Quotes, Now Is It Time to Panic? Edition
Minnesotan here. Our biggest export is pot holes. We've stopped referring to them in inches, we now use the number of beds and baths they can accommodate.
There's a really nice 4 bedroom 3 bathroom one on Broadway just east of Marshall Street right now.
-- Michael Collins and Elena Hahn, Facebook, comments
The time for playing nice with these assholes is over.
-- Jim Krepke, dialogue from "Unspeakable: Unsafe," S1E4
Nazi beliefs are based on ideas of strength, so punching them is a practical deconstruction of their worldview. I call it “Percussive Epistemology”
-- u/TheSkepticalTerrier
Johnson (news anchor): What are we doing?
Hayes: Gettin' you on the air! We need to warn people!
Johnson: How? There's no way to upload a signal!
Hayes: Oh-ho-ho-ho-hoh, you're at Cal Tech!
-- dialogue from "San Andreas"
When one is tired and unwashed, I think one is legitimately entitled to refuse to feel noble.
-- Captain Charles May, extract from diaries, voiceover in "The Somme" (BBC documentary)
Jordan Peterson is a sub-par scholar whose own sources contradict the very claims he uses them to make. ... Last fall, in preparation for a paper I gave at a conference on Peterson and his influence, I read Maps of Meaning (1999), his 400-page magnum opus. This is the volume where he lays out the philosophy he expounds upon ... What I discovered is an author who, despite his obvious passion for mythology and religion, does not study sacred texts in their historical contexts, nor does he bother to investigate contemporary scholarship regarding any of the texts he cites. Instead, his understanding relies heavily on a handful of authors from the early to mid 20th century, such as Carl Jung, Mircea Eliade, and Joseph Campbell - three popularizers of myth who share, as religious scholar Robert Ellwood has put it, “intellectual roots in the antimodern pessimism and romanticism that helped give rise to European fascism.” This is not to say that there is nothing of value to be gleaned from these authors. Indeed, I read them voraciously when I was younger, and could tell you what I still think is useful about each of them. But simply reading the books you found in your local used bookstore’s “religion” section does not make you a religious scholar - no matter how many YouTube videos you make about them.
There is a reason this matters. Peterson uses myths to suggest that his own personal worldview is indicative of a natural, evolutionarily determined process, and he does this by assuming that myths, too, are generally formed according to some similarly natural, evolutionarily determined process. But even ancient narratives have their own origin stories, and ... failing to understand a text in context is often a recipe for profound misunderstanding.
-- Emily Pothast, "Jordan Peterson Is a Poor Researcher Whose Own Sources Contradict His Claims," Medium.com
The Rays were burned out of their house when the community found out they had AIDS and wanted to go to school.
-- hemophilia activist Cory Dubin, interviewed in "Blood Brothers," 1998, on the late Ricky Ray, hemophiliac from Florida [The fire happened on 29-30 August, 1987, in Arcadia, Florida. Dubin died on 31 February 2017. -- ?!]
I genuinely hate how social conservatives get to talk about all of this in the abstract. Whenever Dreher or Douthat or Peterson talk about how good things were back before the Sexual Revolution, they should be asked point blank what laws they plan to change. Bans on contraceptives? Bans on abortion? No more gay marriage? Re-criminalization of sodomy?
Limitations on women's educational and professional possibilities? Prosecution of adulterers? Prosecution of pre-marital sex? The only reason you ever had a Hegemony of Traditional Morality was the legal structure upholding it, advocating a "return to the ways things used to be" is advocating reconstructing that, a position that amounts to advocating a campaign of terror and murder. Either be honest about what you want or shut up.
-- Nathan Goldberg, Lawyers, Guns, and Money, comments
Don’t even hint about having Nigel Farage over, nobody wants Nigel Farage over. Consider extending an invitation to a giant, sentient and racist botulism bacteria instead. The potentially fatal food-borne illness will be much more welcome at a the dinner table.
-- Tabatha Southey, "How to be a better houseguest than Julian Assange," Macleans
...as you know, left to themselves in a world of peace, the worst Jews would ever do to people is debate them to death.
-- attributed to Dennis Miller, Facebook
When Bayer’s Cutter Laboratories realized that their blood products, Factor VIII and IX or antihemophiliac factor (AHF), were contaminated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the financial investment in the product was considered too high to destroy the inventory. Cutter misrepresented the results of its own research and sold the contaminated AHF to overseas markets in Asia and Latin America without the precaution of heat treating the product recommended for eliminating the risk. As a consequence, hemophiliacs who infused the HIV-contaminated Factor VIII and IX tested positive for HIV and developed AIDS.
