Youtube comments of wishsnfishs (@Umbrellagasm).

  1. There's something amazingly wholesome about a soft spoken kindly man in a shapeless hat enjoying the hell out a plain baked onion.
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  2. She said she didn't torture animals, as in for amusement - she described trying to kill an animal in a pretty brutal and painful way, but I've heard worse stories from people raised in farms
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  3. Sadly it's our insecurity that we're "not doing enough" that creates a market for these predatory gurus in the first place, and then they sell our anxieties back to us inflated tenfold, and the cycle repeats
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  4. "Gay pirates, gay samurai, gay everything!" Tumblr in a nutshell.
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  5. Boooo mean
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  6. SAD is a common acronym for both social anxiety disorder and seasonal affective disorder - the first sentence of the Social Anxiety Disorder page of Wikipedia states "Social anxiety disorder (SAD), also known as social phobia, is an anxiety disorder characterized by sentiments of fear and anxiety in social situations, causing considerable distress and impaired ability to function in at least some aspects of daily life." Wikipedia not "official" enough? Then how about this excerpt from psychology today's own page on social anxiety disorder - "Children living in high-conflict homes can develop social anxiety disorder; trauma or abuse are also associated with SAD in children. In addition, a child who experiences bullying, rejection, humiliation, or teasing may also develop SAD."
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  7. Symptoms can be managed
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  8. Unfortunately health care can be extremely, extremely expensive - if you are in good health, life can be pretty affordable (depending on location). However, if and once you or a loved one get ill, life can greedily gobble up a middle class income and ask for seconds.
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  9. I think a lot of this may sometimes stems from parents hiding their challenges and difficult emotions from their children, because they "dont want to put that on the kids", which is well intentioned, and in many cases a reaction to their own disregulated parents, but the unfortunate consequence is that kids never see any model for how to overcome challenging internal problems, and a glossy kind of emotional "perfection" becames normalized at a very deep behavioral level.
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  10. I just searched for footage of this supposed town council meeting and didn't find anything. Can anyone provide me with the actual video name?
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  11.  @user-on6db4rf4s  solid advice, but tough to act on when you already live here. And honestly, while there are countries I'd rather live, I still feel lucky to have been born in the US.
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  12. What do you mean? The Animal Welfare Act wasn't even passed until 1966, and Oregon became the first state to make acts of animal cruelty a felony in 1986 - legal protections for animals are stronger now than at any point in history.
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  13. Well at the end of the day all governments are held together by a series of handshake agreements - what would the alternative even be?
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  14. Social media is sadly never going away - it will warp and transform with the times, but it is simply too appealing for both businesses and consumers
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  15.  @nancybrown8991  The guy I knew had to drown bags of puppies as a kid - I'm not seeing much of a difference
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  16. I wouldn't want to be her friend, but i would be fascinated to chat with her
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  17. Interesting how aggression and male variability were framed as somehow more inherent and less socialized than the other factors. They may be more inherent, but I'm curious why that adsumption was made. Is there really an understanding that men are not "naturally" cooperative? Even war, the most stereotypically masculine enterprise, is an extremely cooperative activity. If you have two groups of men at war, group A of average cooperativeness and outstanding aggression, and group B of average aggression but outstanding cooperativeness, I'm not at all convinced group A would be at an advantage. Sounds like berserkers vs legionaries, and we all know how that turned out historically
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  18. ​ @DTreatz If you view women as impossible, emotionally flighty, and irreducibly irrational, that seems like a worldview that will preclude you from ever having a healthy relationship with one
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  19. The efficacy of therapy has been demonstrated in literally hundreds of peer reviewed studies. If it didn't work for you, then good call on not continuing it I guess, but it's absurd to generalize your personal experience to the entire profession. There is no one "therapy" either - there cognitive behavioral, psychodynamic, acceptance commitment, internal family systems, gestalt, narrative, dialectical behavioral, and a whole mess of others that all work very differently from one another.
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  20. Not really, skills aren't networks, which is what this video is about
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  21. If someone very explicitly, personally asks you to not call them cis, then yes it is reasonable to expect them to respect that, but as cisgender is the current medical terminology, it seems unreasonable to expect someone to refrain from calling you as such without specific request. And not only is it the acceptable medical nomenclature, but many cisgender people refer to themselves as such - I certainly do. Not is it an instance of reclaimed intragroup language, like certain slurs.
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  22. ​ @matthewr3986  her terminology is not colloquial - it's clinical, because she is a scientific specialist in her field
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  23. This is really a brilliant peice of satire
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  24. ​ @patrickbertlein4626 There's nothing about stoicism that says "don't make basic facial expressions or ever modulate your voice"
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  25.  @hope_pead  So your personal experience is a greater body of evidence than hundreds of peer reviewed randomized controlled trials?
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  26. She explains it in another video that she can experience the adrenal "fight or flight" sensation in her body, she just doesn't experience it as fear. I imagine self preservation for her is a bit like playing a game - you try to win at monopoly, but you don't genuinely have that much emotional stake in the outcome
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  27. ​ @sauercrowder There are still plenty of modern nudist communities that are very much not "constantly horny"
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  28. I think it's kinda fuckin hard to take a census right now
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  29. It seems like the American model is either shame or a toxic kind of validation; neither of which are at all solutions oriented
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  30. She's a psychiatrist, she should run from her patients?
