Comments by "DynamicWorlds" (@dynamicworlds1) on "Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell" channel.

  1. White dwarfs are the corpses of larger stars and don't undergo fusion, so may not count as "surviving stars" depending on how you're defining that.
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  2. Free market capitalism is just as much as an extremist position as Marxism. Sorry we don't treat the bs the country was indoctrinated with durring the cold war as a religion. Btw, as automation increases we'll have to choose between some form of communism, UBI, or a cyberpunk-style dystopia. I'm not apologizing for holding the moderate position on that.
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  3. Placebo or some other change in their life unaccounted for. These "medicines" do nothing and the theory behind them is based on long disproven superstitions. Chemistry and our universe just doesn't work that way.
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  4. Poe's law is incredibly real. Always use /sarcasm or some variation thereof, even if just /s
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  5. A major problem is that most Boomers are too ageist to seriously care what happens to the younger generations after they're gone.
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  6. The fact that human instinctive violence tends to manifest with punching rather than biting gives us a massive passive resistance to intraspecies rabies transmission without which large human population centers would have been rather difficult to establish. With as much as pre-modern cities were already plagued by disease (including but not limited to those caused by poor sanitation), large human settlements might simply never have developed if we tended to bite each other when mad. Before knowledge of viruses it would just look like putting too many humans together in one place eventually causes them to go insane and start killing each other. Switching our instincts from biting to hitting may have been a prerequisite for civilization itself.
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  7. Properly organized collective decision-making tends to outperform vesting all decision making in a single authority.
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  8. Just give everyone a UBI and structure the income tax to get the money back from the rich. It's simpler and no one falls through the cracks.
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  9. Problem: we can build renewables fast enough. We can't build nuclear plants fast enough.
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  10. Population growth slows to almost nothing when extreme poverty, lack of education, gender discrimination, and childhood mortality are adequately addressed. Even with no deliberate population controls, global population is expected to top out at 11 billion. (Which is higher than we'd like, but it's not infinite growth)
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  11.  @snkybrki  I love my dairy, drink typically multiple glasses daily, love butter, and have all the mutant genetics to drink as much milk as I want without ever getting an upset stomach, but I'll still let you know that the "bones need milk" thing came 100% from the dairy industry "lobbying" the FDA to try to get people to consume more dairy so they can sell more, backing that up with ads of their own (and getting subsidies on top of their increased sales figgures). Pretty standard US, corruption, really. It's 100% unnecessary for a healthy diet and we only evolved the ability to consume it to increase avalible calories (especially in northern climates with long winters in areas that grew wheet as a staple crop) especially in the form of fat and protein.
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  12. fl333r UBI should pretty obviously not start at a middle-class income, but a lot of jobs are pretty superfluous and/or about to be replaced by robots already. Waiting to 50% unemployment to institute this would be disastrous.
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  13. Um, no, that's not what the data shows, sorry. Please stop listening to supply-side economics as it's nonsense in any modern system. Jobs are created by demand, not charity by the rich. They didn't get that way by giving more than they get in return.
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  14. Can we start by acknowledging that those trying to block the transition to a green economy are engaging in crimes against humanity?
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  15. Nonono, disappearing change uses quantum tunneling to find the nearest couch-like thing to hide in. It's like socks in your dryer, just replacing the parallel universe with a couch in this universe. (Fun fact: the replacement mass that gets created to obey conservation of mass is a possible source of dark matter but they haven't gotten a the lhc to work with socks yet)
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  16. Problem is that's why they want it in the first place. Imagine what having a massive database full of blackmail on nearly every citizen can be used for. And sadly, that's not speculation. It's been shown that at least the US government has deliberately archived extremely private data with no possible criminal relevance. (such as nude pictures&video) So, basically, the NSA shredded your rights and used your tax dollars to create what has to be the largest database of illegal amateur porn and blackmail that has ever been created.
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  17. An easy compromise is to shift your mindset to eating less meat and viewing it more like a treat (especially if you like beef) than something that makes a meal. I only eat about 4 (real, not American) servings of meat per week and that just comes from changing how I look at it from something I need to a treat I enjoy and am thankful for.
