Thank you for leading me to find this book. I will enjoy reading it.
psyklax
joined 8 months ago
"I don't personally understand it, therefore God did it" (Argument from Ignorance, or God of the Gaps fallacy)
I hear this with regard to evolution, chemistry, bacteria, weather. They don't know how something works, that's proof enough for them. Eventually they say "then how was the universe created? There had to have been a creator!" (First cause argument) Or "The eye is so complicated, it had to be designed" (Watchmaker Fallacy)
I used to listen to The Atheist Experience podcast, but it got repetitive hearing the same arguments from religious people, over and over. I also didn't like how mean the hosts could get sometimes, but I understand their frustration..
Places of employment are a dictatorship with strong coercion to behave as though you do not have freedom.
(I have to caveat this thing I say all the time, "a job is like slavery" because someone always pops in to let me know I could leave my job any time... )
And linux should rebrand away from the penguin... /sarcasm!/
(Edit:) I gotta stop commenting based on headlines before reading the article. I'm sorry for assuming the article was about a rebrand to a new logo, as that is what the headline strongly implies.
Join the Bernie Militia.
That's MY personal computer! I don't know you!
On the internet, nobody knows you're a centaur.
Great article, some good things to read about for once.
Crazy juxtaposition there with the nazi who killed one man and injured two others, got charged with assault, sentenced to two years. Then the antifascist who came to the defense of someone who was being beaten, using a knife to cut two people (and not kill them?) but got sentenced to 20 years.
For some great information on this subject, check out Rachel Maddow's Ultra.
Particularly this part:
By that time, McCormick’s group, For America, had been promoting a wild election gambit, to qualify their own electors in multiple states to try to insert chaos into the count of the Electoral College.
Looks real familiar, doesn't it? They tried to get Joseph McCarthy elected with an "alternate slate of electors"
Also featured, actual nazis behind McCarthy.
As the refrain goes: You first, Larry. Show us all of your data and then we can talk
Cops did not need to be in her house in the first place. They refused to investigate what she called them for (suspicious person in her yard). That should have been the end of the interaction. They had no business inside the house.