Re: You is all a bunch of poofs!
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2019 4:24 am
Great stuff.CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: ↑ https://www.artfido.com/the-sketchbooks ... aPum9spw4M
Sketchbook of a WWII soldier. Worth a look.
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Great stuff.CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: ↑ https://www.artfido.com/the-sketchbooks ... aPum9spw4M
Sketchbook of a WWII soldier. Worth a look.
Toxic masculinity.MarcusAu wrote: ↑Great stuff.CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: ↑ https://www.artfido.com/the-sketchbooks ... aPum9spw4M
Sketchbook of a WWII soldier. Worth a look.
Meh, Isn't bi the default sexuality now anyway? Can we just get back to a world where we don't talk about sexual orientation or gender? If we would just STOP TALKING ABOUT IT, maybe there'd be more time to do, like, important things, For the time being of course, this will never happens, since saying you're bisexual gains you an automatic 10 "cool" points. Wouldn't it be nice if nobody gave a fuck?shoutinghorse wrote: ↑ BeckyBooze has just dropped a vid where she comes out as a part time carpet muncher. Can't say I'm surprised but I've never known her admit it before. I wonder if apple salary mugfrend knew ? (2:42)
Have you thought of making the monument a long drop dunny?franc wrote: ↑Sat Feb 16, 2019 3:45 amThrew the old man in a hole in the ground because we're not allowed to burn him because that's what catholics do and we are the one true orthodox faith and catholics are cunts and whatever they do is wrong. That fucking hole has cost $14,000 so far and that's not counting the idolaters monument which will be another 5-10 grand. Death is for capitalist pigs. Fuck this. I'm leaving my corpse to necrophiles or US miiltary ballistics testing. Seriously. Fuck this. The cunt's dead and we have to shit money. Fuck off. Cunts.
Meh. Bi is passe now. It's pansexual if you please.Hunt wrote: ↑Meh, Isn't bi the default sexuality now anyway? Can we just get back to a world where we don't talk about sexual orientation or gender? If we would just STOP TALKING ABOUT IT, maybe there'd be more time to do, like, important things, For the time being of course, this will never happens, since saying you're bisexual gains you an automatic 10 "cool" points. Wouldn't it be nice if nobody gave a fuck?shoutinghorse wrote: ↑ BeckyBooze has just dropped a vid where she comes out as a part time carpet muncher. Can't say I'm surprised but I've never known her admit it before. I wonder if apple salary mugfrend knew ? (2:42)
I have resisted all temptation to do anything with Twitter and Facebook. I don't really understand the point of 'social media' for anyone who wants to keep their dopamine-reward system functional. Otherwise it's simply weaponizing part of your brain on behalf of advertisers. Talking of which, I was sent a link by Malwarebytes this morning:Steersman wrote: ↑Fri Feb 15, 2019 11:37 amBut certainly something of a "mephitic" mess there in Twitter Support. Though I periodically wonder to what extent that is due more to imperfect algorithms than explicit bias - even if that bias may affect to some degree, intentionally or not, the development of those algorithms.
Ran across a site awhile back that tracked - in "real-time" - the total number of tweets per day - something like 700 million a day. No way in gawd's green earth that a real human can be monitoring any portion of that - they have to rely on programs to monitor those and to take action accordingly. Inevitably going to be things that fall through the cracks - I've been banned a couple of times and when I've complained Twitter told me I had been caught by programs checking for spam - not that I'm repetitive or anything like that ...
But there does seem some evidence that the algorithms need some fine-tuning - too much opportunity for people to "game the system". Don't know if you read much of that interview - there's a link in it at the bottom to a "Twitter Moment" that has the whole conversation - but Dorsey alluded to how they rely on people complaining to trigger bans and the like rather than them being proactive. Kind of get the impression that "snowflakes" tend to have thinner skins than those on the nominal right - quicker to complain to the teacher - which is probably part of the reason why it looks like Twitter has a bias against those on the nominal Right. ICYMI - a Quillette article thereon.
But definitely have to give Dorsey a great deal of credit for taking the bull by the horns, for admitting the nature of the problem and expending a not inconsiderable amount of effort trying to fix it. Even if it may be motivated in part by an eye on Twitter's bottom line.
The long defunct Bergen Line used to operate car ferries between Newcastle (UK) and Bergen (Norway). Their oldest ship, the SS Leda (named after a rape!) had some lovely graffiti, including this one:KiwiInOz wrote: ↑Have you thought of making the monument a long drop dunny?franc wrote: ↑Sat Feb 16, 2019 3:45 amThrew the old man in a hole in the ground because we're not allowed to burn him because that's what catholics do and we are the one true orthodox faith and catholics are cunts and whatever they do is wrong. That fucking hole has cost $14,000 so far and that's not counting the idolaters monument which will be another 5-10 grand. Death is for capitalist pigs. Fuck this. I'm leaving my corpse to necrophiles or US miiltary ballistics testing. Seriously. Fuck this. The cunt's dead and we have to shit money. Fuck off. Cunts.
