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What if this slug.
Petter comments on Aug 14, 2020:
Since I have no intention of joining any group that promotes pests, garden or otherwise, it certainly would not work in my case - or I hope in the case of anyone with a modicum of experience backed by intelligence.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 14, 2020:
. . . what, no one has perceived you as a "pest" ?
Just asking for an acquaintance of mine. :)
Petter comments on Aug 14, 2020:
Since I have no intention of joining any group that promotes pests, garden or otherwise, it certainly would not work in my case - or I hope in the case of anyone with a modicum of experience backed by intelligence.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 14, 2020:
. . . what, no one has perceived you as a "pest" ?
Just asking for an acquaintance of mine. :)
What if this slug.
StarvingArtist comments on Aug 14, 2020:
I can’t comprehend the reasoning for providIng a platform for HATE and conspiracy theories. And allowing those that have already been banned from other social media sites to have another platform to continue their false propaganda. Is it for data sales? Is it to confuse people into having more ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 14, 2020:
As a strident privacy advocate, I actually read the Privacy Policy and TOS of the websites before considering whether I would create a login. THIS websites' terms are the most privacy-conscious (assuming they are adhered-to) that I have ever encountered. I have no evidence they are not adhered-to.
StarvingArtist comments on Aug 14, 2020:
I can’t comprehend the reasoning for providIng a platform for HATE and conspiracy theories. And allowing those that have already been banned from other social media sites to have another platform to continue their false propaganda. Is it for data sales? Is it to confuse people into having more ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 14, 2020:
As a strident privacy advocate, I actually read the Privacy Policy and TOS of the websites before considering whether I would create a login. THIS websites' terms are the most privacy-conscious (assuming they are adhered-to) that I have ever encountered. I have no evidence they are not adhered-to.
What if this slug.
TheMiddleWay comments on Aug 14, 2020:
Has he done something similar on slug to balance agnostic and boost our numbers?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 14, 2020:
@Allamanda How would "telling us what strange people 'Slugs' are and how dreadfully they behave" promote 'harmony' or abide by 'social norms' ?
TheMiddleWay comments on Aug 14, 2020:
Has he done something similar on slug to balance agnostic and boost our numbers?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 14, 2020:
@Allamanda How would "telling us what strange people 'Slugs' are and how dreadfully they behave" promote 'harmony' or abide by 'social norms' ?
What if this slug.
TheMiddleWay comments on Aug 14, 2020:
Has he done something similar on slug to balance agnostic and boost our numbers?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 14, 2020:
@Allamanda How would promote 'harmony' or abide by 'social norms' ? :P
TheMiddleWay comments on Aug 14, 2020:
Has he done something similar on slug to balance agnostic and boost our numbers?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 14, 2020:
@Allamanda How would promote 'harmony' or abide by 'social norms' ? :P
Sanders Joins Calls for Resignation or Removal of Postmaster General Over Efforts to 'Suppress the ...
FearlessFly comments on Aug 12, 2020:
Kinda late in the 'game' for that. Trump would just appoint someone just as 'deplorable'.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 14, 2020:
@AnneWimsey I don't disagree, but my question has not been addressed. How would you suggest challenging a presidents' power in appointing head(s) of FEDERAL agencies ?
FearlessFly comments on Aug 12, 2020:
Kinda late in the 'game' for that. Trump would just appoint someone just as 'deplorable'.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 14, 2020:
@AnneWimsey I don't disagree, but my question has not been addressed. How would you suggest challenging a presidents' power in appointing head(s) of FEDERAL agencies ?
Perhaps I’m not as confident in my ability to discuss religion or philosophy or even politics.
Jolanta comments on Aug 13, 2020:
No, especially if you live in Texas.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 14, 2020:
All my exes are in Texas (just one but I like saying it) ! :)
Jolanta comments on Aug 13, 2020:
No, especially if you live in Texas.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 14, 2020:
All my exes are in Texas (just one but I like saying it) ! :)
[youtube.com]
Masks work
FearlessFly comments on Aug 12, 2020:
Apart from math, science doesn't PROVE anything. There is always doubt/error-bars/new-ideas. It can disprove things. Some folks likely will never be persuaded, no matter how much convincing evidence is shown.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 13, 2020:
@AtheistInNC . . . no doubt persuasive/convincing. Proof is for juries (or math), not science -- things change -- ask Isaac Newton :)
FearlessFly comments on Aug 12, 2020:
Apart from math, science doesn't PROVE anything. There is always doubt/error-bars/new-ideas. It can disprove things. Some folks likely will never be persuaded, no matter how much convincing evidence is shown.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 13, 2020:
@AtheistInNC . . . no doubt persuasive/convincing. Proof is for juries (or math), not science -- things change -- ask Isaac Newton :)
Perhaps I’m not as confident in my ability to discuss religion or philosophy or even politics.
HumanistJohn comments on Aug 13, 2020:
I haven't read all the comments yet, nr have I read your bio.
My remarks here will, therefor, be generalities.
Your situation, whatever the similarities to other's circumstances, is unique.
Furthermore, your relationship to each individual in your life is unique also.
One size fits all doesn't ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 13, 2020:
Good questions in the 'style' of the Socratic method.
HumanistJohn comments on Aug 13, 2020:
I haven't read all the comments yet, nr have I read your bio.
My remarks here will, therefor, be generalities.
Your situation, whatever the similarities to other's circumstances, is unique.
Furthermore, your relationship to each individual in your life is unique also.
One size fits all doesn't ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 13, 2020:
Good questions in the 'style' of the Socratic method.
Perhaps I’m not as confident in my ability to discuss religion or philosophy or even politics.
powder comments on Aug 13, 2020:
I see it as chewing the fat, dribbling shite to each other rather than battles
FearlessFly replies on Aug 13, 2020:
How many times have you seen someone here refer to "chewing the fat" or "dribbling shite" (both ok to me) as ATTACKED, and/or using that as reason(s) to have blocked someone ?
powder comments on Aug 13, 2020:
I see it as chewing the fat, dribbling shite to each other rather than battles
FearlessFly replies on Aug 13, 2020:
How many times have you seen someone here refer to "chewing the fat" or "dribbling shite" (both ok to me) as ATTACKED, and/or using that as reason(s) to have blocked someone ?
Perhaps I’m not as confident in my ability to discuss religion or philosophy or even politics.
Itisntwhatitis comments on Aug 13, 2020:
There are many covert ways to make a political statement without being polical. One way is to relate how a particular issue is impacting the lives of yourself and others in conversation. The political aspect can appear to be a coincidence. Sticking to facts of the matter rather than opinion can be ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 13, 2020:
"theory" -- thx for saying so.
I get criticized for advocating to not use that word colloquially because is so-much misused by believers. ("evolution is just a theory")
Itisntwhatitis comments on Aug 13, 2020:
There are many covert ways to make a political statement without being polical. One way is to relate how a particular issue is impacting the lives of yourself and others in conversation. The political aspect can appear to be a coincidence. Sticking to facts of the matter rather than opinion can be ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 13, 2020:
"theory" -- thx for saying so.
I get criticized for advocating to not use that word colloquially because is so-much misused by believers. ("evolution is just a theory")
Perhaps I’m not as confident in my ability to discuss religion or philosophy or even politics.
Larry-new comments on Aug 13, 2020:
Actually, the subject of religion and beliefs should never come up here. Else, why are we here?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 13, 2020:
Larry- . . . YOU MUST BE 'new' here :O :) lol
Larry-new comments on Aug 13, 2020:
Actually, the subject of religion and beliefs should never come up here. Else, why are we here?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 13, 2020:
Larry- . . . YOU MUST BE 'new' here :O :) lol
What a difference character makes
St-Sinner comments on Aug 13, 2020:
This should be under "Just for Laughs".
Price has always mattered over quality no matters who says it and where they say it worldwide. It has to be a dictatorship to not even allow foreign goods. Both parties do it because they must operate a lean and efficient machine to win. We all are buying ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 13, 2020:
@St-Sinner I think I know what you are saying, I prefer to keep my record 'clean' :)
St-Sinner comments on Aug 13, 2020:
This should be under "Just for Laughs".
Price has always mattered over quality no matters who says it and where they say it worldwide. It has to be a dictatorship to not even allow foreign goods. Both parties do it because they must operate a lean and efficient machine to win. We all are buying ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 13, 2020:
@St-Sinner I think I know what you are saying, I prefer to keep my record 'clean' :)
What a difference character makes
St-Sinner comments on Aug 13, 2020:
This should be under "Just for Laughs".
Price has always mattered over quality no matters who says it and where they say it worldwide. It has to be a dictatorship to not even allow foreign goods. Both parties do it because they must operate a lean and efficient machine to win. We all are buying ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 13, 2020:
@St-Sinner It would not be easy for me to come-up with 'norms/culture' that I actively endorse. Reason is my aspirational metric -- no shortage of nonsense. :)
St-Sinner comments on Aug 13, 2020:
This should be under "Just for Laughs".
Price has always mattered over quality no matters who says it and where they say it worldwide. It has to be a dictatorship to not even allow foreign goods. Both parties do it because they must operate a lean and efficient machine to win. We all are buying ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 13, 2020:
@St-Sinner It would not be easy for me to come-up with 'norms/culture' that I actively endorse. Reason is my aspirational metric -- no shortage of nonsense. :)
What a difference character makes
St-Sinner comments on Aug 13, 2020:
This should be under "Just for Laughs".
