Posts by nzlemming
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The good thing about trolled threads is that your scrolling finger gets well exercised.
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Hard News: Friday Fun with Brickface, in reply to Russell Brown,
It does regularly.
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Hard News: Vanilla Buffalo Yoghurt, in reply to Lilith __,
Brilliant. Thank you.
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Up Front: P.A. Story, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Mwahaha!
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Up Front: P.A. Story, in reply to Bart Janssen,
They may have been genetically modified ;-)
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Up Front: P.A. Story, in reply to recordari,
Yes, I myself find him ore inspiring
Ores are found in stones, which brings us back to the medication question some pages ago...
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Given that there are scientists on both sides of the debate, that sounds like the kind of unfounded folk belief that you find so risible among those horrid anti-GE god botherers
That is about process of implementation. As Lucy notes, there are issues to be resolved there and care to be taken. But most of the outright opposition to GMOs existing is of the type I mentioned.
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to Sacha,
I thought part of the resistance to GM crops was the lack of precautionary research before their release
Most of it seems to be about messing with DNA which is against the natural order (which I believe to be code for "God's Word")
Rational discussion is not a huge factor in the GMO debate.
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Okay, fair enough. I only raised it because that, in my mind, is why KB ad TS have become so befouled - the commenters don't have to own their words.
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to nzlemming,
Now having said that, I'm minded that I myself post under a pseudonym. Most people here know that my name is Mark Harris and that I once was a bureaucrat, but new chums may not. I use nzlemming because that's what I've been using online for over 15 years - there are many, many "Mark Harrises" online but only 2 nzlemmings (and the other one confines himself to a purely Java-based listserv) and I use nzlemming across social media and beyond.
Do people see the pseudonyms as part of the problem, that we can say stuff without obvious comeback in our offline lives?