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Your critique appears to mischaracterize both the article and how scientific communication works. The ICM-CSIC piece isn't "taking liberties". If you read the article you will find it is presenting direct quotes and interpretations from the actual researchers who conducted the study. When Antonio Turiel, a co-author of the PNAS paper, states "we're seeing that the SMOC is not just weakening, but has reversed," that's the research team's own assessment, not journalistic embellishment.

It sounds like you really want the article to not discuss anything beyond anything explicit stated in the paper. I find that an incredibly bizarre desire which strengthens my impression of your comment as bad-faith. Research papers focus on presenting specific findings and data, while institutional communications appropriately discuss broader implications and potential consequences. This isn't misleading, it's how scientific discourse functions, AS INTENDED!

The CO₂ implications you dismiss aren't pulled out the article's author's behind. They come from researchers who understand their data and its significance for carbon cycling. Scientists routinely discuss the wider ramifications of their findings beyond what fits in a technical paper's scope. This is good, not misleading or disinformation.

Labeling this "disinformation" is a smear of what appears to be legitimate scientific interpretation by the researchers themselves. There's a meaningful difference between debating the certainty or magnitude of predicted impacts and dismissing expert analysis as fabrication.

None of those complaints with the exception of perhaps a syndicated TV show showing up in a guide is resolved by more traditional TV model.

I really doubt having to google where a particular show is airing is actually a painful chore.

How many services do I need to subscribe to to get most of the content I need/want? 3? 5? More?

That's for you to decide, but at least you have the choice now.

The emotional de-attachment is needed for many people I expect. I once raised a small herd of bottle calves. The day I sold them to market is the day I dropped any dream of raising livestock.

You get into how our fingers prune up for better grip in the water

Awfully skeptical of that claim. While there is more friction area potentially, skin is very easy to damage when "pruned". You can't use any significant force in this condition making normal skin with higher force capability much more useful in water.

I think we can all agree insurance is something of a racket, but are you implying in-network dentists struggle financially? I would find that difficult to believe considering the limited hours many dentist office's hold in the midwest coupled with the month+ wait time for an appt.

The 2nd doesn't follow from the first

We'll have to disagree on that. I did not assert there is a 100% correlation. I did mean to imply there is a high one.

many Christians don't believe that miraculous events still happen.

I reject that assertion. I believe nearly all Christians engage in intercessory prayer at least once in a great while. Doing so shows they believe in the possibility their prayer coming true.

It doesn’t follow from that premise that these people were against removing her feeding tube because of that belief--

You are overlooking the fact the main court challenges were by her parents on the basis she was not brain dead when in fact as a point of knowledge she was. They held the belief she might recover even after numerous experts and medical scans showed the damage was irreconcilability permanent. They then went further to cloak the case in religious themes. There were several organizations with strong ties to faith healing working with her parents. There was a large volume of innuendo and direct appeal to faith healing for the duration of the event. Some of it's even still around if you look.

This was similar to the Dover intelligent design case in that the side holding supernatural belief doesn't come straight out and say what their true beliefs are, and for good reason. Instead they attempt to sow uncertainty in court, in hopes of what they belief will come true.

there was no national debate about miraculous healing.

You're right on that mostly, but only because it's very rare to find the open questioning of another Christian's supernatural beliefs in America. Even Mormons are generally afforded that. I won't speculate as to why that is.

Credit Karma's "free" tax return service has been a surprising lack of unpleasantness. Other than having to a bit of manual copy/paste for certain income, it's a breeze for my relatively uncomplex return.

I'm not exactly certain what they are getting by providing this info except advertising for more CC and loans. One of which I used and reduced my auto loan rate(this was also to get it out of Wells Fargo's books).

Every time I've visited a site where I thought, oh that's a terrible font, it's been basically one of these reasons:

  * Improper selection of default font for constrained display eg tabular
  * Or the more popular "Let's create a font because we can.  It's branding."
There are of course other considerations involved like the increasing diversity of rendering devices, but that doesn't make the fact that any web site font issue is nearly always the fault of the web site operator.

