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

  1. The craziest part about Hong Kong is that the vast majority of Hong Kong has no buildings on it. A lot of it is mountainous and the government tightly controls how much land they will allow you to build on.
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  2. 3:33 . "The very cold water would've likely killed him within hours". That's adorable. Come to Canada and I'll show you what "very cold water" is. Take a dip in just your shorts here and imagine if you could survive for hours. Jokes aside, this is literally the gnarliest thing I've ever heard. He was in darkness the whole time. Holy fucking shit. I can't even imagine. I hope he gets a movie made about his ordeal and gets a few bucks out of it because he'll need it for therapy.
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  3. No. That ice wall thingy will hold it in. Or the firmament or something.
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  4. He means you can just measure down to the subatomic particle. I'm not saying I agree, I'm just saying what people are cranky about (even though particles are constantly moving so the coastline changes constantly).
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  5.  @xyhmo  my father once picked up two German hitchhikers going through a mountainous area in Western Canada. After a couple hours they asked him to stop on the side of the road so they could get out and just look around because they could not process the thought of kilometre after a kilometre of no towns, not even gas stations. Just long river valleys and trees and mountains and nature as far as the eye could see hill after hill, corner after corner.
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  6. Notice how all you said was "It's not settled 100%" and these people lose their shit like "Wake up you fucking idiot" yet nobody actually provides any evidence of what IS happening 100% for known reasons? That's because climate models are unbelievable complicated and anyone who says they have all the answers is just ignorant. If the science was settled, we'd know EXACTLY how much of the rise we are causing and be able to forecast exactly what our impact will be, yet estimates vary wildly. If estimates vary wildly, then we don't fucking know, do we?
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  7. Skeptic that aliens exist? Google how many entire galaxies we know of, then how many planets are in them. To think we're alone is insane.
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  8. Wakanda Forever!
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  9. David, let it go. It's not worth it to argue with the pedantic brigade. Yes, it's a paradox. You have an area with a boundary, but you can't "measure" that boundary. That's what a paradox is. You can't measure the subatomic particles either unless you establish arbitrary guidelines because, you know, they fucking move and who's to say exactly what does and doesn't count as the coastline? Ipso facto, you can't measure it because you have to make up rules, yet the island is surrounded by water so obviously its area does have limits. If these guys want to get that pedantic, remind them that there literally is no such thing as a "fact", so nothing can technically be contradictory in the first place.
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  10.  @Rodrigob94  How is it ignorance? That is literally what happens/happened. It's not a judgement call. In every country you go to jail for non-war murder.
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  11. You have clearly never worked for a large corporation, haha. Incompetence can run rampant throughout these companies you'd assume were well oiled machines.
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  12. I think an iPhone is more impressive. You can fathom getting from A to B like a bird, but video chat with someone far away? All the music ever on your phone? All of humanity's knowledge? It's just a rectangle, yet you can ask it what species of plant you are looking at and why its medicine affects you the way it does.
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  13. Here are actual quotes from some of the people literally included in that 97% study: The 97 percent claim is a deliberate misrepresentation designed to intimidate the public—and numerous scientists whose papers were classified by Cook protested: “Cook survey included 10 of my 122 eligible papers. 5/10 were rated incorrectly. 4/5 were rated as endorse rather than neutral.” —Dr. Richard Tol “That is not an accurate representation of my paper . . .” —Dr. Craig Idso “Nope . . . it is not an accurate representation.” —Dr. Nir Shaviv “Cook et al. (2013) is based on a strawman argument . . .” —Dr. Nicola Scafetta So everybody knows it's 97% even though some of those actual 97% say they were misrepresented? C'mon now.
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  14. Because NASA. Or was the the Illuminati? The Freemasons? I can't keep up.
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  15. 97% of them DO agree, eh? You are basing this stat on what? Did you talk to them all? Here's what a few of the actual quoted scientists in the 97% has to say: The 97 percent claim is a deliberate misrepresentation designed to intimidate the public—and numerous scientists whose papers were classified by Cook protested: “Cook survey included 10 of my 122 eligible papers. 5/10 were rated incorrectly. 4/5 were rated as endorse rather than neutral.” —Dr. Richard Tol “That is not an accurate representation of my paper . . .” —Dr. Craig Idso “Nope . . . it is not an accurate representation.” —Dr. Nir Shaviv “Cook et al. (2013) is based on a strawman argument . . .” —Dr. Nicola Scafetta Now please cite your sources that can refute the actual words of some of the actual "97%" themselves.
