by Carl Howard | Feb 25, 2015 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Ethics, Mind, Psychology and Consciousness, Resources, Food and Environment, Science and Skepticism
You know what’s really fucking annoying? When someone has a list of cognitive biases of fallacies that they love to stick on situations. “You’ve just committed an egreggious case of petitio principii, also known as begging the question for you plebs!” and the like....
by Carl Howard | Jan 12, 2015 | Charity and Philanthropy, Feminism and LGBT, Medicine, Resources, Food and Environment
2014 was not a great year for the world by any means. If you haven’t seen this great cartoon from The Nib summarising just some of the shitty things that happened, you should. So naturally, what did 2015 do so far? Promise to be a much much shittier year, if these...
by Carl Howard | Jan 9, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Ethics, History, Race, Resources, Food and Environment
In 2008, there were over 1 million feral camels spread out over much of Australia’s desert interior, apparently with a population set to double every 8-9 years. Camels are obviously not native to Australia but are thriving in the deserts. Due to the camels using up...
by Carl Howard | Dec 22, 2014 | Biases and Fallacies, Society
In Homer the Heretic, Homer Simpson falls asleep on the couch with a lit cigar in his mouth while smugly saying to himself “everyone is stupid except me”. Of course, it’s meant to be an illustration of his hubris. The cigar drops out of his mouth setting the Simpsons’...
by Carl Howard | Dec 17, 2014 | Atheism and Religion, Atrocities and Oppression, Ethics, History, Race
With such a tragedy hitting Sydney never has the expression opinions are like assholes –- everyone has one been more apt. Some of that talk has been racism and xenophobia (but not in my social media feeds, yay living in a bubble!) which should of course be condemned....
by Carl Howard | Dec 15, 2014 | Atrocities and Oppression, Ethics, History, Resources, Food and Environment
[Spoiler for Django Unchained] The climax of the movie is when Django comes back to the house for a final showdown. One sequence is just classic love-him-or-loathe-him Tarantino: Django is at the top of the stairs explaining how he will take revenge on the white...
