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  39. Quint's speech from JAWS (1975) from IMDB: "Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin' back from the island of Tinian to Leyte, just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in twelve minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. Thirteen-footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, Chief? You tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know... was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. Heh. [he pauses and takes a drink] They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin'. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. Y'know, it's... kinda like ol' squares in a battle like, uh, you see in a calendar, like the Battle of Waterloo, and the idea was, shark comes to the nearest man and that man, he'd start poundin' and hollerin' and screamin', and sometimes the shark'd go away... sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. Y'know the thing about a shark, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'... until he bites ya. And those black eyes roll over white, and then... oh, then you hear that terrible high-pitch screamin', the ocean turns red, and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they... rip you to pieces. [he pauses] Y'know, by the end of that first dawn... lost a hundred men. I dunno how many sharks. Maybe a thousand. I dunno how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday mornin', Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland- baseball player, boatswain's mate. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up... bobbed up and down in the water just like a kinda top. Upended. Well... he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low and he saw us. Young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and come in low and three hours later, a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up. Y'know, that was the time I was most frightened, waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a life jacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water, three hundred sixteen men come out, and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. [he pauses, smiles, and raises his glass] Anyway... we delivered the bomb."
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  176. For 800,000 years, the glacial interglacial cycles were driven by orbital cycles combined with a natural oscillation of CO2 between 170 and 300 ppm. Currently the Earth's orbital eccentricity is at a near million year low, that prohibits either glaciation or deglaciation. We should be in very slow and steady cooling phase. The next ice age was due ton 50,000 years. However, burning hydrocarbons and changes in land use has increased atmospheric CO2 to over 420 ppm and it's still rising. That increase in CO2 has led to: - a significant increase in global temperature, - the increasing temperatures at urban and rural stations, - increasing sea surface temperatures (as measured by both ship sensors and buoys), - increasing ocean heat content, - troposphere warming (as measured by satellites and weather balloons), - reduction in sea ice extent, - worldwide glacial retreat, - permafrost thaw, - widespread changes in plant and animal phenology We know CO2 is the problem because the physical properties of CO2 and other atmospheric gases are known (e.g. Eunice Foote, John Tyndall). That understanding has been validated by practical outcomes (e.g. heat seeking missiles) and empirical observation that match predictions (e.g. troposphere warming, stratospheric cooling, nights warming faster than days) made by scientists in the 1980s and earlier (e.g. Svante Arrhenius, Bolin and Eriksson, Syukuro Manabe, Jim Hansen). If the science journals are difficult for you to access try watching all the videos by Simon Clark and Potholer54. .
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  634. ​ @MuscarV2  If you read my comment again you'll notice that my first sentence is followed by a full stop not a colon. I do not claim that the point of the video is "People are often critical of how stupid people act in horror and disaster movies but in reality people sometimes do even more bizarre nonsensical things". Similarly I make no claim that people only act dumb in movies because of stress or that there are no horror movies that include stupid behaviour to move the plot along. The point of the video is that "Under immense stress humans acts irrationally and strangely" (8:58). It is so obvious that I didn't feel the need to repeat it. My second sentence does make the claim that "People are often critical of how stupid people act in horror and disaster movies but in reality people sometimes do even more bizarre nonsensical things". Obviously in the context of the video I am referring to scenes that involve people not reacting to immediate danger, freezing, running the wrong way, watching without reacting, picking up the wrong item, forgetting that they are holding something, not noticing something right next to them, not reading signs, laughing manically. Examples of such scenes can be found in many horror (e.g. Dawn of the Dead, the Host, the Thing, Day of the Triffids, Invasion of the Body Snatchers [not necessarily even the best examples]) and disaster movies (e.g. Earthquake, Towering Inferno, Titanic). These scenes of people responding badly to stress range in quality but they often include people behaving in ways that get called stupid by some viewers even though (as I wrote in the original comment) they sometimes include depictions of human behaviour that is more sensible and less bizarre than how people respond in reality.
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  811. For 800,000 years, the glacial interglacial cycles were driven by orbital cycles combined with a natural oscillation of CO2 between 170 and 300 ppm. Currently the Earth's orbital eccentricity is at a near million year low, that prohibits either glaciation or deglaciation. We should be in very slow and steady cooling phase. The next ice age was due ton 50,000 years. However, burning hydrocarbons and changes in land use has increased atmospheric CO2 to over 420 ppm and it's still rising. That increase in CO2 has led to: - a significant increase in global temperature, - the increasing temperatures at urban and rural stations, - increasing sea surface temperatures (as measured by both ship sensors and buoys), - increasing ocean heat content, - troposphere warming (as measured by satellites and weather balloons), - reduction in sea ice extent, - worldwide glacial retreat, - permafrost thaw, - widespread changes in plant and animal phenology We know CO2 is the problem because the physical properties of CO2 and other atmospheric gases are known (e.g. Eunice Foote, John Tyndall). That understanding has been validated by practical outcomes (e.g. heat seeking missiles) and empirical observation that match predictions (e.g. troposphere warming, stratospheric cooling, nights warming faster than days) made by scientists in the 1980s and earlier (e.g. Svante Arrhenius, Bolin and Eriksson, Syukuro Manabe, Jim Hansen). The scientific evidence is not on your side. If the science journals are too difficult for you try watching all the videos by Simon Clark and Potholer54. .
