JackCh

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by JackCh 8y ago
The only genocide being proposed in this thread is the mass extermination of mosquitoes.
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by JackCh 8y ago
Most people outside of Australia recognize that the Australian shark culls are dumb emotional reactions to a non-problem. Shark culls are an international embarrassment for Australia.
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by JackCh 8y ago
It's easy to ignore the destruction of the environment if all you care about is optimizing for the human race at the expense of all other species.
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "he advocates mass extinction of human beings" Far from it, this is not even remotely a possibility. Mosquitoes are not threatening humanity with extinction in any conceivable way. As I stated elsewhere in this thread yes
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by JackCh 8y ago
Humanity is important but humanity is not currently being threatened. If humanity were actually being threatened I would support the eradication of any species threatening it.
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by JackCh 8y ago
Waiting for economic factors to suppress the birth rate is the milquetoast approach I described earlier in this thread that is causing incredible environmental destruction. It's nothing more than an excuse to turn a blind eye to the p
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by JackCh 8y ago
Asbestos is rock.
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by JackCh 8y ago
I think a big part of it is a tendency of tech/engineering sorts to have an allergic reaction against any sort of tradition. Old fashioned is worse than uncool, it's dumb and outs you as an inferior mind to the engineering who
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by JackCh 8y ago
There are plenty of communities in America that have professional fire departments. Particularly cities where there is actually a tax base to support it. You'll find volunteer fire departments in pretty much any working class town w
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by JackCh 8y ago
A truck being small is not incompatible with a truck being a beautiful shade of red polished to a shine. Just look at Japanese firetrucks. They have some very small trucks that look great.
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by JackCh 8y ago
Many sharks, plus bycatch, for no rational reason at all. Australian politicians vilify the animals and demand even more be killed. It's wholly irrational, as is your characterization of the sharks "menacing" the beach simp
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by JackCh 8y ago
Those mosquitoes aren't invasive anywhere. Eradicating them means killing them wherever they're native as well, which is definitely what many people in this discussion are proposing. Culling invasive species wherever they are in
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by JackCh 8y ago
In early 2001 the Taliban banned the growth of poppies and opium export plummeted to near zero. > The first American narcotics experts to go to Afghanistan under Taliban rule have concluded that the movement's ban on opium-poppy cul
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by JackCh 8y ago
As I've stated throughout this threat, it isn't just about mosquitoes. Honestly I would not mourn mosquitoes if every last species was exterminated. What concerns me is the social impact of further establishing humanity as the a
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by JackCh 8y ago
Half of human deaths isn't very significant considering that despite that the human population is still exploding at an unsustainable rate that will cause incredible environmental destruction if left unchecked. Far from being threat
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by JackCh 8y ago
As far as I can tell, the eradication of hundreds of species of mosquitoes is being suggested by many.
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "Its important to differentiate b/w the plans of a politician and the plans of research scientists who have done actual work in this area." Not really, because the general public won't take such care with the diff
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by JackCh 8y ago
The fact that you cite past animal exterminations to justify additional animal exterminations proves my point. The more species are eradicated the more normal it becomes and the more people will be willing to do it again. The normalization
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by JackCh 8y ago
I never said this was new. What concerns me is it being done in the modern era. And not just in the modern era, but backed up by scientists too, which lends it additional credibility. In general, people in this era trust science more tha
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "but it's hardly an "emotional outburst" to want to prevent swimmers from being eaten" Considering... > "Since 2000 there have been 15 fatal shark attacks along the West Australian coast.[9]" Y
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "but you don't get to separate the two in the case of an OS or distribution." Actually I do get to do that. It's an important distinction because if the software isn't at fault, then a technically competen
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "Yet in many cases, scientists acknowledge that the ecological scar left by a missing mosquito would heal quickly as the niche was filled by other organisms." More concerning than the ecological scar left behind by the erad
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by JackCh 8y ago
That's a problem with Arch users, not with Arch. It's unfortunately common that fanboys undermine the reputation of reasonable software.
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by JackCh 8y ago
There is an expectation that projects dogfood their own software, but I really can't think of a rational reason for a production server not affiliated with the Arch project to be running Arch. Rolling release is great for technically c
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by JackCh 8y ago
I'm pretty sure he knows. Hence "My superpower: Taking things literally." Incidentally I'm pretty sure water snake oil is not actually a cure-all anymore than rattlesnake oil is.
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by JackCh 8y ago
Sure, but in practice it seems to work pretty well.
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by JackCh 8y ago
What are they actually going to call it? Bis-isoxazole is a mouthful. If people are afraid to talk about it for fear of mispronouncing it and looking foolish, will it see commercial success?
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by JackCh 8y ago
I don't know anything about rocks, but it's very hard for me to take this website seriously when their FAQ repeats several times word for word ( https://i.imgur.com/B0VojAZ.png ): > If it is not convincing enough
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by JackCh 8y ago
OsmAnd has a counterintuive UI, it have been the case that you didn't have the right map layers enabled.
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by JackCh 8y ago
The only thing it's really missing is comments, but some people consider this a feature. (Honestly though, on high quality small channels the comments will often be worth reading, so I do miss it sometimes.)

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