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Anti “Bill Nye” posts

I've been seeing a LOT of "Anti Bill Nye" posts on my social media feeds.

And all of them stemming from Nye stating in his show that gender and sex are not the same.

(Of note, the first pic here is from S5E03 of his 90′s show, and he never said what the person claims in that episode, but moving on....) Most attack Nye as a "non scientist", something he's said himself as he describes himself as a "Science COMMUNICATOR". The name "Bill Nye the Science Guy" actually came up when he was working at a Seattle TV show called "Almost Live" when he corrected someone on a science error, and they mockingly called him that.

But up until now, nobody has had a problem with Bill Nye, until he talked about “GENDER”. He talked global warming, nothing. He talked space exploration, nothing. He talked GENETICS, nothing. He debates with an evangelist over biblical origins, using science and mechanical engineering, nothing.. He talks about gender issues, and suddenly everyone seems to want to discredit him.

What this boils down to is basically this. "He said something that offends me based on my religious beliefs, or what I think my religious book says, so HE MUST BE PUNISHED!"

Why does that feel familiar? hmm....

#just saying #bill nye

this week we're doing a concert film review, the OTHER half of the story from the last episode, the Rolling Stones playing a small venue for live television, from Mtv's "Live from the 10 spot"

This week’s show is LIVE on Channel Awesome! You can check it out over on CA (Link) Or above!

#video #Channel Awesome #LIVE ON FILM

I read this "story" on Facebook, and I can't help but want to comment. But I know I'll get shouted down and threatened by Christians if I do, so I'm taking what I can here.

The story is of a veteran who apparently was so offended that a memorial on public land had to remove the holy symbol of his religion (to conform to the separation of church and state in the constitution) that he’s taken it upon himself to stand vigil on the spot with a Cross, a flag, a sign that says “GOD BLESS America” in order to do what he feels is right. He’s also placed a golden chain with a cross around the silhouette of the grieving soldier statue.

On Facebook, as of my typing, there are 450+ comments (being moderated, naturally) saying “God Bless you”, “God protect you” and “You are doing Gods work.” And the few disenting posts are met with anger and vitriol. “Why does it bother you so much what religion is displayed? No one is disputing what our Veterans have fought for.” being one of the most tame responses.

One person even posted an “official list” of religions declared by active soldiers to prove Christians are #1, and therefore should be on this memorial. “You’d think other religions would be out there too!” they said. So I’ll ask the hard question here that’s just begging for an answer.

What if this man was holding up a Star of David at this memorial? What if he was a Muslim holding up a large Quran? What if he was ANY OTHER RELIGION other than Christian, and wrapped his holy symbol around a veterans memorial and held up the symbol in front of it? Would these people celebrate him? Would they pat him on the back and say "good job standing up for what's right"?

Does placing your holy symbol on a symbol of fallen soldiers honor the fallen Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Atheists, Buddhists and any other religion that has fought for, and died for, the freedom to practice a faith they did not? Does it not slap others in the face by saying "JESUS OR GTFO!"?

Or should we just call it what it is, grandstanding for personal gain and attention and NOT to glorify "The Father". Matthew 6:5 - 6 "And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you"

For anyone who is Christian and read this far, thank you first of all, but second you’re not being persecuted. You’re just being asked to either allow everyone a fair voice (IE : Not beating the living crap out of someone or doxing them or threatening them for speaking up), or to have none. And unless you’re prepared to have literally THOUSANDS of holy symbols littering a park so we can all be included, none is the best default answer.

#Facebook #religion #Murica

Make me cycle 200 miles for Diabetes research :

So I did something daft, and I could use your help to make it happen.

I signed up for TWO "Tour de Cure" events to raise money for the American Diabetes Association. (Links below) One in Chicago, the other in Milwaukee. It'll be a combined mileage of 170 official, but realistically 200 as I'm biking TO and FROM the Milwaukee event. And I need to fundraise them both independently. My minimum on each ride is to raise $250 for each one.

The short version of why? I was diagnosed last year as a T2 Diabetic after spending a weekend in the ICU hooked into a 24/7 insulin drip because my blood sugar was literally off the scale. I got lucky, I survived it somehow. Now I ride not only for myself, but to make it so that someone else doesn't have to have the crappy weekend I did.

So you can help me out here. Please, if you can spare a few bucks, click a link below and donate to one, or both. It's tax deductible, it helps in researching diabetes and, hopefully, finding a cure.

Thank you all in advance

CHICAGO Fundraising : http://main.diabetes.org/site/TR/?px=12398941&pg=personal&fr_id=11729 MILWAUKEE Fundraising : http://main.diabetes.org/site/TR/?px=12398941&pg=personal&fr_id=11727

#cycling #fundraiser #Diabetes

One of my roomates said she had been to an “Emo Farm” in New Mexico. She quickly corrected herself that she meant “EMU” farm but it begs the question. What would an “emo farm” be?

