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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #3570 on: May 07, 2020, 02:55:35 PM »
Her Wikipedia page certainly doesn’t paint her in a very positive light.
Wikipedia is probably one of the least reliable sources for information there is. Anyone can write anything on a Wikipedia at anytime.

I'm not saying one way or the other about this lady or Plandemic. I have yet to dive into it. Just throwing that out there about Wikipedia.

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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #3571 on: May 07, 2020, 02:56:53 PM »
Wiki is far more accurate than I would have thought possible if it covers an area that isn't contentious.


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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #3572 on: May 07, 2020, 03:08:00 PM »
Wikipedia is probably one of the least reliable sources for information there is. Anyone can write anything on a Wikipedia at anytime.

I'm not saying one way or the other about this lady or Plandemic. I have yet to dive into it. Just throwing that out there about Wikipedia.
Lol. I know.  That was more tongue in cheek than anything because you can tell from her Wiki page that some people who aren’t very fond of her contributed a great deal.

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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #3573 on: May 07, 2020, 03:10:41 PM »
She is getting excoriated from a lot of different quarters, which of course one might expect if she is completely right.

Her "discussion" of patent issues was however very dramatically wrong.  That isn't how the patent system and assignments works, at all.

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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #3574 on: May 07, 2020, 03:13:50 PM »
Wikipedia is probably one of the least reliable sources for information there is. Anyone can write anything on a Wikipedia at anytime.

I'm not saying one way or the other about this lady or Plandemic. I have yet to dive into it. Just throwing that out there about Wikipedia.
Yes, but any actively-maintained article will quickly be corrected by someone who is watching the page. 

You can also look at revision histories, so you can see exactly who changed something, when, if it was changed back, if there's an "edit war" between people on the page, etc...

It's not infallible, but for *most* topics, it's actually quite good... Which brings me to...

Wiki is far more accurate than I would have thought possible if it covers an area that isn't contentious.
Exactly. If you're looking at relatively dry and non-controversial topics, Wiki is pretty good. 

If it's anything related to politics, or to something controversial (like climate change), all bets are off.

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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #3575 on: May 07, 2020, 03:20:59 PM »
When it first started, I could imagine how it could work.  After a bit I looked up a couple of obscure topics on which I have some expertise thinking maybe I could add or change something.  The summaries were better than I could have provided.  I realized nobody out there had any interest in screwing them up.

One topic as I recall was dhchlorocarbene, to give you an idea of its obscurity (though you probably come across carbenes in sophomore org chem).

Briefly.  Divalent carbon and all that.

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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #3576 on: May 07, 2020, 04:53:15 PM »
Yeah, great word, nothing to do with fences really.

It is from the French, of course.
The French stole it from the Romans.  The ancient ones.
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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #3577 on: May 07, 2020, 04:55:55 PM »
Yeah, no wonder English is so weird.  There is a ton of French in it, and of course German (not as much IMHO), and the French has Latin roots.

It's almost as if someone from France invaded England like a thousand years ago and took over or something.

Then we have days of the week ....

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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #3578 on: May 07, 2020, 05:15:56 PM »
There's a YouTuber called LangFocus who--surprise!--looks at different languages.  He's Canadian, so it's not surprising that he's looked at various aspects of English.  One of the videos deals with whether English is truly a Germanic language or not.
There's a lot of evidence to cite if your answer is that it is not, but maybe not enough evidence.
A lot of the "Germanic" words are not from the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes who invaded Britain in the (IIRC) 5th century, but rather from later waves of Norse and Danes who invaded and semi-settled large parts of eastern and southeastern England.
And then the Normans who brought their language into England starting in 1066 weren't exactly speaking French either.  But, of course, there has been later borrowings of more modern French words.
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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #3579 on: May 07, 2020, 05:21:07 PM »
Yeah, I am not sure what language many of the Normans spoke in 1066, I'd guess William spoke a version of Old French extant at the court, and maybe something else.

Americans are good at borrowing stuff, I've noted before how many kinds of food we have, and wine from all over.

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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #3580 on: May 07, 2020, 05:21:58 PM »
what pisses me off about this Plandemic thing is YouTube keeps taking it down. Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc., etc., have protection from Section 230. They are literally f$$$king immune from liability. STOP censoring shit just because you don't like what people are saying. Makes no sense to me.

As long as no laws are being broken (see Backpage and it's sex-trafficking ring) - these Big Tech firms should stop censoring shit just because they don't like what someone says. Drives me crazy.
Did you completely miss the heads of these sites being grilled by congress a few years back?  They're going to avoid that ever happening again by any means necessary.
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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #3581 on: May 07, 2020, 05:47:07 PM »
Yeah, I am not sure what language many of the Normans spoke in 1066, I'd guess William spoke a version of Old French extant at the court, and maybe something else.

Americans are good at borrowing stuff, I've noted before how many kinds of food we have, and wine from all over.
It's all part of what makes our country great.
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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #3582 on: May 07, 2020, 06:07:50 PM »
Did you completely miss the heads of these sites being grilled by congress a few years back?  They're going to avoid that ever happening again by any means necessary.
And what happened to them? Nothing. It was a complete dog and pony show. And you know why nothing happened to them: they are shielded by federal law. And those laws aren't changing. Why aren't they changing? Because the big tech firms donate a shit ton of cash to the politicians who write the laws. For instance- Facebook is one of Nancy Pelosi's three biggest donors.

These big tech companies have monopolies that violate US anti-trust laws and they haven't come close to smelling a whiff of being broken up. These companies continually merge and buy-up other companies and these m&a's violate anti-trust laws. Yet they are almost always approved by the FTC and the federal government does absolutely nothing to stop them up.

This is just showing you big tech is in bed with the government. If they weren't, they wouldn't be doing censorship for the government. Facebook, Google (which owns YouTube) have contracts with the federal government. This is nothing but them looking out for their business partners. And it's filthy rotten to the core.

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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #3583 on: May 07, 2020, 06:20:08 PM »
I'm currently making some borrowed boeuf bourguignon and will be drinking some borrowed Bordeaux wine tonight.

 

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