Funkstain wrote:Ah I getcha. yeah do your own due diligence is good advice usually was trying to explain that to my son the other day, he asked me what I thought was the most likely source of covid19. I said frankly I don't know, I know very little about viral engineering and epidemiology and all the various sciences and expertise you'd need to be able to form an interesting, valid opinion. He insisted: yeah but what's your opinion on what's more likely? Apparently the playground consensus is China lab leak (and something about Siberian prehistoric virus which sounds cool), and I was trying to get across that such opinions are for the birds: they heard it form their parents, who are also very unlikely to be virus experts, and so the opinion is as useful as used toilet roll - and possibly damaging, as it may encourage othering of China etc. So it's better NOT to have an opinion on something, on a subject on which you know literally nothing of value
Funkstain wrote:QFPT cos interested in how others would deal with their kids asking this sort of thingFunkstain wrote:Ah I getcha. yeah do your own due diligence is good advice usually was trying to explain that to my son the other day, he asked me what I thought was the most likely source of covid19. I said frankly I don't know, I know very little about viral engineering and epidemiology and all the various sciences and expertise you'd need to be able to form an interesting, valid opinion. He insisted: yeah but what's your opinion on what's more likely? Apparently the playground consensus is China lab leak (and something about Siberian prehistoric virus which sounds cool), and I was trying to get across that such opinions are for the birds: they heard it form their parents, who are also very unlikely to be virus experts, and so the opinion is as useful as used toilet roll - and possibly damaging, as it may encourage othering of China etc. So it's better NOT to have an opinion on something, on a subject on which you know literally nothing of value
I haven't got any idea what the protestors were doing before that video started so I've got no idea if that was proportionate or not.ZMM wrote:Wait are you for real, can't tell anymore. You think that treatment is justified??
And don't come at me with the "they are blocking" ambulances bullshit because they aren't.
You'd have thought the destruction and inconvenience of mass-flooding would be more of a pressing concern for any government but there you go
The internationally agreed threshold to prevent the Earth from spiraling into a new superheated era will be “passed for all practical purposes” by May, the man known as the godfather of climate science has warned.
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