Comments by "" (@thomasneal9291) on "VICE" channel.

  1. "It is no different than a cattle farmer wanting to get ride of the wolves and coyotes from the area" nope. a better comparison would be a hunter going into the woods to shoot deer, but blaming wolves for the fact there are less deer, when it is the hunters overhunting the deer that is the issue.
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  2. we eagerly await your future contributions to the local economy.
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  3. "I understand that these fisherman have to protect their livelihoods with the shark cull" well, actually the number of sharks they take on these particular culls is so relatively small it doesn't make a difference in how sharks impact their particular fisheries. that said, it DOES help them to think it does, which maybe helps keep them from pressuring the government to open commercial fisheries FOR the sharks themselves, which would have a much larger impact. I haven't been there, can't say if the things this video follows really has much impact one way or the other, but in the end, I suspect not. more importantly, it's possible that the person who is doing the toxicology studies is providing very important data on trophic interactions and bioaccumulation. something that helps both the sharks... and us.
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  4. why do people make up this crap? no, no shark is too high in mercury to be inedible. you would have to eat shark, or tuna for that matter, since they have about the same levels of mercury, for every meal for years to accumulate enough mercury for that to be a problem for you. and no, no chef in Japan knows how to prepare shark to "remove mercury", nor is shark fin toxic, hence why the shark fin industry is sadly a huge one, and terrible for shark populations worldwide. why are people such gullible idiots? not like this is hard information to find. YOU'RE ON THE DAMN INTERNET!
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  5. and then come for the vegans because... plants?
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  6. "Either spread far and wide by availability of man made food sources where before there had been no natural source of food for the sharks, but usually heavily concentrated in one area where fishing is popular so they can scavenge off of our hard work! " no. what has happened is that the sharks were always there, always taking a certain portion of food fishes. It's just that with SOOO much less food fishes (most populations are down by 80% or more!), YOU notice the sharks taking what is left much more than before. it's simple math. say you start off with 5 sharks, 5 fisherman, and 200 fish. say the fish reproduce at 5 fish per year. Say the sharks take one fish each, and the fisherman take 2 each, per year. at the end of the first year, there are then 190 fish. at first, you don't notice the sharks taking 5 fish out of 200, just like you don't notice that there are overall 10 fewer fish than there were in the previous year, since likely it would take you about the same amount of time to catch those 2 fish as it did for you the previous year, and the chances a shark would try to take one of the specific fish you were trying to catch is remote (5/190) but after 10 years, now there are only 100 fish, and not only does it take longer to catch them, but there is a much higher chance now that a shark will try and take the same fish as you. another 7 years, now only 30 fish left, and you're nearly in a one on one competition with the sharks. blaming the sharks? not the issue. The sharks have not changed. You've just become more aware of them because of the impact YOU have had. it's that simple.
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  7. very unlikely as tigers aren't nearly common enough to support any kind of commercial fishery really. The shark they use in the UK for FnC was mostly the spiny dogfish, Squalus acanthias. hilariously, commercial interests in the EU and UK have repeatedly tried branding it as "Rock Salmon". but nope, it's shark. I think some are using the name "Huss" for it now. Brits have been mostly eating shark in their Fish and Chips for at least 30 years, with that tailing off as of 2010 because even THOSE species of common sharks have been hugely overfished. as to what Brits are putting in their fish and chips now? I wouldn't even want to hazard a guess. sharks just cannot support a commercial fishery; they simply do not breed fast enough.
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  8. frankly, I haven't looked at the numbers (for Oz), but given the localized nature of spiny dogfish and the relatively low population of people in Oz, it's possible. Also assuming you can control your fishing waters. I know we have huge problems with that in NZ. but still, they breed so slowly it wouldn't last for long, even then. could probably drag it out for a few decades if that was the goal though. sharks just aren't a good fishery long term.
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  9. they don't need to explain that. because they are the law unto themselves. see how that works? it's a wonderful delusion.
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  10. LOL so the move from one supervolcano that is past due... to another one? makes sense. I guess they never learned that the reason NZ is above the water at all... is because it basically is one giant supervolcano.
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  11. I find it terrifying.
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  12. "yes, I wanna be an anarchist" sounds great, until you actually try it. there are reasons societies naturally formed governments, and then started creating laws.
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  13. "Thomas Neal who are you a marine biologist" uh, actually I am. does that make any difference to you? I rather doubt it, given your stellar analysis.
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  14. LOL yeah, that's why shark fin soup is so unpopular. oh, wait... truly, I wish it were true that nobody in asia ate shark.
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  15.  @kingchamuco1  "With reason, cause where’s all that money you’ve paid for insurance the whole year? Why aren’t you getting nothing back if you were accident free this year with no need for repairs? Why are you ok not knowing where that money is being allocated? Who gets that money if you’re not involved in any accidents and why?" How to say: "can someone tell me how insurance works?" without actually admitting your ignorance.
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  16.  @craggle2332  ", much like the lemmings in a particular Disney nature show episode." btw, while you are using that as an example... did you know that Disney literally staged that? yup. lemmings don't actually commit suicide during their migrations at all. go figure. can you figure out why I tell you this? if not, you are too far gone to even know what I am saying to you.