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  18. Don't eat Stuff Posing As Meat, please. It's bad for your body and dignity. ;)
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  19. or near a missile silo...the locations of which are often top secret, even to those living nearby. Sweet dreams
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  20. Holy fuck NO! Missile defense systems are an even dumber idea than unilateral disarmament. As soon as a nation thinks they can get away with using nukes scott free because they feel safe, the world goes from unstable, to a ticking time bomb. That's why we banned the development of missile defense systems, which helped end the Cold War. BTW, we've been in violation of said treaties deploying less effective ones near Russia and developing new ones since the early Bush administration
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  21. Except the first part with their fingers crossed behind their backs because they're paid off by the fossile fuel industry and have intense contempt for the younger generations who will pay the price.
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  22.  @eye2077  full-auto photon blunderbusses
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  23. The unfortunate thing is actually that people have been tricked into treading politics like a team sport. Politics is about power: it's relationship between people, forms, structures, the ends it's put to, etc. It is everywhere and usually life and death for someone somewhere. The institutional authority to decide how our energy system is structured: power Where trust is placed for expertise we need to trust (ex: the scientific consensus vs politicians and lobbyists): power How we weigh the comfort of current generations vs the future of younger ones: power All of it politics, and all of it of grave importance. The problem isn't that it's political, the problem is that there's a partisan divide where there is because some positions being taken today are just straight-up evil. There's a reasonable debate to be had in renewables vs nuclear. There is not reasonable discussion to be had if there's even downplaying the severity of the importance of combating climate change and the need to get off fossile fuels.
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  24.  @garrettb845  fair enough. I read the subjective term "petty" in a different way than you meant it, as I've seen that used in a variety of ways (leading to my, personally, using "partisan" to avoid the ambiguity), but if all I did was elaborate your point in different words, I'm 110% fine with that.
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  25.  Ethan Steel  to be fair, I can never remember that one. I can remember that a meter is nearly equivalent to a yard though.
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  26. Iran and North Korea (whatever we may think of their domestic policies) very obviously see nukes as a means to deter invasion (mostly US invasion, and both have very good reasons, modern and historic, to fear that). I'm not aware of China making threats to use nukes offensively, either. The India/Pakistan conflict is a very serious risk, however, as is the increasing escalation between the US, Russia, and China. Even if it isn't at the point of any explicit nuclear threats (at least by any half-way sane actors in said countries), things can spiral out of hand quickly were conventional warfare to start, and we have already been in violation of some of the treaties that helped end the Cold War for well over a decade, which isn't promicing. I'm not encouraged by the selling of Saudi Arabia even allegedly peaceful nuclear technology, either, considering they keep giving our weapons to Al-Quaida.
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  27. Poverty drives crime. Cut their income and they'll increasingly turn to more crime to cover the difference until they can't get out. Not saying no punishment of course (fines and jail time are of course fine), but what you're talking about almost guarantees perpetual recitivism
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  28. Alkerae exactly. Replacing things like minimum wage with a UBI would work wonders for our economy by leveling the playing field between employers and employees for the first time in history, and without the corruption unions often suffer from. Until both sides are just as free to walk away from the table, exploitation will continue.
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  29. My guestimate numbers for the drake equation put things at about 0.4 civilizations/galaxy with that number being even lower in the early universe. The notion that we can get intelligent live on a planet that isn't almost exactly like earth is making a lot of assumptions considering how specific things had to be for evolution had to select for it on earth once in all the time we've had life here. You can pretty much rule out any planet significantly larger or smaller, without a massive iron core (which basically rules out the early universe, when amounts available were low), with too thick or thin an atmosphere, further in toward the galactic center (too many orbit disruptions and gama ray bursts), around red dwarfs (they're too variable), around supergiants (they're likely too radioactive and short lived), too much/little water, one too big mass extinction event knocking life back a stage, etc There's also the fact that the notion that intelligent life expanding through the galaxy isn't a sure thing. We're already seeing countries where birth rates are declining below replacement rates, so it's not at all strange to think that populations for advanced species tend to stabilize. It's also likely that, due to energy requirements, interstellar travel isn't a good way to deal with overpopulation, so most species that are capable of it only choose to leave their star system when it becomes uninhabitable and focus on population control instead. Also, set up a series of smaller filters and you get a similar effect without and "great wall".
