Posts by Noah Roberts46

Matthew Young35 said:Did you actually read what was in the link you posted, or did you just run a quick search on Google to find whatever result looked best and call it a day?
Check out what's being said at this link:

"The crisis currently unfolding in the Everglades didn't just appear out of thin air; its roots actually trace back to a decade before Hurricane Andrew made landfall. It all began when pet owners and exotic animal exhibitors in the U.S. started importing the Southeast Asian Burmese python—one of the five largest snake species on the planet—simply because of their massive size and the novelty they offered in this part of the world. Pet owners and exotic animal enthusiasts in the U.S. began importing the Southeast Asian Burmese Python—one of the five largest snake species on the planet—simply because they were captivated by their massive scale and novelty in this region. But let’s be realistic: managing a predator that can eventually reach 20 feet in length and weigh 200 pounds? That is a daunting task that quickly shifts from a hobby to a genuine safety hazard. It’s a predictable pattern, isn't it? People in Florida who realized they couldn't actually handle the responsibility of keeping Burmese pythons decided to simply dump their problems elsewhere. They relieved themselves of the burden by releasing those snakes into the Florida Everglades, which stands as the largest wilderness area in the eastern U.S."

I appreciate you asking for links to back up my claims.

Are you actually unable to read my posts, or are you just pretending to be deaf? I explicitly stated that the massive overpopulation happened because of the hurricane. I never denied that people brought them here in the first place. If that natural disaster hadn't hit, we wouldn't be dealing with such an explosion in their numbers.

Back on August 23, 1992, a massive Category 5 hurricane tore through the area just south of Miami. It was easily one of the most devastating storms to ever strike the United States. We’re talking sustained winds topping 150 mph—the kind of force that doesn't just damage houses, it rips roofs right off and levels entire buildings. Among the wreckage were several exotic wildlife facilities. One of those hit was a breeding center for Burmese pythons, and thanks to the destruction, a whole lot of them ended up escaping.

Ten days after the storm tore through South Florida, environmental inspectors dropped a bombshell: thousands of exotic species managed to break free from their enclosures as the hurricane rolled through. According to eyewitness accounts, people actually saw hundreds of massive snakes and various non-venomous species roaming wild.

You’re nitpicking over trivialities and dodging the actual point. Have humans ever actually saved a species from extinction through direct intervention? Are we solely and exclusively responsible for the disappearance of certain species? This is getting ridiculous—honestly, it's an embarrassment. 🤦

Anthony Jackson2 said:

Ethanol—just another fuel source to debate while everything else falls apart. says:
She’s fallen into a downward spiral she likely won't ever escape—and since the kid is already dealing with autism, they basically had to go ahead and bleach her brain, too.

And now they’re using kids for propaganda too—Greta isn't the only one—because when you can't win on facts, you just lean into emotional manipulation.

Who’s actually pulling the strings behind Greta and the climate alarmists? It's worth looking into.

mah11:

Check out the link I posted—that’s exactly where you'll find the answer.

Anyone posting trash links like this when we're trying to have a real discussion on Offside Chat is getting a perm ban—and I'm dead serious.

Maybe—maybe not.

The fact is, the Country warms up naturally, then cools down—it’s just a cycle that's been spinning for billions of years. No one actually knows what happens if we kick that process into overdrive, or if excessive heating prevents the cooling phase from kicking in when it should. Those are the things worth worrying about long-term—maybe in ten or twenty generations.

Then again, you look at how many cities today are basically unlivable because of air pollution—I remember being in Ottawa where I couldn't even crack a window at night without the smog hitting me like a wall. These are the kinds of issues that are going to hit humanity—and pretty much everything else on this planet—way sooner than people realize.

As for the debates happening here—if I went looking for discussions about the US presidential election right now, I wouldn't be surprised to find the global warming deniers siding with Trump. That pretty much says everything you need to know about them. ☕

When you look at criminals like Clinton, socialists like Sanders who want to give prisoners the right to vote, and generally hysterical libtards, Trump looks like Octavian. ☕

Matthew Young35 said:What kind of "natural disaster" are we talking about here?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scien...ida-180972534/

"In Miami, a center of the exotic pet trade, dealers used to import them from Southeast Asia by the tens of thousands. It is now illegal to import or purchase Burmese pythons in Florida. Probably, at some point, python owners who no longer wanted to care for them let them go in the Everglades.
By the mid-1990s, the pythons had established a breeding population."

