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  1. Re: Rank reputable sources on Google's Featured Snippets Are Worse Than Fake News (theoutline.com) · · Score: 2

    I think there is a disconnect between what people think terminology means and what it actually means in a rigorous scientific sense.

    For instance, if I were to ask you what the consensus science answer is concerning what percentage of warming is caused by humans and what percentage is attributable to other well known phenomena that might be an answer that people don't even know to ask or think about, regardless of what side of the "issue" they are on.

  2. Re:i have no problem on Snapchat Wanted $150K To Not Run NRA Ads On Gun Control Group Videos (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    It should have been easier to post armed police at schools. It is frankly insane to advertise "Gun free zones" in which we have concentrated our most helpless, innocent, and delicate members of society into one area and mandated that they receive zero protection from violent attacks, armed or not.

    Some people are defective. When you mass produce enough of something you are bound to get errors, outliers, and misfits. Denying they exist in spite of ubiquitous evidence to the contrary and then failing to properly prepare for when they finally blow their gaskets and destroy some of the surrounding machinery is just the stupidest, most short sighted, ignorant ass fucking thing I have ever seen in my life.

  3. Re:That org is garbage on Snapchat Wanted $150K To Not Run NRA Ads On Gun Control Group Videos (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    School massacres happen here because our government wants them to. Don't believe me? Facts are facts.

    1) Require parents to send their kids to school
    2) Mandate that no armed protection of any kind is provided or allowed at these schools
    3) Broadcast to everyone that this is the case (Gun free zone! We will never protect these children and teachers!)
    4) When a mentally ill person eventually does show up in this target rich environment where there are no antibodies to armed insanity...
    5) Government officials immediately talk about gun control.

    Face it. Your children are hostages of our government, purposely held in peril of death in order to scare and torment you.

  4. Re:Nope, nothing to see here on Mike Pence Used His AOL Email For Indiana State Business -- and It Got Hacked (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Not really a big boost for your position that Pence's emails can be released. By comparison, this cannot be done with Hillary's emails as a good portion of them were deleted.

    Not that a full release of all emails to the public is a good thing in either case. All any rational person could want is for an at-arms-length appraisal of the emails in question from an independent review, the details of which do not have to be public, but the conclusions of which should certainly be public.

    In Pence's case the emails have been preserved and are available for subpoena if necessary, subject to FOIA requests, etc. Hillary's are not.

    Do you not see the fundamental difference between these two situations? If you cannot accept the facts we really don't need to hear your equivocation about some falsely equivalent situation.

    Dammit, you stupid partisan people have me seemingly defending political shitbags because facts are facts and you can't tell the difference between things you make up and reality. Please get it together, you're wasting time on irrelevant things because you have surrendered to emotion and it is short circuiting your ability to produce logical, intelligent, even cogent statements.

  5. Re:Nope, nothing to see here on Mike Pence Used His AOL Email For Indiana State Business -- and It Got Hacked (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    LOL! I am sure the Democrats and the MSM were instrumental in getting this article written. Not that it matters, it's just more distraction from more important events and topics.

  6. Re:Apps for harrassment? on Female Engineer Sues Tesla, Describing a Culture Of 'Pervasive Harassment' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You may want to have a neurologist check your proprioception. What you report makes it seem like you are unusually susceptible to loss of body awareness.

  7. Re:Shop mentality vs office mentality on Female Engineer Sues Tesla, Describing a Culture Of 'Pervasive Harassment' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    So a beta told you that you get special treatment because you are female. In the process he outs every other male at the company as a sexist pig.

    I bet he also told you he is a feminist. Yeah, he was just trying to make all of the other males look bad so he could bang you.

  8. Re:Easy to do with an iPhone on Ask Slashdot: Would You Use A Cellphone With A Kill Code? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Conveniently, this particular biosignature becomes inactive for 36-48 hours after an "enhanced" search.

  9. Re:No. on Ask Slashdot: Would You Use A Cellphone With A Kill Code? · · Score: 1

    It's almost like some countries think borders are important to maintain and control.

    What the fuck is wrong with them? Aren't they just letting people come in with no checking, oversight, or vetting at all? That is what we are supposed to do, you know.