Price has always mattered over quality no matters who says it and where they say it worldwide. It has to be a dictatorship to not even allow foreign goods. Both parties do it because they must operate a lean and efficient machine to win. We all are buying ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 13, 2020:
I'm proud to say I have never set-foot in one :)
St-Sinner comments on Aug 13, 2020:
This should be under "Just for Laughs".
Price has always mattered over quality no matters who says it and where they say it worldwide. It has to be a dictatorship to not even allow foreign goods. Both parties do it because they must operate a lean and efficient machine to win. We all are buying ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 13, 2020:
I'm proud to say I have never set-foot in one :)
Lyft joins Uber in threatening to pull out of California over driver status
The companies say ...
EdEarl comments on Aug 13, 2020:
I think Uber and Lyft drivers are under paid, but this ruling, however it lands, has no bearing on the eventual change to robotaxis, except possibly to change when it occurs.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 13, 2020:
@bingst I think the idea was to (try) keep the money in austin . . .
EdEarl comments on Aug 13, 2020:
I think Uber and Lyft drivers are under paid, but this ruling, however it lands, has no bearing on the eventual change to robotaxis, except possibly to change when it occurs.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 13, 2020:
@bingst I think the idea was to (try) keep the money in austin . . .
Lyft joins Uber in threatening to pull out of California over driver status
The companies say ...
EdEarl comments on Aug 13, 2020:
I think Uber and Lyft drivers are under paid, but this ruling, however it lands, has no bearing on the eventual change to robotaxis, except possibly to change when it occurs.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 13, 2020:
It didn't happen in Austin
http://www.rideaustin.com/
EdEarl comments on Aug 13, 2020:
I think Uber and Lyft drivers are under paid, but this ruling, however it lands, has no bearing on the eventual change to robotaxis, except possibly to change when it occurs.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 13, 2020:
It didn't happen in Austin
http://www.rideaustin.com/
Goodbye message from OwlInaSack:
Admin has suspended my account (I’m not sure why) – but ...
RavenCT comments on Aug 12, 2020:
BTW I believe when you voluntarily leave the site your content is removed when you go.
**I stand Corrected. I checked tonight and found content from several friends who have voluntarily left the site.**
I do try to remember that anything I ever have written online is always out there ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 13, 2020:
@RavenCT An admin could (willingly or inadvertently) delete as much as hasn't been backed-up by various means (cloud/RAID/ransomware/etc.).
RavenCT comments on Aug 12, 2020:
BTW I believe when you voluntarily leave the site your content is removed when you go.
**I stand Corrected. I checked tonight and found content from several friends who have voluntarily left the site.**
I do try to remember that anything I ever have written online is always out there ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 13, 2020:
@RavenCT An admin could (willingly or inadvertently) delete as much as hasn't been backed-up by various means (cloud/RAID/ransomware/etc.).
Goodbye message from OwlInaSack:
Admin has suspended my account (I’m not sure why) – but ...
TheMiddleWay comments on Aug 12, 2020:
I'm not going to miss him.
It's interesting to me that most (not all) of the people lamenting Owl's departure (and threatening departure) are the same people with whom I've have a contentious relationships with on this website... marked by rude behaiviour, rhetoric over substance, and a generous ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 13, 2020:
@Spectator . . . does that make you an interloper (one "o", not interlooper), or are you back 'openly' ?
TheMiddleWay comments on Aug 12, 2020:
I'm not going to miss him.
It's interesting to me that most (not all) of the people lamenting Owl's departure (and threatening departure) are the same people with whom I've have a contentious relationships with on this website... marked by rude behaiviour, rhetoric over substance, and a generous ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 13, 2020:
@Spectator . . . does that make you an interloper (one "o", not interlooper), or are you back 'openly' ?
Goodbye message from OwlInaSack:
Admin has suspended my account (I’m not sure why) – but ...
OldMetalHead comments on Aug 12, 2020:
Hey, what is the new direction for agnostic?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 13, 2020:
@TheMiddleWay . . . wading thru the 3 recent CS posts, again :) , I don't find any besides MK.
OldMetalHead comments on Aug 12, 2020:
Hey, what is the new direction for agnostic?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 13, 2020:
@TheMiddleWay . . . wading thru the 3 recent CS posts, again :) , I don't find any besides MK.
The Beatles - I'm Only Sleeping (2009 remaster)
[youtu.be]
FearlessFly comments on Jul 25, 2020:
Credited as a Lennon–McCartney song, it was written primarily by John Lennon. The track includes a backwards (or backmasked) lead guitar part, played by George Harrison, marking the first time that such a technique had been used on a pop recording.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 13, 2020:
@AlasBabylon I have a real hard time understanding (have tried) how people say (without much explanation) that they don't like the Beatles. :(
FearlessFly comments on Jul 25, 2020:
Credited as a Lennon–McCartney song, it was written primarily by John Lennon. The track includes a backwards (or backmasked) lead guitar part, played by George Harrison, marking the first time that such a technique had been used on a pop recording.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 13, 2020:
@AlasBabylon I have a real hard time understanding (have tried) how people say (without much explanation) that they don't like the Beatles. :(
Goodbye message from OwlInaSack:
Admin has suspended my account (I’m not sure why) – but ...
Allamanda comments on Aug 12, 2020:
For further information please see Skado's post a few days ago, https://agnostic.com/group/Senate/post/522802/ok-i-do-sincerely-hope-people-dont-overreact-to-this-and-bail-out-i-love-this-community-and-hope and draw your own conclusions, do your own research etc.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
@Allamanda Databases all have automatic trigger features.
Allamanda comments on Aug 12, 2020:
For further information please see Skado's post a few days ago, https://agnostic.com/group/Senate/post/522802/ok-i-do-sincerely-hope-people-dont-overreact-to-this-and-bail-out-i-love-this-community-and-hope and draw your own conclusions, do your own research etc.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
@Allamanda Databases all have automatic trigger features.
Goodbye message from OwlInaSack:
Admin has suspended my account (I’m not sure why) – but ...
brentan comments on Aug 12, 2020:
That's unbelievable! WTF is going on?
I always thought of him as a decent guy I didn't see eye-to-eye with.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
@TheMiddleWay If, as has been 'reported' here by Allamanda, he was deleting his content, I think removal would almost certainly be triggered (databases all have trigger features) automatically.
brentan comments on Aug 12, 2020:
That's unbelievable! WTF is going on?
I always thought of him as a decent guy I didn't see eye-to-eye with.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
@TheMiddleWay If, as has been 'reported' here by Allamanda, he was deleting his content, I think removal would almost certainly be triggered (databases all have trigger features) automatically.
Goodbye message from OwlInaSack:
Admin has suspended my account (I’m not sure why) – but ...
OldMetalHead comments on Aug 12, 2020:
Hey, what is the new direction for agnostic?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
@TheMiddleWay I'm only aware of MissKathleen making such requests, there are many others ?
OldMetalHead comments on Aug 12, 2020:
Hey, what is the new direction for agnostic?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
@TheMiddleWay I'm only aware of MissKathleen making such requests, there are many others ?
Popped into my head on the way to the cardiologist appointment.
FearlessFly comments on Aug 12, 2020:
The song may be about a former girlfriend, Suze Rotolo, or fellow folk singer Joan Baez, contemporary siren Nico, or Sara Lownds, the woman that Dylan would wed in November 1965.
An alternative interpretation of the song is that it is a paean to Dylan's muse, depicting it as unapproachable but ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
@Spinliesel THANKS, ROFL, funniest thing I have heard yet on this website !
FearlessFly comments on Aug 12, 2020:
The song may be about a former girlfriend, Suze Rotolo, or fellow folk singer Joan Baez, contemporary siren Nico, or Sara Lownds, the woman that Dylan would wed in November 1965.
An alternative interpretation of the song is that it is a paean to Dylan's muse, depicting it as unapproachable but ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
@Spinliesel THANKS, ROFL, funniest thing I have heard yet on this website !
Goodbye message from OwlInaSack:
Admin has suspended my account (I’m not sure why) – but ...
RavenCT comments on Aug 12, 2020:
BTW I believe when you voluntarily leave the site your content is removed when you go.
**I stand Corrected. I checked tonight and found content from several friends who have voluntarily left the site.**
I do try to remember that anything I ever have written online is always out there ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
@Leontion Databases know more about you than you do, 'they' don't forget.
RavenCT comments on Aug 12, 2020:
BTW I believe when you voluntarily leave the site your content is removed when you go.
**I stand Corrected. I checked tonight and found content from several friends who have voluntarily left the site.**
I do try to remember that anything I ever have written online is always out there ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
@Leontion Databases know more about you than you do, 'they' don't forget.
Goodbye message from OwlInaSack:
Admin has suspended my account (I’m not sure why) – but ...
Leontion comments on Aug 12, 2020:
I went to the linked thread about SLUG-- yikes-- so if I criticize that piece in SLUG for being full of straw man arguments, would that get me evicted? When he says "new direction" for this site-- does that mean evidence-based? Or anti leftist? I don't find evidence supports much of what was said in...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
@Leontion IAMNAL, but I can easily imagine legal reasons why that is impermissable.
Leontion comments on Aug 12, 2020:
I went to the linked thread about SLUG-- yikes-- so if I criticize that piece in SLUG for being full of straw man arguments, would that get me evicted? When he says "new direction" for this site-- does that mean evidence-based? Or anti leftist? I don't find evidence supports much of what was said in...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
@Leontion IAMNAL, but I can easily imagine legal reasons why that is impermissable.
OK, I do sincerely hope people don't overreact to this and bail out.
