On Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 7:41:41 AM UTC-7, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

> Yes, plants love CO2. It's good for the planet and we need more.

Planets aren't plants. Neither are 'we'. And, plants don't express love.
CO2 and sunlight and rain, plants make into... carbohydrates. That's the 'empty calories'
subset of agriculture, for instance, and not unequivocally good.

What can you say approvingly about microplastics in your food?
They're less toxic than pepper, I hear.

On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 08:33:54 +0100, whit3rd <whit3rd@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 7:41:41 AM UTC-7, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
>
>> Yes, plants love CO2. It's good for the planet and we need more.
>
> Planets aren't plants. Neither are 'we'. And, plants don't express love.
> CO2 and sunlight and rain, plants make into... carbohydrates. That's the 'empty calories'
> subset of agriculture, for instance, and not unequivocally good.

So you're a meat eating moron? What do you think those animals eat?

> What can you say approvingly about microplastics in your food?
> They're less toxic than pepper, I hear.

Go vote for the green party and fuck off out of my sight.

On Saturday, April 16, 2022 at 4:12:18 AM UTC-7, Commander Kinsey wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 08:33:54 +0100, whit3rd <whi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > CO2 and sunlight and rain, plants make into... carbohydrates. That's the 'empty calories'
> > subset of agriculture, for instance, and not unequivocally good.
> So you're a meat eating moron? What do you think those animals eat?

Whole plant tissues, with proteins, trace minerals, etc. Not just the
sugar-and-starch components. More CO2 makes for more carbohydrates, but
doesn't increase uptake of nitrogen, potassium, and other necessary chemical
components of a foodstuff. CHO isn't enough, CHON, or CHONP, are food requirements.

> > What can you say approvingly about microplastics in your food?
> > They're less toxic than pepper, I hear.

> Go vote for the green party and fuck off out of my sight.

Do you want an F on the assignment, or are you going for an incomplete? That
doesn't address microplastics in any coherent way.

On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 00:33:54 -0700 (PDT), whit3rd <whit3rd@gmail.com>
wrote:

>On Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 7:41:41 AM UTC-7, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
>
>> Yes, plants love CO2. It's good for the planet and we need more.
>
>Planets aren't plants. Neither are 'we'. And, plants don't express love.
>CO2 and sunlight and rain, plants make into... carbohydrates. That's the 'empty calories'
>subset of agriculture, for instance, and not unequivocally good.

It would be interesting to assign a single, literal meaning to every
word in the English language and try to live with that.

--

I yam what I yam - Popeye

On 2022-04-20 16:17, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 00:33:54 -0700 (PDT), whit3rd <whit3rd@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 7:41:41 AM UTC-7, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, plants love CO2. It's good for the planet and we need more.
>>
>> Planets aren't plants. Neither are 'we'. And, plants don't express love.
>> CO2 and sunlight and rain, plants make into... carbohydrates. That's the 'empty calories'
>> subset of agriculture, for instance, and not unequivocally good.
>
> It would be interesting to assign a single, literal meaning to every
> word in the English language and try to live with that.
>

Not for everyday use and each word, but there has been attempts and even standards to do so for technical manuals:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Technical_English

Arie

On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 07:29:36 +0100, whit3rd <whit3rd@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Saturday, April 16, 2022 at 4:12:18 AM UTC-7, Commander Kinsey wrote:
>> On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 08:33:54 +0100, whit3rd <whi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > CO2 and sunlight and rain, plants make into... carbohydrates. That's the 'empty calories'
>> > subset of agriculture, for instance, and not unequivocally good.
>> So you're a meat eating moron? What do you think those animals eat?
>
> Whole plant tissues, with proteins, trace minerals, etc. Not just the
> sugar-and-starch components.

We eat the tasty bits because we have brains.

> More CO2 makes for more carbohydrates, but
> doesn't increase uptake of nitrogen, potassium, and other necessary chemical
> components of a foodstuff. CHO isn't enough, CHON, or CHONP, are food requirements.

Fusspot.

>> > What can you say approvingly about microplastics in your food?
>> > They're less toxic than pepper, I hear.
>
>> Go vote for the green party and fuck off out of my sight.
>
> Do you want an F on the assignment, or are you going for an incomplete? That
> doesn't address microplastics in any coherent way.

