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indefatigable

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    Comment #6579703

    So what, these foreigners ought to be denied the same opportunity?

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    Comment #6554467

    The day any comment thread can be closed because it satisfies some criteria for a "flame war" is the last day I'll even think about posting here again.

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    Comment #6533691

    Any thread about environmental topics becomes a space to debate environmental politics, just like any thread about the US government becomes a space for leftists and right-libertar…

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    Comment #6384230

    I'm not sure absolute falsification is meaningful with this kind of prediction. Then it's not science.

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    Comment #6384121

    Yep, great movie.

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    Comment #6384061

    OK that's good to hear. But read about the history of eugenics if you'd like to know how other people might misinterpret your argument.

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    Comment #6384032

    What situation would falsify the theory of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming? Or the theory of catastrophic anthropogenic ocean acidification?

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    Comment #6384001

    When someone says they have the right to dictate not only how much energy I use, but also where that energy comes from, I call it fascism.

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    Comment #6383970

    Yeah yeah, I read Ishmael too.

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    Comment #6383942

    Stewardship means handing it over to fascists?

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    Comment #6383707

    That's it, thanks!

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    Comment #6383633

    We seem to disagree, as I'm convinced that a carbon tax would almost certainly be an unmitigated disaster.

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    Comment #6383558

    Most scientists agreed that fire involved phlogiston not so very long ago.

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    Comment #6383513

    Giving politicians the authority to levy a carbon tax is an absolutely terrible idea, and it has nothing to do with how I feel about China.

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    Comment #6383461

    Someone laments the fact that we're all doomed and wants to upend the social order, then someone else replies with a casual implication that population control would be an effectiv…

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    Comment #6383420

    Actually it seems like that's not the correct attribution. It was probably Peter Marshall: "Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for—because un…

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    Comment #6383112

    Someone famous once said something to the effect of: "When people believe in nothing, they will believe anything." Interestingly enough most of those people are completely in denia…

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    Comment #6383061

    Since regulating CO2 is such a useful political tool, it's not surprising that a new hypothesis justifying regulation has been making its way into the mainstream as the global warm…

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    Comment #6329756

    Ah well, everybody has their off days.

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    Comment #6323331

    Yet Germany has institutionalized the same mentality on a more abstract level. "Global warming might be happening, shut down the energy industry!" "We can't use nuclear power, some…

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    Comment #6305669

    Wot wot pip pip cheerio get the torch line's engaged eat some crisps there's a good chap.

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    Comment #6274294

    In other words, we should trust the DHHS and the IRS with information that the NSA can't be trusted to access? Am I reading that correctly?

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    Comment #6258303

    Your opinions are provided by PageRank? Good to know.

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    Comment #6249856

    I'm getting a serious Poe's law vibe from this comment and username.