Look, mountain lions have become a massive issue across the US too, and they need to be managed because they disrupt the rest of the local wildlife.

True, they've become such a significant problem that hunting them is actually prohibited in Florida, and they're even on the endangered species list.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/burmese...bsn-originals/

Yeah, they’re such a massive issue that hunting them is actually banned in Florida, and they're on the endangered species list.
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My bad, I mixed them up with another species. Look, there's no denying people absolutely screwed things up, especially back in the last century—I'm happy to admit that—but humans have also saved plenty of species from extinction recently. Human impact on an ecosystem isn't exclusively negative, which is clearly what you're suggesting. You seem to have no middle ground, and frankly, it's irritating.

ruggedjackal46 said:You’re basically shifting the goalposts to a topic that nobody is even arguing about. Look, we all get it—controlled, strategic culling of certain non-protected species to maintain ecological balance isn't exactly a hot-button issue. It’s just basic management. What’s actually controversial is this:

So, I was just reading through this massive report from the United Nations—something that took over 450 scientists and diplomats three years to actually pull together—and the numbers are pretty grim. We’re looking at an 82% drop in wild mammal biomass. Just think about that for a second. On top of that, we’ve basically carved up half of our natural ecosystems, and there are roughly a million species currently staring down the barrel of extinction. And let’s be honest here: most of this is on us. It's the direct result of human activity. Makes you wonder, doesn't it? At what point do we realize we're effectively dismantling our own life support system?

It’s getting pretty grim out there, isn't it? We’re looking at a reality where two in five amphibian species are at risk of extinction, alongside about a third of our reef-building corals and nearly a third of other marine life. Now, when it comes to insects—the little guys actually doing the heavy lifting for plant pollination—the data is a bit fuzzier, but even the most cautious estimates suggest that at least one in ten are staring down extinction. In certain areas, their numbers haven't just dipped; they've completely cratered. And if you think this is just a sentimental issue for nature lovers, think again. From a purely cold, hard economic perspective, the damage is absolutely staggering. We're talking about pollinator loss putting upwards of $577 billion in crop output at risk. Toss in land degradation, which has already slashed the productivity of 23% of the world's land, and you start to see how much this actually costs us. It makes you wonder: at what point does the math finally catch up to the crisis?

I'm still waiting on that link. You can't just drop a hint and walk away like that, can you? Give me something to actually work with here.

Someone is clearly disputing it. I never said people didn't mess up, nor did I say we aren't still making mistakes, but it is a cold hard fact that without those same people, certain species would have gone extinct long ago. It's just frustrating that some people refuse to see that. That's all I wrote.

Matthew Young35 said:So, where did those Burmese pythons in Florida even come from?
LOL

Didn't people likely bring them there in the first place?

You're essentially contradicting yourself here.

EDIT:
I decided to dig a little deeper into this.
Pythons are apex predators in Florida, whereas they aren't in Burma.
Do you know why?
It’s because there aren't any large cats left to hunt them.
There used to be jaguars in the southern parts of the US that would hunt massive snakes like these.
Do you know when the jaguars disappeared from Florida?
Roughly 11,000 years ago.
Let's play a game of connect the dots: what else happened around the same time the Florida jaguars went extinct? The rise of human civilization, wouldn't you say?

Look, people definitely introduced them, but they didn't breed them; the population exploded because of a natural disaster. It's the same deal with mountain lions becoming a huge issue across the US—they need to be managed because they disrupt the rest of the population. Hunting certain predators is completely justified, and if you don't see how vital that is for maintaining an ecosystem, then fine, do you honestly think nature is just perfectly self-sustaining? The question of how many species humans have actually saved is a fascinating one that nobody ever bothers to ask.

Why did dinosaurs and thousands of other species go extinct? Humans? 🤦

Ashley Bailey6 said:Climate change is a natural phenomenon that has existed as long as the planet itself.

I believe human influence is minimal right now, if it even exists at all.

No sane person wants to pollute nature or destroy the resources that sustain us, but I'm not worried about it.
Humans evolve just like everything else. Technology will follow suit, giving us more while causing less pollution.

If mass pollution ever actually happens, people will start dying off. The strongest and most capable will survive, the Earth will reset itself, and everything will start over.

