Comments by "Jason Dashney" (@jasondashney) on "TED" channel.

  1. I wish YouTube would allow us to view the dislike ratio because anybody who understands anything about Wikipedia and has an ounce of integrity with downfall of this because it's an absolute demonstrable lie on thousands of pages.
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  2. Every once in a while someone will explain a complicated concept in the simplest of terms and it flips the switch for people. A.A. Milne, the Winnie the Pooh writer was genius at it.
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  3. Good point. Masterbation was invented in 2005. Damn internet!
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  4. Or fickle reactionaries who apparently base their entire world view on YouTube comments ;-P
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  5. I think you mean TL;DW ;-)
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  6. Listen to the Freakonomics podcast this guy and his partner (okay, mostly his partner) does. It's this type of analysis every episode.
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  7. Is she out of her mind? Wiki is insanely biased. Good grief. It will address "controversy" along party lines for sure. For right wing types it's way more damning, and for left wing types it's either ignored, or only given a tiny mention, usually from a left leaning source calling it nonsense. FWIW I'm politically homeless so I have no team to cheer for except team honesty, and Wiki is disgusting. When left-leaning types are controversial to right leaning types, this gets often ignored as if it's not a thing. They make it very clear. This woman feels like the ends justify the means. She has absolutely no integrity as a human being because she could not possibly believe what's coming out of her mouth. It's absolutely despicable how much people get away with denying objective reality.
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  8. Reminds me of the David Attenborough show about plants and how when you speed it up they look like animals fighting. Humans are usually blind to most other time scales.
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  9. I bet you find your breakfast cereal racist.
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  10. 13:49 is her polar opposite.
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  11. You couldn't started a side business to launder the money, or purchased mortgages where you didn't have to provide documentation as to where you got the money, especially back then. Buying and renovating houses would've been the easiest way.
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  12. 5:10 this chart is incredible. When I was growing up it was all about Ethiopian famine etc and to see the remarkable progress (South Korea being even more incredible) is so uplifting.
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  13. I didn’t watch the video, I just listened to it. People stood up and walked out on this?! We are absolutely living in clown world.
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  14. I can watch damn near anything if the person delivering it clearly has a passion for it. This talk affects my life 0% but I still enjoyed it. Bonus fries that I'm now in love.
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  15. Lots of skaters sit with their feet about bolt width apart. Many years ago my friend laughed because at a pro contest he say a guy only from the knees down who was sitting on a bench and he knew without even looking up it was Jeremy Wray and it was. Feet exactly bolt width apart. It's all he knows.
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  16.  @panda1384  Interesting. I'll have to take a look. I have screenshots of the video YouTube put out to explain the decision and the dislike ratio was the harshest I've ever seen. The comments were 99.9% against it.
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  17. I'd add Jordan Peterson to that list.
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  18. Please explain, and be specific, what's "toxic" about videos that are just bizarre.
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  19. 4:30 is why we have this division. I’m not conservative, but I put this completely at the feet of the liberals. Just because somethings a conservative idea doesn’t automatically make it bad. Yet somehow that’s become mainstream. That’s as gross and divisive as a gets. You never hear conservative say that it is a bad idea because it is a liberal idea in and of itself. And at the end, the white man goes to tell the black man he’s brave for saying that we shouldn’t discriminate based on race. What is this world coming to? TED is an absolute joke and that’s sad because I used to be a huge fan. Just look at the talk they banned from Mikhaila (Jordan Peterson’s daughter). She talked about how her diet cured most of her medical suffering and the banned it. That’s all it takes to get banned now? She literally at the end just said that it worked for her and she thinks there should be more research in that area. That’s it. There’s gonna be a pushback against all of this eventually and the left is not gonna like it if the pendulum swings as far to the right as they have swung it to the left.
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  20. "when you see you own children stoned or drunk it brings it home" You are assuming bored, upper middle class white kids aren't getting fucked up. When I was in high school in a white, middle class suburb I knew grade 10 girls that were on the cheerleading team, and doing coke all kinds.
