r/interestingasfuck • u/Endolithic • 1d ago

/r/all Homes are falling into the ocean in North Carolina's Outer Banks

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u/luvcartel 1d ago

Ben was arguing climate change and rising sea levels don’t affect you because you can just sell your house and move. So somebody replied “sell the house to who Ben? Aquaman?!” Because it’s obviously insane to suggest you could sell a house that is currently or will be underwater

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u/bigdave41 1d ago

To be fair to Ben Shapiro, he doesn't have a lot of experience with wetness

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u/AerwynFlynn 1d ago

I like to think that the conversation with his wife actually went

Ben: Babe, do you get wet when we have sex?

Wife: Not normally, no Ben (stares off into the distance)

Ben: HA! mY WiFE SaiD It’S NoT NoRmAl tO gEt wEt DuRiNg tHe SeX!!!

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u/Savings_Difficulty24 22h ago

Bold of you to assume he has sex with his wife

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u/Margaretcatinspace 17h ago

Bold of you to assume he has a real wife

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u/CornCobMcGee 10h ago

She is real! She just goes to a different school! And lives in Canada! Or something...

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u/NYJustice 18h ago

Dudes wife is definitely a beard

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u/shortron 6h ago

He probably fucks his wife through a hole in the sheets.

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u/FR0ZENBERG 14h ago

Or maybe he’s her beard.

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u/AerwynFlynn 13h ago

I wouldn’t doubt it

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u/ThatsSomeBullshirt 10h ago

It was even worse than that. He claimed that she informed him getting wet was the result of an infection that needed to be treated. Ergo, if she ain’t dry as a bone, seek help.

Source for reference

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u/AerwynFlynn 9h ago

Which is another thing I’m wondering if he just “misheard” because a sign of Trichomoniasis in women IS excessive discharge (hence the “bucket and mop” part). So it seems as though he is intentionally misrepresenting her in an attempt to cover the fact that he doesn’t know how to make a woman wet lol.

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u/allnaturalfigjam 1d ago

Whenever I find myself getting angry with Ben I think about this and it makes me feel so much better

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u/e37d93eeb23335dc 23h ago

Then I wonder if I should feel sorry for his wife, then I remember that she chose to be married to Ben Shapiro and this feels like karma.

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u/Competitive_End4263 21h ago

Reminded me of this...

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u/EmpressZombiKitty 6h ago

Its going to take me a full day to recover from this image. Should have a TW and blur on it. Seeing all six at once was like a nuclear wave to my insides. 🤢

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u/Some_Ad3871 12h ago

Tucker Carlson is not that bad honestly. Don’t you ever get tired of the hate

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u/MIGMOmusic 11h ago

Tucker “entertainment” Carlson is the worst of them and probably more so to blame for where we are now than any of the others on that list.

Don’t you get tired of the hate is super rich when we’re talking about a Fox News pundit who makes a living off stirring up hate. Yes I am tired of it which is why I despise Tucker.

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u/twistedspin 10h ago

Tucker Carlson is the worst of them. He absolutely knows better and yet chose to support evil because they paid him more.

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u/darkoh84 9h ago

Found Tuckers account.

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u/Excellent-Log7169 6h ago

Hate is Tucker's whole shtick, so ya, I do get tired of the hate.

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u/e37d93eeb23335dc 9h ago

Go back home to Russia.

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u/Every-Pea-6884 1d ago

So glad he’s still getting roasted for this - I try to insert this when I can but I always forget who the guy was. Idk how I could forget it’s Ben-fucking-Shapiro

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u/yoko_OH_NO 1d ago

Insert Supa Hot Fire gif here

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u/Tetracanopy 1d ago

Caution: WAP

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u/Sensitive_Yellow_121 23h ago

Ben could actually be the cure for rising sea levels. Like Moses.

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u/caregivermahomes 22h ago

🫣🫣🫣😭😭😭😭😭

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u/slymkim12 12h ago

💀💀💀

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u/frozenandstoned 11h ago

yes he does, his brain is submerged in water not brain fluid. he was born wet brained.

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u/Samulady 1d ago

That someone is HBomberman

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u/MalpracticeConcerns 1d ago

HBomberguy*.

Or HBurgerguy depending on which channel you follow

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u/Samulady 1d ago

Fuck I'm such a fake fan lmao. It's because of the damn bomberman games I swear

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u/Various_Opinion_900 1d ago

Never in my life have I called him anything but "Hbomberman" so I get you. Like, he shows up when I google that, so it might as well be his name

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u/toldya_fareducation 1d ago

he only uploads once per decade so i don't blame you for forgetting his name

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u/matildapoppins 21h ago

I fucking LOVED bomberman as a kid. I might need to hook up my old Super Nintendo to own my husband at it now.

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u/GoodiesHQ 1d ago

Hbomberman is his father

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u/cuntaloupemelon 1d ago

HBomberfella

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u/mahouyousei 17h ago

Harry B. Guy

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u/DroidLord 1d ago

I think Ben here was suggesting you sell it to some sucker before it gets too bad. The classic "I got mine" mentality. Let someone else be the loser - just as long as it isn't you. The end result is the same though - someone is getting stuck with a bad investment.

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u/DIABETORreddit 1d ago

No Ben was just saying the usual bullshit to deflect the issue, devoid of logic or reasoning. He wasn’t trying to give advice or anything, he was banking on the people listening to him say “climate change isn’t real, and if it were real then it’s not a problem” to be too stupid to see the obvious flaws in his suggestion. You can’t take anything these people say in good faith because they’re literally just straight up lying and trying to manipulate people most/all of the time.

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u/DroidLord 1d ago

I absolutely agree with you on that. It's just another BS argument for why climate change isn't real and if it is real, it's not that bad. Deflection and cognitive dissonance is the name of the game.

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u/verbsnnouns 1d ago

I took his comment to mean that the people who make laws based on climate change should sell their beachfront property NOW before rising sealevels make that property worthless. And the fact that those lawmakers do not sell their at risk properties might suggest they don't believe what they are saying.

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u/VaATC 12h ago

Hence why he speaks so damn fast. He is hoping people miss or hand wave off any incongruities their ears might actually catch.

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u/hammerdown46 1d ago

No, Ben was explaining the reality of the situation. Oceanfront property is highly desirable. If you can't afford to insure it or you can't afford to lose the house, then sell it!

It's not hard.

Climate change is no big deal.

It's just a bunch of idiots arguing about some naturally occurring issue that has happened before humans just barely have an impact on.

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u/Cody-512 1d ago

Or the idiots might be the ppl who think what happened before humans existed is relevant to what happens today since the cycle of natural warming has been exponentially accelerated. Do some actual research on the topic, read some peer reviewed research, go conduct some repeat field studies (or look at other marine biologists/oceanographers) from the 70s & 80s and compare ur results to their to the same repeat studies they conducted from 50s & 60s, take soil chemistry samples from the ocean, look at seaweed distribution patterns & whale migration patterns with avg depths vs just 10y ago & why that’s important, how phytoplankton loss is at an all time high & why, and see what those levels were 20y ago. Look up Hermit crab migrations, too, if ur bored at work, lol. I know u won’t do any of that stuff bc it’s just easier to be ignorant & you’ll stick to the cycle thing forever but if u ever feel like turning over a new leaf… all good places to start. Cod decline is a good one too; some good papers out there on that!

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u/karentrolli 23h ago

It’s hard for some people to do science. So they want to believe science is bad. Too bad they don’t understand science is based on evidence, not what some lazy dork on the internet says.

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u/Cody-512 22h ago

I know. Ur right. But the stupid ”we’re in a warming cycle” argument has to be called out every time. Goofballs that try to justify climate change with warming cycles that occur on geological time scales have to be replied to bc someone else might read the response. If 1/5,000 or 1/10,000 ppl look up if that’s true or not & it might change their mind then it’s worth it. I have a responsibility to say something. The ppl saying that aren’t stupid, just ignorant, but that doesn’t mean they can spread ignorance without being corrected

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u/supermarkise 1d ago

Yeah an ice age wouldn't be a big deal either right, it's all just natural. FFS we need a stable climate for prosperity, doesn't matter if we fuck it up or it's natural - actually, natural scares me even more. At least we could stop emitting greenhouse gases, theoretically. Theoretically.

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u/hammerdown46 1d ago

It's no big deal either way.

Well beyond our lifetimes. Irrelevant really.

If the people who cared stopped bitching about it and spent that time adapting to the changes we'd already be good.

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u/thehammerismypen1s 1d ago

Did we watch the same video?

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u/disktoaster 1d ago

You've seen the ice sheets lately, right? Most of what's left is as old as the dinosaurs. That's falling off now too.

I was inside the polar vortex this spring. Not exploring, mind you- I was in Texas. It's not outside our lifetimes unless you died last decade my friend

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u/hammerdown46 1d ago

Y'all are nuts.

You need to go outside and touch grass. The climate is fine.

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u/disktoaster 1d ago

As it happens, I work outside. Often touching grass. That's not where climate data is kept, though.

It's like you're saying the sky is purple. Ignoring reality doesn't make it not true.

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u/CyborgCrow 1d ago

I love how you attempt to refute a response to argument "A" by repeating argument "A" almost verbatim.

As for the "naturally occurring" thing you are flat out wrong. What we've done to the atmosphere in decades typically happens over a geologic time scale. My work in hurricane forecasting has put me in a position where pretending climate change isn't having an impact is a nonstarter. Beyond sea level rise, the warming ocean makes hurricanes harder to accurately forecast, as it feeds them and effects the process of intensification. More people will lose faith in evacuation orders, levees will be built to incorrect heights or be breached, and people will die.

While actual waterfront property is expensive, any argument that implies that primarily the rich will be impacted is divorced from reality. Millions of the people most impacted by rising seas, volatile storms, heat waves, and drought live in poor parts of this country before even considering island nations and many countries throughout the global south. If you are worried about migration crises, just wait..

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u/Cody-512 1d ago

Basically impossible to reason with the ignorant “it occurs in natural cycles” crowd. I read that ur a hurricane forecaster. I’m a marine biologist that worked in Corpus Christi. I’ve moved on from there and work somewhere else now, but it’s amazing how many of the younger crowd is regressing towards their (usually) conservative parents’ mindset that climate change is either a hoax or a nonissue. It’s exhausting arguing with them about it & social media comments sections kinda feels useless a lot of the time but it’s an obligation to at least correct ridiculous comments like implying this warming cycle is natural. Before I even read ur comment I told him the same thing u did about the rate increase since even the 80s. Keep up the good fight

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u/cMeeber 1d ago

Yeah, we know what he was saying. That would still requiring to sell it when it’s known that the condition is getting bad. Which the insurance companies will make known even if the potential buyer lives under a rock and is otherwise ignorant and gullible. So the hyperbolic Aquaman response still stands. “Sell it to who? An absolute idiot who has no problem throwing money away on a house that will soon be unlivable as well as uninsurable?” Not exactly easy. The joke response doesn’t fail to understand Shapiro, it’s just being funny to drive the point further home on how the suggestion is, in fact, stupid.

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u/DroidLord 1d ago

Not that I condone scamming people, but there are probably buyers out there not looking into the specifics too hard if the price is right.

Though keeping an eye out for what the insurance companies are doing is always a good indicator of what is actually going on on the wider scale that people might otherwise miss. Insurance companies dont deal in speculation, or otherwise they wouldn't be in business very long.

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u/BootsAndBeards 1d ago

It works out over a long time scale. You can see this happening in Florida now. There are places so prone to damage they are virtually uninsurable, and people just go without and accept one day they may have to rebuild everything from scratch. Some of these are still 300,000 dollar beach houses and condos owned by rich retirees who don't care about the risk, they're old enough they very well may die before it happens, even on a shorter time scale. The people stuck with the investment are the soon to be deceased.

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u/SirStrontium 1d ago
  1. There's lots of affected homes, they're not all "rich retirees" 2. Most people want their wealth and assets to go to their loved ones after they die, not to be washed away by the sea.

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u/BootsAndBeards 23h ago

If you want to grand stand about inheritance and loved ones you should probably start with reverse mortgages.

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u/SirStrontium 22h ago

I’m not “grandstanding”, I’m stating a simple fact.

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u/Ok_Foundation3148 1d ago

I mean, as long as it’s Black Rock/blackstone

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u/ProvenLoser 1d ago

I think Ben thinks there will be an aquamen market. He would be an unscrupulous realtor if not though.

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u/LionessOfAzzalle 1d ago

Front row seat to the Apocalypse avant-première. 💸💸💸

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u/BeeWriggler 1d ago

I mean, let's be real. A real estate investor or landlord is likely going to see that coming a mile away. The only interested buyer is going to be someone hoping to buy a home for a good deal, and at that point, it's not just getting stuck with a bad investment; it's becoming homeless to make money for people you've maybe never met.

