🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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That sounds like a good start.
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At least, that's what I've heard. These nut job "scientists" need to get their stories straight.
Listen, we already knew that. Some of the same people who are today screeching about global warming were, in the 70s, worrying about a new ice age coming. Looks like they were right, then, but wrong on the timing.
Amazingly, their solution was exactly the same: give the grifters at the UN all kinds of money, some of which will theoretically make it to people in Bangladesh to compensate them for not being allowed to have electricity.
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Was that just a QFT you forgot to put the QFT in?
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I'll be more interested to hear what they have to say when they can even figure out the sign of the effect of clouds on climate sensitivity.
As of this weekend, idiots like RFK Jr were still saying that glowball warmening is real. Psst, dumbass, you have to call it CAGW now.
He was also employing the already-debunked canard that claims the satellite record is wrong: there's still global warming, it's just going into the oceans where it's too deep to find. It's like Carl Sagan's invisible dragon. Someone should put that on a VHS cassette and slap Neil DeGrasse Tyson upside the head with it.
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She changed "scientists" to "science journalists." More of a FTFY that really just focused on another point.
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Ah. Same thing, just substitute the acronym.
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That article is epic. She thinks her snowflake is a future world leader. She complains about the lack of disrespect[1] she was treated to because the teacher didn't want to teach 7 year olds how to please a vagina. And then she shows her totalitarian bent by saying she hopes the teacher marries someone who beats her every night (no, she actually used those exact words!).
[1] Insert that "no, you moron, apes read Nietsche, they just don't understand it" quote from A Fish Called Wanda here.
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Well, it wasn't really a FTFY, but rather me highlighting that journalists are often TRWTF.
I don't disagree that there are scientists who cause unnecessary panic and do research wrong.
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Well, it wasn't really a FTFY, but rather me highlighting that journalists are often TRWTF.
So wait, you missed an opportunity for snark against someone else? You Must Be New Here.
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And that's definitely a bad idea.
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That $@¡3@€¥ing "N new or updated topic(s). Click to show." notification that guarantees that you'll misclick shit whenever it appears - which it does frequently, and typically whenever I try to middleclick on a topic.
Also, it's not even a normal link or button, but just a damn
div
with some onclick shit, which also makes it unselectable with the keyboard selection in Vimperator (f
+ link/button/... number).(I'm sure this was mentioned previously, but it's starting to seriously bug me.)
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I posted a bug on Meta about that and it got changed to a "Feature Request" and practically ignored.
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Yeah, I was sure that I had seen somebody else mention this. I guess I could have search... ah, never mind, that would have just led to further aggravation. :-/
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Here it is, perhaps it needs some bumping. Also some JDGI moments...let's fix the UI moving around under the user's mouse by having it move around under the user's mouse in a different way!
https://meta.discourse.org/t/dedicated-layout-space-for-the-blue-bar/19435
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Yeah, I created the topic here on that one.
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Fine Free Week - Free speeding and parking in Belgium for a week!
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Fine Free Week - Free speeding and parking in Belgium for a week!
I was going to say that sounded like a really bad idea, then I noticed what topic it's posted in. I need more caffeine.
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During the summer, the Constitutional Court ruled that in future police personnel will not be able to before the age of 62.
Oh wow. They aren't able to ? They really should strike!
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They really should strike!
Which always does wonders in finding more of someone else's money to spend.
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I was going to say that sounded like a really bad idea, then I noticed what topic it's posted in. I need more caffeine.
Having a high amount of blood in your caffeine stream is definitely a Bad Idea™
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http://hr.umich.edu/stopabuse/resources/definitions.html
Sexual violence
Examples of sexual violence include: discounting the partner's feelings regarding sex; criticizing the partner sexually; touching the partner sexually in inappropriate and uncomfortable ways; withholding sex and affection; always demanding sex; forcing partner to strip as a form of humiliation (maybe in front of children), to witness sexual acts, to participate in uncomfortable sex or sex after an episode of violence, to have sex with other people; and using objects and/or weapons to hurt during sex or threats to back up demands for sex.
Say what?
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While at least some of the "forcing partner to ..." stuff is actually violent, most of the other is not. Some of it is abusive, but not violent. Some of it is being a [genital-vulgar-either gender], but not really abusive. Criticism, if done gently and constructively to improve mutual satisfaction, is a good thing. (I know that's not what they mean, but their language includes that within their definition of "violence," too.)
Filed under: My ex-wife is guilty of "sexual violence" against me.
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I was really referring to the stuff I emphasized. Though there's probably more there that are WTFs when categorized as sexual violence.
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It's like physical violence including the lack of any physical contact.
Brb gonna go press assault charges on everyone who hasn't hit me.
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touching the partner sexually in inappropriate and uncomfortable ways;
Umm... "touching the partner sexually in inappropiate ways" is kinda what sex is.
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Say what?
Minitru would like to have a word with you:
War is peace.
Ignorance is strength.
That other one.
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Umm... "touching the partner sexually in inappropiate ways" is kinda what sex is.
That's a rather creepy thing to say.
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Filed under: My ex-wife is guilty of "sexual violence" against me.
