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Comment Re:Seems stupid to me (Score 3, Insightful) 184

You have to supply an adapter plug for all of the world's wall sockets in every single phone box? Bigger boxes!

Congratulations, that is the stupidest thing I have read all day, and I've just gotten out of an all day workshop with Test management, so that's saying something.

When Apple shipped their phones with chargers, they didn't include each power outlet type. Why would they have to now?

Beyond stupid.

Comment Re:An unexpected outbreak of common sense (Score 1) 65

After the completely botched SystemD decision, I pretty much expected Debian to slide deeper and deeper into incompetence. [emph mine]

Hate to break this to you, but when you reference something & include negative adjectives with your description, then your reference becomes a complaint.

Comment Re:Size matters. (Score 1) 330

they consider divorce law to be terribly lopsided, making the prospect of marriage outright irrational (I am in this category). If the marriage is "traditional" in which the man makes most of the money,

Why don't you try to meet and marry a woman who is your equal (in pay, intellect, etc).

It strikes me that many men who want a 'traditional' marriage want subservience. And of course, what do they get? A fucking scammer. And they deserve it.

Comment Re:Global farming (Score 1) 94

Next, most likely the severity of these flood is probably a consequence of upcountry development, [emphasis mine]

Most likely? Probably? If only there was something like an article about these floods that could be linked to and get more information from.

Oh, the linked fucking article says:

This monsoon season, rainfall in Pakistan has been nearly three times the national average of the past 30 years, the country’s

So put your speculative bullshit away and fuck off with your fossil fuel industry talking point distractions.

Comment Re:Two years ago it was too much rain (Score 1) 152

The current situation is a weather event, just like the floods of 2020 were a weather event.

I feel stupid for having read that. Why did you even include that sentence in your content-free post?

Above average rainfall and below average rainfall are weather events? WOW THANK YOU FUZZMASTER FOR CLEARING THAT UP FOR US. Fucking hell.

Comment Wrong. Wrong. And Wrong. (Score 2) 97

Come on, Monkeypox victims today are 95% gay males

WRONG. Gay and bisexual are not the same. The literature is talking about men who have sex with men precisely for this reason.

That's a slam dunk correlation to say it's PRIMARILY being spread through sex.

WRONG. Men who have sex with men are also more likely to kiss, fondle, finger etc multiple partners. At the very least we should reserve judgement until more evidence rolls in. If close contact is all that is needed and superkendall-like researchers have discounted that possibility, then we'll be fucked if it hits childcare / etc.

men are kind of disgusting when it comes to sex and are fine with a partner than has open sores, whereas almost all women take

WRONG. Women also suppress feelings of revulsion when they're horny.. An unsurprising evolutionary twist for a species who's sexual organs serve a dual purpose / are close to excretory organs.

Comment Re:Environmentalist paradox (Score 2) 146

Humans seem unique in all of nature in that everything we touch changes the environment for the worse. Never does it seem that our actions have ever led to anything positive ever happening in nature. I find that highly suspicious.

Changes to the environment WRT to nature are neither better nor worse. Nature does not work like that.

Human population has increased from half a billion 500 years ago, to 1 billion 100 years ago to 8 billion now. As we've spread out, we've changed the environment to suit us. There are some species other than humans (rats, pigeons, cows, thistles, corn, etc) who's fitness for survival is improved by these changes, but far, far more species who's fitness decreases in human-changed landscapes.

So think instead that instead of many diverse landscapes & environments with different challenges providing many different survival options, we have far fewer landscapes & environments providing far fewer survival options.

See? Do you understand now? It is not that humans inherently are bad for nature. Its just that we reduce environmental diversity & hence reduce species diversity. There is nothing remotely suspicious about this at all and it is certainly not a paradox.

Comment Re:you mean social media censorship? (Score 1) 285

Nobody apparently thought to simply call the hospital and ask them.

But the article you linked to says:

However, one hospital where Dr McElyea has worked, Northeastern Health System Sequoyah, has denied that its facilities are seeing ivermectin patients.

“NHS Sequoyah has not treated any patients due to complications related to taking ivermectin,” NHSS said in a statement. “All patients who have visited our emergency room have received medical attention as appropriate. Our hospital has not had to turn away any patients seeking emergency care.”

So they did call the hospital and asked them, and published what they said.

The article is not 'literally fake news'. It reports on a doctor's concerns & statements and sought comment from the affected hospital. It is literally the opposite of fake news.

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