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  31. I cannot find any of these supposed videos - can anyone just provide me with one specific video title I could follow up on?
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  32.  @xHannibal  I believe it is linked, but how are we defining "strongly" here? And proportionally, how strong is that effect compared to cultural forces? Having lived in both places, from my observation the average woman in New York is more aggressive and less agreeable than the average man in Cambodia.
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  33. It's very easy to misdiagnose children when they're young - there could be any number of reasons he's behaving like that and it's very unlikely he has either the emotional awareness or language to articulate them. Please talk to specialists and resist the lure of easy labels
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  34. Unfortunately, in many people's minds, "just picking an option and moving forward" is simply another option to choose from, only making the situation more difficult
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  35.  @felipeschneider1978  Thank you for your response, when I have more time I will digest it line by line, but I do appreciate you actually following up in a thoughtful manner.
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  36.  @flutebasket4294  what are you talking about? My comment was in response to the statement that there are "no consequences to anyone, anymore". There are demonstratively more consequences for animal cruelty now then at any other point in American history. To suggest otherwise is a baseless kind of doomerism that serves no one.
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  37. Part of the problem is everyone is like this now. My dad hardly puts down his phone anymore.
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  38. American politicians love to say this is the land of opportunity, where anybody willing to work hard can have a decent life. These migrants just believed them.
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  39. Sometimes I do just stare at my clock for half an hour. I find it very soothing
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  40. It is crazy, but there is a logic to it - if these people are completely destitute they're either going to end up using social services or are going to get booked by police, both of which will add up to much higher than $3000 real quick.
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  41. How is that related? The US military only stormed Normandy to protect our European allies from the Nazis (and only after some very heavy prompting). And most of the guys charging up Normandy had seen (and probably participated in) their fair share of crime - the great depression and prohibition were not famously lawful times in American history.
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  42. Public sentiment had a huge influence on the US's exit from Vietnam
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  43. Dr K knows what gets the clicks
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  44. For the love of our AI gods, please stop the clickbait
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  45. ​ @felipeschneider1978 What about what she said is gibberish? That's quite a claim to make about one of the most respected experts on emotional research. She's among the top 1% cited scientists in the world.
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  46. A greater injustice does not invalidate a lesser injustice elsewhere
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  47. Really tough in healthcare - 12 hr shifts of constant vigilance plays hell with sleep schedule
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  48. I find Nietzsche's writing both inspiring and abhorrent. A brilliant, firey mind whom I must resist the impulse to idolize
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  49. My problem is, in history, all the horrible things are happening to real people, so what would have been exciting in a piece of fiction becomes tragic instead
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  50. Well, that seems like a pretty accurate description of our society - we measure someone's worth by their ability to accrue wealth far more than their production of thoughtful or beautiful art
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  51. OCD makes you wash your hands 30 times a day, not turn you into an organizational savant
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  52. The answer is of course extremely complicated with dozens or hundreds of significant factors, but one of the most obvious is curiously rarely brought up - the Islamic world took the full force of the 13th century Mongol invasions, which to Europeans never amounted to more than frightening rumors. The destruction of Baghdad and its universities represented an intellectual loss the Islamic world never recovered from. Also the trade routes that fueled their wealth faded from significance in the age of sail, cutting off the surplus funds that could support centers of scholarship.
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  53. Wha?? Of all the human cultures in recorded history, Greeks were some of the most obsessed with gym culture and the shaping of a desirable physique... Well, at least among the wealthy citizen class, whom we get most of our ideas of Greek culture from.
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  54. Things famously got so much better for the peoples of South America under the Spanish
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  55. Also, I'm not sure people appreciate just how complex and often chaotic film shoots are - these films often do have expert consultants on staff, but to have them attached to every step of the decision making process at all times is just logistically infeasible
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  56. This is a wonderful overview of one of my favorite films, but IT COMPLETELY GIVES AWAY THE END. DO NOT WATCH IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE FILM.
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  57. As an actor, I disagree with your interpretation somewhat - it's not that we aren't capable of making inferences about people's emotional states, it's that emotional states do not exist in biologically determined categories, and that we do not have hard wired, naturally occuring neural equipment to process them. This also aligns with my acting training - one of my best acting teachers warned us against relying on emotion to drive performance, because emotion does not reliably read on the face, body or voice. That's part of the reason Lee Strasberg style (The Method) acting training has dramatically dwindled in popularity.
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  58. Not to mention they only won the Peloponnesian war against Athens because they were being bankrolled by Persia and the Athenians didn't understand epidemiology (Plague of Athens). Sold out their fellow Greeks to the Persians, artificially inflated military reputation, vicious and prolific slaveholders (even for the time). The Spartans were not cool.
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  59. What is your evidence for that?
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  60. I gotta say, whenever I see some professional dogwalker strolling around with 8+ animals on their arms, my first thought is usually “Christ that looks like a lot”
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  61. I think the pertinence is that Collins is highly qualified to speak on the subject of science because his accomplishments are in that field. George Bush had accomplishments in his field (politics), but they sucked, like starting Operation Iraqi Freedom . Collins isolated the gene for huntington's disease and lead the Human Genome project.
