It came from the Christian Forums...

Moron: "a single volcanic eruption releases more polution than all of mankind has throughout our history combined"

me: False (provides evidence)

Moron: The problem is that a lot of the data surrounding human CO2 output has been based on lies and misinformation over the years, so there's really no way to affirm they ( Read more... )

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This is a test of crossposting to LJ.

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You can see the PTSD building and building


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Yeah, we moved. I may get around to journaling about it the whole thing, but it's too big a topic, and I'm too tired ( Read more... )

I was invited to a small FB group for political discussion - just a couple dozen members, and not that many active ones. While there are some reasonable people there, there are also a couple people that I would like to think were trolls or paid shills of the Koch Brothers or something. But I fear they are sincere. And these are probably people ( Read more... )

The Invention of Air provides a biography and more of Joseph Priestley. Priestly wore three hats (um, metaphorically so far as I know): scientist, radical theologian, and radical political theorist. Johnson does a great job of showing the connections between these three strands, and how they exemplify the Enlightenment, although I think he ( Read more... )

and I made one.


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In the HPLHS FB group, someone was reading HPL's work chronologically and wondered out loud, "Where are all the tentacles? I'm a decade into his writing career and nary a tentacle!"

Me: It might just be that gluing tentacles onto monsters is not actually Lovecraft's primary contribution to weird fiction.

And since it happened about the same time ( Read more... )

Sort of a fake lo-res graphics Infocom-type adventure, with Satan as the hero.

I started to get bored on page 5, but then...

>use hellbat wings & aborted fetus

You combine the hellbat wings and the aborted fetus. The fetus flaps in front of you, gurgling in a strange voice, "Killlll... mee..."I'll probably get bored again soon, but for now ( Read more... )