solarwind

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by solarwind 6y ago
Your argument is ad hominem, a logical fallacy where one attacks the character or motive of the person making an argument rather than the substance of the argument itself. Furthermore, free speech is a natural human right, to which a person
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by solarwind 6y ago
The main thesis of the 1619 project was that the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery. This is categorically false according to actual historians, and so the
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by solarwind 6y ago
The authors of Marginal Revolution are two well-renowned economics professors.
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by solarwind 6y ago
Conflation of "resources" with supply-and-demand. Living near the ocean doesn't use more resources but it's priced higher more because people want to live there bidding up prices. Similarly living in cities cost more bec
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by solarwind 7y ago
A few places in the U.S. do already have this system and it works well. The city owns the fiber optic links between your house and a central office, but you get to choose your own ISP (often from dozens of options).
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by solarwind 7y ago
You already know the answer based on the history of repressive regimes that have monopolies on telecom systems.
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by solarwind 7y ago
It's not about climate it's about political control. It's a political boogeyman. Left wing politicians have successfully brainwashed a generation to believe they’re gonna die in 12 years unless socialists and communists contr
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by solarwind 7y ago
Goes both ways. The alarmists using "carbon" as a synonym for carbon dioxide is a form of propaganda. https://www.cfact.org/2019/04/25/carbon-is-not-a-synonym-for...
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by solarwind 7y ago
Carbon is not a synonym for carbon dioxide. https://www.cfact.org/2019/04/25/carbon-is-not-a-synonym-for...
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by solarwind 7y ago
I can't take anyone seriously who says "carbon" when he means carbon dioxide.
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by solarwind 7y ago
Carbon is not a synonym for carbon dioxide.
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by solarwind 7y ago
There was a photograph of a protester holding a sign saying "We need the second amendment": https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2019/07/29/hong-kong-proteste...
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by solarwind 7y ago
The New York Times must have a policy that it will not publish an article if it doesn't have at least a couple snarky digs at "capitalism" and Trump, no matter how tangential to the subject matter.
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by solarwind 7y ago
The USCRN is a new network of 143 stations that wasn't fully completed in 2008 (started in 2001 with data becoming available 2004). The data prior to 2004 is from the historical sensor network (USHCN). The whole reason the USCRN was bu
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by solarwind 7y ago
Though I do agree with the sentiment that disproving bullshit is more work than writing it, the linked Google Sheet is a literal import of the raw and modified data sets freely downloadable from the NOAA ftp site.
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by solarwind 7y ago
Also, the 12-year deadline is a talking point for politicians. However the IPCC said there is not some “magic global mean temperature or total emissions that separate 'fine' from 'catastrophic’” [1] 1. https://www.
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by solarwind 7y ago
So newspapers, which are not primary sources, and have a long history of parroting climate alarmism predictions that have never come true: https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1175075616699355139
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by solarwind 7y ago
False. All of the sources in the blog are cited; you obviously didn't look carefully enough before arriving at your conclusion.
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by solarwind 7y ago
What about the NOAA data adjustments and climate scientists openly discussing getting rid of the 1940s warmth: https://realclimatescience.com/61-fake-data/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T86IIKK9FR
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by solarwind 7y ago
What are your primary sources for these statements, or are you just parroting what you've heard? Have you looked at any of the raw data?
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by solarwind 7y ago
What sources do you have for this, or is this just your opinion?
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by solarwind 7y ago
This. Spreading the cost of something that's getting increasingly more expensive across the populace doesn't solve the fundamental factors that are causing that thing to become more expensive in the first place. It also removes th
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by solarwind 8y ago
This. I used to think "fake news" was far-right baloney, but I've come to lose all faith in the journalistic integrity of the New York Times and WaPo. This recent piece for the NYT was a bizarrely flattering story about an an
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by solarwind 8y ago
If you are a Canadian citizen who ever used a credit/debit card at a cannabis dispensary (or if you even just invested or worked for a Canadian dispensary), you are now permanently barred from entering the United States. A cashless soc
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by solarwind 8y ago
According to this it is a non-profit corporation open to the public. A corporation is just a legal structure around ownership interest. The corporate shareholder structure allowed the shareholders to collectively share their books in the li
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by solarwind 8y ago
I'm not sure if most people know that the first libraries in America were privately funded subscription services, established by Benjamin Franklin. The first American lending library (Library Company of Philadelphia) was set up in 1731
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by solarwind 9y ago
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/why-i-asked-my-friends-to-st... This article explains a lot better than I can some of the security tradeoffs with Whatsapp, particularly in regard to metadata and data collection. Also, the w