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Ape+lust wrote:
Sunder wrote:...Regarding her lack of comic chops, years of fanboys blowing smoke up her ass to the point she'd need to go on nicotine patches if they ever stopped has her convinced that she's a comedy genius.
This string of sour put-downs probably had Rebecca chortling while she wrote it. It's awful.

From 2007:

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Let me put it this way—have you ever heard of Plato? Aristotle? Socrates?

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On the level of very practical anecdote: I can almost have a lethargic reaction to being overwhelmed by things to do during the course of the day, completely sapped of energy. A short time at simple meditation can relieve that to the point that I'm energized enough to continue the day with something like exuberance. Now, perhaps this is a bit of a subversion of true purpose of meditation. It's not normally considered a coffee substitute. But it's definitely a service to me.

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Shatterface wrote:Listening to Sam Harris and reading State Star Codex recently, the question occured to me: is meditation complete bollocks?

I can buy that it is relaxing but the claims about letting go of the 'illusion' of the self and all that sounds like a bunch of tree hugging hippie crap to me.
I just started listening to the audiobook of Sam's Waking Up, and while there's some interesting anecdotes from philosophy and neuroscience, I am baffled by the meditation stuff. Yes, it's good to relax and clear your mind. But why is it a good thing to divest yourself of self, or to claim there's no such thing? I experience the universe from my point of view, and my point of view only. No matter how much I quiet my mind, that doesn't change. We can experience different states of consciousness, but we can't transcend subjectivity, and I think we're better off embracing and understanding that than pretending it's not true.

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John D wrote: I say... just take a nap.
YMMV, but meditation can be way more invigorating than a nap, and this I say as an inveterate napper. Naps on full stomach can also lead to waking feeling like you just drank a six pack.

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paddybrown wrote:
Ape+lust wrote:
Sunder wrote:...Regarding her lack of comic chops, years of fanboys blowing smoke up her ass to the point she'd need to go on nicotine patches if they ever stopped has her convinced that she's a comedy genius.
This string of sour put-downs probably had Rebecca chortling while she wrote it. It's awful.

From 2007:

https://imgur.com/scJlSbb.png

https://imgur.com/XdkYqor.png

https://imgur.com/3wVMEVu.png
Let me put it this way—have you ever heard of Plato? Aristotle? Socrates?

Morons.
Holy Shit .... this is the funniest thing Becki ever wrote.... because Becki lacks any self awareness. It is like Becki and Hillary Clinton are the same person. Wow.

On a side note.... A good friend of my oldest daughter was hanging out with us and while we were walking the dog I asked her what her next steps are in life. I remembered that this friend had graduated with a four year degree. She explained that she was looking for a job but that it was hard to find something. I asked her to remind me what her degree was in and she said: "Communications... that... and film studies." I think I replied by saying something like "Oh my." and she said something like "Yeah... I know."

I just thought of this because Becki also has a communications degree... and look what she did with it.

There needs to be a stop put on these useless degrees. But, fortunately for our friend, she is black, so she had lots of scholarships. Unlike most graduates, she doesn't have much debt. It was almost a free ride for her. Too bad she is no further in securing a future of work than when she got out of high school four years ago.

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feathers wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote:Deutsche Welle has a ton of good material on the German elections:

http://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/german ... n/s-100649
I prefer Neue Deutsche Welle.

Pretty poor Cyriak tribute.

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John D wrote:It is like Becki and Hillary Clinton are the same person.
I don't say this often but that is honestly unfair to Hillary.

Regarding Becky's degree, the striking thing to be is that she is a Communications graduate rather than a Communications dropout. This implies that at some point in her life, in the distant, murky past, she was capable of finishing work.

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feathers wrote:
Hunt wrote:No to toot my own horn (but to toot my own horn...) I've had an idea about mass/private transport for quite a while that goes something like this:
Not to untoot you too much, but I suspect many IT nerds who learned about packet switching, token ring etc. have pondered applying the same principle to transports. Still I'm not aware of any such system being implemented anywhere, somehow.
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Shatterface wrote:What ever came of the innovative forms of transport we tried in the Seventies?

