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New comment by dennis_jeeves in "Tomato fruits send electrical warnings to the rest of the plant when attacked"

dennis_jeeves — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 15:32:17 +0000

Assuming that I did not misunderstand you, while fight or flee does not exist in plants in the same sense as animals they do react by producing chemicals/sap etc. that works as a defense. So it's more 'fight', but a chemical warfare at that.

New comment by dennis_jeeves in "Tomato fruits send electrical warnings to the rest of the plant when attacked"

dennis_jeeves — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 15:26:48 +0000

Until they learn that the nano-consciousness exists in the air molecules...

New comment by dennis_jeeves in "Tomato fruits send electrical warnings to the rest of the plant when attacked"

dennis_jeeves — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 15:25:17 +0000

Unlikely, unless the fruit is raw. Some ripe fruits are most likely meant to be eaten because that's the mechanism that plants have evolved to disperse seeds, so it would actually be "rewarding" for the plant. Perhaps it would be similar to a little orgasm. Now a raw fruit will most likely feel pain.

New comment by dennis_jeeves in "Tomato fruits send electrical warnings to the rest of the plant when attacked"

dennis_jeeves — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 14:54:35 +0000

>Plants don't have a central nervous system or a brain.

So? does that automatically imply that it does not feel pain?

>What science generally understands under pain and suffering plants simply don't have.

Listen, I don't buy the science say this and science say that kind of arguments. ANY living being ( assuming we can settle for what can be called 'alive') will have a mechanism for self preservation, pain is one of them. The onus is on 'science' or people to prove otherwise.

New comment by dennis_jeeves in "Tomato fruits send electrical warnings to the rest of the plant when attacked"

dennis_jeeves — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 14:38:38 +0000

Valid question only for a person who is vegan for 'ethical' reasons, who believes that some how plants are exempt from pain and suffering.

New comment by dennis_jeeves in "Coronavirus Skeptics Use Orthodox Data Practices to Promote Unorthodox Science"

dennis_jeeves — Sat, 24 Jul 2021 15:25:22 +0000

>but this is speculation from general observation.

Well you are actually correct, the loss of trust is never really addressed, and it cannot be. How can you even trust data from govt/pharmaceutical companies, let alone carefully analyze it?

New comment by dennis_jeeves in "Covid-19: India excess deaths cross four million, says study"

dennis_jeeves — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 16:44:30 +0000

jokethrowaway, I happened to look through your past comments. You may want to look at my profile and see if my version of non-conformism interests you.

New comment by dennis_jeeves in "Covid-19: India excess deaths cross four million, says study"

dennis_jeeves — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 16:44:12 +0000

aww_dang, I happened to look through your past comments. You may want to look at my profile and see if my version of non-conformism interests you.

New comment by dennis_jeeves in "Covid-19: India excess deaths cross four million, says study"

dennis_jeeves — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 16:03:05 +0000

My friend jokethrowaway, mises.org will trigger a lot of people. You have been warned, lol.

New comment by dennis_jeeves in "I'm a Frito-Lay Factory Worker. I Work 12-Hour Days, 7 Days a Week"

dennis_jeeves — Sun, 18 Jul 2021 01:18:46 +0000

Too bad you are being down voted and being misunderstood. I fully agree with you that in this day given our over all productivity, humans should be able to, in theory able to design systems to minimize work without co-coercion. But as you partially correctly observed, typical human nature ( ranging from bureaucratic govts, to seeing survival as a zero sum game ) is a hindrance to achieving this goal. Where I completely disagree is that you will completely not change people's mind en masse even if you showed them a working example, so in a manner speaking any strategizing that one does is moot.

New comment by dennis_jeeves in "Burden of post-Covid-19 syndrome and implications for healthcare planning"

dennis_jeeves — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 23:01:30 +0000

Thanks. These symptoms were always there with respiratory illness forever. And suddenly in 2021 these symptoms were given a new cause.

New comment by dennis_jeeves in "Burden of post-Covid-19 syndrome and implications for healthcare planning"

dennis_jeeves — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 22:59:34 +0000

>In other words - is there something unique about Covid?

