Comments by "Alan hat" (@alanhat5252) on "TED" channel.

@MeatMachine212 no she isn't, listen properly.
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useful proverb
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You don't like just, compassionate or livable?
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yes it's normal in some places but that says bad things about the society you live in, surely it's better to be able to talk freely about health issues?
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Wiping is just about ok, rinsing maybe but not washing, the body evolved to pee & just walk away, washing creates problems.
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listen again because he does tell something
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 @adamgibson473 please stop your idiotic conspiracy-theory nonsense.
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"have the power" yes, but the current law & governance requires them to promote self-interest which, until society is on the verge of collapse, is purely profit.
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It is alarming that you & so many others find this eye-opening, this is the complacency he's talking about, the assumption that peace is automatic when in fact it is the product of eternal vigilance.
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@incognitotorpedo42 I think he's saying that "corporate voice" is better even though that's exactly what the lobbying industry that created this mess is.
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Do you understand your own brain? Have any of your own behaviours surprised or disappointed you? What makes you think you could understand an even more complicated brain even though it's got a window? Just because an unknown somebody has the opportunity to understand it is not a guarantee that either it will be understood or that it will be forced to behave itself. No, we need strongly enforced & comprehensive worldwide regulations *before* this goes any further!
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@VictoriaAllred not quite, she's saying that because businesses are required to maintain a society they can give governments a strong push. Governments know that if enough businesses collapse or leave a country society collapses & they will have nothing to govern.
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5:21 has USA removed it's embargo on Venezuela? Does the USA now accept that a sovereign nation can elect its own choice of Government?
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balanced? No. He sides with Israel as do many US Americans.
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@vmwindustries a government blaming others for it's own failures is a failed government, you need to vote for a government that won't fail. These people are paying the taxes that pay for the infrastructure that's needed to support them, if your government is giving that money away to their friends & donors instead of spending it properly you have voted for a corrupt government. 😢 My country's government does exactly the same. 😢
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In the late 1700s the Luddites began smashing weaving looms, understanding their livelihoods (& thus lives) were at stake. Once the ensuing mess settled down (after several thousand people had died) poor people could afford more than one set of clothes so a whole industry sprang up around washing these extra clothes, plus there was a drastic reduction in skin diseases & parasites. The problem wasn't the change itself, the problem was in how society (& in particular, government) handled the change.
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@yinafrentz not quite, the parties which give to the rich tend to be the ones which create the need for cannon fodder.
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@trojanhorse860 I think you're heading in a factual direction but I think you're missing a few facts, for instance the port of Aden in Yemen was crucial to the British Empire from at least 1500 onwards (centuries before the USA existed), you've missed that Palestine was a peaceful country in the Ottoman Empire for 600 years till the English-hosted Zionist invasion through the rail hub & port of Jaffa in 1920. Syria became French after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Iran & Iraq fell under the auspices of the British Empire though not as directly & Afghanistan was under attack from the British Empire from the late 1700s till the British Empire collapsed (repelled & expelled at least 3 times), Russia went into Afghanistan before the USA. Also, I believe you have misread Yuval Harari, he is an Israeli but I haven't seen any bias, he is very thorough in his research & very clear in his thinking.
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@RemusKingOfRome what are you on about?
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@karezaalonso7110 various sources have been warning Israel for weeks they were about to reap what they had sowed.
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@jessepferr2814 most people don't, they get their information from social media.
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Thank you for your effort, it is appreciated.
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because without them we die? (& we're killing them at an alarming rate).
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@firosuke managers need to learn this, for example often what turns out to be useful is the tool that was invented to achieve an outcome that ultimately proved useless.
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 @Bluebloods7 this is neither Borgs nor Daleks but they are definitely warnings about where this could lead 😢
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This, in itself, does not protect against "rogue AI", it merely opens a small window to finding a culprit after an event 😢 We have enough rogue intelligences around us right now to see that we usually don't deal with rogues until it's far too late, often after other rogues have finished milking the profit. Case in point – zíönísm went public with its gen0cidal intent in the 1850s but various rogues are still milking it so it's still running, it's even had its own State for 76 years & this is in no way an isolated example. 😢
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Civil wars are self-extinguishing – when a winner emerges. It's time to pick a side, are you with or against corruption? Right now you can fight your battles in courtrooms, in newspapers & across dining room tables, if you leave it you'll be fighting in the street & on your lawn.
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No, much news is not for profit, it's for power. (Sorry to bring a downer but this distinction is important).
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They're definitely problems but the big one is lobbying.
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Billionaires are created by politicians. Industry is regulated by politicians. And yes, you can control politicians, you vote for the best available regardless of what colours they carry & you write to them, you phone them & in extremes, if you're American, you raise a posse & exercise your Second Amendment Rights!
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