As long as you aren't Native American you could come on up to Canada. In Winnipeg we don't have a lot of black people but I think they get treated pretty okay.

If you're Native, Canadians treat ya pretty bad though.

Usually people are kind to people they work with. I am not surprised you are not familiar with that concept as you just used the word rube non-ironically, and I think I can tell a lot about you from that.

They mentioned he wasn't much of a scientist. Their goal is also to focus more time on lesser known characters in the history of science instead of being just another show talking about Galileo and Da Vinci.

Also Macfarlane essentially paid for it, and used his pull with Fox to get the show made, he wasn't writing for it. Brannon Braga from Star Trek is the director, Carl Sagan's Widow, a couple other former writers of the original Cosmos, and Neil deGrasse Tyson worked on it. It's also absolutely delightful.

I really don't see that much wrong with SRS. They're extreme, and a circle-jerk, echo-chamber, but they're at least in on the joke. And Reddit is so awful with misogyny, racism and just general shitty-ness that its nice to see it get called out sometimes.

Doxxing pedophiles is hardly the most evil demonic thing in the world that the rest of reddit makes it out to be. Anonymous does it and reddit loves them.

I don't go on SRS or really have any connection to them but it seems from the very limited knowledge I have of them but I get the feeling that all the hate is more likely from Reddit's anti-feminism circle-jerk than from anything intrinsically bad about them.

Feel free to prove me wrong, you guys may know more about it than I do.

To be fair your picture has absolutely nothing to do with 4chan (although I admit they could easily do something like that).

As you say elsewhere in the thread:

There are three kinds of anonymity:

- total anonymity. This is what you get at 4chan. You post something, nobody knows where it's from.

- transitory anonymity. This is a blog comment with a throwaway name, or a Youtube comment. You can own your comments, but there's no reputation, there's no accountability.

- conditional anonymity. This is what you get at Hubski, at Reddit, at eBay. You are anonymous, but your alias is not. There are consequences to your persona for misbehavior. There's a bifurcation between your "real life" and your "internet life" that forms a Chinese Wall between the two, preventing blowback from one injuring the other, but you are vulnerable to attack.

This was on reddit, not 4chan. So an example of conditional anonymity, not total anonymity. I don't think the problem is total anonymity, the problem is that people on the computer think they're safe and they can be an asshole. I see people ALL THE TIME say the most horrible things on facebook to groups and things like that, thats not anonymous at all.

How is SA = SRS?

Branching Nintendo games to smartphones would be the worst possible thing Nintendo could do. Right now they make some of the highest quality games. There problem is a marketing problem not a device problem. Games on smartphones couldn't live up to anywhere near their potential. As well they would have to join the horrible trends of micropayments and 99 cent games or ads in games. Luckily I don't think Nintendo will ever do this.

They need to market the Wii U better, its a solid system but there was some confusion about whether it was just a new type of wii or what have you.

They are in my opinion the only console worth buying, (assuming you have a half decent computer). And the only one that keeps gaming on the couch with your friends. That is the heart of nintendo and they have to focus on that.

As a fellow Canadian I couldn't agree more with the political sentiment. I like the NDP although I liked them more under Layton, but I think the NDP and Liberal party are just not different enough to demand two parties. Especially with how our political system works, and the fact that there is one right-wing party. I hate the idea that the two left wing parties could potentially get a huge majority of the popular vote, but because of how our ridings are set up they could lose.

I understand that, although for discussing and sharing I like this kind of article because it can be used as an easy link to spark discussion, instead of telling people on here or Facebook to search for a certain Hashtag, which I know they won't do.

Fuck that bullshit. This is America speak fucking English #ThanksObama #fuckcoke

I feel like that has to be satire...

I hope that has to be satire...

Please let it be satire...

I like this map. The good ol' Hobo-Dyer. Fair in terms of area for each country, doesn't make Greenland look the same size as Africa, or Australia look massive.

The first one is my favorite. I love that kind of level of craziness on internet comments. He feels no need to back up his claims whatsoever, just expects people to either believe him and change their whole outlook on life, or to already know that since it is obvious and important.

I was going to say that but I didn't want to offend you so I erased "Oh Huff Po".

The comments are absolute gold

1)

The Allies of Humanity have been monitoring the Alien Presence in our World for over 20 years, They have had this happen in their worlds and wish to Warn Humanity, They can not interfere as this would once again put their worlds in jeopardy. They have given Humanity a set of Briefings To Warn, Prepare and Protect our Race, World and Solar system. The Briefings are free.. http://alliesofhumanity.org, there is so much more to the bigger picture of what is really going on. Worth Investigating.

2)

I know that this seems crazy, but perhaps within the interior of every star is a hole in space through which we may transmit a modulated beam of energy that transmits to every other star in our universe in real time.. Perhaps these starivores are advanced hyper-space transceivers. We should be transmitting and receiving intelligent galactic messages to and from our Sun if this is true. Our Sun could be one big energy beam radio transceiver. All we need to do is separate the modulated energy beams from the natural energy pulses coming from our Sun.

