u/Melenduwir

Why, it's all about social politics! A woman can't possibly be as guilty as a rich white man, that's as obvious as White always beating Black in chess or two plus two equaling five.

Next they'll be putting death's heads on the uniforms.

Like cockroaches, if you don't get every last one they come back in no time.

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No, Mary Magdalene was supposedly one of Jesus' followers. There are actually quite a few women whose names are translated as 'Mary' in Christian mythology. You're thinking of the Theotokos, Mary-the-mother-of-God.

The 'Dune Encyclopedia' was written by an entirely different person with no background in the setting. Herbert approved it because he wanted money to help treat his dying wife with no effort required from him. But there's absolutely no reason to consider any of it canon.

It's certainly interesting reading, but it's nothing but fanon.

It's not having more children and eating them. That's an absurd violation of thermodynamics. The solution is obviously to eat Irish children.

Well...

looks ahead at 'Heretics of Dune'

I don't mind people making fools of themselves, but could you please do it elsewhere?

Methinks the chip on your shoulder has gotten big enough to start obstructing your vision.

Lots of people just can't spell.

And while The Dresden Files can certainly be enjoyed in audiobook form, it's not read.

Thank goodness there aren't any self-pitying women who blame men for every failure in their lives!

The joke's on them, their users are complete idiots and our prose is inane!

Another friendly reminder to doctors:

The physicians that dismiss patient concerns, misdiagnose serious problems as trivial, and aren't as well-informed as they should be? All believe their actions were reasonable and correct.

When a patient isn't accepting your expertise, consider for a moment that YOU might be in the wrong.

You Ascend while thinking that you're going insane. Sanity is overrated.

Answer: People who leap to conclusions based on inadequate data and then refuse to accept huge accumulations of data that contradict their priors?

That's the explanation for any foolish thing they do, following directly from the question premises.

That's one of the big problems with the DSM: it's not compiled on scientific grounds.

Another is that actual practitioners will stretch the diagnoses because patients need them to be covered or reimbursed. So trying to do research on patient populations isn't really feasible because of the noise.

The APA is always on the cutting edge of fashion.

women are also humans with brains that function just like mens.

No, they don't function just like men's brains. That's the whole point.

Or, reading the first book carefully and thoughtfully. Given that Paul loses.

What makes people think Paul was white?

I suppose it sounds better than the "Humans-Did-It Mass Die-off"

Loss of knowledge, loss of the knowledge of how to regain knowledge.

We've come close several times, but the scientific method was only developed once in all history.

We can just send them to the desert where the Amazon used to be.

Death is a stable equilibrium.

I'm convinced we're going to have a massive and permanent loss of science and technology, and a good chance of species extinction, in the next few generations.

Remember: the Amazon rainforest is expected to reach its tipping point and convert into an xeric grassland in the early 2060s.