by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @12:13PM (#58372070)
Yep. "Toxic" has come to mean "disagrees with liberal left-think." Disagree with the cult of human-caused global warming? You're "toxic." Think having a penis makes you a man? You're "toxic." Think "gender" and "sex" are synonyms? You're "toxic." Try to bring facts and logic into a conversation? "Toxic."
The last bastion of left-wing thought is to try and ban all other ideas, because they know that their ideology does not stand up to rational examination. So the only way to survive is to simply ban anyone pointing that out and smearing them as being "toxic."
You mean the vast amounts of science, observational evidence and work over decades that points to global warming's validity?
In opposition theres big company shills spewing weaponised lies in the media in order to confuse the issue. Like they did with cigarettes or ddt or shitty diets or lead in gasoline.
The light from the Sun is carefully measured, and it's been remarkably stable, with a very small (0.1% or so) decrease in average radiation since the 80's.
Well it's settled then. Facts and "vast amounts of science" are clearly not enough.
May all of us together, the most worshipful and illustrious beings of true enlightenment, put a stop to this madness. Let us join and conspire to do this deed. The Earth must be cleansed in this imminent and holy silencing.
Woe to these wretched undesirables who have yet again fallen for the false prophet's lies. Do not question this benevolent truth that has been bestowed upon thee! Beware! You must repent your ignoranc
Maybe you should actually dive into the literature and the field. I'm not a climate scientist, but a biologist, and have read several papers and several IPCC reports. I often find those who think human made climate change is a hoax are either fairly scientifically illiterate and do not understand thr culture of science, or at the very least have never actually read the papers.
Seems we should all be able to agree that the climate changed from 2 mile deep glaciers covering 2/3rds of North America to a relatively glacier free US and Canada by the time Columbus got here in 1492. That's a whopping amount of climate change and dwarfs the few degrees C (or less) were discussing now. Has climate changed? Yes. Is man made climate change statistically significant? I doubt it.
Either way, i'll take warmer days over a return to miles deep ice in the US.
Climate Change is human caused. Lots of research on that. Go Google it.
Gender and sex are not synonyms. I will agree with you here. Sex is chromosome based (XX, XY) and gender is what ever.
How about XXY? XXX? XXYY? Chimeric? NO DIGITAL DEFINITION WORKS IN AN ANALOGUE WORLD. No matter what definition you supply for sex there are people who don't fit into it.
And, no, whining "But those are outliers, genetic defects, random other reason!", because you have to admit that not all humans are male or female BY ANY DEFINITION YOU CAN MAKE.
Good (Score:1, Insightful)
I see no problem here (except with some employees who are complaining, who should probably be fired).
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Yep. "Toxic" has come to mean "disagrees with liberal left-think." Disagree with the cult of human-caused global warming? You're "toxic." Think having a penis makes you a man? You're "toxic." Think "gender" and "sex" are synonyms? You're "toxic." Try to bring facts and logic into a conversation? "Toxic."
The last bastion of left-wing thought is to try and ban all other ideas, because they know that their ideology does not stand up to rational examination. So the only way to survive is to simply ban anyone pointing that out and smearing them as being "toxic."
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Cult of human-caused global warming?
You mean the vast amounts of science, observational evidence and work over decades that points to global warming's validity?
In opposition theres big company shills spewing weaponised lies in the media in order to confuse the issue. Like they did with cigarettes or ddt or shitty diets or lead in gasoline.
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The science behind the fact that the planet is warming up is fine. The politics behind it, claiming that humans are to blame, is not.
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you\re right
it's clearly the goldfish
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It's the sun, you fucking idiot.
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It's the sun, you fucking idiot.
The light from the Sun is carefully measured, and it's been remarkably stable, with a very small (0.1% or so) decrease in average radiation since the 80's.
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Oh noes! The sun! How ghastly and terrible to behold
-primal tribe wannabe chieftain riling the tiny masses
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Well it's settled then. Facts and "vast amounts of science" are clearly not enough.
May all of us together, the most worshipful and illustrious beings of true enlightenment, put a stop to this madness. Let us join and conspire to do this deed. The Earth must be cleansed in this imminent and holy silencing.
Woe to these wretched undesirables who have yet again fallen for the false prophet's lies. Do not question this benevolent truth that has been bestowed upon thee! Beware! You must repent your ignoranc
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Disagree with the cult of human-caused global warming?
With this one I think you may be confusing "Toxic" with "Stupid" or "Dumbass", which in my opinion, are better options.
Re: Good (Score:0)
Maybe you should actually dive into the literature and the field. I'm not a climate scientist, but a biologist, and have read several papers and several IPCC reports. I often find those who think human made climate change is a hoax are either fairly scientifically illiterate and do not understand thr culture of science, or at the very least have never actually read the papers.
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Seems we should all be able to agree that the climate changed from 2 mile deep glaciers covering 2/3rds of North America to a relatively glacier free US and Canada by the time Columbus got here in 1492. That's a whopping amount of climate change and dwarfs the few degrees C (or less) were discussing now.
Has climate changed? Yes. Is man made climate change statistically significant? I doubt it.
Either way, i'll take warmer days over a return to miles deep ice in the US.
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Science does not have a "culture". Academia does. It's publish or perish, and get public grant money or get fired.
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Gender and sex are not synonyms. I will agree with you here. Sex is chromosome based (XX, XY) and gender is what ever.
That definition of sex fails (Score:0)
How about XXY? XXX? XXYY? Chimeric? NO DIGITAL DEFINITION WORKS IN AN ANALOGUE WORLD. No matter what definition you supply for sex there are people who don't fit into it.
And, no, whining "But those are outliers, genetic defects, random other reason!", because you have to admit that not all humans are male or female BY ANY DEFINITION YOU CAN MAKE.
Re: Good (Score:0)
Well said....