Comments by "kokofan50" (@kokofan50) on "Lotuseaters Dot Com" channel.

  1. A point about the “waste” from nuclear, many of the isotopes from high level “waste” are actually very valuable. Some of the isotopes are used in medicine. One used in MRIs. Another could be massive advance in cancer treatment, but we currently don’t have enough of it to make it a viable treatment for people. Then there are others used in RTGs for powering space probes.
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  2. I’ve never watched Grave of the Fireflies all the way through, and I refuse to. The small parts I’ve seen are just too sad
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  3. The World Bank, UN, etc aren’t where the US gets it’s international power. They are the means by which the US uses it power.
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  4. Simo Häyhä, the White Death, is the still holds the highest number of sniper kills.
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  5. The population of the Soviet Union was about 250 million
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  6. To be fair to these BLM nuts, the US is part of the Afro-Caribbean cultural region, so our politics aren’t completely foreign
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  7. The reason other civilizations didn’t find OZ and a bunch of other little islands is because Europe invented deep water navigation. The only people who had comparable navigation skill are the Polynesians.
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  8. If we are the first, that means we are the gardeners of the universe! We must expand and and spread the beauty of life.
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  9. Setting standards is actually the EU’s favorite trick to protect inefficient farming practices. Y’all should remember a few years back at the start of Brexit how people were making a fuss about chicken washed in chlorine. There’s nothing wrong with it, even though they do the same thing with other foods, but the EU banned in to protect the domestic poultry industry from the US.
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  10. He’s not wrong about the Germanic tribes liking war. Just the English conquered 25% of the planet. When you add all the land conquered by all the tribes and their subsequent nations, I’m willing to bet more than half the planet was under the control of the Germani at some point.
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  11. Earth is part of the first generation of planets that can develop life. Earlier planets lack the “metals” (in astronomy that means all elements hire than helium). Without those higher elements in large quantities, life can’t form.
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  12.  @qazhr  great examples how safe nuclear is
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  13. As an American I’m trying to understand how you figure y’all have had 1,000 years of good governance since my country wouldn’t exist if not for bad governance. The ironic part is that the “representation” in no taxation without representation was a seat in parliament.
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  14. Anyone who calls Man of Steel their favorite film of all time hasn’t watched enough movies. There are many better movies out there
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  15. Yeah, the US is as innovative as we are because we had to invent and reinvent even the most basic tools like plows and ax heads, but once we had, we could draw on the vast resources of an untapped continent.
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  16. The Romans built the bath on the spring because they also believed in the sacredness of it.
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  17. I may be an a proud American, but my English roots run deep. My ancestors lived there for 1,000 years and wrote English history. I feel insulted by johnny-come-latelies acting like they have the same claim to the homeland of my ancestors as my cousins who still live there.
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  18.  @sik3xploit  exactly, the UN, IMF, World Bank, are institutions created by the US to mediate American economic and political power.
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  19. They were actually close allies with the British until the 1930s. Japan wanted to prove they were the equals of the western powers along with securing the resources they needed.
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  20. It’s may-jee
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  21. Indo-European cultures are still very expansionistic. In the US we’re working on expanding to the moon and Mars.
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  22. The US was the world’s largest producer of rare earth elements until the Nuclear Regulatory Commission redefined thorium as a nuclear source material. We can easily be one of the largest producers again, more than enough to cover our needs. There are only a few things like titanium the US really lacks.
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  23. When you have to deal with as many different groups as Americans have to start simplifying things. It’s also part of our assimilation process for groups.
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  24. In Indo-European cultures, fertility is seen as at least as much as masculine trait as feminine.
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  25. That and people are bad at judging the size of objects. A hybrid or Main Coon being unusual large for cats and then people thinking they’re 2-3 times their actual size answers almost all of these.
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  26. Part of the problem is this is a fuzzy logic problem. It’s now the same kind of problem you have when defining how much sand it takes to make a pile of sand. The answer is obviously not grain of sand, but how many grains does it take? Why that many? Why not one less or one more?
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  27. You’re mot factoring the energy needed for making everything you use.
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  28. With gen. 4 passive safety that won’t happen
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  29.  @disbeafakename167  No, they weren’t. Around 500 are credited to him using his rifle and around another 200 were credited to him using a submachine gun.
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  30. It’s based on a graphic novel
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  31. People are terrible at judging the size of things, and most people don’t understand how big house cats can get. Look up the Main Coon breed. I wouldn’t fault anyone for thinking that wasn’t a house cat if you see it at a distance or in low light conditions
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  32.  @daskampffredchen  plutonium is a byproduct of reprocessing spent fuel rods, and it can be used as fuel. However, it’s weapons grade plutonium, so I’d rather use the spent fuel straight in molten salt reactors.
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  33. Yeah, a micro reactor to power your neighborhood would be great instead being dependent on solar and wind farms.
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  34.  @robertbeisert3315  not really. Thorium needs online processing to really be effective. Also, there are a number of companies in the west working on thorium and even more on molten salt reactors
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  35. The Proto-Indo-Europeans moved into Europe about 5,000 years ago and incorporated or killed the populations who have been living there for tens of thousands of years. If Europeans aren’t aren’t indigenous to Europe, no one is indigenous to anywhere.