MissKathleen comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Amazing. The person who did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to keep the extremists from ruining the site speaks against that behavior? Some of us hung in, because at least it is a place where other non-believers could TRY to have normal conversations. I recall a number of people BEGGING admin not to allow the...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
@RoboGraham I'm aware that I am more comfortable with conflict than lots of folks, but I have a hard time understanding why others are so quick to block (I wouldn't disallow it). I just don't think it is hard to CHOOSE to stop reading and replying to posts/comments.
MissKathleen comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Amazing. The person who did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to keep the extremists from ruining the site speaks against that behavior? Some of us hung in, because at least it is a place where other non-believers could TRY to have normal conversations. I recall a number of people BEGGING admin not to allow the...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
@RoboGraham I'm aware that I am more comfortable with conflict than lots of folks, but I have a hard time understanding why others are so quick to block (I wouldn't disallow it). I just don't think it is hard to CHOOSE to stop reading and replying to posts/comments.
OK, I do sincerely hope people don't overreact to this and bail out.
MissKathleen comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Amazing. The person who did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to keep the extremists from ruining the site speaks against that behavior? Some of us hung in, because at least it is a place where other non-believers could TRY to have normal conversations. I recall a number of people BEGGING admin not to allow the...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
@RoboGraham . . . nope
MissKathleen comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Amazing. The person who did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to keep the extremists from ruining the site speaks against that behavior? Some of us hung in, because at least it is a place where other non-believers could TRY to have normal conversations. I recall a number of people BEGGING admin not to allow the...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
@RoboGraham . . . nope
White House unveils partnership to boost quantum science education
[reuters.com]
yvilletom comments on Aug 12, 2020:
Well, two points are two points. How many understand quantum science well enough to teach it to those who will teach it to kids?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
@yvilletom I have a hat that says "I'm retired, don't ask me to do a damn thing!" :)
yvilletom comments on Aug 12, 2020:
Well, two points are two points. How many understand quantum science well enough to teach it to those who will teach it to kids?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
@yvilletom I have a hat that says "I'm retired, don't ask me to do a damn thing!" :)
OK, I do sincerely hope people don't overreact to this and bail out.
FearlessFly comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Have only read about 1/4 - 1/3, but I'm leaning towards agreement with his POV.
I have never liked the name calling. I get accused of being 'rude' (and was 'ousted' from 50+) when I try to point out (what I consider to be) Critical Thinking 'flaws' in posts/comments.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
@TomMcGiverin I haven't blocked anyone. I try to be circumspect about how/when I engage. I would miss them because I tend to actively "confront" myself with a wide variety of POV. For admin, **some** line(s) need enforcing IMO. ymmv
FearlessFly comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Have only read about 1/4 - 1/3, but I'm leaning towards agreement with his POV.
I have never liked the name calling. I get accused of being 'rude' (and was 'ousted' from 50+) when I try to point out (what I consider to be) Critical Thinking 'flaws' in posts/comments.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
@TomMcGiverin I haven't blocked anyone. I try to be circumspect about how/when I engage. I would miss them because I tend to actively "confront" myself with a wide variety of POV. For admin, **some** line(s) need enforcing IMO. ymmv
White House unveils partnership to boost quantum science education
[reuters.com]
yvilletom comments on Aug 12, 2020:
Well, two points are two points. How many understand quantum science well enough to teach it to those who will teach it to kids?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
As a Software Developer, I would say much the same about CS, but no K-12 teacher is likely to be an expert about either one. I still want them taught.
yvilletom comments on Aug 12, 2020:
Well, two points are two points. How many understand quantum science well enough to teach it to those who will teach it to kids?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
As a Software Developer, I would say much the same about CS, but no K-12 teacher is likely to be an expert about either one. I still want them taught.
Sanders Joins Calls for Resignation or Removal of Postmaster General Over Efforts to 'Suppress the ...
FearlessFly comments on Aug 12, 2020:
Kinda late in the 'game' for that. Trump would just appoint someone just as 'deplorable'.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
@AnneWimsey . . . this is not about privacy. Both are important constitutional rights (voting by mail isn't). Despite the outrage, how would you suggest challenging a presidents' power in appointing head(s) of FEDERAL agencies ?
FearlessFly comments on Aug 12, 2020:
Kinda late in the 'game' for that. Trump would just appoint someone just as 'deplorable'.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
@AnneWimsey . . . this is not about privacy. Both are important constitutional rights (voting by mail isn't). Despite the outrage, how would you suggest challenging a presidents' power in appointing head(s) of FEDERAL agencies ?
TikTok collected Android user data using tactic banned by Google
Practice ended in November, ...
St-Sinner comments on Aug 12, 2020:
Do you know every social media platform and government agencies have been doing it for years?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
@St-Sinner @AnneWimsey We have only the rights that we can defend -- google is defending theirs. I advocate that individuals do also.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/privacy
https://www.gilc.nl/privacy/survey/intro.html
https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2048=caselrev
St-Sinner comments on Aug 12, 2020:
Do you know every social media platform and government agencies have been doing it for years?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
@St-Sinner @AnneWimsey We have only the rights that we can defend -- google is defending theirs. I advocate that individuals do also.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/privacy
https://www.gilc.nl/privacy/survey/intro.html
https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2048=caselrev
TikTok collected Android user data using tactic banned by Google
Practice ended in November, ...
St-Sinner comments on Aug 12, 2020:
Do you know every social media platform and government agencies have been doing it for years?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
@St-Sinner . . . "this just in" more 'policy' :P
https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/11/stalkerware-apps-google-ads/?guccounter=1
St-Sinner comments on Aug 12, 2020:
Do you know every social media platform and government agencies have been doing it for years?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
@St-Sinner . . . "this just in" more 'policy' :P
https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/11/stalkerware-apps-google-ads/?guccounter=1
TikTok collected Android user data using tactic banned by Google
Practice ended in November, ...
St-Sinner comments on Aug 12, 2020:
Do you know every social media platform and government agencies have been doing it for years?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
@St-Sinner "does this issue matter? " I'm strident defender of privacy -- folks tend to 'roll-eyes, shake head".
Being an advertising company (95% of revenue), I think Google (and Trump) is trying to say 'China, don't tread on me" by enforcing policy.
St-Sinner comments on Aug 12, 2020:
Do you know every social media platform and government agencies have been doing it for years?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
@St-Sinner "does this issue matter? " I'm strident defender of privacy -- folks tend to 'roll-eyes, shake head".
Being an advertising company (95% of revenue), I think Google (and Trump) is trying to say 'China, don't tread on me" by enforcing policy.
"City Of New Orleans"- COSMO'S FACTORY/ FOGERTY'S FACTORY
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EyesThatSmile comments on Aug 12, 2020:
I get the feeling those are his grandchildren...a good possibility. I enjoyed the donkey chiming in! Nice one.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
@Marionville "John Fogerty and his three children have spent their time in quarantine performing classics and uploading them on YouTube, including “Lodi,” “The City of New Orleans,” and others. Now, on his 75th birthday, the rocker and his family have released Fogerty’s Factory, an EP of the songs."
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/john-fogerty-family-ep-fogertys-factory-1006425/
EyesThatSmile comments on Aug 12, 2020:
I get the feeling those are his grandchildren...a good possibility. I enjoyed the donkey chiming in! Nice one.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
@Marionville "John Fogerty and his three children have spent their time in quarantine performing classics and uploading them on YouTube, including “Lodi,” “The City of New Orleans,” and others. Now, on his 75th birthday, the rocker and his family have released Fogerty’s Factory, an EP of the songs."
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/john-fogerty-family-ep-fogertys-factory-1006425/
TikTok collected Android user data using tactic banned by Google
Practice ended in November, ...
St-Sinner comments on Aug 12, 2020:
Do you know every social media platform and government agencies have been doing it for years?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
Collecting data, yes. Using 'tactics' banned by Google ? -- citation needed.
St-Sinner comments on Aug 12, 2020:
Do you know every social media platform and government agencies have been doing it for years?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
Collecting data, yes. Using 'tactics' banned by Google ? -- citation needed.
This song goes out to a beautiful lady.
FearlessFly comments on Aug 11, 2020:
The Penguins had formed the year prior and recorded the song as a demo in a garage in South Los Angeles. The song's origins lie in multiple different sources, among them songs by Jesse Belvin, Patti Page, and the Hollywood Flames. Its authorship was the subject of a bitter legal dispute with ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
@Green_Soldier71 . . . the difficult (Wikipedia) done immediately, the impossible takes a little longer. :)
FearlessFly comments on Aug 11, 2020:
The Penguins had formed the year prior and recorded the song as a demo in a garage in South Los Angeles. The song's origins lie in multiple different sources, among them songs by Jesse Belvin, Patti Page, and the Hollywood Flames. Its authorship was the subject of a bitter legal dispute with ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
@Green_Soldier71 . . . the difficult (Wikipedia) done immediately, the impossible takes a little longer. :)
TikTok collected Android user data using tactic banned by Google
Practice ended in November, ...
SpikeTalon comments on Aug 12, 2020:
Dang, good thing I never used that app.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
. . . right, I don't have it on my $15 flip phone either :)
Doesn't ByteDance have lots of apps ?
SpikeTalon comments on Aug 12, 2020:
Dang, good thing I never used that app.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
. . . right, I don't have it on my $15 flip phone either :)
Doesn't ByteDance have lots of apps ?
When we engage in discourse on social media our expectations contain many of the same standards used...
FearlessFly comments on Aug 11, 2020:
. . . hmmm, I'm Choosing to engage
I would choose a different category than Politics . . .
Isn't it (subjectively) uncivil/rude to accuse someone of being (subjectively) uncivil/rude ?