-- abstract of "Blood Money: Bayer’s Inventory of HIV-Contaminated Blood Products and Third World Hemophiliacs," Leemon McHenry, Ph.D. & Mellad Khoshnood , B.A., Accountability in Research, 21:6, 389-400
But the lesson is clear... As a woman, if you so much as celebrate a win, you better have your ducks in order. All of them. Because you _will_ be challenged by some random dude on the internet that thinks you owe him your CV and detailed description of your credentials.
This is why women often understate their accomplishments. It's not lack of confidence. It's a learned behavior. They've learned that these jerks are coming. They're waiting to pounce. And they've learned that very few men will call out the gendered discrediting when it happens.
-- @mekkaokereke, Twitter
Guys...it's not my freakin' fault this keeps getting worse!
-- Jim Krepke, dialogue from "Unspeakable: Unsafe," S1E4
I may be Thabo [Patrick Sefolosha]’s friend, or Ekpe [Ekpedeme Friday Udoh]’s teammate, or Russ[ell Westbrook]’s colleague; I may work with those guys. And I absolutely 100% stand with them. But I look like the other guy. And whether I like it or not? I’m beginning to understand how that means something. What I’m realizing is, no matter how passionately I commit to being an ally, and no matter how unwavering my support is for NBA and WNBA players of color….. I’m still in this conversation from the privileged perspective of opting in to it. Which of course means that on the flip side, I could just as easily opt out of it. Every day, I’m given that choice - I’m granted that privilege - based on the color of my skin.
-- NBA Utah Jazz player Kyle Korver, "Privilege," The Players' Tribune
Emma Gaines, to Daniel Riddick's voicemail: You left my daughter?! If you're not already dead, I'll fucking kill you myself.
Ray Gaines (ex-husband of Emma): Atta girl.
-- dialogue from "San Andreas"
And when FDA finally outlawed unscreened [clotting factor] inventory, Bayer shipped their last lots to Costa Rica, and they infected 1200 guys.
-- hemophilia activist Cory Dubin (d. 2017), interviewed in "Blood Brothers," 1998
A strong economy and province is not built on:
- buck a beer
- tailgating
- cuts to the most needy
Rather it needs:
- investment in education
- investment in healthcare
- investment in all
-- @mr_plesko, Twitter
Aspire to hate Nazis as much as Indiana Jones hates Nazis.
-- Patrick Garrow, Facebook, comments
He just suddenly sat up and said, "Daddy, I can't see," so we knew summat was goin' on then.
-- Colin Smith, interviewed in "BBC Panorama: Contaminated Blood: The Search for Truth," on the death of his son Colin, who died in 1990 at the age of 7
Most countries followed our example and killed the vast majority of their hemophiliacs.
-- former CDC scientist Dr. Don Francis, interviewed in "Blood Brothers," 1998
Four years of college and then a master's degree to get a low paying job with no gratitude then a layoff. We're lucky anyone will teach.
-- @donewithorange, Twitter
Leave the weed.
-- Pierre Berton, quoted by Rick Mercer, CBC's q, on Berton's Celebrity Tip: How to Roll a Joint
He would fly over the house, and the routine was, that I would have to run out in the front yard and wave to him, and let him know that I was okay.
-- Candace Gilbert Medina, daughter of former traffic helicopter pilot/reporter Dick Gilbert, interviewed in "When Weather Changed History: Super Outbreak," on how her dad would check to make sure she was home safely after school
If you're denying anti-semitism, then you have the IQ of a rock, or you're a nazi. pick one.
-- Gregory Raculus, Facebook, comments
We need brilliant people like Dr Bouman, not just for their achievements, but so that my both my daughter and son can see that it's perfectly normal for women to be acknowledged as brilliant scientists who do great things.
-- @rusty_code, Twitter
I wanted to get on a jet and come to Richmond and say, "You can't die on me, motherfucker. I can't cope with you dying."
-- -- hemophilia activist Cory Dubin to fellow activist Ken Deutch, interviewed in "Blood Brothers," 1998
There's a great deal of interest in the kind of technologies that we might have that can actually remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Now, the first thing to say is that we already have these technologies, and they're called "trees."
-- climate scientist Tim Lenton, interviewed in "Climate Change: The Facts," David Attenborough
I heard a bang, followed by shrieks of agony. I looked down into a narrow trench and there saw what appeared to be a little red heap, which shrieked and groaned in a most ghastly way.
