Yes, and it apparently just couldn't take it anymore.>> ^mysdrial:

Wait, so this is an ad for the new extra-large swiss army knife they were building, right?

*promote the sticky stuff

>> ^Psychologic:

I definitely question those things... not whether they exist, but what their underlying mechanics are. As far as I am aware, the exact nature of gravity (for example) is still uncertain.
Likewise, I am not proposing that the climate is not changing. I do want to understand why it changes though, and I have to get beyond that before I can even begin to know whether or not I agree with projections for the future.
If I had to pick sides for some reason, then I would side with the consensus. I have no reason to doubt it. That wouldn't satisfy my intellectual curiosity though... I like to know how stuff works. If someone asked me whether or not I could explain how much of an effect humans have on the climate then I would have to answer "no", and that bothers me.
Disagree with the video all you want, but don't think that it represents me. It's just something I posted to start a discussion.


Great points! Glad to hear that this video does not represent your views, and big ups for intellectual curiosity for how things work.

"Sides" are my problem.

There aren't two sides to this debate. There is science, and there is corporately funded propaganda. Science starts with data and works forwards towards a conclusion; the corporate skeptics start with their conclusion and work backwards to try and find only the bits of data that support the previously decided upon conclusion. There is zero intellectual curiosity behind this 'skepticism', and their really isn't any genuine skepticism either, just profit motive.

Notice how this corporate effort manipulates and flatters people. If you embrace their ideas, they are quick to compliment you for your freethinking, your independence of thought, your wise skepticism, and your ability to see the truth through all the partisan hackery. Never mind that half empty Kool Aid pitcher on the table or that quivering bladder full of purple sticky stuff, because you are an individual goddamit!

This is called identity politics, because the ideology is basically stapled to your ego. It's very effective, because you can't change your mind on the issue without also sacrificing the fantasy of your own bold, rugged individualism. Not only that, but your old skeptic friends will consider you just another sheep in the herd, a patsy, a monkey, another drone in the matrix, blind to larger conspiracy that surrounds us all.

If you want to satisfy your intellectual curiosity on climate change, go to the source. Science isn't some faceless authority that hands down arbitrary judgments (like the Supreme Court). Science is made up of intellectually curious individuals who want to know how things work. They carry out their debates through research and editorialize with peer review. At the end of the day, the ideas that have not been disproved are allowed to remain, while the ideas that have been disproved are discarded. Is this not a fucking beautiful system?!

Thanks for the opportunity to articulate some of these thoughts in writing. I'm upvoting the video for the discussion.

(not sure why the formatting is so strange on this comment)

oh yeah, the sticky stuff. Thanks!

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Stay away from that Jagermeister. *sticky stuff.

Lives are like retractable pencils
If you push them too hard they're gonna break
And people are like paper dolls
Paper dolls and people, they're a similar shape
Hmm hmm hm
Love is like a roll of tape
It's real good for making two things one
But just like that roll of tape
Love sometimes breaks off before you were done
Another way that love is similar to tape
That I've noticed
Is sometimes it's hard to see the end
You search on the roll
(search on the roll)
Search on the roll
(searching round the roll)
Search on the roll
(search)
With your fingernail
Again and again
And again and again
And again.
Brown paper, white paper
Stick it together with the tape
The tape of love
The sticky stuff
Brown paper, white paper
Stick it together with tape
The tape of love
The sticky stuff.
People people Chorus: Brown paper, white paper
Paper paper Stick it together with tape
Paper paper The tape of love
People people
People people
Pencil pencil
Pencil pencil
Paper paper
Put the pencil to the paper
Give the paper to the people
Let the people read about the sello tape
Oh baby baby
Yeah
You know, Jemaine, I've been thinking about love. And I guess it's the very stron-
gest adhesive.
Oh sorry, Bret. Were you talking to me? I was humming. What did you say?
Oh, just...nothing.
Brown paper, white paper
Stick it together with tape
The tape of love
The sticky stuff
Yeah
Ooh brown
Brown paper, white paper
Stick it together with tape
The tape of love
Say it
Sticky
Stick stick
Stick it together
Ye-yeah

Why is he sticking a dirty measuring cup into the sugar? I can only hope that the white sticky stuff on the cup is sugar, but from my experience sugar doesn't clump like that on a plastic surface unless it's clinging to...something else.

I guess I sort of like, and sort of worry about this idea. I get annoyed when there is too much sticky stuff, honestly, and there are a lot of people at gold-100 and beyond. the first page, or all the pages, depending on how you do it, could be seriously clogged with stickies.

I do wish there was a better way to say, "hey, you guys! Seriously, this video ROCKS!" As it is, I see, going by in the comments (I read "recent comments" often) point to point things or reciprocal vote deals. A better broadcast than just the mass of votes or the monitoring of the comments would be nice. I would just like it to be something that wouldn't continue to be in my way after I noted the plug (like a sticky would).

Shape memory alloy? wow...sticky stuff... Oh, man, I remember that stuff. It got so nasty.

I've gotta get me some of that sticky stuff and get down from skyscrapers the hilarious way!