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  21. That is just one of many many logical lapses he talks about. Also, if you really wanna hurt the world's poor stop buying things. One dollar a day is better than zero dollars a day. It's a complex problem and his solution would only make things worse. It would mean the world's poorest would have no job at all, and there are cascading effect for retail sales back home as well. It would destroy both economies and everyone would suffer. Plus, people aren't dirt poor because they lack money. They are dirt poor because of corrupt governmental institutions, full stop. Those dirt poor nations are not helped if they never have to face a reckoning because rich Westerners keep coming in and keeping peoples heads just barely above water, just barely surviving.
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  22. I took lots of screenshots comparing different politicians and people with political opinions and the contrast is so stark that it's absolutely undeniable. Some people will think that the ends justify the means and it's OK to spin a narrative, but nobody with any integrity whatsoever could possibly say they give both sides of the aisle equal treatment.
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  23. Then you're just not paying attention. There are plenty of patriots in politics, but these days they are mostly on the right, and the ones that are on the left get pilloried by their own side, like Tulsi Gabard. The people at the top who control everything are just uniparty. It doesn't matter who you vote for, the outcome is roughly the same, but there absolutely are people just one or two steps below that that keep bringing up these issues in congressional meetings and trying to tackle the serious stuff but they can't get past the barrier of the establishment. Go on the Forbes, breaking news, YouTube channel and you'll see politician after politician, making very salient points and trying to hold people to a couch, but nothing ever happens. They get scolded and then go about their lives and nothing happens to them. It's like how absolutely nobody was punished for the 2008 financial crisis. In fact, Obama hired those same people and now the problem is even worse, and Trump did nothing to stop it either. The people at the top are all garbage.
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  24.  @lesliecurran1704  "Corporations are people" *sigh *
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  25. Saying things like "Total wars" is not cherry picking. It's literally the exact opposite. His stats include all of the things you are talking about.
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  26. This whole talk is painfully naïve about anything to do with economics or human welfare. He built his reputation on it back in the 70's through so he is digging his heels in with this nonsense that does not hold up to any form of rational scrutiny, if you explore any of these ideas individually. This is nonsense. It's good for bumper stickers and that's all.
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  27. "Moral armies will always try to be more lethal with less collateral damage to an immoral enemy." ---Less collateral damage? They dropped the bombs in regular cities, not strategic military targets. That's the absolute definition of purposeful collateral damage. That was the whole entire point of the bombing FFS.
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  28. "but those who are impoverished are worse then in human history" . Where does this statement come from? I'm curious since he covered basically every single major metric of well being. Also, the gap between the rich and poor is marginally getting worse, but before this system it was kings and peasants. Talk about a 1%. Take the time to learn history.
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  29. No, the moral is don't start a war to piss off an enemy you don't have yet. Tell me 9-11 would've happened if America had literally zero involvement in the middle east in the 20th century. I'm serious. If the USA had never stepped foot in the middle east would it have happened?
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  30. Resorting to personal insults instead of logical arguments to counter things that question your position? Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you an Idealogue.
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  31. You mean exactly like he said in the video? sigh
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  32. You are missing the point of TED talks. It's not experts talking to experts, it's experts talking to everyone who didn't study that particular thing. Why the stats people in the comments are somehow triggered by this is just weird.
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  33. That extrovert/introvert joke was the best thing I've heard in awhile and I'm going to use it.
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  34. Yup. The carton wouldn't be nearly as attractive without the contents.
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  35. "You might not like Singer's ideas, you might not think they're practically feasible, but you have to admit they're pretty logically consistent." Don't confuse logically consistent for being logically sound or pragmatic or realistic.
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  36. Why not just become elite? You know how to study and get a job with a financial firm, so have at it! Oh yeah, it's easier to sit back and complain than it is to work the insane hours those guys do in order to drive a Ferrari.
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  37. Seeing people doing or talking about something they are super passionate and excited about is really infectious no matter what it is.
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  38. So you mean the guys making 6 figures were taking orders at the drive through? Unlikely.
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  39. Do not question anything. What a great way to further the wonderful country you live in!
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  40. Like the rest of this whole video, the story about that boy lacked context, as you have shown. This whole talk is very low resolution, simplistic thinking that has so many plot holes in it, it may as well be a Vin Diesel movie.
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  41. Misleading? The entire talk was about how average joe doesn't understand statics, then gives an example of the most severe real world example possible about how an average person accidentally mislead and average jury.
