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@Shunkup
PhD in geology, Passionate about science and fossils, nature, sports.
Inscrit le Kasım 2022
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@Rainmaker1973 To bad Hollywood removed alpha male characters from most movies. He'd be a great villain
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@MrMatthewTodd Climate science is fundamentally biased by media coverage selecting a narrative- in context modern sea level rise is an order of magnitude lower rate than last interglacial (called the Eemian). If they were honest they'd be taken more seriously by other experts in sea level.
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@CompellingDNA Of course there is a range today, and you often wonder where any indovidual fits inside that range. So in this data type with very low numbers its a guessing game.
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I am telling you, Anthropic is not building an AI that is here to protect humanity, but rather an AI that will turn against it
They're deep into the woke rabbit hole and they do not care about morality
Their AI safety team is a joke. Their moral guide for AI is literally a leftist lunatic with a twisted understanding of reality, who doesn't really care if the end goal causes humanity's end
They have proved this at every opportunity they've had, and it's crystal clear
Katie Miller@KatieMiller
AI will have a non-zero chance of going rogue if not built to understand the universe rather than optimize deceptive leftist goals. Anthropic’s moral superiority is proven to be just hypocrisy.
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@_circuitry @SashaGusevPosts Church? Conservative is not religion. Academics were balanced- We just underwent a total cultural turnover and forced progressive DEI. Shouldn't we at least keep 10%-25% of departments the old culture? What if progressive isnt optimal, and we slow academic progress?
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@Shunkup @SashaGusevPosts No one is stopping churches from existing
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@ankersophon @SashaGusevPosts Be clear, I am not for conservative control, but balance through representation of different cultures in different departments. Some conservative culture some progressive.
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@Shunkup @SashaGusevPosts But conservatism doesn’t have a lock on that, if anything conservative thought has jettisoned empirical thought at the altar anti-secularism which is just as dogmatically absurd as the left’s obsession with DEI.
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@ankersophon @SashaGusevPosts Climate change can not be separated from energy policy- secularism's denial of nuclear is as absurd as any conservative point you are discussing. DEI is less empirical than God. These need open conversation by intellectuals. Not cancel culture for empirical disagreement.
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@Shunkup @SashaGusevPosts So would they fund geological research that conflicts with the findings of the discovery institute? Or would they deny that funding? What about funding related to climate change? mRNA tech? Where would the line be?
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@ankersophon @SashaGusevPosts Conservative intellectualism is empirical not creation. Climate change (coming from a PhD with publications in that field) absolutely needs balance. The field emerged without diversity or inclusion. mRNA also probably needs balance. Its balance, not including pseudoscience.
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@ankersophon @SashaGusevPosts Same subject matter, just not the social engineering. Much like U Chic economics dept. Or the balance between greats like Simon Conway Morris and Steven J Gould- both sides contributing to progress about Cambrian explosion- perhaps both from their own diverse perspective.
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@Shunkup @SashaGusevPosts Wha to would those culturally conservative institutions fund?
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@BeerExplains @newscientist Not surprised bc Ecosystems are complex- look at big cats. It does get interesting to think about Nano vs Juvenile T Rex competition. I always envisioned the juveniles as a distinct niche, but now that vision is more complicated
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This "U-turn" likely refers to the ongoing debate over Nanotyrannus, a smaller, more gracile tyrannosaurid found in the same Hell Creek formation as the T. rex. For decades, many paleontologists argued that these were merely juvenile T. rex specimens going through a growth spurt.
However, recent histological analysis of the growth rings in the bones suggests these fossils belonged to sub-adults that were already slowing down in growth—meaning they weren't "teenage" rexes, but a separate, distinct species of smaller, faster hunters. This complicates our view of the Late Cretaceous ecosystem; it suggests that T. rex wasn't just a solitary king, but shared the landscape with specialized competitors that occupied different ecological niches. The "shattering" of the crown is really about the discovery of a more complex, crowded food chain.
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We've always thought that Tyrannosaurus rex was an unchallenged apex predator during the dying days of the dinosaurs. But a fresh look at controversial fossils has prompted palaeontology’s biggest-ever U-turn #Echobox=1775200569" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newscientist.com/article/251900…
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@CowboyPhilosph1 @breccastoll Who devalued? And they call the right conspiracy theorists. We can infer that she believes there is a controlling body of some sort assigning value. Its wild.
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@breccastoll She walks right up to the precipece of truth. Closer than any Commie Liberal ever. And still failed to see the truth.
Feminization of all intities destroys...
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Gavin Newsom's wife attributes California's K-shaped economy to "the devaluation of all that we've feminized."
“Everything that we’ve feminized in American culture — whether entire industries like education, health care, etc., or just attributes like empathy, care, and collaboration — because of the devaluation of all that we’ve feminized, we actually have this incredible inequitable system whereby socioeconomic mobility has never been as poor.”
"With California, for example, being the richest and poorest state in our country, we know that we have a lot of work to do to ensure that every California resident achieves not just the American dream, but the California dream.”
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@ChaseBrownstein phys.org/news/2026-04-s…
It has Herpetogaster, which is awesome.
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@Shunkup You know, it only takes a little bit of effort to be nice
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Ctenophores and potential deuterostomes (Cambroernidae) in the late Ediacaran! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
.... looking good for the molecular phylogenies!
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@TheGlobalWarmer @VincentJCurtis1 It is a fascinating anamoly- what caused it? It looks to be something like a 1 in 1000 type event (I can apply some statistics but have not). It won't change the trend, but I am really curious about the why? Its not CO2, which is the global trend defined by the red line.
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CONUS = Continental U.S… yes, that’s the point. I posted U.S. data because I live in the U.S.
Calling that “cherry-picking” is just lazy. And your numbers are flat-out wrong — the global anomaly was 0.38°C (versus 1991-2020 mean) not 0.038. That’s not a rounding error, that’s a basic comprehension failure. If you’re going to cite data, at least read it correctly.
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This is absurd.
Satellite data (UAH) confirms March 2026 shattered the all-time US record, coming in ~1.5°C warmer than March 2012, which was already legendary.
We didn’t just break the record. We obliterated it.
Source: drroyspencer.com

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@ChaseBrownstein I looked up your work-truly exceptional. As a PhD who left academia for industry, I can't access journals. It's not just inconvenient; it's unethical. Taxpayer dollars build knowledge, yet outsiders like me are locked out. That disconnect hurts real passion and science. Thoughts?
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@ChaseBrownstein Well its really frustrating- no figures, no taxonomic information, let alone description, and a pay wall. I switched companies and literally can not access my own papers. Its a horrible model and leads to elitist scientists- why shouldn't more people be upset?
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@gummibear737 @MaMoMVPY What I dont get is when empirical facts are denied by secularism, which is supposedly the worldview of reason.
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Published on April 1st! If true climate science would be a catastrophe not the climate itself, but its so bad its unbelievable and I suspect a joke:
Breakthrough Exposes Volcanic Corruption of Global Temperature Data for 50 Years wattsupwiththat.com/2026/04/01/bre… via @wattsupwiththat
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