  10. Re:hurr durr on Most Scientists 'Can't Replicate Studies By Their Peers' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The reason I referenced Galileo was specific. If you remember (I bet you don't because of how full of talking points, unground axes, and shoulder chips your phrasing is) Galileo was "persecuted" not only by the religious power structure of the time, but also by sycophantic "scientists" looking to curry favor with the pope and the power structure in Rome.

    Draw what conclusions you want with current events, the underlying principle is what I was pointing to. You can see it is a constant in human behavior. It is still happening today.

  11. Re:Fake science/sloppy science on Most Scientists 'Can't Replicate Studies By Their Peers' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Thank you! In my haste I used precisely the wrong word. I should have said Geocentric.

  12. Re: Mod parent down (or up as per bias) on Google Releases an AI Tool For Publishers To Spot and Weed Out Toxic Comments (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!"

    Similarly, calling yourself a Democrat while following faithfully in the footsteps of corporatist Republicans does not make you a Democrat. Giving lip service to liberal issues while selling your constituents down the river in favor of big business does not make you a liberal. Just because you bought into the lie doesn't make the truth false.

    Saying the party is not "left enough" when their candidate is decidedly "right" is an inadequate response. Enforcing the lie on others (saying that message should be buried) is beyond subversive. You are, I am sure unknowingly, acting like a fascist pig. Shout down and forcibly bury any dissent from the Party Narrative! No dissent from within! We must have a solid Front!

    I sincerely think you should reconsider your position on this. This AC is asking for, in his own way, a more liberal, left leaning, candidate from the democrat party. Your response is to demean him and his mental faculties (moron) and then state he should be silenced in the public forum (deserved to get moderated down); his arguments not even discussed, and hidden from view. Frankly sir, your attitude disgust me. His self expression is more than valid in light of the facts. This is an issue that should be discussed, not only on its own merits, but also on the basis that this could very well be the reason why we have Donald motherfucking Trump as the president now. And I say that as a two-fold statement: not only that the proffered democrat candidate failed to beat the second most flawed presidential candidate in history, but also that the attitude of hiding any dissent and covering up any problems with the proffered candidate was prevalent from the top of the DNC down to the average everyday democrat voter.

    Then again, maybe I am just a bitter Bernie supporter who should be silenced, dismissed, and modded down.

  13. And this children is what we call the slippery slope.

    Notice it is not only a flawless example of the fallacy, but also a flawless example of how many people actually think.

    Yes, that is right children, many so-called humans actually think in logical fallacies. They allow the intensity of their baseless emotions to somehow derail logic from it's inexorable path.

    No! We don't exterminate them! That would be inhumane. Logic dictates that we do not kill lesser species.

  14. Re:Fake science/sloppy science on Most Scientists 'Can't Replicate Studies By Their Peers' (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Woah, I am confused by what you just wrote.

    You seem to be saying that if a bunch of scientists agree that *this* (whatever *this* is) is the way it is, but none of the experiments that prove that *this* is the way it is are reproducible, then we should just go with the consensus?

    Soooo, Galileo had some experiments he could back up, but the other scientists at the time had a consensus view of the cosmos. Their results were not reproducible, his were. You seem to be arguing for heliocentrism based on consensus.

    Essentially, your introduction of the concept of consensus based on results with a total lack of any comments on how reproducible those results are leaves me wondering just what you think the scientific method is predicated on.

    I don't care how "cutting edge" the research is. If it can be successfully reproduced and is based on sound principles I would consider it first before any "consensus" based on what a bunch of people think but can't back up with reproducible results.

  15. Re:Fake science/sloppy science on Most Scientists 'Can't Replicate Studies By Their Peers' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What a fucking GEM!!!! You had me at:

    Abstract: The exponential dependence of resistivity on temperature in germanium is found to be a great big lie. My careful theoretical modeling and painstaking experimentation reveal 1) that my equipment is crap, as are all the available texts on the subject and 2) that this whole exercise was a complete waste of my time.

    And kept delivering right through to the end! Thank you sir!

    Also:

    The diagram on the right side labeled: Fig. 1: Check this shit out.

    Awesome!!

