Comments by "Jason Dashney" (@jasondashney) on "Real Science" channel.

  1. Mexico needs a popular, prominent person to get the people excited about the animal. To take real pride in it. "Market" it as a species no one else has that can drastically improve all of humanity.
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  2. Every time somebody mentions great white sharks, somebody has to chime in about orcas. It's Pavlovian. I apologize on behalf of this channel for not including the names of all of the top predators. The blue whale kills more ocean creatures by a long shot. Do we include them too?
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  3.  @42ouncesofPAIN  they absolutely can drown. If they don't keep moving, almost all sharks can't get enough oxygen. That's basically the same mechanism as how humans die underwater.
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  4. I'm even more sad that you are the only person so far who's commented about it. She specifically narrated the drawbacks and didn't mention animal cruelty. WTF?! Scientists are often literal psychopaths. Hey I enjoy the fruits of their labour like everyone else, but at least I'm aware.
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  5. Invasive species are ones that are brought somewhere either on purpose or accidentally. Humans were not brought to new places, we went on our own accord which is the natural spreading of the species.
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  6. Yup. Anyone who's been around animals knows they most certainly have individual personalities and some are more gentle and some are more aggressive etc. It's not a stretch to think some have different motivations than others.
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  7. The lockdowns caused untold damage to the world's most vulnerable because we shut down economies. As usual, it's the people at the bottom who suffered the most.
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  8. Like every other snob, that became a pet peeve of mine about five minutes after I first learned the distinction.
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  9. That was something that could've been worded better. Obviously each female toad doesn't produce 40,000 living offspring or else the country would literally just be a blanket of cane toads.
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  10. Yeah, that was a pretty silly oversight.
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  11.  @houseofdexter  Great example with the panda. This one is even bigger though because it can help humanity. Panda bears just enjoy laziness, celibacy, and being cute. That's about all they offer.
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  12. Politicians don't get these ideas on their own. They get them from listening to scientists. Just not the scientist that have the smartest ideas.
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  13. Bacteria in our guts controls are behaviours as well. The world of tiny is fascinating indeed.
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  14. "Maybe even think about the additional tens of thousands who choked to death alone in the ICUs because of them?" Source? Hopefully with the benefit if hindsight we all can see how ridiculous this whole thing was.
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  15. You say they can get by on 3 leaves per day. 3 leaves gives them 130+ calories?!
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  16. Would you be cool if the blood was taken from your dog? Something to think about.
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  17.  @EAdano77  I'm not disagreeing. I'm a 20yr vegetarian so I bring up the "what if it was your dog" argument often when people have the 'ole "It's just an animal" argument is all. Yeah I nearly shit when I found out how they made the SDS ratings for chemicals. So sad, yet I still use medicines made from this type thing and I'm glad to know the danger level of products so I'm guilty here as well I guess.
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  18. At least they are only inconveniencing the citizens. They aren't driving over them on the highway or putting them in freezers.
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  19. And covid has a 99%+ survival rate, even with the worse variants. This whole thing has been a giant joke.
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  20. Good thing rabbits reproduce so easily. They have gotten the shaft in experimentation. Rabbits are unique in that they are the only cute, fluffy pets we also eat and do experiments on.
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  21. "Releasing these into the wild would not do anything. " History is chockablock full of catastrophic unintended consequences.
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  22. 7:57. Did the Fir "receive" the nutrients, or did it "take" the nutrients. This whole "cooperation" thing is a bit too anthropomorphized for my tastes. I'd prefer the term "transferred" because that can be voluntary or involuntary. Same with the word "share". If my and my neighbour both steal each other's lawn fertilizer depending on who has more, are we really sharing? Maybe their roots are similar enough that if they touch, they join. Later on you say "direct" resources. Again, that denotes both coordinated intent and benevolence. If a hungry worker steals from the lunches of coworkers, is that any different? Maybe, maybe not. Maybe lots of what this video is talking about is a byproduct as opposed to a feature. Same with the defence mechanisms. If you hear your neighbours stream because someone is beating them up, you might lock your doors to protect you from the hooligans. Do you have to pick up on the fact that your neighbour was distressed as opposed to your neighbour signalling you on purpose. I'm sorry but I'm down vote in this video because it's not just one or two things, you make a theme throughout this video that you absolutely cannot prove which is very unscientific. Do trees "help" their neighbours as you claim? Resource exchange is not necessarily a synonym for help. Do I feel like the government is getting help from me if they tax me to pay for something I don't like? No but I feel like they've taken from me but there's nothing I can do about it. FYI, I really like the message at the end about preserving more of the mother trees. Clear cutting is awful. I'm not sure I'm with you on the HelloFresh though. I don't see how it's better for the environment to have everything come in it's on plastic packaging. You reduce your waste by buying less, or buying the normal amount but using it all up, as opposed to getting tiny little packages that are all individually wrapped.
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  23. What at great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?
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  24. It's now June 2022. With the benefit of hindsight, is it what was feared to be? 99%+ survival rate, world's economy stunted for 2 years while governments printed billions and dolled it out and now we have crazy inflation and supply chain problems. This was NOT what was expected. Nobody signed on for that. How "2 weeks to flatten the curve" turned into "Yeah, viruses like this always mutate and get less awful in a couple years so this was right on schedule and the lockdowns etc were absolutely useless, yet incredibly destructive".
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  25. Grizzlies are not being pushed north due to development. At least not in Canada. I don't think you understand how sparsely populated the Canadian north is relative to it's size. Also, we have been told that polar bear populations are about to be wiped out for a long time now and it isn't happening. I think the possibility exists that climate change could really hurt them, but it simply hasn't happened yet. According to the WWF, populations are just fine.
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  26. Words cannot express how jealous of you I am. I work outside in the winter in the Canadian prairies and my hands get cold beyond belief no matter what i wear on them. Just my hands.
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  27. Humans over the last 2 years have felt the consequences of awful governments, not a wet market, especially since it had nothing to do with a wet market.
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  28. I met a girl who has no sweat glands. Try and imagine what that would be like. Crazy.
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