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  17. that is not what sovcits are about.
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  18. if the shoe fits...
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  19.  @terrystevens3998  you say: "ego and individualism", I say: narcissism and ignorance.
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  20. because they want to set their own rules for using YOUR property in any way they like. that's why. jesus people are so dumb any more.
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  21. "rich always like to show power buy destroying things others know better not to" ftfy
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  22.  @helenhoward5346  no, libertarianism is EXACTLY the same level of fail. people who claim to be libertarians, are simply deluded into thinking they understand what it means. they don't. they NEVER do.
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  23. ...and getting out of paying for traffic violations. but you are wrong. the people you're thinking of are just deluded peons, who con men have taken money from. There ARE real Sovcits, that trace their origin back to the Posse Commitatus movement, and are legit classified by the FBI as terrorists. you need to enlighten yourself.
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  24. wrong on both counts. the sovereign citizen movement is the name they applied to themselves for 70 years at least, which arose from the old Posse Commitatus movement. and two... there is no such thing as "natural law". now run along, little moron.
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  25. "These would still have to comply to the NZ building code. " nah. money will make inspectors and the approval process go their way, every time. NZ is overall low on the corruption scale, but the one thing we do really well is take bribes.
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  26.  @terintiaflavius3349  "Cops smashing private property is funny to you?" people obstructing the law deliberately after committing a crime is ok with you?
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  27. like what? you should become a terrorist to change how things work? you should decide for yourself what laws you should follow and screw everybody else? sovcits are literal terrorists, and actually classified as such by the FBI.
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  28. immigration here is totally fucked. learned that myself my first year here. rules? what rules? if you can get someone with teeth to put pressure on, you're in. you come in with over 10 million in the bank? you're in. otherwise, it's pretty much blind luck.
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  29. sovcits are not freedom fighters. they are anarchists and terrorists. full stop. if you don't think so, you have never studied their history.
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  30. "pushing class divisions" uh, in case you hadn't noticed, the wealth disparity, GLOBALLY, let alone in places like the US, is the biggest it ever has been in all of human history. they aren't PUSHING an agenda, they merely are observing it in action. you, otoh, appear to be living in denial. probably expecting that golden koolaid to come trickling down to your mouth any day now. you're just a temporarily embarrassed millionaire, right?
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  31. guys, I'm not strawmanning anything!! honest!
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  32. go for it. just take one of the already existing ones though. plenty to go around.
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  33.  @AK-jm1sc  nah, they're just lying because they think it makes them look cool. or... they're really dumb enough to believe what they just said. I'm giving the benefit of the doubt.
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  34.  Johnny Smith  "I would say the threat of losing employment and access to other things you need to live is forcing, wouldn’t you?" is the threat of jail for drunk driving "forcing"? nope. you can, in fact, drink and drive. your problem is confusing "force" with "consequences". there are CONSEQUENCES to drinking and driving. and not just legal ones. and yes, comparing drink driving with refusal to be vaccinated is EXACTLY the same issue. you are putting others at risk because of your own beliefs. just like a drunk driver. you can choose to not be a drunk driver, by either not drinking... or not driving. you can choose not to be a risk to your fellow humans by staying home, or getting a vaccine. there would BE no further consequences if you chose to take responsibility for avoiding the consequences for your own actions... but you morons are entirely too narcissistic for that, so standing consequences were put in place. simple as that. those consequences were BECAUSE of ignorant, narcissists... just like yourself.
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  35. There's a guy that claims to be Jesus Christ (for lolz) on youtube that has the actual youtube marker for being the legit Jesus Christ as far as youtube goes. he has way more followers. mostly because he is deliberately hilarious.
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  36.  @maggiemae7539  no, it doesn't. it gives you information so you can make... informed decisions. IGNORANCE is how you tell yourself how to think. and that is you, all over.
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  37. then your ears are clogged with too many earbuds.
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  38. "Don’t put the Freedom Convoy 2022 in a bad light please" You did that by yourself. -Obi Wan Kenobi
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  39.  @jlasud  you know nothing. really. another rebel without a clue.
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  40. well, it works. Trump IS a significant disaster.
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  41. this... is not it.
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  42. you should do more drugs.
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  43. have you looked into the side effects of eating cabbage? of course you haven't. you just eat without thinking. your arguments are specious, moron. you just want to be a drunk driver without consequence. that is what being an antivaxxer is equivalent to.
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  44.  @Nick-18  yup. rationalized greed, which took the political from of "neoliberalism", really put the world on the path to destruction in less than 20 years. impressive, really, if just for the scale and speed of it.
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  45. sovcits have murdered dozens of police officers and government officials, illegally occupied public property, stolen houses and private property... the list goes on and on and on. your ignorance is no excuse.
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  46. or criminals, because you apparently seem to forget that none of them care about your safety or rights. only their own.
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  47.  Fancy Feast  so... you're cat food. interesting.
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  48. "we call ourselves constitutional and civil rights activist" uh huh. do you understand what the 10th amendment was created for and how it works? I'm guessing... no.
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  49. only because there are so many idiots who believe in conspiracy theories now. like you, with your current conspiracy theory.
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  50. name ONE hypothesis even that makes sense, let alone an entire theory. you can't. I already KNOW you can't.
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