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by furgot 1y ago
Defining extremists to be "the people with unpopular positions" is defining extremists to be "those with positions most dislike." AfD are extreme because of what their positions are, separate from who does and does not
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by furgot 1y ago
Without commenting on the "cleverness", either it doesn't match your description of the data, or their criticism that the interval was cherry picked is spot on. Only one of these can be true.
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by furgot 1y ago
Alright. I've edited my comment to "implied." I'm assuming he's engaging in reasonably good faith and would temper his statement if he learned that adoption has been rising for a year. If I believed otherwise I woul
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by furgot 1y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20250720163940/https://www.veris... There is a 15% drop like you describe, but as the other commenter said, it doesn't show usage falling for the past year (as you had im
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by furgot 1y ago
I took a look at it. It comports much closer with what GP was saying. It shows adoption being flat as a percentage and rising in absolute terms.
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by furgot 1y ago
Yes, not to be gratuitous but doing Wim Hof breathing before diving can and does lead to drowning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freediving_blackout#Shallow_wa...
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by furgot 1y ago
While that is true, and the full context only makes it worse, the important reminder is that a lot of people have died doing "Wim Hof" breathing before diving. It is not safe to hyperventilate before going into the water, becaus
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by furgot 1y ago
Most technical writing is going to assume some familiarity with the discipline. If a reader encounters unfamiliar vocabulary in a technical article, they'd be well advised to look it up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by furgot 1y ago
To what end? The math isn't correct. Some of it is nonsensical like asserting 1 = 0 = inf, or taking the derivative of an emotion. I found simple arithmetic that was just wrong, I plugged it into a calculator and got a completely diffe
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by furgot 1y ago
After reading their "penetrating" insights about "the weenie" I'm relieved to conclude they're trolling.
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by furgot 1y ago
Respectfully, I gave reading this an earnest try, and found it not to make any sense whatsoever. It isn't at all clear to me how your statements logically follow one another. If a friend sent this to me, I would be worried about them.
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by furgot 1y ago
You're right. My bad.
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by furgot 1y ago
That's a lazy and intellectually dishonest way of responding to criticism of your ideas. You made a claim and were asked for evidence. It's your choice whether or not you provide it, but you were in fact understood, and to pretend
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by furgot 1y ago
It's concern trolling, they don't sincerely believe it, they're trying to make the people they don't like stupid.