The Current State of the World thread

regulate · 2013-04-27T18:58:30.000Z

Taibbi: No Price Big Banks Can't Fix

The Illuminati were amateurs. The second huge financial scandal of the year reveals the real international conspiracy: There's no price the big banks

well well well… well its not anything that you didnt know was going on already.

Shaft_Agent · 2013-04-27T20:57:46.000Z

lol @ me working for one of those companies. u mad, 50v!3t?

real talk, i’m just there until i can buy some tools and my next gaming computer. a few more months and i’m out (if i don’t get fired, which i wouldn’t even care about. job sucks 4 real.).

Oilforthewin · 2013-04-30T13:40:25.000Z

http://csis.org/files/publication/130408_Iran_Gulf_Mil_Bal_II.pdf
Maybe it will interest someone here.

Jion_Wansu · 2013-05-06T00:53:10.000Z

revealed that israel bombed syria… lete’s see what happens next…

pedoviejo · 2013-05-06T03:36:25.000Z

http://news.yahoo.com/teenagers-social-media-terrorism-threat-level-hard-assess-131320139.html

if so, stay free America.

LOL at that dumbshit stating this is the cost of living in a free society.

Eat a bag of dicks. Ill take the chance of dying thank you very much, that’s what it costs to live in a free society

ElderGOD · 2013-05-06T03:46:50.000Z

Jion_Wansu:

revealed that israel bombed syria… lete’s see what happens next…

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/05/israeli-warplanes-strike-_0_n_3218627.html?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl3|sec1_lnk1%26pLid%3D308666

Israeli officials signaled they will keep trying to block what they see as an effort by Iran to send sophisticated weapons to Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia

goodm0urning · 2013-05-06T08:17:53.000Z

pedoviejo:

http://news.yahoo.com/teenagers-social-media-terrorism-threat-level-hard-assess-131320139.html

if so, stay free America.

LOL at that dumbshit stating this is the cost of living in a free society.

Eat a bag of dicks. Ill take the chance of dying thank you very much, that’s what it costs to live in a free society

Solving crimes, one lyric at a time.

Uh, I mean…

Fuck.

Oilforthewin · 2013-05-06T11:46:58.000Z

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/05/muslims-only-carried-out-2-5-percent-of-terrorist-attacks-on-u-s-soil-between-1970-and-2012.html

Funny that this picture doesn´t show right wing attacks. Pic is made after FBI data.

In other words, approximately 2.5% of all terrorist attacks on U.S. soil between 1970 and 2012 were carried out by Muslims.* This is a tiny proportion of all attacks.

(We determined that approximately 118 of the terror attacks – or 4.9% – were carried out by Jewish groups such as Jewish Armed Resistance, the Jewish Defense League, Jewish Action Movement, United Jewish Underground and Thunder of Zion. This is almost twice the percentage of Islamic attacks within the United States. In addition, there were approximately 168 attacks – or 7% – by anti-abortion activists, who tend to be Christian.

goodm0urning · 2013-05-06T12:39:22.000Z

But it’s totally rational to pin any domestic attack on Muslim terrorists, because, you know, stereotypes.

Rhio2k · 2013-05-06T14:25:22.000Z

goodm0urning:

But it’s totally rational to pin any domestic attack on Muslim terrorists, because, you know, stereotypes.

For some odd reason, they occupy 30 of the fbi’s 32 most wanted list. And you know, modus operandi…although not being in the center of the blast…well, that’s a little different. Had they gotten to Times Square, maybe they’d have done it the old-fashion way THAT time, being tuckered out and all.

goodm0urning · 2013-05-06T14:28:26.000Z

Human pattern recognition is not necessarily rational. In fact, it very frequently isn’t. This is basically the entire reason we use the scientific method.

Actually, human pattern recognition is basically the entire reason we have stereotypes.

Raz0r · 2013-05-06T14:30:31.000Z

goodm0urning:

But it’s totally rational to pin any domestic attack on Muslim terrorists, because, you know, stereotypes.

It’s not like there is precedent or anything.

goodm0urning · 2013-05-06T19:23:43.000Z

Raz0r:

It’s not like there is precedent or anything.

Some dumbfuck kid shooting his mom over his Call of Duty game is precedented. Fishjie getting shot in the face with a taser is precedented. Stuckey getting caught with his underpants on backwards is precedented. The fact that these things are precedented has jack shit to do with their likelihood of happening.

regulate · 2013-05-06T20:48:45.000Z

Oilforthewin:

http://i2.wp.com/www.loonwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/piechart2.jpg?resize=491%2C491

(We determined that approximately 118 of the terror attacks – or 4.9% – were carried out by Jewish groups such as Jewish Armed Resistance, the Jewish Defense League, Jewish Action Movement, United Jewish Underground and Thunder of Zion. This is almost twice the percentage of Islamic attacks within the United States. In addition, there were approximately 168 attacks – or 7% – by anti-abortion activists, who tend to be Christian.

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Uh, i dont like the 42% “latino” part.

Pertho · 2013-05-06T21:16:57.000Z

goodm0urning:

Human pattern recognition is not necessarily rational. In fact, it very frequently isn’t. This is basically the entire reason we use the scientific method.

Actually, human pattern recognition is basically the entire reason we have stereotypes.

I could go on about how useful stereotypes are; or how easily they are formed. But in all honesty lumping in stereotypes with shitty pattern recognition is unfair. Taking the deli portion of the supermarket near by, my wife has yet to see a black family line up to buy something other than fried chicken. In a similarly curious situation, a good 90% of the people I see doing dumb fucked up shit while driving are females.

The issue with both of these is that statistically speaking, they present a very narrow data set (albeit scientifically random). If we take national statistics on accidents, males are the most dangerous drivers. Not quite sure what to make of the fried chicken though. Guess black just all over that.

In itself the word stereotype could be really useful for people, if they used it responsibly. As far as I’m concerned, the word stereotype might as well mean “observed behavior by a culture for which a person has no context.” Anthropology uses stereotypes a lot. It just so happens that they write down all these observations then work on getting the context. Regular people don’t make it too far along any type of scientific inquiry; thus acting like the observation of one behavior is the whole of what is happening. So yeah, stereotypes are like barebone sketches of a culture without any meaningful details written in.

goodm0urning · 2013-05-06T21:45:21.000Z

I didn’t qualify with “shitty”, and that was deliberate. Pattern recognition, full stop. Useful in nature, not so much when evaluating the piecemeal evidence delivered to us through mediated culture.

SoVi3t · 2013-05-06T22:15:23.000Z

there is a mighty big difference between a terrorist attack like bombing a large group of people or a building, and a ‘terrorist’ attack involving some random christian nut killing lone abortion doctors.

goodm0urning · 2013-05-06T22:19:12.000Z

Certainly not the “terrorism” part, given that both are terrorism by definition.

pherai · 2013-05-30T02:57:03.000Z

its nice to get some good news every once in a while…

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/minn-rep-michele-bachmann-says-she-wont-run-for-re-election-in-2014/2013/05/29/da55ae62-c83a-11e2-9cd9-3b9a22a4000a_story.html

Shaft_Agent · 2013-05-30T11:25:38.000Z

yeah, but now we won’t get gems like this

take that, SFxTK