Being a guy, I never know how hard to shake another dude's hand. The goal is obviously for both of you to use the same amount of force, but you never know what the other person is going to do. You really feel like an idiot if you have a limp handshake so then you have to err on the side of breaking their hand and…

I was about to comment and say that the federal government can't mandate what local schools should do, but actually I'm not sure that is the case. They do set some guidelines that are "voluntary" but not really because if you don't abide by them then you don't get federal funding. As far as I know, those are things…

However, while the guidelines are to be mandatory standards of practice in federal prisons and the military, they're considered voluntary in the rest of the country.

Worst Harry Potter fanfic ever.

I skimmed the headings and thought month 10+ was going to be complaining about postterm pregnancies. Get out of there baby, you're done cooking!

I laughed so hard at the "I had a radio show in Canada and played them all the time" guy. Canada, where everyone has a hot girlfriend that totally is real and not made up at all, and also you are a DJ.

Hah, yeah, definitely a misnomer. They are the biggest branch of christianity that doesn't believe in medicine. Again, wikipedia to the rescue: "the word 'science' was appropriated by these groups, as well as by Scientology and Science of Mind, because of the quasi-religious status of science in the 19th and…

I was talking about Christian Scientists, I don't now anything about Jehova's Witnesses. A cursory skimming of wikipedia suggests that Witnesses are just against blood transfusions because the bible specifically prohibits "ingesting blood", which I guess is somehow the same thing as transfusing?

In faith healing, God doesn't do the healing, the people praying do. They believe that when you are sick it is only because your mind or your spirit are "misaligned" and you have sort of convinced yourself that you are sick. This arrises from their belief that we live in the Matrix and our bodies are just illusions.…

It's more like they believe that sickness comes from a lack of faith, and you can heal yourself if you believe harder. They don't think that medicine is bad, just pointless because it doesn't address the "real" problem.

I thought self-medicating with alcohol was totally out of fashion now. Is it cool again? Did I miss the memo?

This article is horribly written, and that makes me angry because gender inequality in tech fields is a really serious problem. It is written in a pointlessly inflammatory way, when really just the actual facts would be enough to get people to care about the subject. It is ridiculous to suggest that any attempt to do…

Okay, yeah, be a dick to me for no reason... awesome. Thanks for making my day a little worse, hope you feel good about it.

I'm saying 1) we can't know for sure if he has an argument or not and 2) even if he has no argument, it doesn't matter. Not sure how that proves your point.

Nice job school, NRA assholes are going to be all over this. Thanks for feeding the trolls.

Mostly because of, you know, freedom of speech. He is almost certainly a giant douche, but unfortunately we have to let giant douches say horrible things sometimes because that's how it works.

He also says the studies, "do not meet ordinary standards for research in social science." I have no idea what that means, and I guess nobody can judge the validity of his claim until he expands on it.

Yeah, but imagine what they would say if this talk was forcibly cancelled.

Those reporters were asking some serious douchebag questions. I feel bad for this guy and his family for what they are going to have to go through after this.

None of this makes any sense to me. He seems like a relatively normal, if troubled, guy. There are probably thousands of people in the US with almost the exact same experience, but none of them decided to blow up people out of nowhere. Why did they do it?