Comments by "DynamicWorlds" (@dynamicworlds1) on "Why are Chernobyl's Radiation Rates Rising?" video.

@kylehill for whatever it's worth, I see no good reason to not continue the series as planned if you can avoid releasing any information that might cause harm and which the Russian government wouldn't already have access to. The tone and structure of the resulting videos may change, of course, and as with this video, there may be other things you find more pressing to talk about, pushing the planned series back, but I can't think of any harm that could come from it unless there's some concern I'm missing. You've been pretty good about being careful with more serious videos and reliable sources of accurate information are increasingly important and rare when things get bad. I'm not in a position to see what the ideal course of action is, but I don't see anything that makes me worried that I'll see a video posted on your channel that I'll wish hadn't been made, or a reason to not trust your judgement on what to do with serious topics.
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My understanding is the shelling happened last night, not is a current thing, but yeah, that was nearly another disaster....
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I highly doubt "tank bombardment" was on the list of design criteria, though a lot of the walls are often pretty thick for other reasons.
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Motives can only be determined with inductive reasoning. Sticking to the hard evidence was a good call for what he wanted to do with the video, but yes, the "shortest route" explanation is currently looking like the one that makes the fewest and smallest assumptions, though 2ndary motives may still apply.
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@bluegleam8168 look up "Umberto Eco 14 characteristic" and you'll have an answer.
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@Merennulli I'll add that the war itself was already a crime against peace by international law, but yes, actively endangering a large swath of Eurasia with this recklessness is just further convincing the world that Putin needs to be dealt with in some manner, as just leaving him to his own device and trying to just wait his regime out is looking less and less appealing to other nearby countries by the day. How they'll end up responding I can't say, but we're seeing increasing opposition to Russia and support for Ukraine and NATO the worse this gets, so it's kinda surprising that the Russian government is acting like this as it doesn't seem to benefit them anything (even without assuming they care about their own citizens).
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A lot of them are terrified conscripted kids barely over 18 with basically no training....which only greatly decreases the margin of safety for the orders of the madmen higher up the chain of command....
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Politics is about power. Knowledge is power. Science is a tool for discovering true knowledge. Science always has been political as it draws the ability to dictate what it perceived to be true from demagogues who would rather public perception of truth be whatever is convenient to those in power at the time. Likewise, drop this ridiculous notion that neutrality is virtuous. “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” — Elie Wiesel “Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.” — Paulo Freire "It is morally impossible to remain neutral in this conflict. The bystander is forced to take sides. It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear and speak no evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain. The victim demands action, engagement and remembering... In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. Secrecy and silence are the perpetrator's first line of defense. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure that no one listens. To this end, he marshals an impressive array of arguments, from the most blatant denial to the most sophisticated and elegant rationalization. After every atrocity one can expect to hear the same predictable apologies: it never happened, the victim lies, the victim exaggerates, the victim brought it upon herself; and in any case it is time to forget the past and move on. The more powerful the perpetrator, the greater is his prerogative to name and define reality, and the more completely his arguments prevail." Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror This absurd notion that politics exists in some space that could ever be seperated from things like science, economics, violence, etc so that it can be a matter of opinion where the virtuous can simply sit in the middle and condemn both sides is absolute garbage. When you decide that truth matters, you are taking a political stand. When you decide which facts are more important, you are taking a political stand. When you decide what instances of violence you accept (which every political position does), you are taking a political stand. You can't avoid doing so. The attempt to is merely choosing to be ignorant of your own political ideology. Abandon equivocation Abandon the golden mean fallacy Abandon the notion that inaction is any less of a choice than action And finally, you can begin to see clearly.
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I suggest looking into the "global change game" social experiment. (Especially the one run in 1994 that ran 2 different groups sorted based on a personality/political questionare. Spoilers: one performed above average for the groups run through the "game" and the other ended human civilization in thermonuclear war) Tl;dr, our continued existance as a species may depend on keeping power out of the hands of those who most want power over others.
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@McFlyOrPie I mean...scared, barely trained conscripts just over the age of 18 that have been subjected to absurd amounts of propaganda their whole lives and didn't even know they were actually invading Ukraine until it was happening? Who even knows if they have half a clue what they're doing! I'm personally more surprised in the chain of command allowing/ordering it to happen. Ethics aside, you'd normally expect some baseline level of mental competence there, but it's just been a long string of decisions so stupid that they fall outside the range of predictions for what the Russian government/military might do. What historic precedent excists for this kind of bad decision-making comes mostly from hereditary authority or situations where the entire chain of command has been purged after a coup to be replaced with people based on loyalty to the new government, so it is unexpected from a country like Russia.
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@illustriouschin in a colloquial sense I don't disagree. I'm just pointing out that we're dealing with enough ignorance and fear that sanity (at least on the ground level) may not even be that much of a factor.
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It's a good question, though I don't think getting reliable information on that is even possible yet.
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Considering Russian forces fired at a (reportedly non-critical) building in another powerplant, unfortunately "insane" seems to be on the table 😔
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Bu-dum tshhh
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