If you can have a full conversation and write an unrelated email at the same time without sounding distracted on the phone then you're a better multitasker then I am. I can respond to dozens of text messages and emails in the time it takes to have one phone conversation giving full attention to each message. But phones waste my time.
I can only really do one thing at a time. I multitask by switching rapidly between tasks. But each task gets full attention.
When I get a phone call, I can't do much else without giving less attention to the phone call which means I might miss part of the call or otherwise offend the caller which is not acceptable.
As a result, the phone call wastes time. Multiple people have backed that up and verified my experience in this matter.
Why the insult, Omnichad? Why be a douchebag? Because that's what you did... you know that right? Were you even aware of that or were you just so indifferent to your own behavior that your inner douchebag just leaked out?
Don't get mad... I'm not the one that acted like a douchebag. I'm just the guy that was sadly targeted by one.
But if you want specifics, LAUSD is pretty much designed to shelter teachers, schools, administrators, and policy from any sort of review or auditing mechanism imaginable. To such an extent that it really isn't possible to for parents to have an impact on schools short of circumventing the system at a local level which is something my neighborhood is good at. Or very very serious legal action that gets the school board to comply because if they don't the law suits will be hilarious.
Look, sometimes these software disputes are crap. But sometimes someone stole another person's code. And in those situations, I don't really care if you're customers were unhappy with a loss of service due to stolen software being pulled.
Stop it. Pay for it.
How the hell is anyone supposed to make a living at this if everyone steals? Its madness.
Yes, the issue for me however is the useless phone conversations. I can hold 20 different text conversations at once as well as manage many things through email. But when I get a phone call, I can't do anything else. Which means if they're wasting my time they're REALLY wasting my time.
I think many companies would improve efficiency by switching to internal instant message systems so coworkers could share information, ask questions, instruct, etc quickly without tying up a lot of time.
I hate phones. Phones are stupid. I can see using them as a last resort or if something is really important. But if you're just doing day to day communications they're a giant waste of time. Texts are faster, less disruptive, and frequently more productive.
In a text, people get to the point immediately. They don't spend five minutes with rambling irrelevancies and they don't spend another five minutes after the main point with more rambling irrelevancies.
Sometimes you need to get through those rambling irrelevancies just so people can say them and we can move beyond them. But being burdened with them in every single conversation is annoying.
actually it is pretty acute because if the school were actually bad then it would die.
Yes, making just ONE parent unhappy is unlikely to be a threat to the school. however, making a sizable majority unhappy would be an existential threat.
Public schools can and do survive for DECADES with a sizable majority of their student population failing and a sizable majority of their parent's unhappy.
Private schools die in those situations.
And the fact that they have a back log of people that want to apply tells you that they have a backlog of customers that want their service. That is a testament to the perceived quality.
Which is why the vouchers were such a great idea and were so popular amongst poor inner city families. They could afford with those vouchers to bypass the public school system that had failed them and send their children to a quality environment.
Teacher's unions killed it because they see the poor children as their property.
They bought the politicians and the politicians put leashes around the children and handed it to the unions.
Bought and sold. No other way to see it if you have all the facts.
We have some public schools that do only accept certain students and are very happy to kick problem children out.
They're exclusively superior organizations. They were set up by some of the school boards to allow gifted children to excel without being held back by disruptions.
In any case, good schools are kept good because the children contributed are better and the parents remain involved.
Saying that the parents are more a problem then a help ignores the fact that were the parents not involved the system would and does go to hell.
I appreciate that being held to account is annoying. Everyone finds that annoying in their jobs. It is however the only way any of us are ultimately held to any standard what so ever. You will be judged. Get over it.
unfortunately we've tried that with busing. It doesn't work.
What happens mostly is that the bused students self segregate in the new school and don't mix with the higher functioning children.
I had that experience in high school. The bused kids all went to the dumb classes. We never saw them outside of gym class.
Were they not allowed to attend our classes? No. Anyone could attend the higher end classes. They just flunked out of them or never tried.
So what did busing them to that school accomplish?
