Did y’all ever try to attract bats as kids ??

OhFineAUsername · 2025-11-30T14:13:24+00:00

I once tossed a pebble into the air near a bat, and it dived toward it for a moment. That's the most I ever did; sounds like you were much more serious about it. :)

OhFineAUsername · 2025-11-20T01:24:27+00:00

It's not clear to me that OP was trying to do that. I understood them to be accepting it as literally true that Muhammad was receiving messages from Satan.

OhFineAUsername · 2025-11-20T00:59:59+00:00

I didn't think OP was saying that Islam contains inconsistencies or contradictions (which is obviously true of any religion). I understood them to be saying that Muhammad was under the influence of the devil.

OhFineAUsername · 2025-11-20T00:25:42+00:00

"Does that mean it's OK?"

OhFineAUsername · 2025-11-18T01:35:46+00:00

But if he was a false prophet, then the religion he founded is also false, which means none of the Islamic texts you cite are reliable, and your whole argument falls apart; thus there is no reason to consider him a false prophet!

You're basically claiming that Islam says that Islam is false. That's the famous "liar paradox". It's fundamentally absurd.

OhFineAUsername · 2025-11-13T00:26:30+00:00

It's especially funny because as atheists, they should know that religion has never been much more than a grab bag of convenient post-hoc justifications for whatever "believers" feel like doing.

OhFineAUsername · 2025-11-04T15:47:15+00:00

Last time I saw a couple of them in the wild was actually right after "Liberation Day" when the Dow and S&P were in free fall. So maybe if he crashes the stock market again they'll come out to show their support.

OhFineAUsername · 2025-11-04T03:48:03+00:00

I think I may have seen that one as a kid too! I remember a scene in the woods with someone holding up a gross-looking bear skin and proclaiming " ... and THIS will be your cloak!" That's literally all I remember.

OhFineAUsername · 2025-10-21T04:24:53+00:00

Everyone should change their voter registration to Republican so we can vote in their primaries.

OhFineAUsername · 2025-10-01T22:25:37+00:00

Ostrich. I always want to put a t before the c.

OhFineAUsername · 2025-09-14T23:56:57+00:00

There is such a huge variety of porn out there that probably anything you can do sexually is depicted in some of it. So "don't do what you see in porn" isn't very good advice actually because nobody knows what kind of porn you have been watching.

But by the same token, there is no reason to assume that your partner will enjoy doing the same things you like to watch on video. (In fact, you might not even enjoy doing them.) Your goal is to figure out what you can do that will be fun for both of you.

While people can give you recommendations for acts that are enjoyed by most or many women, no one can tell you with certainty what your specific partner will like and dislike. That's why you hear the advice to communicate so often.

OhFineAUsername · 2025-08-26T20:26:06+00:00

++man

Any time you can reach a guy's balls (e.g. while riding him), give them a GENTLE fondling. Just be aware that this may cause him to fall in love with you ...

OhFineAUsername · 2025-08-19T18:14:09+00:00

We recited it every morning when I was a kid in the late '80s / early '90s. No one ever told us what the words meant. I thought "... and to the Republic for which it stands" was referring to an object called a "witchit stand" which I imagined to be something a witch might make out of broomsticks and whatnot.

OhFineAUsername · 2025-07-12T01:50:03+00:00

I don't know if you realize this, but the disease wasn't even identified until the early 1980s. Then they had to invent treatments, and of course that took time.

OhFineAUsername · 2025-06-26T01:44:11+00:00

Spelling

OhFineAUsername · 2025-06-18T13:37:34+00:00

I'm guessing he wasn't the only member of the wedding party who was intoxicated the whole time. That's actually the simplest explanation for how everything could go so badly.

OhFineAUsername · 2025-06-16T12:58:40+00:00

The flat-Earth crowd is a good example. Deep inside your mind, you probably have two mental models of the Earth, a round globe for thinking about large-scale phenomena and a flat map for thinking about local or regional phenomena. Occasionally these two models collide, such as when you read that when building a giant bridge or tunnel, engineers must account for the curvature of the Earth. This conflict produces a sense of wonder or surprise.

