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[whiterabbit]

Well they didn't bait that great white. It approached on its own.

Yea...... that's exactly the point I was making. 

[whiterabbit]

btw: http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/12/8199689/jupiter-moon-ganymede-hidden-ocean-water

Ganymede has an ocean as well. More and more it's looking like Earth's ocean may be the oddity in the solar system since most large moons around gas/ice giants have larger oceans than us.

[DoomRulz]

http://reason.com/blog/2015/05/12/trigger-warning-mythology

In Columbia University's student newspaper, four members of the school's student Multicultural Affairs Advisory Board call on professors to be more sensitive when teaching provocative or controversial material... such as the Roman classical poet Ovid.

How are people becoming so stupid?

[PVTDukeMorrison]

http://reason.com/blog/2015/05/12/trigger-warning-mythology

In Columbia University's student newspaper, four members of the school's student Multicultural Affairs Advisory Board call on professors to be more sensitive when teaching provocative or controversial material... such as the Roman classical poet Ovid.

How are people becoming so stupid?

Because we're letting them, people are too scared of offending people and now when someone says "enough is enough", you have a hoard of screeching banshees telling them that they're being insensitive.

[whiterabbit]

They're just asking for sensitivity... probably because they feel bad for the woman. It's nothing more than that. In a land of 360,000,000 you'll be sure to hurt someones feelings with every single thing you do. However this is a college course and history is full of brutal moments that cannot be ignored because it is too painful to think about. Stories are just recollections of this brutality.

[Hubbs]

Interesting...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-32736153

http://www.thejournal.co.uk/north-east-analysis/thousands-call-north-england-become-9252787

[whiterabbit]

When I think of Scotland I think of green fields, sheep and alcohol everywhere. Interesting....

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/battle-florida-boys-circumcision-enters-federal-court-31115790

f**k why do we still allow barbaric crap like this to be done on the defenseless? Yea yea legal binding documents were signe.... oh f**k that! The lady should get the presidential medal of freedom for realizing mutilating her sons dick is barbaric. It's the boys junk; he should be the one to decide on such a life alternating matter.

[SiL]

It's really not that life altering unless it goes horribly wrong.

[whiterabbit]

It's really not that life altering unless it goes horribly wrong.

Oh come on and how would you know that if you got circumcised as a baby? Of course if you weren't then there's only one way to find out. Snip, snip. I rather have had the option to do it myself when I was actually able to consider the ramifications but oh no I had to be born in America where it is a-ok to mutilate male genitalia for what were the reasons again?  ...that's a rhetorical question btw.

Yea I am a disgruntled.   More people should be if they actually take a moment to think about it.

[DoomRulz]

Circumcision should be abolished. Honestly, it's a stupid practice and an outdated one.

[Gate]

What benefit does circumcision provide us?

[DoomRulz]

It's based around hygiene, mostly. The idea is that if the foreskin is gone, the head of the penis will be properly cleansed which would in turn reduce the risk of infections. It was a sound argument about 1000 years ago.

[whiterabbit]

It's based around hygiene, mostly. The idea is that if the foreskin is gone, the head of the penis will be properly cleansed which would in turn reduce the risk of infections. It was a sound argument about 1000 years ago.

Aside from a handful of specific cases... how hard is it to wash an uncircumcised dick? That myth was made up.

[Corporal Hicks]

The initial test of the LightSail deployment will take place later this month: http://sail.planetary.org/

[whiterabbit]

I hope it's successful but at the same time it's so bland.