GOG could not resist desire not just to respond to me, but make it derogatory about me.
While he did not post directly to me because of the obvious DNR, he attempted to do it 
back door indirectly, and then question why it was a DNR. 

Thread after thread on R&E is wrecked by that activity and is why I seriously limited my
activity and even reading there. When you see one of those little flame wars erupt between
two combatants, content of posts is predictable.  If you read one, you've read them all. 

I don't post to invite or provoke exchanges like those, nor participate in those I see. 
Like when DFM wrote in his title 'You obviously flunked biology' about my point not
to get hung up with speciation in discussions about evolution. That was the last DFM
post to which I will respond. Many years ago a well known and respected biologist gave
me that same advice, and I took it to heart. Since I read from many others, the same
thing. Don't get hung up on speciation. Evolution is the science of how life adapts to
changes of and in environment. Agreement of what constitutes species, or a species 
isn't concrete, and nowhere is that more clear or argued than entomology. Two camps
exist; splitters and lumpers. Splitters say there are many species. Lumpers say many
are variations of one species. In the general Agrias and Heliconius, that is especially true,
and species are so fluid, it even provoked reconsideration about what a species
really is. Taxonomists are constantly argue and change minds about it. 

DFM is hell bent to prove and promote the rightwing belief climate change isn't real,
not anthropogenic, and unsupported by "real science." He finds the 1-5% of online data
to prove his point with scientific sounding graphs and conjecture, while ignoring the
95-99% of mainstream science that says otherwise. He uses his expertise in science
as unchallengeable authority in fields where he clearly has little experience or expertise.
It would be like me using my expertise in composition, or the piano, as authority about 
cello playing. or podcast sound engineering with Reaper or some other online language
I barely speak. I know ABOUT it a little But authority? No way Jose. 

It doesn't take long to see DFM's bias. Israel can do nothing wrong, and everyone against
or opposed to anything Israel does is antisemitic. He has an attitude of superiority I see
frequently in some Jewish people. His is product of a family and culture who nurtures that. 
I support him in many ways, like his opposition to Putin. But he barely ever had the time of
day for me, and when he did, like above, it was mean, uninvited, untrue, and destructive.

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Pikes Peak 14115 wrote:

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I don't post to invite or provoke exchanges like those, nor participate in those I see. 
Like when DFM wrote in his title 'You obviously flunked biology' about my point not
to get hung up with speciation in discussions about evolution. That was the last DFM
post to which I will respond. Many years ago a well known and respected biologist gave
me that same advice, and I took it to heart. Since I read from many others, the same
thing. Don't get hung up on speciation. Evolution is the science of how life adapts to
changes of and in environment. Agreement of what constitutes species, or a species 
isn't concrete, and nowhere is that more clear or argued than entomology. Two camps
exist; splitters and lumpers. Splitters say there are many species. Lumpers say many
are variations of one species. In the general Agrias and Heliconius, that is especially true,
and species are so fluid, it even provoked reconsideration about what a species
really is. Taxonomists are constantly argue and change minds about it. 

DFM is hell bent to prove and promote the rightwing belief climate change isn't real,
not anthropogenic, and unsupported by "real science." He finds the 1-5% of online data
to prove his point with scientific sounding graphs and conjecture, while ignoring the
95-99% of mainstream science that says otherwise. He uses his expertise in science
as unchallengeable authority in fields where he clearly has little experience or expertise.
It would be like me using my expertise in composition, or the piano, as authority about 
cello playing. or podcast sound engineering with Reaper or some other online language
I barely speak. I know ABOUT it a little But authority? No way Jose. 

It doesn't take long to see DFM's bias. Israel can do nothing wrong, and everyone against
or opposed to anything Israel does is antisemitic. He has an attitude of superiority I see
frequently in some Jewish people. His is product of a family and culture who nurtures that. 
I support him in many ways, like his opposition to Putin. But he barely ever had the time of
day for me, and when he did, like above, it was mean, uninvited, untrue, and destructive.

DFM is one of the great disappointments of these boards.  I used to at least respect his knowledge, but I clashed increasingly with him over Israel, and in turn got called a ‘Nazi’ and ‘anti-Semite.’ 

He’s an IT guy who acts as if he knows EVERYTHING because of some science background.  And his infection with the Trump spores has made him rabid about taking an anti-warming position, among other extremist positions.  He’s quite rightly being called to account, I see, over his ridiculous support for a climate denialist book.

Everyone who doesn’t agree with Davy is an ‘idiot’ or a ‘liar.’  I’ve never seen anyone as arrogant.  His opposition to Putin is admirable, but his pro-war cheerleading is ghoulish.  You get the feeling that a cease-fire would really disappoint him.

DFM and SES are two of the most angry, doctrinaire people on Boardhost.  No toleration for differences of opinion.

EDIT:  I wrote this hours ago in response to Pikes and failed to hit SUBMIT.
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Yeah, when I saw that, I made my post pointing out that it was a DNR VIOLATION, I emailed it to both Ken & Trish (who maintains the ability to moderate when available) around 4pm.  It still remained until around 1:30 am when I unexpectedly woke up, surfed a little while waiting for pain meds to kick in again and noticed that it had suddenly disappeared.

