Note: for the nth time a free email server I was using to keep Wikipedia emails/announcements has gone down unexpectedly, so this time I disabled it. Please give me some kind of talk page heads up if you want to email me something and I'll set something up.Wnt (talk) 19:45, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
On the internet
Beginners can't tell if they're reading sarcasm. The experienced can't tell if they're writing sarcasm.
On biology
Nothing is impossible in biology.
Medicine is biology, biology is chemistry, chemistry is physics, physics is math done using the metric system.
On capitalism
Capitalism cannot abide a free market, because there is not enough profit for anyone to invest in it.
Any company that is not a complete scam doesn't have a valid business model.
On war
In a war each side will claim awful things about their enemy, nearly all of which are true, and good things about themselves, nearly all of which are false.
... and Wikilobbying, which alas is not my forte
The key to winning at Wikipedia lobbying is to be the first to ask the question, have your troops lined up, and be ready to claim clear "consensus" as rapidly as possible.
People who are not paid to bash their heads against a wall will eventually get too depressed to continue. The ones who are paid never do, which is why they win.
On sayings
Anyone who quotes Hanlon's razor is either an idiot or can't be trusted -- your call!
There is a view that one should never be permitted to be criticized for being even possibly in the future engaged in a contributory act that might be immoral, and that that type of arse-covering is more important than actually saving people's lives. That it is better to let a thousand people die than risk going to save them and possibly running over someone on the way. And that is something that I find to be philosophically repugnant.
There must be reform of outdated and poorly-envisioned legislation, written to be so broadly applied as to make a felony crime out of violation of terms of service, creating in effect vast swathes of crimes, and allowing for selective punishment. There must be reform of mandatory minimum sentencing. There must be a return to proportionality of punishment with respect to actual harm caused, and consideration of motive and mens rea. The inalienable right to a presumption of innocence and the recourse to trial and possibility of exoneration must be returned to its sacred status, and not gambled away by pre-trial bargaining in the face of overwhelming sentences, unaffordable justice and disfavourable odds. Laws must be upheld unselectively, and not used as a weapon of government to make examples of those it deems threatening to its power.
