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LIST OF DOOMSDAY PREDICTIONS CLIMATE ALARMIST GOT RIGHT
- Thread starter GromsDad
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wrong...
one is a personal attack the other is activism
I would expect different outcomes contrary to what the meme infers
Playing semantic games, just like your buddies who now discount every comparison as a bad comparison
I’m not even sure which one you’re saying is a personal attack and which one is activism. Greta is an activist. Mini AOC is parody/comedy
The right has said some mean words about Greta, an activist. The Left made death threats against something that was funny
well, there have also been death threats made against Greta so
the whole thing may be moot, but it seems pretty clear to me that
an individual who is directly attacking a sacred cow individually
and directly may incur more wrath than an individual who is trying
to promote a political agenda.
one act is done in good faith, the other is being done in bad faith.
one act is directed broadly at global leaders and the other act is
being focused upon a single individual
I don't think the responses that either girl has received are warranted
by any stretch of the imagination, but even if you ignore the first point
at the top of this response, it seems intuitive to me why the two have
*enjoyed* different outcomes.
Well, maybe not 1/1000th of an inch. More like 1/10th of a millimeter, which is almost 4/1000ths of an inch. I work with metric conversion all the time and know the fraction equivalents of a millimeter to inches pretty quickly in my head.
Just to give some scale. A hair width is about 2/1000ths of an inch give or take 1/1000th. Hard to believe they can get that accuracy from space 1000's of miles up, but that's the "claim". How it works on an constantly moving/undulating sea surface still has me in awe wondering too.
Edit: Here's a study of the "claims" of 0.1mm accuracy of the recently launched altimetry satellites. 0.1mm is "claimed" but reality seems to show a much, much higher +/- tolerance of that.
Sea Level Rise (SLR) Satellite Altimetry—Fit for Purpose?
by Rud Istvan, ctm and I were having lunch recently near our mutually admired South Florida coral reef system, and over conversation we started speculating about ARGO. I brought up Jason2 SLR as an…
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Comparisons rely on semantics.
Words have meaning.
It's really hard to craft valid comparisons.
As we see.
The first part of the companion is that they are both comedians, which is not accurate.
The second part is that the right wing comedian got death threats and and Greta didn't not, which she did. But the comparison is already invalidated by the attribute substitution made by the meme maker, by saying they are both comedians.
Like I said, it's hard to craft good comparisons.
Motivated reasoning makes us see what isn't there.
But I get it.
Thinking is hard.
#formetoo
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Color me skeptical.Well, maybe not 1/1000th of an inch. More like 1/10th of a millimeter, which is almost 4/1000ths of an inch. I work with metric conversion all the time and know the fraction equivalents of a millimeter to inches pretty quickly in my head.
Just to give some scale. A hair width is about 2/1000ths of an inch give or take 1/1000th. Hard to believe they can get that accuracy from space 1000's of miles up, but that's the "claim". How it works on an constantly moving/undulating sea surface still has me in awe wondering too.
Edit: Here's a study of the "claims" of 0.1mm accuracy of the recently launched altimetry satellites. 0.1mm is "claimed" but reality seems to show a much, much higher +/- tolerance of that.
Sea Level Rise (SLR) Satellite Altimetry—Fit for Purpose?
by Rud Istvan, ctm and I were having lunch recently near our mutually admired South Florida coral reef system, and over conversation we started speculating about ARGO. I brought up Jason2 SLR as an…
Bullshit
You can nuance away any comparison to make it invalid, and you choose to do so, willingly, every time.
Good comparisons are easy: stop overthinking things
True, but no one is nuancing anything.
For the comparison to be valid, both would need to be comedians and only one would have to have gotten death threats.
This is not the case.
Ok, we'll just stop all comparisons, because no one in the real world EVER makes a comparison
Bad comparisons are heuristics for dumb people, allowing them to keep their simplified world view.
The left makes bad comparisons too because comparing is hard to do.
Here is a lefty one that is really faulty.
"The school to prison pipeline."
Hidden in that gem is an easily to explicate post hoc fallacy.
The left makes bad comparisons too because comparing is hard to do.
Here is a lefty one that is really faulty.
"The school to prison pipeline."
Hidden in that gem is an easily to explicate post hoc fallacy.
It is impossible, no matter how perfect it is because the new erBB tactic (I've done it too) is to instantly discount any comparison that exposes hypocrisy as a bad comparison.
This is just a new tool in our chests to annoy each other
Bravo Auto
I disagree. there are certain artistic liberties implicit to analogy.
you just want to go to the mat over an awful one that was also
flat out wrong on its face.
The only thing that was wrong was calling Greta a comedian, because even though she's hilarious, it isn't intentional.
The thing that mattered about that meme, before any over-analyzation is that the Left is willing to make death threats to a little girl dressing up in a costume of one of their totems, while at the same time being perplexed why people would have the gall to make fun of someone who is verbally berating people.
Disruption in what is (was?) relatively predictable always brings winners and losers.
Some are new the winning/losing side, some are not.
Bigger the disruption, the more difficult to say who went from which status to who will be what status (in advance...afterwards should be easier with the 20:20 hindsight thing)
Warmer earth/colder earth from what we've had for the last 10K-12K years in a relatively short time will be bad for a lot of humans used to the way things have been.
By a similar token, more pollution in our land/waiter/air, more habitat loss, more population pressures, etc., also brings disruption to the dinner table.
Adapt or die....same as it ever was.
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