SuddsMcDuff

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by SuddsMcDuff 7y ago
Do you need to re-read my post? The entire point is that there are now multiple definitions of 'violence'. We mustn't pick and choose definitions to fit a particular narrative. One definition of violence appears to be used wh
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by SuddsMcDuff 7y ago
Thanks. I did edit my comment to remove the word accidently some time ago. I guess you hadn't refreshed your page for a while.
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by SuddsMcDuff 7y ago
OK, I'll try to be more coherent. It seems these days that the word 'violence' has been re-defined such that it no longer requires there to be any abusive physical contact between the perpetrator and the victim. As such, mere
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by SuddsMcDuff 7y ago
We certainly seem to have different definitions of violence, yes. If 'violence' has been re-defined to the extent that mis-gendering someone is an 'act of violence' ( https://everydayfeminism.com/2017&#x2F
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by SuddsMcDuff 7y ago
Suggestion: Since you're publishing in PDF format, how about linking to https://pdfreaders.org/ on your homepage? https://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/pdfreaders.en.html
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by SuddsMcDuff 7y ago
> "Homosexuality has an evolutionary purpose" Could you elaborate on this? I'm genuinely interested to know, it could fundamentally change my view on homosexuality.
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by SuddsMcDuff 7y ago
Do you think these protests would be happening if the British had kept hold of their former colony HK? Do you think it's strange that some of the HK protestors have been waving the flag of their former colonial masters?
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by SuddsMcDuff 7y ago
"Given the lack of evidence" That's the very definition of speculation. "speculation seems quite unfounded" Purely a matter of personal opinion. There is a clear trend at play in France that is very uncomfortabl
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by SuddsMcDuff 7y ago
Given the rampant vandalism of Churches in France in recent years, including arson, it's quite reasonable to speculate that Notre Dame might have suffered the same fate. https://www.newsweek.com/spate-attacks-catholic-c
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by SuddsMcDuff 7y ago
In reason six the author talks about emissions and air pollution related to nuclear power. Then shows an image of a nuclear plant releasing water vapour into the air.
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by SuddsMcDuff 7y ago
"Surely, you have to acknowledge that throughout history, men have been quite terrible to women" Yes of course but what I don't understand is why you're choosing to focus exclusively on one narrow aspect of the entire
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by SuddsMcDuff 7y ago
Pretty disingenuous of you to put the word "every" in quotation marks when the person you're responding to used the word "most". In the principal of charity I'll assume it was an honest mistake.
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by SuddsMcDuff 7y ago
Take for example a comment from this very thread: "Feminism has brought about a lot of changes, but I don't think we can lay this one at the feet of women trying to escape their compulsory reliance on unreliable, selfish, and inc
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by SuddsMcDuff 7y ago
Journalists should know that if they walk the fine line between legal and illegal then they run the risk of being investigated. If they're confident they're on the right side of the law then they have little to worry about. What I
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by SuddsMcDuff 7y ago
What a misguided comment. There are no "sides" here. Unless you think that any criticism of journalistic practices puts me on "the other team". Grow up!
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by SuddsMcDuff 7y ago
I'm getting a bit sick of journalists acting like they should be above the law. This comes across as though it's an audacious abuse of authority for any law enforcement official to even think about stepping foot into a media compa
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by SuddsMcDuff 7y ago
I really like F#'s approach to this let point2 = { point1 with y = value } https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/language-refe... EDIT This is inherited from OCaml - https:/&#
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by SuddsMcDuff 8y ago
If the people who operate the weather station explicitly saying that its data should not be used for long term interpretation isn't credible enough for you, frankly I don't know what would be. Once again, I am not a 'climate
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by SuddsMcDuff 8y ago
"No mention of or link to the older study you cite." It's right there in the 4th paragraph.
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by SuddsMcDuff 8y ago
If you think I'm denying climate change, you've misunderstood my point. My point is that disinformation campaigns are not solely an endeavour of nefarious actors with an agenda. They are also undertaken by those with noble intenti
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by SuddsMcDuff 8y ago
"climate skeptics that deliberately point out one small part of a study and misconstrue it in attempt to debunk the entire thing. " This is where you got me badly wrong. I'm not a climate sceptic and I'm not trying to
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by SuddsMcDuff 8y ago
Yes, for OSS projects and for work. At work there's only a handful of us signing our commits.
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by SuddsMcDuff 8y ago
I demonstrated that the paper shows a long term trend based on the data from a weather station. I also showed you that the operators of the weather station explicitly say that the data should not be used to interpret long term trends. All y
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by SuddsMcDuff 8y ago
You seem very angry about this. Here's what we know: The paper compares temperature data primarily from a single weather station 'El Verde', starting in 1978. [1] The operators of the weather station say themselves that the d
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by SuddsMcDuff 8y ago
Do you have anything to say about the actual substance of the complaint? Are you denying that the paper is based on flawed data? Have you even read the complaint? You can attack the organization all you like, but you havent actually shown t
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by SuddsMcDuff 8y ago
"In your idealistic world of free speech, the innocent pay the price for the freedom to spread lies and deceit." I'd replace 'innocent' with some combination of 'gullible', 'ignorant', or just
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by SuddsMcDuff 8y ago
"we've seen many of the predictions come true... including the mass decline of insects worldwide" Interesting you should mention that. No doubt you're referring to the recent study [1], heavily pushed by the likes of T
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by SuddsMcDuff 8y ago
I do respect, even admire the optimists view on this. It's not that I don't have faith in humanity, it's that I do have faith in nature, and I have observed how she works.
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by SuddsMcDuff 8y ago
That's a lovely thought, but I don't think it's based in reality. Change, by it's nature, is disruptive, painful, sometimes unbearable. Human nature is to avoid pain. In all of human history, I'm not aware that the
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by SuddsMcDuff 8y ago
I got frustrated with the 1 per customer policy of Raspberry Pi Zero so I ended up bulk buying a bunch of Orange Pi Zero's from Ebay and I could not be happier. I found the support materials great, and the addition of an RJ45 port with

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