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Congratulations, Cocaine BearTeriyaki Hairpiece posted:These look exactly like this one kind of candy, I don't know the name but they're this shape and gummy and fruit flavored. I've got a strong association with one this shape being green colored and having a weird flavor. 
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Mauser posted:Can someone remind me why everyone hates Dick Dorkins? I have a friend who texted me saying he's finally reading some philosophy for the first time and the author was Richard Dawkins and without really knowing which book or what the guy is talking about in it I just had kind of a sinking feeling when that name came out alongside the whole first foray into philosophy. He went all-in on Muslim hate to the point he stans Xmas.
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Mar 10, 2021 18:09
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Mauser posted:Can someone remind me why everyone hates Dick Dorkins? I have a friend who texted me saying he's finally reading some philosophy for the first time and the author was Richard Dawkins and without really knowing which book or what the guy is talking about in it I just had kind of a sinking feeling when that name came out alongside the whole first foray into philosophy. There was an event at a convention (an atheist convention?) where a prominent woman in the community was made really uncomfortable and creeped out by a stranger propositioning her in an elevator, and she held it up an example of Guys, Don't Do This. Dawkins responded extremely pettily, saying feminists shouldn't complain about minor stuff like this when THE MUSLIMS are out there constantly mutilating everyone's genitals.
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Mar 10, 2021 18:20
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:These look exactly like this one kind of candy, I don't know the name but they're this shape and gummy and fruit flavored. I've got a strong association with one this shape being green colored and having a weird flavor. Jujyfruits? As a child, I always bought those in the movies because they lasted longest and were cheap.
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Mar 10, 2021 18:23
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https://twitter.com/thejazzemu/status/1369647110736461826?s=19
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Mar 10, 2021 18:26
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Mar 10, 2021 19:01
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:These look exactly like this one kind of candy, I don't know the name but they're this shape and gummy and fruit flavored. I've got a strong association with one this shape being green colored and having a weird flavor. Jujubes
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Mar 10, 2021 19:19
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Mauser posted:Can someone remind me why everyone hates Dick Dorkins? I have a friend who texted me saying he's finally reading some philosophy for the first time and the author was Richard Dawkins and without really knowing which book or what the guy is talking about in it I just had kind of a sinking feeling when that name came out alongside the whole first foray into philosophy. This is the esteemed intellectual whose work your friend is consuming: https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/396956105869250561 https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/336048706853937152 Haha seriously though he: - Despises Muslims. Like, really really loving hates them. - As mentioned, is incredibly sexist and hates feminists/feminism. - Likes to say poo poo like this, constantly: https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/494012678432894976 Also he's actually kind of a lovely writer, according to pretty much all of my molecular biologist / geneticist colleagues.
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Mar 10, 2021 19:38
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Mak0rz posted:This is the esteemed intellectual whose work your friend is consuming: Counterpoint: he does have a funny tweet of "please stop calling me dick dorkins". (If this tweet is fake no one tell me. NO ONE TELL ME I NEED TO BELIEVE)
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Mar 10, 2021 19:55
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dawkins had a decent pop-sci book about genetics in the 90s and he gained an unearned celebrity status which he squandered as part of the new atheism "brights" movement when evangelical atheism became an internet thing in the aughts, and ever sense then he's been a candidate for king mensa big brain who says completely dumbfuck poo poo endorsed by his unimpeachable status as a galaxy minded academic https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/448240882710757376
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Mar 10, 2021 19:56
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He did coin the term "meme", though. You gotta give him that. (More seriously, my impression is that his scientific work has been hugely influential and that he deserves his academic position based on that. It's just his forays into everything else that are disastrous.)
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Mar 10, 2021 19:57
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right, like many academics if he just stayed in his loving lane he'd be fine, but he likes to sound off about all kinds of poo poo and it turns out being an excellent geneticist or astrophysicist or what have you doesn't translate well at all to any other aspect of thinking
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Mar 10, 2021 19:58
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Kenning posted:He's also stupendously sexist. Also: Can't find the original source but quote:A Richard Dawkins tweet is like an episode of Game of Thrones, there's 140 characters and something horrible happens
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Mar 10, 2021 20:04
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Mar 10, 2021 20:06
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E: ^^^-yeah, that. What a total loser. Happens to plenty of "smart" people. They're so good in their field they assume they're good in every field and everyone wants to hear their opinions! Then it turns out being good at, say, brain surgery doesn't necessarily translate into having a function brain when it comes to, say, politics or policy.
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Mar 10, 2021 20:09
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Jordan Peterson is another prominent case. His academic career was pretty much as good as it gets, and then he decided that his work on personality psychology made him an expert on lobsters and the virtues of cleaning your room.
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Mar 10, 2021 20:16
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ultrafilter posted:Jordan Peterson is another prominent case. His academic career was pretty much as good as it gets, and then he decided that his work on personality psychology made him an expert on lobsters and the virtues of cleaning your room. I find it very difficult to believe that he has created anything of academic worth.
