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by Qwerty
Wed Feb 13, 2019 2:39 am
Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
Topic: Various opinions on gun control
Replies: 12
Views: 8204

Re: Various opinions on gun control

Well mam, that is just..... how shall I say it.....well, that is just your opinion man. That's an unfortunate response. You guys are just talking to each other all the time, when your mission is supposed to be reaching out to a world that doesn't really know what Wikipedia is about. How do you achi...
by Qwerty
Tue Feb 12, 2019 4:00 am
Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
Topic: Various opinions on gun control
Replies: 12
Views: 8204

Re: Various opinions on gun control

It was a posting about weapons in Europe, and there is no democratic majority for free guns. And Wikipedia has every right to exist in a democracy as long they follow the (local) regulations in a strict way. And otherwise not. Tut tut. Burying someone else's edits, under specious pretexts, is very ...
by Qwerty
Mon Feb 11, 2019 10:38 pm
Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
Topic: Various opinions on gun control
Replies: 12
Views: 8204

Re: Various opinions on gun control

Democracy is all about trusting people to make informed choices, and guns being legal is not undemocratic. Drugs being illegal is undemocratic, and that funds and inspires much of the gangland culture that leads to insane shootings. So, the answer to the gun problem is pretty straightforward - legal...
by Qwerty
Mon Feb 04, 2019 11:37 pm
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Brexit
Replies: 5
Views: 3806

Re: Brexit

I fear Britain is a tad too late to recover its sense of national purpose. It has been almost completely ingested by one of those multi-national cohorts that suck the life out of diversity and democracy. If Britain were a wild environment, one of those natural systems we trip over a few miles outsid...
by Qwerty
Tue Aug 28, 2018 11:12 pm
Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
Topic: The (new, straight-from-scratch) Trump thread
Replies: 351
Views: 172667

Re: The (new, straight-from-scratch) Trump thread

Trump's anti-Google campaign! This is a bus you guys should catch because it can be redirected against Wikipedia. If Google is anti-Trump, it is because Wikipedia is. Here for example: m Don't let your personal hatreds get in the way of your torpedoes. This is a chance to score a hit in the popular ...
by Qwerty
Wed Mar 28, 2018 4:02 am
Forum: Wikipediocracy talk
Topic: Zoloft steps down from moderating
Replies: 39
Views: 23841

Re: Zoloft steps down from moderating

So Zoloft is offt from moderating? I liked him. He was a gentleman. I speak in the past tense, as of someone departed, but he may have enterred on a new incarnation, where he could find God or something like that, in which case he has arrived, not gone. I haven't posted at Wikipediocracy for yonks, ...
by Qwerty
Thu Aug 17, 2017 7:11 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: "Wikipedia, Thou art Villain!" says David Slater
Replies: 14
Views: 9668

Re: "Wikipedia, Thou art Villain!" says David Slater

There is a long tradition of animals and inanimate objects as defendants in law. Thus for example, even in classical Athens they had a specific court, the Prytaneion, where non-humans could be prosecuted, often for homicide. Such cases were quite common in ancient Greece and continued up through the...
by Qwerty
Sat Aug 05, 2017 8:00 am
Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
Topic: The (new, straight-from-scratch) Trump thread
Replies: 351
Views: 172667

Re: The (new, straight-from-scratch) Trump thread

The mosquitoes will probably weaken him enough for the crocs to get him, but he could still survive the swamp long enough to manage something of real value. He has come back from failures before. I think he is already reinvigorating politics. It's better than the Hilary Show. His stance against the ...
by Qwerty
Sat Aug 05, 2017 7:41 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Yes, it's true: Dutch-language Wikipedia is dying....
Replies: 22
Views: 11772

Re: Yes, it's true: Dutch-language Wikipedia is dying....

The Dutch are even more tidy-minded than the Germans and without any of the post-Nazi self-loathing. The wonder is WP ever got established there at all. On the hand, Van Gogh...
by Qwerty
Tue Jul 04, 2017 9:59 am
Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
Topic: The (new, straight-from-scratch) Trump thread
Replies: 351
Views: 172667

Re: The (new, straight-from-scratch) Trump thread

I have just discovered someone who talks a bit like me – David Goodhart. He has just published a book titled ‘The Road to Somewhere’ and I saw him interviewed on the idiot box today. He posits a new division in the socio-political thingummy, between Somewheres and Anywheres. A Somewhere is somebody ...