"Evil is evil Stregabore; lesser, greater, middling, its all the same. I am not judging you; I havent only done good in my life, but now if I need to choose one evil or another then I prefer not to choose at all" -- The Witcher
@icedquinn Summary:
You: Getting other people to provide feedback is bias!
Me: Depends on who is providing feedback, its only as good as the people involved.
You: No true scotsman fallacy!
Me: ::rolls eyes::
@icedquinn Summary:
You: Getting other people to provide feedback is bias!
Me: Depends on who is providing feedback, its only as good as the people involved.
You: No true scotsman fallacy!
Me: ::rolls eyes::
@natecull You dont really make your point here. There is nothing inherently fascist about opposing the new deal.
As for the america first movement, it was mostly just an anti-war committee opposing the us joining WWII, it didnt have any real fascist ideals. Fascism is not preferring your own country's success over others, its when a person is expected to have loyalty to the state of personal rights which is directly contrary to libertarianism.
@swiley A monumental one.
@swiley Yea i am not objecting to asking the question, and biden is bad, right on par with Trump, maybe slightly worse. But to compare him to someone intentionally committing mass genocide is a huge stretch.
@icedquinn Thats an idiotic take on what I just said... If einstein tells you an equation on special relativity is wrong, you listen. If joe blow tells you, who never even studied it and has gotten basic facts wrong, you dont. Nothing about that equates to a "no true scotsman". As a scientist you value the critique of people who have demonstrably proven themselves to be right, and you put les time into people who have demonstrably proven themselves to be consistently wrong. This isnt a tough idea to understand, and it carries over to journals as much as individuals.
@icedquinn Nope, it only demonstrates which instances are failures. Peer review is not some generic badge that qualifies a paper. A scientist is expected to know which journals conduct reputable peer review and which dont. Even if there were 90% scam journals and 10% legit high quality peer review it doesnt change that,
@icedquinn All those examples prove is that those specific instances of peer review were done poorly. Again peer review is only as good as the quality of the reviewers based on their past success.
Anyone can start a shitty journal with shitty peer reviewers and use it to claim peer review is shit, it says **nothing** about **all** peer review
@stux lol who the fuck censors a dog butt.
Also from the direction the dogs and cats are coming from it wouldnt look like a hole. These illusions on work from a specific vantage point.
@icedquinn Peer review means nothing unless the journal and peer reviewers have a good reputation for accuracy. Peer review alone means nothing without a history of good results.
@dl5psy It was effectively an HF vertical antenna using the ground as the ground plane
@dl5psy just a thin wire
@icedquinn appeal to authority is fine, so long as their "credentials" are actual demonstrated success and not a cert.
@dl5psy Mine was tethered yes, but not acting as a repeater but rather as an ordinary station.
@dl5psy I've actually dont this before and it is rather common on weather balloons to have an aprs digipeater.
Works great you just need a relatively large balloon if your antenna has any mass to it.
Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
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