Same goes for Robert E. Lee, amirite?
You were doing so well, until that bitMatt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑ ...anarchist/libertarian, who are all complete fucking retards.
We went from acknowledging legitimately that gays and lesbians having rights to this. I think a lot of people saw gays getting attention, and decided to get on the bandwagon, because gods know, we all gotta be special and lavished with attention just for existing.. Thinking that anybody gives a flying fuck about your sexuality is an increasingly annoying narcassim. Why anybody puts it in their Twitter bio is incomprehensible, unless you're angling for points.Hunt wrote: ↑Meh, Isn't bi the default sexuality now anyway? Can we just get back to a world where we don't talk about sexual orientation or gender? If we would just STOP TALKING ABOUT IT, maybe there'd be more time to do, like, important things, For the time being of course, this will never happens, since saying you're bisexual gains you an automatic 10 "cool" points. Wouldn't it be nice if nobody gave a fuck?shoutinghorse wrote: ↑ BeckyBooze has just dropped a vid where she comes out as a part time carpet muncher. Can't say I'm surprised but I've never known her admit it before. I wonder if apple salary mugfrend knew ? (2:42)
Exactly, especially when a rainbow unicorn emoji send the message just as well.CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: ↑ Thinking that anybody gives a flying fuck about your sexuality is an increasingly annoying narcassim. Why anybody puts it in their Twitter bio is incomprehensible, unless you're angling for points.
Great deal of value in being able to categorize stuff - poisonous versus edible for example; Pinker having a cogent observation thereon:Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:37 amI was thinking about this. The real pay-outfrom splitting the world into Good and Evil is not so much making it easy to hate your opponents, but rather that you get the sanctimonious satisfaction of being purely Good.ThreeFlangedJavis wrote: ↑This is such an obvious manifestation of the tendency of people to externalise evil. They are so sure that evil lies in everyone else that they can act with sociopathic malice whilst still convinced of their moral virtue. If you could get them out of the bubble looking in for a moment I'm sure they'd recoil in horror.
Lovely people though sadly part of the "human condition". Thomas Huxley thereon:The term "abominable fancy" was first used by Frederic Farrar [1831-1903] for the long-standing Christian idea that the eternal punishment of the damned in Hell would entertain the saved. According to Philip C. Almond, this view was held by several early Christian philosophers, including Augustine, Tertullian, Thomas Aquinas and Peter Lombard.
Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it. -- Thomas Henry Huxley, Evolution and Ethics
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.co ... nt-1705501Michael Shermer wrote:One problematic aspect of the “atheist” label ... is that we allow others to define us by what we don’t believe. That will never suffice. We must define ourselves by what we do believe: science, philosophy, reason, logic, empiricism and all the tools of the scientific method, along with civil rights, civil liberties, women’s rights, gay rights, animal rights, and moral progress as a result of these components of our worldview, which might better be described as humanism or one of its variants: secular humanism, Enlightenment humanism, or as I’m now suggesting, Scientific Humanism....
I don't know about the others, but the reference to Tertullian can only be to the closing chapter of De spectaculis.Steersman wrote: ↑The term "abominable fancy" was first used by Frederic Farrar [1831-1903] for the long-standing Christian idea that the eternal punishment of the damned in Hell would entertain the saved. According to Philip C. Almond, this view was held by several early Christian philosophers, including Augustine, Tertullian, Thomas Aquinas and Peter Lombard.
Just the type of reply I expected from your kind.
You've got me there - my Tertullian is a little bit rusty - virtually non existent :-). Although I did read "Shadow of the Third Century: A Revaluation of Christianity" by Alvin Boyd Kuhn - an early mythicist - which quotes him extensively which I should probably re-read.Fegg wrote: ↑I don't know about the others, but the reference to Tertullian can only be to the closing chapter of De spectaculis.Steersman wrote: ↑The term "abominable fancy" was first used by Frederic Farrar [1831-1903] for the long-standing Christian idea that the eternal punishment of the damned in Hell would entertain the saved. According to Philip C. Almond, this view was held by several early Christian philosophers, including Augustine, Tertullian, Thomas Aquinas and Peter Lombard.
Certainly our biases can colour our interpretations of events and people and what they've said - reminds me of a favourite quote of Shermer:
Probably a good thing - kind of expect procreation might be a bit "problematic" otherwise.
Q.E.D., other claims to the title notwithstanding ...It seems that shortly after creation [Genesis 2:19-20], God called Adam over, lined up all the animals, and paraded them by so that Adam could name them and presumably choose a mate… There we have it – indisputable proof … that Adam was the first taxonomist, and taxonomy is thus the oldest profession.