A bunch of people hanging out at dennys at 3 AM drinking coffee and smoking?

Welcome to the debut episode of "Live on Film" We're reviewing the Police concert film "Synchronicity", their performance Live at the Omni from November, 1983

So yeah! New show format, new location, new everything! It’s a show called “Live on Film”, and it’s reviewing concert movies! Check the vid above, or lits’ live on Channel Awesome!

http://channelawesome.com/synchronicity-concert-live-on-film/

#Live on Film #Video #Review Show

This week’s episode is LIVE on youtube! By call from on high, Tyger reviews an old 80′s TV show called “Photon”. On Channel Awesome tomorrow!

#video #gaming #photon #laser tag #80s tv shows #review

Just because I'm being a pedantic fuck tonight. This crossed my timeline, and I'm going to give the right answer.

"Heres a puzzle for everyone. Everyone failed in this pic. It's your time.... Solve fast if you are smart."

The answer is "Unknown".

Without knowing who made this, I can't speak for certain. But the looks of it is that this is supposed to be a math riddle where the symbols mean numbers, as inferred by the three examples.

Horse = 10, dual horse shoes = 4, dual boots = 2.

then in the last, the problem presented is 1 boot, 1 horse, 1 horse shoe with the single being the "gotcha" moment and how the creator probably meant the answer to be. But here's the issue with that. The singe boot / single horse shoe are completely different and new icons. They aren't "half of the previous", they're new variables in the mix

The last problem would have made as much sense i it were "Pac man + horse x television.

So the most correct answer is "unknown". Assuming that the previous 3 problems are related, and set the pattern, then having two variables in the end with an unknown answer means that we can't create a working solution. Anything could be "correct" because the two new icons could mean ANYTHING.

The question / problem is flawed. And, based on the setting it's being given in, people paid a lot of money to listen to this person talk at them to teach them a flawed way of thinking. Just 'sayin.

#memes #assumptions

This person may be onto something...

(Original twitter post here)

Stage Magic and Politics

The text from a short twitterstorm. Take as you will.

I'm crowd-sourcing for information here. Does anyone know if Trump ever studied stage magic? I ask because this his pattern is familiar. Way back in my youth I loved stage magic. Enough so that I read every book I could find on the topic of "STAGE magic." As a result, I learned a simple technique called "misdirection". It's the art of making people look LEFT and doing something on the RIGHT.

Best example was at Siegfried & Roy's show in Vegas. They literally walked an elephant off stage right while using waving from stage center. They lit center stage way too bright, I could see the elephant's harness glint as it was led off in the very poor shadows. Most of the audience applauded, I shook my head. They didn't want to see the illusion, anyone with a little knowledge could see through it.

So with that in mind, Trump is pulling some Siegfried and Roy level misdirection bullshit.

He pulls some kind of policy-level crap, then uses a tweet to misdirect media attention to his shenannigans. And the media goes "LULZ TRUMP"

But it's all stage magic misdirection. Control the stage, control the lights, control what people look at, the people are ENTERTAINED.

Being entertained by a magic trick in a theater is a shared suspension of disbelief. We want to believe in the magic, so we ignore reality. We happily allow ourselves to be misdirected to reveal the surprise we all know is coming. Oh cool, the elephant is gone. Applause. It's not so cool when people use misdirection to hide their own actions,or when it's used to hide in plain sight things that cause harm.

So I want to know, is Trump just pulling bad stage magic tricks on America? He's proven he can do patter, but this is something new.

Perhaps it's because I know what to look for, or because I don't want to be deceived by parlour tricks, but I'm worried as all hell about it.

So I get home and I see this on my feed forwarded from several sources. Normally I'd link to the source, but I'm not going to give them the satisfaction of a share, nor the ad revenue.

But a lot of the comments under it can be summed up as thus : "Yeah! There's an analogy the stupid liberals can understand!" Ok, sure.

The biggest problem here is that the Cubs did not win the World Series through hatred, bigotry and fear mongering. They didn't scream that they'd "Build a wall" around the south side of Chicago if they won. They didn't demand opposing players be sent back to Mexico, Cuba or Japan. They didn't cuddle up with white supremacists to pass along memes slamming the "Indians" mascot (and they could have, OHHH they could have)

Instead, the Cubs fought like hell, and did so "For Chicago." For themselves, yes, but they never lost sight of Wrigleyville. And when they won, they came home, and celebrated with their fans, and truly understood what it meant to the city to finally "break the curse." They got that this wasn't about themselves. It was about Chicago.

There's your analogy. Choke on it.

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I ANIMATED A THING.

Okay so this took me about four days to finish. The dance is heavily referenced from a Beyonce video (SNERK). I’d been wanting to something like this for years but was too intimidated to try it. WELL SO MUCH FOR THAT.

also best Groovitron track.