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  812. For 800,000 years, the glacial interglacial cycles were driven by orbital cycles combined with a natural oscillation of CO2 between 170 and 300 ppm. Currently the Earth's orbital eccentricity is at a near million year low, that prohibits either glaciation or deglaciation. We should be in very slow and steady cooling phase. The next ice age was due ton 50,000 years. However, burning hydrocarbons and changes in land use has increased atmospheric CO2 to over 420 ppm and it's still rising. That increase in CO2 has led to: - a significant increase in global temperature, - the increasing temperatures at urban and rural stations, - increasing sea surface temperatures (as measured by both ship sensors and buoys), - increasing ocean heat content, - troposphere warming (as measured by satellites and weather balloons), - reduction in sea ice extent, - worldwide glacial retreat, - permafrost thaw, - widespread changes in plant and animal phenology We know CO2 is the problem because the physical properties of CO2 and other atmospheric gases are known (e.g. Eunice Foote, John Tyndall). That understanding has been validated by practical outcomes (e.g. heat seeking missiles) and empirical observation that match predictions (e.g. troposphere warming, stratospheric cooling, nights warming faster than days) made by scientists in the 1980s and earlier (e.g. Svante Arrhenius, Bolin and Eriksson, Syukuro Manabe, Jim Hansen). If the science journals are difficult for you to access try watching all the videos by Simon Clark and Potholer54.
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  813. For 800,000 years, the glacial interglacial cycles were driven by orbital cycles combined with a natural oscillation of CO2 between 170 and 300 ppm. Currently the Earth's orbital eccentricity is at a near million year low, that prohibits either glaciation or deglaciation. We should be in very slow and steady cooling phase. The next ice age was due ton 50,000 years. However, burning hydrocarbons and changes in land use has increased atmospheric CO2 to over 420 ppm and it's still rising. That increase in CO2 has led to: - a significant increase in global temperature, - the increasing temperatures at urban and rural stations, - increasing sea surface temperatures (as measured by both ship sensors and buoys), - increasing ocean heat content, - troposphere warming (as measured by satellites and weather balloons), - reduction in sea ice extent, - worldwide glacial retreat, - permafrost thaw, - widespread changes in plant and animal phenology We know CO2 is the problem because the physical properties of CO2 and other atmospheric gases are known (e.g. Eunice Foote, John Tyndall). That understanding has been validated by practical outcomes (e.g. heat seeking missiles) and empirical observation that match predictions (e.g. troposphere warming, stratospheric cooling, nights warming faster than days) made by scientists in the 1980s and earlier (e.g. Svante Arrhenius, Bolin and Eriksson, Syukuro Manabe, Jim Hansen). If the science journals are difficult for you to access try watching all the videos by Simon Clark and Potholer54.
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  821. ​@Smurfs Rule Jeez for someone so convinced as you I was hoping you might have a little more justification for it. 1. Neil Orr's study (published way back in 1981!) is not really relevant is it? First of all it's a very limited study based on just one theatre. Secondly, it focuses on wound infection (e.g. by streptococci) not transmission of respiratory viruses. Thirdly, it relates to a relatively sterile environment populated by a small number of people. It's hardly comparable to shops or public transport. More recent and extensive studies show that masks do make some difference and are worthwhile (e.g. Chu et al. 2020, Lancet: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673620311429). As you will know, no one has ever said that masks are 100% effective (see also seat belts, life jackets, helmets, and parachutes). 2. No, 125,000 is a pretty reliable number for the number of people that have died from COVID 19 in the UK (so far) and listing this figure does not undermine my argument at all. Doctors do not complete death certificates willy-nilly. COVID has specific symptoms that can be identified with reasonable accuracy. The numbers of COVID deaths have been collated reasonably carefully (certainly more carefully than flu figures for previous years and other figure which conspiracy theorists are happy to believe). Excess deaths also corroborate this figure: https://j-idea.github.io/ONSdeaths/ Importantly these deaths generally follow cases with a 2-3 week lag - as would be expected if they were due to COVID. Their geographic distributed also matches cases - as would be expected if they were due to COVID. The deaths are greater in older people and in people vulnerable - as would be expected if they were due to COVID. The same pattern is visible in other countries. Your alternative explanations of "suicide" or "the vaccine" or "some other reason" cannot explain these patterns. Doctors are pretty good at telling the difference between a death from COVID and suicide. There have been suicides and deaths due to domestic abuse during lock down, sure - perhaps a several hundred last April - but not 125,000 and not concentrated in older people or places were cases are high. I also have close friends who treat mental health. The conservative government has cut their resources again and again over the past decade. It's funny how right wing journalists have only started to care about suicide and domestic abuse now that they can use it to undermine temporary restrictions and lockdowns. Moreover, 125000 deaths are the numbers of deaths WITH restrictions - they would be even higher without out them. Do you know any medical staff living in Brazil? Perhaps you should talk to them and see what they think. 3. That deaths as a percentage of the population are below all the years from 1990 to 2000 is not surprising at all and does not prove that COVID is a hoax. For a start life expectancy was lower in 1990 to 2000. Secondly, because people are staying indoors they are less at risk from other dangers such as traffic accidents. The mistake you are making here (either accidentally or deliberately in bad faith) is to think that the number of deaths from COVID would remain the same if there were no restrictions. Make your comparisons again across just the months when COVID was not under control and see what happens. Make your comparisons across just looking at London or the North West and see what happens. Again read this article: https://j-idea.github.io/ONSdeaths/ 4. Many research groups are analysing the Sarscov2 genome and have published on it. You are free to ignore that research if you don't understand it but it does exist. 5. Conveniently but not surprisingly you've ignored the very real problems of long COVID. Presumably you think it's just all lies.