The green party hate them for some reason, I don't care.

On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 16:55:08 +0100, Arie de Muijnck <eternal.september@ademu.com> wrote:

> On 2022-04-20 16:17, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
>> On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 00:33:54 -0700 (PDT), whit3rd <whit3rd@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 7:41:41 AM UTC-7, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes, plants love CO2. It's good for the planet and we need more.
>>>
>>> Planets aren't plants. Neither are 'we'. And, plants don't express love.
>>> CO2 and sunlight and rain, plants make into... carbohydrates. That's the 'empty calories'
>>> subset of agriculture, for instance, and not unequivocally good.
>>
>> It would be interesting to assign a single, literal meaning to every
>> word in the English language and try to live with that.
>>
>
> Not for everyday use and each word, but there has been attempts and even standards to do so for technical manuals:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Technical_English

I'm guessing yanks couldn't handle this.

Instead of
"GET ACCESS TO THE ACCUMULATOR FOR THE NO. 1 HYDRAULIC SYSTEM"
they would write
"Now what you're gonna wanna go and do next is be getting the access to the accumulator so you can then go and use the first one of those hydraulic doohickeys."

Oh how far the world could have come without Merkins.

On 04/27/2022 11:13 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 16:55:08 +0100, Arie de Muijnck
> <eternal.september@ademu.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2022-04-20 16:17, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
>>> On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 00:33:54 -0700 (PDT), whit3rd <whit3rd@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 7:41:41 AM UTC-7,
>>>> jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Yes, plants love CO2. It's good for the planet and we need more.
>>>>
>>>> Planets aren't plants. Neither are 'we'. And, plants don't
>>>> express love.
>>>> CO2 and sunlight and rain, plants make into... carbohydrates.
>>>> That's the 'empty calories'
>>>> subset of agriculture, for instance, and not unequivocally good.
>>>
>>> It would be interesting to assign a single, literal meaning to every
>>> word in the English language and try to live with that.
>>>
>>
>> Not for everyday use and each word, but there has been attempts and
>> even standards to do so for technical manuals:
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Technical_English
>
> I'm guessing yanks couldn't handle this.
>
> Instead of
> "GET ACCESS TO THE ACCUMULATOR FOR THE NO. 1 HYDRAULIC SYSTEM"
> they would write
> "Now what you're gonna wanna go and do next is be getting the access to
> the accumulator so you can then go and use the first one of those
> hydraulic doohickeys."
>
> Oh how far the world could have come without Merkins.

you would be speaking German without Merkins. Not that that would be a
bad thing...

On Tue, 19 Apr 2022 23:29:36 -0700 (PDT), whit3rd <whit3rd@gmail.com>
wrote:

>On Saturday, April 16, 2022 at 4:12:18 AM UTC-7, Commander Kinsey wrote:
>> On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 08:33:54 +0100, whit3rd <whi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > CO2 and sunlight and rain, plants make into... carbohydrates. That's the 'empty calories'
>> > subset of agriculture, for instance, and not unequivocally good.
>> So you're a meat eating moron? What do you think those animals eat?
>
>Whole plant tissues, with proteins, trace minerals, etc. Not just the
>sugar-and-starch components. More CO2 makes for more carbohydrates, but
>doesn't increase uptake of nitrogen, potassium, and other necessary chemical
>components of a foodstuff. CHO isn't enough, CHON, or CHONP, are food requirements.
>

We make nitrogen fertilizers from air and oil/gas. We mine and
transport other plant nutrients using oil and gas. Cows and chickens
convert carbs to proteins. Per-capita ag production is way, way up
from the past and still increasing. Added CO2 certainly helps. Google
nasa greening

Things keep getting better. That seems to annoy people who desperately
want things to get worse.

>> > What can you say approvingly about microplastics in your food?

No problem. We have sand and indigestable fiber and all sorts of
things just passing through. Micrograms of plastic are down in the
noise.

--

Anybody can count to one.

