MeTa post: Dear AskMe

Oh, yes, you're completely right, Steven. Obviously, carbon footprint calculators, wanting to work less, and solar panels fall into the same category as crystals and mind machines. The green needs a good solid dose of hard-nosed rationality, and I for one hope that the community can pull it together and restore some sanity there.

In fact, I intend to do my part in that as soon as possible, and post a question which will reflect the tough-minded, scientifically accurate... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by a louis wain cat at 8:34 PM on June 23, 2007

MeTa post: Unban ParisParamus

I found Paris's stated beliefs to be repugnant, but that's not why I'd rather see him stay banned- in fact, if I were looking at it from a strictly partisan, political standpoint, I'd be calling for his reinstatement. And that's because, frankly, he came off as being stupid. Aggressively stupid. A perfect advertisement against his own political beliefs, in fact, or at least the ones he claimed to hold. The little nuggets he'd drop in every political thread felt inappropriate... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by a louis wain cat at 11:30 PM on May 15, 2007

That's hilarious, truly hilarious. The blue has always been shallow and stupid, but most people tend not to notice, because most people don't critically evaluate opinions they agree with.

You know, I actually don't completely disagree with this, but, well- go read Democratic Underground (to use an example of a site that's politically in line with the Metafilter consensus) for a while, and then come back and read the political threads on the blue again,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by a louis wain cat at 2:13 AM on May 16, 2007

MeTa post: General J.C. Christian reads MeFi. Who knew?...

I have no idea why I'm getting into this, but what I would say is that anime and manga are no more and no less childish than American comics and animation.

I'll leave it to the reader to determine how childish that makes both of them, but seeing partisans of either form going on about how much more mature and sophisticated their chosen cartoons are than those made on the other side of the ocean is always amusing, in an annoying sort of way.

(No,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by a louis wain cat at 4:49 PM on July 24, 2006

MeTa post: Metafilter: a generation of irrational, prinitive...

Clearly a religious person trying to make athiests look bad. You are not fooling me!

Well, if that's the case, he's doing a damn good job of it, I have to say. I'm not religious, but I've read enough recent history that I just don't find rhetoric calling whole groups of people "subhuman vermin" to be cool or funny at all, no matter who says it, or how much I might sympathize with them otherwise. (Yes, I know he said he would never harm... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by a louis wain cat at 1:25 AM on July 22, 2006

Orthogonality- I wasn't debating Christianity vs. atheism, just what's appropriate for Metafilter. If mirror-universe Decani came onto Metafilter and starting spouting those scriptures at everyone? Yeah, I think it would be entirely appropriate to show him the door. And no, I would have no problem with bevets getting timed-out or banned. (I'm surprised it hasn't already happened to him for being basically a spammer, actually.) I just somehow doubt that "LGF for atheists" is the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by a louis wain cat at 5:31 AM on July 22, 2006

MeTa post: Shorter dgaicun: 'I know nothing about this...

Dgaicun's last post in this thread, shortened: "How dare you call the size of my science penis into question!"

I probably shouldn't get into this, but I thought all this sounded somewhat familiar, and lo and behold.

Draw your own conclusions about Bailey and his work from that. Personally, I think Bailey's full of shit, and that that dgaicun basically deserved what he got in the AskMe thread. If he'd qualified it a bit more, maybe it... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by a louis wain cat at 3:46 PM on June 4, 2006

Now, my Science Penis is woefully small, and though I suspect that the general outlook of scientists studying these things isn't exactly as uniform as dgaicun is painting it, I wouldn't know where to look for peer-reviewed studies that contradict his outlook. Since truth is only to be found in peer-reviewed journals, I obviously didn't have a case until I could find something. Despite my poor scientific endowment, I did find this review of Bailey's book from the Journal of Sex Research.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by a louis wain cat at 12:03 AM on June 5, 2006

Ethereal Bligh: And, anyway, there's no point to having this argument here. This is a matter of MetaFilter etiquette and by those standards I don't believe there's a thing wrong with dgaicun's comment.

Don't people see that this desire to not only refute the positions with which we disagree, but to call them invalid, to attack the motives of those who put them forth, isn't in good-faith and is overkill? Why can't they merely be wrong, and not also stupid,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by a louis wain cat at 1:30 AM on June 5, 2006