-- Battle of the Somme witness account, "War Surgeons, Episode 2"
There's a really nice 4 bedroom 3 bathroom one on Broadway just east of Marshall Street right now.
-- Michael Collins and Elena Hahn, Facebook, comments
The time for playing nice with these assholes is over.
-- Jim Krepke, dialogue from "Unspeakable: Unsafe," S1E4
Nazi beliefs are based on ideas of strength, so punching them is a practical deconstruction of their worldview. I call it “Percussive Epistemology”
-- u/TheSkepticalTerrier
Johnson (news anchor): What are we doing?
Hayes: Gettin' you on the air! We need to warn people!
Johnson: How? There's no way to upload a signal!
Hayes: Oh-ho-ho-ho-hoh, you're at Cal Tech!
-- dialogue from "San Andreas"
When one is tired and unwashed, I think one is legitimately entitled to refuse to feel noble.
-- Captain Charles May, extract from diaries, voiceover in "The Somme" (BBC documentary)
Jordan Peterson is a sub-par scholar whose own sources contradict the very claims he uses them to make. ... Last fall, in preparation for a paper I gave at a conference on Peterson and his influence, I read Maps of Meaning (1999), his 400-page magnum opus. This is the volume where he lays out the philosophy he expounds upon ... What I discovered is an author who, despite his obvious passion for mythology and religion, does not study sacred texts in their historical contexts, nor does he bother to investigate contemporary scholarship regarding any of the texts he cites. Instead, his understanding relies heavily on a handful of authors from the early to mid 20th century, such as Carl Jung, Mircea Eliade, and Joseph Campbell - three popularizers of myth who share, as religious scholar Robert Ellwood has put it, “intellectual roots in the antimodern pessimism and romanticism that helped give rise to European fascism.” This is not to say that there is nothing of value to be gleaned from these authors. Indeed, I read them voraciously when I was younger, and could tell you what I still think is useful about each of them. But simply reading the books you found in your local used bookstore’s “religion” section does not make you a religious scholar - no matter how many YouTube videos you make about them.
There is a reason this matters. Peterson uses myths to suggest that his own personal worldview is indicative of a natural, evolutionarily determined process, and he does this by assuming that myths, too, are generally formed according to some similarly natural, evolutionarily determined process. But even ancient narratives have their own origin stories, and ... failing to understand a text in context is often a recipe for profound misunderstanding.
-- Emily Pothast, "Jordan Peterson Is a Poor Researcher Whose Own Sources Contradict His Claims," Medium.com
The Rays were burned out of their house when the community found out they had AIDS and wanted to go to school.
-- hemophilia activist Cory Dubin, interviewed in "Blood Brothers," 1998, on the late Ricky Ray, hemophiliac from Florida [The fire happened on 29-30 August, 1987, in Arcadia, Florida. Dubin died on 31 February 2017. -- ?!]
I genuinely hate how social conservatives get to talk about all of this in the abstract. Whenever Dreher or Douthat or Peterson talk about how good things were back before the Sexual Revolution, they should be asked point blank what laws they plan to change. Bans on contraceptives? Bans on abortion? No more gay marriage? Re-criminalization of sodomy?
Limitations on women's educational and professional possibilities? Prosecution of adulterers? Prosecution of pre-marital sex? The only reason you ever had a Hegemony of Traditional Morality was the legal structure upholding it, advocating a "return to the ways things used to be" is advocating reconstructing that, a position that amounts to advocating a campaign of terror and murder. Either be honest about what you want or shut up.
-- Nathan Goldberg, Lawyers, Guns, and Money, comments
Don’t even hint about having Nigel Farage over, nobody wants Nigel Farage over. Consider extending an invitation to a giant, sentient and racist botulism bacteria instead. The potentially fatal food-borne illness will be much more welcome at a the dinner table.
-- Tabatha Southey, "How to be a better houseguest than Julian Assange," Macleans
...as you know, left to themselves in a world of peace, the worst Jews would ever do to people is debate them to death.
-- attributed to Dennis Miller, Facebook
When Bayer’s Cutter Laboratories realized that their blood products, Factor VIII and IX or antihemophiliac factor (AHF), were contaminated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the financial investment in the product was considered too high to destroy the inventory. Cutter misrepresented the results of its own research and sold the contaminated AHF to overseas markets in Asia and Latin America without the precaution of heat treating the product recommended for eliminating the risk. As a consequence, hemophiliacs who infused the HIV-contaminated Factor VIII and IX tested positive for HIV and developed AIDS.