- Robert Widlar

On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 06:13:49 +0100, "Commander Kinsey"
<CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 16:55:08 +0100, Arie de Muijnck <eternal.september@ademu.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2022-04-20 16:17, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
>>> On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 00:33:54 -0700 (PDT), whit3rd <whit3rd@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 7:41:41 AM UTC-7, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Yes, plants love CO2. It's good for the planet and we need more.
>>>>
>>>> Planets aren't plants. Neither are 'we'. And, plants don't express love.
>>>> CO2 and sunlight and rain, plants make into... carbohydrates. That's the 'empty calories'
>>>> subset of agriculture, for instance, and not unequivocally good.
>>>
>>> It would be interesting to assign a single, literal meaning to every
>>> word in the English language and try to live with that.
>>>
>>
>> Not for everyday use and each word, but there has been attempts and even standards to do so for technical manuals:
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Technical_English
>
>I'm guessing yanks couldn't handle this.
>
>Instead of
>"GET ACCESS TO THE ACCUMULATOR FOR THE NO. 1 HYDRAULIC SYSTEM"
>they would write
>"Now what you're gonna wanna go and do next is be getting the access to the accumulator so you can then go and use the first one of those hydraulic doohickeys."
>

Life would be simpler with everyone speaking either Japanese or
German.

--

Anybody can count to one.

- Robert Widlar

On 04/28/2022 09:36 AM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 06:13:49 +0100, "Commander Kinsey"
> <CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 16:55:08 +0100, Arie de Muijnck <eternal.september@ademu.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2022-04-20 16:17, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 00:33:54 -0700 (PDT), whit3rd <whit3rd@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 7:41:41 AM UTC-7, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, plants love CO2. It's good for the planet and we need more.
>>>>>
>>>>> Planets aren't plants. Neither are 'we'. And, plants don't express love.
>>>>> CO2 and sunlight and rain, plants make into... carbohydrates. That's the 'empty calories'
>>>>> subset of agriculture, for instance, and not unequivocally good.
>>>>
>>>> It would be interesting to assign a single, literal meaning to every
>>>> word in the English language and try to live with that.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Not for everyday use and each word, but there has been attempts and even standards to do so for technical manuals:
>>>
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Technical_English
>>
>> I'm guessing yanks couldn't handle this.
>>
>> Instead of
>> "GET ACCESS TO THE ACCUMULATOR FOR THE NO. 1 HYDRAULIC SYSTEM"
>> they would write
>> "Now what you're gonna wanna go and do next is be getting the access to the accumulator so you can then go and use the first one of those hydraulic doohickeys."
>>
>
> Life would be simpler with everyone speaking either Japanese or
> German.
>
>
>

Sie haben vollkommen recht.

On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 14:31:47 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

> On 04/27/2022 11:13 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
>> On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 16:55:08 +0100, Arie de Muijnck
>> <eternal.september@ademu.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2022-04-20 16:17, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 00:33:54 -0700 (PDT), whit3rd <whit3rd@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 7:41:41 AM UTC-7,
>>>>> jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, plants love CO2. It's good for the planet and we need more.
>>>>>
>>>>> Planets aren't plants. Neither are 'we'. And, plants don't
>>>>> express love.
>>>>> CO2 and sunlight and rain, plants make into... carbohydrates.
>>>>> That's the 'empty calories'
>>>>> subset of agriculture, for instance, and not unequivocally good.
>>>>
>>>> It would be interesting to assign a single, literal meaning to every
>>>> word in the English language and try to live with that.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Not for everyday use and each word, but there has been attempts and
>>> even standards to do so for technical manuals:
>>>
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Technical_English
>>
>> I'm guessing yanks couldn't handle this.
>>
>> Instead of
>> "GET ACCESS TO THE ACCUMULATOR FOR THE NO. 1 HYDRAULIC SYSTEM"
>> they would write
>> "Now what you're gonna wanna go and do next is be getting the access to
>> the accumulator so you can then go and use the first one of those
>> hydraulic doohickeys."
>>
>> Oh how far the world could have come without Merkins.
>
> you would be speaking German without Merkins. Not that that would be a
> bad thing...

I don't like masculine feminine neuter in their language, but other than that they're a very sensible people.

