Great zinger you're delivering there to all those "moderate" muslims living all around the world who, while not publicly stoning women to death, are surely doing evil things like eating kittens in their homes and mosques. And conflating "craziness" with a mental health condition that, while having the potential to be…

Exactly. If someone takes this guy out back and shoots him, said murderer would be firmly in the wrong... but I'd totally understand why they did it, and I wouldn't be shedding any tears. Of course we don't know if he's guilty... and there's a part of me that thinks, even if he is, that anyone who could do this to…

Well this is one of the benefits of drug legalisation - you can at least regulate these things. They definitely do need to have clear labelling about the dosages of cannabis in edibles, hell, they should really be labelling the amounts of THC, CBD and CBN in these things. The best weed I ever had was, at least…

Wasn't that always a danger with edibles, though? It doesn't really matter much how strong your weed is, cooking gives you the ability to concentrate it into an extremely strong form. Take a bunch of really weak weed, cook it up in some butter or whatever, and even if it's the most ridiculously weak weed... cook a few…

Cases like this make it incredibly difficult for me to stick to my principles that the death penalty is always wrong under any circumstances, and that prison should focus heavily on rehabilitation rather than punishment even for the worst criminals. Especially given that I suffered... similar kinds of abuse at the…

You heard it here first - making bathrooms safer for gender-nonconforming people will lead to RACIAL APARTHEID (insert dramatic musical sting)! Also, possibly some dogs and cats will start cohabiting.

This is THE EXACT image I was just about to post! So glad I scrolled down many times to check thoroughly that I wasn't being redundant!

I'm not going to flush. Let them see the wrath of the Monarch!

The Google thing doesn't seem creepy, especially given that they were only scanning their own services running on their own computers (specifically, GMail). If they started remotely scanning all Android phones, that would start to get into the realm of creepiness. This case, there just aren't enough details given to…

Well here in the UK, the reigning monarch traditionally sends out a "happy birthday" telegram to all citizens who reach their hundredth birthday, and I strongly suspect this is to prevent them from turning into zombies.

Perhaps we should rename "Arabic numerals" to "Freedom numerals". You know, just to be on the safe side.

The common thread being that they're people who don't think the ends always justify the means? Or are creeped out by the implications of just how much surveillance we're under? I'm afraid I'm gonna have to side with "those" people and agree, as much as we despise the terrorists and the paedophiles we can't go saying…

Minor nitpick - would've been nice if your second quote from the article included the bit explaining what this mysterious 2009 decree that Yair cited was (that until 2009 the President only adopted Catholic boys under this tradition). Or perhaps instead of writing "The practice was later extended to include girls,…

or whether or not one of the kids is going to ... declare themselves gay

Whereas I'm great with those logicy things... in theory... but I can't concentrate long enough or think clearly enough to actually apply the hypothetical potential that's there in any truly meaningful way. The universe has a nasty sense of humour!

I'm... sorry, but what? I can't even begin to understand how you're picking up either of those meanings behind what I said. It's like we're reading two entirely different pieces of text, as if two parallel universes had accidentally collided and you were replying to alternate universe goateed Dopamine Girl's posts.…

Well like I said, it's a woman's right to abort for any reason she feels is valid. I might feel some disgust at the idea of a woman choosing to terminate a disabled foetus because she feels a disabled life has less value, if it was a prejudicial decision akin to a homophobic mother terminating a gay foetus (your…

Except that we don't just feel our lives have value on a personal level. We also feel that our existence positively contributes to society. We're able to think in ways, and offer perspectives, that don't come easily to non-autistics (and, obviously, vice versa). Autism isn't like depression, where the only effect is a…

...Um, yeah. I'm not saying anything that contradicts that. If a woman can't handle having a baby for financial reasons, reasons to do with her own mental health, whatever makes her unable to handle it, it's absolutely her choice. What I was arguing against was the notion of aborting a foetus that tests positive for…

Well, first of all... at the risk of once again bringing it up, the autistic community has certain humour tropes. Sometimes self-deprecating ones. This one is along the lines of "if a dyslexic has to correct a non-dyslexic's spelling...", and it wasn't intended to be taken entirely seriously. Humour defuses tension,…