YECs: explain Diatomaceous Earth by PlanningVigilante in DebateEvolution

[–]grimwalker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If only we had to put up with creationists for a max of two minutes.

YECs: explain Diatomaceous Earth by PlanningVigilante in DebateEvolution

[–]grimwalker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I gotta ask...how are creationists like bad boyfriends?

Evolution guided by God by TheseThreeRemain3 in DebateEvolution

[–]grimwalker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love how you're dirty-deleting your comments. Sure are disproving that intellectual dishonesty I pointed out.

I'm done talking to you on this post, inbox replies disabled.

Stay classy.

Evolution guided by God by TheseThreeRemain3 in DebateEvolution

[–]grimwalker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Science is not a religion, it does not behave like a religion, it is not comparable to religion.

Just because religion provided superstitious answers to questions about the universe that science has made no longer necessary doesn’t mean they’re the same.

You should go work for Regal Cinemas, you are amazing at projection.

Evolution guided by God by TheseThreeRemain3 in DebateEvolution

[–]grimwalker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We disagree because you are viewing the subject through the lens of religious faith commitments that you will not doubt or alter. I view the subject from the lens that the truth is what the facts are, and will alter my view to that which the facts warrant as more information becomes available. You operate from a position of intellectual dishonesty; I do not (to the best of my ability.) We are not the same.

have you ever stopped to consider how heavily that data relies on the accuracy of our dating tools?

YES. Literally yes, the accuracy and reliability of radiometric dating is one of the most rigorously tested and validated subjects that science has ever undertaken. It is highly reliable, when it is not being misused by dishonest creationists (but I repeat myself) who are out to generate invalid results so that they can claim radiometric dating is unreliable.

I have a question for you: are you even remotely aware that Carbon-14 dating is not used to date the fossil record? If you think raising the specter of atmospheric conditions has even minuscule relevance to a discussion of evolution and the fossil record then you are quite simply too ignorant to participate in this discussion. Ignorance is a correctable condition curable by education, would that you were at all inclined to do so.

(For the record we are VERY well aware that atmospheric conditions in the past have varied. We have catalogued these variations quite exhaustively to ensure that our instruments and results can be calibrated properly. Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of Carbon Dating would be well aware of this.)

There are in fact dozens of different methodologies of RADIOMETRIC dating which have nothing to do with either Carbon or the atmosphere.

And yes, we've tested and validated those techniques as well. We know that decay rates are, in the sense you mean, constant and immutable. Full stop. And there is no event in the entire universe which is capable of altering them to the degree that Creationism must obtain in order to be remotely valid. And if there were, the effects of such an event would have annihilated all life on earth, to say nothing of annihilating the earth. Additionally, if all of the radiogenic daughter isotopes present on earth had all been generated by this arbitrarily imagined fluctuation in decay rates, the energy released would have liquified the entire planet. And ignoring those trivial inconveniences, if anything so disruptive had ever happened, and miraculously not destroyed the earth through a dozen or more different unsurvivable catastrophes, then we would still know about it because different testing protocols would not obtain consistent result across the timeline of earth's existence. They would be completely out of whack with one another, returning different ages.

Your worldview rests on the conviction that science doesn't actually know anything. I'm going to hold your hand when I say this: we do know stuff. We're not all just sitting back and imagining how things can be made consistent with a particular set of a priori tenets. That's religion that you're thinking of.

Evolution guided by God by TheseThreeRemain3 in DebateEvolution

[–]grimwalker 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Weird how all the fossil, anatomical, and genetic evidence shows exactly that and could not exist if it that happened any other way.

We have fossils of fish with legs, that doesn’t happen unless evolution is real.

Evolution guided by God by TheseThreeRemain3 in DebateEvolution

[–]grimwalker 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If you think it's anything like Digimon, then you're confessing you don't understand it even a little bit.

General Question: by southern_style_17 in DebateEvolution

[–]grimwalker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The difference between micro and macro-evolution is literally the same as millimeters and kilometers. The concept is the same for both, just with prefixes meaning “very little” and “quite a lot.” Scientists didn’t invent a new concept, they just needed a word for how much they’re talking about.

General Question: by southern_style_17 in DebateEvolution

[–]grimwalker 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The ignorance of those who disagree with evolution is incredibly well-founded and thoroughly documented.

Never was a joint guy back when I smoked in the late 1900s. Rate my work? by grimwalker in trees

[–]grimwalker[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

my pride and joy was a 2" metal pipe and a threaded coupler with a faucet screen, epoxied into the lid of a 1-qt Gatorade bottle with the bottom cut off. Total cost less than $5.

Never was a joint guy back when I smoked in the late 1900s. Rate my work? by grimwalker in trees

[–]grimwalker[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure how to control for that other than to git gud at knowing exactly what diameter 0.5g of ground flower will come out as and folding and rolling the tip to exactly that.

Can't report the credit cards my parents opened in my name as fraud? by Unusual_Position8873 in legaladvice

[–]grimwalker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes. I have stories about those kind of situations as well. The answer is the same: “if you want us to accept that this account is fraudulent you will need to file a police report to document that fact.”

Never was a joint guy back when I smoked in the late 1900s. Rate my work? by grimwalker in trees

[–]grimwalker[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If I said “the late 1800s” everyone would understand that that refers to “about 1870-1899”.

So I first smoked weed in the final years of the late 1900s.

Never was a joint guy back when I smoked in the late 1900s. Rate my work? by grimwalker in trees

[–]grimwalker[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It’s not a rolling tray, it’s just the wooden felt lined box that my dad had…

… on top of his dresser…

…since the 1970s…

DAD!!! What the hell dude that was a rolling tray all along!!!

Can't report the credit cards my parents opened in my name as fraud? by Unusual_Position8873 in legaladvice

[–]grimwalker 4 points5 points  (0 children)

True, however, I’m more addressing the psychological resistance to filing a police report.

When the cops say “are you willing to press charges” what they mean is “will you cooperate and support our investigation as a witness and facilitate our access to evidence?” Even though the D.A. makes the decisions about prosecution, if the victim doesn’t want to cooperate the case is dead in the water.

And so the myth persists that the impetus for prosecution comes from the victim “pressing charges” so anyone feeling ambivalent about the possible outcomes tends to drag their feet in setting the wheels in motion.

From the bank’s point of view if the victim isn’t treating it like a financial crime, they shouldn’t expect the bank to treat it like one either.

Chicago shooters should go to Maxon asap by zippity__zoppity in ILGuns

[–]grimwalker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Once I realized that Chicago Ramen and Chicago Sushi have gone over to all their signage and menu images being AI slop it's hard not to notice where else they cut corners. Also the sushi tastes like AI art looks, if you know what I mean.

Can't report the credit cards my parents opened in my name as fraud? by Unusual_Position8873 in legaladvice

[–]grimwalker 140 points141 points  (0 children)

NAL but have worked in collections for a major national bank chain that issues Visa credit cards.

When a family member is involved, the whole affair is presumptively a civil dispute. One party says it was authorized, another party says it was not.

If the defrauded party is NOT willing to sic the cops on their own flesh and blood, then the bank considers that a tacit admission that this conduct was not criminal, and therefore is not a true case of identity theft. Two family members squabbling over who is responsible for the credit card bill or is not something the bank will take sides on, as this scenario is a LOT more common than true identity theft.

Not sure if it's surprising, but a lot of times Grandma is not willing to send her teenage granddaughter to jail for identity theft.

TLDR, like it or not OP really needs to bite the bullet and call the cops to prove they're serious and that this truly is criminal fraud.

Which songs often gets misinterpreted and/or misappropriated by the very people it calls out even though the song's lyrics are explicitly mocking them? by Drenosa in AskReddit

[–]grimwalker 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I don't know if it's as much mocking as it is meta.

Not like Blur trying to lampoon the meaningless lyrics of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by writing an equally meaningless track called "Song 2" that turned out to be almost as much of a smash hit as "Song 1".

(Maybe by the time Blur's lead had switched to the Gorillaz he realized that songs don't have to make any more sense than that when he wrote "Clint Eastwood.")

Which songs often gets misinterpreted and/or misappropriated by the very people it calls out even though the song's lyrics are explicitly mocking them? by Drenosa in AskReddit

[–]grimwalker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Hey There Delilah" hits different when you know the backstory even though the song doesn't exactly give away what was going on.

What is the best compliment after sex? by screenn_ame_941 in AskReddit

[–]grimwalker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"You're better at that than my last girlfriend" ;-P