I can't recall any instance of "oh, that website with a great custom font is so appealing I'm going regularly and voraciously consume its content". The opposite of that is true though.

The national debate was mostly pro-life groups trying to spin the situation for political gain.

That is what I would call a distinction without a difference. The underlying motivation for those actors is still the same no matter you call it religion or politics. They appealed to the identity of the religious and largely got the response they wanted. Same thing Russia did with BLM except Russia was inciting both sides.

Christian's believe in miracles/supernatural by definition. This includes faith healing. It absolutely prevalent everywhere in the religion and its different sects. The Terri Schiavo incident was not specially exempt from this belief.

It’s definitely not evidence of wide scale Christian refusal to accept death.

True if you are speaking only of the events you described. However you left out the national debate(and I use that word loosely) over the matter. That was evidence of wide scale Christian refusal to accept death. It took the typical form of the extremists appealing to and living under the shield of the larger group of religious believers who didn't exactly believe the same, but presumably felt some need to side with a "believer".

There's nothing inherently immoral about rationing healthcare.

That a subjective statement, it is only true for you and those who agree with you.

In fact healthcare is already rationed everywhere for most patients.

That is not an argument for the morality of rationed healthcare.

We could make some sort of objective argument based upon ethics though. Suppose the smoker became addicted to cigarettes as a by-protect of being drafted into the military where he served in a distinguished role perhaps saving lives and protecting your freedom. Being a draftee and not particularly well educated, this persons means in retirement were quite limited, often depending on government assistance in various forms.

A different person was ensured to be wealthy by inheritance then draft dodging then engaging in tax evasion, illegal migrant labor, various kinds of fraud and strong arm tactics. Yet this person didn't smoke and is quite wealthy.

Should we invest in healthcare for tobacco users?

Compiler is also going to make an impact which for me is consistent across both grep binaries.

FreeBSD clang version 6.0.1 as well as -O2

I suspect there are still edge cases where BSD grep is quite a bit slower or not compatible with GNU grep. However with a closer apples to apples comparison there isn't much difference anymore for my usage. Which is a lot of grep use but that is pretty vanilla.

There may also be other OS differences in our comparison. My tests where run against a fairly recent FreeBSD 12-STABLE.

It would help if you tested just grep when benchmarking grep. These datapoints tell a much different story.

  # /usr/bin/grep -V
  grep (BSD grep) 2.6.0-FreeBSD
  
  root@m6600:~ # /usr/local/bin/grep -V
  grep (GNU grep) 3.3
  Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
  This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
  
  Written by Mike Haertel and others; see
  <https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/tree/AUTHORS>.
  
  root@m6600:~ # /usr/bin/time /usr/bin/grep X-User-Agent packetdump.pcap -c
  60
          0.54 real         0.45 user         0.07 sys
  root@m6600:~ # /usr/bin/time /usr/bin/grep X-User-Agent packetdump.pcap -c
  60
          0.54 real         0.44 user         0.08 sys
  root@m6600:~ # /usr/bin/time /usr/bin/grep X-User-Agent packetdump.pcap -c
  60
        0.54 real         0.41 user         0.11 sys
  root@m6600:~ # /usr/bin/time /usr/local/bin/grep X-User-Agent packetdump.pcap -c
  60
          0.58 real         0.49 user         0.08 sys
  root@m6600:~ # /usr/bin/time /usr/local/bin/grep X-User-Agent packetdump.pcap -c
  60
          0.60 real         0.48 user         0.11 sys
  root@m6600:~ # /usr/bin/time /usr/local/bin/grep X-User-Agent packetdump.pcap -c
  60
          0.59 real         0.50 user         0.08 sys
  root@m6600:~ # du -h -s packetdump.pcap
  225M packetdump.pcap

There is something to be said for an apprenticeship relationship that teaches the respect for learning, method, quality and dedication that a skilled craft requires. However an "enriched soul" doesn't appear anywhere on the list of things I'd be willing to say about it.

FWIW, BSD grep has significantly closed the gap since then, often by replication GNU approach in some ways.

Also BSD grep has other advantages, primarily it's not GNU grep.