VirtualOdour

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[–] VirtualOdour 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah, especially in the southern hemisphere, a few centuries later we might have slightly different genetics through rapid evolution via population collapse but we'd probably be back developing with a bit more accurate folk knowledge and probably actually a lot of remembered tech.

It'd be terrible to the people it happened to but barely a blip in the life history of the planet from the first evolution to the last lifeforms leaving or dying.

[–] VirtualOdour 0 points 7 months ago (5 children)

This sort of obviously emotionaly driven vitriol makes it look like you want people to belive this regardless of if it truth as you feel it serves an important goal. The other person on the debate has shown an understanding of the issue and history of this topic while remaining civil, I don't see you counter any of his points or raise any evidence in your favor outside gishgallop links which you provide without explanation or demonstrated understanding.

I don't know or really care who's right because it's meaningless but you certainly don't look like the person with a valid position here.

[–] VirtualOdour 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

True but it also feels great to let life flitter by in a disassociated daze

[–] VirtualOdour 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Yeah seriously though our uk heatwaves barely reach the average summer temp in most of the US, either this article is ridiculous or 80% of the world's population need to move.

Also we're only noticing now? Surely there's a huge disparity in elder health between say us and Italy which is routinely hotter than our heatwaves - ive always been lead to believe Italy has the healthiest old people, though that does mostly come from olive oil adverts...

[–] VirtualOdour 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is stupid, what's the point if you can't fire all thirty at once?

[–] VirtualOdour 74 points 7 months ago (8 children)

It's good to see so many people now recognize scientology for the dangerous and manipulative cult it is and hope this starts to extend to the others like Falun Gong who are objectively worse in many regards but their propaganda tools like Epoch Times and their show Shen Yun are bizarrely popular in the US and much of Europe with hardly anyone ever commenting on the torture, rape, murder, and all the typical evil cult stuff they do.

[–] VirtualOdour -4 points 7 months ago

I said it when the first person did it, glorifying such actions only leads to copycats and tragedy - it won't chance anyone's mind about anything

[–] VirtualOdour 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

They're still free if you pay considerably more for the ticket like we had to twenty years ago regardless of if we were going to take that much luggage.

More efficient services are cheaper to get what you actually want, this is a good thing for everyone except those that sold over priced tickets

[–] VirtualOdour 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah, I love being able to save money by only taking my backpack. There's not room for everyone to use the overhead lockers so it makes sense for those of us who don't need to to save money.

This isn't a law to protect consumers it's to protect the air travel market from budget suppliers offering people the services they actually want.

[–] VirtualOdour 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's insane seeing American ads where they tell you they have a new pill and follow it with a list of genuinely horrific possibilities 'may make your spleen gain it's own sentience, may invade Poland, stop taking if your penis swells to 80x its normal size and weaps tears of flaming blood...'

Are Americans so used to it that they just tune it all out like with the California cancer warnings? I feel like I could never get used to that and I'd probably end up a paranoid doctor avoiding loon with warnings about big pharma written all over my car.

[–] VirtualOdour 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

There was a guy who used to rev his obnoxiously loud bike super early and super late round my way, it was so loud it would leave your ears ringing even inside with the windows shut.

He died in a bike accident and everyone was happy, so many neighbour's I've barely spoken to shared a quiet comment about it.

We do though get a ride through every year from the chapter of the gang he was in because he died 'a heros death' according to them as he had been fighting a different group of manchildren on motorbikes earlier that day and they were possibly chasing him at the time.

The family have a shrine to him by the road (not where he died, just near their house) with empty beer cans, burnt out candles, biker patches, cheap plastic skulls, and slogans about how tough or cool bikers are. It's a fascinating testament to how we form groups and make our own reality, I think he and they really believe that when we saw him on that stupidly loud bike we wished we could be as cool as him rather than everyone viewing him as nothing but an annoyance.

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