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katamari Damassi wrote:I've been seeing reviews come in for Star Trek: Discovery and it sounds like my worst fear is true-the lead character is a Mary Sue. She's human but raised by Vulcans so she's logical, yet retains her human emotions. In the first episode she kills a Klingon in hand to hand combat, and later in the episode she gives a crew mate the Vulcan neck pinch. She's the only one who can stop a war with the Klingons.

Earlier today I signed up for a week long trial of CBS All Access to watch the first couple of episodes. Before I even had the chance to watch them, I cancelled it and when asked why I replied that Star Trek: Discovery sucks.
Miracle of miracles, PZ seems to agree with you. And here I thought there was no Mary Sue he wouldn't screw (metaphorically, of course).

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Bhurzum wrote:First we had semen smoothies; now we have...fanny lager!



Don't get me wrong, I love growling at the badger as much as the next bloke but there's no way I'm drinking minge beer.

Nope.

Fuck. That. Shit.

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Near as I can tell, they made a whooping 1% of their goal on indigogo a year or two ago: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/firs ... ct-brewery#/

And while their website is still up and appears to talk a good game, the absence of distributors is a pretty good indication there is no or very little beer. http://orderyoni.com/index.php/collection-points

It does make a great link to gross out friends with. But you probably have a better chance to taste the czech bint's actual minge than the beer made from it.

But you know the Internet, where nothing ever dies. (Not even Becky-boo's comedy career.)

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fuzzy wrote:Here are the 10 speakers for Skepticon 10, along with Tardbook links to Lauren's long-form bios.

Libby Cowgill
Mandisa Thomas
Randall Jenson
Samantha Montano
Kayley Whalen
Mika McKinnon
Leighann Lord
Ross Blocher
Laura Thomas
Jessica Xiao
Other than Ross, are any of them known for applying scientific thinking to questionable but oddly popular ideas such as astrology, breatharianism, cryptozoology, detox, etc.?

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Sweden buys a 1.7 million dollar house for a Syrian with 3 wives and 16 children.


It's got a sea view.

Which is nice.


I think Sweden already regards all marriages as equal - even the second and third ones.


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free thoughtpolice wrote:A black supremacist called Dom Saunders has been bullying me:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/accordingt ... ays-fired/
Ha I blocked that cunt because all he did aside from rant & scream was post animated gifs of black women shaking their heads and I hate animated gifs.

The regressive leftists are approaching orwellian duckspeak with their incessant posting of gifs in lieu of substantive comments.

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free thoughtpolice wrote:A black supremacist called Dom Saunders has been bullying me:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/accordingt ... ays-fired/
Ha I blocked that cunt because all he did aside from rant & scream was post animated gifs of black women shaking their heads and I hate animated gifs.

The regressive leftists are approaching orwellian duckspeak with their incessant posting of gifs in lieu of substantive comments.

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I have a patheos stalker, too -- a certain "Rogue Medic", who's repeatedly called me a 'liar' for umm, disagreeing. Went apeshit because I stated that "Washington freed his slaves", but didn't provide every detail. Therefore, I was lying, even though, details aside, Washington freed his slaves. Fucking brought it up a month later on a different blogpost on an entirely different subject.

That's a thing with the SJWs, equating disagreement with lying. It's fucking pathological.

I'd really like to meet some of these internet warriors in person. Provided their mothers let us into their rooms.

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feathers wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote:Deutsche Welle has a ton of good material on the German elections:

http://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/german ... n/s-100649
I prefer Neue Deutsche Welle.

Where's a tsunami when you need one.

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:Therefore, I was lying, even though, details aside, Washington freed his slaves. Fucking brought it up a month later on a different blogpost on an entirely different subject.

That's a thing with the SJWs, equating disagreement with lying. It's fucking pathological.
Yep, even before I had the term SJW, I saw this behavior.

