@OVTweetmarck@jrholtz It did work, they got they investment they needed but their view of everything was too narrow to consider the full consequences and implications of both their messaging and the technology itself.
@OVTweetmarck@jrholtz It was definitely a pretty dumb way to message. The problem, I think, was that they were messaging for investors who had the money to support the development of this technology without considering or caring about how the wider population would react.
@AnandAnanthabh@whignewtons The decision that the majority put out says it didn't they just weren't legally allowed to rule on the validity of the referendum until after it had taken place
@ServusDeiVivi I don't think that is a fair assumption to make. I think young people often leave the Church because they feel that their faith wasn't a choice they made and feel detached from it as a result. Someone who returns later in life will feel more attached and is more inclined to stay.
@BreeSolstad Yeah that was my thought, why would the a left-biased media engage with these bishops in a way that highlights where Catholicism disagrees with their agenda when they are trying to use the bishops to gain some moral legitimacy? They wouldn't ask the questions
@Strangeland_Elf I mean sure but that would just make "vegetable" a very broad category that isn't particularly useful with the context in which most people use it and probably just creates more confusion than sticking to the conventional understanding/definition.
@Strangeland_Elf Vegetable is a culinary term but not a botanical term and grain is both a culinary and botanical term. Grains are not vegetables culinarily and can't be vegetables botanically since they don't exist in that sense, so no not really.
@cath_menarion Yeah, I've been watching a bunch of evangelicals try to make this out as "all of a sudden the Catholics started attacking us for no reason" when I don't think there has been a single day I've been on this site where I haven't seen one of them openly lying or deriding Catholics
@LaptopScandals@BreeSolstad There are so many other factors that can determine both how fast something heats up and how fast it cools down, thermal mass, the radiation rate of different materials surface area ect. Unless you have some actual math backing up why this is implausible this objection seems silly