That I don't view genetic modification as an extraordinary source of danger, life spreads, no matter where its genetic sequences come from, and the science about it isn't ambiguous: human added genes aren't magic.
It made me realize if the science about control measures weren't ambiguous, there'd still be people making extremely stupid arguments of chance against it, and I don't want to be one.
I could cite the powers granted to congress that defy your stupid beliefs, but you'd say there were secondary, I could cite the history leading to the constitutional convention, but you'd deny their validity, I could point to the arguments made in the federalist papers, but you'd dismiss them as just Halilton's opinions.
You're wrong. You're dead wrong. You're wrong and the people you're treating as gods of government undermined the stupid premise you started with in the executive summary in the document you treat like scripture.
And that you put argument in scare quotes just betrays your unwillingness to examine it as an argument, not some clever takedown of my debate skills, or whatever "totally subtle" jab you thought you were delivering.
Your reality denial will let you definitely have the last word in this argument, because you've made it pretty clear ignoring relatively basic facts is part of your MO.
Because purposeful geoengineering is, by its nature, going to be of larger scale of effect. Making mistakes about degree of effect or feedbacks could be very bad for us. It's devil you know versus devil you don't, and you only get one planet to try with. Relatively small chances of error are still kind of a big deal.
part because the necessary nutrient CO2 is available in increased amounts.
Oh look denier talking point that's been debunked a million times and has nothing at all to do with agricultural productivity.
Seriously, it's like you've never had a freshman biology or chemistry course, and then you amplify the basic ignorance about plant biology through a thousand implicit assumptions.
Heat and/or water tend to be the primary throttles on photosynthesis.
Oh right, I forgot about the literally infinite capability of anyone on the right wing to dismiss primary evidence on the grounds that it disagrees with their beliefs.
Sorry. Don't let me interrupt your fantasy, you can engage in those extraordinary mental contortions if you want. It's not like I'm going to stop you.
Of course the reason the daleks were the shape they were, that bottom heavy props are less likely to fall over, is exactly why real world robots have the same design.
You're making a "I can find an idiot" argument, and expecting people to be bowled over by your amazing cognitive powers. You then take the existence of those idiots as an excuse for a "you'll never be happy" strawman.
CO2 is causing problems, right now. Real problems. Whatever bullshit objections you imagine someone might raise, the ones about excessive fossil fuel consumption are valid and every simplistic pro-fossil fuel argument you make needs to take that into account.
Period.
What I'm saying is whatever idiots you think you can find out there, none of them justify you being an idiot.
Not to miss your obvious sarcasm, but it's a bit like saying "get your own road".
Infrastructure is complicated, because you aren't going to be able to make your own road going from A to B without crossing property owned by the existing A to B magnate, unless you're willing to put up with some really inefficient routes. And you've almost doubled the real cost of roadways(i.e. how much initial and annual cost the roads require).
Contrary to the neo-liberal perspective, some problems just can't be hammered out by competition.
Yeah, and that's absolutely and undeniably bullshit and frankly you should feel ashamed to be pressing the point when the primary purposes of the government are exactly what the preamble establishes.
Ironically, more education is part of the problem. We're at that magic point where our collective knowledge isn't that great, but what we do know lends a lot of false confidence.
Don't equate that with a desire to take away education from the masses, to return to some imagined superior past, our education has also done us a lot of good, and we have a lot of people who have interesting thoughts.
College graduate deniers, for example, are less likely to have their views on global warming be influenced by evidence than deniers with a high school education only. I'm feeling apathetic about finding the study to link it, though.
Uh, actually, that constitution you mention lists a few more things than "common defense and currency"
form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America
Considering they led with this, it's kind of embarrassing you don't know it.
I'm going to present an alternate theory. Don't blame the media.
Blame American citizens. We have developed a collective... bluster about science. An approach where random shit we think we know trumps years of hard research and challenging facts.
It's not just creationists and global warming deniers and anti-vaccers, you know stand-out cases of pushing for ideas based on utter nonsense, but the subtler, softer kind too. I'm having a damn hard time coming up with examples that won't draw out a flamewar from people indignant about how I'm insulting them, so I'll try to speak in general terms:
People talking about what they know about genetics in a way that just utterly predicts everything about a person. Maybe people taking a middle-of-the-road soft stance against nuclear energy because radiation is dangerous. Not radically anti-science like the former groups, just self-assured and wrong.
The media certainly exacerbates this by being willing to drag any public controversy to the forefront of national discussion to fill airtime, but they aren't the source. We are.
All of my favorite toys growing up were some kind of educational toy, with the notable exception of video game systems. The only real reason to get a kid a cheap piece of plastic or noisemaker is if you hate fun.
I think you were making the right choice, even if Barbie was a more realistic doll that didn't have it's whole... history.
Oh, now you've done it. You've expressed a generally true sentiment in a technically false statement about misogyny on slashdot. I've been there enough to know what's coming.
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Did it just become cool to call every unmanned aircraft a drone, after we started murdering people with them?
No one called toy helicopters drones 8 years ago. No one.
Yeah, but how many of those are going to draw in the kind of idiots that shop on black Friday.
N.B. Please don't respond and give your "totally sound" reasons for shopping on black Friday, you're mistaken.
I just assumed you were talking to a gimmick twitter account who posts nothing but 140 character fart noises.
That I don't view genetic modification as an extraordinary source of danger, life spreads, no matter where its genetic sequences come from, and the science about it isn't ambiguous: human added genes aren't magic.