It was just after the Gore Nobel Prize win, I made a comment on Pharyngula that was less than enraptured with the Nobel Prize Peace Committee. Said something about not being too concerned with what a small group of Norwegian primarily current and expoliticians thought. Hordelets did take the legitimate, although somewhat rare, angle that having a political background was not a requirement for Committee members. No. Hordlets *knew* that the Nobels are given out by the Swedes. Trying to point out the Peace Prize has a different committee was ineffective as my tone was less than gushing over Saint Gore's win. Therefore WrongThought.

From then on, a couple of them would respond to anything I posted with short blurbs letting anyone know I was just a liar and therefore anything I said could just be dismissed.

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HelpingHand wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote:Therefore, I was lying, even though, details aside, Washington freed his slaves. Fucking brought it up a month later on a different blogpost on an entirely different subject.

That's a thing with the SJWs, equating disagreement with lying. It's fucking pathological.
Yep, even before I had the term SJW, I saw this behavior.

It was just after the Gore Nobel Prize win, I made a comment on Pharyngula that was less than enraptured with the Nobel Prize Peace Committee. Said something about not being too concerned with what a small group of Norwegian primarily current and expoliticians thought. Hordelets did take the legitimate, although somewhat rare, angle that having a political background was not a requirement for Committee members. No. Hordlets *knew* that the Nobels are given out by the Swedes. Trying to point out the Peace Prize has a different committee was ineffective as my tone was less than gushing over Saint Gore's win. Therefore WrongThought.

From then on, a couple of them would respond to anything I posted with short blurbs letting anyone know I was just a liar and therefore anything I said could just be dismissed.
It is not very much fun having a discussion with someone who really doesn't want to learn... or at least be open to ideas. The SJWs are as bad as the right-wing nut jobs. They think that any facts that refute their assumptions are made up... or from a bad source... etc.

But... it isn't just the SJWs. Even main stream liberals have some crazy biases. One of my talking points regarding blacks and policing is that blacks do twice the crime so we should expect them to be shot by police at twice the rate. This simple fact is never acknowledged except by the right or alternative media. So, when Kaepernick takes a knee I think "what does he want? What facts are we looking at? What exactly do you want to change?" But.... facts don't really matter to these people. We live in the fucking Oprah generation where lived experience is the same as facts.

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HelpingHand wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote:Therefore, I was lying, even though, details aside, Washington freed his slaves. Fucking brought it up a month later on a different blogpost on an entirely different subject.

That's a thing with the SJWs, equating disagreement with lying. It's fucking pathological.
Yep, even before I had the term SJW, I saw this behavior.

It was just after the Gore Nobel Prize win, I made a comment on Pharyngula that was less than enraptured with the Nobel Prize Peace Committee. Said something about not being too concerned with what a small group of Norwegian primarily current and expoliticians thought. Hordelets did take the legitimate, although somewhat rare, angle that having a political background was not a requirement for Committee members. No. Hordlets *knew* that the Nobels are given out by the Swedes. Trying to point out the Peace Prize has a different committee was ineffective as my tone was less than gushing over Saint Gore's win. Therefore WrongThought.

From then on, a couple of them would respond to anything I posted with short blurbs letting anyone know I was just a liar and therefore anything I said could just be dismissed.
Precicely. And even were you misinformed, if you earnestly believed it -- that's not lying. I had a GF who'd say, 'I have an appointment on Tuesday,' and I'd reply, 'Wasn't it on Thursday?' and she'd say, 'Oh, right. I lied.' No you didn't! Drove me nuts.

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Hunt wrote:
John D wrote: I say... just take a nap.
YMMV, but meditation can be way more invigorating than a nap, and this I say as an inveterate napper. Naps on full stomach can also lead to waking feeling like you just drank a six pack.
Perhaps that's because you did?

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feathers wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote:Deutsche Welle has a ton of good material on the German elections:

http://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/german ... n/s-100649
I prefer Neue Deutsche Welle.

Oh, come on, do it right.


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Eskarina wrote:
Those background vocals seem courtesy of Liaisons Dangereuses.