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  1309.  @Robert-dx7rj  Earlier y0u question whether we can predict the future with accuracy. Well, scientists already have successfully predicted the future. Scientists have understood the relationship between atmospheric CO2 and global temperatures for over 100 years. Scientists have been warning of us about global warming (and the associated climate change and sea level rise) since long before the 1960s. Projections made by multiple independent models from the 1970s (including those made by Exxon) and more recent models by former skeptic Richard Muller at Berkeley match current observations. The projections that have been off are generally those that underestimated how much CO2 emissions might be cut not the impact of CO2. To disprove the hypothesis that the extra anthropogenic CO2 added to the atmosphere by human activity is causing the the recent warming you'll need to come up with an alternative hypothesis that explains e.g. why: - warming is happening faster at high latitudes, - nights are warming faster than days, - winters are warming faster than summers, - ocean pH is decreasing, - the ratio of atmospheric 13C/12C has changed the way it has, - why the physics of the greenhouse effect is in error. Potholer54 and Simon Clark has provided many videos on this topic. Moreover, this information is available in the scientific literature, e.g. - Hausfather Z, Drake HF, Abbott T, Schmidt GA. 2020. Evaluating the performance of past climate model projections. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(1), p.e2019GL085378. - Lacis, A.A., Schmidt, G.A., Rind, D. and Ruedy, R.A., 2010. Atmospheric CO2: Principal control knob governing Earth’s temperature. Science, 330(6002), pp.356-359. - Osman MB, Tierney JE, Zhu J, Tardif R, Hakim GJ, King J, and Poulsen CJ. 2021. Globally resolved surface temperatures since the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature, 599(7884), pp.239-244. - Rae, J.W., Zhang, Y.G., Liu, X., Foster, G.L., Stoll, H.M. and Whiteford, R.D., 2021. Atmospheric CO2 over the past 66 million years from marine archives. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 49, pp.609-641. - Sawyer, J. S. 1972. Man-made carbon dioxide and the “greenhouse” effect. Nature, 239(5366), 23– 26. - Supran G, Rahmstorf S. and Oreskes N. 2023. Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections. Science, 379(6628), p.eabk0063.
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  1412. For 800,000 years, the glacial interglacial cycles were driven by orbital cycles combined with a natural oscillation of CO2 between 170 and 300 ppm. Currently the Earth's orbital eccentricity is at a near million year low, that prohibits either glaciation or deglaciation. We should be in very slow and steady cooling phase. The next ice age was due ton 50,000 years. However, burning hydrocarbons and changes in land use has increased atmospheric CO2 to over 420 ppm and it's still rising. That increase in CO2 has led to: - a significant increase in global temperature, - the increasing temperatures at urban and rural stations, - increasing sea surface temperatures (as measured by both ship sensors and buoys), - increasing ocean heat content, - troposphere warming (as measured by satellites and weather balloons), - reduction in sea ice extent, - worldwide glacial retreat, - permafrost thaw, - widespread changes in plant and animal phenology We know CO2 is the problem because the physical properties of CO2 and other atmospheric gases are known (e.g. Eunice Foote, John Tyndall). That understanding has been validated by practical outcomes (e.g. heat seeking missiles) and empirical observation that match predictions (e.g. troposphere warming, stratospheric cooling, nights warming faster than days) made by scientists in the 1980s and earlier (e.g. Svante Arrhenius, Bolin and Eriksson, Syukuro Manabe, Jim Hansen). If the science journals are difficult for you to access try watching all the videos by Simon Clark and Potholer54.
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  1422. For 800,000 years, the glacial interglacial cycles were driven by orbital cycles combined with a natural oscillation of CO2 between 170 and 300 ppm. Currently the Earth's orbital eccentricity is at a near million year low, that prohibits either glaciation or deglaciation. We should be in very slow and steady cooling phase. The next ice age was due ton 50,000 years. However, burning hydrocarbons and changes in land use has increased atmospheric CO2 to over 420 ppm and it's still rising. That increase in CO2 has led to: - a significant increase in global temperature, - the increasing temperatures at urban and rural stations, - increasing sea surface temperatures (as measured by both ship sensors and buoys), - increasing ocean heat content, - troposphere warming (as measured by satellites and weather balloons), - reduction in sea ice extent, - worldwide glacial retreat, - permafrost thaw, - widespread changes in plant and animal phenology We know CO2 is the problem because the physical properties of CO2 and other atmospheric gases are known (e.g. Eunice Foote, John Tyndall). That understanding has been validated by practical outcomes (e.g. heat seeking missiles) and empirical observation that match predictions (e.g. troposphere warming, stratospheric cooling, nights warming faster than days) made by scientists in the 1980s and earlier (e.g. Svante Arrhenius, Bolin and Eriksson, Syukuro Manabe, Jim Hansen). If the science journals are difficult for you to access try watching all the videos by Simon Clark and Potholer54.
