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@_ChristJohnston

Life sciences, Comedy, Fad shaming, Critical thinking, Proud fair-weather fan, Guitar shredding, Singing and Songwriting.

Ontario, Canada Katılım Haziran 2013
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@reporterchris Classic Streisand Effect. Classic Tortorella: Ego first, hockey second.
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Chris Johnston@reporterchris·
The NHL has imposed significant punishments on the Vegas Golden Knights for "flagrant violations" of the league's playoff media regulations: Vegas forfeits its 2026 second-round draft pick and head coach John Tortorella is fined $100,000. The club had been warned previously
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@david_parker Most of the world envies the life of Canadians. This bubble-wrapped entitlement to want to leave when the going gets tough is the result of being too insulated from how the rest of the world lives to appreciate what you have. You're a poster child for selfishness and cowardice.
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David Parker@david_parker·
Best way to increase the number of Independence supporters in Alberta is to tell Albertans the can't even vote on it.
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@sidseixeiroshow @Sid_Seixeiro Well said. But I don't blame Marner at all. He just wasn't the player people wanted him to be in the playoffs. It's a different game. The media should say that more. Sure he's a well paid professional athlete, but he's still a human being. Matthews is American. Shit on him!
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Keegan Matheson@KeeganMatheson·
#BlueJays win, 14-1. They needed one like that. They were better than the Angels in every way today. They’re 18-21.
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@GadSaad @sapinker Intellectuals like @sapinker don't respect pseudo-intellectuals like @GadSaad because they don't care to persuade people they diagree with. They only preach in echo chambers to feed their egos. @GadSaad isn't the only one, he's just the clearest example of this behavior.
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Gad Saad@GadSaad·
By the way @sapinker, it might be courteous to tag me when speaking of me. Here is my tag: @GadSaad for future reference.
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Gad Saad@GadSaad·
Dear @sapinker, You are yet again unnecessarily bringing @realDonaldTrump into the conversation. Try to process the contents of my book without invoking your political orientation. The open border immigration policies that have taken place in the West are perfectly suicidal. You need to have the imagination to extrapolate from current realities to a far-away future to recognize the death spiral. You grew up in the warm succour of the West; I grew up in the Middle East. As a Jewish man, you may wish to reconsider your immense kindness and empathy toward those who would eradicate you in a heartbeat once the demographic realities are in their favour. I live in the real world and not in the ecosystem of the ivory tower where ideas are fully decoupled from reality. Shabbat shalom.
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@clairlemon Gad Saad is a cover band. A marauding pseudo-intellectual, only interested in persuasion insofar as it feeds his own ego. He's the PZ Myers of the right.
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Claire Lehmann@clairlemon·
"As a right-leaning person myself, Saad’s excruciating style actually made me empathise, to some extent, with left-wingers & how they view the Right. If the Left can suffer from suicidal empathy...then right-wingers can suffer from homicidal incuriosity" quillette.com/2026/05/06/pla…
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@clairlemon The Divided States of America loses war after war and then gets upset when much wiser educated countries - that so many Americans like to disrespect - don't join them in their failures.
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Claire Lehmann@clairlemon·
"The United States never lost a battle against North Vietnam, but the North still won the war. The United States never lost a battle against the Taliban, but the Taliban eventually prevailed in that conflict as well." quillette.com/2026/04/17/the…
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@cohler I find most people who post those quotes do not actually understand them and use them to defend their ignorance.
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Jonathan Cohler@cohler·
“There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus. Period.” —Michael Crichton 2003 Caltech Michelin Lecture “Aliens Cause Global Warming.” “Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.” —Richard Feynman 1966 lecture “What is Science?” delivered to the National Science Teachers Association
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@ArabellaF4 @cohler @PaulMBrisbane Consensus isn’t a scientific argument, depending on popularity, it’s the process of getting to a better explanation, not an end result. Once upon a time, scientific papers and consensus agreed that lobotomies were great. Consensus is dogma, an unquestionable religious belief.

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@cohler True, but if you don't know enough about a subject, the best you can do is to follow the consensus of experts when there is one. They could be wrong. But as a matter of probability, you're more likely to be closer to the truth. Those who think otherwise are dismissed as arrogant
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@mattwridley As usual, way too confident in your assertions about the future. A trademark of the untrustworthy.
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@clairlemon Haven't read their manuals. Just like virtually everyone on this fucking rock.
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@Noahpinion "All the leftists." Hitchens razor: "What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence" Noah suffers from the Tyranny of the Dichotomous Mind"
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@reporterchris Matthew Tkachuck is incapable of making such a decision. Ask Kyle Connor. It's ridiculous that he even wears a letter for the Divided States of America.
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Chris Johnston@reporterchris·
The hockey world has long known what Sidney Crosby is all about, but you won't find a better example of his selflessness than his decision to sit out today's Olympic gold-medal final rather than forcing it while injured. Crosby put his teammates, team and country 🇨🇦 first.
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@CBCOlympics @TeamHoman @BRPglobal Does the entire team get a medal or just Homan? It's hard to tell when sports journalism seems to focus more on the skip with their headlines than is warranted.
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@mattwridley Yup. Many people around the world were quite silent as Hitler began his rise to power. They shouldn't have been. Yet we still see the same silent behavior today - even by those drawing attention to this fact. Tribalism can turn even smart people very stupid.
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@annakaharris @bigthink I think we need to ask ourselves why we assume consciousness is so special. Rare? Maybe. But maybe it's no more special than a Quasar.
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Annaka Harris@annakaharris·
From @bigthink: "Our intuitions about consciousness may be deeply wrong: We tend to trust our intuitions about consciousness, but feeling convinced is not the same as being right..." bigthink.com/series/the-big…
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@Sportsnet it's official. @AM34 is, without a doubt, THE most pusillanimous Captain in the NHL.
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Sportsnet@Sportsnet·
Matthew Knies and Nico Hischier drop the gloves off the draw 👊
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@coldxman Why would it be bad if all of Earth's life were somehow wiped out in a painless instant, without warning, by something inanimate and without intention? Good luck.
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Coleman Hughes@coldxman·
I’m doing an Ask Me Anything podcast very soon. Post your questions here!
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