Comments by "disgruntledtoons" (@disgruntledtoons) on "Veritasium" channel.

  1. "The people need a way to control your profits!" "They do have a way to control my profits. They can refuse to buy my product."
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  2. The chief weaknesses of the claim that climate change is man-made are (1) the claim is based on data falling into an brief portion of the time that the system under consideration has existed, and (2) the unproven assumption that there is some state of climate that we are supposed to be at, from which the current state has deviated.
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  3. I have what I call the Optimistic Conjecture: "A practical application will be discovered for every discovery in mathematics."
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  4. The height of buildings in NYC is due to the stability available for the foundation. The bedrock is actually near the surface at the ends of Long Island and is deeper down in the middle.
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  5. The title of this video is baloney. Math does not have a fatal flaw. We use it to get stuff done every day. Ask any engineer. Math is still an excellent tool for telling us which way has the best chance of the best results. The fact that some people aren't satisfied with some remote level of abstraction is immaterial.
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  6. My layman's knowledge of chemistry suggests that releasing ions from a block of dry salt is going to require a whole lot more energy than a 40W bulb is going to put out.
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