' The truth - We will go extinct, very soon.'
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Quote:There have been many thoughtful posts in this very thread about global warming, and certainly this is a topic worthy of intelligent input. But you refuse to discuss the topic in an intelligent way. The water is right in front of you, the problem is that no one can make you drink it.
Originally posted by WISHIMAY:
Amen. I keep hoping for somewhere to go for intelligent discussions. Don't think they exist on the planet anymore, though.
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When aliens are trying to figure out why humanity vanished, there will probably be a school of thought among xenoarcheologists that argues that our species was basically headed in the right direction until climate change forced us to choose on a global level between narrow self-interest and long-term planetary viability. Assuming those aliens read Slate, I invite them to consider the following seven minutes of The Daily Show:
The Daily Show Shows Why Humanity Is Doomed
https://slate.com/culture/2019/02/trevor-noah-sex-crime-roundup-epstei
n-kraft-trump-kelly-pope-church-all-of-it-basically.html
Human beings have spent a lot of time amusing ourselves with optical illusions, the places where we can see the blind spots left by the ad-hoc design of senses. We haven’t spent nearly as much time wondering if the ad-hoc design of our moral senses are steering the planet towards doom, which, in our defense, is a much less amusing proposition. But watch Trevor Noah run down a laundry list of atrocities, ending with a montage of Patriots fans who, faced with the choice between either acknowledging their responsibilities to other human beings or enjoying a football game a little more, enthusiastically opt for the football game. When it comes to measuring other people’s suffering against even the tiniest personal gain, our brains just don’t work right.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Nobody watches The Daily Show in 2019.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:6ixStringJack, did you read this?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nobody watches The Daily Show in 2019.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Quote:The optical illusion is this one:
Human beings have spent a lot of time amusing ourselves with optical illusions, the places where we can see the blind spots left by the ad-hoc design of senses. We haven’t spent nearly as much time wondering if the ad-hoc design of our moral senses are steering the planet towards doom . . .
Long ago, way back in 2015, “the dress” became a polarizing viral behemoth. Like the Capulets and Montagues, the masses were split into two camps — those who looked at the dress and saw blue and black and the others who saw gold and white. They could not see eye to eye and frantically sought to understand why they saw one set of colors while others did not. Even the notoriously nonpartisan Taylor Swift broke her media silence to enter into the fray, siding with team #blackandblue.
Now, scientists say there’s a definitive explanation for the discrepancy, despite the fact that the dress is confirmed to be black and blue (nice work, Taylor).
In a new paper published in the Journal of Vision, New York University neuroscientist Pascal Wallisch, Ph.D., explains that the way a person perceives the color of the dress comes down to how they assume it is illuminated. He discovered that if people assumed the dress was lit by artificial light, they tended to think it was black and blue. However, if people believed the dress was just shadowed in natural light, they thought it was gold and white.
“Shadows are blue, so we mentally subtract the blue light in order to view the image, which then appears in bright colors — gold and white,” Wallisch explained in a statement. “However, artificial light tends to be yellowish, so if we see it brightened in this fashion, we factor out this color, leaving us with a dress that we see as a black and blue.”
Wallisch came to this conclusion after surveying 13,000 study participants who claimed to have previously seen a photo of the infamous dress about how they thought it was illuminated. Wallisch found that people who thought the dress was in a shadow were more likely to think it was gold and white.
The next part of the study was figuring out exactly why that correlation occurred. Participants were asked a variety questions about their demographic factors, such as their age and gender, and whether or not they were early risers or night owls. Interestingly, Wallisch discovered that people who preferred going to bed early and felt best in the mornings were also more likely to think the dress was white and gold. He also found that people over the age of 65 were more likely to see black and blue, though the morning/night person divide was the more influential factor.
More at www.inverse.com/article/30103-the-dress-black-blue-white-gold-illusion
-neuroscience or www.businessinsider.com/color-of-the-blue-and-black-dress-science-2015
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As a scientist, I would have asked: Vote for Trump or Hillary? You can tell a great deal about the accuracy of eyeballs by asking that question. (And their hearing, too.)