No is my guess, based on anecdotes, experience and observation.

New comment by dennis_jeeves in "$100M xPrize for Carbon Removal"

dennis_jeeves — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 22:46:53 +0000

Thank you, you have put it well. By no means I'm nature-knows-best person. But in this case nature does a great job in 'removing' CO2 by expending the least energy, with the least negative impact (actually a net positive) to the environment. Of course it's more nuanced than what even I stated. A wise engineer realizes the breadth of the issues and the 'true' engineering approach IMO will necessarily involve ( but not limited) a lot of trees/plants/algae etc.

New comment by dennis_jeeves in "Birds are dying in the United States and no one knows why"

dennis_jeeves — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 03:47:36 +0000

lol, HN doesn't have a sense of humor, you have been downvoted.

New comment by dennis_jeeves in "Death rates are declining for many common cancers in the U.S., report finds"

dennis_jeeves — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 03:27:26 +0000

Also the survival rate is calculated based on a 5 year survival after diagnosis. Since detections are made earlier patients will survive well past 5 years even if the treatments don't improve. so it would appear that survival rates are also getting better.

New comment by dennis_jeeves in "US-Canada heatwave 'virtually impossible' without warming"

dennis_jeeves — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 16:19:34 +0000

>"When will people wake up?" "Politicians don't care!" "Rich people are just greedy!" "Animals are dying!" "Science deniers!"

lol.

New comment by dennis_jeeves in "In Karachi, hot weather is normal but 44°C feels like you’re going to die"

dennis_jeeves — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 14:13:55 +0000

- It seems the debate is about 0.8°C temperature rise since 1880. The figure of 0.8°C in my opinion is not statistically significant for various reasons including thermometer inaccuracies, and normal variations of temperature. There seems to be a general agreement of increase in CO2. It appears that the most significant greenhouse ‘gas’ is water vapor, about 98%. I got these figures from a talk by a noble prize winner, who got around to checking the published figures.

- Statistics can be variously interpreted unless there is a huge significant differences. The 'significant' part is completely subjective.

- Media and govt need to keep the masses engaged on distractions with the news. If govt/people were truly serious about climate (or what ever is the correct terminology) change. They would be making radical changes not tiny changes. Example of a big change work places can be moved to places where people can walk to work. example of tiny feel good change that does nothing: separate recycle form other trash.

- Changing narrative from govt, in the 60s it was global cooling, which changed to global warming, and is now labeled as climate change. Notice that most people who take up these 'causes' are young. They have no any knowledge of what the narrative was in the 60s.

- In addition to manipulating numbers, all numbers can be cooked up with impunity, this is true for corporates, scientific establishments, govts. Barring exceptions there are enough incentives to lie, and generally disincentives if one were to tell the truth.

Note I'm not claiming that there is no climate change, there is not way for me or you to know that. I do know for a fact that the environment is indeed messed up big time. The smell/taste of air/food/water/products is telling. I don't think this is debatable. The environment should be first priority and perhaps the climate change will take of itself.

New comment by dennis_jeeves in "In Karachi, hot weather is normal but 44°C feels like you’re going to die"

dennis_jeeves — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 17:25:00 +0000

What I'm also skeptical is about the "mounds of evidence". And no, I didn't start out as skeptic decades back.

Check back my comment (the one that you responded to) some years from now and reach out to me if needed. I skimmed through your other comments on other subjects, you'll probably get there where I currently am. A weird response to your response I know...

New comment by dennis_jeeves in "In Karachi, hot weather is normal but 44°C feels like you’re going to die"

dennis_jeeves — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 15:17:25 +0000

Unless I see resonantly well documented rising temperatures, I'm not inclined to believe that there are climate extremes any different from what are normal variations. ( and no this does not mean we get a free pass to mess up the environment, which IMO need to be cleaned up big time).

People have very short memories, and often it is the _current_ summer/winter that appears to be the harshest to them, not the one that happened 20 years ago. Memories are even more shorter when it is generational.

New comment by dennis_jeeves in "A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (2003)"

dennis_jeeves — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 19:35:00 +0000

Thanks for the summary.