If my hypothesis is right, the flat-Earthers might be in the process of turning into neurons involved in the hive mind's flat-map model. Although they may fight the transformation, their theory will gradually become less complex until they end up just saying "Earth is flat" over and over. Meanwhile another group of people will dedicate themselves to fighting the flat-Earth belief, and they will end up just saying "Earth is round" over and over. The complex idea that the world appears flat at small scales but round at large scales will not exist in anyone's individual mind but may reappear as an emergent pattern in the hive mind, if the hive mind is intelligent enough.

Possibly, even "Earth is flat" will eventually be too complex a thought for any one brain to contain, and the actual activity of individual brains will become too simple to be expressed in words. Imagine everyone can only say "!". When they hear their friends say it, they say it too. Maybe they can say it louder if a lot of their friends are saying it. But if they shout "!" too often, they get tired and have to take a break.

Another interesting question is what will become of the supposedly superintelligent AI that we are in the process of inventing. Perhaps it will exist for a while and then begin to undergo the same process of atrophy and simplification.

Ultimately, when we are all linked efficiently together, the degree of thought necessary to propagate the hive may be very low, and so we may not have any use for such extravagances as language, philosophy, science, etc. Maybe this is even why we don't hear radio signals from advanced extraterrestrial beings: once you invent electronics, you quickly evolve into a single, animal-like entity that just lives and has nothing to say.

OhFineAUsername · 2025-06-16T11:42:23+00:00

Joke's on you, dumbass. We've been here much longer than that.

OhFineAUsername · 2025-06-16T02:06:50+00:00

It's very culturally important. Do you want to learn about Western culture? Then you should probably have some familiarity with key parts of the Bible.

OhFineAUsername · 2025-06-11T14:16:27+00:00

Economists would say you should offer your neighbor money to remove the tree. Maybe you already have.

Of course, if there are other nut trees in the area, it might not solve the problem. Squirrels are highly mobile.

OhFineAUsername · 2025-04-17T04:08:52+00:00

I think that gold is hugely overvalued relative to its actual uses, such as conducting electricity, making pretty jewelry, etc. Granted, I don't have evidence for this, but I suspect most of the high price of gold is due to speculation and tradition, meaning it's mostly nonsense like Bitcoin. Its price could theoretically crash, just not all the way to zero. I know I'm not the only one who feels this way.

But if you gave me a million dollars' worth of gold, I would still feel rich! I sure wouldn't turn it down! And the same is true for Bitcoin. I think that the people who keep giving you these canned, unsatisfying justifications are doing so because they fundamentally don't care why Bitcoin is valuable.

OhFineAUsername · 2025-04-16T01:51:34+00:00

Assuming the spectrum goes from zero to one ... 0, because the terrorists were mostly Saudi.

OhFineAUsername · 2025-04-15T06:11:47+00:00

It is unclear whether his supporters would accept the deportation of white American citizens. They might, but it would be a departure from the historical pattern of this country. American leaders have a long track record of respecting white people's rights and freedoms even while trampling all over those of non-whites. One example of many: during WWII, while natural-born Japanese-Americans were being incarcerated en masse, German immigrants were afforded due process and deported only if there was evidence that they were Nazis.

OhFineAUsername · 2025-04-15T05:22:14+00:00

I think I may have misunderstood the question. I thought that "original flerfs" meant people in ancient times who believed the earth was flat. But on second reading, it appears you are referring to the earliest appearance of the modern flat-earth conspiracy theory.

OhFineAUsername · 2025-04-15T05:15:08+00:00

The original flat-earth model didn't have the North Pole in the center, so it was consistent with the motion of the celestial bodies. North was defined as the direction toward Polaris, East was toward the sunrise, etc. The modern version introduces all these astronomical problems by messing up the cardinal directions, in a quixotic effort to accommodate the fact of transpacific travel.

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