What's more, they generally didn't trust or like or respect us. So what did they learn from us? If the whole point is make them more like the higher functioning children then how does putting them in that environment make that happen? All it did was make them feel insecure and resentful. And believe me, we didn't do anything to degenerate them. For one thing, they were sort of scary. For another, we really weren't bad kids. But despite all that, it was an uncomfortable experience for both groups because the local kids felt these bused kids were imposed outsiders that sat in exclusively dumb classes. And the bused kids thought the local kids were snooty superior jerks.
Again, there was some positive mixing on the sports teams but that was about it.
The sad truth is that most of the system is actually just fine and has always been fine.
We have a portion of the system that is failing. But its a demographic issue and not strictly an education issue. A whole segment of society is failing. On every level.
In every measurable way they could fail, they have failed. Utterly.
And when you add their statistics into the whole, the whole's statistics are bad. But if you remove that portion the stats are actually quite good and have always been quite good.
THAT is the politically incorrect reality. That in fact, the failure is uneven. That the failure is specific to specific communities and generally doesn't cross the street.
Fix those communities which extends well beyond the education issues or give up.
To a certain extent we're already doing this... the failing schools are dumb kid schools... the smart kids don't go there. The only difference is that its not acceptable to admit the point.
The American education system still works just fine for smart kids. It fails kids with lots of problems but in large part because it has unrealistic expectations. Rather then preparing those kids for college, it should rather give them some sort of trade skill. Say what you will about that, they'll be able to support themselves as respectable productive members of society that way. And all things being equal, that's really the point of school in the first place.
Every time you find a young man or woman entering the adult world without the skills to survive, that is a failure of education. The reasons for that can be complex but I think we've lost sight of the point of education.
It is not to nurture our inner snowflake. It to make people ready to take their place in society.
As such, basic skills should be primary along with whatever is needed to put them on course rise to whatever level they're able. Not everyone is going to have the same potential. And its a fact that people from lower economic backgrounds are statistically going to have lower potentials. This isn't their fault. Its genetics in many cases. Smart parents have smart children and dumb parents have dumb children. That's politically incorrect but STATISTICALLY valid. Obviously, smart parents can have dumb children and vice versa.
The system in all cases should place children where they are most apt to succeed.
If we truly care and love these children, we should first seek to service their interests. Often, the interests of the children will be different from our own political issues. We must rise above such pettiness and do what is right for the children.
The children need education that will ACTUALLY help them for the rest of their lives indifferent to what any other party finds convenient.
And this is why teachers and the education system has to be held accountable. You clearly and your mother clearly holds the children and parents in contempt.
That's fine. The feeling is apparently mutual. And their attention to your or your mother's administration probably forces the school to take the parents seriously.
You f' with them and they f' with you back. And from that do we learn to respect each other. Not as human beings but as sources of pain and inconvenience.
I'm sorry if this comes off as hostile to you. But you clearly do not respect the students or the parents. You are there to serve them. If you don't want to serve their needs, then find another line of work. End of story.
The private schools understand that in their bones. They know that they either deliver a top quality education that meets the standards of the parents or they're out a customer.
It focuses the mind. A major issue with public education is that they do not care if you're unhappy. They do not care if they're doing a bad job. They do not care if you want to go to another school because none of it matters to their paycheck.
Fail as a teacher? No problem. Fail as a school? No problem.
We had a social studies teacher in Los Angeles that didn't know how to read. Yeah. And was he fired? Nope. They're teaching him to read so he can resume work.
You care about the teachers and you care about the administrators. They're real people to you. The children and parents are just chaff for the mill. Fodder for your machine.
And that's fine. You're entitled to whatever opinion you like... but if you hold those you serve in contempt you might be in the wrong line of work.
Not only that, private schools know that they have no hold on students. They piss off the parents and the kids get put into another school. End of story.
A big issue with public schools... especially bad ones is that they feel they are entitled to student enrollment indifferent to their incompetence and corruption. And more importantly, they believe they're entitled to funding despite not actually doing their jobs.
In some places it is great. In some places it is a horror show.
