Idiot of the day 2013: Wishing that the Mayans were right.

[Cmdr_King]

Because vaccines exist, people who oppose them exist.
Because people who oppose vaccines exist, people who spout crazy to support this belief exist.
Because of spouted crazy, Ciato's brain is melting.
A brain melting wipes the personality of a person.
Ergo, vaccines cause people to lose their personalities.  QED.

[Hunter Sopko]

This study is an independent study that was self funded so no hidden agendas, bias or financial gains are at hand.

An independant study I self-funded discovered that having sex with me cures cancer. Not one single hidden agenda, bias or financial gain there. I'm just trying to help people

[Grefter]

u deserve a novell piece prize.

[metroid composite]

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2011/11/18/vaccinated_kids_more_diseases/

a person with a degree in putting water in a bottle and calling it a cure tells me vaccinated kids are diseased

i should totally believe them right

other citations include a quack doctor who trolls the internet, the age of autism, which is a delightful cocktail of the craziest anti-vax people, none of them which know a whit about science, and the study was done via an internet survey

also a very poor understanding of how vaccines work. they boost the immune system, not destroy it. oh, and vaccines also wipe kids' minds of individuality.

my brain is melting

Also from the same website:

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/06/03/former-senator-presidential-candidate-an-extraterrestrial-influence-is-investigating-our-planet/

It’s June 2013, and the UFO topic seems to increase in intensity year after year.

What?

Like...UFOs seem totally out-of-style even as a conspiracy theory.  They seemed to be a big deal in the 90s, where there were some crazy number of television shows dedicated to UFO hunting.  But like...now anyone with a computer has access to google satellite pictures.  I haven't heard UFOs mentioned in years, not even in the context of "man those UFO-people are crazy."

If this website wants conspiracy theories that still get some traction today, it should try ghosts (which conveniently are not captured by satellite) or young earth creationism (which conveniently avoids satellites because they didn't exist 6000 years ago).

[Cmdr_King]

or young earth creationism (which conveniently avoids satellites because they didn't exist 6000 years ago).

OR DID THEY?!!?

[Luther Lansfeld]

There's also global warming denial derived from picking a data point from a strong El Nino in the late 90's and comparing it to a La Nina in 2008! Bravo for misunderstanding decadal vs. long term trends.

[Pyro]

Man shoots defenseless prostitute and murders her because she would not blow him.

is AQUITTED under Texas law allowing you to shoot fleeing people who steal from you (I guess they thought she stole his illegally bought sex?)



Can we kick Texas out of the US yet?
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/06/mind_boggling_and_horrible.php?m=1

[Captain K.]

It's a fair law, if he had fled after getting blown without paying, she could have shot him also.  See also Idiocracy.

[Cotigo]

http://www.destructoid.com/xbox-one-s-killer-instinct-rape-joke-causes-trouble-255880.phtml

#StateOfTheIndustry

[Fenrir]

http://www.destructoid.com/xbox-one-s-killer-instinct-rape-joke-causes-trouble-255880.phtml

#StateOfTheIndustry

Less horrible but still #StateOfTheIndustry:
http://www.dewanddoritos.com/

[Captain K.]

Hey don't knock it Doritos Crash Course is still the best free fun to be had on Xbox.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

Hey don't knock it Doritos Crash Course is still the best free fun to be had on Xbox.

Funny thing you should mention that, the makers of that game just secured the license to make a WH40K MMO now that THQ is gone and thus, can't make Dark Millennium.

[superaielman]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/pentagon-top-west-point-oficial-misused-his-position-to-obtain-cat-care.php The dumb here is overpowering.

[NotMiki]

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/rep-burgess-abortions-should-be-banned-because-male?ref=fpb

Cancel the Dumb Things Republicans Say About Rape Abortion competition.  We have a winner.

[NotMiki]

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/rep-burgess-abortions-should-be-banned-because-male?ref=fpb

Cancel the Dumb Things Republicans Say About Rape Abortion competition.  We have a winner.

http://www.salon.com/2013/06/20/the_science_of_masturbating_fetuses/

file under 'you learn something new every day.'

[AndrewRogue]

http://www.gamespot.com/news/texas-teen-jailed-after-league-of-legends-argument-6410871

Mmmm. While there are certainly arguments for this been an example of poor discretion given its timing around Sandy Hook, the fact that the kid has been imprisoned for several months at this point is kinda beyond ludicrous, especially given the clearly farcicle nature of the statement.

While people do need to be aware that social media does relate back to them personally, this is kinda really fucking stupid and is in that category of doing WAY more harm than good. Like, seriously.

[Luther Lansfeld]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BOIN2CGCcAAJEGd.png:large

a riveting question

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

what

why

[metroid composite]

I...don't understand how anyone could even think there was a debate.  Or how this is CNN and not Fox.


Well...except I guess that if some white person said to me "My dear cracker, how's it going" in front of a black person, I suppose the black person might be offended.

(Whereas if a black person says to another black person in front of a white person "Hey my Nigger, how's it going", nobody should be offended).

[Luther Lansfeld]

Guy at the bottom left looks like he agrees.

[NotMiki]

CNN is not reputable.  They're every bit the sensationalist cesspool of voyeurism masquerading as journalism as fox is.  they're just not as racist about it.  usually.  (yes, fox is racist; local interest leans very, very heavily toward black people committing crimes and black people doing stupid things.  CNN, to my understanding, does not have that same racial leaning.)

[Shale]

Guy at the bottom left looks like he agrees.

That's LeVar Burton, incidentally. What he had to say is immensely depressing.

[Luther Lansfeld]

Fuck! There has to be a way to change this shit.

[metroid composite]

Guy at the bottom left looks like he agrees.

That's LeVar Burton, incidentally. What he had to say is immensely depressing.

Yeah, from what I've seen it seems to be especially awful for black men in particular.


Fun story, when I lived in San Francisco, I hung out with a group of transmen from time to time.  The white ones had kind-of unsettling stories about how they got massive raises after making the switch, or how people respected their authority a whole lot more.  And to be clear, they weren't like "wohoo, we picked the winning team" or anything--this was coming from a group of people who grew up without privilege, the stories were more along the lines of "you know what else is fucked up?  I got a 40% raise."  The token black man in the group, on the other hand, seemed positively haunted and alarmed by the treatment he was receiving, and was looking for possible outs (asking me whether he might be better off if he moved to Canada, that kind of thing).

[Cmdr_King]

o_0

I mean I know the statistics (which suggest like a 30% raise if switching gender magically adjusted such inequities), but I'm kinda curious, what field is this?