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Philip May Thanks for putting this up Aron. While some may find this sort of thing tedious, I was glad to get a chance to listen to the talks of all the speakers involved (ok, well maybe not all). Highlights for me: Christopher Rose? (First Speaker), Speaker just prior to Aron whose name I did not get (27:23), Aron (29:37), Lilandra (31:30), Kathy Miller Texas Freedom Network (39:18), Did she get to speak the next day about process? Kathleen Wellman (my favorite speaker of this group) of SMU (52:40), Zack Koplin Americans United (1:16:13) Is it possible to get access to a copy of the materials submitted by the speakers? I think it would be instructive to be able to map raised objections onto the actions eventually taken by the committee.
September 22, 2014 05:25:05 · Reply
Dusty Sandusky Sorry... The speaker at about 24:30 made me facepalm so hard I missed the next few minutes.
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September 19, 2014 11:46:33
Joanne Rochester The sound on this is dreadful -- can't you fix it?
October 6, 2014 07:46:51 · Reply
Joanne Rochester Ah, the joys. Frustrating, because I always enjoy these.
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August 22, 2014 06:57:48
Clarence Welker Excellent video and great job on the production. Thanks to all who are involved in this.
August 23, 2014 02:01:20 · Reply
Andrew Rooney Thoroughly enjoyable and informative.
August 23, 2014 05:24:49 · Reply
Nadine Thanks for the lessons. I have a lot of catching up to do as far as science education goes.. Been working on it since March. I love listening to you...I get smarter just by hearing. lol I have a question concerning what I've learned about how species are created. As the natural selection occurs and branches form...things move away from each other until they are no longer able to breed correct? Is blood type a part of this? Am I as an O- (who is unable w/o medical help to pro-create with any other blood type) being left behind as another species of humans evolves? I hope that's not a stupid question.
September 7, 2014 20:49:46 · Reply
Aron Ra I never heard that before. I had to look it up. https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090805144003AAXPrhe "What happens when an O blood type person has a baby with an AB blood type person?" Answer: "There is a 50% chance the child will have type B blood (BO) and a 50% chance the child will have type A blood (AO). For the sake of explanation let's say that the mother has type O blood and the father has type AB blood. Type O blood is the result of not having either A or B antigens and is therefore a recessive trait. Having type AB blood means that the father has both A and B antigens. The mother only has two of the same allele so no matter what she will give the baby an "O" allele. The father will give the baby either an A allele or a B allele. This means that the baby will either be AO or BO. Since "O" is a resessive trait the A or the B will be dominant resulting in the child having either type A blood (AO) or type B blood (BO)." So according to 'Yahoo Answers', you can procreate with someone of another blood type.
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August 19, 2014 22:18:18
Robert Sheehan I love it!
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August 13, 2014 14:48:52
Chad Loeffler Totally agree. Caring about multiple issues is how some get solved instead of none being solved. If someone says to not care about something because it isn't on par with 10000 people being killed, ask what their stance would be if their children were kidnapped, but the police wouldn't go look for the villain because they were too busy protesting events in another continent and 2 kids just aren't equal to 100 kids.
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heyzeus023 You're a worthless excuse of a human being. http://www.infinitelooper.com/?v=5_saS417Pe8&p=n#/814;934
August 15, 2014 15:55:44 · Reply
Matt Rebecca, Maybe you would have less argument if you were speaking to rape being a human problem, not just a female one. Do you accept the research by Jim Hopper stating that one in six males are victims of sexual abuse in their lifetime? http://www.jimhopper.com/male-ab/
August 25, 2014 01:38:20 · Reply
Rebecca Watson Please point out where I've ever even implied that rape was only a concern to women. Difficulty: ignoring the video I did in which I talk about the alarming frequency of male rape victims: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyLbu_a-C2I You may want to keep your sorry-ass trolling to YouTube where it's easier to impress the natives.
