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Comment Re:It's OK to attack mythology and superstition... (Score 1) 266

UFOs actually exist. Yes, they do. Not to say that they are aliens but there's a long and well documented history of flying objects we can't identify.

So how about we spend a few generations stamping out atttitudes like yours and then we can view the world as it really is.

Comment Re:*Dons asbestos suit* (Score 1) 1262

Not technically she isn't. Her bachelors is in Communications, Masters in social and political thought... NOT gender studies. Now she has an interest in it, of course, which leads to her videos, but she is NOT the "Gender studies major" that some people claim she is.

*snort*

Why re-invent the wheel?

Because if you don't it's copyright fraud. Seriously, look it up. People were pissed.

IMy sister has a double major Bachelors degree in Social work and English (writing)....she runs Ubuntu LTS.

Is your sister Anita Sarkeesian? This idiot doesn't even know what game she's playing half the time, never mind the finer points of distros, and I mean that literally. It's a common complaint among gamers regarding her "reviews".

>Just as an aside, on my bookshelf with my various Linux books, there are copies of "The Beauty Myth" and "Fire with Fire" by Naomi Wolf, Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein, and Whipping Girl by Julia Serano.

How embarrassing for you. I seriously have no idea how people can publicly call themselves feminists in this day and age, talk about a faux pas. Ugh. Let's not invite that one to the next party.

Comment Re:What lessons are the video games teaching? (Score 0) 1262

There are people who are absolutely incensed at her relatively mild and well-documented criticisms of some common features of video games.

Actually they're mostly pissed at her incessant bullshit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Who can blame them for wondering if this is more of the same?

Comment Re:What lessons are the video games teaching? (Score 2) 1262

The only thing you're doing here is throwing up random objections that aren't really objections, or indeed relevant, aka critical theory. You say could have, might have, maybe, I can't really say much else. It's not direct evidence, but in light of her track record it certainly is enough to start probing a bit deeper. And that track record is the reason for suspicion, no other.

I have the feeling that we shall find out the truth soon enough.

Comment Re:Just tell them (Score 0, Troll) 1262

But it's okay to advise people to commit suicide? Not the sharpest tool in the box are you.

I fview Sarkeesian as a professional victim hustling for funds, and hence the darling of the SJWs who aspire to her level of solvency, but in this particular instance I'd like an explanation for this: http://i.imgur.com/zHPLIan.jpg

Comment Re:What lessons are the video games teaching? (Score 5, Interesting) 1262

I wonder what else will surface in this story?

http://i.imgur.com/zHPLIan.jpg

Oh gosh, look the screenshots of her evidence tweets came twelve seconds after the tweets themselves, from someone who was not logged in and hadn't done a search.

Almost as if she'd created the account, threatened herself, logged out, hit the back button on her browser, and taken the screenshots just in time for the release of her new video. Never you say? What motivation could she possibly have to pull such a damselling fraudulent stunt you ask? Maybe the over €150,000 of donations she got last time perhaps?

Comment Re:This is good! (Score 2) 528

Still pretty awful. This is "teach a man to fish" stuff. The scientific method and critical thinking are basic intellectual tools that everyone should learn at a very young age, not simply to progress their careers but to learn to question the ever increasing torrent of bullshit being disgorged from spheres political and academic, to say nothing of the fourth estate. The only thing that shouldn't be questioned (without plenty of evidence) is the maxim that everything should be questioned.

Comment Re:Impacts (Score 5, Interesting) 708

It was kind of going that way anyhow though, either to a tropical earth or back towards a new ice age. And really given the choice the tropical option is less destrcutive. As I understand it we were in an interglacial until people started digging up sequestered carbon and injecting it into the atmosphere. Either way I don't believe it will be possible to stabilise the climate over the mid to long term, at least not with our current technology, so maybe its best just to prepare to adapt to these changes.

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