On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 02:26:31 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

> On 04/28/2022 09:36 AM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
>> On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 06:13:49 +0100, "Commander Kinsey"
>> <CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 16:55:08 +0100, Arie de Muijnck <eternal.september@ademu.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2022-04-20 16:17, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 00:33:54 -0700 (PDT), whit3rd <whit3rd@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 7:41:41 AM UTC-7, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yes, plants love CO2. It's good for the planet and we need more.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Planets aren't plants. Neither are 'we'. And, plants don't express love.
>>>>>> CO2 and sunlight and rain, plants make into... carbohydrates. That's the 'empty calories'
>>>>>> subset of agriculture, for instance, and not unequivocally good.
>>>>>
>>>>> It would be interesting to assign a single, literal meaning to every
>>>>> word in the English language and try to live with that.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Not for everyday use and each word, but there has been attempts and even standards to do so for technical manuals:
>>>>
>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Technical_English
>>>
>>> I'm guessing yanks couldn't handle this.
>>>
>>> Instead of
>>> "GET ACCESS TO THE ACCUMULATOR FOR THE NO. 1 HYDRAULIC SYSTEM"
>>> they would write
>>> "Now what you're gonna wanna go and do next is be getting the access to the accumulator so you can then go and use the first one of those hydraulic doohickeys."
>>
>> Life would be simpler with everyone speaking either Japanese or
>> German.
>
> Sie haben vollkommen recht.

Japanisch habe ich noch nie probiert. Was macht es so gut?

On Thursday, April 28, 2022 at 8:34:22 AM UTC-7, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Apr 2022 23:29:36 -0700 (PDT), whit3rd <whi...@gmail.com>
> wrote:

> >> > What can you say approvingly about microplastics in your food?

> No problem. We have sand and indigestable fiber and all sorts of
> things just passing through. Micrograms of plastic are down in the
> noise.

Not approving, really, just a claim of ignorance. Ignorance isn't always
fatal. Small particles (like heavy metal ions) are sometimes
effective poisons, and even microgram doses are a lot, if the material accumulates.

Did you hear about the sewer cleaning in New Orleans, that discovered tons of
plastic?
<https://www.huffpost.com/entry/new-orleans-beads-storm-drains_n_5a6bb80be4b0ddb658c693bb>

On 04/28/2022 09:33 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 14:31:47 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>
>> On 04/27/2022 11:13 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
>>> On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 16:55:08 +0100, Arie de Muijnck
>>> <eternal.september@ademu.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2022-04-20 16:17, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 00:33:54 -0700 (PDT), whit3rd <whit3rd@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 7:41:41 AM UTC-7,
>>>>>> jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yes, plants love CO2. It's good for the planet and we need more.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Planets aren't plants. Neither are 'we'. And, plants don't
>>>>>> express love.
>>>>>> CO2 and sunlight and rain, plants make into... carbohydrates.
>>>>>> That's the 'empty calories'
>>>>>> subset of agriculture, for instance, and not unequivocally good.
>>>>>
>>>>> It would be interesting to assign a single, literal meaning to every
>>>>> word in the English language and try to live with that.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Not for everyday use and each word, but there has been attempts and
>>>> even standards to do so for technical manuals:
>>>>
>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Technical_English
>>>
>>> I'm guessing yanks couldn't handle this.
>>>
>>> Instead of
>>> "GET ACCESS TO THE ACCUMULATOR FOR THE NO. 1 HYDRAULIC SYSTEM"
>>> they would write
>>> "Now what you're gonna wanna go and do next is be getting the access to
>>> the accumulator so you can then go and use the first one of those
>>> hydraulic doohickeys."
>>>
>>> Oh how far the world could have come without Merkins.
>>
>> you would be speaking German without Merkins. Not that that would be a
>> bad thing...
>
> I don't like masculine feminine neuter in their language, but other than
> that they're a very sensible people.

You prefer gender fluidity? I will admit I've been curious how things
like der Wein und das Bier came about.

An otherwise highly respected translator of Old Norse material took a
lot of flack when he switched the pronouns for the sun and the moon to
conform to the English sense. English may not have genders anymore but
to most people a feminine sun and masculine moon just seems wrong.