I'm pretty sure it won't work that way:
http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/not-all-men-are-sexy/1092/545?u=antiquarian
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Maciejasjmj:
Umm... "touching the partner sexually in inappropiate ways" is kinda what sex is.That's a rather creepy thing to say.
"Is sex dirty? Yes, if you're doing it right."
-- Woody Allen
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It's like physical violence including the lack of any physical contact.
In the context of "sexual violence", the lack of sex is considered abuse in the way that neglect is considered abuse.
Neglecting to feed your children is abuse because they have no other (official) way of getting food.
Is neglect ever considered abuse for adults, though? Maybe if there's an understanding that one has no other (official) way to receive certain kinds of attention (e.g. when married)?
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Is neglect ever considered abuse for adults, though?
Elder abuse — there are surely some circumstances where neglect would qualify.
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Elder abuse — there are surely some circumstances where neglect would qualify.
I don't think the ones @Bort seems to think about do...
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In the context of "sexual violence", the lack of sex is considered abuse in the way that neglect is considered abuse.
It seems like it could be a form of emotional abuse. But when it's called Sexual Violence, the only violence going on is toward the English language.
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It seems like it could be a form of emotional abuse. But when it's called Sexual Violence, the only violence going on is toward the English language.
Yeah, abuse != violence, TYVM. One involves a physical act, the other need not.
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One involves a physical act
I can see classifying a threat of violence with actual violence, but in general,
abuse != violence
this.
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withholding sex
I'll informatie the wife she's abusing me ...
Thanks to @boomzilla I'm sure to get something ... A bash on my head most likely ....
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Withholding sex as a punishment can be a good way to enhance the effects of emotional abuse, and it would be considered sexual abuse probably. Really, the problem is substituting the word "violence" for the word "abuse", since most of those things are abusive but not violent. Pretty much all of them except "forcing partner to [...] participate in [...] sex after an episode of violence" and "using objects and/or weapons to hurt during sex" could be debatably excluded fro the definition of "violence" but all of them are or can be abusive.
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Totalitarians regularly change the meanings of words to deliberately engender such confusion.
Scratch a leftist (notice I didn't say liberal), find a totalitarian.
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Scratch a leftist (notice I didn't say liberal), find a totalitarian.
There is the concept that's been going around for a while that puts left/right on a perpendicular axis to authoritarian/anti-authoritarian. But the left/antis are usually useless armchair anarchists that everyone can successfully ignore (unless they're scared of knitted yoghurt, authentic non-dyed Peruvian fairtrade cotton cardigans and rope sandals).
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There is the concept that's been going around for a while that puts left/right on a perpendicular axis to authoritarian/anti-authoritarian.
I have no data to back this up, but I think there's positive correlation (not 1, of course; probably nowhere near it) between distance right/left of center and authoritarianism. The farther from center, the more force is required to get people to cooperate with your unpopular ideas.
knitted yoghurt
WTF? Sounds... messy.
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Wow! That's the HR version of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act .
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to have sex with other people
In summary:
- Sexual violence describes any statement that could be rephrased to contain the word "sex".
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I have no data to back this up, but I think there's positive correlation (not 1, of course; probably nowhere near it) between distance right/left of center and authoritarianism. The farther from center, the more force is required to get people to cooperate with your unpopular ideas.
Not really. It's just that you can't make any kind of headway without having some authoritarian-ness about you; you have to be at least partially hegemonic (to use a Gramscian term) to govern successfully for any length of time. One of the simpler ways to do that is through force and terror, though that's not particularly long-term effective by comparison with persuading the majority of people that willingly supporting the state is the correct thing to do. In social terms, what the majority of people think is true defines where the centre is, and there are many possible stable configurations. (Or are they just meta-stable? Hmmm.)“Knitted yoghurt” is a shorthand concept for the ineffectual useless tendency that makes up a large fraction of the left. They'll go out and hug a tree or like a facebook campaign, but only if it's like OK with people and totally not intending to impose their views on anyone else. They can be safely ignored. (The term actually refers to home-made yoghurt of decidedly inferior quality.)
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But the left/antis are usually useless armchair anarchists that everyone can successfully ignore
Of course, many on the left claim to be anti-authoritarian. Right before they tell you that corporations need to be reigned in and tried for treason when they move operations to another country.
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Of course, many on the left claim to be anti-authoritarian. Right before they tell you that corporations need to be reigned in and tried for treason when they move operations to another country.
Whereas the right love to be keen on reining (*ahem*) in those free associations of private individuals who just happen to want to club together for improved negotiating ability, i.e., the unions.
Do you mind if I bring popcorn for this flamewar? It seems like a shame to waste all that heat…
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@Intercourse said:
Auto-scroll, on a shitty page with a shitty font and no whitespace, and no way to override it.
Feature: Viewer unnecessary.
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Whereas the right love to be keen on reining (ahem) in those free associations of private individuals who just happen to want to club together for improved negotiating ability, i.e., the unions.
Even many on the left are realizing that the laws we have for unionization are retarded. But a lot of the anti-union sentiment on the right is due to the effect unions have had on industries and the compulsion that the Wagner Act imposes.
And public sector unions are a beast that even FDR realized was beyond the pale. It's an official system of corruption and self licking ice cream cones. It's been interesting watching Wisconsin tame their public sector unions.
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