-- abstract of "Blood Money: Bayer’s Inventory of HIV-Contaminated Blood Products and Third World Hemophiliacs," Leemon McHenry, Ph.D. & Mellad Khoshnood , B.A., Accountability in Research, 21:6, 389-400
But the lesson is clear... As a woman, if you so much as celebrate a win, you better have your ducks in order. All of them. Because you _will_ be challenged by some random dude on the internet that thinks you owe him your CV and detailed description of your credentials.
This is why women often understate their accomplishments. It's not lack of confidence. It's a learned behavior. They've learned that these jerks are coming. They're waiting to pounce. And they've learned that very few men will call out the gendered discrediting when it happens.
-- @mekkaokereke, Twitter
Guys...it's not my freakin' fault this keeps getting worse!
-- Jim Krepke, dialogue from "Unspeakable: Unsafe," S1E4
I may be Thabo [Patrick Sefolosha]’s friend, or Ekpe [Ekpedeme Friday Udoh]’s teammate, or Russ[ell Westbrook]’s colleague; I may work with those guys. And I absolutely 100% stand with them. But I look like the other guy. And whether I like it or not? I’m beginning to understand how that means something. What I’m realizing is, no matter how passionately I commit to being an ally, and no matter how unwavering my support is for NBA and WNBA players of color….. I’m still in this conversation from the privileged perspective of opting in to it. Which of course means that on the flip side, I could just as easily opt out of it. Every day, I’m given that choice - I’m granted that privilege - based on the color of my skin.
-- NBA Utah Jazz player Kyle Korver, "Privilege," The Players' Tribune
Emma Gaines, to Daniel Riddick's voicemail: You left my daughter?! If you're not already dead, I'll fucking kill you myself.
Ray Gaines (ex-husband of Emma): Atta girl.
-- dialogue from "San Andreas"
And when FDA finally outlawed unscreened [clotting factor] inventory, Bayer shipped their last lots to Costa Rica, and they infected 1200 guys.
-- hemophilia activist Cory Dubin (d. 2017), interviewed in "Blood Brothers," 1998
A strong economy and province is not built on:
- buck a beer
- tailgating
- cuts to the most needy
Rather it needs:
- investment in education
- investment in healthcare
- investment in all
-- @mr_plesko, Twitter
Aspire to hate Nazis as much as Indiana Jones hates Nazis.
-- Patrick Garrow, Facebook, comments
He just suddenly sat up and said, "Daddy, I can't see," so we knew summat was goin' on then.
-- Colin Smith, interviewed in "BBC Panorama: Contaminated Blood: The Search for Truth," on the death of his son Colin, who died in 1990 at the age of 7
Most countries followed our example and killed the vast majority of their hemophiliacs.
-- former CDC scientist Dr. Don Francis, interviewed in "Blood Brothers," 1998
Four years of college and then a master's degree to get a low paying job with no gratitude then a layoff. We're lucky anyone will teach.
-- @donewithorange, Twitter
Leave the weed.
-- Pierre Berton, quoted by Rick Mercer, CBC's q, on Berton's Celebrity Tip: How to Roll a Joint
He would fly over the house, and the routine was, that I would have to run out in the front yard and wave to him, and let him know that I was okay.
-- Candace Gilbert Medina, daughter of former traffic helicopter pilot/reporter Dick Gilbert, interviewed in "When Weather Changed History: Super Outbreak," on how her dad would check to make sure she was home safely after school
If you're denying anti-semitism, then you have the IQ of a rock, or you're a nazi. pick one.
-- Gregory Raculus, Facebook, comments
We need brilliant people like Dr Bouman, not just for their achievements, but so that my both my daughter and son can see that it's perfectly normal for women to be acknowledged as brilliant scientists who do great things.
-- @rusty_code, Twitter
I wanted to get on a jet and come to Richmond and say, "You can't die on me, motherfucker. I can't cope with you dying."
-- -- hemophilia activist Cory Dubin to fellow activist Ken Deutch, interviewed in "Blood Brothers," 1998
There's a great deal of interest in the kind of technologies that we might have that can actually remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Now, the first thing to say is that we already have these technologies, and they're called "trees."
-- climate scientist Tim Lenton, interviewed in "Climate Change: The Facts," David Attenborough
I heard a bang, followed by shrieks of agony. I looked down into a narrow trench and there saw what appeared to be a little red heap, which shrieked and groaned in a most ghastly way.
-- Battle of the Somme witness account, "War Surgeons, Episode 2"