# Do we have a thread for SlackerInc yet? Maybe we should **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 2, 2018, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461 "2018-12-02T20:21:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1117
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/1117 "2020-10-15T21:35:59Z")
That’s quite the tolerant picture you’re painting of Muslim-majority countries. I’ll admit I’ve never been to one (and don’t plan to), but Wikipedia tells a different story: > Atheists, and those accused of defection from the official religion, may be subject to discrimination and persecution in many Muslim-majority countries.[[117]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination_against_atheists#cite_note-117) According to the [International Humanist and Ethical Union](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Humanist_and_Ethical_Union), compared to other nations, “unbelievers… in Islamic countries face the most severe – sometimes brutal – treatment”.[[3]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination_against_atheists#cite_note-iheu_report-3) Atheists and religious skeptics can be executed in at least fourteen nations: [Afghanistan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan), [Iran](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran), [Malaysia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia), [Maldives](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldives), [Mauritania](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritania), [Nigeria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria), [Pakistan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan), [Qatar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar), [Saudi Arabia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia), [Somalia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia), [Sudan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan), [Libya](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya), the [United Arab Emirates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates) and [Yemen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemen).[[2]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination_against_atheists#cite_note-reuters131210-2)[[118]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination_against_atheists#cite_note-118) > In [Iran](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Iran), [Saudi Arabia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Saudi_Arabia), [Qatar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Qatar), the [United Arab Emirates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_United_Arab_Emirates), and [Yemen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Yemen), the laws state that if a person is found of engaging in same gender sexual behavior, the death penalty would be applied.[[15]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_Middle_East#cite_note-15) According to Country Reports of the [US Department of State](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State), in Saudi Arabia there are no established LGBT organizations. Furthermore, reports of official and social discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation remains unclear because of strong social pressure of not to discuss LGBT matters.[[16]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_Middle_East#cite_note-16) > > [Jordan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Jordan), [Bahrain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Bahrain), and [Iraq](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Iraq) are the only [Arab countries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_world) where homosexuality is legal;[[17]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_Middle_East#cite_note-17) however, there is some stigma in the Iraqi society which sometimes leads to vigilante executions.[[18]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_Middle_East#cite_note-18) > [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Oh, shut up. Everyone has a tiny drunken gnome in their phone that makes such autocorrect errors common as dirt. > > I already consider you one of the most loathesoame posters Are you going to blame “loathesoame” on a “tiny drunken gnome” as well? 'Cause…nahh. That dog won’t hunt. > [@BigT](#): > > I normally wouldn’t bring up my ACT score, but it seems instructive here. It was higher than yours. And I’m sure there are posters whose scores are even higher than mine, as they seem better at the skills the ACT tests for. So…you’re sure there are posters here who have scores higher than the highest possible score? My composite is a 35; the highest possible is a 36. If yours is higher than mine, it can only be a 36. So how can you be sure others have an “even higher” score than yours?? I know I only got a 32 on the math section, the only section I didn’t get a perfect 36 on, but I can still see the problem with those numbers. 😉 > You’d be able to just say things or do things that would demonstrate that intelligence. That’s clearly your goal, so why can’t you pull it off? I in fact do “pull it off”. But it incenses anyone and everyone who doesn’t like my un-PC conclusions to acknowledge this, so they (you) try like crazy to gaslight. It’s not working. And I am much more willing than my detractors to acknowledge when I’m wrong or have had my mind changed. For example: > [@Black Panther movie](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-panther-movie/809075/601): > > You’re right. I have no answer to that, and I apologize. Lila wants to be called Lila and referred to as “she”, and there’s no reason for me not to indulge her in her preference. Mea culpa. I would associate myself with the perspective provided by the first person I quoted from that articcle, a father of a girl at the school: “If she wants to be identified as a girl, we should respect that.” And although it’s not clear from the article, I doubt he has a problem with her using a stall in th… > [@Joe Biden's in](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-bidens-in/833042/387): > > No, you’re right–and now that I think of it, Nate Silver has talked about how shaky “trial heat” polling is. I’ll Emily Latella this one–mea culpa. :o > [@Donald Trump's 2016 General Election Campaign](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2546): > > Mea culpa, I didn’t look at the Nowcast today (or any day). When he announced that the model was live, he said the Nowcast showed a much lower chance for Drumpf, but he also said that it was designed to be very sensitive to new information. So the new Quinnipiac numbers must have shifted it quite a bit. None of this, of course, negates any of the points I made about how you can’t just treat this like a regular horserace. > [@How many more attacks before the West has to consider the previously unthinkable?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-more-attacks-before-the-west-has-to-consider-the-previously-unthinkable/759950/741): > > Fair point! Mea culpa. GIGO, despite the headline on that Pew poll, I would characterize the lack of opposition to ISIS shown there to be alarmingly high. I don’t think you can just focus on the number that is determined to tell the pollster they support an organization their government is at war with. I think we have to assume a lot of the people who don’t take a position either way are also supportive in their hearts of hearts, and probably also some of those who say they oppose ISIS, again… > [@OK, so how is N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth series?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-how-is-n-k-jemisins-broken-earth-series/819951/95): > > I should have spent those few seconds looking up the movie’s title. You are right about that, mea culpa. But it takes a lot more than a few seconds to obtain and read two entire novels, so the leap you made there is a bit much IMO. I don’t know if anyone listens to the Scriptnotes podcast, but the successful screenwriters who host it regularly judge and give feedback to aspiring screenwriters based solely on the first couple pages of their scripts. I worked at a SoHo literary agency and the… ETA: > [@Babale](#): > > Slackbrain took it as an adult to try and impress people You guys never tire of being wrong. I took it as an adult, in 2017, to provide a credential for my tutoring business. And I brought it up exactly once, years ago, in the midst of some sort of back-and-forth about IQ or something (I don’t recall exactly). Since then, I only talk about it in response to _others_ bringing it up. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461)._