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ZurdoDev10-Feb-20 1:06

ZurdoDev

10-Feb-20 1:06

BillWoodruff wrote:
You deny, then, that penguins are suffering ?

Nobody knows if they are, except for the guy who talks to penguins.

Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.

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Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.

BillWoodruff10-Feb-20 15:30

10-Feb-20 15:30

ZurdoDev wrote:
Nobody knows if they are, except for the guy who talks to penguins.

Do you question the sworn testimony of Penguin whisperers, then ?

«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali

ZurdoDev11-Feb-20 0:53

ZurdoDev

11-Feb-20 0:53

BillWoodruff wrote:
Do you question the sworn testimony of Penguin whisperers, then ?

Nope, I question their sanity.

Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.

Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.

RTek237-Feb-20 12:33

RTek23

7-Feb-20 12:33

I understand that snowmobiling suddenly got better as of this afternoon? Big Grin | :-D

School buses cancelled, parking bans, etc all good signs.

Greetings from the West Coast where snow is fleeting, at least in the lowlying areas.

dandy728-Feb-20 3:13

8-Feb-20 3:13

RTek23 wrote:
I understand that snowmobiling suddenly got better as of this afternoon?

As I understand it, there's still this separate matter of some sort of dispute between some snowmobile association and insurers.

So, no.

W∴ Balboos, GHB9-Feb-20 2:52

W∴ Balboos, GHB

9-Feb-20 2:52

dandy72 wrote:
The average for the continent is still well below what most people would consider comfortable (heck, bearable) without a winter jacket, boots and gloves. Inland, it's still one of the coldest places on Earth, where temperatures below -60C are not uncommon.

Possibly one of the most irrelevant comment's I've read outside of the SoapBox. It's Elephant | [mastadon]

ing Antarctica. If the remark is supposed to prove or underline some point . . . well, it doesn't. Just a statement with a perceived connection that really has no connection to the topic.

Like commenting on a shark attack at some beach with something like "beach-goers often spend their time surrounded by sand."

Ravings en masse^
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

dandy729-Feb-20 5:38

9-Feb-20 5:38

All I was saying is that some places are cold, other places are colder still. Antarctica's a big continent. This same sort of focus on one reading is what brings mass hysteria to mainstream media.

Headlines like these are also called clickbait.

W∴ Balboos, GHB11-Feb-20 1:18

W∴ Balboos, GHB

11-Feb-20 1:18

And all I was implying is that your comment has no relevance to the matter - it is essentially (1) misdirection, or at beest (2) attempting to marginalize or even ridicule the event.

Like if someone reported 45 C (113 F) where you live. Well - it's hotter in ovens all around the world . . .

Because of the rather unfortunate politicizing of climate change, beyond posting that the information that the event occurred, the topic is veering towards what was often soap-box fodder - a comment I made to the original post

Ravings en masse^
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

dandy7211-Feb-20 3:19

11-Feb-20 3:19

W∴ Balboos wrote:
attempting to marginalize or even ridicule the event.

Ultimately my goal wasn't to ridicule the event. It was to ridicule the way it's being reported--clearly the intent was to blow things out of proportion. Clearly it worked.

W∴ Balboos, GHB11-Feb-20 3:39

W∴ Balboos, GHB

11-Feb-20 3:39

Do you really believe that extensive Arctic and Antarctic melting - in our life time - is of no consequence? New records - beating the previous record of only in 2015?

Fortunately, whether patterns aren't quite that simple or some populate islands low-lying islands are not yet under water. Polar vortex, it seems, is effectively offsetting some of the effects of the warming on the outer shelf. A similar strengthening of such a vortex in the Arctic has caused some unusually long cold spells in otherwise temperate zones.

Cold enough to kill some deciduous trees.

The point is, it's not overblown and is far more important a news post them the color of Kim Kardasian's underwear of some sports figures marital problems. Whether they live or die has little effect on things - melting of the polar ice caps? That has an effect on whether flaura and fauna do live and die. Climate change or a decade or two of unusual weather - this is an important observation.