It made me realize if the science about control measures weren't ambiguous, there'd still be people making extremely stupid arguments of chance against it, and I don't want to be one.
Okay, the way in which you have agreed with me, and the similar arguments you brought up have convinced me I was wrong.
You can see the exact moment the earth was destroyed by a black hole.
No, see you think you're being clever here.
You're really not.
I could cite the powers granted to congress that defy your stupid beliefs, but you'd say there were secondary, I could cite the history leading to the constitutional convention, but you'd deny their validity, I could point to the arguments made in the federalist papers, but you'd dismiss them as just Halilton's opinions.
You're wrong. You're dead wrong. You're wrong and the people you're treating as gods of government undermined the stupid premise you started with in the executive summary in the document you treat like scripture.
And that you put argument in scare quotes just betrays your unwillingness to examine it as an argument, not some clever takedown of my debate skills, or whatever "totally subtle" jab you thought you were delivering.
Your reality denial will let you definitely have the last word in this argument, because you've made it pretty clear ignoring relatively basic facts is part of your MO.
Because purposeful geoengineering is, by its nature, going to be of larger scale of effect. Making mistakes about degree of effect or feedbacks could be very bad for us. It's devil you know versus devil you don't, and you only get one planet to try with. Relatively small chances of error are still kind of a big deal.
Actually Crop production is at near record highes
so far true
part because the necessary nutrient CO2 is available in increased amounts.
Oh look denier talking point that's been debunked a million times and has nothing at all to do with agricultural productivity.
Seriously, it's like you've never had a freshman biology or chemistry course, and then you amplify the basic ignorance about plant biology through a thousand implicit assumptions.
Heat and/or water tend to be the primary throttles on photosynthesis.
Oh right, I forgot about the literally infinite capability of anyone on the right wing to dismiss primary evidence on the grounds that it disagrees with their beliefs.
Sorry. Don't let me interrupt your fantasy, you can engage in those extraordinary mental contortions if you want. It's not like I'm going to stop you.
Might as well learn to be good at mopping.
Yeah, but none of the links are of the straightforward introduction type
Of course the reason the daleks were the shape they were, that bottom heavy props are less likely to fall over, is exactly why real world robots have the same design.
You're making a "I can find an idiot" argument, and expecting people to be bowled over by your amazing cognitive powers. You then take the existence of those idiots as an excuse for a "you'll never be happy" strawman.
CO2 is causing problems, right now. Real problems. Whatever bullshit objections you imagine someone might raise, the ones about excessive fossil fuel consumption are valid and every simplistic pro-fossil fuel argument you make needs to take that into account.
Period.
What I'm saying is whatever idiots you think you can find out there, none of them justify you being an idiot.
Not to miss your obvious sarcasm, but it's a bit like saying "get your own road".
Infrastructure is complicated, because you aren't going to be able to make your own road going from A to B without crossing property owned by the existing A to B magnate, unless you're willing to put up with some really inefficient routes. And you've almost doubled the real cost of roadways(i.e. how much initial and annual cost the roads require).
Contrary to the neo-liberal perspective, some problems just can't be hammered out by competition.
Yeah, and that's absolutely and undeniably bullshit and frankly you should feel ashamed to be pressing the point when the primary purposes of the government are exactly what the preamble establishes.
The kind of people who can't forward reference an ambiguous noun to a helpful qualifier later in a sentence.
That is to say, the worst people.
Ironically, more education is part of the problem. We're at that magic point where our collective knowledge isn't that great, but what we do know lends a lot of false confidence.
Don't equate that with a desire to take away education from the masses, to return to some imagined superior past, our education has also done us a lot of good, and we have a lot of people who have interesting thoughts.
College graduate deniers, for example, are less likely to have their views on global warming be influenced by evidence than deniers with a high school education only. I'm feeling apathetic about finding the study to link it, though.
Uh, actually, that constitution you mention lists a few more things than "common defense and currency"
form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America
Considering they led with this, it's kind of embarrassing you don't know it.
I'm going to present an alternate theory. Don't blame the media.
Blame American citizens. We have developed a collective... bluster about science. An approach where random shit we think we know trumps years of hard research and challenging facts.
It's not just creationists and global warming deniers and anti-vaccers, you know stand-out cases of pushing for ideas based on utter nonsense, but the subtler, softer kind too. I'm having a damn hard time coming up with examples that won't draw out a flamewar from people indignant about how I'm insulting them, so I'll try to speak in general terms:
People talking about what they know about genetics in a way that just utterly predicts everything about a person. Maybe people taking a middle-of-the-road soft stance against nuclear energy because radiation is dangerous. Not radically anti-science like the former groups, just self-assured and wrong.
The media certainly exacerbates this by being willing to drag any public controversy to the forefront of national discussion to fill airtime, but they aren't the source. We are.
Because apple doesn't get a cut of that money. Duh.
You live in a libertarian fantasy land where wages have much at all to do with competition.
Or.... not.
All of my favorite toys growing up were some kind of educational toy, with the notable exception of video game systems. The only real reason to get a kid a cheap piece of plastic or noisemaker is if you hate fun.
I think you were making the right choice, even if Barbie was a more realistic doll that didn't have it's whole... history.
Oh, now you've done it. You've expressed a generally true sentiment in a technically false statement about misogyny on slashdot. I've been there enough to know what's coming.