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...some scientists and activists massively overstated the case for global warming. True in the same way as the statement "Some scientists and activists have claimed that 9/11 was an inside job." is true. Is there a name for this informal fallacy ? how about "Tendentious Grouping" ? It is not true i...

...some scientists and activists massively overstated the case for global warming. True in the same way as the statement "Some scientists and activists have claimed that 9/11 was an inside job." is true. Is there a name for this informal fallacy ? how about "Tendentious Grouping" ? It is not true i...

So... what to do about warming. I honestly don't know. And I feel I have so much lack of certainty that it is best to do nothing. This cognitive dissonance is only in your mind, John. It's because your political motivations are on one side, and the data clearly on the other. It's not difficult real...

So... what to do about warming. I honestly don't know. And I feel I have so much lack of certainty that it is best to do nothing. This cognitive dissonance is only in your mind, John. It's because your political motivations are on one side, and the data clearly on the other. It's not difficult real...

VickyCaramel wrote: ...some scientists and activists massively overstated the case for global warming.

True in the same way as the statement "Some scientists and activists have claimed that 9/11 was an inside job." is true.

Is there a name for this informal fallacy ? how about "Tendentious Grouping" ?

That idiot theTruePooka is trying to reanimate the corpse of A+. Because it's a double-inversion (anti-anti-SJW), it'll be entirely different, so don't let the look and smell fool you. It's just what everyone's been waiting for. I bet at minimum (and maximum), Shives, Arel, and Myers go for it. htt...

The polys swear they aren't recruiting, but they do it all the time. They've infiltrated SSA, Camp Quest, AHA, and apparently RFR. Skepticon is one big group grope, complete with poly speakers and poly workhops and Lauren Lane's hotel room. I'd also add that the Poly takeover project works alongsid...

Careful now... https://twitter.com/ASPolice/status/920650980496158720 In the light of the new police values, I've got my excuse ready if I ever have to deal with my local constabulary .... "My Father's Cis and Hetero ... My Brother won't wear a dress Gee ... Officer Muscato ... It's no wonder I'm a...

jet_lagg wrote:Another vote for SJW trading cards. I'd actually spend money on that.

How about an SJW Halloween Costume ? Red wig, megaphone, glasses, etc ....

Could be a real winner now that they've banned so many of the alternatives.

21%. "NOT A CUCK. Although you may indulge in one or two questionable habits or entertain a few less-than-savory sentiments, on the whole you are degeneracy-free and thoroughly uncucked." Kinda' relieved. I was pretty sure I wasn't into watching my partner getting banged by other dudes, but it's ni...

Typical @ FriendlyAtheist, some idiot fundy Christard says stupid shit that has no effect in law or anything else, 300+ comments. A thread about actual real women's rights being advanced in a mysoginsitic culture Women In Tunisia Are Finally Allowed To Marry Non-Muslim Men gets 20 comments. Fuck yo...

Oh dear! :shock: The Carrier lolsuit is progressing. http://archive.is/7tBOa It's kind of irritatating in that I don't know who I want to win - but it's also edifying to know that one of them will certainly lose. I think that's the fun of it. Every time you read something you change your mind about...

Time for me to snag a new GPS running watch. I will probably grab one of the top recommendations from the DC rainmaker, like I did for my last watch. Going for GPS, heart rate, pedometer, Good idea. It's always good to know exactly where you are when you run into a pedophile. (Or is it meant for a ...

The Atheist Movement is useless, it's far better to have a Secularist Movement, which promotes Enlightenment-based values like separation of church and state, freedom of criticism of religion, freedom of satire, etc. Also have a Pro-Science Movement concerned with teaching accurate science in schoo...

Where I'm from 'Reggie Music' is the sound of sledgehammers hitting knee caps. Along with 'Ronnie music' which is baseball bats bouncing off skulls.

A lot of SocJus scaremongering is based on false equivalence, the "Just as Bad" principle: -mean words on the Internet ("you're a liar/you suck") as Just as Bad as sexual harassment in real life -sexual harassment is Just as Bad as rape -vaguely insensitive comments are Just as Bad as KKK-style rac...

https://twitter.com/SarahNEmerson/status/893714563144613888 motherboard vice.com/en_us/article/kzbm4a/employees-anti-diversity-manifesto-goes-internally-viral-at-google "It's not worth thinking about this as an isolated incident and instead a manifestation of what ails all of Silicon Valley." I'm n...

