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Hello, In another thread the issue was raised about how public political discourse has become toxic, with radical elements on both sides of the left/right spectrum plunging political debate into a vitriolic farce. Whether it's factions on the right calling people "cucks" left, right, and...

Its quite easy to be pessimistic and a realist, rejecting any utopias as idealism. However I think it is important for people to have some ideals about how society should be. So, what would your ideal society look like? What things would you change or improve? What kind of political system...

Given that the UK is headed for "hard Brexit" based on the vote of 37% or so of the electorate (about 27% of the total population) and America has an actual loon in the White House based on a minority of the popular vote. Do you think modern democracy needs a rethink? I'm currently at work on...

Okay I think we need a positive counterpoint to the things that annoy us thread... 1. Tea. Fuck I love tea. 2. Guitar. No matter how shitty I feel I can always lose myself in guitar and come out feeling better 3. Immersive computer games. I love getting lost in an awesome game world. Pure...

I don't know whether 2016 is just a weird blip that has got me all paranoid and pessimistic, but I feel like things are getting to the make or break point for civilisation. This year saw the world passing the 400ppm CO2 level permanently. Meaning essentially that governments across the world...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-women-comments_us_57f8016de4b0e655eab4148d Its strange that most of the headlines talk about "lewd remarks". To me he unequivocally says he likes to sexually assualt women. They ought to call it what it is! Telling someone you grope women and...

Okay so in the last round 3 contenders all lost with 1 vote each respectively leaving only 2 contenders: Andrew Wakefield Nominated by Rando And Boris Johnson Nominated by he_who_is_nobody Votes close on the 20th of September Choose the winner and debate it out in the comments below!

Okay so the results of round one are in. Donald Trump scored 18% of the vote with a total of 2 votes Dave Murphy scored 0% and is eliminated Mike "Health Ranger" Adams scored 18% with 2 votes Boris Johnson got 18% with 2 votes Andrew Wakefield is the current leader with 36%, 4 votes Keith...

Okay so it's time to vote in round one of the League of Reason's Quack of the Year 2016 Awards. Here are the nominations. You have 2 weeks to get your votes in, the candidate with the least votes is eliminated. THE CANDIDATES Donald Trump Nominated by Prolescum Dave Murphy Nominated by...

I posted a rant in the things that annoy me a little bit thread about people being glued to their phones at inappropriate times. It got me thinking about how so many people just don't have any situational awareness. I'm not proposing that everyone becomes Jason Bourne, that would be a strange...

I don't particularly involve myself with any kind of atheist community other than on here. However I have noticed that since I stopped subscribing to both the Amazing Atheist and Thunderf00t they have both gone balls to the wall anti-feminist. Thunderf00t seems to have developed a drooling...

I'm totally struggling with a problem with javascript. What I am aiming to do is to get today's date in Unix time like this: <i> </i>var today = new Date(); var date = today.getTime(); Then I want to take that date and run it through a function with 'if, else if' statements. Essentially my aim...

Ok so for a bit of fun I thought I would do a Quack of the Year Award, whereby we nominate the most ludicrous inane nonsense and award them with a prestigious title. How's it going to work? - The submissions thread will be open until July 23rd, giving us two months to collect suggestions. -...

Okay so I have the unfortunate circumstance of having a good friend of mine turn around and start spouting flat earth stuff at me. The thing is, to me the earth being round is such a given that I don't even know how to refute the flat earther arguments. One thing I did say though is that it...

Has anyone else seen this yet? I sort of liked it. Ben Affleck as Batman was surprisingly awesome. However there were so many stupid moments that kinda ruined it for me. First off was when Lex Luthor introduced Bruce Wayne to Clark Kent. What was that all about? He's like "you guys should...

I admit instinctively I feel that they are pointless, but that is because I am fortunate enough not to live with PTSD. My gut tells me people should be allowed to speak freely without qualifying everything they say to be completely politically correct. However having thought about it my position...

https://soundcloud.com/laurenssouthgate/sets/dead-circuits Just fiddling about really. I might start sending stuff to Indie game devs to see what happens. Also check out my other music :)

So I like most people in the world saw Star Wars this weekend. I was caught up in the hype, but was also consistently reminding myself of what happened last time I got hyped up about a new Star Wars trilogy. I must say it did not disappoint. It's pretty much a homage to Episode 4 in terms of...

Do you support the move? I'm not a pacifist by any means but I don't think bombing ISIS is the way forward. The first reason is that it is highly probable that people will become radicalised if we drop bombs on them. A highly undesirable outcome. Secondly I do not think we have adequate non...

Link I found this pretty hard to watch, it really made me connect with the humanity of the victims. Obviously I did before but the testimony of the people involved just hit it home for me :cry: