JoshuaACNewman
JoshuaACNewman t1_ixh9ryc wrote
Reply to comment by Paperduck2 in Do you agree with Stephen Hawking about Earth being unsustainable? by yaykarin
So it is! Not sure why I thought that!
JoshuaACNewman t1_ixh7t6w wrote
Reply to comment by DNathanHilliard in Do you agree with Stephen Hawking about Earth being unsustainable? by yaykarin
Mars is about the size of the moon. But it has more dry land than earth. That’s because Earth is an ocean planet.
Your contempt for humans doesn’t match with the incomparable coöperative effort it would take to terraform Mars — a task for which we have a word but no actual concept of the scale of the project.
JoshuaACNewman t1_ixfid3c wrote
Reply to comment by yaykarin in Do you agree with Stephen Hawking about Earth being unsustainable? by yaykarin
Parasites are still a part of the ecosystem. Evolution is not a moral system.
JoshuaACNewman t1_ixfi9et wrote
What planet is going to be easier to terraform than Earth?
JoshuaACNewman t1_ivt6u2c wrote
Reply to comment by thisdogofmine in [OC] Who Targets You? Top Contested Facebook & Instagram Ad Audiences in US 2022 midterms by fabiofavusmaximus
Because the most central part of voting is getting your base to vote at all. You’d be right if more of us voted, but most people don’t, and that’s largely because of our first to the post system.
JoshuaACNewman t1_iuaul2b wrote
Reply to comment by Shiasugar in Would living on mars actually be possible? by [deleted]
Homo Sapiens Sapiens looks to be something like 300,000 years old. That’s very young as species go. Before (and a while after) that, there had been other Homo species for about 4,000,000 years.
H. Sapiens spread across the earth in a couple tens of thousands of years. But aside from little variations, there’s not a ton of evolution happening. We’re all H. Sapiens Sapiens.
JoshuaACNewman t1_iua5np9 wrote
Reply to comment by Thatingles in Would living on mars actually be possible? by [deleted]
It would certainly be easier to do to Earth. Earth is Easy Mode on terraforming. Seems like we could learn a lot by reversing the climate catastrophe, however many centuries it might take.
JoshuaACNewman t1_iua5faq wrote
Reply to comment by VINNYtheKING in Would living on mars actually be possible? by [deleted]
We still have a pretty poor understanding of what Mars has to offer. That’s why we want people to be able to go there.
JoshuaACNewman t1_iua57fa wrote
Reply to comment by Shiasugar in Would living on mars actually be possible? by [deleted]
Homo Sapiens Sapiens, who seem to have evolved in the northwest corner of Africa, now exist in every climate on Earth. We don’t actually know what we’re capable of.
JoshuaACNewman t1_itjsg2t wrote
Reply to Would Salem realistically have been able to develop a Halloween tourism sector without the Special Hanging Operation to Dewitchify Salem? by Apprehensive-Hat-494
What a weird axe to grind.
JoshuaACNewman t1_it7yjmn wrote
Reply to comment by missiemiss in If there’s a worse town motto than Fall River’s, I’d like to hear it by orleansville
Yeah, but that’s kind of awesome. It’s literally the “Hey, Neighbor!” Of Narragansett beer, just in 17th c. English.
JoshuaACNewman t1_it4xu7d wrote
Reply to comment by RN4Veterans in Ex-Capitol Police officer 'betrayed' oath by warning Jan. 6 rioter about Facebook posts, prosecutor says by Phatbrew
> if anything, the records appear to show that the informant’s F.B.I. handler was slow to grasp the gravity of what was happening that day. And the records show that the informant traveled to Washington at his own volition, not at the request of the F.B.I.
...
> The dark mood started three weeks after the riot when it suddenly emerged that Enrique Tarrio, the group’s leader, had himself worked as an F.B.I. informant well before he joined the Proud Boys.
> Mr. Tarrio was not at the Capitol on Jan. 6, having been ordered by a local judge to stay away from Washington after his arrest days earlier on charges of illegally possessing ammunition magazines and burning a Black Lives Matter banner after a pro-Trump rally in December. He is currently serving a five-month sentence on the charges.
