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  1. Re:"violence to advance their cause" on Twitter Plans To End Revenge Porn Next Week, Hate Speech In Two (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Antifa is the unreformed blackshirt German Communist party militant wing.

    "Antifa" is a purely US thing. No one in Europe uses that name that I've ever heard of.

  2. Re:"violence to advance their cause" on Twitter Plans To End Revenge Porn Next Week, Hate Speech In Two (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    BLM has literally gone out and assassinated police officers

    Timothy McVeigh was a Republican, therefore the Republican Party is a terrorist organisation. Right?

  3. Re:"violence to advance their cause" on Twitter Plans To End Revenge Porn Next Week, Hate Speech In Two (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It also makes me wonder if you're just like the a-typical male feminist ally, who actually turns out to be an abuser of women and was just projecting the entire time. [twitter.com]

    1. If you meant "a typical male..." the hyphen destroys your meaning.

    2. If you meant "atypical" that means the opposite of what you intended.

    3. I wonder if you're just another baby-raping Nazi like many of the Gamergate fuckturnips?

  4. Re:Trampling Civil Rights on Vungle CEO Arrested For Child Rape and Attempted Murder (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The reporting of crimes is may not thrill you, but it's a part of the other freedoms we enjoy. Eliminate them and you're well on your way to a totalitarian state.

    No, you're not.

  5. Re:Trampling Civil Rights on Vungle CEO Arrested For Child Rape and Attempted Murder (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    He has been substantially deprived of significant material value without ever having set foot in a court.

    It's one of the side effects of the US's near complete freedom of speech/press. Most countries have limitations on what you can report about people who have merely been arrested but not yet charged, in the US there appears to be no such control, and you get law enforcement publishing mugshots of arrestees even if they're later released without charge.

    Personally, I don't see why you should be able to report even on a trial until it is over and the person found either guilty or not guilty, but then I suppose I'm just an apologist for the Lizard NWO Illluminati Government conspiracy.

  6. And? The comment you replied to didn't mention Hawking at all, so comparing him to conductors or rock stars is completely irrelevant. A better claim would be why you think the London Symphony Orchestra doesn't need a functioning website.

    Cambridge University'sprimary purpose is not to create websites, any more than the LSO or Mick Jagger's is. Nothing to do with Hawking per se.

  7. Re:Why is Hubble credited? on Stephen Hawking's Thesis Crashes Cambridge Site After It's Posted Online (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Why is Edwin Hubble credited with the idea of an expanding universe? The idea was first proposed by Georges Lemaître, a Catholic priest in Belgium who published a paper on it in 1927, two years prior to Hubble. Although Hubble did provide very useful observational evidence to support the theory, it is inaccurate to attribute the theory to him.

    I was taught in school that it was Lemaitre who first came up with the Big Bang theory. He is a useful example for both sides to show that science and religious belief can co-exist, despite the fact the Big Bang theory bears no resemblance to the Bible's creation myth(s).

  8. They're cheaper than the cheapest Luxxotica frames that fit me, $130 to $150. About $29 for prescription lenses, and I have some cheap prescription glasses. You heard me. Cheap glasses. D:

    Yeah, but they make you look like a creepy 1980s children's TV presenter.

  9. Re: well it sounds even worse... on Snapchat Reportedly Stuck With 'Hundreds of Thousands' of Unsold Spectacles (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd have thought they would have a hipster/retro appeal for millennials, like wind up wristwatches, vinyl records and stupid fucking beards.

  10. Re:ISS weighs almost nothing on The Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility: Where Spacecraft Go To Die (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    the earth, which is in freefall around the sun, also has no weight.

    Duh, so if the Earth weighs nothing why can't I pick it up and kick it like a football at your head?

    You really haven't thought this through, have you?

  11. Re:USA = harmful on US Preparing to Put Nuclear Bombers On 24-Hour Alert (defenseone.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd like to note that Rupert Murdoch is an Austrian, a European.

    Almost sure this is a joke. Almost.

  12. Re: Whatever on Google Maps Ditches Walking Calorie Counter After Backlash (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Most people voted leave because it makes long term economic sense

    Not all, but a significant number, voted leave because they wanted to keep out foreigners.

  13. Re:I haven't had _that_ problem... on "Maybe It's a Piece of Dust" (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    But holy crap, the touch-bar is a bad bit of UI design. I'm constantly accidentally triggering it.

    I never hit the touch bar by accident (or on purpose) and have no problems with typing on my new MBP.

    Man, I love the balanced viewpoints on this site. Do we have anyone who does accidentally trigger it, but only sometimes? So far we have constantly and never, is there anyone else?

    I have absolutely no idea what anyone is talking about, but I vote for "only sometimes".

  14. Re:I haven't had _that_ problem... on "Maybe It's a Piece of Dust" (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't even have a caps lock any more

    Fucking metal, man.

  15. Re:I think I know the problem on "Maybe It's a Piece of Dust" (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    One universal constant in the long-running PC vs Apple war is that even when the Apple side have superior hardware and software on their side, they consistently blow it on the "having a sense of fucking humour" front.

  16. Re:I think I know the problem on "Maybe It's a Piece of Dust" (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Haha! Tired cliche! Ancient repetitive humorless humor!

    Hit a nerve huh?

  17. Re:I have a troubled mind on Intelligent People More At Risk of Mental Illness, Study Finds (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I feel like the more I discover and learn about things the more troubled I am and scared of the world

    It's that difficult age round about 12, I remember it well.

  18. Autism is *not* a mental illness (software) but a neurological difference (hardware). It's not something you acquire, but rather you're born with (and most assuredly will die with). This amateur gaffe calls the rest of the article into doubt.

    The distinction between hardware and software in the human brain is not as clear cut as in a computer. It is by no means clear that mental illness is something equivalent to a software bug that can be corrected.

  19. It's really heartwarming to read so many stories from self-diagnosed tortured geniuses in this thread.

  20. When did Mensa lower requirements from IQ of 3x std.dev. To 2x std.dev ? I.e. from 148 to 130?

    I imagine when their subscription income started declining.

  21. Re:Plausible explanation in TFA on Intelligent People More At Risk of Mental Illness, Study Finds (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Eastern shit is so stupid. Mindfulness proponents always complain that people aren't aware ENOUGH but then you turn around and say we are by nature TOO aware

    I think the idea is that we are too aware of useless external crap we can't do anything about, and not aware enough of our inner selves which we can do something about.

  22. Re:Maybe / Maybe Not on Intelligent People More At Risk of Mental Illness, Study Finds (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    IQ tests measure IQ fairly repeatably, meaning that IQ tests measure something real.

    Yes, they are an excellent test of whether someone is good at doing IQ tests.

  23. Smarter people are better at diagnosis.

    Not of themselves. Self awareness has no connection with intelligence. There are plenty of extremely bright psychopaths running corporations and governments.

  24. Those people are worse than vegans.

    Nothing is worse than vegans...

    Fruitarians.

  25. Maybe a better way to put it:

    There is an inverse relationship between how often people claim they are smart and how smart they actually are.

    I'm really stupid!

    Oh hold on...