On 04/28/2022 10:25 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 02:26:31 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>
>> On 04/28/2022 09:36 AM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
>>> On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 06:13:49 +0100, "Commander Kinsey"
>>> <CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 16:55:08 +0100, Arie de Muijnck
>>>> <eternal.september@ademu.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2022-04-20 16:17, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
>>>>>> On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 00:33:54 -0700 (PDT), whit3rd <whit3rd@gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 7:41:41 AM UTC-7,
>>>>>>> jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Yes, plants love CO2. It's good for the planet and we need more.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Planets aren't plants. Neither are 'we'. And, plants don't
>>>>>>> express love.
>>>>>>> CO2 and sunlight and rain, plants make into... carbohydrates.
>>>>>>> That's the 'empty calories'
>>>>>>> subset of agriculture, for instance, and not unequivocally good.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It would be interesting to assign a single, literal meaning to every
>>>>>> word in the English language and try to live with that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Not for everyday use and each word, but there has been attempts and
>>>>> even standards to do so for technical manuals:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Technical_English
>>>>
>>>> I'm guessing yanks couldn't handle this.
>>>>
>>>> Instead of
>>>> "GET ACCESS TO THE ACCUMULATOR FOR THE NO. 1 HYDRAULIC SYSTEM"
>>>> they would write
>>>> "Now what you're gonna wanna go and do next is be getting the access
>>>> to the accumulator so you can then go and use the first one of those
>>>> hydraulic doohickeys."
>>>
>>> Life would be simpler with everyone speaking either Japanese or
>>> German.
>>
>> Sie haben vollkommen recht.
>
> Japanisch habe ich noch nie probiert. Was macht es so gut?

Chiaki Kuriyama.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/12/77/b2/1277b218a620a9c4ee16a678a5f6fd91.jpg

On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 07:08:00 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

> On 04/28/2022 09:33 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
>> On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 14:31:47 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 04/27/2022 11:13 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 16:55:08 +0100, Arie de Muijnck
>>>> <eternal.september@ademu.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2022-04-20 16:17, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
>>>>>> On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 00:33:54 -0700 (PDT), whit3rd <whit3rd@gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 7:41:41 AM UTC-7,
>>>>>>> jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Yes, plants love CO2. It's good for the planet and we need more.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Planets aren't plants. Neither are 'we'. And, plants don't
>>>>>>> express love.
>>>>>>> CO2 and sunlight and rain, plants make into... carbohydrates.
>>>>>>> That's the 'empty calories'
>>>>>>> subset of agriculture, for instance, and not unequivocally good.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It would be interesting to assign a single, literal meaning to every
>>>>>> word in the English language and try to live with that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Not for everyday use and each word, but there has been attempts and
>>>>> even standards to do so for technical manuals:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Technical_English
>>>>
>>>> I'm guessing yanks couldn't handle this.
>>>>
>>>> Instead of
>>>> "GET ACCESS TO THE ACCUMULATOR FOR THE NO. 1 HYDRAULIC SYSTEM"
>>>> they would write
>>>> "Now what you're gonna wanna go and do next is be getting the access to
>>>> the accumulator so you can then go and use the first one of those
>>>> hydraulic doohickeys."
>>>>
>>>> Oh how far the world could have come without Merkins.
>>>
>>> you would be speaking German without Merkins. Not that that would be a
>>> bad thing...
>>
>> I don't like masculine feminine neuter in their language, but other than
>> that they're a very sensible people.
>
> You prefer gender fluidity?

I prefer a noun like "table" not to have a gender. Gender is only for living things.

> I will admit I've been curious how things
> like der Wein und das Bier came about.

In French you can change the gender of a word and change it's meaning. For example foret can be a forest or a sword.

> An otherwise highly respected translator of Old Norse material took a
> lot of flack when he switched the pronouns for the sun and the moon to
> conform to the English sense. English may not have genders anymore but
> to most people a feminine sun and masculine moon just seems wrong.

Giving either of them a gender is wrong. Since they don't procreate sexually, they have no gender.