I went to both public and private school growing up and had a pretty good experience in both. That said, the schools I went to were top quality.
I did not go to an inner city day care high school. And that is really what we're talking about here.
Most public suburban and rural public schools are actually pretty good. Why? The community has some control over them and the families that use the schools are involved in them. This is not the case in the urban schools. Parent teacher participation is very low. There is no school community interaction. And parents have very little control over whether the teachers are doing a good job or not.
In suburban schools, you tend to get a greater degree of autonomy from the larger school boards as well.
Look, the statistics on public schools are HIGHLY determined by demographics. If you're a middle class family in a middle class area with middle class students then you're probably going to get a pretty good education. However, if its a very poor area with parents that didn't graduate high school or might not be able to read english... then chances are the school is going to be a nightmare.
And if you happen to live in such a school district but CAN read and DO want a decent education for your child... then typically you need to send them to private school. No choice in the matter. Just what is.
My limiter would be turned off about six seconds after fitting.
Oh they'd test the car to see if it had been tampered with? Then I'd damage it in a way that could be inadvertent and undetectable by an unaware driver... with the result that I maintained plausible deniability.
You do not control my car. I control my car. I will follow the traffic laws but you're not going to tell me when I put my foot on the breaks.
You cannot say on the one hand that we can't have control over our public schools and then on the other hand that we have to be sent to them.
And yes, we've tried to reform our public schools but they won't let us do it.
How hard is it to fire a pedophile teacher? Nearly impossible. How hard is it to fire a bad teacher? How hard is it to put in hiring standards for teachers?
We've tried to put this in place for decades and the schools, teacher's unions, and politicians have stopped us. So fine. You don't want us to have any control over these schools. Mission accomplished. But why would I feel morally compelled to stay in the system if you're made every effort to systematically marginalize me?
You cannot have both. Either you let me have influence over the system... and I will change it so that I find it acceptable... OR you do not get me in the system.
Choose. Effectively, either the teacher's unions need to get neutered or you can expect intelligent parents to choose other schools when public alternatives are unacceptable. We are not sacrificing our children on the alter of your corruption and incompetence.
Its a very silly ban. Obviously its bad to use weapons on civilians. That is bad. But that applies to ANY weapon.
Weapons restrictions against soldiers? Absurd. There are no limits.
And even if the US passes such a rule or the UN passes such a rule... in any real war, the enemy isn't going to care. Because what is the downside of using such banned weapons? What are you going to do? Go to war with them? Oh wait, you already are going to war with them... utterly unenforceable.
When people give money to one of these projects, it is a an agreement between fans and developer.
Is it legally binding? No. And that might be part of the problem. The fans were dumb enough to think they didn't need an ability to legally compel the contract.
If fans have no expectation of things actually getting done they're not going to contribute to these projects.
I've personally given a few thousand dollars to various kickstarter projects and all of them have lived up to their obligations.
If they don't, I absolutely have a right to feel betrayed. This is precisely why publishers hold developers by the nuts. They put real money on the table to get a job done and they expect value for money.
The whole kickstarter/crowdfunding system will die if developers do not deliver and contributors see themselves as idiots of even trying.
A developer that does not respect his fan base does not deserve to be funded. End of story.
See, you say things like "enough climate scientists agree" and then you say we're going to starve if we don't sign off on your agenda.
That's actually a contradiction of the current balance.
While most climate scientists agree AGW is happening and is a problem, the actual consequences of AGW and how it will effect our civilization are extremely controversial AMONGST the climate scientists.
There are some that offer images of doom... our whole species going extinct as famine, war, pestilence, and death consume us to the last screaming child. Then others say effects will be very mild with areas experiencing changes in climate conditions that aren't either good or bad but simply different.
I'm not averaging these predictions. Someone is right and someone is wrong. I'd like to know who because the damage to my civilization from this situation is relevant to how highly I will prioritize resources to solving the problem. If the problem does not pose a serious threat to my civilization then I'm not going to take it very seriously. If it poses a major threat then I'm going to take it a lot more seriously then I think you can even comprehend.
Stop and think for a moment what we would do if we believed that the only way to save the world and future generations was to stop the carbon economy?
