Search results

TL DR: I can recommend you a web fiction to your tastes, or likely assess a (popular) web fiction for you. So web fiction has gotten huge. There's topwebfiction.com that ranks according to aggregate voting, RoyalRoad a website for web fiction serials (also AO3 and others), and plenty of quests...

The people who are vaguely in my social circles and are willing to speak about the issue of gender dysphoria seem to categorically agree on the broad outlines of how it should be handled: Encourage them to live as their chosen gender Convince society to treat them as their chosen gender (e.g...

So I don't really know much about this. Do any of you? I figured maybe one of you would know something about this off the top of your head. Anyone willing to bite? A close friend's therapist is recommending that my friend try this therapy, so naturally I'm going to research the hell out of it...

Thoughts? Opinions? Note: this is all discussion about what you would endorse or would have done in a hypothetical world where nothing is illegal. But in the interest of keeping discussion readable we're going to drop all the "hypothetically" from our sentences, as things like "hypothetically I...

Anyone pick this up? It's a good game. Imperfect, but hopefully they'll finish fixing it up.

I found myself posting these elsewhere... When did I become a commie pig?

Holy fuck this movie is strange. I'm still not sure if I liked what I just watched, or hated it.

So due to some discussion in another thread, I wrote this. Then decided it was really off topic, and could actually possibly be viable as its own topic (we all might learn things). So, in response to Inferno and jenne, I present to you my general method of response.

Thoughts? In my mind it doesn't taste better and isn't sufficient to feed the current population...

TOO LONG DIDN'T READ VERSION: read the bolded bits. I've believed (and said) for a long time that the best (possibly the only) way to get someone "deconvert" from religion/creationism is by tricking them into critically evaluating the evidence themselves. You can critique their evidence all you...

I've noticed recently a few christians who have a "theory" that all deconverts became so because during a "crisis of faith" they turned to talk to non-believers instead of well-informed believers like priests or pastors. Somehow I guess the implication is that they picked a bad awful biased...

I was taught growing up (and I think personally decided) that milk is a bad idea while sick. Primarily that it increases congestion... So now that I'm all grown up and trying to make decisions based on actual evidence, I'm trying to find evidence either way. I can't. Anyone know anything?

I get these christian newsletter things in my email once in a while. Most of the time they're pretty boring; sometimes they are more interesting and I repost (I mean, they are always encouraging me to share so that these magic emails will convert people...). I think this one is particularly...

I get these in my email once in a while. Most of the time they're pretty boring; sometimes they are more interesting and I repost (I mean, they are always encouraging me to share so that these magic emails will convert people...). I like this one because I have half a mind to respond with...

It's been on my mind since I watched shanedk's video about his rules for posting on his channel (essentially a list of things that he feels justify blocking you), and one of them is that you're not allowed to use the word "nigger" or any of its variants. Now I'm not accusing shanedk of being a...

So I randomly get emails from various christian organizations. I tend to keep them because I'm too lazy to unsubscribe, I find them funny, and sometimes I don't want to actively piss someone off. This one sort of leaves me with a "I wonder if he's lying through his teeth" feeling... What you all...

I'd hate to bring up such a contentious topic, but QualiaSoup has posted a very interesting video:

...it must have meaning, even if *some* things don't happen for a reason, this is just too unlikely.... You are not so smart: http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/09/11/the-texas-sharpshooter-fallacy/

Ok it's not really a summary: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/210904 So most of you hate the tea party... What many of you don't know (except maybe Joe, in the case that he remembers) is that I was quite sympathetic to the tea party, at first... I've consistently reminded people...

http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/does-google-censor-tiananmen-square-how-to-create-an-internet-hoax/