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Transgender research blocked because it is "politically incorrect"

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A therapist says he is "astonished" by a university's decision to stop him studying people who decide to reverse gender reassignment operations.
James Caspian wanted to write a thesis on "detransition" as part of his master's degree in counselling and psychotherapy at Bath Spa University.
He said it was rejected by the university's ethics committee because it could be "politically incorrect".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41384473

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feathers wrote:Those background vocals seem courtesy of Liaisons Dangereuses.

That is very likely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrislo_Haas

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Hunt wrote:
John D wrote: I say... just take a nap.
YMMV, but meditation can be way more invigorating than a nap, and this I say as an inveterate napper. Naps on full stomach can also lead to waking feeling like you just drank a six pack.
Cheap buzz, probably no liver damage. I think I might try napping on a full stomach. :drool:

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*male privilege .. :oops:

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shoutinghorse wrote:Make Male privilege again.

http://www.itv.com/news/2017-09-25/oxfo ... oids-jail/
So... let me get this straight. If I don't have a personality disorder and don't have a drug/alcohol problem then I will go to jail if I stab someone. But, if I have these problems and someone calls my mother about it... then I can stab them. Okay. Got it.

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shoutinghorse wrote:Make privilege again.

http://www.itv.com/news/2017-09-25/oxfo ... oids-jail/
Make privilege great again?

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John D wrote:
shoutinghorse wrote:Make Male privilege again.

http://www.itv.com/news/2017-09-25/oxfo ... oids-jail/
So... let me get this straight. If I don't have a personality disorder and don't have a drug/alcohol problem then I will go to jail if I stab someone. But, if I have these problems and someone calls my mother about it... then I can stab them. Okay. Got it.
"Principally, at the age of 24 you have no previous convictions of any nature whatsoever. you're female.

"Secondly, I find that you were genuinely remorseful following this event and, indeed, it was against your bail conditions, you contacted your partner to fully confess your guilt and your deep sorrow for what happened. you're pretty.

"Thirdly, whilst you are a clearly highly-intelligent individual, you had an immaturity about you which was not commensurate for someone of your age. you're posh"

Fixed that for the judge.

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Shatterface wrote:What ever came of the innovative forms of transport we tried in the Seventies?

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com ... T8Y8sL.jpg
Well, this guy grew his hair and became president.

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Crime is up in the US for the second straight year. Mostly, the crime increase is for violent crime, with a small decrease in property crime. In my fine state of Michigan the violent crime rate increased almost 10% year-over-year. That's a lot more crime! And... I assume crime reporting is actually down due to BLM and the Ferguson effect.

I think we may have reached a bottom in 2014 and now we will see significant increases for the coming years. This increase will be mostly due to the portrait of criminals as victims of the system. This causes more crime and less reporting. This is the same effect we had in the US in the 1970s and 1980s.

It was nice while it lasted. Time to buy a gun I guess.

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John D wrote:
shoutinghorse wrote:Make Male privilege again.

http://www.itv.com/news/2017-09-25/oxfo ... oids-jail/
So... let me get this straight. If I don't have a personality disorder and don't have a drug/alcohol problem then I will go to jail if I stab someone. But, if I have these problems and someone calls my mother about it... then I can stab them. Okay. Got it.
You would go to jail unless you are a woman and/ or have wealthy, influential. The jails are full of people that are alcoholics and addicts and people with mental illness that would probably do better and have better outcomes in a more therapeutic environment.
Personality disorder is a term that runs the gamut form being an average asshole to being a murderous psychopath and if you are designated that it probably would mean more time in jail not less and is a different beast than mental illness.

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Woodward admitted punching former boyfriend Thomas Fairclough and stabbing him in the leg with a bread knife during the altercation on December 30.

Woodward's case gained considerable attention after a judge hinted she may escape a prison sentence as it would be unfair to impede plans for her to become a surgeon.
So, she was just doing a little independent study.