August 25, 2014 02:07:03 · Reply
Rebecca Watson I picked a study from my first link at random. 348 rape victims. 0 gendered words. Do you want to pull the other one? https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/publications/abstract.aspx?ID=142244
August 25, 2014 03:56:41 · Reply
Matt Actually from your first link, the only gendered references in the paper were: "This problem can be especially pronounced when the (female) victim is from a minority culture and the (male) law enforcement professional is from the dominant culture of the United States." The first study used as a reference from that whitepaper was heavily biased towards referencing women victims - Bachman, R. & Saltzman, L.E. (1995). Violence against women: Estimates from the redesigned survey. Washington, DC: Bureau of Justice Statistics. "What does the research literature have to say about the overall prevalence and incidence of partner violence? Although estimates vary based on the nature of the sample and method of data collection, statistics indicate that somewhere between 23 percent (Straus, Gelles, & Steinmetz, 1980) and 66 percent (Roy, 1982) of American women are physically assaulted by a spouse or cohabitant lover during their lifetimes, and, according to one estimate, as many as 50 to 60 percent of couples may experience physical violence during the course of their relationships The second study - Bohmer, Carol and Andrea Parrot. Sexual Assault on Campus: The Problem and the Solution. New York: Lexington Books, 1993. The only gender reference from the abstract: "Why does no one seem to know what to do about the problem of sexual assault on campus? Why do so few women report their assault?" I couldn't find links to the third or fourth references, but the fifth reference was - Fisher, B., Cullen, F., & Turner, M. (2000). The Sexual Victimization of College Women. Washington, DC: US Department of Justice: National Institute of Justice and Bureau of Justice Statistics. So yes it appears to be biased towards female gender references. I would definitely like to hear your analysis of rape accusations from men. It sounds interesting as I was not aware of the increasing use of rape allegations by men in divorce proceedings.
August 25, 2014 04:46:31 · Reply
Matt oh and after reading about "MRA" I would appreciate it if you would remove the tweets associating myself with this "movement". I do not feel men are discriminated or oppressed in our society, or that men should be able to dictate how women should live their lives. I was just trying to offer my opinion that if you spent a more proportional amount of time discussing and referencing male rape victim studies it might get some men on the fence to be more responsive about listening to what you are trying to say. It could also help more men come forward as victims without being pressured by these MRA types. Honest question: I feel like I am just advocating creating awareness for male rape victims. Is it acceptable to do that without being categorized as an "MRA"?
August 25, 2014 05:01:31 · Reply
Helen Pluckrose Can you say a bit more about these rigorous scientific studies which put false rape claims at about 2%? I am trying to work out how that figure can be reached. Obviously, the rate of acquittal in rape trials is much higher - in some places as high as 50%. Of course, this does not mean that half of rape accusations that are prosecuted are false. It means there was reasonable doubt and this will mean that guilty men go free. However, if in all those cases, a jury presented with all the evidence and testimony is unable to be sure that a rape took place, I'm wondering how a statistician with far less information is able to be sure that enough of them were to reach that figure. Could you explain how this figure was reached or link the studies?
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July 15, 2014 17:05:27
Paul Applegate Because, as we know, magnets can do magic. I stick a magnet to my hard drive to make my internet go faster. Really. It works. You should do it.
July 15, 2014 18:27:00 · Reply
Roger Bauman For some reason the song "Underwear" by the Magnetic Fields is going through my head right now.
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May 21, 2014 17:53:19
Ben Emlyn-Jones It's true that military strategists do create contingency scenarioes based on very radical transformations of the political order, like Canada becoming an enemy of the USA, therefore coding is necessary not to cause a diplomatic scandal in the real world. However the DoD already uses code for such fictional training packages; the word "orange" is a common tag.
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Robert Sheehan This balding white guy in his 40s also condemns the act.
January 8, 2015 14:17:46 · Reply
John Santos "It's better to die on your feet than live on your knees" has long been a right-wing meme. When an ultra-reactionary character in Catch-22 said it, another character (a rare voice of sanity) told him he had it exactly backwards, it's better to live on your feet than to die on your knees.
January 8, 2015 17:02:39 · Reply
Ryan Duff That's an interesting point John. I am a bit confused though. Did the cartoonists live on their feet, or did they die on their knees? Or am I missing your point entirely?
January 9, 2015 14:48:27 · Reply
Ian In case someone says you are strawmanning, you can point this to a highly voted comment on a picture of the rallies in Paris: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/2rnycn/they_wanted_to_bring_france_to_her_knees_instead/cnhp4f2 which is exactly the sort of thing you were responding to.
January 8, 2015 17:03:00 · Reply