Vlacas12

Vlacas12 t1_jd426lh wrote

What I am saying is, that it is totally irrelevant to current climate change. It doesn't "contribute to the same issues", because natural sources just don't have the same, critical effect, even if you take all of them combined, as anthropogenic climate change.

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Vlacas12 t1_j2dis9u wrote

It was especially made up for that reason, to be the longest word in the English language, and the use OP stated in the title is very much criticized by the scientific community. I am mostly criticizing OP's clickbait title, not the word itself.

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Vlacas12 t1_j2cvfql wrote

"is a made up word [...] It has sometimes been used as a synonym for the occupational disease known as silicosis, but it should not be as most silicosis is not related to mining of volcanic dusts, and no evidence of silicosis has been found in populations exposed to crystalline silica in volcanic ash.

Clinical and toxicological research conducted on volcanic crystalline silica has found little to no evidence of its ability to cause silicosis/pneumoconiosis-like diseases and geochemical anlayses have shown that there are inherent factors in the crystalline structure which may render volcanic crystalline silica much less pathogenic than some other forms of crystalline silica." [Emphasis mine]

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Vlacas12 t1_j2cu69p wrote

Yes. And then form a band called Disaster Area.

And that number they do. That really huge number. How does it go? "Bwarm! Bwarm! Badeer!!" something, and in the stage act it ends with this ship crashing right into the sun. Ship! Sun! Wham bang! I mean forget lasers and stuff, these guys are into solar flares and real sunburn! Oh, and terrible songs.

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Vlacas12 t1_j1pa6kt wrote

All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.

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Vlacas12 t1_iuztfnt wrote

Yes, but that's my second point, that he using the Persians (especially in his account of the war between the Persians and the Scythians in the second part of the Histories) as a "mirror" for the Greeks and Greek moral ideals.

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Vlacas12 t1_iuwlfrz wrote

A lot of Herodotus is simply Greek propaganda. It's not just him repeating stories, but him using specific stories (he didn't let the truth come in the way of a good story) to paint his own views in the medium, especially the construction of a Greek Identity and using other people as a "mirror" to write about the Greeks (This second part is the remarkable contribution of François Hartog’s landmark work Le Miroir d’Hérodote. Essai sur la représentation de l’autre).

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Vlacas12 t1_iugwwgb wrote

No, it's not the same. Not doing something out if fear of discovery has nothing to do with it being a preference, an inside factor of the offender that doesn't change the outcome, but it being a necessity to not to be discovered, which does potentially change the outcome and is guided by outside factors.

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Vlacas12 t1_iuguncv wrote

It doesn't read anywhere in the article that offenders don't like to use lights.

"Artificial light introduced to the crime scene signals unusual activity to potential guardians and invites unwanted attention which the offenders may not feel comfortable risking. The costs of committing vehicle crime on unlit streets are therefore higher than elsewhere."

This is the only part I could find that talks about the offenders using artificial light and it doesn't say anything about them not liking to use lights, only that the risk of being discovered outweighs the possible benefits, which has nothing to do with the personal preference of the offenders to use or not use artificial lightning.

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