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World would be a better place

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • Ftumch@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    In this house we do not recognize phosphine as a biomarker! Get the fuck out of my face!

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    • Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      WELL IN MY HOUSE WE DO!

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      • Ftumch@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        YOUR HOUSE IS A HOUSE OF PSEUDOSCIENCE! IN THE NAME OF FEYNMAN, MAY NONE OF YOUR PAPERS PASS PEER-REVIEW!!!

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      • very_well_lost@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You may be interested in this new research from a few weeks ago! space.com/…/the-search-for-life-on-venus-just-too…

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    • Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You got a hunny uppies.

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  • muhyb@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    To be fair, I don’t like anyone to knock on my door and talk about random stuff.

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    • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Image

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    • MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • nixus@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I like the solicitors who put their sales brochures in ziplock bags with some rocks and toss it onto your driveway. It gives me rocks to throw at all the other solicitors.

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    • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Somehow no-one ever knocks on my door at a convenient moment.

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      • avattar@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Like: man, I really want to play some co-op, and nobody is here to play with me.

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      • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That convenient moment the 8 of april around 12h32 faded away too quickly.

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  • jlow@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    O my, I would never get anything done but I’d have so many interesting conversations, where can I sign up?

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    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      here. lemmy is already that.

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      • Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I love us

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  • Artisian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • Adderbox76@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      “I’d let you in, but I prefer Mormons. They have better porn.”

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      • Adderbox76@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I prefer Mormons. They have better porn

        Five little mormons jumping on a bed?

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    • SpecialSetOfSieves@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • Artisian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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).

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      • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s a bad cover because most people will say no and remember your face.

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  • SW42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You son of a bitch, I’m in!

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  • greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Excuse me, but do you have a moment to talk about ZFS and tall socks? Maybe the benefits of a tiling window manager?

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    • Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Go on…

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    • thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      My brother, you have come to the right house! In fact, we’re about to watch a great family film on that very topic, if you’d care to join us.

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  • NABDad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • NABDad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • konomi@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They’d get invited in a lot more if they did.

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    • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Thats so fucking gross trying to indoctrinate involuntary children. Fuck those monsters.

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  • MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Cognitive capacity aside, have the latter group of people never seen the moon during the day?

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  • laranis@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I would keep snacks and beverages on the ready. “C’mon in! The iced tea is cold and the muffins are just about done. Now, what were you saying about cumulonimbus formations and their impact on dairy production?”

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  • SpecialSetOfSieves@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Boys I’d love to hear about phosphene

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  • jorge@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • arin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’d make more friends

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Not really, the life on Venus thing was so far from reality that it might as well have been a religious idea

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  • infuziSporg@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • minorkeys@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    There is probably a law against that.

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