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People think such muddy thoughts
shadowrunr recently posted a link to slashdot's science section, on an article regarding disappearing languages.I read through the comments, and found them lacking in some ways, so I posted a comment there, and I'm repeating it here -- for my two cents ( Read more... ) -
Global warming as a "statement"
Twice in the last few weeks, I have heard people say that they are upset/frustrated/angry about how humans are "crapping in our bed" -- meaning in an environmental sense, of course.
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Scientists & "Geek cool"
In a previous post, I mentioned my theory that when "theories" sound really good, listeners buy into them without any significant critical thinking. That is, if you can make an idea pretty-sounding, it turns people into gullible idiots. Today, I would like to freely admit that this disease also hits scientists ( Read more... ) -
Emission reductions as a "solution to global warming" are WORTHLESS
When it comes to the whole climate change hysteria, there are actually three completely separate issues: the excess CO2 in the atmosphere, any short-term global warming that's happening, and climate change in general. It turns out to be important to consider them as separate issues in order to have a rational expectation of what is possible to "fix ( Read more... ) -
Backwash
It looks to me like backwash.com, where I have written some "articles", is going down for the count. At some as-yet-unspecified future date, to be sure -- but the decay seems more than just progressive at this point. It'll be sad if it gets nuked, because there is a lot of clever content buried in there -- especially on old messageboard threads. I ( Read more... ) -
Goodbye, Squeaky :-(
I loved my little Squeaky Monster kitty ... and I tried very hard to keep her going while she was still having fun. The last 5 months I was feeding her raw meat, and eating was always one of her favorite things, anyway. She LOVED that! So, while her health was certainly deteriorating from the cancer, she still was having enough enjoyable times ( Read more... ) -
Politics
I'm posting this because I just had to write something -- but I couldn't post it on Backwash. A certain columnist there can be trusted to always take what I say badly -- and I wasn't really intending to phrase this nicely ( Read more... ) -
Personals sites & Russian Dating Scams
Now that I'm alone in this house, and I've pretty much got my day-to-day life back together again, I'm trying to meet some women and date a little. Maybe date as much as I can, actually ... I've got more than a decade of rust to scrape off my dating technique ( Read more... )