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  42. I'm all for losing a million soldiers (unless they're conscripted) vs a couple hundred thousand average citizens were just going about their daily business.
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  43. I live in Vancouver Canada and I'm in construction. We build new condo towers. Just regular rentals, not super high and luxury ones or anything and a one bedroom unit is $3000 a month all in. That's insane. I make six figures and can only afford a one bedroom apartment rental. That's not sustainable. I live in a crappy basement suite just to save money.
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  44. "a bunch of tough men are willing to do violence on out behalf" That statement works both ways because it's those same people who also started the wars.
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  45. Ben, you just said he can make a tidy profit while improving the lives of poor people and it helps the environment. Where's the downside? All 3 of those things are good. For some reason, people are massive hypocrites and get skeptical when it comes to anyone making money. Have you ever turned down a pay raise? Didn't think so.
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  46. He never tried to equate the way to run a war with the way to run a metropolis. Your choosing to use the word "liberal" hints that maybe you're looking at this through the lens of political ideology instead of rational objectivity.
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  47. It's incredible that the literal first line he says is already race bated nonsense. It's the word brutal I have such a problem with because obviously the officer that killed George Floyd was not purposely trying to kill him on camera in broad daylight. There's no chance that when it turns out George died that the officer was happy because that was his original intention. That means the word brutal that he used is disingenuous. It was a tragedy, it was horrible, but if somebody talks about a brutal murder, you're thinking of someone being bludgeoned. You're thinking about an act of violence that is meant to hurt someone. George Floyd died because the officer was a callus fucking idiot who didn't understand that George really was in mortal danger. He didn't understand what he was doing could allow George to breathe, get cut off blood flow to his brain. No need to make it into something it isn't with deliberate language meant specifically to invoke division and fears of the systemic racism etc. Ibram's entire public discourse revolves around trying as hard as he can to perpetuate fear. It's awful and he is awful. Whether or not the officer was racist is irrelevant to whether or not the death/murder needed the colourful language like "brutal".
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  48. A large percentage of the US military is devoutly christian. Didn't Jesus wear camo cargos?
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  49.  @DrEhrfurchtgebietend  I'm Canadian so I've been following Jordan since 2016, so 8 years now. I feel that's a pretty long time If I'm being honest, I'm actually a bit soft on Pinker because he's quite politically partisan while claiming to be objective. It irritates me to no end when people do that. Overall I think he's very much a net force for good though.
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  50.  @domkieran8077  Sam "TDS" Harris? I find Sam to be absolutely insufferable. He's the only member of the intellectual dark web I never liked. I'm not aware of anybody else on planet earth who has the blind spots Sam does.
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  51.  @JonDasBoot  He can explain it to you but he can't understand it for you.
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  52.  @JonDasBoot  Thank you for your thoughtful answer. I appreciate it.
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  53. This video is an abomination. So many cringeworthy lines. The very last line was the only intelligent thing said in the whole video. He equates AI to violence. He talks about "weird" videos as if they're so harmful that growups will need psychological therapy just for looking at them. WTF? If this is the type of stuff you're worried about, then life will not be kind to you.
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  54. The vast, vast, vast majority of the videos are just weird. Who cares? So what there's a guy in a diaper burying Spiderman. That's weirder than outer space robot dinosaurs attacking outer space SUV's in Hong Kong? Transformer movies are every bit as weird, plus ultra violent. Unless the videos are telling kids to specifically go harm someone, what's the problem?
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  55. YouTube videos are stunting the mental growth of children? Please explain, and be specific (no buzzwords nor generalized angry sentiments) exactly how you feel their mental growth will be "delayed".
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  56. Cherry picked data? He used almost every conceivable metric that's part of well being. Please explain what data you are talking about, and where it points.
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  57. Yeah, this video was an abomination. I made a long comment with very specific criticism because my head was exploding listing to point after point of false equivalency. Cringe worthy, yet it got a standing ovation and overwhelmingly supportive comments and Likes. Makes me sad.
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  58. I actually disagree with Scott on a great many things including 1/2 of his proposed solutions in this talk, but he absolutely nailed the problem. And at this point I don't care if I disagree with his solutions, at least it's something different. Let's give it a go and see what happens.