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  62. It seems like a preferable solution might be to offer a mobility-limited shuttle service at park head quarters that would travel along an unobtrusive dirt road to the destination sight. Sure, some people might try to "game" the system, but that hasn't stopped us from providing handicapped parking and other similar services, and most people maintain those to be good ideas.
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  63. He screamed to the 300 Spartans and their accompanying roughly 1000 slaves. A new age of freedom indeed.
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  64. Considering how chronic malnutrition was so widespread that the average man was close to a foot shorter than today, it's highly unlikely
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  65. There's an enormous volume of research on psychopathy that correlates to what she's saying . What is your evidence to the contrary?
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  66. Some of them are, some of them aren't, though it may be easy to mistake their inability to experience remorse as "pride". I also don't think a random self-selected sample is a very robust demographic to make a generalization about an entire population. It certainly would hold up to any scrutiny in peer-reviewed scientific research
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  67. It's a protest and the cops aren't talking - who df do you expect to provide a contrasting opinion?
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  68. It is never established that the infinity gauntlet could do anything in the film, just that he would have the power to kill half of everyone.
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  69.  @adrianbunea2006  Because we're talking about the meaningful definition of competence in this situation - my argument being that driving competence is highly multifactorial
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  70. A lifetime of medical debt is a pretty strong incentive
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  71. Looking at someone when talking to them isn't inherently a natural human behavior - she says in another video she's not socialized easily, so it's possible that's just never a behavior she adopted
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  72.  @felipeschneider1978  so I've read your comment, and I do generally agree that her language is rather obtuse in a way that I can't determine is a fault of her ability to communicate to a layperson (a fault of many scientists), or if it really does represent some structural incoherence in her worldview, but based on your reply it seems like you're viewing her interview through some kind of political/culture war lense, which is just a kind of conversation I don't really have any interest in having, so I'll wish you good day and bow out of this thread.
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  73.  @flutebasket4294  like, nobody said the specific words "animal rights"? Yes that's true, but I'm really curious what other read one could reasonably make of the original comment. It's a video of an animal being treated poorly, and the owners subsequent interaction with the criminal justice system - the comment was in regard to a lack of consequences for "anyone" (presumably referencing American society at large) and "anymore" (being today compared with the past). What other reasonable read of that comment is there? Also, I think assuming my motivations in what I posted is not particularly intellectually charitable.
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  74. Yeah the idea that anyone can do something without motivation is kind of absurd - to suggest otherwise is just feel-good, magical thinking bro speak. "Discipline is a crutch. It's thinking you need to BE something before you DO something. When in fact you only ARE the things you DO. Only by ACTING will you BECOME disciplined." Wow I can do it too! Maybe I should start making entrepreneurial inspo videos.
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  75. Pay has traditionally been poor
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  76. I think the misstep that Sam Harris makes here is that one may be a Buddhist in the same way that one may be a Stoic or an Epicurean, that is, following an embodied philosophy descending from a lineage of wise teachers.
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  77. Idk I always do
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  78. I don't know if i see any particular tension between logical positivism and imagination - logical positivism does not denigrate imagination, it simply seeks to clarify what is imagined from what is observed.
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  79. If you think Marxists could organize a conspiracy, you've clearly never seen more than one in the same place
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  80.  @youngklassik9582  If we lived in a society wherein the major medical associations, the dictionaries, the research journals, and the English style guides referred to you as a turtle, that would be quite weird, but yes then I would be unreasonable in refusing to call you a turtle and not expect a negative reaction, because that would be the linguistic norm. Whether or not that norm is well-founded is a separate question, one that I'm reluctant to go into at much length because I don't see much evidence that you actually read my previous comment. It seems that you just identified my stance on the issue in a reductive pro/against categorization and replied with a tired remix of the old "I sexually identify as an attack helicopter" joke. Apologies if I come off a little curt, but I'm quite exhausted with commentators lambasting "nonsense liberal ideology" and subsequently refusing to actually engage in any kind of critical discourse once the conversation has begun.
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  81. Isnt stocism simply another path to pleasure? Much or the stoic argument is based aground the attainment of stoic "tranquility", which seems to be the advertisement of a persistent, pleasurable state. Hedonism is the only philosophy that seems intelligible to me.
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  82. As much as i love the existential birbs, i feel like this video skipped over the explanation of how the event horizon of the expanding universe would create hawking radition waaay to quickly for my monkey brain - I thought hawking radiation was only possible because of the massive gravitational wells surrounding black holes. Would the universal event horizon also generate gravity? Huh? Can someone smarter than me explain this in monkey words?
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  83. Having clear diagnostic criteria =/= approval. As she says in the video, better understanding promotes public health. Clear language helps us talk about these problems and study them with greater efficacy
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  84. ​ @benhubbard471 That probably would have been a much more interesting film, but there is literally nothing in the movie to suggest that his narrative is false or exaggerated in any way
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  85. People here seem perpetually astonished that a diagnosed psychopath is talking like a psychopath
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  86. Wild how social media platforms will ban you for posting a female nipple, but are totally chill with folks self-recording felonies for clout
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  87.  @felipeschneider1978  Fair, but what did she say that was gibberish or illogical? I'm genuinely curious
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  88. Are you saying she's deluded into thinking she's a psychopath?
