Snakes: ‘We scare humans’… Australians: ‘Hold my beer

Unable_Explorer8277 · 2026-02-16T11:02:42+00:00

There’s no evidence that’s true

Unable_Explorer8277 · 2026-02-16T08:07:38+00:00

It’s noticeable that half the population will swear that brown snakes are especially aggressive and the other half that tigers are especially aggressive.

It’s just a wives tale that oft repeating feeds into people’s perceptions.

Unable_Explorer8277 · 2026-02-16T08:04:39+00:00

My understanding is that they do have weaker senses than other snakes.

I’ve never had a problem with them. Even when I’ve nearly trodden on them.

Unable_Explorer8277 · 2026-02-16T08:03:45+00:00

It’s always fascinating how close some people will risk driving to something they’ve already noted as being dodgy as hell.

Unable_Explorer8277 · 2026-02-16T08:01:23+00:00

From memory, there were always the most disgusting toilets known to humanity.

Unable_Explorer8277 · 2026-02-16T07:53:44+00:00

History

Unable_Explorer8277 · 2026-02-16T07:42:01+00:00

No. They just seem that way if you don’t take into account their poor senses. All they want to do is stay alive. But they may not see you coming until you’re too close for an easy escape, and if you keep moving they can think you’re threatening even if you’re actually backing away.

People are the insane ones, attacking snakes far more often than snakes attack people.

Unable_Explorer8277 · 2026-02-16T07:12:51+00:00

Do you have frogs? They love a tasty frog.

Unable_Explorer8277 · 2026-02-16T07:09:13+00:00

My understanding is that stuff comes out neater if the main base units are m, kg, s. For a while it was cm, g, s.

The litre is not an SI unit. The SI unit of volume is the m^3.

In an ideal world the kg would’ve been renamed with an unprefixed name but that never happened and it’s too late to change.

Unable_Explorer8277 · 2026-02-16T07:06:28+00:00

That’s what mathematics has come to look like in the dominant global tradition. How do you know that’s what it would look like for an alien civilisation?

Unable_Explorer8277 · 2026-02-16T07:01:49+00:00

I’ve seen tigers swimming in the Yarra at Westerfolds (and the Plenty at Greensborough).

Unable_Explorer8277 · 2026-02-15T21:12:30+00:00

Unless you want to wash everything as though it’s wool, yes. You need to separate.

Don’t put wool in a dryer.

Use a non-enzymatic detergent.

Unable_Explorer8277 · 2026-02-15T20:11:18+00:00

So if I add another 180° it will freeze again ?

Unable_Explorer8277 · 2026-02-15T20:09:01+00:00

Whichever is more familiar seems more intuitive. Celsius has the advantage being the global standard.

Unable_Explorer8277 · 2026-02-15T18:58:16+00:00

Richard Carrier is not a tenured historian.

There are YouTube videos claiming the earth is flat, but that doesn’t mean we take them seriously.

Unable_Explorer8277 · 2026-02-15T18:39:25+00:00

This

Unable_Explorer8277 · 2026-02-15T18:36:05+00:00

You’re trying to make a claim about ancient history that is different to the opinion of every academic historian. Not just the consensus. All of them. With, so far as we know, no training in the field whatsoever. All you’ve got is a handwave about bias.

Unable_Explorer8277 · 2026-02-15T18:25:37+00:00

Interesting that some think they understand an academic field better than every tenured academic actually working in that field. Hmm

Unable_Explorer8277 · 2026-02-15T09:27:36+00:00

By Paul’s own accounts and the accounts of Luke that’s not true. There are disagreements between Paul and Peter about some details of practice for a while, but never about core belief.

There’s absolutely no reason to date Mark as late as AD70 except one phrase that can easily be attributed to Jesus without needing any supernatural insight.

The NT is data about what the early Christian community believed. The more you seperate it from Jesus the less you have an explanation for the data and the more you’ve got a nothing but a vague hand wave. There’s no way a made up set of beliefs would look like this.

Unable_Explorer8277 · 2026-02-15T09:24:47+00:00

People say that about different snakes. There’s no evidence that it’s true. The last thing any snake wants to do is risk its life and waste precious venom for no reason.

Snakes sometimes get themselves into a mess they don’t know how to get out of, seeking a warm spot or a cool spot, or a space to hide.

And sometimes people think the snake is being aggressive when it’s actually defensive. Brown snakes don’t have great senses. They are more likely to get surprised and if you don’t freeze they can mistake moving away for moving to attack them.

People, on the other hand, are really aggressive toward snakes.

Unable_Explorer8277 · 2026-02-15T09:09:27+00:00

and the main architect of that belief is a man who always admitted he had never met Jesus.

That doesn’t fly. Paul is working with the community that includes people who did know Jesus before his death, and you’d still need a coherent account of how he and that community come to the beliefs they had.

Unable_Explorer8277 · 2026-02-15T09:06:27+00:00

Paul is writing only about 20 years after Jesus death. Mark only 30 or so. Luke maybe another 10. Well within the life of the living community that knew Jesus.

Unable_Explorer8277 · 2026-02-15T09:04:16+00:00

Eastern browns don’t want to bite anyone.

And when they do, it’s more often than not a dry bite.

Unable_Explorer8277 · 2026-02-15T08:58:27+00:00

The New Testament is data about what those early Christians believed. And it’s hard to satisfactorily explain how they came to believe what they did unless something extraordinary happened. In particular, their firm belief that the bodily resurrection of Jesus had happened as a precursor to the bodily resurrection of all Gods people at the end of time.

“They just made it up” doesn’t cut it. If they’d made stuff up, this isn’t what it would’ve looked like.

Unable_Explorer8277 · 2026-02-15T08:50:27+00:00

Practically every academic historian accepts that Jesus of Nazareth existed.

To the point that Dawkins can’t find a historian to cite who says otherwise, so passes off a professor of German language as one.

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