Learn from the mistakes of others

for stupid people who don't ask questions like "why does stupid design not suggest more ..." stupid design is easy to grasp. unlike science - or to be more accurate, the scientific method, which is what the stupid design people are conveniently confusing with creationism.

stupid design says things are because they've been designed that way. what possible questions can arise out of that?

this may be preaching to the unconverted, but science is not just about 'describing the natural world' ...

what astounds me is that so many people assume they understand what science is, and even when they're told what science is, they still insist on confusing their imagined idea of science from their middle school fumblings with the real, grown up real thing™.

stupid design is lazy. saves you the fuss of thinking ... granted ... but the scientific method is all about thinking.

for stupid people who don't ask questions like "why does stupid design not suggest more ..." stupid design is easy to grasp. unlike science - or to be more accurate, the scientific method, which is what the stupid design people are conveniently confusing with creationism.

stupid design says things are because they've been designed that way. what possible questions can arise out of that?

this may be preaching to the unconverted, but science is not just about 'describing the natural world' ...

what astounds me is that so many people assume they understand what science is, and even when they're told what science is, they still insist on confusing their imagined idea of science from their middle school fumblings with the real, grown up real thing™.

stupid design is lazy. saves you the fuss of thinking ... granted ... but the scientific method is all about thinking.

at least, kind of ...

i'm thinking of getting back into consulting.

if i can't get a job, perhaps i should employ myself. again.

just two things i need to pin down, i guess ...

1. consulting what


2. to whom

which ought to help pin down the rest of the questions for a basic business plan, i think.

at least, kind of ...

i'm thinking of getting back into consulting.

if i can't get a job, perhaps i should employ myself. again.

just two things i need to pin down, i guess ...

1. consulting what


2. to whom

which ought to help pin down the rest of the questions for a basic business plan, i think.

many small children have known nothing but shopping centres and processed foods. it is an interesting experiment we have been doing on ourselves for the past few generations. one that has me wondering how connected this new culture of ours is to the 'rise' in certain socio-behavioural 'issues'.

i'm less concerned about microdoses of mercury compounds than the steady supply of complex chemicals in our diets. particularly when most single-event toxins require significant doses or toxicity to have lasting effects on the generally very plastic physiology of small children [we can thank adaptive evolution for that - if the opposite was true, we'd have been extinct long ago.]

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autism isn't a disease requiring a cure. it's a fact of life. just like homosexuality. part of the normal distribution of difference across the population.

and for the bleeding heart mundanes out there who think i need help, fuck off you patronising fucks. you need to get over your pathetic hang-ups! apparently i'm the one with socialising problems ... at least i'm not a self-paralysed psychosocial twat.

many small children have known nothing but shopping centres and processed foods. it is an interesting experiment we have been doing on ourselves for the past few generations. one that has me wondering how connected this new culture of ours is to the 'rise' in certain socio-behavioural 'issues'.

i'm less concerned about microdoses of mercury compounds than the steady supply of complex chemicals in our diets. particularly when most single-event toxins require significant doses or toxicity to have lasting effects on the generally very plastic physiology of small children [we can thank adaptive evolution for that - if the opposite was true, we'd have been extinct long ago.]

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autism isn't a disease requiring a cure. it's a fact of life. just like homosexuality. part of the normal distribution of difference across the population.

and for the bleeding heart mundanes out there who think i need help, fuck off you patronising fucks. you need to get over your pathetic hang-ups! apparently i'm the one with socialising problems ... at least i'm not a self-paralysed psychosocial twat.