ToxicSlurpee posted:

It's one of those instances where the idea is fantastic but the execution is lazy. On the spectrum of good art to bad art I'd say it's mediocre. It would have worked far better as a painting with distorted forms and dissonant colors.

Eh! Frank posted:

STDH, but not in the way I was expecting (showed up in my facebook feed after a former coworker girl Liked it):

This was posted with the comment "The feels on the bus go round and round", and many of the comments were about how sad (depressing sad, not pathetic sad) and romantic it is.

Knormal posted:

At last, a way to find someone to celebrate anniversary naps with!

Boywhiz88 posted:

And it's the loving best needlessly confusing. LoB posts some gems

Arcsquad12 posted:

So Carrie Fisher talks about how hollywood has not changed its stance on making actors conform to beauty standards, and talks about how she was told she needed to lose weight to play Leia again. I think its pretty understandable to be annoyed at how the industry dictates what your body should look like. Naturally, the people in the comments don't see it the same way and start ripping her apart for having an opinion.
http://www.people.com/article/carrie-fisher-weight-loss-star-wars?xid=socialflow_facebook_peoplemag

trickybiscuits posted:

Heh, that girl is me in e/n threads started by guys complaining about how they can't get sex or girlfriends. I've offered at least twice to be some guy's girlfriend (while clarifying that I'm neither attractive nor nice and will never actually touch them) and they never answer.

Practical Demon posted:

Really? All he ever posts are far right wing screeds/long schizophrenic rants that are barely even connected to anything else being talked about in the thread. I know it's him posting within the first few words, even without seeing his av.

Takoluka posted:

Off-topic, but an acquaintance of mine's girlfriend has no job, lives with him and his parents, and isn't physical with him at all. We don't think we've ever seen them hold hands in public. They've been together for years, so at least *one* person in the world is apparently okay with this scenario.

BlankIsBeautiful posted:

God, the artifacts.



How does this even work? I mean, couldn't bankruptcy be considered a financial breakthrough?

Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:

How did they even artifact this so bad? I've played with generation loss and even twelve steps in I've never gotten it this heavy.

Blind Pineapple posted:

china bot posted:

E: Anyone have a subscription here?: http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/23/6/454.full.pdf

quote:

Deary, Batty, and Gale (2008a) and Schoon, Cheng, Gale, Batty, and Deary (2010) investigated the prospective association between general intelligence in childhood (ages 10 and 11, respectively) and a combined social-attitude measure of racism, social conservatism, and gender inequality in adulthood (ages 30 and 33, respectively), using large representative U.K. samples. Their results confirmed that children higher in mental ability were less likely to endorse socially conservative ideologies in adulthood. A reanalysis by Hodson and Busseri (2012) tested the effect of intelligence specifically on racial prejudice and found that greater general intelligence in childhood predicted less racism in adulthood (average correlation approximately −.22). Although cognitive ability conceptually and statistically predicts lower SES and education (Deary et al., 2008a; Schoon et al., 2010), direct predictive effects of cognitive ability on social attitudes remain after controlling for SES, education, and social background (see also Hodson & Busseri, 2012), ruling out these potential confounds.

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Right-wing ideologies offer well-structured and ordered views about society that preserve traditional societal conventions and norms (e.g., Jost, Glaser, Kruglanski, & Sulloway, 2003). Such ideological belief systems are particularly attractive to individuals who are strongly motivated to avoid uncertainty and ambiguity in preference for simplicity and predictability ( Jost et al., 2003; Roets & Van Hiel, 2011). Theoretically, individuals with lower mental abilities should be attracted by right-wing social-cultural ideologies because they minimize complexity

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Given the established relations between lower mental ability and adherence to socially conservative right-wing ideologies and between right-wing ideologies and prejudice, it is conceivable that mental abilities predict prejudice through socially conservative right-wing ideologies.

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Deary, I. J., Batty, G. D., & Gale, C. R. (2008a). Bright children become enlightened adults. Psychological Science, 19, 1–6.
Hodson, G., & Busseri, M. A. (2012). Bright minds and dark attitudes: Lower cognitive ability predicts greater prejudice through right-wing ideology and low intergroup contact. Psychological Science, 23, 187–195.
Jost, J. T., Glaser, J., Kruglanski, A. W., & Sulloway, F. (2003). Political conservatism as motivated social cognition. Psychological Bulletin, 129, 339–375.
Roets, A., & Van Hiel, A. (2011). Allport’s prejudiced personality today: Need for closure as the motivated cognitive basis of prejudice. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26, 349–354.
Schoon, I., Cheng, H., Gale, C. R., Batty, G. D., & Deary, I. J. (2010). Social status, cognitive ability, and educational attainment as predictors of liberal social attitudes and political trust. Intelligence, 38, 144–150.

DudeGoofyGuy posted:

I have used the Silent Hill wiki before to remind myself of information between episodes of a Voidburger LP, and it is sad and strange (but not surprising once thought about) that the people who have memorized every detail about a series of games might also have other interests that they are a little too obsessive with.

Cumslut1895 posted:

given that so many of the cloned troops died, you'd think it would be logical that the empire would start to recruit soldiers from it's territory

paradoxGentleman posted:

It's hard for me to notice stereotypes like these, because the ones diffused here in Italy are sort of different (we don't have the "asians are smart" one but we do add "they have no hygiene" and "there are no Chinese funerals") but man, I feel like I should have noticed some of these.