Grasp that incredible atrocities could be justified in the name of species survival. Grasp further that such atrocities would probably be required to get the carbon economy to shut down to the most extreme levels the climate scientists say we must meet.
As it is, the problem the climate scientists have is the world is not warming right now and hasn't been warming for over a decade. You're probably too brainwashed to be aware of that embarrassing fact. I don't say that with malice or spite. You just strike me as a well meaning though indoctrinated and not particularly free thinking individual. As a result, you believe what you're told by authority figures without personal consideration, evaluation, or questioning. And when you're young and don't know anything that's a reasonable policy especially when guided by people that actually care about you. But once you become an adult such attitudes are a liability.
Every day there are people working angles. Trying to scam some money off of you one way or nickle and dime you another. Every level of adult society does it to every other level of adult society. Those that are better at it tend to profit beyond their contribution to society while those that are inferior at it tend to be taken for chumps.
So long story short, if you want to take control of global industry, impose an extremely harsh tax regime on top f an already over taxed economy, disrupt our industrial and technological supply chains, put BILLIONS at risk of starvation, etc... I need something more solid then "this group of experts agree".
I really doubt their objection to the vaccinations had anything to do with religion.
From what I saw, they read something that associated Autism with the vaccinations and believed that.
That is not a religious position. Its a false opinion but it has no theistic basis or moral basis.
I read it. Its not a religious issue.
I suspect that they might not trust the government or might fear some sort of government conspiracy on the matter. Which is paranoid and wrong in this instance. But that's more ideological then it is religious.
What you might want to look at here is why they have this distrust of the government and ignore the religion aspect since it isn't the common denominator.
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Its going on in most metropolitan school districts. You're seeing this is chicago. You're seeing this in New York. you're seeing this in Miami.
its happening in them all.
The rural and suburban systems are mostly fine. The big centralized hyper dense school districts are a hellscape.
If you can have a full conversation and write an unrelated email at the same time without sounding distracted on the phone then you're a better multitasker then I am. I can respond to dozens of text messages and emails in the time it takes to have one phone conversation giving full attention to each message. But phones waste my time.
I can only really do one thing at a time. I multitask by switching rapidly between tasks. But each task gets full attention.
When I get a phone call, I can't do much else without giving less attention to the phone call which means I might miss part of the call or otherwise offend the caller which is not acceptable.
As a result, the phone call wastes time. Multiple people have backed that up and verified my experience in this matter.
Why the insult, Omnichad? Why be a douchebag? Because that's what you did... you know that right? Were you even aware of that or were you just so indifferent to your own behavior that your inner douchebag just leaked out?
Don't get mad... I'm not the one that acted like a douchebag. I'm just the guy that was sadly targeted by one.
Pretty much any major metropolitan school board.
But if you want specifics, LAUSD is pretty much designed to shelter teachers, schools, administrators, and policy from any sort of review or auditing mechanism imaginable. To such an extent that it really isn't possible to for parents to have an impact on schools short of circumventing the system at a local level which is something my neighborhood is good at. Or very very serious legal action that gets the school board to comply because if they don't the law suits will be hilarious.
That's where we are at this point.
Look, sometimes these software disputes are crap. But sometimes someone stole another person's code. And in those situations, I don't really care if you're customers were unhappy with a loss of service due to stolen software being pulled.
Stop it. Pay for it.
How the hell is anyone supposed to make a living at this if everyone steals? Its madness.
Yes, the issue for me however is the useless phone conversations. I can hold 20 different text conversations at once as well as manage many things through email. But when I get a phone call, I can't do anything else. Which means if they're wasting my time they're REALLY wasting my time.
I think many companies would improve efficiency by switching to internal instant message systems so coworkers could share information, ask questions, instruct, etc quickly without tying up a lot of time.
Even in regards to the pedophiles, the school board and teacher's unions will cover for them harder then the Vatican ever covered for pedo priests.
I hate phones. Phones are stupid. I can see using them as a last resort or if something is really important. But if you're just doing day to day communications they're a giant waste of time. Texts are faster, less disruptive, and frequently more productive.