  16. Re:Fake science/sloppy science on Most Scientists 'Can't Replicate Studies By Their Peers' (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Exactly right. If it is not reproducible, it is not "Science," period.

    If, as others have written, your experiment is so finely predicated on the experimental set-up (using certain equipment, preparing samples or data in a certain way, etc.) then you need to document that so specifically that anyone can repeat it. Why, you ask, with an dumbfounded and incredulous look on your face? Because you could be introducing very specific bias in the way you set up your experiment. If it only works when you do it *just like this,* maybe the reason is that the experimental result is a direct consequence of your set-up and not an actual measurement of naturally occurring phenomena. I like to call it "measuring your equipment."

    If you cannot, through your extensive documentation, re-create the experiment in another lab with completely different humans what you have published is essentially science fiction.

  17. There is a vast and fundamental difference between a "sexist asshole" and a repeat offending sexual predator.

    If you are assaulted don't let the company you work for (or anyone else for that matter!) sweep it under the rug or talk you out of filing a police report. For the sake of yourself and others tell law enforcement.

  18. The number of people was determined by how many people took public transportation to the inauguration compared to how many people took public transportation to the Obama inauguration.

    White people don't take public transportation! How racist!!!

  19. Re:Clickbaiting on How is The New York Times Really Doing? (om.co) · · Score: 1

    Wow! Really? Really??

    Look, if you do not possess the ability to read simple English statements and comprehend books don't try to quote them. Misquoting plain and simple statements from a book that is over 1500 years old just makes you look like a complete moron. It is really pathetic.

    I bet you still remember the Four Little Pigs, Goldiehair and the 17 Lizardpeople, and Rumplepimpskin, right? I bet you do. LOL!

    Sad that you can't even get fairy tales right. What a goob!

  20. Re:news will die forever mark my words on How is The New York Times Really Doing? (om.co) · · Score: 1

    The part about "accepting Jesus" is said in the book that talks about that sort of thing to be a point of entry into chastisement and possibly even martyrdom. That would be the exact opposite of your quoted "ward off evil." There is a whole sub-book in that book that deals with the fact that bad shit happens to even the very best of people, and for no reason that these people will ever be able to fathom.

    In short, your purported use of religious sentiments to support your supposition has severely undermined your case as the referenced material declares exactly opposite what you say it does. Not surprising though, most people that think they know something about a religion generally don't know the first thing.

    The things I have heard purported new age "Buddhists" say about Buddhism, wow!

  21. Re:Echo-chamber fake news on How is The New York Times Really Doing? (om.co) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    How hilarious that you post something completely accurate and are modded a troll.

    Just goes to show that people who are brainwashed with narratives are not only completely hoodwinked but also addicted to those narratives. They have exchanged their self worth and individuality for a story thought up in a think tank. As drones they cannot conceive of anything other than how they are programmed. They are fearful of anything that approaches the truth. Contradicting their world view is considered an assault.

    Poor simple bastards.

  22. It is decidedly not easy. Nothing in space is. But, the sooner we start the sooner we finish.

  23. Re: Great idea... But there is a problem... on NASA Is Studying A Manned Trip Around The Moon On A $23 Billion Rocket (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Populate the moon. Seriously. It is the closest body on which we can install a backup culture of human DNA. Extinction events happen with certainty and regularity on this big blue orb. Going into the future without a "Plan B" is just incredibly fucking stupid.

    That being said, nothing you humans do can be considered particularly intelligent. You poison your sources of sustenance. You kill each other for unknowable reasons you are completely certain about. You put yourselves through hell every day of your life to make sure a very select few of you get everything they could ever want and more than they could ever use. When confronted with the possibility of the Earth doing what it always has done your best retort is to steal money from everyone. It seems logical that you would completely ignore your own species survival, even when you have discovered the undeniable truth of the future from legacy of the rocks under your feet.

  24. The moon is made from the same stuff the Earth is. Simple, establish a base on the moon. Mine it for the required *stuff*. Build what you want. Boost it out of the Moon's minor gravity well and you're done. Ta da!

  25. There's only two choices:

    1) Run screaming.

    2) Quit and bang her brains out.