I’m signing on to this, along with Paul Sanders5. It particularly irritates me when animal rights activists blame the entire human race for everything. Sure, we made mistakes in the past, but I trust we've learned from them. Let's stop ignoring the fact that without human intervention, certain species would have gone extinct on their own or due to other predators anyway. Take pythons in Florida, for instance; they spread out and started wrecking the entire ecosystem, so humans stepped in and started hunting them heavily because they're invasive. Regardless of how many animals went extinct throughout history without any human influence...

What’s your actual scientific background? Zero. You read a couple of articles and suddenly you're an expert posting 🤦 , bravo. 🤦

Globalists are weaponizing climate change, and I honestly don't know how anyone falls for it. All these celebrities and self-proclaimed "activists" preach about saving the planet while flying private jets and cruising on massive yachts—it’s pure hypocrisy. Then they have the nerve to lecture the rest of us. Give me a break. It's just as hard for us laypeople to weigh in because the science keeps shifting; you have scientists making grand claims one day only to be proven wrong the next. Yet, some things are just common sense. Why are the people backing Greta busy shaming Americans when China is dumping fifty times more plastic into the ocean? Or look at India's emissions levels. This whole movement is just about chasing headlines through sick, performative politics.

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John Vaughn13 said:To refresh this thread,
I finally sat down a few days ago and binged the entire Dollar Trilogy. Honestly? I regret it. Now everything else I watch is just going to feel like total garbage. 🤣

Just kidding, obviously. But seriously, these films are untouchable. I can't wait to dive into "Once Upon a Time in America" and Kurosawa.

Does anyone remember when Ennio played at Madison Square Garden back in 2014, if I recall correctly?

It was 2015, actually. Incredible show. ☕

Personally, I actually prefer "Once Upon a Time in the West" over any of the films from the Dollar Trilogy. It’s quite simply the best Western ever made, paired with the greatest soundtrack of all time.

"Once Upon a Time in America" comes incredibly close; Leone is a legend.

It’s the first film from Guy Ritchie where you barely see a trace of his signature style. It feels incredibly strange, but honestly? It isn't bad.

Amanda Evans2 said:Exactly. I feel the same way—it’s a bit much...

Honestly, this whole disproportionate, Kardashian-style backside thing—I don't get it, and frankly, it isn't even attractive. It reminds me of this:



If we look back at history, it was all about fertility goddesses. 🤣

Amanda Evans2 said:She's quite heavy-set

A big backside instead of a butt? Not really my thing.

Starting a new thread here—they’re playing in Chicago on October 12th.

I've always wanted to catch them live, but floor tickets are getting ridiculous. I need to dig through the setlist first to see if they're playing enough old classics; I haven't really kept up with their newer material.

James Anderson5 said:🤣

Noah Roberts46... He says...
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Honestly, nothing beats heading out to the mountains, especially places like the Rockies or the Appalachians... They aren't too demanding, and you can just head home after a great day feeling totally refreshed. Plus, nobody’s going to judge you for taking a little time for yourself... ☕

It’ll be especially peaceful sleeping out by Mount Rainier or under the peaks of the Sierra Nevada, where migrants have broken in four or five times over the last year. Though, who knows, maybe they'll even pick up a few extra grams from them... 😁

Look, things are pretty much off-limits up on Mount Rainier for a while, but I suspect there’s similar activity happening near Mount Shasta. Still, all this panic about immigrants feels like a massive overreaction.

Michelle Palmer6 said:*grams

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Honestly, you're better off heading to the mountains—places like the Appalachians or the Rockies are where it's at. They aren't overly demanding; you can enjoy a beautiful day out there and still get back home to sleep soundly. Plus, nobody's going to give you grief over a few measly grams. ☕

A total disaster of a movie.

https://www.musicradar.com/news/guit...lMSdGL8YShpkLc

Billy Joel has some pretty fascinating points here. 👍

slycobra5 said:I actually found this pretty entertaining, partly because of Hardy (fingers crossed we get a second season of that Taboo series with him starring)
. If you go into movies like this knowing exactly what they are—basically just pure entertainment—and don't expect anything more than that, then it definitely hits the mark.
My rating for the film is 8.5/10.

Honestly, I just hope he doesn't waste his damn time on that garbage.

Even three colors can be heavy movies, besides white.

Hmm...
It absolutely wrecked me emotionally, but it’s brilliant—Incendies.

That’s one of my first associations when I think of a heavy movie, too.

I'm getting bored with these topics. I'm just going to make fun of Ibrahimović and Ronaldinho being in the top 15. 🤣🤣