Readit NewsWhat if you don’t own tree cutting equipment?
What if you have a disability that prevents you from cutting trees?
What if your property doesn’t have trees to cut?
...basically, label your axes.
...imho.
Edit to expound: if you have blind faith in your idea, then when it is about to fail, you will go down with it. If you don't, and it's about to fail, you will recognise this and extract yourself in time to survive.
At that point it's up to your personal moral compass whether you help the others whose blind faith you've built to reach the escape pods.
Agreed, so I'm not sure why you're disagreeing?
I only mentioned it, to show I understand the wider context, so when I ask "why?" I don't get a load of "because censorship" answers. So not intended to come across as trite.
Yeah I get "to de legitimise the Taiwanese govt", 1984 Newspeak, etc. But people are going to convey the idea one way or another. Its just petty and pointless. I suppose you could say that about a lot of censorship, but this just takes it to an extra level.
Some organisations conclude that if the masses can't name a thing, then it's impossible for anyone to think of it, and that this makes it go away. Personally I think this underestimates individual people's capacity to think up new names for things, and is therefore doomed to failure.
edit to add: I don't think I ever noticed Android being case-insensitive. Always something new to learn!
In the fullness of time, email will fail as a communication medium because of these situations. I don't think that Google will mind terribly when it does.
I'm trying to recall this long article someone wrote. Her mother had moved her and her family to Canada for witness protection. It turned out though, the mother was under the influence of someone who was deluded into thinking they were out to get her. It took years before the author came across evidence to the contrary. Her father and her aunts were not dead after all. At which point, the person who was deluded said, oh, that's cause they had been replaced by clones.
I make a distinction here in that, I think the mother here was herself not delusional. She was influenced, and perhaps, could herself reason herself away from it given time. The person who was delusional, however, will continue to generate new explanations to fit the evidence around that delusion ... and is probably not even aware of it. According to the author, he was otherwise rational in everything else but his delusion.
(apologies if that's one of the BBC's randomly unavailable-outside-the-UK pages...)
This is why the "health benefits" arguments for legalization of drugs are generally a bad route to take. It would be far more fruitful to argue for legalization based on individual responsibility, personal choice, and related themes.
That is why I am also super interested in just printing news from the net for myself, so I do not need to keep watching on a screen.
Obviously if you're in a hut up a mountain or live in Norfolk then this may be less useful advice for you.