I wouldn't necessarily go that far, but it's a work of genus to be sure.
Trying to rehabilitate his image? That move is pretty clueless. They never learn.Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑ Jerry Coyne has been asking prominent atheist whether 'new atheism' is indeed truly dead. Many have responded. The latest is Shermer, who -- get this -- essentially calls for Atheism Plus:
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.co ... nt-1705501Michael Shermer wrote:One problematic aspect of the “atheist” label ... is that we allow others to define us by what we don’t believe. That will never suffice. We must define ourselves by what we do believe: science, philosophy, reason, logic, empiricism and all the tools of the scientific method, along with civil rights, civil liberties, women’s rights, gay rights, animal rights, and moral progress as a result of these components of our worldview, which might better be described as humanism or one of its variants: secular humanism, Enlightenment humanism, or as I’m now suggesting, Scientific Humanism....
Shermer must not remember when Coyne flamed him.Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑ Jerry Coyne has been asking prominent atheist whether 'new atheism' is indeed truly dead. Many have responded. The latest is Shermer, who -- get this -- essentially calls for Atheism Plus:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/02/germ ... e-migrantsA 74-old senior social worker who helped with Germany’s migrant influx in 2015 must move out of the flat he has lived in for 24 years. A 1990s court ruling allows German municipalities to evict tenants to accommodate refugees if other options are exhausted.
Jen McWreight (sp) may have been a true believer, but I find it more difficult to see Watson as ideological, beyond looking out for number one that is. Atheism+ (at least for some of the main players) could be seen as an attempt to seize the means of production - or at least the income streams from the conference speaking gigs. Once a stink had been kicked up - patreon was discovered as an alternate source. Most people were happy enough for them to have an ideology - but suggested that it would fit better with humanism.CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: ↑ The minute any ideology creeps into any atheism movement, you're automatically going to alienate a good many atheists. Then will come the entryism, purity tests and inevitable backstabbing of call-out culture. At which point you'll have a movement that looks so bad that religion will be an attractive option by comparison. Somebody needs to clean their room.
Great footage... wow. My dad was in the Navy and was a gunner/pilot of one of those LCVPs. He was at Tarawa. He is now 92 years old... he has Alzheimer's... and can't remember the names of my children. But he drove that fucking boat into that Japanese fire.
In the US, at least, the atheist movement needed to have just the focus of atheism. The idea that other foci, already well covered by other groups were needed to be represented was a distraction and natural points of division.MarcusAu wrote: ↑Jen McWreight (sp) may have been a true believer, but I find it more difficult to see Watson as ideological, beyond looking out for number one that is. Atheism+ (at least for some of the main players) could be seen as an attempt to seize the means of production - or at least the income streams from the conference speaking gigs. Once a stink had been kicked up - patreon was discovered as an alternate source. Most people were happy enough for them to have an ideology - but suggested that it would fit better with humanism.CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: ↑ The minute any ideology creeps into any atheism movement, you're automatically going to alienate a good many atheists. Then will come the entryism, purity tests and inevitable backstabbing of call-out culture. At which point you'll have a movement that looks so bad that religion will be an attractive option by comparison. Somebody needs to clean their room.
The separate (but unequal) Atheism+ forum - was an (almost) entirely Internet based purity spiral and it's own clusterfuck.
Bloody hell. He is Gish galloping at a fair trot. He is Trumpian in the magnificence of his blatant porkies and misdirections.KiwiInOz wrote: ↑I'll have a listen later today.Service Dog wrote: ↑The inspiration for my previous post-- the one you replied-to-- is a podcast episode, link below, from Stanford's Hoover Institution, about the Green New Deal.KiwiInOz wrote: ↑Climate change's numbers are simple. We have slowed down the rate of heat energy leaving earth for space. This means that heat energy is accumulating within the atmosphere and oceans.Service Dog wrote: ↑ I'm not confident-- that I could look at the Climate Change experts' numbers & determine whether their case is solid.
But I am confident that I can detect something very wrong with the dollar amounts and timelines of the Green New Deal.
Is the latter indicative of the former? Is the climate change problem's math just as defective as the climate change solution's math?
The transfer of heat energy between land, water, and atmosphere drives our weather system. The extra energy drives extreme conditions and some new or rarely seen patterns.
Simple.
Like I said, I'm not fit to judge whether the podcast guest's climate numbers are correct or not.
As far as I know, he could be reciting tired, debunked climate-denier talking points. Or he could be utterly reliable.
But I buy what he says about the political numbers in the Green New Deal. And I don't buy Ocasio-math.
https://www.hoover.org/research/liberta ... n-new-deal
Nice.John D wrote: ↑Great footage... wow. My dad was in the Navy and was a gunner/pilot of one of those LCVPs. He was at Tarawa. He is now 92 years old... he has Alzheimer's... and can't remember the names of my children. But he drove that fucking boat into that Japanese fire.
