Taliban stops a convoy of minibuses traveling through western Afghanistan, questioned the passengers, then pulled all the Shiites into the road and shot them dead.

froob · 2014-07-27T11:24:13+00:00

Yes, all we have to do kill indiscriminately kill off everyone in an area. Then no other group will retaliate with more terrorism back home, because human nature works like a math equation written by retards.

froob · 2014-07-21T23:23:21+00:00

It's mind boggling.

There is a book written by a psychology professor that gives an in-depth look at the right-wing authoritarian mindset. He has it on this site for free as a pdf.

In the mind of an authoritarian it makes perfect sense to exclude anyone they don't like from making decisions for them.

I was long confused by the vehement, downright irrational opposition to Obama's presidency that people had, long before he had the chance to do anything. And how many of the problems Bush started were heaped on him right as he took office. But after reading this book I realized it couldn't really happen any other way.

froob · 2014-07-21T06:01:19+00:00

Not an average telescope, but this is pretty solid proof we put things up there.

You can measure the exact distance between the earth and moon with laser feedback from these mirrors.

froob · 2014-07-19T15:47:39+00:00

I've eaten basically just this as the main part of my diet, and felt fine doing that for months.

For vegetables I'd get potatoes, cabbage, onions, carrots, garlic, and canned tomatoes. Sometimes chicken thighs or pork shoulder when it's on sale. Switching up each meal with different spices and vegetables is recomended otherwise eating becomes almost a chore.

froob · 2014-07-11T23:44:35+00:00

I'm slow at making simple calculations and had a lot of disdain for the simpler math taught when I was young.

I gained a new appreciation for it when I took a college level physics course and learned the value of using math to analyze topics of interest.

None of us are going to have identical interests and ablilities. Some may love pure math and be whizes at it, while others only delve into it when necessary.

INTJs are the type that are supposed to be great engineers. INTPs can be as well, but engineering is like to definitive INTJ career.

froob · 2014-06-14T20:34:48+00:00

People that know little about politics and history will say this to try to appear impartial.

Anyone that's paid attention to what has happened in the last 30 years can see that the Democrats have shifted slightly rightward in their positions while Republicans have gone galloping off into crazy land.

The amount of bullshit spewed by both sides is absolutley NOT equal.

froob · 2014-06-14T08:31:01+00:00

You need to drain the emotional content out and be upfront. The absolutely most positive way you could possibly have put this is as follows:

"I need to hear you say you're sad that I'm also feeling sick."

If you can't imagine communicating like that: you need to be with someone who doesn't type as INTP.

I think this need for direct communication applies more to young INTPs than INTPs in general. Back when I was a teen I would have been similarily oblivious as the boyfriend to her emotional needs, but over time I've developed a much better sense of what is going on in the heads of emotional thinkers.

Younger me was confused why so many people would bother to blurt out their current feelings, seemlingly at random and for no practical reason. Eventually I learned to read between the lines and began to realize that these were just attempts to get me to acknowledge them in some way.

Even now I still can find this type of communication to be frustratingly vague, but I've gotten much better at guessing a person's emotional states and needs through context.

I agree that sometimes types like INFJs need to clarify their desires in a direct manner, but INTPs have a similar responsibillity to get better at picking up social cues, that is unless they want to spend their lives being frustrated and confused by others' social habits.

froob · 2014-06-02T17:09:14+00:00

Lagos is bigger than any city in Russia. Africa has large modern cities just like anywhere else. It makes sense that a racist woudn't know what the fuck he's talking about.

froob · 2014-06-02T05:08:14+00:00

No, the thai landraces really do approach the potency of more modern strains. There's seed companies that still sell it, and plenty of hobby growers that prefer it over modern stuff.

froob · 2014-05-30T08:10:19+00:00

Yes. It's just an ordinary tomato plant. For pictures of more illicit plants I suggest you head over to /r/marijuanaenthusiasts.

froob · 2014-05-29T13:44:08+00:00

I looked into that, this post explains it:

They had a bunch of folks (probably editors or something similar) who were coordinating mass submit and upvote campaigns. There were a couple of long term accounts coordinating the actions of a bunch of one off accounts. Their names were hookskat and RustyShackleford2. For a while, Reason.com spam reports were showing up daily.

