fdschoeneman

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by fdschoeneman 3y ago
It might be. Probably. I don't know. All I know is that if people who do believe in the climate apocalypse say that CO2 generation from lng would make the problem worse, not better; whether that's true or not, I don't know, b
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by fdschoeneman 3y ago
That seems like a circular argument. Solar and storage are cheaper because of massive subsidies, they don't adequately account for externalities like the environmental impact of lithium mining, and benefit from streamlined zoning and a
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by fdschoeneman 3y ago
That is a fair analysis and a fair opinion to hold. Does this mean you do not believe in one or more of the more apocalyptic climate scenarios? Because if you do, but not in the need for an immediate and massive expansion of nuclear power,
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by fdschoeneman 3y ago
I know enough about what you call the scientific community writ large, and the scientific method, and the specific people who call themselves climate scientists to say that a) I don't pay very much attention to science unless it's
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by fdschoeneman 3y ago
All 8 states are run by Democrats. The bans are ultimately motivated by Democratic Party leaders and influencers who believe a) that climate is changing, b) that this change is for sure going to lead to a climate apocalypse which will kill
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by fdschoeneman 3y ago
If you believe it was an abuse of human rights, you should have refused to comply.
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by fdschoeneman 3y ago
If "everything" was the same as a technological economy" it would be an accurate paraphrase. But those two are not the same things. And while you're welcome to disagree, you're not welcome to waste any more of my ti
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by fdschoeneman 3y ago
I did read the manifesto, and while we can all benefit from more education, you, specifically, would benefit from learning what a straw man is. Hint: All I have to do to prove the rebuttal relies on a straw man is to show that it mischaract
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by fdschoeneman 3y ago
I don't know you and I'm not your friend. I have since read the manifesto and while it was always obvious even without reading the manifesto that the author of this piece distorted it, I can now say for sure that he distorted it.
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by fdschoeneman 3y ago
I have now read the manifesto. It is clear that you attempted to pass off a distorted and inaccurate paraphrase as his words. You should not have done that. It was dishonest and you have wasted everyone's time.
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by fdschoeneman 3y ago
I just searched Andreesson's manifesto and I cannot find the phrase you are attributing to him.
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by fdschoeneman 3y ago
It's very clearly a distortion and not a valid summary of the manifest. Monopolies and captured regulators are not the same thing as "guardrails" in the authors summary. You may benefit from reading about what straw man argum
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by fdschoeneman 3y ago
Did Andreesson argue that fire services should be privatized in his manifesto? Damn. Now I must read it immediately.
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by fdschoeneman 3y ago
Thanks for the assist, amigo
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by fdschoeneman 3y ago
A straw man is a distorted or mischaracterized recapitulation of another person's argument. This distorted argument can then more easily be attacked. It's a very common way for politicians, ideologues, and other dumb people to arg
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by fdschoeneman 3y ago
Well it did catch my eye. I need to publicize an open source project I'm working on soon, so perhaps I can learn from the techniques used. Maybe I will write badly on why my project will fail, encouraging rubberneckers...
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by fdschoeneman 3y ago
I'm sure there are intelligent criticisms of Andreesson's manifesto, but this piece doesn't seem to contain any. I stopped reading after the second straw man argument it made. The best I can say of this piece is that it made
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by fdschoeneman 3y ago
I appreciate you for coming to this form and soliciting input. There are a lot of smart people here and they're likely to have good opinions. My own opinion, though, is that regulations like this should only be written when no reasonab
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by fdschoeneman 3y ago
I've never heard of anyone quitting because they objected to being told something which they find complicated is "simple," so this seems like a straw man. I think a lot of people think about how best to teach complicated idea
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by fdschoeneman 3y ago
I mean by language some difference in words or voice. For example, instead of describing what NPR's chief executive did, the author could have written about what his boss did.
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by fdschoeneman 3y ago
I'm not sure I care. To me, state funded is the same as state affiliated. The important thing is not that npr is labelled one way or the other. Everyone knows what NPR is and what the BBC is. Most fair people figure they have a bias bu
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by fdschoeneman 3y ago
I think they should make it clear in the first paragraph when they are, in effect, writing about themselves or their employer. That's what I would have done.
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by fdschoeneman 3y ago
You're right. I either missed it or the disclaimer was added after I first read the piece. I think I'd have preferred it be up front in the first paragraph, and that the writer used language making it clear he was talking about hi
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by fdschoeneman 3y ago
I'm sure NPR does some good work, and while I believe it is biased, I've found it to be less biased than CNN or MSNBC. I don't understand why NPR objects to being labeled as either state funded or state affiliated. It was est
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by fdschoeneman 4y ago
I understand why Biden, his administration, fauci and the CDC lied. The telephone game effect is real. And sometimes lies are well I intentioned, if stupid. But that doesn't change the fact that they all lied to us.
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by fdschoeneman 4y ago
There are some crazy anti vaxxers who are responsible for some of this, but those people were doing their crazy before the pandemic. While they may account for some of this vaccination rate reduction, it's unlikely to account for all o
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by fdschoeneman 4y ago
Why though? What public interest does this serve? I'm a veteran. I support your right to post links to the location of Elon's jet, or links you can follow to find same, in the same way I'd die to protect some shitbird's
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by fdschoeneman 4y ago
Did you watch the same video I did? It's easy to see this as something other than petulance. It's not complicated. Elon is scared for his family. That's a very human thing. In his place I'd do everything I could to prote
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by fdschoeneman 4y ago
It's not that complicated. This is a credible threat to his family and Musk is scared. I'd be scared, too. I'd have shut down the jet account and any account linking to it as well. If you think you'd have done something
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by fdschoeneman 4y ago
Ad hominem? I don't know if you know this, though you probably don't, but 'ad hominem' is a category of logical fallacy, committed when one argues that one's opponent's argument is wrong because he is, por ejem

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