tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post1561554907567627991..comments2024-03-17T05:03:46.056-07:00Comments on xkcd sucks: Comic 690: Incendiary RemarksCarlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01074589998141327538noreply@blogger.comBlogger141125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-9492431635726031602010-11-01T08:20:04.743-07:002010-11-01T08:20:04.743-07:00OK - within 24 hours of the Challenger disaster:
W...OK - within 24 hours of the Challenger disaster:<br />What do the letters NASA stand for?<br />Need Another Seven Astronaughts!<br /><br />Boom boom.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-37038092176056869982010-02-02T19:45:20.154-08:002010-02-02T19:45:20.154-08:00ok how about this -
al-qaeda claimed responsibilit...ok how about this -<br />al-qaeda claimed responsibility for the attacks. There are videos of Osama Bin Laden talking with his co-terrorists about the planning of the attack.<br /><br />if the buildings were asploded, what happened to all the people who got on planes that morning and have never been seen again? And if planes did crash into the buildings, who was piloting them? secret suicidal government operatives? and why did the US govt think it was so important to crash a 4th plane into a field in PA? and what was the govt's motive?<br /><br />this has been your daily "come ON GUYS, get a hold of yourselves" reality check. i cannot believe i had to write it.Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01074589998141327538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-68136651356926696352010-01-31T08:03:19.427-08:002010-01-31T08:03:19.427-08:00You know to be entirely fair I've talked to a ...You know to be entirely fair I've talked to a few truthers and they always sound entirely sane when talking about 9/11 (mainly because they're talking about things I'm not very knowledgeable of) and always get *this* close to convincing me but then they slip up and say things like "Bush is going to run for a third term, the two-term thing is just a tradition, there's nothing that says he can't, believe me I've checked" or "Obama bowing to the Saudi king is PROOF that he's a muslim/a secret agent of the One World Shadow Government" or "the Government is going to establish a New World Order in 2012, just like it says in Revelations". I can then go back to comfortably thinking of them as the nutcases they are. <br />That might sound like something of an ad hominem argument, and in a way it kinda is. But not enough to make it a fallacy, I don't think. Think about it: do you really think somebody who honestly believes any of the above quoted statements is capable of the kind of critical thinking necessary to uncover a deception that fooled so many others?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-49930751854919997902010-01-29T11:57:10.007-08:002010-01-29T11:57:10.007-08:00I don't understand. If you don't engage w...I don't understand. If you don't engage with a theory, how can you possibly be so adamantly sure its wrong. Otherwise you're taking habit and wishful thinking as fact and I think the stakes are too high for that approach. And that's why I challenge you to do some independent research like the scientifically minded people you all (by reading and critiquing XKCD) claim to be.<br /><br />I mean you call Randall's fans cuddlefish for blindly following what the croowd says is popular. Isn't there a possibility you're guilty of the same thing?JCCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-13374412671871167922010-01-27T07:47:52.430-08:002010-01-27T07:47:52.430-08:00lol truthers!
You're a fucking nutcase, dude....lol truthers!<br /><br />You're a fucking nutcase, dude. Get over it. Nobody is going to engage with you like you are an intelligent human.rshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15828938843801425383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-14133331936009724232010-01-27T04:20:46.288-08:002010-01-27T04:20:46.288-08:00I don't know why you're surprised. Most o...I don't know why you're surprised. Most of the cuddlefish are inclined to agree with Randall, and most of the regular posters here are fairly sane people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-22505161859556813622010-01-26T23:05:28.527-08:002010-01-26T23:05:28.527-08:00What's amazing to me is that in all these many...What's amazing to me is that in all these many posts, no one has tried to defend the 9/11 truthers. All I will say is this: It sounds like a conspiracy theory, so many smart, rational people who have meticulously looked into conspiracy theories in the past will react like Randall in 258 and dismiss it as the product of "whackjobs" and confirmation bias. In fact, if you look into it, it is a large number of engineers and architechts drawing attention to the high number of glaring inconsistencies in the official story and the fact that none of these has been addressed by the government (the three independent commissions employed almost exactly the same scientists, hard evidence of thermite explosives has been found, most of the metal that could answer these questions was quickly and mysteriously rushed off to China to be recycled, the list goes on.)<br /><br />I am not and have never been a conspiracy theorist, and if someone can point me to a rational, fact-based, line-by-line refutation of the truthers' claims PLEASE DO because it will ease my mind greatly, but if not, I urge you, for your own sakes, look into it. Because if there is any chance its true, we cannot let the party responsible get away with it.JCCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-29563223050039678012010-01-26T22:38:50.331-08:002010-01-26T22:38:50.331-08:00tl;dr: Too soon.