Danielle's tweets are so awesome and insightful, she's decided to monetize them! https://teespring.com/not-a-disagreement-just-wrong#pid=2&cid=2397&sid=front :twatson: It's notable that Danielle has chosen to reproduce the tweet as a tweet and not just the slogan part. It's as if by wearing the shi...

Im sure the subject was discussed previously but let's start again. Im back from a week outside town, im on vacation, still have another week off and i just started a marathon of Film noir. A genre that i like but im not that well versed in the classics. What does the pit recommend i watch? Off the...

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screwtape wrote:If any one of the famous literary detectives were to join the Pit, it would most likely be Andy Dalziel. He'd fit right in.
Or John Frost, Jim Taggart.

I'd go with Jack Regan myself ....

Regan to Zinnia Jones : Getcha trousers on, Son, YOU'RE NICKED !

I've noticed over the last few pages that between all the Pit Art Masters, Parsehole awards and Best Post Evahs those of us who still have an edit button are a distinct and dwindling minority. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmSO2cz2ozQ[/youtube] I'm holding out for a "Slymepit Lifetime of...

Over here in blighty, a lot of fuss is being made about Anthony "Mooch" Scaramucci. For example: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/politics/stroke-lick-splay-anthony-scaramucci-guide-wooing-interviewer/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_fb I saw this interview and found it hilarious, as did Maitlis (who, btw, is s...

Vince Cable is the brit Macron (apparently). Any thoughts on this, Phil?

Do Brits really reach for the tea like it's Xanax?

We have tea like the Americans have guns.

If it's Majid Nawaz you're on about, he's not an atheist.

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Jack Wooster wrote:At 19 mins in there is a tale of further Anita bad behaviour at Vidcon I hadn't heard before.
It has been posted in the pit before. Here is Boggie in his own words.

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Anita has been harrassing Peter Boghossian ???

My company has just started up an LGBTQetc allyship scheme and invited us to join up.

Will the madness never end ?

Yep and I see it's (heart sinks) half a bleeding hour long. Forgot about Breatharians, we'll die of old age by the time we get through that to find out waddyahknow you cant live on air and "energy". With all the competition for everyone's limited online attention. He really doesnt get any more conc...

I don't think the 'Arabic' thing signifies much.

In the (unlikely) event of me getting into any sort of fight, no matter who with, I'm definitely going to shout "Allahu Akbar" as loudly as I can. It's just the most badass of all the options to shout at the moment.

Six years ago today: http://skepchick.org/2011/06/about-mythbusters-robot-eyes-feminism-and-jokes/ Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro At the risk of being pit flogged I think she looks quite cute in that video, I would have bought her a coffee :? I never noticed before, but check out how she says...

Within the skeptic/atheist community what she said was acceptable. But what was also acceptable at the time is any time your bring up a point, people will debate the hell out of it. Trying to tell people they were bad for debating it was the worse possible move. Yes. The issue was whether feminism ...

Here's some shocking news everybody:

The hobby of quilting has been politicised and destroyed by some nasty right-wing conservatives who are hounding out the poor liberal hobbyists: According to this totally unbiased article by the BBC

Who would have seen this coming ?

The idea that Islamist fascist attacks in the west, causes you to turn a blind eye to the zionist fascist attacks upon the Palestinians because zionist fascism wears suits made in taylor row is fucking disgusting. That's precisely my reason for supporting fascist Zionists. The suits. Taylor row in ...

[quote="Suet Cardigan"] https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/876682395830951936 Would that be the same Finsbury Park mosque where Abu Hamza was an Imam? Yep that's the one. I have family members living in the same road. Went to their church once, several years ago and it was the Dhimmi vicar and se...

You can use the expression 'outright libellous' just as an adjective if you want to. What about Rubin's freedom of speech?

KiwiInOz wrote:Here's to Lilibet.

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Noel Plum has calmed down a bit since then ...

Local government will be already looking at the upside of this. Now they've got rid of the local peasant infestation, they can sell the site to their mates to build luxury apartments complete with sprinklers for russian mobsters and their hookers. So now you're using concern over the carbonisation ...

I object to the bPE and demand a panel of consideration. This whole surrender monkey thing is rooted in the French surrender of the forties. Another red white and blue flag streaked the whole way back across the channel untill there wasn't even any white left because of the shitstains. The only rea...

The idiot mayor of Amity Island speaks :

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"Apparently there was some problem that has caused a little disappointment ....Tomorrow is the Fourth of July ... Everyone is having fun and it's a wonderful day ! ... "

Okay. Multi-ninjad on the 'Liberté' thing.

