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Andreas Moritz insists on raising my ire over and over. Christopher Maloney, on the other hand, has remained pretty quiet. And who gets post after post after post about him on here?
Congratulations to Maloney for being smarter than Moritz. It isn’t much of an accomplishment, but I suppose it’s something. (And, hey, unlike Moritz, I bet Maloney knows what DNA is.)
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As it turns out, the back bumper of a Ford F150 is way stronger than the hood of my Honda Accord.
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Of course science is an enemy of religion, for its method is doubt, empirical testing, and the rejection of ideas for which there’s no evidence. If religious people practiced their faith using those principles, in a very short time there would be no religion.
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The em dash is an ugly, unnecessary symbol that far too many people insist on using. Specifically, it’s a dash that is approximately the length of the letter M. It is usually used to put emphasis on a part of a sentence — sort of like this. However, there is a superior alternative – the en dash, as seen in this sentence. Same idea, just shorter.
But what really makes dashes intended to emphasize ugly is when people insist on adding no spaces—like right here. In this instance the em dash is necessary since the en dash usually acts as a hyphen when it isn’t surrounded by spaces. But even with this distinction, any dash without space around it is easily mistaken for being part of a hyphenated word. This adds unnecessary confusion and a lack of clarity to any writing.
Stop using em dashes – they suck.
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Scare quotes are quotation marks that are used to denote some sort of derision; they often are not direct quotes of anything anyone said. For instance, George Bush really provided a lot of “help” to Katrina victims. This is not quoting any source, but clearly everything about Katrina was a massive failure where Bush was involved, and it’s that failure that is being indicated. However, this version of scare quoting sucks. A superior version is to use single quotations, i.e., George Bush really provided a lot of ‘help’ to Katrina victims. This works better because direct quotations usually have double quotation marks (except, for instance, when there is a quote within a quote).
Sometimes scare quotes do reference something that was actually said. For instance, “Change” we can believe in quotes part of a phrase, but it is intentionally being used out of the originally intended context (and this different use is being indicated, unlike with quote-mining). In this instance it may be more sensible to use a double quotation mark since the phrase is so commonly actually said.
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I have no idea why Andreas Moritz insists on making me post shit about him. Why. Why is he so genuinely dumb.*
*This is part question, part statement.
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To lack faith does not mean to have 100% certainty.
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Whenever it is claimed atheists are somehow intolerant, it is never actually explained how. And when someone actually attempts it, what is usually meant is that they are not accepting, and there’s a difference in that.
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For-profit health care is one of the major moral crimes in modern America.
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Science simply represents our best effort to understand what is going on in this universe, and the boundary between it and the rest of rational thought cannot always be drawn.
~Sam Harris
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For the Sake of Science 