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  89. I know plenty of kids I grew up with who played GTA for hours upon hours listening to rap music, and as far as I know, none of them have ever boosted a kia
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  90. Yeah, he's a psychopath, he literally can't experience empathy or remorse
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  91. ​ @DoIGoOn OP said "let alone fun and travel", as in they do not have money for fun and travel, as the video suggests some people are spending their money on
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  92. Behind what? Psychology is the study of people's cognitions and behaviors, how else could the field operate? Unless you mean to infer that psychology is invalid because it is not studying the physical structure of the brain? Well okay, that's neuroscience, which has absolutely found biological markers for psychopathy. Getting mad at psychologists for studying behavior and thought instead of concrete physical variables is a bit like getting mad at biologists for not describing animals in terms of chemistry; sure, ultimately all life is fundamentally a series of biochemical reactions, but if you tried to describe the migratory patterns of emperor penguins exclusively through chemistry it would be completely incoherent - and that isn't even taking into consideration that neuroscientists only have very, very, vague inferential ideas about how the brain interacts with or creates behavior
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  93. Honestly i think the lack of mystism is what prevented me from ever seriously considering christianity in the first place. It barely ever felt like a religion to me, just a collection of angry superstition and suffocating legalisms.
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  94. Idk you go to New York for museums and live shows - it's kind of apples and oranges
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  95. I find the accounts of the "mediocre" people of history generally much more interesting and informative than the supposed "great men"
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  96.  @natalievu4399  yeah the poor guy seemed pretty traumatized by it honestly
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  97. Why Nietzsche hated YOU
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  98.  @discountpotato5680  yeah, no shade - they were flinty manlets of cold steel, but their hormone profile would probably give an endocrinologist a heart attack. If anything, it suggests the opposite of the original comment - testosterone levels are no excuse for being hard AF, when our ancestors were besieging coastal fortifications half naked on a diet of stale beer and maggoty hardtack.
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  99. Well, she didn't say that all treatment had to be involuntary. Also, psychopaths do sometimes seek treatment because their antisocial behaviors are beginning to impact themselves personally
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  100. Physicality is a balancing act that most modern humans are on the sedentary side of. I’ve certainly worked manual labor jobs that were so physically draining that it negatively affected my mood.
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  101. Well I've been in therapy for over 10 years, hope it starts working soon!
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  102.  @rumplstiltztinkerstein  my friend, I barely understand what your point is. If you're referring to professional bodybuilders, yes they take all kinds of androgens, but they also work furiously hard at the gym because that's their job. Do most people want a body like an Olympia competitor? No, because they're bodybuilders not models. And they are as a rule extremely strong in the rep ranges they train in - Tom Platz famously squatted 525 pounds for 23 reps in 1992. Looking at modern athletes is not a good indicator of what was useful to an ancient warrior. Warriors had to fight with heavy weapons, armor, and shields with no weight classes in close quarters that often turned into violent shoving matches. Clearly the guys had to fight long and hard, perhaps after a forced march, so they didn't look like sumo wrestlers, but a 155lb jujitsu monkey wouldn't cut it either. Having a large volume of muscle mass would be highly desirable. In my reading of Greek writings, they frequently praise powerful male bodies, and I have never once seen them critique a warrior for being "too muscular". Also, Protein is a macronutrient not a drug.
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  103. Questions create a narrative as well, by implying what avenues of exploration are worthy and important, and who is responsible for providing answers. If I say to my partner, "What did you do with my keys?" I am implying a narrative that my keys are not where they should be, that my partner did something with them, and that they have a responsibility to provide me an answer. Depending on the circumstance, these may be valid implications or totally off base. There's no way to understand a historical circumstance without a sense of narrative structure. Investigation is a process of comparing and vetting competing narratives for their accuracy and explanatory power. And the more time limited a situation becomes (ie a situation where people are dying quickly) the more important it becomes to quickly identify and dismiss lines of inquiry that support narratives that do not map to reality.
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  104. Huh?
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  105. Dr K's guide to Ayurveda when???
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  106. In the grand scale of human history, things are not so bad right now - even 80 years ago a lot of us would be drafted into WW2 and have to face overwhelming psychological and physical damage, not to mention agonizing death. The world has almost always been a catastrophe - and this chapter of the catastrophe is just ours to bear
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  107.  @oneguy4196  I'm saying that is indeed the current medical nomenclature, that is the language used in scientific journals, media, and the dictionary so it's not reasonable to expect someone to refrain from calling you that unless you express your preference. That's just generally how the norms of language work
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  108.  @diegoclark7697  In what medical terms? I'm not aware of any major American medical association that refers to trans women as men. Besides, the conversation I have been replying to has been in regards to the social appropriateness of calling cisgender people cisgender, and whether it is inherently disrespectful to do so, which is a separate question as to whether trans women are "really" women.