In a text, people get to the point immediately. They don't spend five minutes with rambling irrelevancies and they don't spend another five minutes after the main point with more rambling irrelevancies.
Sometimes you need to get through those rambling irrelevancies just so people can say them and we can move beyond them. But being burdened with them in every single conversation is annoying.
actually it is pretty acute because if the school were actually bad then it would die.
Yes, making just ONE parent unhappy is unlikely to be a threat to the school. however, making a sizable majority unhappy would be an existential threat.
Public schools can and do survive for DECADES with a sizable majority of their student population failing and a sizable majority of their parent's unhappy.
Private schools die in those situations.
And the fact that they have a back log of people that want to apply tells you that they have a backlog of customers that want their service. That is a testament to the perceived quality.
Which is why the vouchers were such a great idea and were so popular amongst poor inner city families. They could afford with those vouchers to bypass the public school system that had failed them and send their children to a quality environment.
Teacher's unions killed it because they see the poor children as their property.
They bought the politicians and the politicians put leashes around the children and handed it to the unions.
Bought and sold. No other way to see it if you have all the facts.
We have some public schools that do only accept certain students and are very happy to kick problem children out.
They're exclusively superior organizations. They were set up by some of the school boards to allow gifted children to excel without being held back by disruptions.
In any case, good schools are kept good because the children contributed are better and the parents remain involved.
Saying that the parents are more a problem then a help ignores the fact that were the parents not involved the system would and does go to hell.
I appreciate that being held to account is annoying. Everyone finds that annoying in their jobs. It is however the only way any of us are ultimately held to any standard what so ever. You will be judged. Get over it.
unfortunately we've tried that with busing. It doesn't work.
What happens mostly is that the bused students self segregate in the new school and don't mix with the higher functioning children.
I had that experience in high school. The bused kids all went to the dumb classes. We never saw them outside of gym class.
Were they not allowed to attend our classes? No. Anyone could attend the higher end classes. They just flunked out of them or never tried.
So what did busing them to that school accomplish?
What's more, they generally didn't trust or like or respect us. So what did they learn from us? If the whole point is make them more like the higher functioning children then how does putting them in that environment make that happen? All it did was make them feel insecure and resentful. And believe me, we didn't do anything to degenerate them. For one thing, they were sort of scary. For another, we really weren't bad kids. But despite all that, it was an uncomfortable experience for both groups because the local kids felt these bused kids were imposed outsiders that sat in exclusively dumb classes. And the bused kids thought the local kids were snooty superior jerks.
Again, there was some positive mixing on the sports teams but that was about it.
The sad truth is that most of the system is actually just fine and has always been fine.
We have a portion of the system that is failing. But its a demographic issue and not strictly an education issue. A whole segment of society is failing. On every level.
Economically, educationally, socially, politically, artistically.
In every measurable way they could fail, they have failed. Utterly.
And when you add their statistics into the whole, the whole's statistics are bad. But if you remove that portion the stats are actually quite good and have always been quite good.
THAT is the politically incorrect reality. That in fact, the failure is uneven. That the failure is specific to specific communities and generally doesn't cross the street.
Fix those communities which extends well beyond the education issues or give up.
To a certain extent we're already doing this... the failing schools are dumb kid schools... the smart kids don't go there. The only difference is that its not acceptable to admit the point.
The American education system still works just fine for smart kids. It fails kids with lots of problems but in large part because it has unrealistic expectations. Rather then preparing those kids for college, it should rather give them some sort of trade skill. Say what you will about that, they'll be able to support themselves as respectable productive members of society that way. And all things being equal, that's really the point of school in the first place.
Every time you find a young man or woman entering the adult world without the skills to survive, that is a failure of education. The reasons for that can be complex but I think we've lost sight of the point of education.
It is not to nurture our inner snowflake. It to make people ready to take their place in society.