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  59. Lemme guess, you are in grad school right now?
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  60. Inaccurate relative to the claims of the actual producers of the actual product at the time. It has zero to do with what come before, during or after it by anybody else so I'm not sure why you're bringing it up.
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  61. Keep your children away from McDonald's, not the internet.
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  62. Jim Rogers is a wealthy investor who spends an extraordinary amount of time travelling. He has been to more countries in the world than any other human being alive. A smart man. He goes and talks to local prostitutes because they have the pulse of what's going on because they get hired to service foreign dignitaries, etc. He thinks we should stop absolutely all foreign aid, because the vast majority of it goes in the dictators pockets, and whatever doesn't just ends up, barely keeping peoples heads above water, so they don't pull a revolution and overthrow the corrupt government. It's perpetuating the system unfortunately.
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  63. He said the sights didn't work anywhere close to what Norden claimed. Those are statistics kept by the military itself. He was just pointing that out and I'm not sure why that triggered you. The morals of war are up for debate, but the statistics aren't. The bombsight was not at all what it claimed to be. That WAS his message. So many triggered 'Muricans commenting.
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  64. Steven - even if you are being sarcastic, it still needs to be said that war does not keep the economy up if it's America making weapons for America. That's just a redistribution of wealth. An economy is nothing without outside money coming in and increasing the total amount. For that you need to sell to foreign countries and bring their outside money inside the domestic economy. The American economy is hurt by the country engaging in wars.
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  65. Right Minded - I disagree that "wealth is created through productive work". I don't care how productive people are, if they are chasing money that their own country has created out of thin air, then "getting" more money is just inflation. That's different from increased wealth. Each new dollar makes the existing ones worth less and less. A dozen eggs equals a loaf of bread. It does today, and it did 50 years ago. The food didn't become any more valuable, we just hand over more dollars to buy it now. I just don't see how going into debt increases wealth the same as bringing in foreign assets, debt free, does. Plus, the paying off of debts with increased amounts of dollars (each having decreased values) isn't a sound strategy, it's a borderline ponzi scheme. Maybe we just aren't connecting on what "productive" means. To me it means creating something where nothing was before. A policeman isn't "productive", and they don't contribute to government coffers because their whole paycheque came from those coffers in the first place. I'm not sure whether we disagree, or just aren't on the same page with the semantics. Text is so cumbersome.
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  66. Is more government aid fact or fiction? Is Pluto a planet? Did the Brontosaurus exist? Not long ago, evolutionarily speaking, it was a fact that earth was the centre of the universe.
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  67. Nebraska rent is high so the world isn't improving by every conceivable metric and his stats are lies? Please explain.
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  68. Kaleb - c'mon, I'm still waiting for you to counter with logical arguments instead of insults. Explain which of his statistics are lies.
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  69. I'm very wary of him using that $1/$10/$100 log scale. Very, very few people can "see" them for what they really are so it's deceptive to most people.
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  70. When people point out that the woke come out with ideas so ironically racist their response is basically always something along the lines of the ends justify the means. Kendi literally says that the cure for the discrimination is discrimination. How do you even argue with somebody so detached from objective reality? When you point out that their whole premise is that racism is bad yet they want to purposely engage in it, they turn around and call you racist for having that thought. It's literally beyond belief that anybody takes these people seriously in any capacity.
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  71. You mean the incredibly obvious point that humans created societies and AI, so it's no shocker that they might resemble each other? That's like being shocked that you hired Picasso to paint your car and it turned out to look like a Picasso.
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  72. .....and that Iraq never invaded America so it was America invading Iraq, plain and simple. How about not getting in a war in the first place as opposed to the ONLY other option being carpet bombing?
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  73. Ginger too.
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  74. "notice he does not talk emisssions or pollution". Yes, yes he does.
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  75. Who drops waist-high pineapples under da sea?
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  76. This is insufferable to watch. Sorry, I can't get past the first 2 minutes. Its like he's looking around trying to find a moving teleprompter that pops in and out of the room in random spots. Those pauses are brutal. Normally I give a pass to anyone that isn't a seasoned presenter but I just can't watch this. Sorry.
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  77.  @theodordimov6518  I heard that only gives an algorithmic estimate guess. Is that true?
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