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by romwell 3y ago
>You are badly misrepresenting the content of your sources. If that's the case, so do you. >[1] do not blame only cats. [1] is a direct attack piece on Google's TNR program. The entire article is centered on that. To say tha
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by romwell 3y ago
>Your citations contradict your claim. It appears you did not read the claim. Again: Preservation plans - when they even mention cats - put them dead last on the list of reasons . >[2], p. 30: "Predation by nonnative and/or
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by romwell 3y ago
I repeat my request to actually read the words that I wrote, along with the references, and respond to that instead of the emotions you're feeling. Please read these points carefully: 1. While cats, in general, are a threat to birds,
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by romwell 3y ago
While neutered cats don't always have their ears clipped, a cat with a clipped ear is near-guaranteed to be neutered. This is why it makes sense to mention it. NYT, which called TNR (trap-enuter-release) "controversial", is
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by romwell 3y ago
I'm sorry, but you seem to be ignorant of the facts. I have provided extensive references for everything I said. Please read them before typing out your gut response. While cats, in general, are a threat to birds, these particular
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by romwell 3y ago
NYT seems to be running an anti-cat agenda. This article calls trap-neuter-release (TNR) a "controversial" practice, whereas it's well established and proven to be effective (something even this article says). A few years b
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by romwell 3y ago
> I find it also immoral to use a list of bullet points to justify the move when there is a totally different reason behind it. Well, if the actual intent is to be left with a smaller number of more obedient people who'd bend over
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by romwell 3y ago
Thanks so much for the kind words! Hope it leads to more self-discovery for you!
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by romwell 3y ago
Thanks! Indeed, I don't edit it on the phone. I use Google Keep a lot though, and then merge the notes on the desktop.
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by romwell 3y ago
Glad it was helpful!
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by romwell 3y ago
Thank you! Comments like this more than make my day.
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by romwell 3y ago
>It is akin to saying losing a leg is not a disease Well, it's not. Losing a leg is losing a leg. It is not a disease. It is, however, a disability , which is something ADHD may be. But, unlike losing a leg, ADHD is not just a
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by romwell 3y ago
>If we assume that there is a cure for ADHD Honestly, the "cure" for 90% of ADHD symptoms is fixing our society that expects everybody's brains to work the same way for no good reason. Most people are expected to be happy
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by romwell 3y ago
>I've tried running a wiki for my self, but it doesn't work offline. Why not use a tool that is specifically made for that ? TiddlyWiki works both online and offline, and is both a note-taking tool and a wiki. As a showcase:
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by romwell 3y ago
>Why not go a step further and demand that all roads should be put underground, too, so that pedestrians can enjoy an idle stroll on green meadors above ground without all the annoyances that come from car traffic? I'll do you one b
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by romwell 3y ago
Sure, but having an offline copy with IMAP allows one to not depend on the server to work with your email. And if your account goes poof, you still have all your messages.
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by romwell 3y ago
Good points? Whoever made that post reads too much into things that aren't even true: * Long, sharp beaks are characterestic of nectar feeders , e.g. hummingbird, not "lethal predators". * Hawk's beak is neither large n
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by romwell 3y ago
Wow, what a relief. Most of the time I see a logo redesign, it's a mess that makes the product more difficult to recognize, and makes things look more generic. Not so this time! Immediately you feel that the Thunderbird and Firefox b
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by romwell 3y ago
>I would say that he leaves out a critical detail: the nonsense of which is not obvious _and also not important_. Not important to whom ? Strongly disagreeing with you here, because misleading is a thing that is quite important to peo
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by romwell 3y ago
"Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and Gaslight You into Thinking They Are Totally Real Even Though They Have a Dozen of Eyes" doesn't have the same ring to it though.
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by romwell 3y ago
It's almost criminal to post things like that without any annotations. The first picture plots points where radius and angle (in polar coordinates) are uniformly distributed. Of course, this is not uniform in the disc. I don't h
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by romwell 3y ago
Or, more likely, some higher-up got the wind of it, and smacked that block down to reduce the Streisand effect - which is the only reason we're reading this article here.
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by romwell 3y ago
It's not harder as much as it is more expensive . But looks like paying teachers enough so that they could afford such luxuries as checks note renting an apartment for themselves is off the table.
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by romwell 3y ago
>Isn't most content like this though? No. Next? > there are a handful of people creating truly new A handful that you bothered to find out about . >99% of everything is garbage Only if you are choosing to consume it. >the
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by romwell 3y ago
>Why not call passwords private words? Because the word "password" has been in use for a long time, before computers, for the purpose of physically passing from one place to another. The thing about password wasn't that
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by romwell 4y ago
Arguing about whether [Mastodon] will fail is a pointless exercise in trying to predict the future. Well, that's exactly what we're doing here. That's the point of the article, and this discussion. On that note:
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by romwell 4y ago
>Welp, time to get the T-shirts made. "Mastodon : Doomed Since 2016. No seriously, it's doomed." It will be an absolute hit with the five people who still use it in a decade. Seriously, this dialogue reads like this to me:
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by romwell 4y ago
>People obsessed with building their personal brand or audience or upvote score embody Are you projecting? None of that is in what I said; I just provided an easy metric. How about, people thank me for what I write. And it's not &qu
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by romwell 4y ago
>Just like E-Mail, right? Are you generally afraid of losing your email account for sending a rude message to someone? >It faces the same fundamental constraints (arguably exacerbated by some technical ones) No, because the technical
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by romwell 4y ago
>If choosing one of several instances requires too high of activation energy then that legitimately is a "you" problem. No it's not. The reasons why were outlined in the article, but I'll re-iterate them: 1. Choosing

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