"In person, it's harder to not hear what is said" -- Anyone here not 'heard' someone say to them "You are ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
@towkneed I appreciate your detailed response. I would have chosen General & Hellos or Community Senate (however, that is a smaller audience).
. . . 'subjects' vs. 'subjectivity' -- **noun** vs **adjective** -- quite different
Perhaps your attempt to play with those words were meant to (sort of) mirror my uses of 'heard' -- whatever.
"consensus of subjects whose observations are in agreement" -- I would call that being reasonable or compromising (in the ameliorative), not necessarily objective.
"uncivil" -- was intended generally (hoping to encourage folks to consider indiscriminate use of it) not directed at you :)
I would say that on sites where 'dating' is a possibility, I don't think it is meant to be colloquial, I think it is because they have (often ? ) encountered the LACK of it. :O
FearlessFly comments on Aug 11, 2020:
. . . hmmm, I'm Choosing to engage
I would choose a different category than Politics . . .
Isn't it (subjectively) uncivil/rude to accuse someone of being (subjectively) uncivil/rude ?
"In person, it's harder to not hear what is said" -- Anyone here not 'heard' someone say to them "You are ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 12, 2020:
@towkneed I appreciate your detailed response. I would have chosen General & Hellos or Community Senate (however, that is a smaller audience).
. . . 'subjects' vs. 'subjectivity' -- **noun** vs **adjective** -- quite different
Perhaps your attempt to play with those words were meant to (sort of) mirror my uses of 'heard' -- whatever.
"consensus of subjects whose observations are in agreement" -- I would call that being reasonable or compromising (in the ameliorative), not necessarily objective.
"uncivil" -- was intended generally (hoping to encourage folks to consider indiscriminate use of it) not directed at you :)
I would say that on sites where 'dating' is a possibility, I don't think it is meant to be colloquial, I think it is because they have (often ? ) encountered the LACK of it. :O
Bob Dylan - Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Unplugged)
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dsharphead66 comments on Aug 11, 2020:
How about giving someone else a chance to post something on this page besides your every 5 minutes uploading a new video of a song that we've heard over and over and over and over and over again. I think the pinned post by the moderator was directed towards you . Meant with love!
FearlessFly replies on Aug 11, 2020:
Having just 'joined' this group, how would you know ?
No one is preventing anyone from posting at any time they want (so long as it meets group 'policy' )
When I joined this group (9/19 ? ) I routinely posted two-in-a-row for months.
Now, once-in-a-blue-moon (once today) I inadvertently post two-in-a-row.
My music posts typically (on average ? ) are at least 2 hours apart. YMMV :P :)
dsharphead66 comments on Aug 11, 2020:
How about giving someone else a chance to post something on this page besides your every 5 minutes uploading a new video of a song that we've heard over and over and over and over and over again. I think the pinned post by the moderator was directed towards you . Meant with love!
FearlessFly replies on Aug 11, 2020:
Having just 'joined' this group, how would you know ?
No one is preventing anyone from posting at any time they want (so long as it meets group 'policy' )
When I joined this group (9/19 ? ) I routinely posted two-in-a-row for months.
Now, once-in-a-blue-moon (once today) I inadvertently post two-in-a-row.
My music posts typically (on average ? ) are at least 2 hours apart. YMMV :P :)
Joe Biden picks Kamala Harris as VP!!
FearlessFly comments on Aug 11, 2020:
. . just read the NYT article (and NPR). Will be interesting to see how the opposition shapes-up (imagining the worst from Trump). :O
FearlessFly replies on Aug 11, 2020:
@twill . . . your replies about it could be construed as evidence to the contrary. :O
FearlessFly comments on Aug 11, 2020:
. . just read the NYT article (and NPR). Will be interesting to see how the opposition shapes-up (imagining the worst from Trump). :O
FearlessFly replies on Aug 11, 2020:
@twill . . . your replies about it could be construed as evidence to the contrary. :O
It is magic.
linxminx comments on Aug 11, 2020:
With the right whiskey its a nice smooth magic.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 11, 2020:
The 'wet' kind can work wonders as well ! :O :)
linxminx comments on Aug 11, 2020:
With the right whiskey its a nice smooth magic.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 11, 2020:
The 'wet' kind can work wonders as well ! :O :)
Richard Stallman, and an anonymous digital payment method.
AnneWimsey comments on Aug 10, 2020:
There's something wrong with Paypal?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 11, 2020:
@AnneWimsey Privacy versus convenience, we apparently are on opposite sides.
. . . freedom isn't free
AnneWimsey comments on Aug 10, 2020:
There's something wrong with Paypal?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 11, 2020:
@AnneWimsey Privacy versus convenience, we apparently are on opposite sides.
. . . freedom isn't free
Richard Stallman, and an anonymous digital payment method.
AnneWimsey comments on Aug 10, 2020:
There's something wrong with Paypal?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 11, 2020:
@AnneWimsey I would say a lot more needed, these are a start
https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa
https://gdpr.eu/data-privacy/
https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/laws-regulations/index.html
AnneWimsey comments on Aug 10, 2020:
There's something wrong with Paypal?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 11, 2020:
@AnneWimsey I would say a lot more needed, these are a start
https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa
https://gdpr.eu/data-privacy/
https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/laws-regulations/index.html
Richard Stallman, and an anonymous digital payment method.
AnneWimsey comments on Aug 10, 2020:
There's something wrong with Paypal?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 11, 2020:
@AnneWimsey . . . part of the solution, or part of the problem :P
AnneWimsey comments on Aug 10, 2020:
There's something wrong with Paypal?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 11, 2020:
@AnneWimsey . . . part of the solution, or part of the problem :P
It's Kamala!
Excellent choice, and just goes to show 'Joe knows' what he's doing.
St-Sinner comments on Aug 11, 2020:
It is Joe's advisors primarily. In these unsure times, he must take their advice. When Biden is let off script he blunders. Reportedly black leaders told Biden that if a black woman is not picked, he will lose the election.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 11, 2020:
This references one influential black leader who said otherwise
(queued-up)
https://youtu.be/UxdvRl70m5I?t=2484
St-Sinner comments on Aug 11, 2020:
It is Joe's advisors primarily. In these unsure times, he must take their advice. When Biden is let off script he blunders. Reportedly black leaders told Biden that if a black woman is not picked, he will lose the election.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 11, 2020:
This references one influential black leader who said otherwise
(queued-up)
https://youtu.be/UxdvRl70m5I?t=2484
Richard Stallman, and an anonymous digital payment method.
AnneWimsey comments on Aug 10, 2020:
There's something wrong with Paypal?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 11, 2020:
@AnneWimsey "here & there in bits & pieces" -- I'm fairly acquainted with HIPAA (20 years in electronic health care data as a Software Developer). A 'covered entity' wouldn't fare well if all the stored data were available to all online.
https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/faq/covered-entities/index.html
Despite the profit benefits of tech companies' data collection/use/abuse, widespread attitudes about data privacy are not so 'laissez faire' as you seem to imply.
https://www.akamai.com/us/en/multimedia/documents/report/akamai-research-consumer-attitudes-toward-data-privacy.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK236546/
https://www.gilc.nl/privacy/survey/intro.html
AnneWimsey comments on Aug 10, 2020:
There's something wrong with Paypal?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 11, 2020:
@AnneWimsey "here & there in bits & pieces" -- I'm fairly acquainted with HIPAA (20 years in electronic health care data as a Software Developer). A 'covered entity' wouldn't fare well if all the stored data were available to all online.
https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/faq/covered-entities/index.html
Despite the profit benefits of tech companies' data collection/use/abuse, widespread attitudes about data privacy are not so 'laissez faire' as you seem to imply.
https://www.akamai.com/us/en/multimedia/documents/report/akamai-research-consumer-attitudes-toward-data-privacy.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK236546/
https://www.gilc.nl/privacy/survey/intro.html
When we engage in discourse on social media our expectations contain many of the same standards used...
FearlessFly comments on Aug 11, 2020:
. . . hmmm, I'm Choosing to engage
I would choose a different category than Politics . . .
Isn't it (subjectively) uncivil/rude to accuse someone of being (subjectively) uncivil/rude ?
"In person, it's harder to not hear what is said" -- Anyone here not 'heard' someone say to them "You are ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 11, 2020:
@Fred_Snerd No, 'man'
FearlessFly comments on Aug 11, 2020:
. . . hmmm, I'm Choosing to engage
I would choose a different category than Politics . . .
Isn't it (subjectively) uncivil/rude to accuse someone of being (subjectively) uncivil/rude ?
"In person, it's harder to not hear what is said" -- Anyone here not 'heard' someone say to them "You are ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 11, 2020:
@Fred_Snerd No, 'man'
When we engage in discourse on social media our expectations contain many of the same standards used...
FearlessFly comments on Aug 11, 2020:
. . . hmmm, I'm Choosing to engage
I would choose a different category than Politics . . .
Isn't it (subjectively) uncivil/rude to accuse someone of being (subjectively) uncivil/rude ?
"In person, it's harder to not hear what is said" -- Anyone here not 'heard' someone say to them "You are ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 11, 2020:
@Fred_Snerd "That's being a friend" I have a very strict definition of friend -- someone I can say anything to and hear anything from without losing my temper or self-confidence. Perhaps no one totally meets that ideal.
I have heard a similar one -- someone who knows everything about me and still likes me anyway. I try to use the word 'friend' ONLY when it actually applies.
I'm not sure how to interpret your last question.
I'm dubious that folks online get that "intimate" (or expect it). Does that make honesty a continuum (rhetorical) ? If so, I don't hear acknowledgement of it.
