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Comment Re: Google's doing nothing of the sort (Score 1) 288

Advertisers want to be non-divisive.

Advertisers and marketing departments are full of woke social "justice" idiots. Just look at the Gillette ads, painting all white men as rapists-in-waiting. Or Nike's embrace of Colin Kaepernick.

If advertisers actually had a clue, and only cared about the bottom line, they would completely ignore the tempests in a teacup and advertise where the viewers are, and be content neutral. It's the only sane policy.

Comment Re:Agree 100% (Score 1) 313

But walking in public around other people after choosing to be unvaccinated is not a victimless crime.

Fuck off with that shit. Those other people can choose to get vaccinated. And for the rare few that can't get vaccinated -- well that's their fucking problem. Fuck you and your authoritarian mindset.

Comment Re:The Lesson (Score 1) 210

So, they were guilty? And the eight investigations were all wrong?

I told you, it was a whitewash, easily explained by the political climate around global warming. At the minimum, Phil Jones should have been fired and charged for violating a Freedom of Information request, and telling other people to delete their email. Does this sound like transparent science to you? How science should be done by a top member in their field?

Oh, that does not seem to be the case.

I like how you keep quoting Wikipedia, which has its own bias and relies on biased sources, instead of delving into theactual issues surrounding the graph.

Did you watch the video I linked to by the Berkeley science for an alternative view? Why don't you engage with the actual argument being made?

Comment Re:The Lesson (Score 1) 210

Except, it did not show that at all.

Except it did. I've looked into it in detail, read both sides of the argument, and everything I said is true.

Pointing to it as an example of the "dishonesty" of the vast majority of researchers is pretty disingenuous.

The researchers involved were heavy hitters and proponents of the "hockey stick", the widely promulgated graph of global warming.

"The EPA notes that in fact, the evidence shows that the research community was fully aware of these issues and that no one was hiding or concealing them."

I tried looking up the citation for Wikipedia's claim here, and the direct link did not work. I would like to see an exact quote from the reference that backs up this claim.

Regardless, there's a political climate around propping up the threat of global warming, and a lot of whitewashing going around. Rather than rely on Wikipedia or summaries, I looked at primary sources. I looked at the graphs, the emails, and what, exactly, "hide the decline" referred to.

I looked at how Phil Jones told people to delete email. How he said would rather delete data than give it to climate skeptics. At how the internal debates regarding the uncertainties of climate science was not communicated to the wider public. Quite the opposite, it was actively hidden.

If you want an alternative view, from a Berkeley scientist, watch the following: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment Re:The Lesson (Score 1) 210

The above story is more-or-less the Average Person when it comes to science. What's worse: take the average person and add religion? It's even worse, they not only believe most science is bullshit intended to trick them, they believe science is EVIL and Satanic and they're trying to mislead them away from their God. That's the sort of icecream-headache-causing nonsense we're fighting against here.

What's even worse are the people who think they are smarter than everybody else, that treat scientists as the new priesthood class, but are wearing their own intellectual blinders.

Climategate showed scientists were willing to chop off decades worth of proxy data because it didn't match the recent warming. That they were willing to deceitfully present the science to the wider public to hide such discrepancies. That they were willing to delete email and data to prevent transparency.

We've seen the wider press be willing to misrepresent the science, creating false narratives about polar bears, for example. We keep hearing every so many years how we have to *act now* or it will be too late, and then get the alarmist message repeated. Alarmism is the mantra of climate science journalism.

How often do we get a reasoned and balanced discussion on climate change? Do we balance the benefits of predicted climate change versus the negative? Do we quantify the cost of drastic carbon reduction, both in human lives and monetarily? Is this a 100-year problem that will be better served tackling it with tomorrow's technology and economy?

Comment Re:Hopeful (Score 1) 138

Hopefully this will start a new space race

The manned moon missions ate up ungodly amounts of funding and did very little science in return. It was awe inspiring, to be sure, but we need to be smart with our spending. We already spend plenty on space telescopes, probes, and landers.

Comment Re:Yeah, I recognize this approach (Score 1) 256

It's called a hack. Rather than fix the root problem, just work around it.

Sea levels rose 400 feet in the last 20,000 years. Pretending that climate isn't going to change is the short-sighted approach.

Some other things to consider:

o CO2 increases are greening the earth.

o Carbon powers the world's economy. Is the cost of reducing carbon emissions worse than the cost of hypothesized problems?

o We're already changing the planet in many other ways. Just look at pictures of Earth from space. Environmentalists and world-government authoritarians aren't going to be happy until we're all living under worldwide socialism (UN agenda 2030).

Comment Re:I wouldn't worry (Score 2) 337

The "media" doesn't have an army, or law enforcement powers, or the ability to make laws.

But they do have the ability to shape public opinion and pressure politicians.

Also, Fox News is as much "establishment media" as any of the other networks.

Yes, they are the sole "conservative" network, and even they can be antagonistic to Trump at times. The dopes even sided with CNN over the Acosta affair.

You should have used "cuckservative" in your first comment so I would have known not to waste any time on you.

You were wasting time to begin with by equating Zero Hedge to Daily Stormer.

Comment Re:I wouldn't worry (Score 1) 337

I just went over to Zerohedge and found a front page story about Facebook. You wouldn't think that would be fertile ground for neo-nazis, but let's look at some of the highest-rated comments:

Huh, imagine that, anti-Jewish comments on the Internet on a story about a company where the founder and next-highest position are both Jews, and the company is one of the most powerful Internet companies in the world. You'll find the same stuff in YouTube comments. Yet you completely ignore the articles in favor of the comments.

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