I've recently begun reading Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. That self-loathing found in ethnic minorities, which was probably even more magnified and cruel in the 1940s, is really, really upsetting. But that's the social web that we wove so tightly for millenia, I suppose. I think it's shifting a bit, but it'll take a long time to reverse, and it's not a sure bet that conflicting standards of beauty and aesthetics will ever be resolved.
yeah it really bums me out when I see it
actually a lot of black women have told me they find my attitudes and preferences towards black women really refreshing, because it's so rare for any man, regardless of race, to be so positive about black women.
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every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Hey [chat]. I drank a lot of wine last night and watched the Joan Rivers documentary. It was great.
Is her documentary called "Plastic!"?
No. Actually one thing that's really great about it is that other than a tiny bit where she talks about it, they don't even talk about her plastic surgery at all. The documentary is about her career as a comedienne, which is actually much more storied and interesting than you'd think.
She guest hosted the Tonight Show and she was on the list for possible replacements for Carson. She was a dark horse but she made the list. That's a hell of a career.
Yeap, me too. I would have called 911 on either of the two (and the fucking chick too for that matter) without even speaking to them.
I would absolutely not confront a potential criminal over someone else's bike.
Seriously, I've called the cops to report crimes or weird shit ain't no thing. I don't confront or hang around. Just call the fucking po po and be done with it. So many wackjobs that could turn a "Hey are you stealing that?" into a fucking blood bath.
I've also called the cops on neighbors having what sounded like a domestic dispute.
I get really sick of people trying to use statistics as proof of what I would do.
You don't know me.
I've only called the cops once, when a friend was trying to drink herself unconscious and suddenly stopped responding online.
Turns out it was nothing but I'm still glad I did it. She'd been locked in her room and her roommate didn't even know what was going on. After the police came she took care of her.
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so I agree that fMRI isn't always treated with the necessary skepticism, especially by the media (again I think it's important to distinguish popular response from professional procedure)
but what do you make of studies like this, then: http://www.physorg.com/news196508066.html -- which demonstrate strong, statistically-significant predictive power based on brain imaging?
If it doesn't signify anything, doesn't it stand to reason that fMRI would struggle to predict anything accurately? Also, I can't help but think of the fMRI imaging efforts where scientists have attenuated fMRI to determine successfully what images or letters people are picturing in their brains
of course in both cases we're talking about researchers using relatively sophisticated statistical techniques, so presumably they're using best practices along the lines recommended in the salmon article,
but personally I don't read stuff like that as "fMRI is bunk" so much as "be careful because it's not hard to mess this shit up."
no i totally agree- my point isn't that "it is completely bunk" but i should be more clear
a paper i just read cites that 76% of papers published in major journals that report fMRI data use uncorrected statistics with either abnormally high p values, or arbitrary significance values for their data.
which makes me suspect of any claim of universality or behavioral response based on fMRI data alone
I've only called the cops once, when a friend was trying to drink herself unconscious and suddenly stopped responding online.
Turns out it was nothing but I'm still glad I did it. She'd been locked in her room and her roommate didn't even know what was going on. After the police came she took care of her.
Ominous.
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I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
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Yeap, me too. I would have called 911 on either of the two (and the fucking chick too for that matter) without even speaking to them.
I would absolutely not confront a potential criminal over someone else's bike.
Seriously, I've called the cops to report crimes or weird shit ain't no thing. I don't confront or hang around. Just call the fucking po po and be done with it. So many wackjobs that could turn a "Hey are you stealing that?" into a fucking blood bath.
I called the cops on a drunk driver once. Watched the cop pull her over too. My friends called me a narc but I felt really good about myself. Shit was dangerous, she was swerving.
Your friends are fucking idiots. Drunk drivers are god damn dangerous.
There's a very odd culture that exists in LA about drunk driving that I was repulsed to find here.
Things in LA are very far from each other and people are by and large not loaded with expendable income, thus cabs are usually too expensive. At least 4 or 5 different people ranging from 22-32 have told me that there's nothing wrong with "learning to drive drunk" in LA. Kind of that "You've got to get home somehow!" mentality. I honestly only did it once and it was three blocks (literally) in a straight line at 3am with nobody on the road and I was doing 20mph. It was still too dangerous and freaked me out. I don't get how people can drive down Sunset Blvd doing 40 and get away with it/justify it.
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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i what bluh
i dont
why
Because otherwise the sequence of events at the dinner doesn't make any sense.