On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 07:15:39 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

> On 04/28/2022 10:25 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
>> On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 02:26:31 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 04/28/2022 09:36 AM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 06:13:49 +0100, "Commander Kinsey"
>>>> <CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 16:55:08 +0100, Arie de Muijnck
>>>>> <eternal.september@ademu.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2022-04-20 16:17, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 00:33:54 -0700 (PDT), whit3rd <whit3rd@gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 7:41:41 AM UTC-7,
>>>>>>>> jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Yes, plants love CO2. It's good for the planet and we need more.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Planets aren't plants. Neither are 'we'. And, plants don't
>>>>>>>> express love.
>>>>>>>> CO2 and sunlight and rain, plants make into... carbohydrates.
>>>>>>>> That's the 'empty calories'
>>>>>>>> subset of agriculture, for instance, and not unequivocally good.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It would be interesting to assign a single, literal meaning to every
>>>>>>> word in the English language and try to live with that.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not for everyday use and each word, but there has been attempts and
>>>>>> even standards to do so for technical manuals:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Technical_English
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm guessing yanks couldn't handle this.
>>>>>
>>>>> Instead of
>>>>> "GET ACCESS TO THE ACCUMULATOR FOR THE NO. 1 HYDRAULIC SYSTEM"
>>>>> they would write
>>>>> "Now what you're gonna wanna go and do next is be getting the access
>>>>> to the accumulator so you can then go and use the first one of those
>>>>> hydraulic doohickeys."
>>>>
>>>> Life would be simpler with everyone speaking either Japanese or
>>>> German.
>>>
>>> Sie haben vollkommen recht.
>>
>> Japanisch habe ich noch nie probiert. Was macht es so gut?
>
>
> Chiaki Kuriyama.
>
> https://i.pinimg.com/originals/12/77/b2/1277b218a620a9c4ee16a678a5f6fd91.jpg

Oooh she looks fun, but in this image her face is all lopsided:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/26th_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_Kuriyama_Chiaki.jpg

On 04/29/2022 12:28 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
>
>> An otherwise highly respected translator of Old Norse material took a
>> lot of flack when he switched the pronouns for the sun and the moon to
>> conform to the English sense. English may not have genders anymore but
>> to most people a feminine sun and masculine moon just seems wrong.
>
> Giving either of them a gender is wrong. Since they don't procreate
> sexually, they have no gender.

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1911/the-sun--the-moon-in-norse-myth/

One hopes the sun and moon don't since they're siblings.

On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 21:31:54 -0700 (PDT), whit3rd <whit3rd@gmail.com>
wrote:

>On Thursday, April 28, 2022 at 8:34:22 AM UTC-7, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
>> On Tue, 19 Apr 2022 23:29:36 -0700 (PDT), whit3rd <whi...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>
>> >> > What can you say approvingly about microplastics in your food?
>
>> No problem. We have sand and indigestable fiber and all sorts of
>> things just passing through. Micrograms of plastic are down in the
>> noise.
>
>Not approving, really, just a claim of ignorance. Ignorance isn't always
>fatal. Small particles (like heavy metal ions) are sometimes
>effective poisons, and even microgram doses are a lot, if the material accumulates.

Well, be afraid as much as you like.

In some people, fear has an AGC effect. Given any large or tiny
hazards, they will amp up their fear gain until they are terrified.

Don't brush your teeth. Tiny plastic particles will erode off the
tootbrush bristles and kill you. Heck, particles in the toothpaste
will poison you first.

Never use plastic spoons or sporks either.

--

Anybody can count to one.

- Robert Widlar

This troll is a regular in the English usage group?

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> On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 19:26:31 -0600, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
> troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:
>
>
>>> Life would be simpler with everyone speaking either Japanese or
>>> German.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Sie haben vollkommen recht.
>
> You would STILL sound like a typical Yankee bigmouth though, whether you
> spoke Japanese or German. Wanna bet? <BG>
>
> --
> Yet more of the very interesting senile blather by lowbrowwoman:
> "My family loaded me into a '51 Chevy and drove from NY to Seattle and
> back in '52. I'm alive. The Chevy had a painted steel dashboard with two
> little hand prints worn down to the primer because I liked to stand up
> and lean on it to see where we were going."
> MID: <j2kuc1F3ejsU1@mid.individual.net>
>
>

The John Doe troll stated the following in message-id
<sdhn7c$pkp$4@dont-email.me>:

> The troll doesn't even know how to format a USENET post...