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  16. 4:40. "Farming is possible almost nowhere else". Canadian prairies: Am I a joke to you? I find it strange you talked about population growth only in the city proper. Metro Toronto has a population of over 6m. Interesting video though. I had never noticed that the top of California is lower than a part of Ontario that makes sense because the first time I ever drove to California I laughed because the only snow I encountered was at the California border. I'm from Vancouver where it doesn't really snow so it was funny to see snow the minute we hit the Cali border.
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  17. daan I would love to walk around Norway with a tape measure. Sure beats the Canadian Prairies where there's no big body of water for thousands of km in every direction.
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  18. 1:02 New-Finlind? Go fish. I agree Europe is tiny. You can drive for 1500km in the Canadian province of Ontario.....and still be in Ontario.
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  19. I'm amazed that people are still upvoting your comment after I give proof that at least some of that 97% claim was bullshit. I don't give a flying fuck either way if climate change is man made or not, I just care about being accurate and that 97% stat comes from one single study that has irrefutable evidence (quotes from some of the actual scientists themselves) of being at least somewhat falsified. Even if it's only those 4 that I quoted, it's still misrepresentation. I don't care if 99% of them really do believe the whole deal and somehow the author found these 4 who think differently, that doesn't change the fact that the report is at least a little bit inaccurate, end of story. Unless you have done your own study or have read all the existing ones, you might want to think about quitting the assumptions.
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  20. I've seen so many reports/videos/new stories about global warming but I have yet to see how it does anything more than shift coastlines cause inward migration and a few more storms. I don't understand what all the fuss is about. I'm not saying not to do anything about it, but people act like it's the fucking apocalypse but the cries are usually extremely vague. Nature abhors a vacuum so for every species hurt, others will take their place. I'm not even saying the hype is unfounded, I'm just saying that people keep trumpeting "the end is nigh" but they offer next to nothing with anything concrete about why it's catastrophic for anyone besides people with a house next to the waves. Most of the talk is just anger at people like myself who have yet to fully jump on board. I think it's group think and it's scary to me when nobody is even allowed to ask questions. Ask one and it's "OMFG, there's a ton of evidence you ignorant asshole". In many years of this, I'm still waiting to see something tangible that doesn't have counter arguments.
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  21. Ruben: Good Lord. One, North America has more than just Can/USA/Mexico *palmface*. Two,....what are you cranky about again? Come to Canada ("an extension of the USA) and get a proper education. FYI, it's "the US 'of' A", not "the USA".
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  22. Man times would've been good for farms with healthy potatoes back then. I bet there were some greedy farmers who got filthy rich, and some who probably took it way beyond the pale and were killed for it.
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  23. Where do you place that string? At the water's edge (which changes)? At dirt verticals (which can erode in a single rainfall)?
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  24. I took a 4 hr bus trip through the north east part of Germany once on my way from Berlin to Copenhagen and I saw nothing but farmers fields and very little civilization. I have no idea where they are hiding all those people.
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  25.  @dixonpinfold2582  flattery will get you nowhere.
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  26. Is it weird that I literally don't care in any capacity about space exploration? Watching this video I was like "They're still planning on that Mars stuff? Huh.". Also, white people will not be a minority group in America. It just means there won't be more than 50% white people, but they'll still be the biggest percentage overall.
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  27. I can't stand when people say climate change hurts The Earth. How? It'll hurt human populated coastal areas for the humans, and humans will migrate inland causing habitat loss but how the fuck will something natural hurt the actual earth itself? Yeah yeah yeah, slight ocean acidification etc but overall the earth will not give a flying fuck what we do in the long run, no matter how important we think we are.
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  28.  @hughmungus1767  If we are being pedantic, you are correct. You know what I meant though and just wanted to be an asshole.
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  29. I never thought about it specifically in those terms. That's wild!
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  30. Does this grain of sand count as being inside or outside the boundary? What about that one?
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  31. It's useless to compare a country's size by it's size? Stay in school.
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  32. So this global warming video is sponsored by a global warming movie and the second stat it uses is false? Downvote. Some of the scientists quoted in that 97% study are on record saying they were misrepresented.
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  33. 70% of people will live in cities, but 50% of people won't have access to clean drinking water? That makes no sense. So some cities will have clean water available to only some citizens? How does that work?
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  34. It happens everywhere. In 2011 there was a riot in Vancouver. It happened after they lost the Stanley Cup final. The last time they were in the Stanley Cup final......there was a riot. This was less than 20 years later and I was at the outdoor viewing area and I took a panoramic photo because I was blown away that I can see at least 10,000 people and there was only one or two police officers in sight. There was basically no police presence, and I could only spot one because I was standing up on a ledge, taking the photos. Then a giant riot ensues, and the police were completely caught off guard, and it was botched in every way you can imagine. Never underestimate how pathetically stupid the people in charge can be.
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