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Suet Cardigan wrote:
John D wrote:
shoutinghorse wrote:Make Male privilege again.

http://www.itv.com/news/2017-09-25/oxfo ... oids-jail/
So... let me get this straight. If I don't have a personality disorder and don't have a drug/alcohol problem then I will go to jail if I stab someone. But, if I have these problems and someone calls my mother about it... then I can stab them. Okay. Got it.
"Principally, at the age of 24 you have no previous convictions of any nature whatsoever. you're female.

"Secondly, I find that you were genuinely remorseful following this event and, indeed, it was against your bail conditions, you contacted your partner to fully confess your guilt and your deep sorrow for what happened. you're pretty.

"Thirdly, whilst you are a clearly highly-intelligent individual, you had an immaturity about you which was not commensurate for someone of your age. you're posh"

Fixed that for the judge.
Check out the shit-eating grin in the first photograph. She knows she's pussy-games the system.

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KiwiInOz wrote:Jessica and Zoe up a tree
K...I...S...S...I...N...G
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(Not really) Interesting that comments aren't allowed btl.
Can someone hire The Graun a fact-checker? They seem to be calling Zoe Quinn a "game developer"?

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pussy-gamed.

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Actually, no, I take it back.

She is a "game developer"- she developed one game. Bout 20 mins work, I reckon?

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FYI - Peterson is running a special on his "Future Authoring" suite. Two licenses (two people) and all three programs for $30.

I have been thinking about trying this out and the special put me over the edge. If I like it I will try to get my daughter to do it.

https://selfauthoring.com/self-authoring-suite.html

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The UK labour party are holding their annual conference this week and their resident idiot Diane 'abacus' Abbott has been opening her big fat cake hole again.

(She would be our Home Secretary if they ever get elected) :oops:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/jimwat ... for-labour

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shoutinghorse wrote:The UK labour party are holding their annual conference this week and their resident idiot Diane 'abacus' Abbott has been opening her big fat cake hole again.

(She would be our Home Secretary if they ever get elected) :oops:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/jimwat ... for-labour
It is unclear whether Jeremy Corbyn backs the idea of all-black shortlists ....
Since he used to bang Diane, I'd say he keeps his own all-black short bus list.


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DrokkIt wrote:Actually, no, I take it back.

She is a "game developer"- she developed one game. Bout 20 mins work, I reckon?
Even less considering that the software she uses is so user-friendly that you don't need to "develop" anything, just upload texts, graphics and music (that in Quinn's case were made by other people anyway).

She's as much a "game developer" as someone who uses an online app to make LOLcat memes is an "artist".

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With regard to Patheos, has everybody noticed all the biggest cunts on there migrated from (or are still attached to) Pharyngula?

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Kirbmarc wrote:
DrokkIt wrote:Actually, no, I take it back.

She is a "game developer"- she developed one game. Bout 20 mins work, I reckon?
Even less considering that the software she uses is so user-friendly that you don't need to "develop" anything, just upload texts, graphics and music (that in Quinn's case were made by other people anyway).

She's as much a "game developer" as someone who uses an online app to make LOLcat memes is an "artist".
And given she can't even lay primary claim to writing the thing it's fair to ask what it is she actually does. Besides fuck people with connections I mean. She's less a developer than Briana Wu for christ's sake.

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jet_lagg wrote:And given she can't even lay primary claim to writing the thing it's fair to ask what it is she actually does. Besides fuck people with connections I mean. She's less a developer than Briana Wu for christ's sake.
Quinn, like Paris Hilton or Donald Trump, has perfected the art of being famous for being famous. Nobody cares about what she does, she's The Victim of GamerGate so she's famous. Actually she should thank the people who trolled her and insulted her. Without them she'd still be trying to convince people to give her credit for what she has never done by hooking up with them/shilling for their crappy projects. Thanks to the "Five Guys" post and GamerGate now she's been invited to the UN and she's a media darling of the SocJus.

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CommanderTuvok wrote:With regard to Patheos, has everybody noticed all the biggest cunts on there migrated from (or are still attached to) Pharyngula?
Bloggers and/or commenters? The Patheos: Nonreligious channel is mostly the SJW/Humanist/Polyamory channel.