As such, basic skills should be primary along with whatever is needed to put them on course rise to whatever level they're able. Not everyone is going to have the same potential. And its a fact that people from lower economic backgrounds are statistically going to have lower potentials. This isn't their fault. Its genetics in many cases. Smart parents have smart children and dumb parents have dumb children. That's politically incorrect but STATISTICALLY valid. Obviously, smart parents can have dumb children and vice versa.
The system in all cases should place children where they are most apt to succeed.
If we truly care and love these children, we should first seek to service their interests. Often, the interests of the children will be different from our own political issues. We must rise above such pettiness and do what is right for the children.
The children need education that will ACTUALLY help them for the rest of their lives indifferent to what any other party finds convenient.
And this is why teachers and the education system has to be held accountable. You clearly and your mother clearly holds the children and parents in contempt.
That's fine. The feeling is apparently mutual. And their attention to your or your mother's administration probably forces the school to take the parents seriously.
You f' with them and they f' with you back. And from that do we learn to respect each other. Not as human beings but as sources of pain and inconvenience.
I'm sorry if this comes off as hostile to you. But you clearly do not respect the students or the parents. You are there to serve them. If you don't want to serve their needs, then find another line of work. End of story.
The private schools understand that in their bones. They know that they either deliver a top quality education that meets the standards of the parents or they're out a customer.
It focuses the mind. A major issue with public education is that they do not care if you're unhappy. They do not care if they're doing a bad job. They do not care if you want to go to another school because none of it matters to their paycheck.
Fail as a teacher? No problem. Fail as a school? No problem.
We had a social studies teacher in Los Angeles that didn't know how to read. Yeah. And was he fired? Nope. They're teaching him to read so he can resume work.
You care about the teachers and you care about the administrators. They're real people to you. The children and parents are just chaff for the mill. Fodder for your machine.
And that's fine. You're entitled to whatever opinion you like... but if you hold those you serve in contempt you might be in the wrong line of work.
Just saying.
Not only that, private schools know that they have no hold on students. They piss off the parents and the kids get put into another school. End of story.
A big issue with public schools... especially bad ones is that they feel they are entitled to student enrollment indifferent to their incompetence and corruption. And more importantly, they believe they're entitled to funding despite not actually doing their jobs.
That's the thing with public education.
In some places it is great. In some places it is a horror show.
I went to both public and private school growing up and had a pretty good experience in both. That said, the schools I went to were top quality.
I did not go to an inner city day care high school. And that is really what we're talking about here.
Most public suburban and rural public schools are actually pretty good. Why? The community has some control over them and the families that use the schools are involved in them. This is not the case in the urban schools. Parent teacher participation is very low. There is no school community interaction. And parents have very little control over whether the teachers are doing a good job or not.
In suburban schools, you tend to get a greater degree of autonomy from the larger school boards as well.
Look, the statistics on public schools are HIGHLY determined by demographics. If you're a middle class family in a middle class area with middle class students then you're probably going to get a pretty good education. However, if its a very poor area with parents that didn't graduate high school or might not be able to read english... then chances are the school is going to be a nightmare.
And if you happen to live in such a school district but CAN read and DO want a decent education for your child... then typically you need to send them to private school. No choice in the matter. Just what is.
My limiter would be turned off about six seconds after fitting.
Oh they'd test the car to see if it had been tampered with? Then I'd damage it in a way that could be inadvertent and undetectable by an unaware driver... with the result that I maintained plausible deniability.
You do not control my car. I control my car. I will follow the traffic laws but you're not going to tell me when I put my foot on the breaks.
You cannot say on the one hand that we can't have control over our public schools and then on the other hand that we have to be sent to them.
And yes, we've tried to reform our public schools but they won't let us do it.
How hard is it to fire a pedophile teacher? Nearly impossible. How hard is it to fire a bad teacher? How hard is it to put in hiring standards for teachers?
We've tried to put this in place for decades and the schools, teacher's unions, and politicians have stopped us. So fine. You don't want us to have any control over these schools. Mission accomplished. But why would I feel morally compelled to stay in the system if you're made every effort to systematically marginalize me?
You cannot have both. Either you let me have influence over the system... and I will change it so that I find it acceptable... OR you do not get me in the system.
