Secular Café Archive

[quote=""Ozymandias""]What do you have against cursive? It is my default writing style. Admitedly I type more than I write nowadays, but only slightly. I still like taking notes with a pen because of the fluidity it gives me to annotate and add diagrams (often on my iPad). Being ...

[quote=""Politesse""] Braindead Trump supporter actually asks a Native American if he is in the country legally. More like completely missing brain. The guy should have added "and my ancestors weren't immigrants either. Of any kind. Did your ancestors enter the country legal...

[quote=""Roo St. Gallus""]So...raw dog sex with porn stars?

Could this be the reason behind his impaired psychological performance?

Syphilis strikes back.[/quote]

I would think a porn star would know enough to not do it raw without testing.

[quote=""Jackrabbit""]Braindead Trump supporter actually asks a Native American if he is in the country legally. More like completely missing brain. The guy should have added "and my ancestors weren't immigrants either. Of any kind. Did your ancestors enter the country legal...

[quote=""Ozymandias""]I don't understand how someone can derive sexual pleasure from being spanked. :confused: :d unno:[/quote] In general it's hard to understand a sexual kink you don't have. That doesn't mean that others don't enjoy it, though. As someone who is completely stra...

[quote=""Greatest I am""] Plenty of Republicans are creationists. Indeed. Are you saying that being deluded is a good thing? Remember that Bush went to war because God told him to. Regards DL[/QUOTE] I'm saying a creationist isn't going to have a problem with a creationist for pr...

Plenty of Republicans are creationists.

So what if he wanted to be spanked?

What bothers me is the similarity between her and Ivanka.

[quote=""Aupmanyav""]Neither does it surprise me. Though I do not mind being alone. Loren, Ben Netanyahu is in India for another hugging session with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. They have signed nine agreements. He will be here for six days! Moshe Holtzberg, the 12 year old, wh...

[quote=""lpetrich""]I have discovered several of them: Flesch–Kincaid readability tests Gunning fog index Coleman–Liau index Automated readability index SMOG Dale–Chall readability formula Spache readability formula Fry readability formula They all use words per sentence, along w...

It doesn't surprise me.

It's not a binary state. Also, it depends on their reproductive rate. In animal breeding inbreeding tiny populations is actually used as a technique to improve the line. Have lots of offspring, keep only the best for the next generation. You can improve the line still further by doing this for some ...

[quote=""espritch""]The Saudi royals made a devil's bargain with the Wahhabists to gain control of Arabia. I'm not optimistic that the new King can buck them without bringing down his own house. Also, people with power rarely give it up willingly, and any real reform would requir...

[quote=""Jackrabbit""]Say everybody in the concert crowd was armed. They didn't know where the bullets were coming from. Even if they had figured out it was the hotel, they still wouldn't know which room, or even which floor. They might have shot the shit out of the whole side of...

[quote=""lpetrich""] Commanding Heights : Joseph Stiglitz | on PBS -- its privatization of state assets under Yeltsin's rule was a flop. Well-connected people profited enormously and became a new class of oligarchs, while ordinary people's standards of living dropped dramatically...

[quote=""praxis""]I was thinking about having the gas on a cart with wheels with a rope and a timer on a mechanical pulley in another room. Set the timer for an hour so it would pull everything out of the room and place it neatly near a wall. The problem is the bag - even if I ca...

[quote=""Jobar""]After reading that article, I have to say that a much simpler and cheaper option would involve a large, clear plastic bag, and a small tank of nitrogen, helium, or (my own preference) nitrous oxide. A very large rubber band to fit around your chest, or a bungee c...

[quote=""lpetrich""] A Doctor Built a Machine That Helps People Die - Tonic Literal death machine offers a way to peacefully slip out of existence (The Next Web) It's a sort of "death pod". One gets inside of it, and it then supplies nitrogen gas. It kills by suffocatio...

[quote=""purple_kathryn""]Purple if the far superior colour. I don't understand how anyone could have any other favourite[/quote] Easily--I've got some red/green color weakness. I don't like most any color that contains a limited amount of red or green. (Lots of red or green is f...

I don't think I own any purple clothing.

The Arab "Spring" turned out badly basically everywhere.

[quote=""Jobar""] Well, cruise missiles are weapons. Also, the minimum airspeed. Cruise missiles have to go very fast or they will fall out of the sky. Note how tiny their wings are--they look more like fins than wings. They also omit things like flaps (which make the wings funct...

[quote=""frazier""]Going on memory, can't remember where I saw it - most crashes involving Self-Driving Cars were rear-enders where the SDC was the "victim". Evidently we humans have certain expectations about the car in front of us - when it will move, when it will pro...

[quote=""lpetrich""] A cruise missile is a rocket that acts like an airplane, making lift for itself with wings. Where it's launched from does not matter. Cruise missiles can be launched from the ground, from ships, and from airplanes. Actually, most modern cruise missiles are po...

No category for the red-light runner? Too few accidents to get a category? (A few of them would fall into the "into the blind" category but when a big vehicle in front of you keeps you from seeing the light the result is unlikely to be an accident--the cross traffic will see the intersecti...