I am going to New Orleans in about 6 weeks and plan to visit the WWII museum. They have reconstructed an LCVP there. They did have iron armor on the front and sides... but they were wood boats. Fuck me.
Brive1987 wrote: ↑Nice.John D wrote: ↑Great footage... wow. My dad was in the Navy and was a gunner/pilot of one of those LCVPs. He was at Tarawa. He is now 92 years old... he has Alzheimer's... and can't remember the names of my children. But he drove that fucking boat into that Japanese fire.
I am going to New Orleans in about 6 weeks and plan to visit the WWII museum. They have reconstructed an LCVP there. They did have iron armor on the front and sides... but they were wood boats. Fuck me.
My grandfather kicked Turkish ass in Palestine in 1916-18. He lived to 92. Popular number.
Moving on a year or so from Tarawa, it’s weird Iwo Jima is a Japanese naval base off limits to casual American visitors.
Tarawa itself is apparently an overpopulated slum literally covered in shit and rubbish.
http://i.imgur.com/8sHcI5J.jpg
Meh.
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My great grandfather was at Bastards Drift in South Africa during the Boer War. He died at 94.Brive1987 wrote: ↑Nice.John D wrote: ↑Great footage... wow. My dad was in the Navy and was a gunner/pilot of one of those LCVPs. He was at Tarawa. He is now 92 years old... he has Alzheimer's... and can't remember the names of my children. But he drove that fucking boat into that Japanese fire.
I am going to New Orleans in about 6 weeks and plan to visit the WWII museum. They have reconstructed an LCVP there. They did have iron armor on the front and sides... but they were wood boats. Fuck me.
My grandfather kicked Turkish ass in Palestine in 1916-18. He lived to 92. Popular number.
Moving on a year or so from Tarawa, it’s weird Iwo Jima is a Japanese naval base off limits to casual American visitors.
Tarawa itself is apparently an overpopulated slum literally covered in shit and rubbish.
http://i.imgur.com/8sHcI5J.jpg
Meh.
Probably more info than you’d want on Bastard’s Drift.
CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: ↑Sat Feb 16, 2019 4:18 pmTrying to rehabilitate his image? That move is pretty clueless. They never learn.Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑ Jerry Coyne has been asking prominent atheist whether 'new atheism' is indeed truly dead. Many have responded. The latest is Shermer, who -- get this -- essentially calls for Atheism Plus:
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.co ... nt-1705501Michael Shermer wrote:One problematic aspect of the “atheist” label ... is that we allow others to define us by what we don’t believe. That will never suffice. We must define ourselves by what we do believe: science, philosophy, reason, logic, empiricism and all the tools of the scientific method, along with civil rights, civil liberties, women’s rights, gay rights, animal rights, and moral progress as a result of these components of our worldview, which might better be described as humanism or one of its variants: secular humanism, Enlightenment humanism, or as I’m now suggesting, Scientific Humanism....
I did not read the quote first posted as saying that the word "atheist" should take on any extra meanings. I thought he was probably saying that we should not be taking on atheism as an identity in itself, but rather define ourselves in a way that encompasses more than our disbelief in gods. I don't think he wants to compromise the definition of atheist. The quote I gave above would seem to confirm that.Shermer also wrote:Defining ourselves by what we do believe prevents believers and faitheists from calling us “atheists” and then attacking whatever that word means to them, instead of what it means to us (namely, a lack of belief in a deity, full stop).
As dictated by the First Law of Irony. It's all just a plot to give PZ a cerebral aneurism.Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑Sat Feb 16, 2019 1:37 pmJerry Coyne has been asking prominent atheist whether 'new atheism' is indeed truly dead. Many have responded. The latest is Shermer, who -- get this -- essentially calls for Atheism Plus:
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.co ... nt-1705501Michael Shermer wrote:One problematic aspect of the “atheist” label ... is that we allow others to define us by what we don’t believe. That will never suffice. We must define ourselves by what we do believe: science, philosophy, reason, logic, empiricism and all the tools of the scientific method, along with civil rights, civil liberties, women’s rights, gay rights, animal rights, and moral progress as a result of these components of our worldview, which might better be described as humanism or one of its variants: secular humanism, Enlightenment humanism, or as I’m now suggesting, Scientific Humanism....
Sergeant AJ mentioned in dispatches near the end of this document https://www.angloboerwar.com/unit-infor ... ight-horse.Brive1987 wrote: ↑Probably more info than you’d want on Bastard’s Drift.
http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol144rs.html
I just read an account of the first Australian (colony) contingent to anywhere.
Maori Wars. Who knew?