She seemed more like a generic Love Interest to me.

Fathis Munk posted:

I really never got why those people are so afraid of colored people. As a white guy I can't say anyone ever stole my job or my woman or my heritage. And I mean it's not like our society has become biased in favor to POCs, on the contrary we haven't even reached equality yet. I'm working in academia and boy are POCs underrepresented at work.

Krypt-OOO-Nite!! posted:

Honestly as a white guy I find it embarrassing how few main characters in movies aren't white dudes, so I just don't get these teats crying about the one movie were the main guys aren't white dudes.

Sarcopenia posted:

Because representation matters. I remember reading Harry Potter as a young child and being really bummed out when I found out Hermione wasn't a mixed girl like myself, because that was what I enthusiastically had made my brain think she was.

Sarcopenia posted:

It's also hosed up for someone like J.K. Rowling who's really into names having meaning to them to just plop a Korean name onto a Chinese girl.

Gross Dude posted:

Yes, that is probably what the fictional parents of a fictional child did outside of the fictional story.

The Saddest Rhino posted:

Probably fake news but lol at the url

Question Mark Mound posted:

Also that's a phrase not a thing.

cash crab posted:

Question: Do sites that share images like "SHARE IF U AGREE" get some kind of ad revenue based on shares and likes?

Arcsquad12 posted:

Won't somebody please think of poor miss Poly Styrene?

goose fleet posted:

paradoxGentleman posted:

I'm sorry to be That Guy but I do not get this one.

MAKE NO BABBYS posted:

Rarely do we need to go build poo poo, what we need is repair, maintenance and revitalization of our rapidly crumbling and underfunded/overtaxed infrastructure.

Stuntman posted:

one of these things is not like the other

Breetai posted:

If you can't cook and are proud of it, regardless of gender, you have no culture and should subsist on nothing but Soylent brand cumshakes until the heavy metals in it solve your problem for you.

Krispy Kareem posted:

The Guardian newspaper actually got a look at their supplies:

Bundy has repeatedly said the group is prepared for the long-haul. However during a tour of the site on earlier in the day, the Guardian was shown a food storage room that did not look like it could sustain a dozen men for more than a few weeks.

It included a cardboard box of apples and oranges, a few dozen pots of instant ramen, 24 cans of chicken noodle soup, a similar number of cans of sweetcorn, peas, beans and chili, and 20 boxes of macaroni and cheese.

There were also three sacks of potatoes, one bag of flour, another of rolled oats, boxes of raisins, a single bag of pretzels and one granola bar.

Goosed it. posted:

But what were they going to mix with the flour? They literally can't make anything except some sort of water-flour paste.

ihatechesspieces posted:

quote:

You're sound asleep when you hear a thump outside your bedroom door.
Half-awake, and nearly paralyzed with fear, you hear muffled whispers.
At least two people have broken into your house and are moving your way.
With your heart pumping, you reach down beside your bed and pick up your shotgun.
In the darkness, you make out two shadows.
One holds something that looks like a crowbar.
When the intruder brandishes it as if to strike, you raise the shotgun and fire.
The blast knocks both thugs to the floor.
One writhes and screams while the second man crawls to the front door and lurches outside.
Police arrive and inform you that the second burglar has died.
They arrest you for First Degree Murder and Illegal Possession of a Firearm.

quote:

The next day, the shooting is the lead story in the local newspaper. Somehow, you're portrayed as an eccentric vigilante

Boz0r posted:

I'm not a native english speaker, but when he says "been sat at the computer", isn't that like someone put you there? Like your parents put you in the chair and ordered you to play games?

trapped mouse posted:

"I will not listen to any news source that doesn't constantly and unrelentingly insult the party that I don't like."

I'm a pretty hardcore liberal, but I'm not gonna cover my ears every time people start talking about political strategies for the right, especially because she's talking about a fairly liberal public access station. Also lol at "white liberal complacency" she's white

NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:

American politics is easier to understand once you realise that "liberal" and "conservative" are just words for "goodie" and "baddie", the application of which depends on your own personal outlook.

Tiberius Thyben posted:

In all fairness, libertarians are liberals. Then again, so are most American conservatives, so.

tramsosMAI posted:

So I said to myself "there's no way this whole health campaign actually happened without ANYONE knowing the connotations of 'the D', right? That couldn't have happened"... then my uncle told me (a teacher) to give my students Ds and frankly I laughed forever.

Perry Normal posted:

I don't know if Blue is a glutton for punishment or if he just has the patience of whatever's Islam's equivalent of Job is.

subpar anachronism posted:

How can you tell if someone is a vegan? Wait for them to constantly post on facebook about how hard it is to be an upstanding, harassed vegan.

Lottery of Babylon posted:

The only thing that scares me about babies is how angry I get around them. Their screams make me so angry...like violently angry. Eve their "happy sounds" like giggles and babbling make me feel like that. It's scary how I go from a normal person to feeling like that within less than a minute.

baby cries alone significantly increased [testosterone] in men when no nurturant response was possible

As predicted, an increase in testosterone was associated with greater anger.

paradoxGentleman posted:

????
this cannot seriously be a thing

Serperoth posted:

Isn't one of them advocating that rape should be legal as long as it's on private property or something?

Scathach posted:

poptart_fairy posted:

Drinking too much can lead to people making silly decisions.

poptart_fairy posted:

OK, but Tiggum is going mental over the posted image.