FearlessFly comments on Aug 11, 2020:
. . . hmmm, I'm Choosing to engage
I would choose a different category than Politics . . .
Isn't it (subjectively) uncivil/rude to accuse someone of being (subjectively) uncivil/rude ?
"In person, it's harder to not hear what is said" -- Anyone here not 'heard' someone say to them "You are ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 11, 2020:
@Fred_Snerd "That's being a friend" I have a very strict definition of friend -- someone I can say anything to and hear anything from without losing my temper or self-confidence. Perhaps no one totally meets that ideal.
I have heard a similar one -- someone who knows everything about me and still likes me anyway. I try to use the word 'friend' ONLY when it actually applies.
I'm not sure how to interpret your last question.
I'm dubious that folks online get that "intimate" (or expect it). Does that make honesty a continuum (rhetorical) ? If so, I don't hear acknowledgement of it.
Richard Stallman, and an anonymous digital payment method.
AnneWimsey comments on Aug 10, 2020:
There's something wrong with Paypal?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 11, 2020:
@AnneWimsey Would mind having someone install webcams in your bathroom and bedroom ?
Is all of your medical/legal/financial information available online for all to see ?
AnneWimsey comments on Aug 10, 2020:
There's something wrong with Paypal?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 11, 2020:
@AnneWimsey Would mind having someone install webcams in your bathroom and bedroom ?
Is all of your medical/legal/financial information available online for all to see ?
How to safely/efficiently clean-up space 'junk' ?
BitFlipper comments on Aug 10, 2020:
International agreements prevent any country from putting weapons in Earth orbit. However, Russia has an idea to blast the space junk to Smithereens using a particle beam. It's another one of their bullshit projects. They really want to have a particle beam pointing down at you and me.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 10, 2020:
@BitFlipper I remember hearing about it. Now wondering if US or Russia (both) was putting out fake news. A lot less space junk back then (70's). US started SDI under Reagan (80s).
BitFlipper comments on Aug 10, 2020:
International agreements prevent any country from putting weapons in Earth orbit. However, Russia has an idea to blast the space junk to Smithereens using a particle beam. It's another one of their bullshit projects. They really want to have a particle beam pointing down at you and me.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 10, 2020:
@BitFlipper I remember hearing about it. Now wondering if US or Russia (both) was putting out fake news. A lot less space junk back then (70's). US started SDI under Reagan (80s).
How to safely/efficiently clean-up space 'junk' ?
BitFlipper comments on Aug 10, 2020:
International agreements prevent any country from putting weapons in Earth orbit. However, Russia has an idea to blast the space junk to Smithereens using a particle beam. It's another one of their bullshit projects. They really want to have a particle beam pointing down at you and me.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 10, 2020:
Did you watch the video ? One of the proposals is the shoot ions at a defunct satellite to get into lower degrading orbit.
BitFlipper comments on Aug 10, 2020:
International agreements prevent any country from putting weapons in Earth orbit. However, Russia has an idea to blast the space junk to Smithereens using a particle beam. It's another one of their bullshit projects. They really want to have a particle beam pointing down at you and me.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 10, 2020:
Did you watch the video ? One of the proposals is the shoot ions at a defunct satellite to get into lower degrading orbit.
Richard Stallman, and an anonymous digital payment method.
AnneWimsey comments on Aug 10, 2020:
There's something wrong with Paypal?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 10, 2020:
@AnneWimsey Do you think privacy is unimportant ? Hopeless ? (GDPR)
Have you noticed that folks who might say "I have nothing to hide"
are all fully clothed when saying it ?
Are we "frogs in a pot that is headed for boil" ?
AnneWimsey comments on Aug 10, 2020:
There's something wrong with Paypal?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 10, 2020:
@AnneWimsey Do you think privacy is unimportant ? Hopeless ? (GDPR)
Have you noticed that folks who might say "I have nothing to hide"
are all fully clothed when saying it ?
Are we "frogs in a pot that is headed for boil" ?
How to safely/efficiently clean-up space 'junk' ?
AnneWimsey comments on Aug 10, 2020:
I thought most of it eventually fell back into the atmosphere & burned up because their orbits degraded.??
If there is so much stuff up there it is getting dangerously cluttered, why cannot they signal them to degrade their own orbit?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 10, 2020:
@AnneWimsey I don't thing any of them are cheap. And "free fall" doesn't describe degrading orbits into thicker atmosphere until the burn-up from the friction.
The video describes the degredation fairly well.
AnneWimsey comments on Aug 10, 2020:
I thought most of it eventually fell back into the atmosphere & burned up because their orbits degraded.??
If there is so much stuff up there it is getting dangerously cluttered, why cannot they signal them to degrade their own orbit?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 10, 2020:
@AnneWimsey I don't thing any of them are cheap. And "free fall" doesn't describe degrading orbits into thicker atmosphere until the burn-up from the friction.
The video describes the degredation fairly well.
Should The USA Be Considered a Democracy?
dermot235 comments on Aug 10, 2020:
The US is not a functioning Democracy and it's getting worse every year.
Voter Suppression
Gerrymandering
The Electoral College,
And then Alaska with it's 600,000 people gets 2 Senators
and California with 39 Millions People gets 2 Senators also. WTF
Please don't export your democracy ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 10, 2020:
@dermot235 Not harder, different. US has some better issues, some worse. I wouldn't want to "rate" the US or Europe issues.
dermot235 comments on Aug 10, 2020:
The US is not a functioning Democracy and it's getting worse every year.
Voter Suppression
Gerrymandering
The Electoral College,
And then Alaska with it's 600,000 people gets 2 Senators
and California with 39 Millions People gets 2 Senators also. WTF
Please don't export your democracy ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 10, 2020:
@dermot235 Not harder, different. US has some better issues, some worse. I wouldn't want to "rate" the US or Europe issues.
Totally disrespectful.
silverotter11 comments on Aug 10, 2020:
I think according to the U.S. Flag Code the flag should not be placed below a campaign pendent.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 10, 2020:
(from Wikipedia)
"This is a U.S. federal law, but the penalty described in Title 18 of the United States Code (18 U.S.C. § 700) for failure to comply with it is not enforced"
silverotter11 comments on Aug 10, 2020:
I think according to the U.S. Flag Code the flag should not be placed below a campaign pendent.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 10, 2020:
(from Wikipedia)
"This is a U.S. federal law, but the penalty described in Title 18 of the United States Code (18 U.S.C. § 700) for failure to comply with it is not enforced"
Should The USA Be Considered a Democracy?
dermot235 comments on Aug 10, 2020:
The US is not a functioning Democracy and it's getting worse every year.
Voter Suppression
Gerrymandering
The Electoral College,
And then Alaska with it's 600,000 people gets 2 Senators
and California with 39 Millions People gets 2 Senators also. WTF
Please don't export your democracy ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 10, 2020:
@dermot235 US chose not to follow those "crooked paths". US still has (plenty of) other 'paths' to correct. :P
dermot235 comments on Aug 10, 2020:
The US is not a functioning Democracy and it's getting worse every year.
Voter Suppression
Gerrymandering
The Electoral College,
And then Alaska with it's 600,000 people gets 2 Senators
and California with 39 Millions People gets 2 Senators also. WTF
Please don't export your democracy ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 10, 2020:
@dermot235 US chose not to follow those "crooked paths". US still has (plenty of) other 'paths' to correct. :P
Should The USA Be Considered a Democracy?
dermot235 comments on Aug 10, 2020:
The US is not a functioning Democracy and it's getting worse every year.
Voter Suppression
Gerrymandering
The Electoral College,
And then Alaska with it's 600,000 people gets 2 Senators
and California with 39 Millions People gets 2 Senators also. WTF
Please don't export your democracy ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 10, 2020:
US hasn't had Catholic (any) church (or a Monarchy) powerful enough to control things for long periods of time. :)
dermot235 comments on Aug 10, 2020:
The US is not a functioning Democracy and it's getting worse every year.
Voter Suppression
Gerrymandering
The Electoral College,
And then Alaska with it's 600,000 people gets 2 Senators
and California with 39 Millions People gets 2 Senators also. WTF
Please don't export your democracy ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 10, 2020:
US hasn't had Catholic (any) church (or a Monarchy) powerful enough to control things for long periods of time. :)
Should The USA Be Considered a Democracy?
Storm1752 comments on Aug 10, 2020:
Yes.
Well...no not really. It's not 'one man, one vote,' which if it isn't SHOULD be the standard. The Electoral College is an anachronism with should be abolished, but that would take a constitutional amendment, which ain't gonna happen.
Plus there other reasons to say with justification our ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 10, 2020:
"should be abolished" -- too much power to the large population states, candidates would never visit the smaller ones.
Storm1752 comments on Aug 10, 2020:
Yes.
Well...no not really. It's not 'one man, one vote,' which if it isn't SHOULD be the standard. The Electoral College is an anachronism with should be abolished, but that would take a constitutional amendment, which ain't gonna happen.
Plus there other reasons to say with justification our ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 10, 2020:
"should be abolished" -- too much power to the large population states, candidates would never visit the smaller ones.
How to safely/efficiently clean-up space 'junk' ?
AnneWimsey comments on Aug 10, 2020:
I thought most of it eventually fell back into the atmosphere & burned up because their orbits degraded.??
If there is so much stuff up there it is getting dangerously cluttered, why cannot they signal them to degrade their own orbit?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 10, 2020:
Some (few? ) do have that capability. Watch the video in the article for other explanations of problems.
AnneWimsey comments on Aug 10, 2020:
I thought most of it eventually fell back into the atmosphere & burned up because their orbits degraded.??
