FCKGW posted:

I feel like your username is the bizarro world version of mine

edit: you've been here longer. it's me, i'm the bizarro gwbbq

Ghost Leviathan posted:

There are trans and intersex people who like the idea of being sexy and desirable, news at 11.

Badger of Basra posted:

https://twitter.com/chadwick_moore/status/1021538416121573376?s=21

fool_of_sound posted:

Nah, as far as I can tell he's never defended anyone particularly reprehensible. He has libertarian leanings, but generally has good opinions on criminal and social justice.

SpaceGoku posted:

wanna know what kind of chores a three year old has

get that OUT of my face posted:

spicy one regarding bike helmets

https://twitter.com/valeriochang/status/1031107199521751041

Plutonis posted:

seiferguy posted:

https://twitter.com/onlineandnice/s...ingawful.com%2F

quote:

The Album Cover of “Party Music” by the aptly named punk rock band “The Coup”. Party Music CD Design was printed in July and was scheduled for release “after Labor Day” during the week of 9/11/01 – immediately the album was pulled from store shelves on 9/12. (Notice the “Covert Labs” (i.e. CIA Issue) detonator, Soviet “Red Star” or “Red Shield” (Rothschild) logo and the “location” of the explosive charges. Notice also the smug smirk on the bomber’s face. JUST A HARMLESS COINCIDENCE??

Who made the design?

Others have noticed! http://www.boingboing.net/2001/09/15/weve_all_seen_the_bi.html The server-date of the picture is 15 Sept 2001: http://www.well.com/~doctorow/foreseeing_the_future.jpg

Joseance posted:

https://twitter.com/YALiberty/status/1053254716250120192

Joseance posted:

https://twitter.com/FrogAlaPeche/status/1053292517163180033

Flesh Forge posted:

lotta "losing is fun" content going around today

https://twitter.com/DebraMessing/status/1324111840385900546

Milo and POTUS posted:

Yo this is legit disgusting

indigi posted:

the junk food thing is at least partially legit, it’s not even disputed that attaching stigma to certain foods leads to worse decisions. not seeing how it’s anti black though

FFT posted:

"if duterte actually does something wrong"

"if duterte actually does something wrong"

this is the same Duterte that's directly linked to death squads, right

Flesh Forge posted:

yeah I took it that way too, although I think OP is completely right there are gonna be some people ending up with cancer or mutated buttholes or whatever.


we don't even know what the long term effects of the virus itself are going to be (analogues like chicken pox/shingles e.g.) let alone several completely different vaccines. aside from the virus itself being a completely new one in our species, we've never developed a vaccine for any other coronavirus before either. not that I know anything about medicine or vaccines but this is a whole lot of new dice rolling at the same time, it doesn't seem unreasonable that some will come up snake eyes

General Dog posted:

Literally "if he didn't want attention he shouldn't' have dressed like that"

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Harvard Law professor explains that the situation of the Korean "comfort women" was simply a voluntary employer-employee contract

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We in the West have embraced an odd "narrative." The Japanese army of the 1930s and 1940s, we write, forcibly drafted 200,000 mostly Korean teenage girls into "rape camps" called "comfort stations." Should anyone question the story, we summarily consign the person to "denier" status. This makes for a strange phenomenon. Only a few of the comfort women claim to have been forcibly recruited, and several of them had told a different story before the reparations campaign against Japan began. A strongly leftist affiliate runs their nursing home, controls whom they can see, and vilifies any woman who might say anything else. In fact, no one has ever located any documentary evidence that the Japanese military forcibly recruited any Korean woman into a comfort station. And when Korean academics question the orthodox account, their own government sometimes prosecutes them for criminal defamation -- indeed, sent one heterodox professor last fall to six months in prison.