So. Is your argument that:
- The Proud Boys were not involved
- The Proud Boys are actually part of the FBI
- The FBI was actually behind the riot
Sound right?
Or is it a simpler explanation that the FBI was slow to react because of its general doofiness?
JoshuaACNewman t1_it4x927 wrote
Reply to comment by RN4Veterans in Ex-Capitol Police officer 'betrayed' oath by warning Jan. 6 rioter about Facebook posts, prosecutor says by Phatbrew
Uh huh. https://imgur.com/YMYve9B
JoshuaACNewman t1_it4nybl wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in The Moon may have formed just hours after giant impact between Earth and Mars-sized protoplanet, new high-resolution simulations show. by clayt6
That god bashed these huge wads of matter together. But no one was there to see it. Simulation is a holy act!
JoshuaACNewman t1_it47vlj wrote
Reply to comment by RN4Veterans in Ex-Capitol Police officer 'betrayed' oath by warning Jan. 6 rioter about Facebook posts, prosecutor says by Phatbrew
Just saying things is not evidence. Links to all the things you’re saying — that are all public record — please.
JoshuaACNewman t1_it47j2u wrote
Reply to comment by RN4Veterans in Ex-Capitol Police officer 'betrayed' oath by warning Jan. 6 rioter about Facebook posts, prosecutor says by Phatbrew
Link to a video with that hearing please.
JoshuaACNewman t1_isy486r wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Ex-Capitol Police officer 'betrayed' oath by warning Jan. 6 rioter about Facebook posts, prosecutor says by Phatbrew
One day, you will claim that things were different back then, but you’ll be wrong.
And you’ll say that you didn’t believe the things that you believed.
And that you didn’t support Fascism and an overthrow of a legitimate election but you did.
And you will try to explain it to you children and grandchildren, and you won’t know why they have stopped coming to visit you.
JoshuaACNewman t1_isxp8an wrote
Reply to Relic, some pixel art by me. by Seppuku_Doge
I’ve seen this a few times now and enjoy it a little more every time. I love the story it tells.
JoshuaACNewman t1_isrw47n wrote
Reply to TIL after another band backed out, Malcolm McLaren suggested Siouxsie Sioux and the Banshees play the 100 Club Punk Special. At the time, the band consisted only of Siouxsie Sioux and Steven Severin, so they had to borrow two musicians, one of which was Sid Vicious (who played drums). by man_itsahot_one
You can hear this dynamic in their first album before they really found their voice.
JoshuaACNewman t1_isolkku wrote
Talk to your fire department. They’ll know the whole process.
JoshuaACNewman t1_is0xe87 wrote
Reply to comment by LDKCP in Feeling “schadenfreude” about Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis may have impacted people’s views on the election by chrisdh79
And emerged totally high on emergency steroids.
JoshuaACNewman t1_iqu1t1i wrote
Reply to comment by buppyu in A cautionary tale about a future world where everything “untrue” is made illegal and individuality ceases to exist. Do you value peace and safety over freedom and individuality? You mig… by sdmym
I feel like you’re suckin bot dick right now
JoshuaACNewman t1_iqpfgdd wrote
Reply to A cautionary tale about a future world where everything “untrue” is made illegal and individuality ceases to exist. Do you value peace and safety over freedom and individuality? You mig… by sdmym
My earlier post was removed for its excessive brevity, but I feel strongly that sometimes brevity is the soul, nay the very essence of wit; and therefore I ask you to consider if, in fact, I was not merely incisive when I asked, “Bot much?”
JoshuaACNewman t1_ixw4rwx wrote
Reply to In 1996 the Australia Government implemented stricter gun control and restrictions. The numbers don't lie and proves it did nothing by hiim379
I don’t think you understand what “data”, “beautiful”, or “proof” means. But the entire argument hinges on the idea of establishing a trend looking at only the first couple years of the sample.
Since this is quite a mishmash and quite loudly a priori in favor of particular policies, I don’t think this meets minimum requirements for this sub.