olofscience

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Content

    2,540

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    11

  • Feedback

    N/A

Everything posted by olofscience

  1. olofscience
    Given that your position is the climate is BOTH changing and NOT changing, you've forfeited the chance to be right. What you are though, is irrelevant. The world has passed you by, technology will march on and the low price of oil reflects the new reality. We will buy more EVs, aircraft will become electric, and you will just be an old man refusing to let go of a fading era. And guess what. I used to work in the oil industry (metallurgical engineer monitoring corrosion in refinery heat exchangers and pipework).
  2. olofscience
    Love the conservative "can do" attitude pro tip: stop getting in the way.
  3. olofscience
  4. olofscience
    You're both mistaken. The world is laughing at him.
  5. olofscience
    I think the main point is that it's not natural. It's one thing to make fun of a person who does something silly to their appearance, and a completely different thing to make fun of a person's natural skin colour.
  6. olofscience
    That's his natural colour??? Maybe it's just me but the skin around his eyes is uncannily pale and the tan lines don't look natural at all. His hands are way paler than his face too.
  7. olofscience
    I think you're the one who does that.
  8. olofscience
    It's why we're called "Great" Britain. More seriously, it's because the UK government tried half-hearted contact tracing until around March 11th but didn't back it up with testing. Then people were arriving from all over the world, especially Italy and Spain, without any testing, screening, or self-isolation. Then there was about a 2 week delay since the government seemed to think "herd immunity" was the right strategy, if only to play the maverick as opposed to what the other European countries were doing. Only when the Imperial College model was released that they realised it was a stupid strategy, then made a u-turn and locked down on 23rd March. The thing with exponential growth is that the slightest delay will punish you severely. They're under-testing for a reason, it's to hide the fact that we're a lot worse than Spain or Italy. We've overtaken Spain in deaths, we'll overtake Italy within the next 3 days.
  9. olofscience
    I know, I know, we need to lower our standards for the US...
  10. olofscience
    If the US had kept to the same level of deaths per capita as South Korea, there would be 1,659 deaths in total by now. Currently it's 62,378. South Korea even had that "oh no" moment when 1 person attended an event with 9000+ other people. Yet they kept deaths under 250.
  11. olofscience
    The Snowden leaks about the NSA spying on Americans showed that capability is not an issue, and the response showed that most people were okay with it to combat islamic terrorism. As for leadership...where? Have you found any? We can't just claim hindsight when there was the SARS outbreak in 2003, Swine flu in 2009, MERS in 2012, Ebola in 2014, Bill Gates warning about a pandemic in 2015. If there's another new virus in 2 years' time, I really hope someone with a brain is in charge.
  12. olofscience
    What were the 2 impedances?
  13. olofscience
    Sorry, as much as some conservatives like conspiracy theories, the left isn't centrally organised and I like to do my own thing
  14. olofscience
    I don't blame Trump for the coronavirus. But I blame him for the incompetent way he dealt with it. See the difference?
  15. olofscience
    They did use surveillance in South Korea that might sit uncomfortably with americans. But here in the UK, we have way more CCTV than South Korea. The only difference is that the South Korean government was actually competent at using it (alongside testing). But if South Korea had DZs they would be jumping now. Would you accept a bit more government surveillance for more freedom to go out? No guarantee though, as the UK example shows. You also need a government who are not complete idiots.
  16. olofscience
    Yes, I just read that article. If you read it again, there was nothing about universal restrictions or closures. It describes how they tracked down the few cases they had and responded really quickly, but for the 99% of the country that wasn't affected, life went on as normal.
  17. olofscience
    No they did not cancel schools. Restrictions were placed only on one city, Daegu. Most of South Korea is operating close to normality, and that includes its main city Seoul. The US lockdown is far more strict than what they have done in South Korea.
  18. olofscience
    Are you sure? In the UK we're on track to overtake Italy in deaths soon. I think you have this backwards, they didn't lock down at all. They didn't have to. Same with Taiwan.
  19. olofscience
    Yeah but if you want to be the best in the world, you can't make exceptions to who you compare to.
  20. olofscience
    Many of those are just prayer rooms, and those with photos just look like ordinary buildings which are probably just repurposed. No wonder I didn't see any when I was there. The UK has strict laws on the appearance of buildings. You can buy an old church, but the architectural modifications you're allowed to make to it is very, very limited, and almost under no circumstances will you be allowed to demolish it. In the same vein, when you build a new structure strict rules are placed on its appearance. Edinburgh is one of my favourite cities, and I say Mark's allegations are complete rubbish. Was it intentional? No idea, but bullshit is bullshit.
  21. olofscience
    Hopefully.
  22. olofscience
    Although I don't live in Edinburgh, I have several friends who live there, and I've visited a few times. I don't even remember seeing a single mosque, and there are LOTS of churches there. There was also the outcry after Trump said there were "no-go" zones in London and Birmingham if I remember correctly. There are valid reasons to criticise Islam, so why completely make things up? It just makes you untrustworthy.
  23. olofscience
    Hanlon's razor: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." I never assumed malice with Trump's statements, and so far I haven't seen any articles that say he was malicious. However, he is very very fucking stupid - see Hanlon's razor above.
  24. olofscience
    I'll save you the wait - I've done that ages ago with the Tweeter in chief, and it's painfully obvious to me how stupid he is. Even now, when confronted by ridiculous media headlines, I head for his Twitter account just to check if they're embellishing or mis-interpreting. Usually not. You're welcome.
  25. olofscience
    Most of the media are private, for-profit companies if I'm not mistaken. How could we demand anything of them if we don't pay them? The closest you can get to influencing them via the free market is boycotting their advertisers. So either: go to twitter and get it direct from the president boycott media's advertisers get government to regulate them (and possibly violate 1st Amendment) I think the 1st option is the most practical, feel free to try the 2nd, and I am very much against the 3rd option.