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  109. ​I'm not convinced - if I wanted to hire someone to drive for my company, I care about outcome, not process. Not doing stupid things is a cognitive skill that's actually pretty hard to teach. And addiction science demonstrates it actually often easier to enforce positive behaviors than extingush negative ones - so even if i had a choice between a levelheaded, low technical skill candidate, and a reckless talent, who both had equal initial outcome levels, I would chose the former candidate 10/10 times because their path to improvement will be much faster. That's just pragmatism
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  110. The video never claims to be unbiased - it's a video about how Peterson doesn't understand Marx, so the presenter clearly has a position
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  111. Don't cut yourself on that edge buddy
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  112. A year ago I thought this was a pipe dream, but with the recent ai revolution it's hard to predict what's possible anymore
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  113. So confusing that white South Africans still make 3 times as much as blacks - it seems like the ANC are ostensibly in conflict with the upper class whites who still benefit from aparteid legacies, but in actuallity the party just rides the wave of racial resentment to enrich themselves and drive the country into the ground; leading to a state of disaster that ironically the rich whites are best equiped to weather
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  114. She said she could experience positive emotions, so some of the smiles and laughter are probably genuine
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  115. I taught English in Cambodia some years ago - genuinely the kindest people I have met anywhere; astonishing considering the historic levels of intergenerational trauma and difficulty accessing even basic resources. A really suspicious number of amputees though - the war Kissinger brought to that land continues to bite deep even across the veil of years. I don't pretend to have a comprehensive enough grasp of geopolitics to definitively comment on the man's entire legacy, but what he did in Cambodia, whether natural or moral, was an act of evil.
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  116. Why does this comment have more than twice as many replies as any others? Really interesting food for thought. It's as if the articulateness of the protesters is more incendiary than the actual violence. Fascinating
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  117. I do find some irony in the fact that those clutching the most pearls over "emotional fragility" are often the ones with the least capacity to reflect on their own emotions or accept criticism. A certain Albertan psychologist springs to mind.
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  118. Haha I found it totally insufferable. The subtitle should have been: how i became so virtuous, thrifty, temperate, brilliant, and terribly, terribly modest.
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  119. Imy not saying he doesn't know what the hell he's doing. But his actions are indistinguishable from someone who doesn't know what the hell he's doing.
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  120. I gotta say that is just about the hardest TED opener I've heard
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  121. Glad it worked out for you, but since everyone's depression is different, everyone's solution is also going to be tailored to themselves. I also threw myself to the other side of the world, and it helped a little bit but not much. I lift weights, have a job, am in a master's program, and do something social at least once a week, and I'm still depressed as fuck.
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  122. I CANNOT BE SHAMED AT THE NEXT HARVEST FESTIVAL
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  123. Its an interesting question, does a person owe their society babies? If the very continuation of a society rests upon that act, then I could see an argument that a person in fact does, and that everyone in that society is also obligated to facilitate and ease that process. That may sound like an extreme claim to some, yet most people are also comfortable with the idea of a military draft when their country faces an existential threat.
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  124. If I didn't have a home gym I would lose my goddamn mind up here in the north
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  125. The Neanderthals and the Homo Sapiens didn't all line up and scrap to decide who would become the dominant hominid. It was about who could adapt to their environment more efficiently. Humans had lower caloric needs, favored long range hunting tactics that didn't expose them to injury, and better logistical cognition to maintain complex resource distribution networks. If evolution was determined by "who is best at fighting" we'd all be living in the T-Rex Republic (which would be awesome)
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  126. I think the first problem here is that he asserts "Chinese philosophers will push..." Really? All of them? Look at the philosophers of the Hellenistic period. A shorter time span and smaller population than china, and those motherfuckers didn't agree on anything.
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  127. I don’t understand what is supposed to be so mind boggling or revelatory about this story, or how it runs against the “mainstream media”. Isn’t Time the mainstream media? How is this being censored? It showed up on the front page of my recommendations.
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  128. The participants were staring at a special clock face that competed a rotation every 2.5 seconds which allowed the participants to recall the spatial position at the time they became aware of their intention to act. There was no communication delay during the test because there was no communication - subjects reported the recalled spatial position after the test was completed.
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  129. It may be pseudoscience, but I think bioenergetics does indeed point to some reality about how bodies store and release emotions. I once got a full-body oil massage in thailand, and for hours after I was giggling like an idiot. The giggles weren't coming from a place of "oh I feel so sublime and relaxed I just gotta let it all out" but rather my body was flooded with a manic, almost aggressive energy. Talk to a masseuse about emotional release. Psychology is in a tough stop right now, what with the replication "crisis" and fresh doubt cast upon the efficacy of its golden child CBT. My current therapist is a classically-trained CBT Phd who now puts little emphasis in the practice. The field of somatic therapy, I believe, deserves a spot more respect than you're giving it.
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  130. I work with an ADHD coach and this is pretty much the model we use. In fact, I'm curious what kind of long term ADHD treatment plan would not involve those three pillars.
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  131. I missed the part were the school shut down his Italian heritage club.
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  132. They already train on images and audio - how is that different from sight and hearing?
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  133.  @JonDoe-uq1mk  I'm not implying that chatGPT has some kind of inner life comparable to our own, I was responding to the comment implying that LLMs don't have human senses. However, as to your point, I see no reason why these models could not, in the near future, emulate the responses of human being so well as to be indistinguishable from an artificial consciousnesses, with all the emotions and other intangibles that we identify as uniquely human. Again, that does not in any way mean that it's having that experience. I'm also not quite sure what your point is with the asprin vs maths example. Do you mean to imply that as evidence that it doesn't understand what it's saying? Well, yes, I agree that it fundamentally doesn't "understand" anything, but I don't see that example as evidence of that. It just means that it is an intelligence that is better at some tasks than others, much like a human.
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  134.  @JonDoe-uq1mk  lol we got to break it out!!!