Choose. Effectively, either the teacher's unions need to get neutered or you can expect intelligent parents to choose other schools when public alternatives are unacceptable. We are not sacrificing our children on the alter of your corruption and incompetence.
Its a very silly ban. Obviously its bad to use weapons on civilians. That is bad. But that applies to ANY weapon.
Weapons restrictions against soldiers? Absurd. There are no limits.
And even if the US passes such a rule or the UN passes such a rule... in any real war, the enemy isn't going to care. Because what is the downside of using such banned weapons? What are you going to do? Go to war with them? Oh wait, you already are going to war with them... utterly unenforceable.
Actually, that isn't sustainable.
When people give money to one of these projects, it is a an agreement between fans and developer.
Is it legally binding? No. And that might be part of the problem. The fans were dumb enough to think they didn't need an ability to legally compel the contract.
If fans have no expectation of things actually getting done they're not going to contribute to these projects.
I've personally given a few thousand dollars to various kickstarter projects and all of them have lived up to their obligations.
If they don't, I absolutely have a right to feel betrayed. This is precisely why publishers hold developers by the nuts. They put real money on the table to get a job done and they expect value for money.
The whole kickstarter/crowdfunding system will die if developers do not deliver and contributors see themselves as idiots of even trying.
A developer that does not respect his fan base does not deserve to be funded. End of story.
See, you say things like "enough climate scientists agree" and then you say we're going to starve if we don't sign off on your agenda.
That's actually a contradiction of the current balance.
While most climate scientists agree AGW is happening and is a problem, the actual consequences of AGW and how it will effect our civilization are extremely controversial AMONGST the climate scientists.
There are some that offer images of doom... our whole species going extinct as famine, war, pestilence, and death consume us to the last screaming child. Then others say effects will be very mild with areas experiencing changes in climate conditions that aren't either good or bad but simply different.
I'm not averaging these predictions. Someone is right and someone is wrong. I'd like to know who because the damage to my civilization from this situation is relevant to how highly I will prioritize resources to solving the problem. If the problem does not pose a serious threat to my civilization then I'm not going to take it very seriously. If it poses a major threat then I'm going to take it a lot more seriously then I think you can even comprehend.
Stop and think for a moment what we would do if we believed that the only way to save the world and future generations was to stop the carbon economy?
Grasp that incredible atrocities could be justified in the name of species survival. Grasp further that such atrocities would probably be required to get the carbon economy to shut down to the most extreme levels the climate scientists say we must meet.
As it is, the problem the climate scientists have is the world is not warming right now and hasn't been warming for over a decade. You're probably too brainwashed to be aware of that embarrassing fact. I don't say that with malice or spite. You just strike me as a well meaning though indoctrinated and not particularly free thinking individual. As a result, you believe what you're told by authority figures without personal consideration, evaluation, or questioning. And when you're young and don't know anything that's a reasonable policy especially when guided by people that actually care about you. But once you become an adult such attitudes are a liability.
Every day there are people working angles. Trying to scam some money off of you one way or nickle and dime you another. Every level of adult society does it to every other level of adult society. Those that are better at it tend to profit beyond their contribution to society while those that are inferior at it tend to be taken for chumps.
So long story short, if you want to take control of global industry, impose an extremely harsh tax regime on top f an already over taxed economy, disrupt our industrial and technological supply chains, put BILLIONS at risk of starvation, etc... I need something more solid then "this group of experts agree".
Its not enough.
What the subject says.
And yet he's not religious...
Is your mind blown?
Blind faith isn't restricted to religions and its really a lot more complicated then your bigotry would explain.
I really doubt their objection to the vaccinations had anything to do with religion.
From what I saw, they read something that associated Autism with the vaccinations and believed that.
That is not a religious position. Its a false opinion but it has no theistic basis or moral basis.
I read it. Its not a religious issue.
I suspect that they might not trust the government or might fear some sort of government conspiracy on the matter. Which is paranoid and wrong in this instance. But that's more ideological then it is religious.
What you might want to look at here is why they have this distrust of the government and ignore the religion aspect since it isn't the common denominator.