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  1423. For 800,000 years, the glacial interglacial cycles were driven by orbital cycles combined with a natural oscillation of CO2 between 170 and 300 ppm. Currently the Earth's orbital eccentricity is at a near million year low, that prohibits either glaciation or deglaciation. We should be in very slow and steady cooling phase. The next ice age was due ton 50,000 years. However, burning hydrocarbons and changes in land use has increased atmospheric CO2 to over 420 ppm and it's still rising. That increase in CO2 has led to: - a significant increase in global temperature, - the increasing temperatures at urban and rural stations, - increasing sea surface temperatures (as measured by both ship sensors and buoys), - increasing ocean heat content, - troposphere warming (as measured by satellites and weather balloons), - reduction in sea ice extent, - worldwide glacial retreat, - permafrost thaw, - widespread changes in plant and animal phenology We know CO2 is the problem because the physical properties of CO2 and other atmospheric gases are known (e.g. Eunice Foote, John Tyndall). That understanding has been validated by practical outcomes (e.g. heat seeking missiles) and empirical observation that match predictions (e.g. troposphere warming, stratospheric cooling, nights warming faster than days) made by scientists in the 1980s and earlier (e.g. Svante Arrhenius, Bolin and Eriksson, Syukuro Manabe, Jim Hansen). If the science journals are difficult for you to access try watching all the videos by Simon Clark and Potholer54.
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  1425. For 800,000 years, the glacial interglacial cycles were driven by orbital cycles combined with a natural oscillation of CO2 between 170 and 300 ppm. Currently the Earth's orbital eccentricity is at a near million year low, that prohibits either glaciation or deglaciation. We should be in very slow and steady cooling phase. The next ice age was due ton 50,000 years. However, burning hydrocarbons and changes in land use has increased atmospheric CO2 to over 420 ppm and it's still rising. That increase in CO2 has led to: - a significant increase in global temperature, - the increasing temperatures at urban and rural stations, - increasing sea surface temperatures (as measured by both ship sensors and buoys), - increasing ocean heat content, - troposphere warming (as measured by satellites and weather balloons), - reduction in sea ice extent, - worldwide glacial retreat, - permafrost thaw, - widespread changes in plant and animal phenology We know CO2 is the problem because the physical properties of CO2 and other atmospheric gases are known (e.g. Eunice Foote, John Tyndall). That understanding has been validated by practical outcomes (e.g. heat seeking missiles) and empirical observation that match predictions (e.g. troposphere warming, stratospheric cooling, nights warming faster than days) made by scientists in the 1980s and earlier (e.g. Svante Arrhenius, Bolin and Eriksson, Syukuro Manabe, Jim Hansen). If the science journals are difficult for you to access try watching all the videos by Simon Clark and Potholer54.
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  1433. For 800,000 years, the glacial interglacial cycles were driven by orbital cycles combined with a natural oscillation of CO2 between 170 and 300 ppm. Currently the Earth's orbital eccentricity is at a near million year low, that prohibits either glaciation or deglaciation. We should be in very slow and steady cooling phase. The next ice age was due ton 50,000 years. However, burning hydrocarbons and changes in land use has increased atmospheric CO2 to over 420 ppm and it's still rising. That increase in CO2 has led to: - a significant increase in global temperature, - the increasing temperatures at urban and rural stations, - increasing sea surface temperatures (as measured by both ship sensors and buoys), - increasing ocean heat content, - troposphere warming (as measured by satellites and weather balloons), - reduction in sea ice extent, - worldwide glacial retreat, - permafrost thaw, - widespread changes in plant and animal phenology We know CO2 is the problem because the physical properties of CO2 and other atmospheric gases are known (e.g. Eunice Foote, John Tyndall). That understanding has been validated by practical outcomes (e.g. heat seeking missiles) and empirical observation that match predictions (e.g. troposphere warming, stratospheric cooling, nights warming faster than days) made by scientists in the 1980s and earlier (e.g. Svante Arrhenius, Bolin and Eriksson, Syukuro Manabe, Jim Hansen). If the science journals are difficult for you to access try watching all the videos by Simon Clark and Potholer54.