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Through webs of cross-cutting ties, groups can build "social capital" -- the ability to use the resulting access to information and collective punishment to enforce on each other their norms of appropriate behavior. Yet not all minorities maintain such networks. And groups without them sometimes find themselves manipulated by opportunistic entrepreneurs who capture private benefits for themselves while generating massive hostility and (statistical) discrimination against the group as a whole. As one adage puts it, sometimes the worst enemy of a minority group is its own leadership. Consider the Korean residents of Japan. Koreans had begun to migrate to Japan in the 1910s. They were poor, single, male, young, uneducated, and did not intend to stay long. As one might expect given those characteristics, they maintained only very low levels of social capital, and generated substantial (statistical) discrimination against themselves. After the Second World War, most Koreans returned to their homeland. Among those who stayed, however, a self-appointed core of fringe-left opportunists took control and manipulated the group toward their private political ends. Lacking the dense networks that would let them constrain the opportunists, the resident Koreans could not stop them. Those with the most talent, sophistication, and education simply left the group and migrated into Japanese society. The opportunistic leaders exploited the vulnerable Koreans who remained, captured private benefits for themselves, and generated enormous hostility and (statistical) discrimination against the rest.

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Using fourteen government censuses and a wide variety of quantitative historical sources, I trace the origins of the Japanese putative outcastes. Sympathetic scholars have long described the group - called the burakumin - as the descendants of a 17th century leather-workers' guild. Members of the group suffer discrimination because their ancestors handled dead animals, they write, and ran afoul of a distinctively Japanese religious obsession with ritual purity. In fact, the burakumin are not descended from leather-workers. They are descended from poor farmers. Eighteenth-century Japanese would not have discriminated against them out of any concern for ritual purity. They would have discriminated against them because they were poor. The burakumin identity as we know it dates instead from the early 20th century. In 1922, self-described Bolsheviks from the buraku upper class lauched a "liberation" movement. To fit their group within Marxist historiography, they created for it a fictive identity as a leather-workers' guild. Within a few years, however, criminal entrepreneurs from the urban slums had hijacked the new movement. They embarked on full-scale identity politics, and generated the public hostility that has plagued the group ever since. The criminal leadership used discrimination claims to shake down local (and eventually the national) governments for ever-increasing transfer payments. Before the 1920s, prosperous member of the buraku had stayed and helped to build its social and economic infrastructure. After the 1920s, those burakumin who hoped to capitalize on the shakedown strategies continued to stay. Given the public hostility that the criminal leadership generated, however, those who preferred mainstream careers increasingly left and merged into the general public.

V. Illych L. posted:

the real kicker with agencies like the CIA is that they're totally immune to outside scrutiny and do a ton of poo poo which is blatantly illegal and hidden from what internal scrutiny exists. this means that unless they actually die or gently caress up in especially spectacular ways they have no reason to ever learn anything other than how to cover poo poo up

Homeless Friend posted:

*donald trump reading butter battle to children* many sides... many sides folks

gradenko_2000 posted:

fact check: true

Hedenius posted:

https://twitter.com/burgerkinguk/status/1368849338596745223?s=21

When you’re good at PR. lol

Flesh Forge posted:

https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1368937507673546756

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/CPGBML/status/1368954552679071749?s=20

NightGyr posted:

https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/1373985537435037703

Flesh Forge posted:

this man, he has a buttplug shaped head

DACK FAYDEN posted:

whatever happened to Laura "big tits and an ashkenazi IQ" Loomer?

indigi posted:

if it's for "working families" how is it UBI

also who on Earth is proposing a consumer plastics ban lol

exmarx posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_next_general_elections

the 'fairness' column

Milo and POTUS posted:

Kinda embarrassing but the tweets gone and I'm not sure what the other thing is supposed to be

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/raaleh/status/1404925246046715908?s=19

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/NewStatesman/status/1425373952415780867?s=20

quote:

Perhaps one reason we think extinction would be so bad is that we have failed to recognise just how awful extreme agony is. Nevertheless, we have enough evidence, and imaginative capacity, to say that it is not unreasonable to see the pain of an hour of torture as something that can never be counterbalanced by any amount of positive value. And if this view is correct, then it suggests that the best outcome would be the immediate extinction that follows from allowing an asteroid to hit our planet.

Of course, allowing an asteroid to hit the Earth would probably be bad for you and those close to you. But given what’s at stake, it may well be that you should pay these costs to prevent all the suffering. As the philosopher Bernard Williams once said: “[I]f for a moment we got anything like an adequate idea of [the suffering in the world] … and we really guided our actions by it, then surely we would annihilate the planet if we could.”

