Posts by Greg Dawson
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OnPoint: Everything has changed until 2014, in reply to Clare Swinney,
I thought we'd already figured out it was all due to the moon?
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OnPoint: Everything has changed until 2014, in reply to Matt Crawford,
super-shock (what else can we call it?)
Economic Senescence?
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to nzlemming,
I dunno, they do some crazy shit out east. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Emma Hart had a reactor in her gazebo…
Radiation and a gazebo?!
It just gets worse and worse!
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Hard News: Nothing important, just some tunes, in reply to Gareth Davidson,
Would have thought an influx of superheroes would be welcome.
But yes I'm thinking same problems with lack of accommodation that is preventing other events. -
Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Matthew Poole,
That's a bit rough. The cake is real, but there's no need to consider the long-term sustainability of producing cake and ...
pfft. Perfectly reasonable answer, but massively reduced epeen.
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Hard News: The First Draft, in reply to stephen walker,
infinite exponential economic growth is desirable and possible (on a planet with finite resources (except for solar radiation and gravity))"
Weird exclusions - gravity is not particularly well understood atm, so sure, maybe infinite. Solar radiation has a pretty clear end date of the point where the sun goes boom though, and we have a fairly good feel for when that will be.
Yes I'm being a dick about the absence of the words "for all practical purposes". Sorry, back in my corner.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Matthew Poole,
perhaps some Cake
Could they have it, or eat it? And would you let them eat it?
Unfortunately like so much else with Mr Brownlee, the cake is a lie.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Who needs tiresome facts when the speculation is infinitely more entertaining? :)
I like to believe it's because he needs to spend more time as his superhero alter-ego given the circumstances. But that's just because I think a last name like Power comes with responsibilities.
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Hard News: The First Draft, in reply to recordari,
So then I was just gnoming?
That's a bridge too far, the trolls will gather.
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Hard News: The First Draft, in reply to Mark Rickerby,
I completely agree. I have been very scathing of twitter in the past, but its contribution over the last week is undeniable.
Regarding the accuracy, I think it's something about the built in ability to rapidly fact check and correct inaccuracies. I mean, the misinformation persists, but the corrections persist as well.
I'm sure someone smarter than me could show all this with reference to specific examples and tracking volumes of tweets both confirming and denying incorrect tweets or something.