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  1452.  @thekurgan3688  China’s health ministry confirmed human-to-human transmission of a Sars-like virus on 19th January 2020. Yes, China certainly could have warned us earlier but UK government was glacially slow to respond. . 19th January 2020: China’s health ministry confirmed human-to-human transmission of a Sars-like virus 20th January 2020: Chinese officials first publicized the serious threat posed by the new virus ravaging the city of Wuhan 25th January 2020: The Foreign and Commonwealth Office updates its travel advisory, advising against travel to Hubei, China 28th January 2020: The Foreign and Commonwealth Office updates its travel advisory, advising against all but essential travel to Mainland China 31st January 2020: first UK cases confirmed. . 15th February 2020: First death in France 21st February 2020: First death in Italy 28th February 2020: First UK death . 3rd of March 2020: UK goverment publishes it's first action plan. 5th March 2020: Boris Johnson boasts about shaking hands with possible COVID patients 10-13th of March 2020: Boris Joshon allows Cheltenham Festival to take place. 16th March 2020: Boris Johnson request non-essential trvel 23rd March 2020: Boris Johnson annouces start of lockdown 26th March 2020: lockdown legally meaningful 6th of May: UK airports still not using temperature tests 1st June 2021: SERCO track and trace finally up an running... but even now doesn't appear to work as effectively as systems set up in other countries that cost far less to set up
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  1555.  @igorchistyakov8876  So you are confusing "diversity and inclusion" with "positive discrimination". Positive discrimination is illegal in the UK so even if a private company wanted to hire someone from a minority group regardless of competence or merit (e.g. to promote their brand in the market among young progressives) the government wouldn't allow them to. "diversity and inclusion" is a strategy that many private companies and universities voluntarily choose to adopt because of the wide ranging benefits that it promotes (e.g. a 2018 McKinsey report shows that greater diversity in the workforce is associated with greater productivity and profitability). There are many underlying reason why, e.g.: 1. 50 years ago universities and private companies would generally select their staff from a more limited pool of people (e.g. mainly middle class white men). Nowadays a staff are selected from a wider pool of people. A wider range of people, including women of course, have the opportunity, and feel welcome to apply. Therefore, the number of particularly capable individuals with merit to chose from will be greater in absolute terms. There are many exceptional scientists today that wouldn't have been part of the candidate pool 50 years ago. 2. Everyone is different and appreciating those differences can establish a greater sense of belonging in a workforce. Had "diversity and inclusion" been around when Turing was alive he could've got on with his work without living in fear. 3. For leaders, understanding the diversity of your team enables greater empathy, trust, and leadership with your staff. By contrast traditional top-down approaches rely on compliance rather than commitment. 4. Diverse teams have diverse experiences and skills and that allows them to deal with a greater variety of problems. In an increasingly complex and globalised world that is a huge plus. 5. Diversity and inclusion training improves communication something which is particularly important to some industries, commercial airlines. There has been more than one plane crash because of miscommunication between staff members from different social echelons.
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  1563.  @MrBjoern91  OP "writes Its insane how rude some people are to others serving them." That is objectively true. We've all seen it happen. Many of us have experienced it first hand or worse seen our loved ones be subjected to it. The OP clearly doesn't think it's acceptable to treat service staff badly. The many people who liked the original post clearly agree with the sentiment. The OP then writes " I never realized how someone could be like that, i am always extra courteous to people who serve me." To me it reads as if the OP is clarifying that they don't treat people like that because they feel strongly about that issue and lead by example. Perhaps you read that last part as pompous or conceited but that's rather uncharitable given that it's difficult to read tone on the internet. Moreover, who cares? people that treat serving staff well should be proud of that fact. More people should treat staff with respect. I'm writing as someone who's worked in both a restaurant and bar and has several friends that work in cafes. I've seen my friends get treated badly by jerks for no good reason. I know for a fact that there are jerks out there who think it's OK to treat service staff badly (because they have more money and power or whatever). Perhaps I'm now being uncharitable to you but your hostile comments really seem like the reactions of someone triggered by guilt because deep down they know that they don't treat service staff well or actually believe that it's OK to treat service staff however you want.
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  1943.  @SkunkApe407  One, the employees in the suits are frequently paid more exactly because they are expected to supervise what's going on in the workplace. I have managed multiple people myself and been paid more for it. Two, the "just find another job" is utterly naive given that many workers (without assets, inheritance, savings, wealthy parents and/or emerald mines) have to choose between (1) a badly paid job where they are exploited (and sometimes burned alive, see the video above) or (2) no job, no food, and no housing. Three, I am not disputing that there have been some associations between unions and organised crime. As I stated above, "the association between the unions and the mob is far less common than the the association between companies and the exploitation and poor treatment of workers (see example in video)". Your anti-unions stance because of a small risk from organised crime is clearly prejudiced because you just don't like unions. You're happier with workers being exploited otherwise you would take an anti-organised crime stance. Ha! "contribute or starve" - there we go, honesty. Presumably you think the exploitation of poor people who don't have the privilege of wealthy parents and assets to be able to move around is fair game to be exploited by private companies. Presumably you don't care that many of them were born without the head start many others had. Presumably you don't want the playing field to be slightly flatter because perhaps you like the view from up on your hill; you feel the short journey you took to get up there shows that anyone can do it... LOL. Thankfully, workers still have the right to form unions so they have more collective bargaining power to gain fairer pay and safer working conditions (just as workers have done for centuries despite frequent resistance by asset owners intent on exploitation). So tell me which side you would've been on during the Ludlow massacre?
