Here’s a strange one I don’t necessarily disagree with (but I’m not sure I agree either:)
“Jazz is an American form of classical music”
According to someone that was in a music history textbook (don’t remember the country but it was in Europe.)
When I was in high school, I heard someone say “I don’t know why poverty exists when we can just 3d print money”. What the 3d has to do with this, I do not know
In my circles I’m the one with the strage takes. For example I don’t believe in free will. I believe we’re probably living in a simulation and if we ever create AGI it’s most likely going to end us. Also we’re probably the only intelligent life in the universe.
we’re probably the only intelligent life in the universe.
Fairly boring simulation then isn’t it?
I’ve seen so many dog shit/brain dead takes on Reddit about various topics that I don’t think I can even remember any of them specifically.
So instead, I’m choosing this take on climate change by Ben Shapiro.
It doesn’t matter what side of this argument you fall on. Who is buying a house in an area that is slowly being flooded?
Did you honestly not understand what he means?
I don’t think anyone understands what he means, least of all himself.
Also he needs to Google “straw man”.
How is that meme not a straw man?
Because his explanation is bullocks. The whole argument is.
What exactly is bullocks about it?
The sea level doesn’t just rise one day. It’s a slow process that’ll happen over decades. Many of the people living in those houses now probably want to sell in the near future while they still can. They might not get back what they paid but in 5 years you’re not going to get even that so better cut your losses. At some point the coastline gets so close that those houses will just be abandoned, demolished and people will have moved further inland.
It’s focused on some ideal coastline that fits the argument well.
In reality you will see storms that set underwater whole metropoles repeatedly, think like New Orleans a few years back, but on a yearly base.
And when it comes to the really big metropoles in Asia, they don’t have much options to properly relocate millions of people at ones.
The likes of Shapiro won’t welcome them in the USA, even if they promise to stay in the rural centers.
I’m having some trouble understanding what exactly is the confusion here. If the sea level rises it’s not like people will just keep living underwater. They have to move somewhere else. Entire cities and towns has to be relocated elsewhere. Besides building massive sea walls there’s just no other option. This in no way implies it’s not going to absolutely suck for the people living there. Ofcourse it does.
What exactly is it that Ben is wrong about here? This is really confusing to me
