slickgoat
@slickgoat@lemmy.world
- Comment on Passport-less clearance fully available at Changi Airport, average clearance time of 10 seconds: ICA 3 weeks ago:
True. But if that happened to you involuntary data violations would be the least of your problems.
- Comment on Passport-less clearance fully available at Changi Airport, average clearance time of 10 seconds: ICA 3 weeks ago:
Unfortunately this has always been the case with other country’s rules. I’m not a fan of Uas gun culture, but I’m not American, so I don’t get a vote.
Nobody is forcing you to visit either Singapore or North Korea.
- Comment on I ain't going... 4 weeks ago:
Well, his sister, same thing…
- Comment on How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/ 4 weeks ago:
Actually, nobody goes to heaven when they die (according to the bible). Everyone must wait until judgement day when all the graves, etc, open and we all face judgement at that point. This surprised me when I first learned it because it goes against all the Christian culture I’ve ever been taught and experienced.
So grandma isn’t currently in heaven no matter how good she was.
- Comment on I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US 1 month ago:
Not to worry, I’m sure that there are websites around that cater to your squirrel tastes
- Comment on I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US 1 month ago:
I’m from Australia and don’t mind engagement with the (mostly) US content.
Let’s face it, the US election is the most interesting event on the planet anyway.
- Comment on We lost Keanu 1 month ago:
I would say that you continue to litigate a point that I never made in the first place. I have no opinion about the rights or wrongs of Hancock’s theories/claims. My entire point - my only point - is that if he is making entertainment, so what? Not allowing him to film in national parks because it offends science is wrong on so many levels.
Lastly, I didn’t ask you to chime in, so I’m not bothered if you beg off. See ya!
- Comment on We lost Keanu 1 month ago:
As you like.
- Comment on We lost Keanu 1 month ago:
Sounds like a whole lot of butthurt to me?
Science isn’t perfect either, a fact which scientists tend to push under the rug.
I’m an old fart, so I can remember the great scientific scare campaign of the 1970. Global cooling. It didn’t come from the great unwashed masses either, it can from professional researchers in white coats and worried brows. They got it wrong, and contributed to the beginnings of scientific distrust we have today.
Spare me the whole diatribe about intellectual fraud. You guys need to get your act together and communicate better rather than just sit in the friggin clouds and tut tut against the hoi polloi.
- Comment on We lost Keanu 1 month ago:
So criticise Hancock’s theories. Nobody is saying that archeologists can’t do that scientifically.
What I’m suggesting is that acting all butthurt when confronted with alternate theories and banning amateurs from entering the field is akin to protecting the priesthood.
Once again, not defending Hancock’s ideas, but I’m being critical of science’s reaction to them. Anyway, you guys are not very adroit in doing so. We are about to start watching the third season and he’s using your actions to fuel the fire.
- Comment on We lost Keanu 1 month ago:
Very good explanation, and I respect your point of view.
Even with that in hand, scientists can still be sometimes too precious. Being the official and truth holder of all things can also keep gifted amateurs out of the running. I’m not anti-science, I’m a fan. There is a long history of professionals jealousy guarding a patch that is not necessarily always ethical.
Anyway, that is the exception.
- Comment on We lost Keanu 1 month ago:
You will have to point out where he was obnoxious or abusive. I’ve not seen either of these traits from watching the show.
- Comment on We lost Keanu 1 month ago:
That’s a good example. Another is from my country, Australia. The idea that the Aborigines were just nomad hunter gatherers was seriously upset by the discovered fish farming settlements in the north of the country as well as the remains of basic stone buildings. Settler farmers have been destroying the evidence of these artifacts for 150 years because they upset the politics of “peaceful European settlement”.
- Comment on We lost Keanu 1 month ago:
Don’t have a boat in this race, but banning him from otherwise open historical sites because they don’t like his ideas is not scientific, but more like the mediaeval Catholic church.
Science is full of bigoted thinking as any other discipline. If you don’t already know this, you have never met a scientist.
Having said all that, it is a silly idea, but I enjoy the incidental geology that he employs to illustrate his argument. Not that I buy into the argument itself.
- Comment on beans 2 months ago:
Original photo: Perfect photo, couldn’t sum up the man better.
OP: Hold my beer.
- Comment on PM warns of 'consequences' as thousands of CFMEU workers march across Australia 2 months ago:
We were all sold down the river by the Hawk-Keating government. Strikes are NOT supposed to be sanctioned by employers and government. It’s the worker’s right to withdraw labour. No wonder we get to eat shit at the end of a stick.
- Comment on I'm so sorry 2 months ago:
This is more disturbing than some of the more explicit gross stuff they could have done.
- Comment on wonder woman's got jokes 3 months ago:
True, I true that.
- Comment on wonder woman's got jokes 3 months ago:
Not a single vagina in the group,.
I’d say my respect for women has been confirmed, however I realise that they probably weren’t allowed to attend.
No wonder that Maga don’t believe in free sanitary products.
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 3 months ago:
Australia joined the metric system on the 14th February 1966. It took about two weeks before it was running trouble free. Everything changed, including currency, on a single day. The system is pretty easy.
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 3 months ago:
I deleted 12 plus years worth and they are still gone.
- Comment on The U.S. Has Dozens of Secret Bases Across the Middle East. They Keep Getting Attacked. 3 months ago:
The Art of the Deal.
Apparently only losers fight for their country?
- Comment on Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face. 3 months ago:
The game was lost for me when I started getting fingerprinted at certain airports. This privilege used to be reserved for suspected criminals. Now we’re are all suspected criminals on a default setting.
- Comment on Why Didn't Democrats Do More When They Controlled Both Houses of Legislature, The White House, and The Supreme Court During Obama's First Term? 5 months ago:
To me, making political appointments for the judiciary always made this a possibility. It happened in the old days, and it might happen again. And it did.