RE: Duck boat sinks.... and OP/ED
July 20, 2018 at 2:20 pm
(This post was last modified: July 20, 2018 at 2:23 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(July 20, 2018 at 1:59 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(July 20, 2018 at 11:36 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: So you will opportunistically trod any disaster underfoot as a soap box from atop which you would advocate your political view, regardless of whether your view could even in theory have prevented or mitigated the disaster.
You come across very much like the religious fanatic to whom anything is evidence of his god. To you it seems any disaster is basis to shriek your view is right.
Yea, that is the same ignorance as when climate change deniers ignore the long term data, and say, "today was cold so therefore climate change is a hoax".
LONG TERM you cannot keep advocating speed and at the same time ditch oversight. It may be great for short term profits, but the faster you go and especially without regulations, the more things can go wrong.
Apollo 13 did not get back safely without redundancy. In fact, the movie does a disservice to the reality of the real event. The movie would have you believe that everything was on the fly, when the majority of the "what ifs" that did go wrong, were PLANNED OUT PRIOR TO THE LAUNCH.
There is no fucking excuse for that duck boat to go out. PERIOD! Even a non boat captain can watch the local weather and see the high waves and wind speed and decide not to take their private non commercial boat out. Even with open burn of leaves in your yard, all you have to do IS FUCKING LOOK ON THE WEB.
Knowing how many times as a delivery driver during snow storms my pizza chain managers PRESSURED ME to take risks and how many times I slid off the road and almost KILLED MYSELF, I can very easily understand that the Duck Boat driver still did it because he didn't want to get fired.
Really? Using phenomenon demonstrably unrelated to climate change as a platform for discussing climate change is a sign of knowledge and judgement in your opinion, then?
Well, a gamma ray burst occurred 6 billion years ago and it’s light just reached us yesterday, right during the middle of a Taylor Swift (Not ABBA) concert. Now run with it, convince me why that is an occasion to discuss regulation and climate change.