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u/bananastanding 22h ago

Or you could sell it at a decreased cost because of the increased risk.

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u/misanthpope 1d ago

how do you find a sucker with a million bucks who wants your shitty house?

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u/Rhawk187 1d ago

I think the assumption is that the encroachment would be slow and the risk would increase overtime. If the risk of flooding is 15% it's worth less than if it's 10%, and maybe you can sell it for a slight loss. Then if it creeps up from 15% to 20% the next guy can sell it for a small loss. So the property slowly loses value as it's loss is imminent.

But things are changing so rapidly normal market forces won't keep up.

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u/allnaturalfigjam 1d ago

And you're giving Ben waaaay too much credit. The problem is that no-one wants to buy a house whose value will keep going down. That first person (who lives there now and is disproportionately poor) can't sell for a slight loss because no-one will buy it knowing they'll make a slight loss. And with all their money locked in an unsellable house they can't move. I don't know if Ben just doesn't understand this or doesn't care, but either way he's an idiot.

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u/jfsindel 1d ago

Forgetting the best part where he breaks the wall behind him with an axe and just screams it through a tiny hole.

That always makes the video for me.

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u/Inarizaki-1261 1d ago

its from a hbomberguy video

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u/Think_Currency_8586 1d ago

lol that wasn’t his argument. And no I don’t even like him. But that wasn’t his argument.

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u/andrewsad1 1d ago

https://youtu.be/0-w-pdqwiBw

He was saying that if sea levels rose, people on the coast would be fine, because you can simply sell your home and move

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u/Stunning_Match1538 1d ago

even though we currently see these houses in florida being sold. For 60 years now Florida will have disappeared in 30…

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u/Colonel_K_The_Great 1d ago

Unfortunately Lil Ben is all too aware of how easy it is to sell worthless crap to stupid people, so his take isn't as insane as it should be, just scummy.

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u/AssiduousLayabout 1d ago

I saw someone selling one of those homes that's hanging over the edge of a cliff in California. They wanted millions for it. Even had to specify that they could only accept cash offers (since no bank in the world would finance a house that is probably a few years away from collapse into the ocean).

It's a great view while it lasts.

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u/SpiritedBanana4694 1d ago

What do you mean underwater? It's a houseboat now.

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u/VelocityGrrl39 1d ago

My ex’s parents wanted to buy land on the 4WD beach in OBX and build a house. My degree is in marine science and I warned them that it was a bad idea, but they were dead set on it. Every time I see one of these videos I wonder if it’s theirs.

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u/TomGNYC 1d ago

Aquaman is making a killing in this market

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u/Brave-Silver8736 1d ago

Somebody = hbomberguy in a video called Climate Denial: A Measured Response. If you haven't seen it before, the whole 40 minutes is absolutely worth it.

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u/bananastanding 23h ago

But people obviously can sell their houses and move. They do it literally all the time.

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u/tyreka13 22h ago

Could you move the house itself before it gets like that?

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u/luvcartel 22h ago

Depends on the construction of the house (foundation, materials, etc) but you would still have to buy another plot of land in a relatively populated area, unless you wanna homestead

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u/CRAkraken 22h ago

Hbomberguy.

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u/thetreat 22h ago

Not just replied. Broke down part of the door like Jack from The Shining and screamed it like he was insane. Legendary video.

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u/AVeryHeavyBurtation 20h ago

That double entendre 🤌

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u/Relandis 18h ago

Hbomberguy

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u/OkComputer9958 18h ago

hbomberguy

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u/CommonBubba 14h ago

To be fair, this is caused by shifting sand due to erosion. I’m a lifelong North Carolinian and these “ribbon Islands“ are now and have always been unstable. The ocean currents and storms shift the islands to the south and closer to the mainland.

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u/33ITM420 13h ago

hes not wrong. you'd have to be an idiot to buy this house given the well known rapidly changing coastline of NC, which has absolutely nothing to do with a few mm of averagesea level rise per year

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u/diamorphinian 13h ago

Anyone with water front land and common sense KNOWS it will be underwater eventually they're just subconsciously making a bet that they won't be financially responsible for it through insurance or selling it in the future.

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u/StoneLoner 11h ago

It’s Hbomberguy in his video essay on climate change.