To be fair, I don’t like anyone to knock on my door and talk about random stuff.
World would be a better place
Submitted 15 hours ago by Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com to science_memes@mander.xyz
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muhyb@programming.dev 15 hours ago
Zachariah@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
If it was ever not about selling (product, religion, candidate) maybe it wouldn’t be so awful to have your door knocked. I don’t mind if it’s about a lost dog or kid, or maybe someone with baked goods saying hi. But no, it’s always someone trying to get you into their pipeline. Someone who doesn’t see you as a person, but only as a lead.
Fucking people. Get off my porch, lawn—just back all the way out of sight.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
It’s worth at least peeking through the peephole first, once I had a couple of kids whose older sibling had flaked out on picking them up and they were trying to find someone who would let them borrow their phone to call for a ride.
Every other time it was Jehovah’s Witnesses, though.
nixus@anarchist.nexus 9 hours ago
I’ve had people knock on my door trying to push stuff that I even agree with: fixing climate change, helping the homeless, anti-trump stuff….
And I still want them to GTFO. If someone interrupts my day, I’m not gonna listen to their pitch at all.
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Somehow no-one ever knocks on my door at a convenient moment.
avattar@lemmy.sdf.org 13 hours ago
Like: man, I really want to play some co-op, and nobody is here to play with me.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
I like when those religious nutjobs come by, I have so much fun with it. I aggressively offer them alcohol (like pour shots and crack beers and put it in front of them) which is usually a hoot with the religious types that go door to door. They usually come in twos, so it’s fun to create personal drama in your head about them and then just declare it openly to them. (I am surprised they let you work so closely with Matt, with you know… The temptations and all😉).
I used to even have props for some gags… But for some reason I haven’t seen them in a year or more.
Valmond@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
That convenient moment the 8 of april around 12h32 faded away too quickly.
Artisian@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
The world would be a better place if anybody knocked on a door for non-exploitative reasons (without an appointment).
Back in my day this is how we’d tweet. Door-to-door, telling a lame joke about cornflakes.
jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours ago
O my, I would never get anything done but I’d have so many interesting conversations, where can I sign up?
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours ago
here. lemmy is already that.
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
I’d be dead. A serial killer would use it as an excuse to come inside and I’d immediately be an idiot and say “absolutely come on in. I love Venus.”
As I was writing the above sentence, I suddenly had an idea for a story about a Vampire who tries to use religion as a way of being invited over the threshold of strangers homes, and get increasingly frustrated when people tell him to fuck off.
SpecialSetOfSieves@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
knock, knock
I’m not a serial killer or a vampire, and I will happily discuss Venus with you. We can even do it at a nice, safe distance! I’ll apologize now if that doesn’t advance your fiction, or any erotic fantasies of frustrated vampires you may have.
I really want to build a set-up that can properly observe the planet deep into twilight. I’ve read that twilight is the time when you can observe the almost-legendary “ashen light”. Given recent discoveries around a very narrow atmospheric window that lets you just sort of see the surface, in a super-blurry way, I’m wondering if these two phenomena are related. Given the Trump antipathy to planetary science, and Venus exploration in particular, I would find this pretty satisfying.
… unless you were referring to Aphrodite, and not the planet.
Artisian@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I note that there are very few religious proselytizer killers/ings. Your door-to-door visitors are unlikely to be violent (but quite likely to be after your money and time).
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
It’s a bad cover because most people will say no and remember your face.
NABDad@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I had a class on college taught by a Catholic priest.
He loved to have people come to his door to talk religion. He’d invite them in, give them tea, and then talk to them about Catholicism until they asked to leave.
NABDad@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I don’t really want anyone to knock on my door (the doormat says “GO AWAY!” for a reason). However, I’m likely to be much more polite to someone talking about science than religion.
I’d probably say “no, thank you” before slamming the door in their face.
greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
Excuse me, but do you have a moment to talk about ZFS and tall socks? Maybe the benefits of a tiling window manager?
