# Do we have a thread for SlackerInc yet? Maybe we should **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 2, 2018, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461 "2018-12-02T20:21:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2019, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/281 "2019-09-14T18:33:54Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > I guarantee you these supposed “sources” GIGO raves about are in almost every case things I have never seen. My information diet is 80-90% NPR, NYT, Slate, and MSNBC. But I do not consume thise sources uncritically. But it’s that other 10-20% of sources that constitute the veritable intellectual compost heap from which you formulate some of your more infamous and specious (okay, horse shit) positions. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2019, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/282 "2019-09-14T18:37:07Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > But it’s that other 10-20% of sources that constitute the veritable intellectual compost heap from which you formulate some of your more infamous and specious (okay, horse shit) positions. Really? I think that’s rather unfair to the Atlantic, the New Yorker, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Minneapolis Star Tribune, honestly. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2019, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/283 "2019-09-14T18:46:05Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > BTW, I will readily admit a weakness when it comes to parsing nonstandard English. Whether it’s textspeak, netspeak, or the transcription of colloquial dialogue (as in the novel _Huckleberry Finn_), my brain rebels against the attempt. My eyes glaze over, I struggle to focus, I find myself rereading the same passages again and again. It’s probably true that most of you are better at it than I am. But that is one reason I have always liked posting here: I don’t have to suffer through that kind of thing for the most part. It was pretty clear, Slacker. GIGO’s not to be mocked, as he writes better than a lot of college-educated native writers of English, and unlike you, he sources his positions pretty well. I’d be pretty fucking embarrassed at admitting on a public message board to your inability to comprehend the thrust of what he’s posted. GIGO, do Slacker a favor: no more complex or compound sentence structures, eh? Keep it simple. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2019, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/284 "2019-09-14T19:15:49Z")
Yeah, that’s it. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2019, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/285 "2019-09-14T19:22:53Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > But it’s that other 10-20% of sources that constitute the veritable intellectual compost heap from which you formulate some of your more infamous and specious (okay, horse shit) positions. > [@SlackerInc](#): > > Really? I think that’s rather unfair to the Atlantic, the New Yorker, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Minneapolis Star Tribune, honestly. Slacker missed that almost all there also dropped Lomborg as a serious person to interview or get an opinion since 2014 for The Atlantic for example, [The New Yorker](https://www.newyorker.com/news/hendrik-hertzberg/planet-gore-gored) was not impressed by him since 2008. Not so the Star Tribune… in 2016, and honestly; that does causes more doubt that the Star Tribune is reliable, although it has to be pointed that Lomborg posted an opinion there, not a news article and the Star Tribune called it a Counter Point. As in against the grain. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2019, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/286 "2019-09-14T19:53:39Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > almost all there also dropped Lomborg > [@GIGObuster](#): > > Lomborg posted an opinion there Get help. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2019, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/287 "2019-09-14T19:55:26Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > Get help. He don’t know what “almost” means? Do tell, he is the one that needs help. And duly noted that the Slacker cowardly avoided the point made, he still does not want to do a basic check of how is it that he can swallow bullshit from the right wing. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2019, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/288 "2019-09-14T20:11:37Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > the Pulitzer Prize-winning Minneapolis Star Tribune You say this like it’s supposed to be meaningful. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2019, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/289 "2019-09-14T21:45:51Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > Really? I think that’s rather unfair to the Atlantic, the New Yorker, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Minneapolis Star Tribune, honestly. Which is the source of your white supremacist and Islamophobic views, as well as your ethnic pride? ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2019, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/290 "2019-09-14T22:18:13Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > He don’t know what “almost” means? Do tell, he is the one that needs help. You didn’t understand my post. It was only to note how you continue to chant “Lomborg, Lomborg, Lomborg” over and over. Clearly no one is interested. Find a new schtick. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2019, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/291 "2019-09-14T23:31:50Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > You didn’t understand my post. It was only to note how you continue to chant “Lomborg, Lomborg, Lomborg” over and over. Clearly no one is interested. Find a new schtick. You only show that you want to be a coward, the only thing that was requested from you was to tell us what was the source told you that it was a good idea to defend him. Fine with me that you want to be Sir Robin. 🙂 And the evidence here in the thread is that no one is interested on your grammar Nazi act too. Sucks to be you. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/292 "2019-09-15T03:10:31Z")
Good God, SlackerInc really is a dipshit, isn’t he? ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/293 "2019-09-15T03:33:57Z")
Yes. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/294 "2019-09-15T05:30:56Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > You didn’t understand my post. It was only to note how you continue to chant “Lomborg, Lomborg, Lomborg” over and over. Clearly no one is interested. Find a new schtick. Y’know, if we were to have a poll regarding who we would prefer to have a member of the the board, you or **GIGO** , he would win in a landslide that would make FDR envious. I would be astonished if you got a single vote. In fact, you would probably lose to all but at tiny handful of other posters. You are a leading candidate for Least Valuable Poster. Congratulations. It’s taken a lot of effort. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/295 "2019-09-15T06:36:04Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Y’know, if we were to have a poll regarding who we would prefer to have a member of the the board, you or **GIGO** , he would win in a landslide that would make FDR envious. Hell, if you were to have a poll regarding who better supported their arguments with better logic and citations, all but the most virulently racist or obviously trolling (or both) members of the board would vote one way. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/296 "2019-09-15T07:02:12Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Y’know, if we were to have a poll regarding who we would prefer to have a member of the the board, you or **GIGO** , he would win in a landslide that would make FDR envious. I would be astonished if you got a single vote. In fact, you would probably lose to all but at tiny handful of other posters. You are a leading candidate for Least Valuable Poster. Congratulations. It’s taken a lot of effort. Effort, stupidity. To-may-to, to-mah-to. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/297 "2019-09-15T09:14:14Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Y’know, if we were to have a poll regarding who we would prefer to have a member of the the board, you or **GIGO** , he would win in a landslide that would make FDR envious. I don’t dispute that. But if you had a big purge where you got to vote on who you’d like to kick out, this board would become boring as fuck, one big somnambulant circle jerk. And the fact remains that everyone wants to be protective of GIGO like he’s a sad little stray kitten who’s missing an ear, but still: no one wants to talk about Bjorn Lomborg with him. Maybe now you’ll make a weak attempt to pretend like you do, just to spite me and/or salve his pweshus feewings, but I doubt you will really be able to muster up much enthusiasm for it. Maybe a few of you can get some sort of email loop together and privately divvy up the chore, like Andy touts Lomborg on Thursday and Monty takes Friday, etc. Have fun with that! ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/298 "2019-09-15T09:25:52Z")
Reality is a foreign language to you, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/299 "2019-09-15T09:36:41Z")
Okay, Monty, set me straight on “reality”. What would _you_ like to say about Bjorn Lomborg? I’m all ears. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/300 "2019-09-15T10:02:16Z")
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