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- Comment on Alan Turing could have lived his whole life twice over and he would still have to wait 18 years for Gay Marriage to be legalized in the UK 2 days ago:
Well, if we’re moving to propaganda and personal attacks, I think I’ll leave this conversation here.
- Comment on Alan Turing could have lived his whole life twice over and he would still have to wait 18 years for Gay Marriage to be legalized in the UK 2 days ago:
Like them keeping their legal system, their own parliament choosing Union and their enthusiastic participation in empire and enjoying the benefits?
- Comment on Alan Turing could have lived his whole life twice over and he would still have to wait 18 years for Gay Marriage to be legalized in the UK 2 days ago:
Colonialism often involves political shenanigans… Political shenanigans doesn’t make it colonialism!
- Comment on Alan Turing could have lived his whole life twice over and he would still have to wait 18 years for Gay Marriage to be legalized in the UK 3 days ago:
Not even close to historical fact
- Comment on Alan Turing could have lived his whole life twice over and he would still have to wait 18 years for Gay Marriage to be legalized in the UK 3 days ago:
Yeah, Scotland and Wales joined up to the Union, they weren’t Colonised.
Ireland is a different story
- Comment on Alan Turing could have lived his whole life twice over and he would still have to wait 18 years for Gay Marriage to be legalized in the UK 3 days ago:
I suspect you’re unclear on what “Great Britain” means.
- Comment on Humans Were Using Fire Long Before Scientists Thought Possible, Study Says 2 weeks ago:
ever since the site started to show evidence of our ancestors’ earliest known use of fire back in 2012
I’m now anthropologist, but I’m fairly short use of fire goes back earlier than that.
- Comment on Where did the dust settle on Syncthing Fork? 5 weeks ago:
I’m currently running the latest version from F-droid, it’s doing what it should do. No red flags I can see.
I know the current owner as much as the previous one so no difference for me.
- Comment on Researchers turn sunlight and CO2 into living biomass 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I totally agree that there’s an issue. You seem the best suggesting that some scientists are wasting time.
What’s your hypothesis on the motivation for that? Is it in individual or systemic Change that’s needed?
I’m reminded of a quote…
``` There are two kinds of scientific progress: the methodical experimentation and categorization which gradually extend the boundaries of knowledge, and the revolutionary leap of genius which redefines and transcends those boundaries. Acknowledging our debt to the former, we yearn nonetheless for the latter.
-- Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "Address to the Faculty" - Comment on Researchers turn sunlight and CO2 into living biomass 5 weeks ago:
This often represents an issue in the reporting not the science.
A new study which explores the details of those volatile organic compounds might be reported the same as a less robust, detailed or specific study from the 80s because it has to make a good headline now, just like it did back then.
There’s also the need to keep updating research, to replicate old studies to prove the evidence still counts, especially in the field of ecology since so many are inclined to dismiss the science in that field which could literally kill us all.
- Comment on Server randomly locked up. Trying to find out why 4 months ago:
Had this problem for a the last three months. Tested hard drives, memory and everything else.
Turned out to be a PSU with an intermittent issue where it would drop voltage. Very annoying!
- Comment on Do you have any “headcanons” (so to speak) about the Star Trek TNG characters? 1 year ago:
In the episode “The Perfect Mate” Riker gets all teased and worked up by the sexy alien.
He escapes the conversion saying “I’ll be in the holodeck” with a lot of implication!