Atrocious Joe posted:

https://twitter.com/eweissunburied/status/1432792224270483461?s=20

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Traditional knowledge, like oral traditions, is rarely recorded in written form. Experts on oral traditions, such as Glynn Custred, estimate that in less than 1,000 years oral traditions are not likely to contain any factual information. Alexander von Gernet notes “neo-traditions” are invented to create a symbolic link between the past and the present, even when no link exists. Furthermore, oral traditions, and tribal traditional knowledge in general, are awash with tales of creation, mythical creatures and supernatural events. CalNAGPRA chooses religion over science.

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The Tjapwurung, an Aboriginal people in what is now southern Australia, shared the story of this bird hunt from generation to generation across an unbelievably large slice of time — many more millennia than one might think possible. The birds (most likely the species with the scientific name Genyornis newtoni) memorialized in this tale are now long extinct. Yet the story of the Tjapwurung’s “tradition respecting the existence” of these birds conveys how people pursued the giant animals. At the time of this particular hunt, between 5,000 and 10,000 years ago, volcanoes in the area were erupting, wrote amateur ethnographer James Dawson in his 1881 book Australian Aborigines, and so scientists have been able to corroborate this oral history by dating volcanic rocks.

quote:

Like Aboriginal Australians, the Klamath people became literate within the last 200 years or so. Before that, their societies were oral. Information and stories were passed on verbally from one generation to the next. In such societies, two factors generally create the conditions necessary for millennia-long preservation of accurate oral histories: specialized story-keepers and relative cultural isolation.

What are the limits of such ancient memories? For what length of time can knowledge be transferred within oral societies before its essence becomes irretrievably lost? Under optimal conditions, as suggested by science-determined ages for events recalled in ancient stories, orally shared knowledge can demonstrably endure more than 7,000 years, quite possibly 10,000, but probably not much longer.

quote:

In a nutshell, the unique conditions of Australia led to some of the world’s oldest stories. Some recall the time when the ocean surface was significantly lower than it is today, the shoreline was much farther out to sea, and lands now underwater were freely traversed by Australians. These stories are known from perhaps 21 places around the Australian coast, and most are interpreted as memories of the time when sea level was rising after the last great ice age — a process that ended around 7,000 years ago in Australia. Based on the evidence, these oral histories must have been passed down for more than seven millennia.

quote:

Humanity has direct memories of events that occurred 10 millennia ago. This conclusion runs against what many anthropologists and others have inferred about both the factual basis and the longevity of such oral traditions. Science more broadly has generally been dismissive of these, largely considering them anthropological curiosities, minutiae that define particular cultures. Now many of us are forced to look at ancient stories as potentially more meaningful. The preservation of extant oral traditions, in whatever cultures they may still be found, is imperative — they help define us all.

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An ancient oral tradition, passed down for countless generations, tells of how an ancestral creator-being transformed into the fiery volcano, Budj Bim. Almost 40,000 years later, new scientific evidence suggests this long-shared legend of the Dreaming could be much more than a myth.

New mineral-dating measurements conducted by Australian scientists highlight the possibility that the traditional telling of Budj Bim's origins may be an actual account of two historic volcanic eruptions that took place in the region about 37,000 years ago – which, if true, might make this the oldest story ever told on Earth.

"If aspects of oral traditions pertaining to Budj Bim or its surrounding lava landforms reflect volcanic activity, this could be interpreted as evidence for these being some of the oldest oral traditions in existence," the researchers, led by geologist Erin Matchan from the University of Melbourne, write in their study.

quote:

"We in the West have only scratched the surface of understanding the longevity of Australian Indigenous oral histories," archaeologist Ian McNiven from Monash University told Science.

The findings are reported in Geology.

Megillah Gorilla posted:

More like anthrapologists, am I rite?

Apologists for desecrating human remains and cultural artefacts with no regard to the extant peoples of those cultures.

EDIT: But seriously, I'm in STEM and all pro-science and all, but just take some drat photos and return them back to the people you stole them from.

Science doesn't give you carte blanche to be a turd. Maybe try being respectful and asking next time.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

This person is a literal phrenologist btw

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/thebirdmaniac/status/1442288178971303936

https://twitter.com/thebirdmaniac/status/1442293191667978240

She's mad that her phrenology collection is getting taken away

Flesh Forge posted:

it's a joke

Atrocious Joe posted:

https://twitter.com/SomeHeckle/status/1436089564930654210?s=20

Never though I'd see someone advocate for the genocide of Armenians in order to fight fascism.