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  36.  @iggyzeta9755  the Corded wear culture was neolithic, and the amount of pre-Indo-European ancestry varies pretty widely between different populations in Europe, not including the a few groups like the Basque. Some have as little as 10%, and others have up to 50%.
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  37. The US was much more regional until the post WW2 highway building and tv.
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  38. It’s a shame they banned nuclear power.
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  39. This is just an uninformed take. Those old lightbulbs were put off 1/10-20 the light of modern ones, and they costed a lot more relative because of the thicker wire used.
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  40. The Pacific was a naval war of attrition, and the sooner the fleet battle happened the sooner the US won. Also, that’s back when the military selected for aggression in officers.
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  41. The Soviets had a terrible first year in WW2 too.
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  42. Everyone has some of these. It’s not even all bad if you’re high in the triad. This whole discussion is about people high in them who have done well in business
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  43.  @Jamtrenched  they wrote plenty of stuff down. They just didn’t write a lot of books. Rune stones are called that because they’re covered in writing in different forms of the Runic script. There are, also, inscriptions in every day items
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  44. Yes, you can just create a high seas empire out of a landlocked country with character. You can just make it rain with character. You can get rid of communicable diseases with character. I can’t believe I forgot that.
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  45. The response to the houses out in the water is just a knee jerk reaction to something different. There are lots of places where people live in houses out in the water. There’s nothing inherently wrong with it.
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  46. Libertarians believe in voluntary institutions.
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  47.  @DavidSharpMSc  which has nothing to do with being voluntary.
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  48. There seems to be three main archetypes here: young & stupid, freaks, and race grifters.
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  49. I’ve got a better claim on being a native Brit. At least a large part of my ancestors were from England and a few were involved in important parts of England history.
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  50.  @tariqjoseph3562  I said history not trivia.
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  51. 12.5~ a foot
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  52.  @Aspartame69  yes , I’m just fucking with you. I know a foot is about 30cm
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  53. Yes, it is. They believe in the malevolent magic force of “whiteness”. Their argument for transgenderism is, at least implicitly, that the soul was born into the wrong body. They have martyrs. It’s a primitive religion definitely, but a religion
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  54. You’re talking about the degrowth nuts. Although, the green movement as a whole is malthusian and antihuman
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  55.  @robertbeisert3315  the regulatory environment is difficult. However, there’s a lot of work that needs to be done before building reactors. Also, the regulatory environment is getting better.
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  56. The French nor the Dutch didn’t really settle places. The French North American colonies had a fraction of the population because their main goal was trade.
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  57. Not replaced, assimilated, often violently.
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  58. It’s turtles all the way down
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  59.  @baldieman64  as terrible as the mass extinctions were, the acted as clearing functions that allowed newer and often more complex and intelligent species to evolve.
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  60.  @baldieman64  I’m including avians in the animals who were able to expand because their larger cousins were killed off. Do you think birds would be where they are while the pterosaurs were still flying around?
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  61. It made 303MW or 3MW gain
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  62. There’s a naturalistic fallacy going on. They believe we evolved to eat plants and that plants are healthier to eat. They also think meat production is doing a lot more environmental damage than it is.
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  63. The Sami and East Asians share ancient ancestry (20,000+ years ago), and Indo-Europeans for that matter, in Siberia. Some groups lost some traits and others kept them.
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  64.  @ShermanistDruid  no, Ukraine and Russia were settled by the Norse, and they don’t really have a seafaring tradition. You’re probably thinking of the Germanic cultures, which have seafaring traditions going back to the Bronze Age.
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  65. It’s a little more complicated but basically
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  66. That’s just demonstrably false. Brain injuries have long been known to change a person’s personality. If what you’re saying was true, brain injuries wouldn’t have an affect on personality. Your mind is an emergent property of the brain. Change the brain; change the person.
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  67.  @Phemruto  down grading the hardware doesn’t change the software. Changing the brain changes the person. Like some microchips, the programming is part of the the hardware —wetware really, but the same for our purposes.
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  68.  @Phemruto  You can’t replace the brain! You can replace different parts of a computer. Also, we know how the metabolism works pretty well. It’s not some magic force animating us.
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  69.  @Phemruto  at the scale of neurons, the brain is constantly reprogramming itself. At the scales of brain regions, the brain is very consistent.
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  70.  @gagamba9198  this isn’t a collage course; you don’t need to elaborate on a given thesis.
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  71. Homo Erectus had a smaller jaw and gut. The only way that works is if they’re eating cooked food.
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  72. We originate from the area the Russians and Ukrainians ar blowing each other up in
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  73. The Saudis know the oil is going to runout, so they’re trying to diversify their economy
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  74. It’s an international movement born out of America politics.
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  75. Orbital rings
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  76. You’re confusing a couple thing. Dust and CO2 aren’t the same thing, and temporary cool periods caused by dust aren’t ice ages.
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  77.  @harrypike731  no, basically everyone an exploitable natural harbors and navigable rives has.
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  78. Carl is slowly turning into a luddite.
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  79. Fossil fuels are pathetic, dirty fuel. Instead of using the virgin power of the a covalent bonds; embrace the chad power of the strong force with nuclear. Nuclear is literally a million times more energy dense than fossil fuels.
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  80. 800,000 neurons is about as many neurons as insects.
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  81.  @michaelrichardson989  ants have ~200,000. Bees have ~900,000-1,000,000
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  82. Naquadira is best
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