MNByChoice@midwest.social 11 hours ago
Given the number of people that think the Sun orbits the Earth and that the Moon is never out in the day time, this would be a good idea. It doesn’t even need to be deep. Just random science facts.
As an aside, I want to buy a billboard in town and post science facts.
toynbee@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Cognitive capacity aside, have the latter group of people never seen the moon during the day?
konomi@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
They’d get invited in a lot more if they did.
toynbee@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I grew up in a small town and only encountered Jehovah’s Witnesses once in my childhood. That time, they gave their introductory spiel and my response was literally “uhhhhh … ?”
I was a kid and had just gotten in trouble, including some yelling, from my mom who was - at the time - the only other person home. I don’t even remember why. However, in normal circumstances I would have called to her for rescue; this time I wasn’t sure whether I should since she was mad at me. Still, she heard the interaction and came to the door, saving me by saying “we’re not interested, thanks” and closing the door in their faces. Afterwards, she explained in mom terms that she’d always have my back, even if she was mad.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Thats so fucking gross trying to indoctrinate involuntary children. Fuck those monsters.
SpecialSetOfSieves@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Everyone in this thread is approaching the question from the perspective of the passive resident role, and not the traveling science minstrel role.
Given that I am definitely more inclined toward the latter - which apparently makes me a tiny minority, even in this thread - I feel confident saying that I would have far more to fear from all of you than the reverse.
You may all point and laugh now.
jorge@lemmygrad.ml 3 hours ago
This post is intereating, but If I wrote the meme I would not mention aliens. It invites comparisons with certain empty-headed New Atheists that have a fixation on aliens. In my experience, some of them whatch every “science” fiction show involving aliens but read little to nothing about real science.
The typical New Atheist is far more motivated by anti-religious hate than love for Science.
Note, I am aware that atheism is much larger than the New Atheism lunatic cult. My dad (died from pancreatic cancer) was effectively an atheist. He simply avoided (and, rarely, criticized) religion, because it lacks evidence and because there are so many competing ones.
SW42@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
You son of a bitch, I’m in!
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
Not really, the life on Venus thing was so far from reality that it might as well have been a religious idea
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 11 hours ago
Eh. It would create a whole new set of problems.
Especially when it comes to theorists vs experimentalists. Both agree that experiment is necessary to prove the theory. Both agree that unexpected observation in experiments needs new theory.
Theorists are usually the type to mentally explore possibilities based on prior knowledge before physically testing possibilites. Some may never actually experiment they get so wrapped up in the exploration.
Experimentalists are usually the type to physically test possibilities before mentally exploring “why” the outcomes happened. Some may never actually mentally explore possibilities because they died in an experiment.
This seems to be intrinsic to these scientists. So much so the interactions would be similar to anyone actually willing to talk to missionaries.
If it were possible to convert people to theorists, we’d have a lot less proven, and if it were possible to convert people to experimentalists, we’d all be dead.
arin@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I’d make more friends
infuziSporg@hexbear.net 9 hours ago
I’ve worked with phosphine; anyone who asked about telling me about it out of the blue would be extremely sus.
I’d probably go outside and put lots of distance between me and them.
minorkeys@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Talking about possibilities isn’t the answer there. Talking about what is known, is. Otherwise it isn’t science you’re engaging with but fantasy and speculation, the same thing faith relies on to sell.
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
There is probably a law against that.
Ftumch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
In this house we do not recognize phosphine as a biomarker! Get the fuck out of my face!
Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
WELL IN MY HOUSE WE DO!
Ftumch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
YOUR HOUSE IS A HOUSE OF PSEUDOSCIENCE! IN THE NAME OF FEYNMAN, MAY NONE OF YOUR PAPERS PASS PEER-REVIEW!!!
very_well_lost@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
You may be interested in this new research from a few weeks ago! space.com/…/the-search-for-life-on-venus-just-too…