If there is so much stuff up there it is getting dangerously cluttered, why cannot they signal them to degrade their own orbit?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 10, 2020:
Some (few? ) do have that capability. Watch the video in the article for other explanations of problems.
Richard Stallman, and an anonymous digital payment method.
AnneWimsey comments on Aug 10, 2020:
There's something wrong with Paypal?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 10, 2020:
@AnneWimsey It is not private. When I hand $( x ) (legal tender for all debts, public and private) to a merchant and leave, my identity is not known/tracked. You could say that is not important to you, that does not mean it is not important.
AnneWimsey comments on Aug 10, 2020:
There's something wrong with Paypal?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 10, 2020:
@AnneWimsey It is not private. When I hand $( x ) (legal tender for all debts, public and private) to a merchant and leave, my identity is not known/tracked. You could say that is not important to you, that does not mean it is not important.
Richard Stallman, and an anonymous digital payment method.
AnneWimsey comments on Aug 10, 2020:
There's something wrong with Paypal?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 10, 2020:
@AnneWimsey . . . exactly what ?
AnneWimsey comments on Aug 10, 2020:
There's something wrong with Paypal?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 10, 2020:
@AnneWimsey . . . exactly what ?
Richard Stallman, and an anonymous digital payment method.
AnneWimsey comments on Aug 10, 2020:
There's something wrong with Paypal?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 10, 2020:
@AnneWimsey Just putting "IS" in an assertion doesn't confer veracity.
Your anecdote (although good for you) is not data. Even if a large percentage of "payment system" users don't have problems doesn't mean there aren't significant issues/problems.
https://money.howstuffworks.com/paypal.htm#pt7
If convenience is the (your) metric, things are wonderful -- until they are not.
Why shouldn't/ISN'T it be possible (and widespread) to pay online securely/trustfully/privately/legally like cash ?
AnneWimsey comments on Aug 10, 2020:
There's something wrong with Paypal?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 10, 2020:
@AnneWimsey Just putting "IS" in an assertion doesn't confer veracity.
Your anecdote (although good for you) is not data. Even if a large percentage of "payment system" users don't have problems doesn't mean there aren't significant issues/problems.
https://money.howstuffworks.com/paypal.htm#pt7
If convenience is the (your) metric, things are wonderful -- until they are not.
Why shouldn't/ISN'T it be possible (and widespread) to pay online securely/trustfully/privately/legally like cash ?
Richard Stallman, and an anonymous digital payment method.
AnneWimsey comments on Aug 10, 2020:
There's something wrong with Paypal?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 10, 2020:
Put "paypalsucks" in your search engine . . .
It (they) are NOT banks (not regulated)
AnneWimsey comments on Aug 10, 2020:
There's something wrong with Paypal?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 10, 2020:
Put "paypalsucks" in your search engine . . .
It (they) are NOT banks (not regulated)
How to safely/efficiently clean-up space 'junk' ?
davknight comments on Aug 10, 2020:
About 20 years ago, somebody came up with the idea of an orbiting spacecraft that would act as a 'vacuum cleaner' for space junk. But nothing has ever come of the idea.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 10, 2020:
Watch the video, multiple ideas are being considered. This is just the first test of one.
davknight comments on Aug 10, 2020:
About 20 years ago, somebody came up with the idea of an orbiting spacecraft that would act as a 'vacuum cleaner' for space junk. But nothing has ever come of the idea.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 10, 2020:
Watch the video, multiple ideas are being considered. This is just the first test of one.
How to safely/efficiently clean-up space 'junk' ?
bingst comments on Aug 10, 2020:
I've thought for a long time that all that space junk should be harvested by shuttle missions, then deposited on the moon for future re-utilization at an eventual lunar outpost. Short of that, a shuttle like the US used to have would be a good platform for collection and return.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 10, 2020:
@bingst I posted an article days ago about Amazon requesting permission (intl agency) for broadband satellites, with features to de-orbit (SpaceX also) in x years.
bingst comments on Aug 10, 2020:
I've thought for a long time that all that space junk should be harvested by shuttle missions, then deposited on the moon for future re-utilization at an eventual lunar outpost. Short of that, a shuttle like the US used to have would be a good platform for collection and return.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 10, 2020:
@bingst I posted an article days ago about Amazon requesting permission (intl agency) for broadband satellites, with features to de-orbit (SpaceX also) in x years.
How to safely/efficiently clean-up space 'junk' ?
bingst comments on Aug 10, 2020:
I've thought for a long time that all that space junk should be harvested by shuttle missions, then deposited on the moon for future re-utilization at an eventual lunar outpost. Short of that, a shuttle like the US used to have would be a good platform for collection and return.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 10, 2020:
Seems problematic to me (I claim NO expertise). If humans aboard, expensive. Watch the video, some satellites explode from unused fuel. Some are defunct and have no way to 'collapse' solar arrays/what-not.
bingst comments on Aug 10, 2020:
I've thought for a long time that all that space junk should be harvested by shuttle missions, then deposited on the moon for future re-utilization at an eventual lunar outpost. Short of that, a shuttle like the US used to have would be a good platform for collection and return.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 10, 2020:
Seems problematic to me (I claim NO expertise). If humans aboard, expensive. Watch the video, some satellites explode from unused fuel. Some are defunct and have no way to 'collapse' solar arrays/what-not.
I get the idea that people usually call themselves Agnostic out of fear that using the name Atheist ...
St-Sinner comments on Aug 9, 2020:
I think agnostics and atheists are treated the same by the religious everywhere. To them both are Godless sinners.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 9, 2020:
. . . I'm not sure. When asked "What church I go to", I have sometimes responded "The question presumes facts not in evidence". A typical reaction to that has been "Oh, so you are an atheist" -- jumping to conclusions. I now just say I'm atheist. :P
St-Sinner comments on Aug 9, 2020:
I think agnostics and atheists are treated the same by the religious everywhere. To them both are Godless sinners.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 9, 2020:
. . . I'm not sure. When asked "What church I go to", I have sometimes responded "The question presumes facts not in evidence". A typical reaction to that has been "Oh, so you are an atheist" -- jumping to conclusions. I now just say I'm atheist. :P
Moonlight Feels Right · Starbuck
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Beowulfsfriend comments on Aug 9, 2020:
Digging deep in the dusty archives.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 9, 2020:
. . . I like the alliteration -- dingy dusty dredges of digital document archives :)
Beowulfsfriend comments on Aug 9, 2020:
Digging deep in the dusty archives.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 9, 2020:
. . . I like the alliteration -- dingy dusty dredges of digital document archives :)
As you may have heard, I have built a number of different online communities each of which to bring ...
SpikeTalon comments on Aug 9, 2020:
@Admin I don't care what others may say, the breakdown of civility on here was not your fault, the blame there falls on the shoulders of those who were involved in such uncivil childish acts. You tried your best to make this a decent site, adding certain features as they were requested by other ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 9, 2020:
@Cutiebeauty . . . (apart from math) Science does not PROVE anything.
It does disprove things -- falsification (all it takes is one).
SpikeTalon comments on Aug 9, 2020:
@Admin I don't care what others may say, the breakdown of civility on here was not your fault, the blame there falls on the shoulders of those who were involved in such uncivil childish acts. You tried your best to make this a decent site, adding certain features as they were requested by other ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 9, 2020:
@Cutiebeauty . . . (apart from math) Science does not PROVE anything.
It does disprove things -- falsification (all it takes is one).
OK, I do sincerely hope people don't overreact to this and bail out.
MissKathleen comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Amazing. The person who did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to keep the extremists from ruining the site speaks against that behavior? Some of us hung in, because at least it is a place where other non-believers could TRY to have normal conversations. I recall a number of people BEGGING admin not to allow the...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 9, 2020:
@MissKathleen Apparently your notion of "attacking each other" differs from his, and mine.
IMO, challenging the ideas/words of others, and "feeling attacked" are different.
When you (censor) Block, is it because they have egregiously 'attacked' you personally, or because your ideas/words were challenged ?
MissKathleen comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Amazing. The person who did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to keep the extremists from ruining the site speaks against that behavior? Some of us hung in, because at least it is a place where other non-believers could TRY to have normal conversations. I recall a number of people BEGGING admin not to allow the...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 9, 2020:
@MissKathleen Apparently your notion of "attacking each other" differs from his, and mine.
IMO, challenging the ideas/words of others, and "feeling attacked" are different.
When you (censor) Block, is it because they have egregiously 'attacked' you personally, or because your ideas/words were challenged ?
OK, I do sincerely hope people don't overreact to this and bail out.
MissKathleen comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Amazing. The person who did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to keep the extremists from ruining the site speaks against that behavior? Some of us hung in, because at least it is a place where other non-believers could TRY to have normal conversations. I recall a number of people BEGGING admin not to allow the...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 9, 2020:
@MissKathleen If one is 'open-minded' (not so open that the brain doesn't fall-out) and hoping for rational discourse involving CT and avoiding censorship (IMO Blocking is one form of that), I would think that only the egregious conduct should be "prevented". ymmv :)
MissKathleen comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Amazing. The person who did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to keep the extremists from ruining the site speaks against that behavior? Some of us hung in, because at least it is a place where other non-believers could TRY to have normal conversations. I recall a number of people BEGGING admin not to allow the...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 9, 2020:
@MissKathleen If one is 'open-minded' (not so open that the brain doesn't fall-out) and hoping for rational discourse involving CT and avoiding censorship (IMO Blocking is one form of that), I would think that only the egregious conduct should be "prevented". ymmv :)
As you may have heard, I have built a number of different online communities each of which to bring ...
