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O'Reilly confirmed not to be returning. In unrelated news, Jason Chaffetz, one of the most notable cases of Clinton Derangement Syndrome in the House, has confirmed he won't seek re-election. (Putting this here because I'm too lazy to make posts in multiple threads, but the misogyny involved in the Clinton witch-hunts has been frequently understated, so it's still appropriate here.) Today is a good day.

No word on who O'Falafel's replacement will be yet, btw.
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In unrelated news, Jason Chaffetz, one of the most notable cases of Clinton Derangement Syndrome in the House, has confirmed he won't seek re-election.
That handwriting has been on the wall for some time. After all, providing such high-quality representation to the people of Utah's 3rd Congressional District was really cutting into Jason's punching-the-clown-while-reading-Clinton-emails time.
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This is both one of the most scathing and one of the best book reviews I've ever read.

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I suspect Ivanka would fail not merely the Turing test but also the Voight-Kampff test. It is important to note that she is essentially the Marine Le Pen of her family: she is fascism with a polite veneer, which pretends not to be fascism. And, much like her father, when you examine her more closely, there is no there there. There are no principles, no convictions. She says what she thinks people want to hear, regardless of whether there is any consistency between statements, and she speaks in vagueries that allow people to infer whatever meaning they want to hear. Ultimately she is just as narcissistic as her father, and potentially every bit as dangerous.

(If you didn't watch John Oliver's piece on her and Jared, you should do that too.)
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So, this is pretty interesting and I suspect I will probably have more to say about it soon. I'm extremely tired right now as I'm in the process of moving, so you'll have to forgive my brevity.

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She admitted inflicting grievous body harm, the Oxford Mail reported.

At Oxford Crown Court, Judge Ian Pringle QC said he believed the attack was "a complete one-off".
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This is both one of the most scathing and one of the best book reviews I've ever read.

Our Lady of Complicity | Laurie Penny

I suspect Ivanka would fail not merely the Turing test but also the Voight-Kampff test. It is important to note that she is essentially the Marine Le Pen of her family: she is fascism with a polite veneer, which pretends not to be fascism. And, much like her father, when you examine her more closely, there is no there there. There are no principles, no convictions. She says what she thinks people want to hear, regardless of whether there is any consistency between statements, and she speaks in vagueries that allow people to infer whatever meaning they want to hear. Ultimately she is just as narcissistic as her father, and potentially every bit as dangerous.

(If you didn't watch John Oliver's piece on her and Jared, you should do that too.)
What's interesting is this is more or less what Russian female liberation got swallowed by...
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Golly. I'd find that a lot more convincing if both O'Reilly and Ailes hadn't spent decades working very hard to promote and celebrate hatred.
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Skeptics in today's world are in actuality simply sycophants to mainstream doctrine.
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Twaddle! The Earth is clearly an asymmetrical irregular icosahedron! :stoopid:
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The best marks are always those who think they are too smart and cunning to ever be marks. Which is exactly how you get smart people to fall for a scam, play to their ego, unlike those idiots, only idiots fall for scams. Double your money in a month, you have nothing to lose!

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I got given an issue of "skeptic magazine" for christmas (irony dance :bonklers:) and ... wouldn't call it a high-quality peer-reviewed journal. It's a profit-driven pop magazine, filled with self-congratulatory tripe and vaguely cringy book-ads. I'm not shocked at all they got taken.
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I got given an issue of "skeptic magazine" for christmas (irony dance :bonklers:) and ... wouldn't call it a high-quality peer-reviewed journal. It's a profit-driven pop magazine, filled with self-congratulatory tripe and vaguely cringy book-ads. I'm not shocked at all they got taken.
I've spent time reading R/skeptic and while Reddit is an aspy, sexist, racist shithole at times so is the skeptic movement (whole lot of overlap in those Venn diagrams) and thus I have no reason to think that the redditors aren't similar to many other skeptics (especially the cis white male ones). Anyway, I've seen them argue with hat political correctness is what fucked up the Charles Murray and Bell Curve. I've seen heavily upvoted comments rejecting the consensus position and articles by recognized experts that the Bell Curve is racist shite because those statements were made by Murray's opposition. Well that's true of every person who ever designed a perpetual motion machine and was laughed at by a physicist.

In my experience(and I could be projecting here as I was once a young Objectivist, libertarian, skeptic), skeptics skew towards certitude in their own rationality and ability to ubderstand the world. This is generally not too much of of a problem with the hard sciences, but they often ignore the soft sciences or just assume that they know better than the researchers.
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Everytime I see something that mentions Dawkins I have to stop myself from commenting on his support of child rape.


"From the mere fact of publication of my parody I think that not much can be deduced. It doesn’t prove that the whole field of cultural studies, or cultural studies of science — much less sociology of science — is nonsense. Nor does it prove that the intellectual standards in these fields are generally lax. (This might be the case, but it would have to be established on other grounds.) It proves only that the editors of one rather marginal journal were derelict in their intellectual duty."


I really like this quote for Sokal the guy who did a similar thing 30 years ago.
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Yeah, the biggest eye opener I had as a skeptic was noticing there's often less consensus among skeptics, not more. Obvious when you think about it - "think for yourself" - but there's the temptation to believe the real skeptics are just the ones which agree with you. Like "non-religious", skeptic can contain a lot of woo-woo, hence the want to be exclusionary, but you really can't. Anyway, I'll stop being off-topic.
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Once 'skeptics' start to organize and internalize being a skeptic as a defining feature of them, most skepticism goes out the window because you've now got the social constructs of a community and shared personal beliefs to deal with. Like the beginnings of a religion.

Suddenly people begin to get held up as the best skeptic, the ultimate skeptic, who we should all endeavor to be more like. But since the basis of skepticism should be, "all humans are imperfect and emotional creatures." The cult of personality is now in conflict with the very basis of the movement, and since humans are social and emotional creatures, the cult wins.
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I talked to a guy who was involved in skeptic communities some years ago and bailed the hell out when an upsurge of sexual harassment on women took off. A year or so later Gamergate came along and he recognized a lot of faces and approaches. Now they seem all rolled into the 'violent masculinity' and neo-fascism movements. Venn diagram indeed.
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