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  135. Unfortunately few professional historians have physiques of ancient warriors
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  136. Well it certainly did upset british power in the region
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  137. There is simply no evidence to support the claim he was a pedophile. Stop reading those tabloids. They're hurting your brain.
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  138. No he's just saying that telling people they're stupid and believe in nonsense is a bad way to change someone's mind - which is true
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  139.  @chamberlain85  I'm not suggesting that you are calling people stupid, I'm just saying that was the situation he was referring to in the video. If you're looking for surefire way of making somebody change their beliefs, unfortunately such a method does not exist. Which may be for the best, as it would doubtlessly be exploited by politicians and advertisers to rob us of any self determination. If you're seeking research on the topic, there was a recent meta-analysis of 25 studies called "The efficacy of interventions in reducing belief in conspiracy theories: A systematic review". They found that after someone has already begun to believe a conspiracy theory, there are no reliable methods of converting them, but the least effective was ridiculing them for their beliefs.
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  140. This is what happened... to his BONES
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  141. Bruce Lee was immensely physically powerful and often chided contemporary martial arts culture for undervaluing conditioning
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  142. I grew up in small rural life swinging axes, but i have no clue why the average person would find that skill useful or even have to opportunity to develop it, unless they signed up for some goofy "axe-fit" class at the local crossfit box for 399/month
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  143. The quote Dan Carlin as well as iIcan remember: "The Europeans never met the indigenous nations, only their traumatized remains"
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  144. What? Michael Jackson never admitted to molesting any children.
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  145. Curious how these mass shootings continue to happen in the country with the greatest proliferation of private firearm ownership in the world. How could this happen??? Maybe once every single adult and child carries a firearm with them at all times we will finally be safe.
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  146.  @DortonFarb  I wonder what would have happened if the shooter was also unarmed? Fascinating how it's so hard to tell why mass shootings happen most often in the country with the most guns. There's only been 7 people killed in mass shootings in Australia since their gun reform bill in 1996 - bizarre and impossible to explain
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  147. I love Dr. K, but he has a tendency to take a pretty good theory, and present it as "X is THE reason for Y", when the reality is closer to "there's some good evidence that X is one of the major contributing factors to Y in some cases"
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  148. Kevin's heart seems pike its in the right place, but I'm sure confused what hes actually accomplishing - what is posting on online threads and blowing $1000+ on drone gear just to "ominously" hover nearby achieving? If he was more invested in helping people than his suburban batman fantasy it seems like he'd be going around, i don't know, like helping people update their cars or something
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  149. In what sense was Nelson Mandela a Marxist? Sure, he rubbed shoulders with Marxists in his revolutionary days (if you're operating in liberation circles, it's impossible not to), but if he was truly a Marxist he would have transitioned South Africa to a centrally planned economy upon his election - he certainly had the popularity to do so. As he said in 2000 "As I moved around the world and heard the opinions of leading business people and economists about how to grow an economy, I was persuaded and convinced about the free market."
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  150. Im not sure mental stimulus is an adequate buffer - those arctic researchers still had demanding jobs that required prolonged periods of focus and critical thought, yet they still suffered hippocampus shrinkage
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  151. Im honestly a litle confused by this video - he goes on at length for all the reasons therapy doesn't work for men, but then near the end he mentions that studies have shown it to be equally effective for both genders
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  152. I hear all these people saying "its the parents, it starts at home", but that doesn't point to any kind of solution. What does that suggest? Recruiting armies of social workers to ensure parents are raising their children "correctly"? Orwellian and logistically impossible. Making a public statement about how parents need to "step up" their parenting? An empty guesture equivalent to doing nothing. Change has to happen at the schools, because the school is the only thing the school can change.
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  153. Brits: "Socialized medicine is broken! I had to wait 7 months to see a doctor about my broken foot!" Yanks: "... you got to see a doctor?"
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  154. I donno, I just got back from my cousin's wedding; a very traditional black tie affair, and I was bored to tears the whole time wishing someone would bang a flaming gong or something
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  155. I kind of roll my eyes when all these writers and philosophers make grand, sweeping statements about human nature. Perhaps the person to ask about the link between apathy and depression would be, I don’t know, a psychologist? Someone who’s actually put in the hours of working with depressed and otherwise mentally ill individuals?
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  156. I don't follow, the problem deals with very small divisions of time and space, not points or instants, unless we suppose that there is a circumstance in which dividing a span results in a point or points, but I don't understand what that circumstance would be
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  157. Titus looks like hes having a great life, but i grew up in rural isolation, and let me tell you, its not an automatic recipe for happiness.
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  158. But... That's what's she's saying - that the binary Rape? Y/N is insufficiently nuanced
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  159.  @17milesaway  The word woman is clearly still in use, that's why we can say the terms "cisgender woman" or "transgender woman"
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  160.  @17milesaway In current medical literature, there isn't a "difference", it's a subcategory. All cis women are women, but not all women are cis women. All bowlers are hats, but not all hats are bowlers. Are you actually confused about this or are you trying to "catch" me in something?
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  161. Okay, but where do I actually find cheaper items online? The only brick and mortar store i can reliably find better deals is Costco.
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  162. I donno, sounds way better than a traditional wedding to me. Yall need some whimsy in your lives.
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  163. “Most employers pay their employees as much as they can...” Don’t most employers pay their employees minimum wage?