Correct, Lsuoma. 'Le pays de la liberté' would be more salient. BUT, 'la terre' is also not completely wrong. When we use 'la terre', as in 'la terre de nos ancêtres', it means 'the land of our ancestors'. It still feels a bit weird when put the way Surly did. Probably wrong here, but I'd also ques...

This is good. Not just a re-hash of familiar events, but sound analysis from a psychological perspective: [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3olqTASElZs[/youtube] Half an hour, densely packed, academic, not drama, so you need a coffee but worth it. It makes a point which popped into my head, w...

The problem with this 'Diversity Recognition' is that it recognises too many ethnicities and too many percentages.

in fact, there are only two possibilities:

"Ancestors lived in caves"
"Ancestors built these cities"

... and the only allowable percentages are 0 and 100.

I remember when Abercrombie and Fitch jackets were part of the skinhead uniform. They were called 'crombies. Things go a full circle. Not quite. The Crombie was a black wool overcoat made by J&J Crombie Ltd . It appeared late in the original skinhead movement, around the time the look was transform...

I remember when Abercrombie and Fitch jackets were part of the skinhead uniform. They were called 'crombies.

Things go a full circle.

.... I think the worst thing is the finger-snapping. Yes, that finger-snapping is sinister. I know they excuse it by saying that clapping is triggering, but here's the thing - clapping is an open and public gesture, visual as well as audible, which is giving a psychological 'pat on the back' to the...

AndrewV69 wrote:From his profile
Revisionist, Reformer & Imam of Peace

May as well as well add Innovation and Deviation to the list (I will let Kirbmac explain the implications)

... also hesitation and repetition.

Kirbmarc wrote:So what happens now in the UK? A Conservative-led coalition? A big coalition? A new election?

My guess is minority (conservative) government followed by an election in about 6 months.

Personally speaking I'm happy with the result inasmuch as it's a nation telling the parties to fuck off. The Tory manifesto was poor, Corbyn's ideas well meaning but we all know the issues with them. Hilarious chaos of watching all the media get it so wrong. I've staid up all night watching the ele...

https://i.imgtc.com/faQvGY6.jpg https://www.facebook.com/cheshirepolice/posts/10155546384464015 https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/6fxpgq/official_socjuscensorship_chesire_police_other/ Meanwhile foreign powers finance groups which threaten the foundations of the United Kingdom and tr...

https://i.imgtc.com/faQvGY6.jpg https://www.facebook.com/cheshirepolice/posts/10155546384464015 https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/6fxpgq/official_socjuscensorship_chesire_police_other/ Meanwhile foreign powers finance groups which threaten the foundations of the United Kingdom and tr...

More toxic male privilege ....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40181522

This is Evergreen's SJW strike force. Be afraid, white supremacist Nazi assholes. https://i.imgur.com/H0e8jOc.jpg These are the Armies of The Night. They are 60,000 strong. They outnumber the cops three to one. They could run New York City. Tonight they're all out to get the Warriors. [youtube]http...

My main concern is for those who will face the inevitable backlash thirty or forty years from now. No need to worry. I'm sure somebody will be able to find a book by a contrarian historian who claims that someone, somewhere, wrote or said something which means that all this is justified. Probably t...

MarcusAu wrote:
piginthecity wrote:
I know ... I know, it's Rebecca Watson. But I'm prepared to accept that it's just possible that for all her faults that she's kind to dogs.
Yeah, well you know who else liked dogs...

Indy ... Blondi .... Indy... Blondi ... say them both quickly.

Brive1987 wrote:
http://i.imgur.com/bDTKaHX.jpg

I know ... I know, it's Rebecca Watson. But I'm prepared to accept that it's just possible that for all her faults that she's kind to dogs.

Really? wrote:Has Linus bothered to tell us the name of a gender studies journal that isn't primarily retarded bullshit?

For once, it's Linus who has snatched the football away just at the moment of kicking ....

MarcusAu wrote:All this talk of chefs and the 1970's made me think of Robert Morley.

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I thought you were talking about this :

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Where are my doggy-woggies ?

Non-interesting article from the BBC, but notable because of the tone. Blah Blah Women and Girls at Comic con from BBC It doesn't overtly push the 'Harassment' or 'brave minority' narrative that have been pushed earlier or go on about codes of conduct, although there is one mention of 'the hate' for...

By the way, Matt - I'm astonished that it was my condensed version of the origins of WW1 which got me into hot water, as opposed to my one-line summary of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

I definitely thought that you guys wouldn't let me get away with that !!

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