@Krillthemall @RexUmberleigh @Slatzism That's why I called it a problem. Care to elaborate? I think it depends how it's used.

@RexUmberleigh @Slatzism It's a 'no true Scotsman' problem.

@peterrhague @Forreststargaze What percentage of the population were included in the suffrage? My understanding is about 15. Hardly representative.

@VKlker @colin_fraser @kalin_t It's not an analogy!

@colin_fraser @kalin_t I don't think it's an analogy. The number of calculations might be a bit of an exaggeration, but the point remains. What analogy?

@feelsdesperate Seems like you're pretty good at pedantic, insufferable scolding yourself.

@PrismOfReality @elonmusk Sophistry.

@ian_90211 @RizzyDaGlizzy2 @ArtemisConsort True.

@RizzyDaGlizzy2 @ian_90211 @ArtemisConsort Yes. Transgressions often feature in fantasy.

@glover_billie @fbongiornoanu Tutorials of more than a dozen or so students are not tutorials.

@RizzyDaGlizzy2 @ian_90211 @ArtemisConsort You don't think it might be BECAUSE it's so taboo? (except it isn't, particularly, any more).

@PrismOfReality @elonmusk It's not 'the BBC', it's a specific, public-benefit offshoot. They were paying them for a service: providing public goods. .

@elonmusk A thousand out of how many?

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@elonmusk Whereas people like you and Elon present the suffering of the poor as evidence, in and of itself, that you're righteous.

@elonmusk When are you going to get to the DoD, Elon?

@EspressoDynamte @NathanpmYoung Foreign aid has been dwindling for decades. It will make essentially no difference to the problems you allude to. A tiny slice of the defence budget, on the other hand...