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That image is clearly photoshopped. The image quality of the tree pixels vs the background, the strange lighting discrepancies and the shadow on bottom left of the planter box that is somehow towards the light.

Look at the transition at 29 seconds in that talk [1]. The clouds are in the same place.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9EuJ9QlikY#t=29

I don't hold anything against the artist though, the article just picked a terrible image to use.


Nice strawman, "if you're against X you MUST be against Y".

What really matters is the cost-to-benefit ratio. A jab in the arm vs denying someone immigration, decide whatever you want but it's a sliding scale, not black-and-white.


so I'd take that as you're anti-anti-vaxer, but pro illegal aliens?

And nice job putting words into my mouth, I didn't say you HAD to be against Y, I said you SHOULD. And it wasn't denying immigration I was talking about, it was illegal aliens. Different words mean different things.


People can think anywhere. It's not often they're sat in a room with a little electric shock doodad. Humanities natural curiosity takes over.


You shock yourself 189 times, and you're still curious, so you shock yourself yet again? Unlikely.


That was a single outlier. The mean number of shocks was 1.5.


Perhaps the broken window fallacy[1] should be renamed to the murdered producers fallacy.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window



Highlighting text you're reading increases readability as it adds a visual clue to where on the page you are reading if you look away from the page.

A lot of people pick up the habit without being taught it because of that.


More likely it's because of the [video] tag.


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