Several hours later, like 5am Ken finally got rid of mongo's DNR violations, even though I'd sent the links around 11pm so figured he must have seen them when he removed GOG's.  No idea why it took so long to get rid of them, but at least he finally did.

Did you ever report GOG's violation?
 

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greenman wrote:

Siagiah wrote:

Did you ever report GOG's violation?
 

Nah. I don’t report things to Ken, for what I would assume are obvious reasons..

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Sorry, I'd intended that to be posted directly to Pikes.  I composed it hours ago and thought I'd hit submit.  Oops.

LOL… so funny

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Posted by Mondo Fuego™ on March 6, 2023, 12:23 pm, in reply to "“Words hurt”."

I have noticed that some of the posters on this board have become very rude and sarcastic towards others.

What's with their anger?

No life elsewhere?

Otherwise silent desperation?
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Why does a suave ‘gentleman’ obsessed with ‘luxury’ and pleasing his female, er, companion worry so much about OTHER people’s lives?  Is it that he’s simply an online fraud who poses as a sophisticate, Tennessee-style? 

And as to ‘’anger,’ lol…

He just wants attention and he REALLY enjoys strife and antagonism.  It's what makes him feel alive.  Now that he's pert near ancient, pushing 80 and losing steps.

Yeah, he simply cannot resist being a classless hypocrite.  Obviously, he doesn't grasp how ridiculous it is for HIM to post that. 

On the lighter side, a jb top-post on DFM’s ‘Ideas for America Board’ (now pretty much another neofascist political board, except for KR’s humorous one-liners):

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david i am sorry to say i don't think you are the person to lead American reformation

Posted by jb on January 11, 2023, 7:25 am

you have too many prejudices and your eyes are blind to the Spiritual World. We need the Spiritual World to solve mankind's problems. and you can't see that.
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Even jb and his ‘spiritual’ vision can see through DFM’s right-wing nonsense…lol

Guess who is here spying again?  Looking for something to pitch a fit over so he can get attention from his pinhead minions.  Too bad most couldn't care less.  LOL


 

Note his response, too, to Merlin’s posted article about addiction, in which Mongo speculates -with no basis whatsoever - that the author, Maia Szalavitz, may be ‘transgender’ (I see no evidence that she is, nor would that have affected her examination of the question) because, quote, “Looks can be deceiving.”

To Mongo, of course, no female is worth the time of day unless she’s ‘attractive.’  Not that any such woman would involve herself with an aging, misogynistic asshat..

Yup on all of that.

One thing though, Trish did NOT start the Back Alley.  I created this ENTIRE FORUM, including the Back Alley.  He CLEARLY doesn't have a clue how Boardhost Forums work.  That is like me claiming that Texra actually created his board, not him, because Texra began a thread.  LOL.

I created several boards within the forum with the intention of offering them to various posters to run them so they could all stay within one large forum.  It's easier to keep up with a group of boards that are all in the same forum platform because I set up the software to allow posters to get a list of all the new posts they haven't already read so they don't have to go hunting for them from board to board.  This forum is set up for members to individualize all kinds of things to their own preferences.  But that didn't work out as planned because posters prefer the other format on the message boards.

Only the administrator of a FORUM can set up the forum, create boards within the forum, delete boards, set up how it operates, etc. 

Trish also isn't and never was a moderator OR an administrator on either this forum or the message board.  She is a valued MEMBER of the forum and message board.

Trish began a SINGLE THREAD on this board that she deleted a year + ago, accidentally wiping out everyone else's posts in THAT THREAD along with hers because if the lead post is deleted, the entire thread goes with it.  She didn't know that when she did it.  She thought she was just deleting her own posts.

He's SUCH an idiot. 

He's also the nastiest poster on these boards.  He gives SES a run for his money, but overall, he's worse than him.  His attacks are RELENTLESS on those he dislikes, but he cries like a baby when he gets it all back.
 

Mongo must be bored because "green slime" is a colossal FAILURE with maybe 1 or 2 posts a day, often NO posts in a day!  The "white whine" board is equally failing and an enormous waste of anyone's time given the low caliber of the majority of its posters and lack of actual discussion.

Everything the ancient whale touches dies. Just like his hero, tRUMP.

Yawn.

It's confusing. He wants the flame war to stop, but then adds fuel to the fire. I try to remind him of that, because I have been trying to stay off the insults, but this seems like an attention  seeking behavior

How shameful is the White Whine?  Shameful enough to post this racist, sexist drivel from the board’s chief moron:

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Civilized Personal Discussion

Rich lying useless squaw all upset because bank customers got their money back...

Posted by TEXRA - the REAL one... on March 14, 2023, 11:04 am

...but college idiots still have to pay their loans.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/elizabeth-warren-criticizes-overnight-bailout-of-svb-customers-while-leaving-millions-of-student-loan-borrowers-in-limbo/ar-AA18yTdr?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=37b366d45b2a40f1b430920058722f55&ei=24
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‘Squaw’ is a racist, sexist term for Native American women.  This is a vicious, sexist attack on a fine and capable female lawmaker, as well as a dishonest conflation of two separate situations (bank failure and student loans).

That TEXRA is an idiot and uneducated imbecile we all knew; that Mongo would fail to take this disgusting post down says it all about his loser ass.

Why would anyone post to that s—tboard?

he's looking for more traffic. That board is pretty stuck