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  164. Honestly kinda sounds like the fantasies of adult life i used to have as a kid
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  165. "why do so many people have mental health problems these days?" Is like asking "Why is the economy so bad these days?" It's not just going to be one thing. In fact, it's probably not going to be just 10 things.
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  166. What the hell you on about mate? People were like "boo down with the constitution! abolish it! no constitution for us! rules are for pussies!"?? If that's true I would genuinely love to see it, that's a hilarious mental image. Sadly, you're probably talking out of your ass and wildly mischaracterizing some complex social movement for internet yayas and to sooth the anxiety that comes with confronting the reality of the world as a very messy and nuanced arena of social forces. Hope u prove me wrong tho ✌️
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  167. Since Australia amended their gun laws after 1996, they've had 7 people killed in mass shootings. Thank the founding fathers we have our God given right to bear arms, or we might have had that many people killed in America in the same span of time! Can you imagine??
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  168.  @DanielGarcia-td7oj  hmmm?
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  169. Congrats on your upcoming phd
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  170. Idk I think tuberculosis was probably worse
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  171. The idea that anxiety and depression are caused by irrationality has unfortunately never really been scientifically supported - it became vouge during the heyday of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and people assumed that because the therapy worked its underlying assumptions must be true, but now as the supposed amazing benefits of CBT decline year by year, it seema clear that those early miracle studies were victim of the same blind hype and selective optimism that pushed antidepressants and as a miracle cure. In studies comparing depeessed people to neurotypicals, sometimes one group will demonstrate a more accurate evaluation of reality than the other, but there isnt any conclusive evidence that on the whole depressed people are more or less rational
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  172. For all the people claiming this man is a visionary whistleblower and epoch- defining philosopher, would any of them be so kind as to point me to any material documentation of these psychic transdimensional Nazi alien board meetings?
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  173. But sometimes atoms do "touch", such as in the degenerate core of a massive star. It does depend on how we're defining "touch" in this instance.
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  174. Are you saying she's a paid actor? Huh??
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  175. Lol you guys have way more belief than I have in the competency of any government agency if you believe they could successfully pull off a false flag operation of this scale
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  176. "Small house alter small uh... valuable getting enough outside my insist gloria beekeeping" From the captions.
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  177. I find it interesting that so many claim the japanese couldnt have been brave because they were "brsinwashed" or "fanatics". How does one make an easy distinction? Were the Americans not brave, because they were "brainwashed" into believing in the ideals of the constitution? Were they "fanatics" for democracy?
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  178. Idk Los Angeles is certainly "centerless", but neighborhoods feel massively different, almost like different cities. There's probably more variation within LA than most cities on earth
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  179. Nihilism =\= depression
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  180. As a guy in one of the previous videos mentioned, it's hard to get clean if you're dead. Edit: also as this video demonstrates, the forces involved in authoring this fucked up situation have nothing to do with harm reduction services.
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  181. This is why the truism "You're not learning anything if you're talking" makes me grit my teeth - excuse you, I learn a shit-ton about myself when I talk.
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  182. Naw the ANC doesn't give a shit about ideology - only personal enrichment
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  183. Fascinating how there have only been 7 people killed in mass shootings since Australia amended their gun laws in 1996. How is that the case?? I guess it's impossible to know 🤷‍♂️
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  184. Hey Al is trying really hard, give him a chance.
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  185. ​ @jrpark05 what, that black Africans are genetically mentality inferior, and biologically incapable of running a modern society? Why are you scared to say that if that's what you believe, if you are not one of the "pc robots"? Perhaps people don't say that because it's scientific racism pseudoscience that has been repeatedly disproven through decades of genetics research?
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  186. The planck length provides a physical solution (though do we need one? Obviously things move) but not a mathematical one
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  187. I can’t understand what’s satire anymore
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  188. Please more animated videos! I find it so much easier to remember when there's a visual guide complimenting the spoken information.
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  189. This is a video about why American public transportation is not very good. You post a comment condemning it, your augment being that your local public transportation is not very good. Color me confused.
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  190. Peterson makes a strong point here that well structured writing can teach a type of critical thinking, but he curiously omits spacial and mathematical critical thinking, along with numerous other non-verbal dimensions of cognition. I attribute this to #1 this being a 4 minute soundbite, and #2 he being a self confessed verbal thinker (see his jung video)
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  191. Capital punishment costs more than life in prison - seems like a total waste of taxpayer money
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  192.  @mikerhonevich481  Do you actually believe that the death penalty is cheaper in America than lifetime imprisonment? I can provide you with sources, but the statistics are so consistent on this that I'm honestly a bit confused how you came to this conclusion.
