# Light pitting of EastUmpqua (spun off Troll R Us thread)

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**Created:** [March 9, 2023, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/light-pitting-of-eastumpqua-spun-off-troll-r-us-thread/980991 "2023-03-09T21:52:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/light-pitting-of-eastumpqua-spun-off-troll-r-us-thread/980991/10 "2023-03-10T20:12:23Z")

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I must admit that on a purely personal level this is the sort of thing that makes my blood boil:

> [@Climate change is not the immediate threat facing us today](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/climate-change-is-not-the-immediate-threat-facing-us-today/931737/96):
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> > [@Climate change is not the immediate threat facing us today](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/climate-change-is-not-the-immediate-threat-facing-us-today/931737/95):
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> > On a different level, variations in axial tilt, in combination with other factors like axial precession and orbital variations, lead to complex cyclic interactions called Milankovitch cycles that are hypothesized to be the principal initiating factor for geologically modern ice ages, the roughly 100 Ky ice age cycles within the Quaternary glaciation.
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> Nice Wikipedia search. Unfortunately you don’t understand any of it.

To be fair, I have a tendency to write somewhat formally when I launch into technical subjects, which may give a moron the impression that it was copied from somewhere. Also to be fair, EU apologized later “for being a dick”. But this kind of accusation really rankles me. My interactions with EU in that thread left a lasting impression. Since then there’s been a recurrence of similar behaviour, followed by similar backing-off. Whether this is trolling, stupidity, or just plain weirdness is unclear.

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