Petter comments on Aug 9, 2020:
Hopefully, once the present extreme US government ceases, the site will revert to a less polarised stance. We non-Americans love this site for its interactions, and as an eye-opening insight into the US lifestyle, which is so alien to ours.
Meanwhile, thank you for creating Agnostic.com ...... and ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 9, 2020:
@EyesThatSmile Isn't it the case that the 'nones' (which includes the religiously unaffiliated) are the largest (and growing) group in the US ?
Petter comments on Aug 9, 2020:
Hopefully, once the present extreme US government ceases, the site will revert to a less polarised stance. We non-Americans love this site for its interactions, and as an eye-opening insight into the US lifestyle, which is so alien to ours.
Meanwhile, thank you for creating Agnostic.com ...... and ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 9, 2020:
@EyesThatSmile Isn't it the case that the 'nones' (which includes the religiously unaffiliated) are the largest (and growing) group in the US ?
OK, I do sincerely hope people don't overreact to this and bail out.
hankster comments on Aug 8, 2020:
I went and browsed around slug. Com for a bit. was not the kind of site I want to be a part of. it's obviously geared for a more conservative crowd and to some extent it look like a hot bed for rants and justifications excusing some of the more distasteful attributes of the hardcore right winger. ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 9, 2020:
@Allamanda I think the world-wide (conservative) nationalist/populist movement(s) are affecting all.
hankster comments on Aug 8, 2020:
I went and browsed around slug. Com for a bit. was not the kind of site I want to be a part of. it's obviously geared for a more conservative crowd and to some extent it look like a hot bed for rants and justifications excusing some of the more distasteful attributes of the hardcore right winger. ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 9, 2020:
@Allamanda I think the world-wide (conservative) nationalist/populist movement(s) are affecting all.
Judy Collins - Someday Soon
[youtube.com]
Beowulfsfriend comments on Aug 8, 2020:
She was so young then. Of course we were younger as well.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
. . . yea, I stopped getting 'younger' a LONG time ago :)
Beowulfsfriend comments on Aug 8, 2020:
She was so young then. Of course we were younger as well.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
. . . yea, I stopped getting 'younger' a LONG time ago :)
Sam and Dave
Hold on, I'm coming
[youtu.
FearlessFly comments on Aug 8, 2020:
. . . btw, what's NEED got to do with it ? :)
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@Spinliesel Actually no, but (for most any music) I sometimes WANT it. :)
FearlessFly comments on Aug 8, 2020:
. . . btw, what's NEED got to do with it ? :)
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@Spinliesel Actually no, but (for most any music) I sometimes WANT it. :)
OK, I do sincerely hope people don't overreact to this and bail out.
FearlessFly comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Have only read about 1/4 - 1/3, but I'm leaning towards agreement with his POV.
I have never liked the name calling. I get accused of being 'rude' (and was 'ousted' from 50+) when I try to point out (what I consider to be) Critical Thinking 'flaws' in posts/comments.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@skado, @Allamanda . . . and btw, no one is stopping you from PM.
FearlessFly comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Have only read about 1/4 - 1/3, but I'm leaning towards agreement with his POV.
I have never liked the name calling. I get accused of being 'rude' (and was 'ousted' from 50+) when I try to point out (what I consider to be) Critical Thinking 'flaws' in posts/comments.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@skado, @Allamanda . . . and btw, no one is stopping you from PM.
OK, I do sincerely hope people don't overreact to this and bail out.
FearlessFly comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Have only read about 1/4 - 1/3, but I'm leaning towards agreement with his POV.
I have never liked the name calling. I get accused of being 'rude' (and was 'ousted' from 50+) when I try to point out (what I consider to be) Critical Thinking 'flaws' in posts/comments.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@skado I get your point. Blocking is a form of censorship (no accusation intended).
FearlessFly comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Have only read about 1/4 - 1/3, but I'm leaning towards agreement with his POV.
I have never liked the name calling. I get accused of being 'rude' (and was 'ousted' from 50+) when I try to point out (what I consider to be) Critical Thinking 'flaws' in posts/comments.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@skado I get your point. Blocking is a form of censorship (no accusation intended).
OK, I do sincerely hope people don't overreact to this and bail out.
FearlessFly comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Have only read about 1/4 - 1/3, but I'm leaning towards agreement with his POV.
I have never liked the name calling. I get accused of being 'rude' (and was 'ousted' from 50+) when I try to point out (what I consider to be) Critical Thinking 'flaws' in posts/comments.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@Allamanda . . . then don't make a fool of yourself :)
I have made these comments multiple places/times.
FearlessFly comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Have only read about 1/4 - 1/3, but I'm leaning towards agreement with his POV.
I have never liked the name calling. I get accused of being 'rude' (and was 'ousted' from 50+) when I try to point out (what I consider to be) Critical Thinking 'flaws' in posts/comments.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@Allamanda . . . then don't make a fool of yourself :)
I have made these comments multiple places/times.
OK, I do sincerely hope people don't overreact to this and bail out.
FearlessFly comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Have only read about 1/4 - 1/3, but I'm leaning towards agreement with his POV.
I have never liked the name calling. I get accused of being 'rude' (and was 'ousted' from 50+) when I try to point out (what I consider to be) Critical Thinking 'flaws' in posts/comments.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@Allamanda "you make it" -- I object to the (false) accusation. I can't MAKE it/whatever. I try to, and hope to have influence.
I start with a premise that non-believers 'get-there' from some form of CT -- how else does that happen ?
I contend that misunderstanding is typically incredibly easy and real understanding is typically incredibly hard.
I think it then it follows that words matter.
If we can't/don't use better words (consistently) with ourselves, isn't it hypocrisy to expect it from others ?
I don't see CT as 'rigid', I do think it is important.
FearlessFly comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Have only read about 1/4 - 1/3, but I'm leaning towards agreement with his POV.
I have never liked the name calling. I get accused of being 'rude' (and was 'ousted' from 50+) when I try to point out (what I consider to be) Critical Thinking 'flaws' in posts/comments.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@Allamanda "you make it" -- I object to the (false) accusation. I can't MAKE it/whatever. I try to, and hope to have influence.
I start with a premise that non-believers 'get-there' from some form of CT -- how else does that happen ?
I contend that misunderstanding is typically incredibly easy and real understanding is typically incredibly hard.
I think it then it follows that words matter.
If we can't/don't use better words (consistently) with ourselves, isn't it hypocrisy to expect it from others ?
I don't see CT as 'rigid', I do think it is important.
OK, I do sincerely hope people don't overreact to this and bail out.
FearlessFly comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Have only read about 1/4 - 1/3, but I'm leaning towards agreement with his POV.
I have never liked the name calling. I get accused of being 'rude' (and was 'ousted' from 50+) when I try to point out (what I consider to be) Critical Thinking 'flaws' in posts/comments.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@Allamanda I don't consider CT to be a problem.
I haven't blocked anyone, or accused anyone of being inappropriate/rude.
FearlessFly comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Have only read about 1/4 - 1/3, but I'm leaning towards agreement with his POV.
I have never liked the name calling. I get accused of being 'rude' (and was 'ousted' from 50+) when I try to point out (what I consider to be) Critical Thinking 'flaws' in posts/comments.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@Allamanda I don't consider CT to be a problem.
I haven't blocked anyone, or accused anyone of being inappropriate/rude.
Should we stop meddling with pandas ? Why/not ?
LucyLoohoo comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Not sure why neither of these are available but, if they're an argument for stopping the conservation effort to save giant pandas, I'll argue with them forever. Every species is part of a huge chain of life in its ecosystem. Take pandas away and we sever a link in that chain. Anyone with a brain ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@LucyLoohoo All that is discussed in one of the articles.
LucyLoohoo comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Not sure why neither of these are available but, if they're an argument for stopping the conservation effort to save giant pandas, I'll argue with them forever. Every species is part of a huge chain of life in its ecosystem. Take pandas away and we sever a link in that chain. Anyone with a brain ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@LucyLoohoo All that is discussed in one of the articles.
OK, I do sincerely hope people don't overreact to this and bail out.
FearlessFly comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Have only read about 1/4 - 1/3, but I'm leaning towards agreement with his POV.
I have never liked the name calling. I get accused of being 'rude' (and was 'ousted' from 50+) when I try to point out (what I consider to be) Critical Thinking 'flaws' in posts/comments.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@Allamanda Do you have evidence for "IS rude" ?
Why do you thing CT should be limited to 'labeled' forum(s) ?
How (and where) are words 'defined in American' ?
FearlessFly comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Have only read about 1/4 - 1/3, but I'm leaning towards agreement with his POV.
I have never liked the name calling. I get accused of being 'rude' (and was 'ousted' from 50+) when I try to point out (what I consider to be) Critical Thinking 'flaws' in posts/comments.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@Allamanda Do you have evidence for "IS rude" ?
Why do you thing CT should be limited to 'labeled' forum(s) ?
How (and where) are words 'defined in American' ?
Should we stop meddling with pandas ? Why/not ?
LucyLoohoo comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Not sure why neither of these are available but, if they're an argument for stopping the conservation effort to save giant pandas, I'll argue with them forever. Every species is part of a huge chain of life in its ecosystem. Take pandas away and we sever a link in that chain. Anyone with a brain ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
One of the arguments is that by the efforts to save the panda, MULTIPLE other (panda area related) species are being driven to extinction.
I have little doubt these arguments can be found in other sources.
LucyLoohoo comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Not sure why neither of these are available but, if they're an argument for stopping the conservation effort to save giant pandas, I'll argue with them forever. Every species is part of a huge chain of life in its ecosystem. Take pandas away and we sever a link in that chain. Anyone with a brain ...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
One of the arguments is that by the efforts to save the panda, MULTIPLE other (panda area related) species are being driven to extinction.