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  30.  @Rodriguo322  yeah well, you have a fascist burning the Amazon, so... I say this from a country with another fascist working to accelerate climate change at the help. I'm not pointing any fingers at you. Only stating facts.
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  31. They should be reexamined now. Euthanasia especially, at least of the assisted suicide variety. Keeping someone around dispite terminal illness that makes them suffer so much they want to die is just selfishness, pure and simple. Suicide is a slightly more grey area only because we're so terrible with how we leave people suffering emotionally without help or hope for improvement so often, on many occasions not even noticing there's anything wrong until a suicide attempt is made.
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  32. Either you'd actually quickly get sick of that when actually faced with it (either through boredom or wanting more money), or you're a liability to your employer with your coworkers quietly picking up your slack. I assume it's the former.
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  33. And we have historically low taxes and historically high military spending, wealth inequality, and corporate profits. We can afford basically whatever we want at this point if we're willing to adjust our priorities.
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  34. Yeah, cutting back is actually pretty easy if you just start thinking about meat as something that is a nice treat to be greatful for rather than something that is a requirement to complete a meal. I reduced meat consumption mainly for the environment too, but I did find that I felt healthier after I started getting a bit over half of my protien from plant sources like beans and nuts, so it was a nice perk (though I would need to plan that side of my diet a lot more than I do to cut out meat entirely)
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  35. Quote the more time people have and the less stressed they are about their basic needs, the more able they are to participate in their democratic government to limit corruption.
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  36.  @scrunkledorf  also puking from acute radiation exposure
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  37.  @cautious3571  that is sometimes a viable option and should be done where it is, yes.
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  38.  @brownyellow7870  tell they you find forests burned by wild fires, citys destroyed by extreme storms, and the inevitable wars over water ugly and that they need to grow up.
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  39. Lukas Dalenbring that automation scenario is already in progress as we speak.
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  40. Bill Schlafly better than paying a subscription AND microtransactions
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  41.  @darktrooperdalek7991  +
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  42. Nuclear's problem is not waste or danger. It's that we waited too long. Renewables are the only things we have enough time left to build enough of.
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  43. Only if all the poor die or rise up to overthrow the economic system and forcefully redistribute the wealth. We've tried what you suggested many times throughout history and it always fails. Pick up a history book please. You can start by turning to "the roaring 20s" and just keep reading.
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  44. armweak13 if UBI is only given to citizens and replaces a minimum wage, illegal immigration would basically stop overnight, actually...and even if it didn't, who would care if an illegal immigrant wanted to come here for shit wages to pick fruit to make profits for some corporation who's taxes would be paying for our UBI?
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  45. The problem is that we're often letting our societies be run by those who desire power and status over others above absolute quality of life. These people will always treat the world as a zero-sum game, reguardless of the state of the world because of their mental disorders.
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  46. I believe it's a British thing
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  47. Let me fix that for you: there is a small, but not insignificant, chance that one of your vaccinations didn't take, and that you are relying on herd immunity to protect you from whatever disease that it was supposed to protect you from. Near where I live 5 people were discovered to have measles at an international airport with reports saying 2-3 of them had been vaccinated. The infected kids were not.
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  48. This is a crisis. Blame is irrelevant atm. If you have the means, you have the responsibility to act.
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  49. 2 of those three only want nukes to defend themselves from us and China is a pretty standard nuclear-armed world power (at least disregarding domestic policy). That's a rather odd list there, don't you think?
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  50. Specifically quantum tunneling should be able to. Say I take a sphere of assorted atoms, arrange them in a specific way, then isolate them for eons until quantum tunneling and entropy makes them uniform in distribution of all properties. If you come to it at that point, no amount of readings you could ever take of it, no matter how perfect, will tell you what state I set it in. When you scale things to the extremes conservation of information seems to fall appart, and I haven't been able to find anything yet that makes me conclude anything but that entropy actively destroys information. (Was actually watching this on the off chance I got something new to consider in that reguard) Of course, I also think singularities turning into universes are also likely, so this big "paradox" is twice over a non-issue.
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