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  1969. "Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin' back from the island of Tinian to Leyte, just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in twelve minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. Thirteen-footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, Chief? You tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know... was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. Heh. [he pauses and takes a drink]  They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin'. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. Y'know, it's... kinda like ol' squares in a battle like, uh, you see in a calendar, like the Battle of Waterloo, and the idea was, shark comes to the nearest man and that man, he'd start poundin' and hollerin' and screamin', and sometimes the shark'd go away... sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. Y'know the thing about a shark, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'... until he bites ya. And those black eyes roll over white, and then... oh, then you hear that terrible high-pitch screamin', the ocean turns red, and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they... rip you to pieces. [he pauses]  Y'know, by the end of that first dawn... lost a hundred men. I dunno how many sharks. Maybe a thousand. I dunno how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday mornin', Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland- baseball player, boatswain's mate. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up... bobbed up and down in the water just like a kinda top. Upended. Well... he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low and he saw us. Young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and come in low and three hours later, a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up. Y'know, that was the time I was most frightened, waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a life jacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water, three hundred sixteen men come out, and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945."
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  2030. There are about 4200 official religions in the world. Many of them have origin stories that are wildly different from one another. Why believe one over any of the others? . When scientists use the word theory they don't mean guess. They mean a well-substantiated, well-supported, well-documented explanation for a range of observations. It's been tested again and again. . It doesn't really matter what I believe... but there is a vast amount of objective evidence for evolution and a common ancestry for all life on earth. Living animals share anatomical features with one another in a heriarchical pattern. Animals retain anatomical structures that are vestigal (inherited but not functional). There are numerous fossils that document further examples of animals with shared features (not present in living animals). The geographic distribution of animals also fits a pattern of common ancestry. Genetic material among living animals also shows a hierarchy of shared traits that supports common ancestry. Genetics also provides a mechanism for decent with modification without the need for any external being or group of beings. Evolution has even been documented over the past few decades (e.g. bedbug immune systems, bacteria resistance to drugs, HIV resistance, tomcod fish pollution resistance, cane toad leg length in Australia, bird beak size in many parts of the world where it has been carefully monitored, artiodactyl antler size, since the 1970s a new species of Podarcis wall lizard has evolved features that enable it to eat plants).
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  2114.  @nicomeier8098  Nope, that's a myth. Scientists at NASA have certainly studied and discussed cooling due to Milankovitch cycles have such cooling is not due to take place for 1000s of years and NASA have never said otherwise. The majority of scientific literature of the 1970s predicted global warming over the coming decades due to burning fossil fuels (as is currently observed). For example read: - Peterson, T.C., Connolley, W.M. and Fleck, J., 2008. The myth of the 1970s global cooling scientific consensus. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 89(9), pp.1325-1338. That also includes work by scientists working at Exxon: - Supran, G., Rahmstorf, S. and Oreskes, N., 2023. Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections. Science, 379(6628), p.eabk0063. There are even studies from the 1960s that predicted anthropogenic warming due to CO2, e.g. - Revelle, R., W. Broecker, H. Craig, C. D. Kneeling, and J. Smagorinsky, 1965: Restoring the Quality of Our Environment: Report of the Environmental Pollution Panel. President's Science Advisory Committee, The White House, 317 pp Even some of the the articles that did discuss the possibility of future cooling (e.g. Douglas 1975 SciNews) acknowledge the "increasingly important" effect of anthropogenic global warming due to CO2. It is true that there were a few TV shows that sensationalised the idea of global cooling. These include a TV Show called "In Search of..." The same show also had episodes on ESP, bigfoot, Voodoo, and the Loch Ness Monster. 🙃 Please ignore blogs, headlines, and sound bytes - read the scientific literature.
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  2167.  @McMinderbinder  Sorry to destroy your comforting fiction but the current rapid warming cannot be explained by orbital forcing or natural glacial-interglacial cycles. Climate scientists understand the glacial-interglacial cycles very well and scientists know the position of the Earth and where we are along the cycles currently. The warming from the last ice age levelled off about 6000 yeas ago and it's not expected to get cold again for another 16000 years. The current relatively rapid warming is due to anthropogenic CO2 as predicted by many scientist since 1896 (including Exxon's own scientists in the 1970s). We know atmospheric CO2 has increased because it can be measured, and we know that the extra CO2 is due to burning fossil fuels (not volcanoes) because the isotope ratio has shifted towards C12. Moreover, if the warming was due to orbital or solar cycles we wouldn't be experiencing stratospheric cooling which we are. Some example references for you to read: - Lacis et al. 2013. The role of long-lived greenhouse gases as principal LW control knob that governs the global surface temperature for past and future climate change. Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology, 65(1), p.19734. - Osman et al. 2021. Globally resolved surface temperatures since the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature, 599(7884): 239-244. - Ramaswamy et al. 2006. Anthropogenic and natural influences in the evolution of lower stratospheric cooling. Science, 311(5764):1138-1141. - Supran et al. 2023. Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections. Science, 379(6628), p.eabk0063.