I have little doubt these arguments can be found in other sources.
OK, I do sincerely hope people don't overreact to this and bail out.
MissKathleen comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Amazing. The person who did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to keep the extremists from ruining the site speaks against that behavior? Some of us hung in, because at least it is a place where other non-believers could TRY to have normal conversations. I recall a number of people BEGGING admin not to allow the...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
The 'ousting' of jorj (and i-dont-know-how-many-others) is NOT nothing. I have not 'walked-a-mile' in Admin 'shoes'.
IMO, folks have differing views and expectations on "extremists" AND "normal" conversations. ymmv
MissKathleen comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Amazing. The person who did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to keep the extremists from ruining the site speaks against that behavior? Some of us hung in, because at least it is a place where other non-believers could TRY to have normal conversations. I recall a number of people BEGGING admin not to allow the...
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
The 'ousting' of jorj (and i-dont-know-how-many-others) is NOT nothing. I have not 'walked-a-mile' in Admin 'shoes'.
IMO, folks have differing views and expectations on "extremists" AND "normal" conversations. ymmv
Some criticize those who look at the future in a positive light, and it's easy to scoff.
FearlessFly comments on Aug 8, 2020:
"these people have always been proved wrong"
Is there (credible/verifiable) EVIDENCE that "forward thinking positivity" is more accurate than "doomsayers" ?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@Storm1752 I don't advocate 'grumpy' or thinking the worst.
"what's the harm" -- I contend that "sugar coating leads to truth decay"
Aside from being liberal/left I like to think I'm persuaded by good (CT) arguments from any 'side'.
"Happy people" -- I'm persuaded that happiness is a circumstance, not a condition. :)
FearlessFly comments on Aug 8, 2020:
"these people have always been proved wrong"
Is there (credible/verifiable) EVIDENCE that "forward thinking positivity" is more accurate than "doomsayers" ?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@Storm1752 I don't advocate 'grumpy' or thinking the worst.
"what's the harm" -- I contend that "sugar coating leads to truth decay"
Aside from being liberal/left I like to think I'm persuaded by good (CT) arguments from any 'side'.
"Happy people" -- I'm persuaded that happiness is a circumstance, not a condition. :)
Sam and Dave
Hold on, I'm coming
[youtu.
FearlessFly comments on Aug 8, 2020:
. . . btw, what's NEED got to do with it ? :)
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@Spinliesel . . . just an (apparently lame) attempt at a smart-ass reply to your 'need some soul music'
FearlessFly comments on Aug 8, 2020:
. . . btw, what's NEED got to do with it ? :)
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@Spinliesel . . . just an (apparently lame) attempt at a smart-ass reply to your 'need some soul music'
OK, I do sincerely hope people don't overreact to this and bail out.
SpikeTalon comments on Aug 8, 2020:
I'm sure Admin had his reasons for not openly broadcasting about the other site on here, as he probably figured most of the members on this site would not be interested in the sister site anyway.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
As one of the (alleged) 50% liberal but non-Wokeists, I may opt-in to SLUG.
SpikeTalon comments on Aug 8, 2020:
I'm sure Admin had his reasons for not openly broadcasting about the other site on here, as he probably figured most of the members on this site would not be interested in the sister site anyway.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
As one of the (alleged) 50% liberal but non-Wokeists, I may opt-in to SLUG.
Sonny Boy Williamson - Keep it to Yourself
[youtube.com]
Beowulfsfriend comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Another great one. My son is a harmonica player, along with keyboards and other instruments. Good stuff.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
. . . just in case you haven't seen me post this before -- my fav harmonica song :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gdvgjLvi6c
Beowulfsfriend comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Another great one. My son is a harmonica player, along with keyboards and other instruments. Good stuff.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
. . . just in case you haven't seen me post this before -- my fav harmonica song :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gdvgjLvi6c
TDS is causing unnecessary deaths. I wonder what the final TDS death count will be.
[youtube.]
SCal comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Censorship is the new book burning.
Freedom and the Republic dies to thunderous applause from the hive-mind.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@SCal English is such a crappy language :
SCal comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Censorship is the new book burning.
Freedom and the Republic dies to thunderous applause from the hive-mind.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@SCal English is such a crappy language :
Is your Android phone (assuming you have one) have the chip with the vulnerability ?
Lorajay comments on Aug 8, 2020:
The article with be a lot more useful if it was dated and there was a date regarding when they supposedly fixed the chip.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
(not clear that they actually have been fixed)
This article lists the CVEs (you would have to look them up)
https://blog.checkpoint.com/2020/08/06/achilles-small-chip-big-peril/
Lorajay comments on Aug 8, 2020:
The article with be a lot more useful if it was dated and there was a date regarding when they supposedly fixed the chip.
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
(not clear that they actually have been fixed)
This article lists the CVEs (you would have to look them up)
https://blog.checkpoint.com/2020/08/06/achilles-small-chip-big-peril/
"In Sweden, “two-thirds of deaths have been among those over 80, and 97% never received ...
FearlessFly comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Why not provide a link to the (paywalled) article ? :P
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-swedish-reminder-of-the-hidden-cost-of-single-payer-11596746809
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@Flowerwall . . . I doubt opinion pieces are thoroughly fact-checked -- lies, damn lies, and statistics :P
You could email the pieces' author and ask for the source.
FearlessFly comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Why not provide a link to the (paywalled) article ? :P
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-swedish-reminder-of-the-hidden-cost-of-single-payer-11596746809
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@Flowerwall . . . I doubt opinion pieces are thoroughly fact-checked -- lies, damn lies, and statistics :P
You could email the pieces' author and ask for the source.
What is this, fellow Agnosticators, another sister site?
[idw.community]
Cutiebeauty comments on Aug 8, 2020:
I highly doubt it
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@dalefvictor . . . yes, I was making that Dark Web distinction to cutiebeauty :P
Cutiebeauty comments on Aug 8, 2020:
I highly doubt it
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@dalefvictor . . . yes, I was making that Dark Web distinction to cutiebeauty :P
Some criticize those who look at the future in a positive light, and it's easy to scoff.
FearlessFly comments on Aug 8, 2020:
"these people have always been proved wrong"
Is there (credible/verifiable) EVIDENCE that "forward thinking positivity" is more accurate than "doomsayers" ?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@Allamanda I guess I should have added objective, falsifiable evidence.
correlation not-equal causation :P
FearlessFly comments on Aug 8, 2020:
"these people have always been proved wrong"
Is there (credible/verifiable) EVIDENCE that "forward thinking positivity" is more accurate than "doomsayers" ?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@Allamanda I guess I should have added objective, falsifiable evidence.
correlation not-equal causation :P
What is this, fellow Agnosticators, another sister site?
[idw.community]
LucyLoohoo comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Look at some of their other groups....."Liberalism is a Mental Disorder?"... "Tucker Carlson Fans" ... What's Michael Shermer doing in that group?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@Captain_Feelgood https://www.skeptic.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVrNBNVFBlI
LucyLoohoo comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Look at some of their other groups....."Liberalism is a Mental Disorder?"... "Tucker Carlson Fans" ... What's Michael Shermer doing in that group?
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@Captain_Feelgood https://www.skeptic.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVrNBNVFBlI
What is this, fellow Agnosticators, another sister site?
[idw.community]
Cutiebeauty comments on Aug 8, 2020:
I highly doubt it
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@skado If it actually is Open Source, it likely can be found on GitHub
https://github.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub
Cutiebeauty comments on Aug 8, 2020:
I highly doubt it
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@skado If it actually is Open Source, it likely can be found on GitHub
https://github.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub
"In Sweden, “two-thirds of deaths have been among those over 80, and 97% never received ...
FearlessFly comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Why not provide a link to the (paywalled) article ? :P
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-swedish-reminder-of-the-hidden-cost-of-single-payer-11596746809
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@Flowerwall . . . no intention to infer that YOU would. Still, just knowing the source sets expectation(s) for all.
. . . it is an OPINION piece :)
FearlessFly comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Why not provide a link to the (paywalled) article ? :P
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-swedish-reminder-of-the-hidden-cost-of-single-payer-11596746809
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@Flowerwall . . . no intention to infer that YOU would. Still, just knowing the source sets expectation(s) for all.
. . . it is an OPINION piece :)
"In Sweden, “two-thirds of deaths have been among those over 80, and 97% never received ...
FearlessFly comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Why not provide a link to the (paywalled) article ? :P
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-swedish-reminder-of-the-hidden-cost-of-single-payer-11596746809
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@Flowerwall a) some folks actually subscribe
b) how would anyone know it hasn't been "made-up" ?
Source(s) matter, even for those that "can't be fully read" :O
FearlessFly comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Why not provide a link to the (paywalled) article ? :P
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-swedish-reminder-of-the-hidden-cost-of-single-payer-11596746809
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@Flowerwall a) some folks actually subscribe
b) how would anyone know it hasn't been "made-up" ?
Source(s) matter, even for those that "can't be fully read" :O
What is this, fellow Agnosticators, another sister site?
[idw.community]
Cutiebeauty comments on Aug 8, 2020:
I highly doubt it
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@Cutiebeauty I think the actual Dark Web is not so 'in the open'/easily accessed.
Cutiebeauty comments on Aug 8, 2020:
I highly doubt it
FearlessFly replies on Aug 8, 2020:
@Cutiebeauty I think the actual Dark Web is not so 'in the open'/easily accessed.
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