benjamin Franklin, "Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.â€ Not to disagree with the sentiment, but that's a much more extreme version of the quote than the presumed original: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, des...

Happy Pitmas!

http://www.gayartcollection.com/Media/T ... and_26.jpg

blitzem wrote:
Tribble wrote:I think I need to inject some racist cultural appropriation now:

[youtube]FfIpz2ys1wQ[/youtube]
Apparently this was insanely popular in Japan when it came out. Suck on that, Peezus. :mrgreen:

[youtube]1iwPZtutMlM[/youtube]

I'm going to call bullshit on PZs claim that the typical plumber has the same store of bon mots as a nobel laureate. Naturally this depends on your definition of "interesting things to say" Peez really has got his knickers in an ophie knot over successful scientists. Is there a link for these comme...

His crimes didnâ€™t justify a cadre of people rifling through everyoneâ€™s drawers and garbage for years on end, harassing them to no end, *just in case* we turn out to be bad in some way. Especially since they were targeting him for a very long time before they found something actually objectionab...

Really? wrote: PZ is clearly a friend of the poor, destitute black man and woman because he has a picture of Africa in his home office inside his massive, clean, suburban American house.

People in massive, clean, suburban American houses can also be destitute!

[youtube]cWlAgPJdHdA[/youtube]

Daily Mail link, since I realized that the Times article is hidden behind a paywall for non-subscribers. In short, Tim Hunt was actually joking. The Outrage Machine won't acknowledge the truth anyway. More here: http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/586554/Sir-Tim-Hunt-European-Union-report-backs-praise...

Sorry to hear about your friend, SN. Sounds like you have the right attitude in not beating yourself up over what could have gone differently.

Search found 2140 matches