olofscience
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If I make a strawman argument, you know, it requires that *I* be the one to say it? You link to one of your own posts...
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There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998
olofscience replied to rushmc's topic in Speakers Corner
Also note that while the lithium in electric car batteries can be recycled, it's "burned" and used up in a fusion reactor to generate more fuel. No recycling. We'll need to mine the moon for Helium-3 to remove this dependence on lithium for fusion. (Neutron bombardment of Helium-3 generates tritium (H3), similarly 7-Lithium generates tritium via n,t reactions from neutron bombardment) -
There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998
olofscience replied to rushmc's topic in Speakers Corner
This shows that you know absolutely nothing about fusion power. Remember how you keep saying lithium batteries for electric cars are environmentally damaging? Fusion will probably need LOTS of lithium and make the electric car industry look tiny in comparison. Neutron activation of the rest of the reactor parts will be a big problem too. One of the reasons why fusion won't be limitless nor cheap - it needs to pay the salaries of people like me. -
There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998
olofscience replied to rushmc's topic in Speakers Corner
I worked in a company involved with ITER (you know the nuclear fusion test bed), and while it's very interesting technologically, we'd be at near 100% renewable tech WAY before it's commercially viable. -
No, they're just making up strawmen again. It's a requirement when you don't really have good arguments.
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It sounds good and noble in theory, but unfortunately I don't think there really isn't any underlying reason why it should be the case. It's like people who assume things are zero-sum games when they're not. For example, I've been told by many people that the stock market is a zero-sum game (because for every person who loses, one wins). But for that to be true, the sum of the wins and the losses should equal zero! Then the stock market would never move. Many games are positive-sum, many games are negative-sum. That "there are always two sides" does have a lot of examples, but no fundamental principle behind it.
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I think I'm starting to understand your so-called "logic" now. If you think people are taking far-left positions here, you then take a far-right position to provide overall "balance" so that the mean taken over all posters is centric, more or less. What's bizarre though is why you would call yourself centrist. It's like if a sailboat leans left, what sailors would do is try to shift all the weight to the right side to keep it upright. But if they claim they're being in the middle of the boat, that would still be wrong.
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Sorry about that. If turtle is implying that the media is propping up Biden by gushing with praise like how Fox does to Trump, then he's wrong. Even CNN hardly has any stories about Biden on today's front page. (CTRL-F finds only one result, and it's about the VP search) The media isn't propping up Biden, it's Trump shooting himself in the foot that's putting him behind.
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No, the whole point was to show that my point about the tail being hidden was an element of why Trump's logo looked like the Nazi eagle. That was the original point. Who's being inconsistent now, naziweasel?
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No, my original point was: So the question will be "which of these 3 eagles shows the tail?"
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He should name one of his accounts naziweasel
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Okay, let's go with the original one.
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I said there was some possible ambiguity. So I am still being consistent. But the google results actually show several versions without that area filled in: Look, you even used the first version to compare the size of the circle. Could you locate the tail in that? Well, with this new selection of Nazi eagles...let's play for keeps. Say, US$30,000?
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Nope, your defence of the logo was taking it a bit too far. Thanks for conceding. Keep playing this game and you'll be doing that a lot more. Edit - Yes. here are a million ways to design this experiment, but hey let's start with these: Oh wait...one of the google results completely omits the tail! Could it be that it was a very insignificant part of the other logo? Or they just filled it in with white so no weasels could weasel through?
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I supported my argument with a diagram(nicely labelled) and your only response was: Who's the one who can't support their arguments again?
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Don't let the door hit you on the way out looking forward to more verbal sparring with your dozens of other troll accounts
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Agreed. It's not over until it's over so they shouldn't be complacent.
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I'm not the one weaseling around, it's an easy question to answer. That bit between the legs of the Nazi eagle could be the "vent" rather than the tail: Yes, there could be some ambiguity on what it could be, but that's the only place your argument could hide. In a dark corner of ambiguity. However, the USMC eagle clearly, unmistakably shows the eagle's tail. My arguments don't have to hide in grey areas like yours.
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who?
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If I said "tail feathers" instead of just "tail" then you really wouldn't have an argument, would you? That's how flimsy your argument is. And "it doesn't have to be obvious" is a requirement you waived arbitrarily. Adding "feathers" to my original point doesn't substantially change my point, so I think I can safely add that to close the tiny loophole you slithered through.
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My case for the tail is even stronger than for the wings. Shall we put it to a scientific test? Then we'll see who the weasel really is Oh and I put 'science' in my username because you know, I think I'm pretty good at it. Not as good as kallend who is very distinguished, but I'm better at trolling the trolls
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I don't. All I did was throw out 2 points then watched as two trumpists started falling over themselves and twisting logic into knots to try to defend their beloved.
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If you think the filled in area between the eagle's legs in the Nazi symbol is an obvious tail, then you're really making an effort Sorry about making you look stupid and angry, I highly suggest you find a safe space.
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Your self-respect. (sorry, couldn't resist)
