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December 5, 2010
YouTube: Where the insane comments are without limit
There are three theories: 1) the ice from the North is heading south due to global warming; 2) Parts of Europe are actually on the verge of sinking from tatonic plate shifts resulting from the earth's current position in the galaxy (we are lining up with the center) and; 3) yes, the oil in the Gulf has created havoc on the Gulf stream that has affected its ability to take the warm waters to Northern Europe. So much going on...likely all three are impacting.I'm kinda partial to the "death from the galaxy" concept myself. At least it's freshly minted madness.
Posted by Vanderleun at December 5, 2010 6:32 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Maybe it is just a bad winter! I mean really, it is winter and it snows a lot and people wonder why?
Posted by: checkers at December 5, 2010 7:06 AM
Now that is a great example of Dunning Kruger right there.
If you were told this by some old man in ratty clothes who slept under a freeway and collected tin cans for his sustenance, you'd write it off as the ramblings of a schizoid. I'd lay odds the author of this very comment would dismiss it that way. It would look like what it is. There wouldn't even be any reason to so much as begin to question it.
But people log on to blogs and serve up schizoid ramblings. Once they're there in black and white on a computer screen, they seem to make so much more sense. And they must make sense! The guy just got done typing it in himself, and it's his name next to it. So it has to be right.
DK Patient Zero was a bank robber who failed to properly test the theory that lemon juice rubbed on your face will defeat the security cameras. His incompetence as a bank robber was related to his incompetence as a lemon-juice-camera-theory-tester guy, which in turn was related to his incompetence as a guy who can recognize his own incompetence. His theory failed, he got busted, his name was put in the paper, and a Nobel-prize-winning theory was born.
Posted by: Morgan K Freeberg at December 5, 2010 8:34 AM
As an aside: I am not a mental health professional and I do not play one on teevee...but the comment beneath this one, that is in response to it ("if there are two place in the Universe, namely Love and Fear, I know where I want to be!"), I would characterize as a demonstration of prerational thinking.
These two things are more dangerous in quantity than in quality. This shit is more of a threat to our continuing existence than climate change, and maybe more than world terrorism.
Posted by: Morgan K Freeberg at December 5, 2010 8:41 AM
everyone is an expert now, especially on youtube - I still have nightmares about the exchanges I had there during the last presidential election.
Global warming, they say? Funny, you should hear how the left-leaning northern transplants here in Central NC enthusiastically, if not arrogantly, declare their indifference to the 1" of snow that fell yesterday. What's that about?
I was on the east coast of Scotland over 14 or 15 years ago during a Christmas freeze.. pre-"global warming". No tectonic shifts, that I know of..
All that recycling during my tree-hugging college days couldn't save me from that storm or last winter's freeze here in NC.. so I'm just going to watch my kids build snowmen.
Posted by: Red Carolina at December 5, 2010 11:35 AM
Silly me, but don't tectonic shifts take at least millennia to be just barely noticed, and eons to show dramatic shifts?
YouTube "experts" may be dumbasses, but how do you explain the stupid headline at "LiveScience.com" claiming that "Global Warming Could Cause Earthquakes"?
Posted by: Don Rodrigo at December 5, 2010 12:06 PM