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  193.  @mikerhonevich481  As a firearm owner I am well aware of the cost of ammunition; and besides if the substantive costs of capital punishment were accrued by the methods themselves, we might as well make like the Khemer Rouge and use rocks and sticks. A report by the Indiana Legislative Services Agency, prepared for the General Assembly, examined murder cases from 2000-2007 and found the average lifetime cost (legal+incarceration) of a death penalty case to be $505,773, whereas life without parole cases cost $151,547. A 2008 study by the Urban Institute on the costs of the death penalty in Maryland between 1978 and 1999 found "...an average capital-eligible case in which prosecutors did not seek the death penalty will cost approximately $1.1 million over the lifetime of the case. A capital-eligible case in which prosecutors unsuccessfully sought the death penalty will cost $1.8 million and a capital-eligible case resulting in a death sentence will cost approximately $3 million." A study by The Dallas Morning News found that death penalty cases cost Texas an average of $2.3 million, while high security life without parole cost $750,000 for 40 years. A newspaper may not the most scholarly source, but I include it because some people think any study from a university or government agency is part of some anarcho-communist conspiracy. A casual search will find the overwhelming majority of studies coming to the same conclusion. So I reiterate that the death penalty is a huge waste of taxpayer resources, and certainly not an agenda that I want my taxdollars frivolously spent upon.
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  194. So at what point can it no longer be halved? In mathematical terms?
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  195. My only (and significant) issue with an umbrella is having it bump into my fellow hikers on narrow trails
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  196. Honestly seems way more fun than slots
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  197. He's been proven right on multiple issues regarding demonic possession and transdimensional aliens?
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  198. This is the danger of "cultures of honor"
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  199. The suggestion the Mossad bungled this on purpose is tempting, but doesn't hold up to close examination - the idea that every single person involved in the chain of command would be so cynical and Machiavellian with the lives of their own citizens is simply not probable. It would suggest that the entire population of Mossad is exclusively interested in high level wargames and political manuvering to an extent that not a single wistleblower would come forward to unveil an internal plot to effectively murder hundreds of the people they spend their entire professional lives attempting to protect. It would be treason of the highest order.
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  200. Seems incredible to me that they didn't have any oars
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  201. A lot of people are into nonconsensual fantasies - thats where the whole term "bodice ripper" came from. Twilight is just the pg version of that. Its really like one of the least mysterious fetishes.
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  202. Unfortunately, situations like this do bring out the genuine racists, and it's important not to allow racist talking points to infect the dialog, but yes it's also unacceptable to deflect all criticism of such a completely dysfunctional kleptocracy as "boo ur racist"
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  203. Telling people they're stupid is a very poor way to get them to change their minds - I've been to rallies where both sides are just yelling insults at each other, completely rigid, on the attack, and cognitive inflexible , but when I was able to get someone to talk to me one on one, using language to express genuine interest and allow them to completely articulate their point without interruption, I found they were suddenly, almost magically, far more moderate in their discourse, and willing to listen to my contrasting points of view with a modicum of grace.
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  204. Could you define "manipulative nuances of the matter"?
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  205. Christ, where are all those rounds gonna land?
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  206. God this channel is almost unwatchable
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  207. What seems off about her?
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  208. Nah the next generation will be lonelier.
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  209. Do you have any support for any of this? I think not.
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  210. Isn't the 11,000 number from the Hamas controlled Palestinian health authority? Are they considered a credible source?
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  211. Wouldn't by default you become like your coworkers then?
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  212. God i hope it lives up to the first series.
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  213. Presenting, according to a certain pop psychologist, one of the most evil men who ever lived
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  214. Keeping yalls racism barely contained sure looks exhausting - why not just say it outright?
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  215. Would someone be so kind as to inform me what exactly people found so insightful about this ted talk? I felt like it was all stuff I’d heard a dozen times before, almost to the point of platitudes. Maybe I missed something important?
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  216. An agent for what?
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  217. That's what a good improv teacher will help you with!
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  218. I cannot overstate how much I did not understand this. But I enjoyed the hell out of it!
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  219. Interesting idea, but I don’t think 95% of the us population recognizes the isis flag
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  220. Culture is fascinating
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  221. If only we had some kind of universal access to mental health services... Hmm wait that sounds like socialism never mind
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  222. Lol its Chicago - what do you y'all want the city to do, let them freeze to death? Normally I'd be like, yeah its a complicated issue, but the city can't just have a bunch of rigid human corpses on the street. Thats like, not sanitary.
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  223. ​ @Always.Smarter If a tsunami's about to crush your costal town, it's absolutely your responsibility to get out of the way, but it would be stupid to blame yourself for the wave's existence. Placing the blame in the proper place does not disempower the victims of the action
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  224. Do you think that there is no scientific consensus that black men are disproportionately targeted by police?
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  225.  @zakiahmed6655 in what way could you say the same thing?
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  226.  @zakiahmed6655  I still don't get what you're talking about - I'm not referring to my personal experience in psychotherapy, I'm talking about the vast body of literature supporting its efficacy. And unless it was a very poorly designed study, researchers don't just ask clients "do you think therapy helped yes/no". They use a wide range of statistical and research tools to insure internal and external validity, such as double blinding to control for belief effects, factorial design to understand separate and combined effects of multiple independent variables, Solomon four group designs to control for testing effects, the use of independently verified (i.e. supported by their own body of research) assessments/inventories such as the the Beck Depression Inventory, the Diagnostic Interview for ADHD in Adults, and the NEO Personality Inventory for five factor personality analysis. There have been over 300 peer reviewed studies supporting the efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), over 100 for acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and over 200 for motivational interviewing, not to mention the dozens of other therapeutic modalities. So no, my belief in the efficacy of psychotherapy is not based on personal anecdote.
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  227. Doesn't matter how the writers see it - it matters how the studios see it
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  228. Many people do in adulthood, but they have to come back to it on their own terms that isnt associated with their religious trauma
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