3)

Vidal sounds good to me, Civilizations that have advanced well passed a Type 1 civilization. He calls these hypothetical civilizations starivores. I believe in God and I believe that when we leave we will be assigned to a planet (place) to live and work according to our work or sins on earth.

Oh Internet.

I'm currently reading Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan. It is fantastic. I just finished Cosmos (the book) by him as well. It makes me want to drop everything in my life and become a scientist.

You are very easily offended. I just think that having a kid shouldn't be something that you seem relatively uninterested in. I'm not saying that you have to go into "OH SHIT LIFECHANGING mode" because you were irresponsible. But having a dog can change your life so raising a kid should.

It seems like how you are talking about it that you expect it to figure everything out on their own, maybe you don't completely teach a kid to walk but you encourage it. And you teach about reading and science and open it's mind up to a whole universe of possibilities. This is a thing you wouldn't be doing if you weren't a parent, thus changing your life.

Well partially both. I feel like creating and shaping the life of a human should affect your life more than a camera. No matter how nice the camera or how little intervention you think is needed to parent.

The kid is 10 months old so right now all you have to do is keep it alive and you've done your job. But a camera will never wake you up in the middle of the night, so already right there if you are stopping in the middle of your sleep, or whatever you're doing throughout the day to take care of it it will probably change your life. (Unless your Significant other does all of it).

I'm thinking you were maybe exaggerating with the comparison to a camera or a motorcycle.

Later in it's life (or probably right now) you will be less able to go to parties, stay out late with friends, get drunk by yourself. You will have to teach it to read and walk and to be a good person which takes a significant chunk of time. As well as to just spend time with it, which is probably different then how you currently spent your time, unless you spend a lot of time playing with lego or playing catch.

I've had a kid for 10 months now and I gotta say - it has been far less impactful on my life than having a motorcycle or having an SLR camera.

This makes me nervous. I understand that there may be few surprises, but it should have changed your life more than a camera or a vehicle. You have to change your life for a family. I suppose if you lived a very family-friendly life before hand, but you should still be changing some.

This was really interesting. I love reading about 4chan things now years later.

Hahaha, yeah that's about right.

I didn't mean to make the absence of evidence argument. I was going more for a lack of absolute proof thing, and how one side has evidence and the other doesn't.

Supernatural always have evidence that is more likely something natural.

Calling supernatural claims about the world is funny to me, because they are kind of outside of that, thus they are deemed supernatural. However I get your point.

I cannot tell if you are arguing for Supernatural phenomena being true, or not.

I think that there are usually explanations for things that people deem supernatural, but people may not find them as satisfying as a supernatural answer. Things like mild halucinations, Sleep Paralysis, cognitive biases and optical illusions.

The problem is that these answers can never be known to for sure have caused something, just that they are likely the case. Ironically that while the argument against them is often something along the lines of you can't prove it was a trick of the light/optical illusion that made me see a ghostly figure, the same argument could be applied to saying it is a ghost. At least we know that these tricks can happen to our brains, we don't know ghosts exist.

Great read! I really enjoyed the part about my own supernatural experiences will have to wait for an explanation, but you are okay without one. I feel the same way, and for the longest time having a first hand account or feeling of something was what held me into believing into the supernatural. It's truly hard to learn that seeing doesn't necessarily mean believing.

No, it's possible to talk to them like an adult without talking to them about adult things or things that they don't know about. When you see them playing or doing something seem interested. Ask them about their day. If they're playing say something like "What are you playing?", or "That's a cool toy", but not in a super condescending tone like "cool tooyyyyyy" like most people do.

When in doubt ask them questions about what they're doing as if you didn't understand. Then when they answer just say "That's pretty cool"

I would be very interested in something like that. Even better would be a text based thing with real people, because I'm a fast typer but I don't usually have a webcam set up.

I didn't do so well, I haven't used Javascript in a few years and the syntax really got me. I wish they had a version in vb6/vb.net (which is something vb.net programmers have to say very often).

Was fun though.

Oh I loved that game. I don't really know why but it was so emotional for me. I felt like I had such a connection to the other person.

Great piece there thanks for writing it. I agree with you a lot. I didn't claim that Heavy Rain was interactive in the way that the player truly makes a big difference. But I did find the story very good, and the fact that you can screw up the story makes a big difference in how much I appreciate the story.

I have always wanted to get into Dungeons and Dragons.

I found Dear Esther to be just like someone reading an overly dramatic short story with not a lot of plot, with big gaps in between chapters. I could see some people liking it but I did find it boring. Plus it was marketed as an indie game and I think to be classified as a game you need gameplay of some sort.

It basically seems like faster than light but the crew are actual characters instead of completely controlled by you. At least I hope so, if you control them all and switch in and out like x-com then the game is essentially FTL.

Well I'm sure some people would actually believe the other side's perspective, at least on topics of politics, the supernatural, alternative medicine, paranormal, aliens, global warming. I'm sure there is some diversity.