Adrian Boutel

Néo-Zélandais à Genève. Le vin me garde chaud. Il/er/he.

[Adrian Boutel @boutela]

@Philip_Goff @Helenreflects Does impoverished mean “made infinitesimally less rich” now?

[Adrian Boutel @boutela]

Finding parallels to cuckoo eggs in the scientific context is left as an (easy) exercise for the reader.

[Adrian Boutel @boutela]

Obviously it's not me he's thinking of, but I say this all the time. Just being able to identify your own bloody eggs would be extremely useful to cuckoo victims.

[Adrian Boutel @boutela]

@thezigss @jamgyal @morallawwithin The problem with this line is that to support it you need to establish that God (unlike the universe) *is* necessary, and if you can do that then all the stuff about causation is unneeded. It saves the conclusion but not the argument.

[Adrian Boutel @boutela]

The lesson (audio-only on the first page, in German obvs): https://t.co/8kUvaPxo3H)

[Adrian Boutel @boutela]

Honestly. @dwnews did one of their current-events language lessons where the news hook was a teacher beating up a student for wearing a Palestine flag and a keffiyeh. Somehow the *entire* discussion was about antisemitism.

[Adrian Boutel @boutela]

For the record, the teacher was criticised: for not having the most productive response to antisemitism. I mean, it certainly wouldn't be.

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

13 year old boy with full thickness burns in all of his face and his upper limbs. His older brothers were trying to keep him calm by telling that all he needed were some creams and he will be alright. He will not be alright

[Adrian Boutel @boutela]

@GlobalEcoGuy You say here the GS transports much more heat, but the realclimate article you link says “The AMOC however moves the bulk of the heat into the northern Atlantic”—because the Gulf Stream’s return flow is still warm.

[Adrian Boutel @boutela]

Distinction noted, but I suspect most readers will think “Gulf Stream shutdown = cold N Europe, like Canada, oh shit”.

Gulf Stream ain’t gonna shutdown: yay. But, per the article JF links later, it’s the *AMOC* that does the northward heat transport. So: back to oh shit?

[Adrian Boutel @boutela]

@MikeBenchCapon @JoshuaLWatson Twitter’s the public square though. If I applied that standard to anything I might say that might upset someone, rightly or wrongly, there’s not much I *could* say.

I’m sure most people can deal with just one swear word before muting me.

[Adrian Boutel @boutela]

@MikeBenchCapon @JoshuaLWatson The OP phrasing “what does it add” is a special peeve of mine: what it adds is swearing which doesn’t need special justification because it’s not immoral.

[Adrian Boutel @boutela]

@MikeBenchCapon @JoshuaLWatson I understand when someone swears *at* you it has a certain power. I think being bothered by the use of swear words as such means you’ve confused a conventional proscription with a moral one.

(I respect when people ask me not to swear around them, that’s just being kind.)

[Adrian Boutel @boutela]

@judge_jen Getting taken by the protomolecule or sucked into a maw-mouth, just what I want in an app.

[Adrian Boutel @boutela]

@judge_jen Being connected in unimaginable ways? I’ve had that nightmare.

[Adrian Boutel @boutela]

20 years out of the US and I’d almost managed to forget how many of them think nuking Japan was an excellent idea that reflects well on them and their national character.

[Adrian Boutel @boutela]

Views from (and of) the Hörnlihütte track (Matterhorn base camp)
https://t.co/HkN1LRitUu

[Adrian Boutel @boutela]

I don’t think this horse is gonna talk.

[Kitty Donaldson @kitty_donaldson]

EXC: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is eyeing holding the UK’s next general election in November 2024 in order to allow the economy as much time as possible to recover before going to the polls https://t.co/ovvMi590af