slickgoat
@slickgoat@lemmy.world
- Comment on I ain't going... 4 weeks ago:
Well, his sister, same thing…
- Comment on 'You're not my king': [Senator] Lidia Thorpe escorted away after outburst [at Charles III in Parliament House] 4 weeks ago:
Sometimes following a principal appears useless. Sometimes symbolism can lead to powerful change.
Ghandi’s march to the sea to ‘make salt’, which was an illegal act under British rule, indirectly led to Indian independence. Long bow, I grant you, but the golden thread is there.
- Comment on 'You're not my king': [Senator] Lidia Thorpe escorted away after outburst [at Charles III in Parliament House] 4 weeks ago:
Oath, smoath…
She was elected, he was born to rule. Let’s not get all technical. It’s not as if she had a choice of not including kings. The system is rigged.
- 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 Rules 1 month ago:
Even worse, we have a nasty habit of informing on our fellows. Not for murder, or other serious crimes, but for breaking stupid council rules and such. We call it dobbing. We dobb.
- Comment on Rules 1 month ago:
Some people will pick a fight about anything. Ok, I’m wrong, you discovered the killer point in my entire thesis!
- Comment on Rules 1 month ago:
I’ve seen that phenomenon all over the world . Nobody loves them.
- Comment on Rules 1 month ago:
Too true…
- Comment on Rules 1 month ago:
This is more accurate than it looks like at first glance. As an Australian, we like to think that we are all larrikin individuals. Actually we are mostly law-abiding freaks even under the most ridiculous constraints.
- 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 Why I Haven't Seen Any Trump Supporters In Fediverse (Lemmy and Mastodon)? 2 months ago:
Thats a pretty sophisticated bit of analysis, particularly for Lemmy.
I still find it amazing that the vote will be as close as it undoubtedly will become. I mean, Trump is not only for himself, but he is also plainly destructive. He’s now touting the low-information ‘Joe Rogan vote’. Young white guys who haven’t been following anything.
- Comment on Why I Haven't Seen Any Trump Supporters In Fediverse (Lemmy and Mastodon)? 2 months ago:
This subsequent post of yours is more substantial in explaining your position and I generally agree with all of your points.
My post was with the absurdist position that critiquing the Biden performance around the time of the last debate made you an enemy of progressive politics. Joe had fired his last good shot in 2016. He’s a good man, a heroic fighter for his age but Trump was always going to steamroll him this time. It doesn’t matter that Joe had a cold, or that he sometimes made excellent policy points, the optics were that he was meandering and frail. It wasn’t that the debate done him in by itself - Obama sometimes had a bad debate (particularly his first one) it was that his performance on the night confirmed what was evident for months. By the time Joe started arguing with Trump about who could beat who in golf the jig was up.
Despite Trump’s own senior moments, despite his atrocious behaviour, despite his obvious lies, the feeling was Joe is doomed. And so was the most important election since last time, and that says a lot. The fact that it is not impossible that he still won’t get in again is beyond worrying. But with Harris there is a decent chance.
I hope that clears up my position? It was more a vent against all those who insisted that we ride the Joe bus over the cliff and disbelieve our own eyes while we did it.
- Comment on Why I Haven't Seen Any Trump Supporters In Fediverse (Lemmy and Mastodon)? 2 months ago:
I think that your metrics for picking covert Trumpers based upon that appaling debate is incorrect and simplistic. I watched every second of that shit show and believed that we were doomed for another 4 years of the orange turd.
Trump lied during the debate. Some estimates were that he lied upwards of 250 times in his 45 minutes at the mic. Those numbers seems off, but who knows? I don’t know the true figure, but it was insane. However, it is also not the fucking point. Trump is a serial liar. He lies to his family, he lies to the people, he lies to the courts, he lies non-stop. He would have lied if Biden performed outstandingly in the debate. He would have lied if Biden put in a middling performance. And, he lied when Biden performed badly. Are we supposed to be clutching our pearls in shock that Trump lied?
So, we can’t judge Biden’s terrible performance by the ‘other guy’. We need to judge whether Biden could win in November. And if you had of watched all 90 minutes, like I did, there was zero confidence that he could. The GOP campaign would have portrayed Biden’s lost moments a million times, over and over and over again. And they’d be stupid not to. And yes, Trump lied in the debate. Let’s try and turn the broken bus around on the seemingly new information that a serial liar lied on stage.
The proof of this was the instant jump in the polls once Harris became the candidate and the growing support since. Is the argument that all these covert GOP critics suddenly turned Dems? Or, perhaps, changing to Haris was the sensible thing to do, and perhaps, just might keep the orange turd out of the white house.
- Comment on beans 2 months ago:
Original photo: Perfect photo, couldn’t sum up the man better.
OP: Hold my beer.
- Comment on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Sawed the Head Off a Whale and Drove It Home, Daughter Says 2 months ago:
I read the story, and yeah, it checks out that’s exactly what he’d do.
- 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 I once did a toke at a party and then I died true story 2 months ago:
Luckily I only inject directly into the penis. Not mine, but definitely a penis.
- Comment on A bill to kill a union: What is actually in the government’s CFMEU legislation 2 months ago:
Labor is always the one to introduce union busting laws that the conservatives run hard on when they get back in power. This will end up costing Labor dearly.
- 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.