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  2229.  @Sure-t9o  No, you are misinformed. Climate scientists understand the climate very well. The scientists that study past climate change are the same scientist that have discovered that the current climate change it due to anthropogenic CO2. 1. Burning fossil fuel releases CO2. We can estimate how much extra CO2 burning fossil fuel is putting in the atmosphere. Several different people have done this independently. We can also now actually measure where the extra CO2 is coming from using satellites. It's coming from where humans live: cities and industrial areas. See e.g. Crisp, D., 2015, September. Measuring atmospheric carbon dioxide from space with the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2). In Earth observing systems xx (Vol. 9607, p. 960702). SPIE. 2. The proportion of carbon 12 vs carbon 13 in the atmosphere is increasing. That shows that the extra CO2 is due to burning fossil fuels not volcanoes. h 3. Other factors such as variation in solar luminosity, the orbit and rotation of the Earth, and even clouds have all been studied and cannot account for the current warming. The way the Earth has warmed is also consistent with CO2. See e.g. Henry, M. and Vallis, G.K., 2021. Reduced high-latitude land seasonality in climates with very high carbon dioxide. Journal of Climate, 34(17), pp.7325-7336. 4. Several climate models from th e1970s (including those made by Exxon) have predicted the relationship of CO2 and global warming very well. e.g. Supran, G., Rahmstorf, S. and Oreskes, N., 2023. Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections. Science, 379(6628), p.eabk0063. 6. Big oil pay scientist far better than government grants do and have far more impact on what happens to the results discovered. If you can't read the scientific literature, Potholer54 and Simon Clark have very good undergraduate level videos of these topics.
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  2255. The scientific evidence that CO2 is a significant driver of climate change is extensive. The mechanism has been established by physicists for well over 100 years, projections made by climate models in the 1970s (including those made by Exxon) match current observations. Anthropogenic CO2 also explains the shift towards a lighter mix of carbon isotopes in the atmosphere, why the warming is most obvious at at high latitudes, why nights are warming faster than days, why winters and warming faster than summers, why ocean pH is decreasing, and why the stratosphere is cooling. e.g. - Hausfather, Z., Drake, H.F., Abbott, T. and Schmidt, G.A., 2020. Evaluating the performance of past climate model projections. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(1), p.e2019GL085378. - Lacis, A.A., Schmidt, G.A., Rind, D. and Ruedy, R.A., 2010. Atmospheric CO2: Principal control knob governing Earth’s temperature. Science, 330(6002), pp.356-359. - Shakun, J.D., Clark, P.U., He, F., Marcott, S.A., Mix, A.C., Liu, Z., Otto-Bliesner, B., Schmittner, A. and Bard, E., 2012. Global warming preceded by increasing carbon dioxide concentrations during the last deglaciation. Nature, 484(7392), pp.49-54. - Supran, G., Rahmstorf, S. and Oreskes, N., 2023. Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections. Science, 379(6628), p.eabk0063. With respect to water vapor, yes water vapor is a powerful greenhouse gas however water vapor is not a driver of climate change, it is an amplifier. The amount of water in the atmosphere varies over a matter of days and by region according to air temperature and the availability of water for evaporation. By contrast CO2 is well mixed in the atmosphere. Water has a residence time of only a few days unlike CO2. If it was water vapor that was driving the recent warming then the greatest warming would be seen in summer and at low latitudes - the opposite of what is actually observed. Interestingly the amount of moisture in the atmosphere has recently been increasing and scientists agree that's because anthropogenic CO2 has warmed the troposphere. Moreover, burning hydrocarbons from fossil fuels is a net addition of water vapor to the system. e.g. - Bengtsson, L., 2010. The global atmospheric water cycle. Environmental Research Letters, 5(2), p.025202. - Al‐Ghussain, L., 2019. Global warming: review on driving forces and mitigation. Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy, 38(1), pp.13-21.
