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  • Because this was in Action Park, and the person who owned it was a libertarian who stuck to his values. Their reasoning probably went something like: Why close the slide? If people think it’s dangerous, they don’t have to use it.

    I think the best part is that Action Park was known for allowing its customer to order as much alcohol as they wanted. So high probability that if you went down that slide, you were shitfaced.










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    6 days ago

    Lol ass-dogs

    On a serious note, does anyone else get some serious Dunning-Kruger vibes from this? Like serious scientists and experts in the field are very specificly saying that these are not dire wolves. The only people saying they are dire wolves are the owners of the private company that made them. A company with an invested economic interest in people believing them. I’m not an expert geneticist, but I hope you’ll excuse me if I believe the scienctists over the people saying, “you can tell it’s a direwolf by the way that it is!” so that they can make money.




  • Someone posted another article that has a interview with an independent scientist, and I think it’s rather illuminating.

    Meachen is impressed with Colossal’s announcement but remains skeptical.

    “I don’t think they are actually dire wolves. I don’t think what we have is dire wolves,” Meachen told ABC News. “What we had is something new – we have a mostly gray wolf that looks like a dire wolf.”

    Shapiro disagrees with that thinking.

    “I think that the best definition of a species is if it looks like that species, if it is acting like that species, if it’s filling the role of that species then you’ve done it,” she said.

    So their only criteria for “Is it a dire wolf,” is yupp, looks like one and behaves like one, even though every real scientist is skeptical. This is, never the less, still impressive technology, but bringing back extinct animals seems more like a marketing gimic than a description of what they’re actually doing.

    Flawless logic. Never mind that no one alive has ever observed a dire wolf.

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/dire-wolf-revived-biotech-companys-de-extinction-process/story?id=120558562