Perestroika posted:

This link (and the rest of conservapedia) always gives me a 403, am I the only one?

Guilty Spork posted:

But if there's one thing people never seem to get tired of, it's being wrong about gays.

Sarion posted:

Keshik - If you want to keep going with that conversation, demand that he explain how he would have built that business without roads, an educated workforce, or the internet.

Ana Lucia Cortez posted:

Those laws seem a lot more sensible. Why does God hate womenfolk so much?

Sir Rolo posted:

quote:

6 Some selected species and groups
6.1 Birds
6.1.1 Black swans
6.1.2 Gulls
6.1.3 Ibises
6.1.4 Mallards
6.1.5 Penguins
6.1.6 Vultures
6.1.7 Pigeons
6.2 Mammals
6.2.1 Amazon Dolphin
6.2.2 American Bison
6.2.3 Bonobo and other apes
6.2.4 Bottlenose dolphins
6.2.5 Elephants
6.2.6 Giraffes
6.2.7 Monkeys
6.2.8 Japanese macaque
6.2.9 Lions
6.2.10 Polecat
6.2.11 Sheep
6.2.12 Spotted Hyena
6.3 Others
6.3.1 Lizards
6.3.2 Insects
6.3.2.1 Dragonflies
6.3.2.2 Fruit flies
6.3.2.3 Bed bugs

Giraffes posted:

Male giraffes have been observed to engage in remarkably high frequencies of homosexual behavior. After aggressive "necking", it is common for two male giraffes to caress and court each other, leading up to mounting and climax. Such interactions between males have been found to be more frequent than heterosexual coupling. In one study, up to 94% of observed mounting incidents took place between two males. The proportion of same sex activities varied between 30 and 75%, and at any given time one in twenty males were engaged in non-combative necking behavior with another male. Only 1% of same-sex mounting incidents occurred between females.

Me in Reverse posted:

Is there a specific fallacy that covers "They did thing X, so I am completely justified in doing (unrelated/irrelevant/significantly worse) thing Y"?

Sir Rolo posted:

Saturday, a good day for LL101:


Homosexuals

Halloween Jack posted:

THE MELTING POINT OF STEEL.

Mo_Steel posted:

quote:

It was a gun, after all.

It was built, designed to glory in destruction, when it was considered appropriate. It found, as it was rightly and properly supposed to, an awful beauty in both the weaponry of war and the violence and devastation which that weaponry was capable of inflicting, and yet it knew that attractiveness stemmed from a kind of insecurity, a sort of childishness.

It could see that--by some criteria--a gun, just by the perfectly articulated purity of its purpose, was the most beautiful single artifact America was capable of producing, and at the same time understand the paucity of moral vision such a judgment implied.

To fully appreciate the beauty of the weapon was to admit to a kind of shortsightedness close to blindness, to confess to a sort of stupidity. The weapon was not itself; nothing was solely itself. The weapon, like anything else, could only finally be judged by the effect it had on others, by the consequences it produced in some outside context, by its place in the rest of the universe.

By this measure the love, or just the appreciation, of weapons was a kind of tragedy.

Forceholy posted:

This. Never underestimate a shift manager's petty display of power. I remember when I used to work at a pizza place while going to Community College, I used to have classes scheduled during my days off work. That didn't stop several managers from calling me in the middle of class trying to call me into work. I remember being threatened with termination if I didn't leave class that second. I've been written up for not answering my phone during class. I've had class schedules handed back to me with my manager telling me that if I didn't change it to THEIR specifications, I would be fired. Most retail/food service jobs like to treat their workers as if they're on call at all times, as if their employees live and die for McDonalds, Wal-Mart, ETC. The retail thread in BFC is full of stories like these.

Dr. Arbitrary posted:

I want to live in a country where the CEO of the electric company can selectively shut off power to potential competitors and the campaign offices of politicians he disagrees with. They can buy their own power company if they don't like it.

Boywhiz88 posted:

Just to at least show that it's OK to speak out even as an officer.

quote:

[...] Schoolcraft recorded conversations at the 81st Precinct police station, responsible for the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. Schoolcraft amassed a set of tapes which, in his view, demonstrated corruption and abuse. The tapes include conversations related to the issues of arrest quotas and investigations. Schoolcraft says an overemphasis on arrests leads to wrongful arrests and bad police work.

Schoolcraft reports being harassed, particularly in 2009, after he began to voice his concerns within the precinct. [The] Department directed him toward psychological treatment rather than taking his concerns seriously. When he discussed issues like understaffing and stop-and-frisk with NYPD psychologist Catherine Lamstein, she directed him to surrender his weapons.

In October 2009, Schoolcraft disclosed his allegations to NYPD investigators in a meeting that he understood was to be confidential. [...] On 27 October Schoolcraft was placed under "forced monitoring".

By the end of his 31 October shift, Schoolcraft felt sick and intimidated. With permission from Huffman, he left the station an hour early, went home, took some Nyquil, and fell asleep. At 6 PM, his father called with a warning message. He looked out the window and saw police massing in the street. He stayed on the phone. After 9 PM, he heard people moving upstairs. The officers obtained a key to the apartment after telling the landlord that Schoolcraft was suicidal.

Schoolcraft turned on two tape recorders before the officers entered, and the subsequent interaction was recorded. About twelve high-ranking officers were present. [...] Marino eventually ordered, "Just take him. I can't f------ stand him anymore." The police found and confiscated one tape recorder, but the other one kept rolling.

Schoolcraft was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric ward in Jamaica Hospital Medical Center. He was handcuffed tightly to a bed and prevented from using a telephone, by orders of police who were present.

Cognac McCarthy posted:

article with fine tuning argument

CowHammer posted:

I don't know why she even gives a poo poo.

Jurgan posted:

test results determine funding

Dr. Arbitrary posted:

30 second observations

Xarthor posted:

Does anyone have a link to a neutral/legal source laying this out? This seems correct to me, but if I present this argument to my dad I guarantee it's going to be 20-straight minutes of "OH HOW CONVENIENT YOU'VE THOUGHT OF LIIIBERALLLLLLLL WAY TO WEASEL YOUR WAY OUT OF IT. DO YOU HAVE ANY PROOF OF THIS OTHER THAN YOUR LIBBBBERALLLL FRIENDS OVER AT MSNBC AND HUFFINGTON POST!?!?!?!?!"

idiot posted:

It's not that people are against maternity leave, they just think the government should stay out of it. If your employer wants to freely give you maternity leave, then they are free to do it. A really good employer would do that to keep top talent. Why should I pick up the tab for someone's vacation?

Gounads posted: