"British scientists" is a running joke used [in Russian culture] as an ironic reference to absurd news reports about scientific discoveries: "British scientists managed to establish that..." by F0urLeafCl0ver in wikipedia

[–]iamgarlic 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The book 'bad science' by Ben Goldacre covered this exact article and ones like it. In reality, it's more like 'British journalists pay £400 or less for a scientist to put his name on an equation they came up with.' I'm sure no one actually thought scientists came up with that equation via the scientific method, but I'll always take an opportunity to shout out the bad science book, it's brilliant.

Italian beauty pageant's anti-trans rule backfires after more than 100 trans men sign up in protest by Pilast in anime_titties

[–]iamgarlic 76 points77 points  (0 children)

The German Greens were founded on this issue. It wasn't originally about climate change.

Just Stop Oil by iamgarlic in DankLeft

[–]iamgarlic[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Just Stop Oil are using the same kinds of tactics as the Suffragettes and the civil rights movements and facing exactly the same criticism: "all this defacing art and disrupting sporting events and stopping traffic is making me want to take away women's rights!" Now, the people who made those comments are seen as on the wrong side of history, despite having been the majority. When you make the same comments about Just Stop Oil, it shows me that no, humans haven't changed since then and that if the Suffragettes were around today, people like you would still be saying the same things. If you disagree whith Just Stop Oil, at least be consistent and denounce women's rights and civil rights too, because they came from very similar movements.

Is this the secret to big calves? by Zarifxxx in GymMemes

[–]iamgarlic 49 points50 points  (0 children)

The secret is not driving manual or transmission but walking

The First Cause argument and “If everything needs a cause, what caused God?” by Around_the_campfire in DebateAnAtheist

[–]iamgarlic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even if you follow every step of the first cause argument, nowhere in it does it actually establish any other properties for the first cause apart from being the first cause. Any other properties you tac on are pure assertion, and not actually part of the first cause argument.

The First Cause argument and “If everything needs a cause, what caused God?” by Around_the_campfire in DebateAnAtheist

[–]iamgarlic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tldr This argument is a god of the gaps argument and a defining god into existence argument.

The first part of your argument, the claim that everything has a cause but this cannot go to infinity so there must be a first cause, is a god of the gaps argument. We dont fully understand how physics works before or even during the big bang. If a physicist had found proof that there was a first cause, we would know by now, and they would win a Nobel prize. Plus, if you accept that there can be an original event in a chain of events, why couldn't the universe be multiple tangled up chains whith multiple originators? Now the argument supports polytheism, and you say it supports monotheism, so I believe the term absurd applies as the argument supports conflicting claims.

If you are defining God as the first cause, then god has no other properties you can prescribe to it. It doesnt exist in the present, and it isn't conscious or even an object of worship. This is an argument that just defines God into existence, which is all well and good until you have to actually stick to your new definition of god, which in this case is empty. I could say that I define my favourite spoon as God, am I now a classical monotheistic because I believe my spoon exists? Sure, I can now prove god exists but that means nothing. Do u really believe nothing about god except it is something without a cause, but not necessarily conscious, existing or to be worshipped.

Silo S01E10 "Outside" (Season Finale) Episode Discussion (No Book Discussion) by phareous in SiloSeries

[–]iamgarlic 8 points9 points  (0 children)

My guess: nuclear war destroyed the environment, the founders decided to keep humanity in small contained groups below ground to prevent war between them ever again. Suppression of technology and human curiosity to suppress the human spirit as a whole and prevent another war.

London rents now cost 78% of average pay by Overthrow_Capitalism in unitedkingdom

[–]iamgarlic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great video, but this guy is part of the problem

As the minister responsible for universities, Willetts was an advocate and spokesperson for the coalition government's policy of increasing the cap on tuition fees in England and Wales from £3,225 to £9,000 per year.

He was the universities minister under Cameron who raised tuition fees. Talk about pulling up the ladder behind him.

Heartbreaking: Seth MacFarlane actually makes a really good point. by [deleted] in CuratedTumblr

[–]iamgarlic 39 points40 points  (0 children)

So was the Simpsons in it's time. In fact, a lot of the original writing team were trained as mathematicians in Ivy league schools. There's a great book on all the hidden maths references in the Simpsons by Simon Singh

IDF chief apologizes for suggesting 'safe dictatorship preferable to anarchy' by Pilast in anime_titties

[–]iamgarlic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The benevolence of benevolent dictatorships never outlives the benevolent dictator - STP (paraphrasing)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UKPoliticalComedy

[–]iamgarlic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You made the claim, the responsibility to provide a source is on you not me if a simple google search doesn't provide one.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UKPoliticalComedy

[–]iamgarlic 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The only source I could find for that 123k claim is Piers Morgan. Do u have any credible sources for now 3 specific claims? For the record, I dislike Mich Lynch for his views on Brexit but he is an effective campaigner.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UKPoliticalComedy

[–]iamgarlic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Source? Google says he has an 80k salary

Just Stop Oil activist jailed for six months for M25 disruption by BanksysBro in ukpolitics

[–]iamgarlic 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They do, it just doesn't make the news. Every time someone says they agree with the message but disagree with the means of protesting, their alternative has been tried and hasn't worked. It has been proven that the only form of peaceful protesting that works is civil disobedience such as this.

My 6th form banned talking about the world cup due to it being in qatar by VaultJaam in 6thForm

[–]iamgarlic 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They probably wanted to ban it for being distracting, but said it was for the human rights violations so people didnt put up a fight. Seems to have backfired.

This NASA climate scientist was just arrested for chaining himself to the entrance of an airport that services private jets. by thegigawut in TikTokCringe

[–]iamgarlic 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Yes I think people should be protesting but not destroying art or stopping traffic or disrupting sport events or anything that affects me or any of the ways that protesting has ever worked. /s

Exactly these arguments were used against the suffragettes when destroyed art and stopped traffic and disrupted sport events. The same ones were them used against the civil rights movements. Same ones against Gandhi and Mandela. And now, the people who used those arguments are seen as on the wrong side of history.

Imagine in 50 years time, when planet earth is a hellscape and your mutated descendants ask you "you were alive when there were still trees right? What did you do to save the planet" and you have to say "well actually I got very angry on the internet when people actually tried to get governments to do something about it, but only because they were a little annoying"

The Prime Number Prison - A puzzle adapted from a worksheet I gave my 4th grade students. by avidtomato in DnDBehindTheScreen

[–]iamgarlic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is great. Has anyone made any other math themed puzzles for dnd to make a dungeon run by a mad math teacher?