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(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday May 19 2022, @11:05AM (13 children)
I see it more as contributing in good faith. And then some bad faith whiner accuses me of "alt-right nonsense and juvenile libertarian fantasies" rather than acknowledging the years of aristarchus's bad behavior.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 19 2022, @06:24PM (12 children)
Aristarchus spewed a lotta crap over the years but was much better than say ethanol-boiled. That said you're no innocent either, you routinely ignore reality in favor of economic growth and a blind faith that science will come up with a solution for any problems. You try hard to soumd objective to generate an attitude of confidence, but like most people who do so your confidence is built on quicksand of facts. Glass house, stones, don't do it.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday May 19 2022, @10:09PM (8 children)
I'd call it an informed confidence not blind faith. But then, I'm paying attention to what actually works[*] in the world.
[*] "works" doesn't mean "works perfectly with no drawbacks whatsoever".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 19 2022, @10:44PM (7 children)
None are so blind, as khallow.
(Score: 2, Funny) by khallow on Thursday May 19 2022, @11:01PM (6 children)
I've gone through this exercise with many(?) AC. An AC suggests I could be wrong in some way without giving any evidence - often not even the slightest detail. I point out how useless that approach is. They double down.
That is self-defeating since at best, they convince nobody new and at worst unconvince a few people through the juvenile argument and transparent bad faith of their argument.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 20 2022, @02:35AM (2 children)
Sorry, you are thinking of Barbara J. Hudson.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday May 20 2022, @04:47AM (1 child)
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 21 2022, @07:40AM
WHAT IS THE FREQUENCY, KHALLOW!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 20 2022, @03:32AM (2 children)
Oh plenty of peoole have pointed out how you're wrong only for you to pull out bullshit oil funded science that contradicts what the oil companies admitted to knowing in the 70s. Other topics too, so now there is no point wasting time finding sources and arguing back and forth while you smugly just ignore whatever you want. Poor khallow, annoyed people have stooped taking them seriously and trying desperately to make your critics out to be the failures. Typical of rightwing libertarians like yourself. By any chance did you participate in Trump's insurrection?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday May 20 2022, @04:45AM (1 child)
You serious? First, I doubt you're right about what the oil companies knew in the 1970s. There's been this propaganda game to allege that the oil companies knew about catastrophic climate change way back when. But when you actually look at the evidence, you find that's a ridiculous exaggeration of the truth. Basically, oil companies knew back then that climate change could be a problem in the future. That really is all we know now, though there is evidence of modest climate change now. It has changed surprisingly litle.
In other words, they probably would have been just as shitty examples as the one concrete example you choose to provide in years.
Yet another example of your ignorance in this matter. Where's the evidence?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 20 2022, @05:12AM
khallow! Adults are having a discussion here! You can pipe up later, after most have gone home. M'kay?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday May 21 2022, @02:13AM (2 children)
Unless, of course, he was Ethanol-fueled too. The MO was similar - create a fake personality with exaggerated political leanings. It might be amusing to pretend to be two posters with radically different viewpoints.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 21 2022, @07:50AM
Unless, it was khallow who sockpuppeted both aristarchus and Ethanol_funneled, to accentuate the positive, and decentuate the negative, and just say it's all up to the richies. Khallow could be doing that. He is enough of a bad faith soylentil that I would not put it past him. Or maybe SN is just simulation by a trans-meta-dimensional beings to see what happens when you let teenaged libertarians post, um, too much? Callouses? Hair? Curious minds want to know, khallow!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 21 2022, @07:56AM
It would be even funnier, if you signed this post "aristarchus". Do it, khallow!