You wouldn't say studying buddhism >>> becoming a buddhist?

You can dodge it, you can flick it away with your wand, it varies in effectiveness depending on your state of mind, you have to be able to speak clearly to use it, and be holding your wand, pointed at the person, and if you are nudged or knocked over in the second or so it takes to say it, it doesn't work.... no. An…

They capably address this in The Dresden Files. A person tells Harry Dresden (a powerful wizard) that if he ever went evil, he'd take him out with a rifle shot from half a mile away, and he notes that he would be unconscious (and very dead) from the impact long before he could even twitch to throw up any sort of magic…

(by becoming a buddhist)

Because in a thread like that, or a community like that, one upmanship and victimhood reign supreme. Being a victim = sympathy, attention, support, and (fake) bonding. You can go on a cancer support board, anonymously claim to have some kind of gnarly stage 4 cancer, and get all the attention, messages, love and…

"Credibly".

This is most assuredly NOT what has happened.

IHTM: I was a captive in a dungeonAND I got cancer AND I was fatshamed AND I lost my hair.

I think he was pointing a stupid saying that is factually inapplicable, and if everyone just keeps going along with it, sooner or later people will start beliving it.

Like "blind as a bat".

Can we just lock the radfems and MRA's in a tiny, soundproofed room and come back in a year and see what's left?

It's really gross when they end up on fark (and others)and then all the commentators talk about all the nasty things they want to do to the subjects.

Also, the bots that make these ads cull the images and they will never, ever, ever go away. It's like trying to track down an individual dollar bill a year later, if it…

It's "Well you aren't talking about this, and until you are you need to shut up", when the speaker really isn't interested in doing anything about this, they just want you to shut up because the status quo suits them fine.

Tillansia (sp?), and the orchids and other "air plants" actually have very highly adapted leave and root structures that trap dead leaves and other debris to get their trace minerals and other micronutrients.

You are just using the micronutrients from the bulb. It's just cellulose and water you are eating.

Plants get nutrients>You get nutrients eating them.

Except "find out the best value for pizza per square" was a grade school math activity.

No, it's just a basic geometry lesson that really goes without saying. It's as if a blog post telling people that turning off lights before you leave a room to save energy went viral.

Also; I much less angry than everyone seems to think I am. I just like swearing and am passionate. Mostly about hating on stupidity.

Only because I have seen this 5 times on my facebook feed, and now at 7 blog posts.

Holy shit. Did this stupid basic lesson in economy and geometry have to be reposted by ever goddamn blog on the internet?

She does claim to commune with beautiful interdimensional aliens, by astrally projecting, and will charge you to teach you how. Seriously.

Fair enough.

"Viscous Harpy" is a most delightful image.