You need a haggis to pipe in and address.
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no i totally agree- my point isn't that "it is completely bunk" but i should be more clear
a paper i just read cites that 76% of papers published in major journals that report fMRI data use uncorrected statistics with either abnormally high p values, or arbitrary significance values for their data.
which makes me suspect of any claim of universality or behavioral response based on fMRI data alone
ahh, I see
yeah I think that's a fair point
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God that was some good chocolate. Totally worth diarrhea.
It's a thing exclusive to white liberals where they overcompensate for their privilege. It's not a bad thing, in and of itself, but frequently it becomes a thing where the white guilty person starts projecting it onto other people and that gets pretty old.
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yeah it really bums me out when I see it
actually a lot of black women have told me they find my attitudes and preferences towards black women really refreshing, because it's so rare for any man, regardless of race, to be so positive about black women.
I mean colorism is nothing new, for instance.
More "we cooked all the bits of a sheep no one else wanted and put it inside a its stomach"
They do find it hilarious though, according to my friend kevin who likes to attend racially insensitive parties dressed as a mexican.
Http:// pleasepaypreacher.net
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFFS3ndWSJ4
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She guest hosted the Tonight Show and she was on the list for possible replacements for Carson. She was a dark horse but she made the list. That's a hell of a career.
no I picked this one
i thought it was a pretty good pun
i may have been high
https://playgwent.com/en/invite-a-friend/7BN8VIJJHT
I've only called the cops once, when a friend was trying to drink herself unconscious and suddenly stopped responding online.
Turns out it was nothing but I'm still glad I did it. She'd been locked in her room and her roommate didn't even know what was going on. After the police came she took care of her.
You are so gross dude. Or lady.
So gross.
no i totally agree- my point isn't that "it is completely bunk" but i should be more clear
a paper i just read cites that 76% of papers published in major journals that report fMRI data use uncorrected statistics with either abnormally high p values, or arbitrary significance values for their data.
which makes me suspect of any claim of universality or behavioral response based on fMRI data alone
White guilt is pretty fucking stupid, honestly. Honkies be tripping.
I went to my advisor today to fill out a form that would allow me to replace my old failing grade in Orgo II with the new grade I get this semester.
I walk in and sit down and she's like "I told you last semester, the deadline for this was last Friday."
I may have fucked up my chance of getting into graduate school by five fucking days.
brb killing self
Ominous.
Http:// pleasepaypreacher.net
i what bluh
i dont
why
There's a very odd culture that exists in LA about drunk driving that I was repulsed to find here.
Things in LA are very far from each other and people are by and large not loaded with expendable income, thus cabs are usually too expensive. At least 4 or 5 different people ranging from 22-32 have told me that there's nothing wrong with "learning to drive drunk" in LA. Kind of that "You've got to get home somehow!" mentality. I honestly only did it once and it was three blocks (literally) in a straight line at 3am with nobody on the road and I was doing 20mph. It was still too dangerous and freaked me out. I don't get how people can drive down Sunset Blvd doing 40 and get away with it/justify it.
Especially when their sample size is 10.
why dont we have naked hot springs in south carolina?
wait answered my own question
this basically
I think it's pretty easy to tell that I'm a self-hating white guy who tries too hard, even over the internet
but I appreciate the compliment, fluffy
Dude that sucks.
Go over her head.
If the effect is strong enough, maybe?
depends
and thus therein lies the problem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlTvWvfEMxE
Supernatural fans will get this joke.
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This will end poorly.
oh indeed
I've always heard that playing the race card with progressive whites is like the best pastime ever
it's like UK-Office levels of awkwardness
My advising session was five minutes long.
One minute was her explaining to me that I had fucked up my GPA forever.
The next four minutes was me repeating "There is nothing I can do?" in increasingly more desperate tones.
Left before I started crying, though.
sucks and you may ruin the ability to get a reference from her BUT
worth a shot
Because otherwise the sequence of events at the dinner doesn't make any sense.
You need a haggis to pipe in and address.
I saw an article that said people remember less when reading from a Kindle than from a real book. Their sample size was like 20 people.
Most fun I've had with that song since middle school.
ahh, I see
yeah I think that's a fair point
It's a thing exclusive to white liberals where they overcompensate for their privilege. It's not a bad thing, in and of itself, but frequently it becomes a thing where the white guilty person starts projecting it onto other people and that gets pretty old.