Ravings en masse^
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

dandy7211-Feb-20 5:25

11-Feb-20 5:25

Ultimately I'm not stressing myself out over it. YMMV.

lopatir7-Feb-20 17:50

lopatir

7-Feb-20 17:50

sigh, so a bunch of people are going to trample all over the penguins isolated (for a very good reason) to make some shelters for a bird that comes out of the cold water to warm up (which is why they stand rather than lie on the cold ground.)

once a long time ago even trees grew on Antarctica, yet the penguins are still with us. They have their own way to cope, and the last thing they need is a bunch of idiots stumbling blindly though their lives (most birds will not return to a nest tampered by humans, penguins have nests though most wouldn't recognise it as such if they even looked really hard with expert assistance and bright yellow paint.)

As to this aphrodisiac effect, WTF? WTF? Lets give aphrodisiacs to our kids and then wonder why they are too lazy to go out and do normal things? Really WTFFF?? Way to reduce a population.

As to sounds that repel [the seals], what does an animal do if something just keeps annoying them, they eventually get real pissed of, take out their shotgun and blow it away. WTFFFFF are you thinking?

these ~~people~~ self righteous idiots see a small part, just a spec of a story they think is not to their liking and think fixing that fixes everything. It doesn't, most likely will introduce two or likely more new things that now need fixing.

These domes are a new pollution in their environment, so you are replacing one "perceived" problem with a definite new problem - these domes will fall apart and add litter (which some little birdies may eat), these things will rot their components and literally poison the very ground these animals need, and once again that's after a bunch of wankers first went through and kicked down their houses.

Sadly foolishness isn't the problem - we've always had it and always will.
it's letting it abound, even championing and praising it is what's really wrong.
In this there is not "no wisdom," worse than that it's the polar opposite!

after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!

Mark_Wallace7-Feb-20 19:02

Mark_Wallace

7-Feb-20 19:02

Thanks for doing the sanity check (and making such a good job of it). It was a task I wasn't looking forward to.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Greg Utas8-Feb-20 1:05

Greg Utas

8-Feb-20 1:05

I thought that the original post was satire!

BillWoodruff8-Feb-20 12:14

8-Feb-20 12:14

"the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous."

Salvador Dali

«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali

BillWoodruff8-Feb-20 12:16

8-Feb-20 12:16

Quote:
not "no wisdom," worse than that it's the polar opposite

This is wonderfully oxymoronic !

«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali

Nelek8-Feb-20 14:16

8-Feb-20 14:16

M.D.V.

If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

BillWoodruff9-Feb-20 15:57

9-Feb-20 15:57

Hi Nelek, I'm stumped, what does MDV stand for ?

«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali

Nelek10-Feb-20 7:44

10-Feb-20 7:44

My acronim

M.D.V.

BillWoodruff10-Feb-20 15:27

10-Feb-20 15:27

Hi Nelek, Now, I am double-stumped WTF | :WTF:

«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali

Nelek11-Feb-20 9:35

11-Feb-20 9:35

Did I use the wrong word?
Your "acronym" would be B.W.

M.D.V.

BillWoodruff11-Feb-20 23:29

11-Feb-20 23:29

Okay, but can you understand how the average 76-year-old with one good eye, infected with rabid curiosity, might stumble over the lack of apparent connection between MDV and Nelek ? OMG | :OMG:

Can my acronym be DALI ?

cheers, Bill

«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali

Nelek13-Feb-20 8:42

13-Feb-20 8:42

I never said Nelek was my name, it is just my Nickname

M.D.V.

BillWoodruff13-Feb-20 21:41

13-Feb-20 21:41

You are hereby granted the Order of Obtuseness, First Class, with Oak Leaves OMG | :OMG:

«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali

Nelek14-Feb-20 0:50