Comments by "justgivemethetruth" (@justgivemethetruth) on "TED" channel.

  1. These factors that concern our health, things like diet, exercise, sleep, toxic chemicals are all adding up to the US having a hugely dysfunctional society that we think is too big to fail and that the rest of the world depends on ... it's everything ... we are in total denial and because of that we make the worst decisions, not a healthy system, in fact one that is doomed to deepening failure. Also ... blue LEDs are supposed to be bad at night and will wake you up.
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  2. Where does it say that?
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  3. also, violence is not the same as aggression, and aggression is not the same as being assertive or hands on. I think the non-thinker's attitude seems to be - say what appeals to people at the moment, and that is always to have conniptions over war and violence, yet unpleasant and uncontrolled as they are, they are a fact of life. But back to "Bully", the one thing that cured it for sure was when one kid decided he had enough and stood up and fought back. cont.
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  4. This tar sands screw up is the most idiotic thing I can imagine … this has got to stop now. What on Earth is wrong with Canada anyway ?
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  5. who taught you not to tuck in your shirt tail! ;-)
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  6. Also ... I think a lot of this is not memory, it is the translation of what is on our memories, with what is going on at the moment, and the motivations of the person at the time as well. Can you ask someone a question they are completely objective about? There is a problem with perception right off the bat ... like the experience when all the people in a room say a ball is red when it is really blue, and then the experimental subject says it's red to just to go along.
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  7. > The mechanism for corruption is money. That is too simplistic, it is the underhanded transfer of money, not its production. Any money system has to have managers, I would agree the Fed is too opaque, but the institution is not the problem, it's the people and who they represent, as well as the country does not understand the Fed or the money system. It's popular since Ron Paul to blame everything on the Fed, I think it's untrue. It's mostly handwaving and finger-pointing.
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  8. This is essentially a lie. He says "journey from Marine to actor" ... but he was not really a Marine. That's OK, he cannot write the script of his life, but why do a TED Talk?
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  9. She was probably told by her lawyer that if she wanted what she thought was justice ... i.e. Titus convicted ... that she had better sound positive when she took the stand. Our legal system is just something we are sort of conditioned by TV and news stories and the fact that everyone else seems to believe it ... but who knows what the legal system is really doing or whether we get "justice" or not ?????
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  10. I read a thing once that said that people can do well with two things ... in any kind of government, rule of law and infrastructure. Of course that infrastructure probably needs to be open and understandable. Democracy cannot work in a world that is so large - except representative, but now the only ones that get representation are the very rich and their goal is to increase that, and it has had toxic side effects on the world and its people. We need solid human rights for everyone
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  11. these kinds of studies are really skewed. you would need to find a reason to eat worms. i probably would not eat anything in a situation like that, unless i was compensated in some way ... then comparing the compensation between people still would not mean much because you do not really know how much they need the money. maybe i am really rich and asking me to eat worms for $10 is not really an incentive. I am dubious about this kind of study because they don't know what it means really
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  12. You should see the comparison between the Chinese Admiral Zheng He and the European Navies at the time. Zheng He was traveling all over India and over to the coast of Africa. Google this: A display at the Ibn Battuta Mall in Dubai, UAE, compares the size of ships used by Zheng He and by Christopher Columbus.
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  13. probably a deadman switch on it so unless it's being pressed it brakes.
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  14. There is no way that they can know what is in the minds of people that lived back then, they do not know that they were letting out evil spirits. This is nonsense, at least as far as the ancient Incas.
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  15. no excuse for that!
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  16. yes, people are funny, you cannot use their stated opinions for anything, they often for whatever reason do not tell the truth, and sometimes when they do - they don't really know what they are saying - they speak from ignorance. Ask a Southern Slave if they were happy, I'm sure a lot of them thought so. We need objective metrics to more closely equalize people, then they might be able to be honest.
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  17. One problem with studying this stuff is that as "we" study stuff we learn how to interfere with it, we learn tricks that enrich or empower some individuals or small groups and usually mess it up. We start to understand the economy, and we see this happening already with Republicans/Corportocracy, think Koch brothers or others, they think they understand what is going on well enough to cut some people out of the equation and impose their will on them, i.e. remove their freedom.
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  18. There is not debate … the toilet paper need to come off the top of the roll or you cannot get at it. Seriously, relationships work when you have trust, and neither person is crazy .. which means that most people should not get married. Most people just play at it for gain in some other department, money, prestige, sex object. But, this lady is a little annoying.
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  19. Why would you throw out chocolate that i would not want ... i think you have you and me mixed up somehow ... but then again that is probably normal for someone who mixed sex and food! ;-) Whatever floats your boat.
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  20. 8:00 "When you feed people misinformation about some experience they may have had you can distort, contaminate or change their memory" Yeah ... I just think of the mainstream media news and AM radio, conservative information networks that repeat and echo something many times a day. Now we have an idea why they do that.
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  21. I hope he is not talking up China as a great government - the reason China is doing so well is because the government is more hands off, as opposed to coercing, stealing from and killing people like it has always done. All governments are problematic, because they are all static - there needs to be a way to create a government that reforms and evolves itself, and keeps the rich and the strong private interests from taking it over.
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  22. they may be ... and we may be too ... so what? No way to know but looking at the wealth and power distribution. Ignore what people say and look at the reality of who controls the money and power.
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  23. Well for one thing there are no farmers farming on desert land. It was the government that healed the dust bowl. But it certainly was not private industry, they caused it.
