Comments by "Dan" (@Dan-ud8hz) on "Professor Dave Explains" channel.

  1. People who work full time shouldn't face homelessness. If a business can't afford to pay a living wage, that business doesn't deserve to exist.
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  2. "If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality." -- Stephen Hawking, 2015 Reddit AMA
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  3. "He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him." -- C.G. Jung, on Hitler and the Shadow "The embrace, by working Americans, of policies that hurt their own interests can be understood on the basis of Ferenczi’s model of identification with the aggressor. Intrafamilial child abuse is often followed by the abuser’s denial. Children typically comply with abuse, in behavior and by embracing the abuser’s false reality, under threat of emotional abandonment. Similarly in the sociopolitical sphere, increasing threats of cultural and economic dispossession have pressed working Americans to adopt an ideology that misrepresents reality and justifies their oppression. In society as in the family, there can be a compensatory narcissistic reaction to forfeiting one’s rights that, ironically, encourages feelings of power and specialness while facilitating submission." (The traumatic basis for the resurgence of right-wing politics among working Americans) "Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
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  4. "A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person." ― Economic Historian Carlo Cipolla (The Fifth Basic Law of Human Stupidity)
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  5. "In truth, there was only one Christian and he died on a cross." Friedrich Nietzsche
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  6. Solipsist grifters.
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  7. Complains about money in academia yet supports Capitalism 🤔
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  8. Been waiting a long time for this one!
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  9. '...thanks to inequality, the U.S. has potentially missed out on millions of inventors during that time — what the researchers refer to as “lost Einsteins.” Kids born into the richest 1 percent of society are 10 times more likely to be inventors than those born into the bottom 50 percent — and “this is having a big effect on innovation,” MIT Sloan professor John Van Reenen said. The research also shows that innovation in the U.S. could quadruple if women, minorities, and children from low-income families became inventors at the same rate as men from high-income families. Making that happen is the hard part, though. It means exposing more children to innovation when they are young — and the younger they are, the better.' ― Rebecca Linke | Lost Einsteins: The US may have missed out on millions of inventors “I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” ― Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
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  10. "Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It's that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive....it's that part of an imbecile that punishes and vilifies and makes war gladly." ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
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  11. Dear Loser Dontard is too much a chicken-hawk coward. All talk, no backbone. Trump is a pussy.
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  12. Are they related to Harvey? It would explain a lot.
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  13. 🎯
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  14. The word of the day is "incorrigible"
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  15. Hard to overstate how necessary nitrogen and phosphorus are for complex life.
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  16. “One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
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  17. Protons are tangy
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