Makes me think of the Halloween episode of NewsRadio where Dave (David Foley) dresses up as a woman and his coworker/girlfriend is upset because he looks better in her dress to which he responds, "Well how do you think it makes me feel to realize at age 30 that I'm much better looking as a girl?"

Well, that was random.

@conan
Depends on the state. Most of the time you can get away with it because it is public property (and owned private property) and it is not recording any sound (avoids following under wiretapping laws.)

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I was interested in this talk when I heard her talk about the points she wished to address: (1) Are atheists actually angry?; (2) Why are they angry and is it valid?; and (3) Is this anger useful for the atheist movement?

Around the 15 minute mark, I became tired of what had become a crowd-pandering rant about what makes the speaker angry (self-classified by Greta as a rant at least twice later in this talk.) I kept skipping forward to find the end of the rant because I was interest in the other points she had promised to make. I'm not dismissing the validity of her individual points within that rant, but was wanted to hear her other points.

If you already know why atheists are angry, or don't need a warm fuzzy feeling from hearing someone rant about something you agree with, or just don't want to hear the rant in general:
SKIP FROM 6 minutes to 26 minutes.

I thought she made some excellent points when talking about the usefulness of anger within a social movement. People often idealize past social movement figures while ignoring what they don't know or don't wish to know. Also there tends to be a ignoring of the multiple groups working in tandem (although sometimes not more than of strangers taking the same bus to similar destinations) which created the social change that the history books lay to rest on the one idealized (idolized?) leader for one of the groups.

Fuck yeah!!! I'm HUGE!

Truth be told, I have an overwhelming desire to add an "in space" at the end. I think this stems from my Halloween costume where went as myself (just at work.) When the subject of costumes came up, I'd say, "I dressed up as myself (...long three count with straight face and continuous eye contact...) I'm huge in Japan."

>> ^gwiz665:

I like turtles.


Me too! Have you seen that video of the cute kitten riding a turtle! OMG!!!! It is sooooo cute!!!!

Wow. They really captured the essential of a This American Life show. Quality.

>> ^csnel3:

I'm gonna wait for some more info, cause I smell a rat. This guy was too good and the reporter was too polite. There is no way this was a random "man on the street " interview. I'm getting conflicting impulses. There is more to this story. And....I want a hat like that!!


Or maybe this man actually knows what he is talking about and/or regularly discusses this with his companions.

I've met lots of people that are able to talk very succinctly about subjects they are passionate about. I would think that is mainly who is at the rally right now (and especially at the beginning.) As always, passion does not necessitate intelligence, but it does happen. I'm sure there are lots of interviews with people that are exceedingly less organized with their thoughts.

>> ^lantern53:

Does this make our military stronger?
No.


I think the only way I could see this as partially correct is because when I was in the Navy, it wasn't secret who was gay and it didn't matter one bit. Of course you will get some homophobic people, just as there some racist people too - you can't avoid that when you are accepting people from across a large, diverse nation. Of course, some people are just assholes too.

But I'm looking at this from the viewpoint of a straight man who had/has a couple gay friends. It might be different if I was gay. In fact, now I am remembering one guy that got drunk and had sex with another man in the parking lot when we were pulled into a port (I think San Diego?) If it was a man and a women, they would have been officially reprimanded and life went on, but both of the men were kicked out of the military. That was fucked up.

Everyone's different, but some people still want to force their beliefs onto other peoples' actions. As long as those actions are involving consenting adults, I don't care what they do.

I seem to have went off on a tangent. My point is either you are being sarcastic or haven't been in the military. All this does is make the unofficial official and remove a layer of protection for people acting like assholes towards one particular group.

*kill

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>> ^The_Ham:

I was taught that when Ive made a mistake, I need to take action to make things right, not get paid to do interviews about it.
First, if I had realized what I had done was wrong, I would have gone straight to the lab and pulled all the wires out of the thing, and destroyed the plans. He didnt.
Or...I would have been in Japan after the war ended, trying to help those who are still getting cancer from the mess I helped create. He didnt. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7917541)

Ive made plenty of "contributions to science", but you don't see anyone excusing me of war crimes


Or... Or... I would have turned the sun into a continuous ray of joy that would shine down on everyone and stun them all into complacent happiness. And then I would call down my mighty unicorn stead and fly around throwing bagels of satisfaction to compliment the ray of joy.

Obviously that is silliness, but I feel the same way. When I read history books, I constantly find myself... well, simply ashamed of people not acting in the way I think they should have. I've heard that saying about "walking a mile in someone's shoes", but I think it is utter b.s. because the only thing that matters is what I think. I don't need to know what they were thinking at the time or the external forces involved, I want to judge based only on what I know right now and, damnit, no one is going to stop me. This is my right because no situation in the past is ever different from the situation that I am in right now. Other people don't seem to realize that and it is my burden to have to deal with those cretins. It is a solemn task to have to judge all of this past actions by everyone, but I feel it is my duty to do so because I am right.

Smug? I think you are not hearing things in the interview that contradict your belief.

He said that it was a stark contrast between the celebration in Los Alamos (for having succeeded in doing something that no one had done before) and people in Hiroshima suffering and dying. Later he felt that building things was a waste of time because the weapon that he had helped create would destroy civilization as it was. (Admittedly, the end part of the prior sentence is logical extension from the points at the end of his talk.)

If you listen, you will hear him say that he originally agreed to the project to defeat Germany (from him saying that he failed in reevaluating his reasoning to work on the project when the original reason was removed by defeating Germany.) ...Time 2:00 -> "But what I did immorally, I would say, was to not remember the reason that I said I was doing it. So when the reason changed, which was that Germany was defeated, not the singlest thought came into my mind at all about that. That that meant now that I have to reconsider why I'm continuing to do this. I simply didn't think."

People don't grieve or even accept responsibility in the same way. Because someone doesn't show the emotion that you expect them to have doesn't mean that they haven't had long nights and years having an internal battle about the personal responsibility for the situation.

Interesting. No, that's not the right word - disturbing is a better word.

Thanks for the sift. Hopefully this get more votes as it deserves it.