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  24. You must really get that this is marketing for something?
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  25. But there is nothing new here, just the face, instead of some old SOB who wants to force his cheap nuclear reactor on us, it's his kid ... big whoop!
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  26. The only places that this building city thing makes any sense to be is in Dubai and Saudi Arabia where they have nothing but desert and lots of sunlight and nothing else grows. Use land that is useless for anything else. Stop tearing down the environment and killing animals and ecosystems.
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  27. OK, this is 5 years old now ... what has been accomplished?
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  28. The thing here is that the speaker is railing, yes railing against the meta-narrative, linear-progression, but he is creating his own sequential narrative by setting up a sequence of hand-waving logic and conclusions based on nothing but wisps of the faintest logic he strings together. He talks all around this but he never defines a problem or suggests a solution. This is a performance, the world needs less performances and more calm discussion.
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  29. Because if they did not the plants would not be able to reproduce ... the bees help the tomato plants, and the tomato plants reward them for it ... symbiosis.
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  30. Very nice talk ... the politics of virtually every business now.
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  31. Modern man has no clue about anything except how to kill each other, and steal from man and nature. Any new organic farmer can tell you all about this. there is a cycle of animals and vegetables that raise animals and nuture the land,.
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  32. Someone who does not actively think about what could happen to another person, such as Grace and the poison sugar can be blamed if it could be determined that they would have acted differently if they were putting the sugar/poison into their own cup. Either way I don't think there is any innocence here, it is a crime and punishment is needed either way to motivate others and thinking in the future.
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  33. Problem is Sowell never really understood it was the capitalists and too big to fail bankers that we was talking about.
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  34. This ONLY uses 20 times less energy than a car ... I'd have thought it was hundreds of times less energy ...I think someone need to check their math.
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  35. baloney ... it is a short step from disease to looking at anything else as something to be disgusted about. mothers have to deal with diapers so transferring disgust to women is another example. i had this think called a pygogenic granuloma on my finger once, it was gross like the picture but much smaller and is gone now. we need to have a attitude like kids who show each other their cuts. there is nothing wrong with being sick or poop ... it is a critical part of the ecosystem
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  36. Wouldn't it be great if we did not have a financial crisis, or governments that screw their people, food without chemicals, GMOs, global warming, etc …. there is a lot more important stuff to do and think about than this crap.
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  37. engineering a building's systems is a good idea.
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  38. that megabus is the most idiotic thing i have seen. still it is an experiment and a foray into something new, china is not perfect and they have sleepwalked too. mao's idiotic ideas that were followed like a god had a lot of problems. still, they make progress, and they have to accept things they do not like -if they work, that is our problem in the west, we can be oblvious.
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  39. I have to say though that this 3D printer revolution may not be happening at all. In the media now it is being vilified by association with gun-printing nuts and terrorism ... So, my question would do, who thinks there might be a massive concerted effort by the 1% to maintain their relevance in the face of these "democratizing" trends?
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  40. The mining thing is a good idea ... but what would be the result of shifting an asteroid into Earth Orbit because it would be very nearly what the probe would be doing to the asteroid to begin with. It would change our orbit, maybe the length of the say, tilt of the Earth ... science is great but lots of time they do stuff before they understand what the hell they are doing.
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  41. What are you replying to ?
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  42. The whole point is that there is no such thing as the free market. My YouTube example is just one example, so if you don't get it, don't give me a bunch of BS. The point is that markets are not efficient, and the free market is used as an excuse for no regulation, that means crime and corruption. The rest of your comment is just more nonsense.
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  43. Tabby ?
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  44. The most important, most urgent space to explore is the human mind and how we have drifted into the system we have without thinking and are stuck there because of the power of those who randomly drifted to the top and control most of the planet's resources. Why?
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  45. Control the code and you control the world … and we worry only about criminals, or as this guy calls them - terrorists, but our society, our government is a code, even our own brains and behavior. What is advertising but a way to hack our code to inject ideas into our brains. We had better start to get serious about how we are in the world, The world, the weather, the environment is a code to, and we are hacking it to bits, making competition stronger between all of us.
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  46. BRILLIANT ! Learning is Losing ... sounds like life in the USA! ;-) (and most of the rest of the world)
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  47. The myths of communism and capitalism have sidetracked human rights in their conflict against each other. The US has huge problems that it hides with a massive electronic media propaganda system, rigged economy, huge military, and the same with China ... as usual throughout history a random innocent human being born on to this planet pays the price for the arrogant and incompetent, heartless and mostly hateful people who pretend to own the planet. Every country is sickening, we all know it
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  48. Guy looks like Michael Ironsides, Rasczak from "Starship Troopers".
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  49. All the West/US has done is refine their old game of putting in "representatives" of local people in power through propaganda and marketing who make noise like they represent their people,but who are really working for large corporations whose managers&goals are hidden but who have a long history of stabbing their own local people in the back for labor and resources ... it happens all over the world, this model has even been used now for the President of the US. People want real freedom
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  50. this is a useless argument. both japan and china were great countries ... like all countries of the past they got into the empire meta-narrative and brought ruin on themselves. china just needed to harness the power of their mono-culture, but most other countries do not want that. don't tell me chinese do not seek power or rule, i see it in the corruption between chinese in silicon valley, it is a race war inside a country that was trying to make that obsolete. US has no defense for this.
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