Whatever.tl;dr: Too soon.<br /><br />Whatever.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-20502368365763185492010-01-26T14:48:12.709-08:002010-01-26T14:48:12.709-08:00oh man, I wish they had done a better job with tha...oh man, I wish they had done a better job with that...it's a great idea but I don't think theirs is very funny. Perhaps if there had been songs? I guess this show isn't in English so I wouldn't have understood it, but the idea of musical 9/11 is pretty funny, I think.Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01074589998141327538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-4561481299736741662010-01-26T00:43:29.545-08:002010-01-26T00:43:29.545-08:00If you think this comic is over the endge, you'...If you think this comic is over the endge, you'll probably get a heart attack by this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv0xq0_1lZYAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-68680919326199246082010-01-23T00:46:04.281-08:002010-01-23T00:46:04.281-08:00The thing is, 9/11 wasn't a big deal. It pisse...The thing is, 9/11 wasn't a big deal. It pissed my brother and I off that they canceled our cartoons, but after that I didn't even realize the implications of it until years later. And by then, no one cared. No one cares now. It's just December 7th.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-1689085930566166742010-01-22T23:44:03.889-08:002010-01-22T23:44:03.889-08:00Oh, and let's not forget the Christian religio...Oh, and let's not forget the Christian religion's very big part in keeping working classes in line, with promises of rewards in the life to come if they will only endure the bullshit in this one.<br /><br />(It is irrelevant if this was not Jesus' intention. Christianity was historically used for this and today still routinely has this nefarious effect.)El Duderinonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-9558453892770574022010-01-22T23:35:25.634-08:002010-01-22T23:35:25.634-08:00OK, this post is clearly too late as a reply to Ja...OK, this post is clearly too late as a reply to Jay way up there, but here it goes.<br /><br />I didn't say, nor meant to say, that AMERICANS are self-absorbed by nature, or that europeans are curious by nature, or whatever. Just that american society, as a whole, for various complicated factors (only one of which is geography), is more self-absorbed. This means that, through no fault of their own, the majority of americans (that I met) were never lead to learn about life in different countries, nor about history besides the bare prerequisites to understand american history.<br /><br />To blame geography exclusively is, I think, optimistic. Obviously the whole social and economic structure of the U.S. (in the recent past) is strongly predicated on a notion of "working hard and making it" that is, to put it lightly, not very realistic. People are led to believe that being overworked is a cause for pride, or at the very least a fact of life. (And most people don't have a job that they are enthusiastic about.) I think a big part of their acceptance of this lie is their lack of knowledge of concrete examples, around the world, of life not being like this. Obviously, the people profiting from this massive amount of work have an interest in keeping things that way.<br /><br />Again, none of this is meant as agression upon any american individual; I am not even saying anything about any particular individual. For all I know everyone posting here could be extremly worldly. But it is my very strong impression that general american ignorance of the rest of the world cannot be explained by geography / necessity alone. (People in Europe and in South America -- that I met -- knew much more about the other than americans -- that I met -- knew about either.)<br /><br />Finally, I don't see how pointing out that Christianity is absurd as a conceptual structure constitutes "bashing" any individual. Most christians' conviction that 3+ billion people, sharing beliefs entirely analogous to their own in terms of evidence, are mostly in the wrong and will pay for it in some way, sounds a lot more like bashing to me.El Duderinonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-27582910419390643932010-01-22T17:51:56.133-08:002010-01-22T17:51:56.133-08:00That's not too uncommon. It's a pretty goo...That's not too uncommon. It's a pretty good way to troll, really. You win either way: some people get annoyed at how bad you are at trolling, and some people fall for it, because human stupidity knows no bounds.rshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15828938843801425383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-39469182804174433162010-01-22T17:50:48.170-08:002010-01-22T17:50:48.170-08:00Also W is the worst troll ever and if anyone take...Also W is the worst troll ever and if anyone takes the bait I will weep for humanity.<br /><br />Unless he's some kind of meta-troll that gets off on people telling him he's bad at trolling. Whoa.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-83063590215391910752010-01-22T17:44:01.586-08:002010-01-22T17:44:01.586-08:00Cyanide And Happiness is awesome.Cyanide And Happiness is awesome.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-87538926167928018702010-01-22T13:00:24.805-08:002010-01-22T13:00:24.805-08:00@Kirk:
You should check out Boston and Shaun. I a...@Kirk:<br /><br />You should check out Boston and Shaun. I am still unable to comprehend how something so terrible can exist.David Poorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10173847419796847573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-11184566438333747052010-01-22T07:16:48.730-08:002010-01-22T07:16:48.730-08:00Cheers Carl!Cheers Carl!Ian Janeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18073397857520566443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-13614609910201118502010-01-22T05:24:22.896-08:002010-01-22T05:24:22.896-08:00You know what's really funny/scary: Half the p...You know what's really funny/scary: Half the people in this thread arguing about 9/11 probably weren't even teenagers when it happened.<br /><br />This is why it can seem so minor to them. Kids: you were six! Now grow up!Sam Fnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-72335445583232616042010-01-21T21:36:10.705-08:002010-01-21T21:36:10.705-08:00I used to think Cyanide and Happiness was the wors...I used to think Cyanide and Happiness was the worst thing on the internets, but then I saw Sarah Zero, so now C and H is the second worst thing on the internet.Kirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16146459274295885156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-71055257113704532972010-01-21T21:26:07.044-08:002010-01-21T21:26:07.044-08:00Only rainman can count to six.
And apparently Ran...Only rainman can count to six.<br /><br />And apparently Randy is now trying to ingratiate himself with autistic people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-17644419298804637032010-01-21T20:45:12.881-08:002010-01-21T20:45:12.881-08:00God, eh? I'll tell you what I think about God....God, eh? I'll tell you what I think about God... The concept most people have of God seems to me so illogical... I am almost certain that God can't be an intelligent, sentinent, perfect being with free will. If God is *the* absolute being, then why does he has free will? That would imply he can make mistakes, and that would imply that either he is not perfect or that there is an even higher being that would justify the "wrongness" of said mistake. And if he doesn't has free will then what's the big deal? He's just like us. So why is he any better?, he suddenly turns into just a concept. Such as:<br /><br />a) God is the first cause, the uncaused cause.<br />b) All and everything, i.e. God *is* the universe.<br /><br />And then, I'm not sure what that would imply or how it is relevant to our lives. This always leads me to think of things like the collective unconscious, or that every one of us is actually god; that we are nature being aware of itself. And suddenly it starts to sound too new age...<br /><br />P.S. Note I didn't mention religion. I don't think anything religion preaches can be used to know anything about the nature of the universe. It's just dogma. Its roots are murky. Its history demonstrates it's just a social grouping and/or control system.<br /><br />P.P.S. The SD card comic is idiotic. God (hehe), why are the punchlines always executed so terribly?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11098332615351188059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-54948955402745191952010-01-21T19:09:28.861-08:002010-01-21T19:09:28.861-08:00Dude, Cyanide and Happiness has been terrible for ...Dude, Cyanide and Happiness has been terrible for years now.Jayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06037127857062536971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-59430559720166695032010-01-21T18:47:39.543-08:002010-01-21T18:47:39.543-08:00I think it would be funny something a bit older th...I think it would be funny something a bit older than 9/11 was used, or even something that didn't involve people dying, like the "debate" about the moon landing. <br /><br />Much more importantly, were you hating on Cyanide and Happiness? Cause if you were you and I might have to have a little talk. In the alley. And I'll have a bat. And I'll be hitting you with it instead of talking to you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-23747533166414303902010-01-21T18:31:26.362-08:002010-01-21T18:31:26.362-08:00Guys, guys. Don't you get it? You're ALL...Guys, guys. Don't you get it? You're ALL assholes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com