Although I do love the arguments SMBC gives: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2535

You can't publish a paper called "We don't know how to simulate a universe".

With any technology we've been able to imagine so far, the computer would need to be vastly larger.

You could've just not talked about it now you know. You have that power.

Well fuck, now I have to start watching Arrow, I guess?

What's there to research? It can be grown by the fuck-ton and people already eat it.

That was the best part of that quote - for most readers here, corn price per bushel is completely meaningless. If you told me it was anywhere from $4 to $80,000 I'd probably believe it. I mean, a bushel is a lot, right?

Is it weird that what bothers me most about Sexy Dolphin Lady up there is that the fluke is just wrong? They basically drew it as a tail - her spine apparently takes a couple of 90 degree turns around the pelvis area.

Is that really a thing that people are against?

You have to give the audience more credit than that. People (in general) are just not that simplistic.

I didn't say I was uncomfortable, I was just saying that the argument the author was making was a massive reach. Mind you, I was talking about that specific argument, not the overall worthiness of that ad, not her views on women, or society, or objectification.

Awesome, let's talk about gun control.

Oh absolutely, in our culture it's a huge thing (that Community bit is an awesome send-up of the fact), it just wasn't a thing in that particular video - perhaps I phrased that poorly.

because LOL Women R So Cute When They Act Stoopid

The term testicle likely evolved from the Latin word testis, a term for someone that witnesses or gives testimony in a legal setting.

Ooh, got my holiday reading (if Amazon restocks it soon, that is).

This sucks, but at least these authors can "come out" once they're more established ("Aha! I was a woman all along - made you read a girl book!").

Depends on how you define "progress". I think we're up to: "A few people claim that it's not absolutely impossible, but they've yet to prove anything."

Evo psych is in the very comfortable place of never being able to actually test their hypotheses.

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