Mesorx is getting sleepy

My last trip we had a day that was 117deg with 80-85% humidity.

There were a few days that I hated the heat in the ME, but for the most part I found the Texas summers to be way less pleasant than the heat in Kuwait or Iraq.
 
There is a recognized bias against positive reviews. And a bias in favor of negative reviews.

This means that honest people who post legitimate reviews could be falsely accused of being shills. How often does it happen? 3 time out of 10? 5 times out of 10? I don't know.

While a falsely accused member might not enjoy the negative attention, it's actually a good thing for the forum as a whole because it's done with the purpose of arriving at the truth. Members view the positive reviewer with suspicion - as they should - and then proceed to poke holes in their review as well as the reviewer, and then watch how the reviewer responds. Putting someone who's being deceitful on the defensive tends to knock them off their game, and that makes it much more difficult to hide the truth. The more members involved in the inquisition, the better it works.

Do the ends justify the means? If we arrive at the truth, how could it not? If there's a less belligerent means of doing this, I'm all ears. But so far, no one has been able to provide an alternative.

By the same token, dishonest people who post bogus negative reviews may not be called out at all. How often does this occur? 3/10 times? 5/10? I don't know either.

It happens. The system is not perfect. It is still arguably much better than the alternative.

Bogus negative reviews are a more difficult problem to deal with because the negative reviewer is given far more leeway. Fortunately, malevolent bogus negative reviews aren't common on Meso because it's so difficult to hide an association with a competing source.

Benevolent bogus reviews - where a member erroneously believe his gear is bunk - are more common but those reviews aren't unique to an uncensored forum.

So yes, the system not perfect but it is much better than the alternatives and I don't think that's arguable at all. There is nothing more objective than the truth, and its pursuit is always good no matter how messy the road one must follow to find it. Like Churchill's famous line about democracy being the worst form of government except for all the others, permitting people to hear all the evidence and then decide for themselves is always better than the alternative of having a nanny decide for them.
 
That's a beautiful part of NY. And yes the City of NY. There are plenty of women for the both of us hahaha

It's funny. I lived in Ithaca for those years and never made it to the Big City (apple).

Kerouac and Ginsberg hung out there in the day and I loved the beats growing up. Guys like dave van ronk, John Lurie, Tom Waits ..... and I still haven't gone there. WTF?

I would love too spend a week or two there and live on and off the subway just checking cats out! lol
 
It's funny. I lived in Ithaca for those years and never made it to the Big City (apple).

Kerouac and Ginsberg hung out there in the day and I loved the beats growing up. Guys like dave van ronk, John Lurie, Tom Waits ..... and I still haven't gone there. WTF?

I would love too spend a week or two there and live on and off the subway just checking cats out! lol

It could take you 3 days just to check out the fucking Metropolitan Museum lol. A week or two is just barely enough to scratch the surface. If you ever do make it out here plan your trip ahead of time so as not to waste your time making decisions when here.
 
Pickin up that dredded, tatted and pierced tang down on the commons or you more upscale and hang in the heights?
I love the commons. So many good restaurants and a great book store (Autumn Leaves). Below the book store is Angry Mom Records. Fun place to hang and talk to the workers/owner.

I miss Viva taqueria's margaritas! And Just A Taste Restaurant. Damn you got me going! lol
 
It could take you 3 days just to check out the fucking Metropolitan Museum lol. A week or two is just barely enough to scratch the surface. If you ever do make it out here plan your trip ahead of time so as not to waste your time making decisions when here.
I would love the MET. Here Detroit we have the DIA which most Art like fuckers is second only to the MET in the US.

And the DIA I frequent often.
 
I love the commons. So many good restaurants and a great book store (Autumn Leaves). Below the book store is Angry Mom Records. Fun place to hang and talk to the workers/owner.

I miss Viva taqueria's margaritas! And Just A Taste Restaurant. Damn you got me going! lol
I miss the falls and the natural geography. Hiking trails galore. Go across Cayuga and Watkins Glenn had some awesome trails and prehistoric caves to explore.
 
I miss the falls and the natural geography. Hiking trails galore. Go across Cayuga and Watkins Glenn had some awesome trails and prehistoric caves to explore.

Yeah me too man. The gouges are fun too explore for sure.

The only thing I didn't like about the area is the Cornell University- Monsanto Connection. All those farms around that general area are testing grounds (funded by Monsanto) for Monsanto products via school programs and the incentives to the agri-business farmer's. The cancer rates are pretty scary in that area, along with asthma. Alarming.

But I do miss kayak all over the lakes and streams. I miss some of my hippie/farmer friends. Speak with them often. It's a strange area with some much to offer. The Finger Lakes is amazing.
 

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