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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EPA Adopts Fringe Science Claim That Small Doses of Pollution Are Healthy
https://www.ecowatch.com/epa-pollution-heath-2629720153.html?fbclid=Iw
AR2ma95KWkqUa6zYk7curMSU6-T3tsc_r1-9t4D-qcG87s3IyzcuppHxZ9g
Regulatory capture works.
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Quote:
Originally posted by 1kiki:
There have been many thoughtful posts in this very thread about global warming, and certainly this is a topic worthy of intelligent input. But you refuse to discuss the topic in an intelligent way. The water is right in front of you, the problem is that no one can make you drink it.
Just as there is NO having intelligent discussions with my brainwashedly religious family members about religion, there is no intelligent discussions with people here who seek to manipulate. Nothing gets past those two brain cells stuck in Narcissistic Agenda mode. I'm better off talking to the dog.
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Quote:Amen.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by WISHIMAY:Quote:
Originally posted by captaincrunch:
I don't disappear, I give up. There's no point.
Amen. I keep hoping for somewhere to go for intelligent discussions. Don't think they exist on the planet anymore, though.
Wish I knew enough about computers to start my own events discussion site.
Yeah. It's a shame that you grew up in Nilbog, IN and have an IQ of 30.
The internet was a much better place when people of your caliber weren't able to get online. It's a shame that people like me had to go and dumb everything down to the point that people like you can use it.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Once upon a time I was caught unawares regarding the redefinition of "computers." For decades I had explained to those who asked how computers worked, how they were built, etc. At some point I realized they were not asking about computers, which are the hardware. They were asking about the software, the fluid apps and programs flowing within the hardware, but confusing it with the actual computer. After that, I remembered to first clarify if they were asking about the hardware, the software, or the difference between the 2.
BungBetty is still in the confused stage.
Like Scotty using a mouse as a microphone to speak at the computer.
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The Climate Change Paper So Depressing It's Sending People to Therapy
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vbwpdb/the-climate-change-paper-so-
depressing-its-sending-people-to-therapy?utm_source=reddit.com
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The Age of Catastrophism
Why Forces Welcoming Economic, Social, and Planatery Collapse Are Rising Around the Globe
https://eand.co/the-age-of-catastrophism-dcd462749c61
An interesting thing about it all, though, is that none of these collapses are what you might call. The planet isn’t melting down because a giant meteor struck it. The global economy isn’t flatlining because the harvest failed. Politics isn’t coming apart because a band of aliens shot particle beams at entire cities. Instead, what’s genuinely bizarre, weird, and gruesome, about this age of collapse is that all its collapses— every single one — are self-inflicted. They’re the products of human choice and thought and action.
If that doesn’t strike you as strange, think about the causes of previous collapses. Plague, flood, famine, pestilence. The old biblical punishments. Societies thought themselves accursed by the gods — such was the uncertain hand of fate. But our age is different. All these many forms of collapse are things that were made by us.
And yet by us, and I don’t mean you and me. I mean people I’ve come to call the catastrophists. The catastrophists are a rising force in the world. They are people who seem to welcome collapse. Who yearn and long for it. Who pine for it ardently like a long lost first love. I don’t mean that in a poetic way, but in a lethally real one. Catastrophists are people who vote for, sign up for, applaud, cheer — or worse yet, lead their societies towards collapse. The lunatics, my friends, are runnning the whole hospital.
Let’s do a few examples of catastrophists.
In America, there’s the GOP. This is a political party that’s so ignorant, so foolish, so backwards, that while the entire rest of the rich world invested in social scale public goods, like hospitals, schools, retirement, and childcare, sending everyone else’s quality of life rocketing upwards, the GOP championed something like Somalia on the Atlantic. Every man for himself?—?there shouldn’t be any such thing as government, because heaven forbid anyone should pay taxes. I guess those roads and schools built themselves, but I digress.
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Quote:
Originally posted by reaverfan:
The Climate Change Paper So Depressing It's Sending People to Therapy
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vbwpdb/the-climate-change-paper-so-
depressing-its-sending-people-to-therapy?utm_source=reddit.com
You should follow them there. You clearly need it.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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