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  2411.  @JohnMichaelGodier  Apologies for the delayed reply. It might interest you to know that living (modern) crocodiles are very probably secondarily cold blooded and not necessarily very representative of crocodylians as a whole. Many were fully terrestrial and some had proportions like greyhounds. It's possible you have mentioned this fact in a video so I apologies if you have. Classification of animals is easier if we focus on the well known animals living today because of the conspicuous differences that exist due to extinction (or unfamiliarity). However, the (convenient) groups we end up with and less useful for appreciating how animals are actually related to one another. They over emphasise a small number of big differences at the expense of more subtle within group variation. It also radically underappreciates convergent evolution and the extinction of highly sophisticated and or diverse groups. The fossil record has smashed many of our assumptions based on living animals over and over again. Living species which are taxonomically isolated due to extinction are sometimes assumed to represent the ancestral condition of evolutionary stepping stones (e.g. crocodiles, tuatara). However, this assumption can lead to the circular reasoning: the traits those animals possess must be primitive because they are primitive and they are primitive because of the traits they posses. Reclassifying dinosaurs as proto-avians for the reasons you suggests seems rather scala naturae to me. Please let me know next time you are in London and I will happily give you a behind the scenes tour of the collections at the Natural History Museum. 🙂
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  2598.  @soulfella1  I'm not saying that you have don't have any points worth listening too but you still frame everything as right vs left which I personally don't find helpful. Particularly given that Blair wasn't exactly right or left and in many ways was right. You write in a tone that implies as if the Conservatives didn't allow any immigration and then Labour allowed all of it. That's not really true is it? Sounds like you're actually unhappy about the inevitability of globalisation and policies which have facilitated it. Given that most of the wealth of the UK is due to the British Empire and British actions abroad it would be rather churlish to then complain that all related immigration is a major problem. Moreover, immigration is generally good for the economy. Corbyn might not have been on point with his student fees promises but ultimately we will never know. By contrast the Conservatives have wasted real money, e.g. 500 million wasted on trying to privatise the probation services, 2,000 million Virgin Trains east, 37 million spent on plans for a garden bridge that was never built, 60 milion on PAC, 15 million on Carillion, 100 of thousands given to awful ineffective (and now bust still owing services) Seqol, etc. etc. etc. It's amazing that you are willing to defend the current government (populated by smug millionaires from Eton). If you want to be angry about something read this article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/05/how-britain-can-help-you-get-away-with-stealing-millions-a-five-step-guide?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2WXBMLg2o49_mXsS3o--saxF36BD-ATJ1hKYvMX4k76HPAruR25sSyMaU#Echobox=1562324068 "That is not to say that the government has taken no action. It is illegal to deliberately file false information in registering a company, and punishable by up to two years in prison. In late 2017, Companies House at last alerted prosecutors to the activities of one persistent offender. The target of the prosecution was Kevin Brewer, for the crime of trying to inform politicians about how easy it is to create fake companies. He was summonsed to appear at Redditch magistrates’ court and, on legal advice, pleaded guilty in March 2018. After adding together his fine, and the government’s costs, he is £23,324 the poorer – quite a high price to pay for blowing the whistle. He is paying it off at £1,000 a month, and remains the only person ever convicted of spoofing the UK’s corporate registry, which is quite a remarkable demonstration of Companies House’s failure to do its job."
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  2603.  @soulfella1  I apologise if you feel denigrated. I was simply pointing out specific aspects of your writing and the impression they gave. I was not critizing you per se. Your writing still comes across as aggressive and hysterical. Apologies if this offends you but it is true and it makes it difficult to take any of the content seriously. You are generally throwing out nebulous questions out without providing any substance of your own as if it's a gotcha moment. Not particularly constructive. The British Nationality Act was updated in 1981 so actually you're the one who is out of date. Why not explain what your problem with it is specifically instead of hinting that it is the devil without any explanation. Are angry about the last 50 years worth of immigration per chance? Banking deregulation occurred in the 1970s and 1980s. In the US is was mainly carried out by Reagan and in the UK it was mainly Thatcher. Blair's government did carry out further degregulation but (as you surely know) the Conservatives MPs agreed to it and also voted this degregulation through. Remember that Thatcher said Blair was her greatest achievement. He was right wing in much of his thinking. The crisis began in the USA because the bankers ran out of other people's money. The conservatives have had 10 years to improve things and have failed spectacularly. Has the UK national debt as a % of GDP improved because of Austerity? Nope, not at all. Moreover, there are lots of people dependent on food banks and the streets are teaming with homeless people (including abandoned ex service men). It doesn't really matter what Corbyn or McDonell said after the election. They didn't win so he didn't have to implement it or give the Conservatives further ideas.
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  2604.  @soulfella1  LOL, pretty rich of you to say that I am unable to answer your question after an hour of you posting your comment when it took you 24 hours to reply to mine. Moreover, you didn't even ask a clear, specific, and direct question to me. Stating "THE BRITISH NATIONALITY ACT," is like a toddler screaming "toy". It's not clear what you mean and with the double exclamation marks you give the impression that you are hysterical. Perhaps your reluctance to state any specifics is to delibrately make it harder for other people to pick holes in your position. This act was proposed by Labour but approved after some modification by the Tories under Thatcher. So what? I didn't refer to Corbyn as a thief. Perhapas you should read more carefully. I stated that "May stole three of Corbyn's policies". She actually stole four: scrapping student debt, pledging to build affordable homes, cap on energy prices, review mental health. I'm not actually a Corbyn supporter but I would vote for him in front of the current Tory sh*t show particular after their recent record on foodbanks, cuts to the NHS, cuts to police, not closing tax dodgers, increased homelessness, and the UK national debt as a % of GDP. Reading your previous comments directed at someone else the British Nationality Act was approved by the Thatcher government. Pretending that the will of the people meant a no deal no detail no idea chaos Brexit is laughable. Referring to Corbyn and Venezula in the same sentence reveals how shallow and one eyed your understanding of world politics is. Next you'll be saying that the Contra scandal was fake news, that USA don't interfere in foreign government, and the 2008 crash wasn't at least partly due to a lack of banking regulations. So as an apparent socialism hater do you propose getting rid of the NHS, getting rid of publically funded science, selling all public lands, getting rid of workers rights, and getting rid of regulation that protects people against lead and mercury poisoning?
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