And the John Doe troll stated the following in message-id
<sg3kr7$qt5$1@dont-email.me>:

> The reason Bozo cannot figure out how to get Google to keep from
> breaking its lines in inappropriate places is because Bozo is
> CLUELESS...

And yet, the clueless John Doe troll has itself posted yet another
incorrectly formatted USENET posting on Fri, 29 Apr 2022 14:24:25 -0000
(UTC) in message-id <t4gseo$19r$1@dont-email.me>.

Further, John Doe stated the following in message-id
<svsh05$lbh$5@dont-email.me> posted Fri, 4 Mar 2022 08:01:09 -0000
(UTC):

> Compared to other regulars, Bozo contributes practically nothing
> except insults to this group.

Yet, since Wed, 5 Jan 2022 04:10:38 -0000 (UTC) John Doe's post ratio to
USENET (**) has been 57.5% of its posts contributing "nothing except
insults" to USENET.

** Since Wed, 5 Jan 2022 04:10:38 -0000 (UTC) John Doe has posted at
least 1169 articles to USENET. Of which 139 have been pure insults and
533 have been John Doe "troll format" postings.

ybh8bUXfLEUf

On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 14:52:24 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

> On 04/29/2022 12:28 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
>>
>>> An otherwise highly respected translator of Old Norse material took a
>>> lot of flack when he switched the pronouns for the sun and the moon to
>>> conform to the English sense. English may not have genders anymore but
>>> to most people a feminine sun and masculine moon just seems wrong.
>>
>> Giving either of them a gender is wrong. Since they don't procreate
>> sexually, they have no gender.
>
> https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1911/the-sun--the-moon-in-norse-myth/

Oh dear....

> One hopes the sun and moon don't since they're siblings.

Contrary to popular belief that only doubles the chances of problems.

On 04/29/2022 08:13 AM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
> Don't brush your teeth. Tiny plastic particles will erode off the
> tootbrush bristles and kill you. Heck, particles in the toothpaste
> will poison you first.

It's the fluoride that will get you... Only use baking soda.

Eddie wants so badly to nym-shift. That's a no-no here, Eddie!

Eddie has never posted anything NORMAL except when it got a spanking...

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.electronics.repair/c/MesPLcGU4BE

See also...
John Doe <always.look@message.header> (astraweb)
Peter Weiner <dtgamer99@gmail.com>
Edward H. <dtgamer99@gmail.com>
Edward Hernandez <dtgamer99@gmail.com>

Eddie is an example for all newbies. Don't get spanked!

Spanked Eddie...

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> The John Doe troll stated the following in message-id
> <sdhn7c$pkp$4@dont-email.me>:
>
>> The troll doesn't even know how to format a USENET post...
>
> And the John Doe troll stated the following in message-id
> <sg3kr7$qt5$1@dont-email.me>:
>
>> The reason Bozo cannot figure out how to get Google to keep from
>> breaking its lines in inappropriate places is because Bozo is
>> CLUELESS...
>
> And yet, the clueless John Doe troll has itself posted yet another
> incorrectly formatted USENET posting on Fri, 29 Apr 2022 14:24:25 -0000
> (UTC) in message-id <t4gseo$19r$1@dont-email.me>.
>
> Further, John Doe stated the following in message-id
> <svsh05$lbh$5@dont-email.me> posted Fri, 4 Mar 2022 08:01:09 -0000
> (UTC):
>
>> Compared to other regulars, Bozo contributes practically nothing
>> except insults to this group.
>
> Yet, since Wed, 5 Jan 2022 04:10:38 -0000 (UTC) John Doe's post ratio to
> USENET (**) has been 57.5% of its posts contributing "nothing except
> insults" to USENET.
>
> ** Since Wed, 5 Jan 2022 04:10:38 -0000 (UTC) John Doe has posted at
> least 1169 articles to USENET. Of which 139 have been pure insults and
> 533 have been John Doe "troll format" postings.
>
> ybh8bUXfLEUf
>
>
>