Meanwhile, the new web design continues to shine:
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Quinn does have one achievement under her belt: Founding the Crash Override Network (CON), a professional bullying group thinly disguised as an anti-bullying group.

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jet_lagg wrote:
And given she can't even lay primary claim to writing the thing it's fair to ask what it is she actually does. Besides fuck people with connections I mean. She's less a developer than Briana Wu for christ's sake.

Oh, Wu is 100% a developer. No question. Just a crap one who develops shite.

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That thing you do with your hands? Very bad!

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White antifa are inherently racist, even when they are punching Nazis :lol:

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Sunder wrote:Quinn does have one achievement under her belt: Founding the Crash Override Network (CON), a professional bullying group thinly disguised as an anti-bullying group.
CON? Really? :lol: In a certain way I kind of admire Quinn's chutzpah, the same way you are amused by woomeisters who don't even bother to sound credible. She's screwing over people, telling them exactly what she's doing, and they keep falling for her schemes anyway.

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Everything is a social construct and ex-muslimaphobe Siggy doesn't think it's right to make jokes about furries.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/atrivialkn ... nst-humor/
One thing I do know about furries is that they are overrepresented among queer people. And queer people are overrepresented among furries. And you can take a guess at how much of the associated porn is gay. So in my mind, making fun of furries is practically a variety of homophobia. But if you don’t buy that, you should at least be able to see that furry-mockery in some ways re-enacts homophobia. In both cases, people let a mixture of humor and disgust get in the way of recognizing the people behind the words. And in both cases people disproportionately obsess about the sexual aspects.
Also, he thinks it is a great injustice to have Juggalos classed as a gang. Perhaps he doesn't understand that there are gangsters calling themselves Juggalos.

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PZ Meyers is a cheap whore. So, some publisher sent him a free copy of a book, and while knowing fuck all about it he sticks up a nice big ad for it. The link in red in his text is to an Amazon short-url, which I presume is to his own affiliate ID (something he has done for ages, despite hating Amazon and pounding his tiny fists at them). That means (at least used to when I dabbled) that he gets a cut from anyone following the link and buying the book, but also if they buy anything else while on Amazon (within a certain period of time).

Smash the system, Peez!

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Kirbmarc wrote:
Sunder wrote:Quinn does have one achievement under her belt: Founding the Crash Override Network (CON), a professional bullying group thinly disguised as an anti-bullying group.
CON? Really? :lol: In a certain way I kind of admire Quinn's chutzpah, the same way you are amused by woomeisters who don't even bother to sound credible. She's screwing over people, telling them exactly what she's doing, and they keep falling for her schemes anyway.
CON pretty much collapsed. It was never anything more than a mean girls clique. Several people who turned to them for help with online bullying ended up being laughed at and bullied by the CON members. After their private chatlogs were leaked they started kicking people out left and right.

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
CommanderTuvok wrote:With regard to Patheos, has everybody noticed all the biggest cunts on there migrated from (or are still attached to) Pharyngula?
Bloggers and/or commenters? The Patheos: Nonreligious channel is mostly the SJW/Humanist/Polyamory channel.

Meanwhile, the new web design continues to shine:
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That sucks even more than the new Globe & Mail website! And talking of the superior virtue of the oppressed, I read a neatly snarky point from Bertrand Russell on that matter:
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and airplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. Considered in human terms, it has as little in its favor as belief in Celtic magic, the Slav soul, women's intuition, and children's innocence. If it were indeed the case that bad nourishment, little education, lack of air and sunshine, unhealthy housing conditions, and overwork produce better people than are produced by good nourishment, open air, adequate education and housing, and a reasonable amount of leisure, the whole case for economic reconstruction would collapse, and we could rejoice that such a large percentage of the population enjoys the conditions that make for virtue. But obvious as this argument is, many Socialist and Communist intellectuals consider it de rigueur to pretend to find the proletariat more amiable than other people, while professing a desire to abolish the conditions which, according to them, alone produce good human beings.
Naughty, naughty, Bertrand.

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Dirty Bertie, more like...


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Or even Dirty Uncle Bertie:


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