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Mar 10, 2021 20:24
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JP, like Dawkins in the Happy Holidays tweet, invented something to get mad at and then got really mad at it. Jordan Peterson got famous (outside of academia) for saying that if some new anti-discrimination language was added to the Canadian Human Rights Act, he'd be fired or jailed or dissolved in acid or something, if he didn't use gender neutral pronouns if someone wanted him to. He was very far off the mark, to the point that it might have been a malicious and willful misinterpretation. Personally, I give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that he was merely being a paranoid delusional idiot.
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ultrafilter posted:Jordan Peterson is another prominent case. His academic career was pretty much as good as it gets, and then he decided that his work on personality psychology made him an expert on lobsters and the virtues of cleaning your room. In slight defense of Jordan Peterson, learning to clean your loving room probably improved the ability of a lot of his followers ability to sleep with a girl.
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OwlFancier posted:I find it very difficult to believe that he has created anything of academic worth. Most academics don't.
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ultrafilter posted:Jordan Peterson is another prominent case. His academic career was pretty much as good as it gets, and then he decided that his work on personality psychology made him an expert on lobsters and the virtues of cleaning your room. He was a good orator but that was about it.
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Mar 10, 2021 20:28
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apatheticman posted:He was a good orator but that was about it. He's not even that, he sounds like a Canadian Kermit the Frog. I like Kermit, but I don't want to hear an hour long lecture on the sins of Tinkerbell from him.
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Yoshi Wins posted:Personally, I give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that he was merely being a paranoid delusional idiot. he's a christian conservative who is so wishy-washy and wrapped up in "but what does it all mean?" academic obfuscation that he can't even admit in public, perhaps even to himself, that he's just a standard flyover conservative christian who happens to have a big brain smarty mans job
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:he's a christian conservative who is so wishy-washy and wrapped up in "but what does it all mean?" academic obfuscation that he can't even admit in public, perhaps even to himself, that he's just a standard flyover conservative christian who happens to have a big brain smarty mans job Yeah, I think I've picked this up as well. He's so squeamish about just directly answering whether or not he believes in God.
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This is basically a dril tweet but unironic.
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Mar 10, 2021 20:44
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Is this some kind of feeble pro racism thing?
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Skwirl posted:In slight defense of Jordan Peterson, learning to clean your loving room probably improved the ability of a lot of his followers ability to sleep with a girl. JP is a lot like those people who hawk PUA advice in that there's a few reasonable things peppered in (clean your room and get organized/be confident, stuff like that) but it's nothing that you won't get from a thousand other places and they just use it to lure you in and build up to the truly nutso stuff.
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:Is this some kind of feeble pro racism thing? Absolutely. Not sure what the hats are about though.
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:Is this some kind of feeble pro racism thing? Dr. Seuss' estate stopped publishing a half-dozen or so of his more racist books, because they were embarrassing in modern light.
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Tenebrais posted:Dr. Seuss' estate stopped publishing a half-dozen or so of his more racist books, because they were embarrassing in modern light. The hilarious thing, as always, is that people running out to publish Cat in the Hat books and paraphernalia are enriching the Seuss estate they're so angry at.
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dick dorkins is just an edgelord prototype
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Arsenic Lupin posted:And it's none of the Cat in the Hat books. It's his very first book, And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, published 1937, plus some others of his early works. They have some egregious racial caricatures. Mulberry Street is older than the shoe-polishing scene in Fantasia, than Song of the South, than a whole bunch of things that we realized decades ago weren't fit for general audiences. Mulberry Street is the only one I remember at all, but not enough to remember anything racist. Not that I don't believe it is, just I can't recall hardly any details. And the fact everyone complaining about it is latching onto Cat in The Hat and Sneetches imagery indicates they don't remember any of the books being pulled either.
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Good for those cops to dress up like the clowns with the emotional intelligence of a 9 year old. Normally they come across as terminal edgy 15 year olds with their Punisher logos.
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https://twitter.com/clapifyoulikeme/status/1369736923510681610 They did Mulberry Street's image (the one in the back is a later revision, which is still... not good)  If I Ran The Zoo  The Seusses everybody remembers are the ones from Cat In The Hat onwards. I read Mulberry Street to children on the bookmobile, but I am so old we did it as a felt board. Arsenic Lupin has a new favorite as of 22:23 on Mar 10, 2021 |
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That dog looks like he is feeling a deep sense of shame for being around those cops. Poor doggie.
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Awesome thread. https://twitter.com/Skatebutch/status/1369411708536651776
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[quote="Arsenic Lupin" post="513123996"] https://twitter.com/clapifyoulikeme/status/1369736923510681610 They did Someone covered the Rent song? Oh dear god.
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AFAIK nobody Tiktoked it (yet) but they certainly did quote it in the replies to the original tweet. https://twitter.com/vuokko/status/1369185483683733505
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