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But I don't see how Facebook taking down the group is the fault of the Left at large (or in the US). I don't know many serious Leftists who are fond of Facebook, not to mention feel the company represents them.

- desperate people will do desperate things to survive

- oppressed people are bound to lash out

- the poor are powerless against authority

- people in poorer neighbourhoods are prone to overpolicing

- destitute people are more likely to succumb to substance abuse

If he said recidivism or crime rates were higher because the population was black/hispanic/etc, that would obviously be racist.

What you've now basically claimed, is that none of these protests have any legitimacy - violent or not. What you've explicitly claimed is the notion that police don't disproportionately act violently towards minorities. Why do you say BLM is built on disinformation?

Edit: there is just footage of the Paris protests thrown in there for good measure? Do you even know why people are protesting in Paris right now? Come on, man, I'm willing to look over your sources but don't just throw someone's twitter profile at me, shrug and go: "If you don't believe this then clearly nothing will convince you."

That's kind of more what I'm wondering about.

Also, would you mind to be a bit more specific about who these people are? In my experience Americans aren't particularly good at identifying what constitutes a socialist to the rest of the world.

Could you please provide a source for this?

I also think that it is generally easy to find answers to things by Googling them and finding blog entries or stackoverflow answers. But honestly, the Rails documentation is absolutely terrible. Be it apidock.com/rails or api.rubyonrails.org, it's just way too sparse. It's funny because the Ruby documentation is great.

And no, I don't need to buy into the idea of climate change at all to take the contents of the article at face value.

> but I don't automatically believe we are all going to die just from that article.

Nowhere in the article does it say that. Nothing about this article is alarmist.

The simple truth is you've already made up your mind about climate change in general, and now you're just looking for tiny crumbs of evidence that researchers are slipping up somewhere, and criticizing anything that doesn't fit your notion of how this should play out.

Salt water is denser than fresh water. The displacement of the Arctic ice is less than the displacement of the water contained in that ice when it melts. So the sea levels will rise. Though, that's not the only problem...

Think of the Arctic as exactly what it is, a giant ice cube, keeping your drink (or, you know, the world) cool. The smaller the ice cube gets, the smaller its effect on keeping your drink cool. When it's gone, your drink quickly goes to room temperature. It's highly unlikely that we can survive like we currently do without the Arctic. Sure, the ice might come back in 10 000 years or so, not particularly useful to us in the short term though, is it?

And the problem isn't that the Earth goes through natural cycles of cooling and warming, it's that our actions are accelerating the warming of the Earth, meaning we've got even less time to figure out how we as a species would survive the natural heating of the Earth.

https://nsidc.org/cryosphere/seaice/characteristics/differen...

The Antarctic is a physical land mass. The Antarctic sea ice always melts away during the spring/summer. The Antarctic is surrounded by ocean, making precipitation an often occurrence, which funnily enough means that it snows more on the land when ocean temperatures rise slightly, and this snow helps build the seasonal ice around the Antarctic.

In contrast, the Arctic isn't a land mass, it's only ice, and it's mostly surrounded by land, making precipitation a less often occurrence and making the effects of rising ocean temperatures more devastating.

Basically, there's no going back once the Arctic melts, and by the time we see the Antarctic ice receding we'll be in serious trouble.

> Sea ice volume is above 2012 in the Arctic

2012 was an outlier, but sure.

> And Greenland has had massive, earlier than usual gains in ice this year

See the explanation for landmasses above.

> Cheyenne, WY saw record breaking cold this past week > Northern Hemisphere snow mass is nearly 400 Gigatons above average for this time of year

Climate change will have variable effects on local weather around the world. An upward trend in global average temperature doesn't mean everywhere is going to get hotter all the time.

But aren't Youtube doing this specifically because of pressure from government?

I was thinking, for example, one person's right to freedom from violent crime over another person's right to not be put on trail again for the same crime.

> I would say that (2) and (3) go further than one. You could say that they are subsets of (1).

Agreed.

This slippery slope is fallacious.

To be fair, Youtube shouldn't be the platform where doctors express their scientific opinion or try to win over support.

If you've been found not guilty of a crime in the US and admit to it afterward, you cannot be prosecuted again by protection of Double Jeopardy, correct?

Is that not the same thing as saying some rights are more important than others?

And is (2) and (3) not just variations on (1)?

He admits to not being able to be a good father to his son. No one mentioned bills and groceries - that is not what raising a teenager entails - that's something you added to fit your narrative. It's a simple, specific criticism that is half addressed in the film and for some people not sufficiently resolved.

It's hardly assuming the worst about him.

All of that also made me question the entire narrative of the friendship with the octopus. I'm sure it's possible, but it's also easy to edit things to fit a narrative if you're a documentary film maker. I'm probably just being cynical though...

An experienced racer would be much better off with driving in manual, but for a beginner or someone never expecting to push the car to its limits the automated gears are plenty good enough.