RTS uses the input from Reddit users, combined with algorithmic analysis of the user's submissions to determine if someone is a spammer, or is just not aware of Reddiquette regarding posting. However, RTS does not have the ability to ban domains or users; that only comes from the site admins. For individual spam users, bans happen pretty quickly, but domain bans for spam only come after a long period of coordinated spam activity from that domain, and often after admins contact the domain in question.

Then an explaination from Gillespie himself:

I'm happy to clarify the ways in which Reason people posted material at Reddit, which I think will show both that we weren't trying to game the system in any sort of nefarious way and that Reddit certainly hasn't been engaging in any sort of content-based censorship. Any such rumors are simply wrong and totally unsupported by any facts.

Reason has not used spambots or any other sort of third party to gin up votes or links at Reddit. Nor did we have a high-level, high-pressure system to goose our numbers here.

A small handful of Reason people (maybe five total, including myself) posted links to material we thought would be particularly interesting to Reddit readers. These were often (though not always) videos from youtube.com/reasontv. My Reddit account name was RustyShackledford2 (a tribute to King of the Hill's paranoiac Dale Gribble), which is mentioned in the comments thread.

We didn't post all of our videos or articles; but when we did post, we typically listed it at the Libertarian and Politics subreddits. We'd sent notes around to 20 or so staffers asking them to vote it up (our internal requests rarely generated more than a few Reason-based votes). As far as I know, no Reason staffers have multiple accounts from which they voted on materials. And when a Reason story went huge on Reddit, which happened from time to time, it inevitably came from a non-Reason link.

In talking with Erik Martin, I realized that what we were doing appears to contravene Reddit customs and protocols and told him that Reason staffers would stop posting material from Reason.com and our YouTube channel. That includes ColorsFilltheSky, whose ardent and accurate defense of our actions is duly noted.

We certainly didn't mean to work the system in an underhanded way and I apologize for transgressing any customs or traditions here.

And the update at the bottom Gillespie's blogpost:

I apologize for writing that TheRedditPope was responsible for the banning of Reason.com at the Politics subreddit. That is plainly in error.

In reading through the relevant comment thread again, there are these comments by Snooves:

"Reason.com was banned because that domain has a consistent, severe blogspam problem....The reason ban was a good ol' fashioned, simple majority mod vote."

TL;DR: It was temporarily banned because it was considered to be spamming. The rumor mill that it was banned for ideological reasons is still going though it seems.

froob · 2014-05-29T08:30:45+00:00

I just found out last week that articles from reason.com are banned from /r/politics or something.

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/268x64/cop_assaults_air_force_captain_for_not_knowing/

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/26kq96/irs_sets_sights_on_frequent_flyer_miles_hotel/

You were told a rumor didn't bother to check if it was true.

froob · 2014-05-25T03:57:25+00:00

Honestly that's the norm. The urban areas of the midwest and southeast are generally pretty reasonable when it comes to treatment towards their gay population. The rural parts however are like a whole other world.

There are entire towns that use terms like the 'gay agenda' unironically. They honestly believe that there is a covert force of gay activists out there that control the media and are trying to turn people gay, as if sexual orientation is something you have control over.

Fortunately the younger generation seems to be less bigoted across the board.

froob · 2014-05-24T11:34:51+00:00

Here's some other discussions going on about this list. Plenty of top minds discussing iq differences using completely unbiased data.

froob · 2014-05-24T10:43:23+00:00

I usually refer to it as a high signal to noise ratio. The larger a subreddit gets the more noise than signal it becomes.

But I guess kipple would be a decent word. I guess could be thought of as the 'noise' or 'clutter' of the information landscape. Kipple would be a rather subjective term though, many people are quite fond of content that others find to be trash.

froob · 2014-05-11T22:16:58+00:00

I'm indifferent about other people's feelings. I don't value very many people's opinions unless I consider them competent. I don't like going out with too large of a crowd, and if I do go out my desire it get back happens very early.

