The Bicker Board

[Moderator 2]

Punatang, give it a rest.

[leilanidude]

but given your penchant for licking, maybe that's what you're after?
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but it is OK for you...

[Punatang]

Really,  posting perversion but I get scolded.  

Roger that Moderator 2.  I know my place.  Over and out.

[ironyak]

@leilanidude - It is the Bicker Board so that's on topic and expected right? Please explain how Trump's doctor is Puna or Hawaii related.

[Durian Fiend]

That's just uncalled for bullying.

No, it isn't.  Quit being "woke".     

In your mind, my comment is inappropriate but it's OK for you to accuse others of being "full of it" and demanding they "have respect". 

Seems to me you're the one intent on politicizing everything with irrelevant posts about past events and always getting butt hurt by discussions about an authentically topical issue to Hawaii if it can be construed as anti MAGA.

[Punatang]

@leilanidude - It is the Bicker Board so that's on topic and expected right? Please explain how Trump's doctor is Puna or Hawaii related.

Ask Moderator 2.

[MyManao]

You still have some faith in online posters learning from their mistakes?

As a whole.. of course not. But I do have faith in P'tang's humanity, and sincerity, even if, by my libtard's measure, he's misguided in his alliances.

Not to say it doesn't get more heated than need be, but hey these are trying times for everyone.

And since we're on the Bicker Board (ie no chance in running afoul of someone's sensibilities by nudging the discourse this way and that) I will observe ideologically.. the vast distance between one and another's point of view is phenomenal. Where in days past there was a basic adherence to the perimeters of a ballpark, it seems the different factions are oceans apart anymore. Which makes it hard to imagine the future in any meaningful way if we're to assume things are moving in diametrically opposed directions..

[ironyak]

Manao - But I do have faith in P'tang's humanity, and sincerity, even if, by my libtard's measure, he's misguided in his alliances.
Well, that's a libtard for you - recognizing everyone's humanity and such. ;) Have you considered instead though taking a walk in some red slippahs and pretending to fight the "Borg" on Punaweb, or tilting at made-up mind-controlling monolithic windmills (to keep the whales from going crazy when they migrate to Hawaii of course), or getting tread on harder over local efforts to preserve the environment? Some people, locally few but vocal, seem to swear by it.

Manao - Which makes it hard to imagine the future in any meaningful way if we're to assume things are moving in diametrically opposed directions..
"Difficult to see; always in motion is the future..." ;) Any time period from your experience that seems similar, or think we are in novel territory?

Lot of the discussion I've seen seems to be focused on getting the non-voters (30% nationally, 50% in Hawaii!) to engage politically as reconciliation of the "factions" appears increasingly difficult to resolve. Not sure why those working so hard to take down a rules-based order think it's going to work out well for them - the constitutional arrangement and legal pathways assembled over the last several decades is what has kept most political conflict from becoming political violence. Removing the refs doesn't mean you win - only that now there's no rules...

[TomK]

I can't think of one thing the HST can do that would help the military..

The interesting thing about secrets.. and god knows the military likes secrets.. is anyone saying what can and can not happen that isn't privy to the secrets is just being silly.

As in a recent discussion here about what happens at a Pohakuloa.. everyone on PW has no idea what they are doing there anymore than any other person not privy to the secret things they do. The whole conversation was just folks blowin' smoke. How could it be otherwise?

I know how telescopes work. You don't. How can the Hubble possibly observe objects on the planet? It's too bright.  How can it be oriented to observe satellites in LEO? If you're claiming the Hubble is being used for military purposes, then it's your burden to show how it is.

I look forward to reading your description of how the military uses the Hubble, and that yours isn't just some nonsense conspiracy theory. You said it yourself, "saying what can and can not happen that isn't privy to the secrets is just being silly"

[TomK]

I know how telescopes work. You don't.

There you go, again.

Seriously? How do you know that I don't?

Because it's outrageously obvious.

https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/dunning-kruger-effect

Plus, I know who you are.