🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@wiseguyeddie You and me both... bullet dodged!

@wiseguyeddie Ahh, going after typos... yes that will certainly make you look like the mature one in this conversation... good job. I see this is a battle I could never win against such towering intellect.

@wiseguyeddie I suppose thats one way to admit your wrong with out actually admitting your wrong...

As far as dying on hills go you are almost as good at that as you are at compromising.

@wiseguyeddie

TL;Dr for anyone reading the thread

Me: Both the DNC and the GOP lack any ability to compromise with anyone that criticizes them even a little

wise guy: NO we dont! <lists a bunch of reasons the GOP sucks> You are a GOPer, your bothsidism is showing

Me: So my response to you not taking criticism is to prove me wrong by not taking criticism from me and lumping me in with the GOP?

@grammargirl

I was actually thinking about this a bit and I wonder if they really means anything at all...

In both cases the "table" represents "an angenda for a meeting".. when americans say "table the motion" they mean, "put it on the next agenda".. when brits use it they mean "put it on the current agenda"... but in reality they are both just saying "lets put this on the agenda".. they only differ on what agenda they are implying.

Not saying your wrong, just pointing out despite having opposite meanings they are kinda the same meaning in a weird way too.

@admin

Spot on accurate yea.

"table a motion" is a new autoantonym for the list :)

@icedquinn indeed.

@grammargirl We call that an Autoantonym one of my favorite classes of words (though in this case a phrase but same idea).

@icedquinn Which of those two am I? I was arguing poorly constructed arguments.. conflict of interest is kinda secondary.. but im assuming you think im that one?

@luckytran

As a fellow COVID19 research scientist, specifically one who focuses on the data side, I want to point out a criticism here.

An increase of COVID in wastewater is not an indication of a surge in COVID cases... mutations cause different shedding rates, by a huge margin. Seeing a surge in waste water covid particles can just as easily be explained away by the strains present in an area, the strains dominant may either be strains that shed more, and the number of cases are the same or even less, or may be strains that for whatever reason specifically show up more in urine (rather than viral shedding)..

A lot more research might need to be done (or I need to be pointed to if I havent seen it) that would address this before we can assert anything about how this correlates to changes in cases of covid.

Me: Both the DNC and the GOP lack any ability to compromise with anyone that criticizes them even a little

Only blue dude: NO we dont! <lists a bunch of reasons the GOP sucks> You are a GOPer, your both sidism is showing

Me: So my response to you not taking criticism is to prove me wrong by not taking criticism from me and lumping me in with the GOP?

Yea, you cant make this stuff up.

@BigMcLargeHuge if its shorter i can deal with it... but shaving it off is just where im going now.

@BigMcLargeHuge scratchy is an understatement for me.. its just a mental thing.. if i had a full beard id rip it off in frustration just having it there at all... for some reason i only am annoyed when the hair is around my mouth... particularly if i can reach it with my tongue (I know weird).... so this is a compromise for me.

@freepeoplesfreepress

Agreed

@wiseguyeddie Why do you keep fantasisng about thi gs i didnt say and then argue against those fantasies rather than addressing what i said? How does it help arguing with yourself and pretending your arguibg witb me?

Never said you hating the gop was the dogma... nice try though. The dogma was when i criticised the DNC for being able to comrpomise with even mild criticism is completely lacking... i said nothing about the gop.. your response however is QED to the very poi t i made.

I did not debate that i proudly poi t out faults both tbe gop and dnc have. If you want to call that both sidism i dont mind. But you assuming that i am claiming the dnc and gop have to compromise is not what i said.. in fact both are lost causes as i said thry shoukd both be dissolved and not compromise at all.

Regardless you arguing that the gop is bad doesnt in anyway disagree with my claim that the dnc is incapable of compromising with anyone (not just the gop) when criticized.

You literally spent several threeads proving me right on this, QED. THANKS.

@wiseguyeddie I certainly did say that.

Where in there do you see the words GOP? Which was wholly the perspective you argued against.

I even went on to give a personal example which in no way involved the gop..

Be careful your dogma is showing.

Virtually all arguments on the i ternet are between two people each arguing agaibst a fantasy of what the other person said. Neither side even understands the other let alone is arguing against their actual views