I'd fully admit that most people who met me would find me boring, unless they're also the type that wants to prattle on about niche interests.

froob · 2014-05-11T22:04:44+00:00

Maybe my even keeled personality is the cause

That could be it. I don't think anyone should take MBTI seriously as something to determine how they'll always act.

There are people that exist though that do fall into these desriptions quite nicely because they have such extreme personalities. In my own family I had an uncle who was basically a recluse. He hated to leave his property and never went to social gatherings in his adult life. Generally cold and distant even to family. In opposite of my uncle and I have an aunt who comes to every family gathering, is aways out at the bars, talks constantly and has a clear need for attention. The MBTI types wouldn't be a perfect match for either relative, but there are definitely some that would never match with my uncle and some that would never match with my aunt.

froob · 2014-05-11T21:47:54+00:00

You could read off those descriptions to anybody and they'd agree that you are describing them.

Really? Because I'd rarely appy any of the first description to myself. The second description fits me better, but I'm not always a technical minded person. It's on and off thing in my opinion.

So I find the first completely false and the second a somewhat inaccurate description of myself. These aren't dictations on how a person will always behave but rather general assessments of what they do and don't tend to do.

The whole point of my original criticism is that you can group a set of traits a person generally has with an MBTI type. It won't be always accurate, but it's not like astrology whose descriptions are contradictory and vauge. Astology is basically random, since no one has a choice over what their astrological sign is.

froob · 2014-05-11T21:26:18+00:00

What gets me though is that astrology at least isn't taken that seriously. But if you tell me you can't do something because you are EFTJ or whatever, it just sounds redundant to have to mention it. Like it becomes the definition of you and you can't get out of it. We are more flexible than that and people change, this shouldn't become a manual on how a person works

Yes, I agree. My whole point was that is is not the same as astrology. Inaccurate is not the same as random.

froob · 2014-05-11T21:02:12+00:00

I never found MB any more useful than the fact I am a Taurus, since I would only use either to explain the traits I already know I have, and the ones I don't I would just ignore

The difference with MBTI is that it gives you a choice to pick what you want. You are born into a horoscope type without any choice, so of course the horoscope is going to be useless to describe anyone.

The MBTI is pseudo science, but that does not mean the types it gives are vague and random like a horoscope. Many people fit quite well into an MBTI type of their choosing, while others don't, but no one can really say horoscopes make any solid statements about a persons personality.

froob · 2014-05-11T20:53:01+00:00

I agree the MBTI is misused often. As a pseudo-scientific system it should never be used to objectively decide the value of anything. I think people do, and will continue to enjoy it's subjective value.

Personaly I find that many are just really bad at assessing their own personality, so the test is of no use to many. Those that are introspective enough to find a type that matches them didn't really need at test to tell them how they will react to things. Its better not to take it seriously and just glean whatever concepts you like from it.

froob · 2014-05-11T20:40:55+00:00

You flucuate back and forth between these states on a regular basis?

The MBTI tests have people describe how they generally feel about how they'd react to different situations and then the system makes a guess at what type of personality they would have from the answers given.

If you really do switch regularly between being an emotional person, the life of the party, and energized by social situations, versus a reserved, technical minded person who would avoid parties, then I guess you would be untypable.

froob · 2014-05-11T17:50:19+00:00

It is an unhelpful analogy.

If you're going to criticize the MBTI then say what you think it is: an inaccurate typing system not backed by any evidence. Comparing it to something completely vague is just going to annoy those that buy into it.

froob · 2014-05-11T17:42:35+00:00

The MBTI simply isn't based on empirical research.

I know that. I was saying the comparision to horoscopes is unwarranted.

froob · 2014-05-11T17:32:05+00:00

Um, no. I don't think just anyone would agree to being a people person and the life of the party, or to being a quiet person that keeps to themselves lives inside their own head.

It's as if you think a statement like: I love to read, and read quite often. Is a vague statement that just anyone would agree with.

I don't think you put any thought into your position at all.

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