Comments by "roidroid" (@roidroid) on "TED-Ed" channel.

  1. "Department of Defense" is always a good one, implying that our nations are never the military aggressors (as that would require a "Department of Offense").
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  2. Wow. So Sparta was essentially just a Fascist wonderland, since everyone's primary loyalty was to the state (at all costs). Bye Sparta
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  3. +Detective Shaft Yes that, but multiplied by generations. Each scientist standing on the shoulders of the giants that came before them, further adding to the knowledge discovered by their scientific predecessors, so that someone in the future may stand on their shoulders too and continue the work. The generations go by, each taking another further stab at the immortal beast that we call Ignorance, it gets constantly weaker but it will never truly die.
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  4. anna buer yeah, after watching this video i feel guilty. I've hassled ppl about it, coz i didn't realise there was various common wheat-intollerance conditions other than (relatively rare) celiac disease. But yay education.
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  5. 1:01 beetroot 1:05 dragonfruit 1:14 passionfruit 1:21 starfruit, carrot & .... i dunno (yellow bell pepper?)
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  6. ***** STANNIS KILLED DUMBELDORE
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  7. This fish lives at 55 bars of pressure, when you bring it outof the water it's suddenly only at 1 bar of pressure, a difference of 54 Bars.  It's eyes bulge etc, yet it doesn't explode. When a human is exposed to the vaccuum of space, it's a drop from 1 bar of pressure to 0 bar of pressure, a difference of only 1 bar.  Compare that to the immense 54 bars difference that the fish goes through.  This is why a human exposed to the vaccuum of space does not explode, it's just not enough of a pressure difference.  Humans exploding in space is just a myth.
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  8. Why don't we just, build a wall around all the Donald Trump jokes?
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  9. +Antonio Palladino No. If that were true no-one would be wearing glasses.
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  10. 911 was an inside job (written by Shakespeare)
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  11. +JoyfullJuneBug it cost me almost $7000 AUD. It was worth it, i havn't worn glasses since. Whole world is in constant 4K. People pay more for TV screens, but this is the TV screen i watch the whole world through, and i'll never have to upgrade it again, i think it's a good deal.
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  12. Aristotle wasn't wrong.  The apparently "empty" bubble in a barometer is infact not a vacuum, it is filled with vapours of the liquid under it.  The liquid surface under that empty gap boils away into the gap until the gap's pressure has raised to the liquid's vapour pressure, it's not a vacuum.  Because - just as Aristotle said - nature really does abhor a vacuum. If you got 2 barometers, each filled with different liquids of the same density but differing vapour pressures, they will give different results.  Weight (more accurately density) is not the only factor.
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  14. +Thomas Drowry you mean PRE-humans, but yeah ok. If that's true, then i wish the video made that clear that we had to evolve darker skin as an adaptation to losing our fur. As it is, the video is confusing, as it implies that humans evolved darker skin as we moved north to more sunnier regions of Northern Africa.... Wtf all of Africa isn't sunny?!
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  15. +Random Den I know right? What's next? Interracial marriage? Women voting? Where's my smelling salts, i think i feel an episode of the vapors comming on
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  16. Chocolate coated Broccoli... WHEREISYOURGODNOW
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  17. +QWERTY man Depends on how you define prosperity. A slave state can be rich and powerful, but it doesn't mean it's great to be a slave.
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  18. +Axel Maikano In my experience one of the things that defines someone with Narcisistic Personality Disorder (NPD), is an inability to acknowledge the problem. They will never accept it. People who grow up around others with NPD tho, often pick up a lot of the traits themselves, but as they grow up they are more often willing to identify the problems and improve. In support groups they call these picked-up traits "fleas". The basic rule is that if you read about Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and get really worried that you have the condition yourself, then this very ability to question yourself means that you probably don't have it. People with NPD find the idea that they're flawed so utterly acceptable, that the thought doesn't get very far at all before being completely rejected. I'd recommend /r/raisedbynarcissists subreddit (and the various associated subreddits)
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  19. Chronic stress can cause the loss of brain cells and suppresses new ones from being produced? But... but that's what alcohol can do as well, it's the reason i stopped drinking! I wonder which is worse for your brain: drinking to relieve stress, or a stressful sobriety. Since both can destroy brain cells and suppress new ones from forming. No seriously, this is a highly relevant question.
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  20. *youtube opinions*
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  21. no i mean i've met plenty of people who maintain their bodyweight via exersize, but i've never met anyone who successfully maintains their eyesight through... whatever woo you're peddling. People who can't afford optometrists or glasses must just use your nonsense and never need glasses, which is why only people in rich countries use glasses and the rest of the world has perfect vision. but that's not the case.
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  22. Dmitry Fatiev IT'S A CONSPIRACY OOGA BOOGA
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  23. HAARP wrote Shakespeare's plays
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  24.  @ctmalton1513  it's Entitlement because it's starting with the assumption that a country deserves to attain whatever it's interests are, even if they have to steal them. It's starting with the assumption that the country's interests already belong to them automatically, and thus any action taken to aquire those interests from another person or country are instead categorised as "taking them for their rightful owners". The Entitlement is the incorrect implication that you are it's rightful owner, the word defence implies that you're not the aggressor but are instead merely defending the status quo, the status quo in this case being the wacky assumption of "everything that i want, is automatically mine, and i am justified in taking it from anyone else". But to take things that aren't yours isn't "defence", it's stealing. If i want your car so much that i steal it, no-one says i was defending my interests, they say i stole it.
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  25. I've had transistors explained to me so many times but i could never quite understand, which is embarrassing because i've been working with electronics for years. Your explanation of vacuum tubes tho, with the grid, finally made it all make sense. I'd never known how vacuum tubes worked before. It was the missing link, now i finally get it! Thankyou so much.
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  26. +Jordan Benjamin TB+ drives have been available for many years. Also, settle your jimmies
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  27.  @ctmalton1513  that's just another way of saying "goals". The only thing it's defending is someone's expectations. "Defence of a country's interests" is a grandiose way of describing someone's feeling of entitlement when they try to take something that isn't theirs.
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  28. This does a disservice to evolution education >:( Bees don't decide anything, it's in their genes, it's instinctive.  As bees (like all life) reproduce there is variation in each offspring, like a bit of experimentation.  If the new bee's slightly different instincts make it build a hive which is slightly stronger and better, then the bee will survive better, and this means it will reproduce better - it's kids will carry the genes to build the better hives. Whereas if the variation gave the bee the instincts to build a worse hive, then it will survive worse, it might die without having any kids at all, so the genes will not be passed on.  Thus bad experiments get eliminated and good experiments become the next generation, so each generation is slightly better at building hives than the last was.  Bees that can't build good hives DIE, and the only ones left are the ones who build good hives, that's the bees we're seeing - the ones who were lucky enough to be born with the right instincts, everyone else is dead. The bees don't think about it or decide anything, they're just born with a slightly experimental variation in their instincts which either helps them live or die.  DEATH is the one making the decisions, not the bee :(
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  29. 1:45 >"i decided i try to print an entire fashion collection from my home. The problem was that i barely knew anything about 3D printing". facepalm Something that's confused me for a while is why we even refer to these artists as "professionals". If i decide to make something, that i have absolutely no idea howto do, then i'm described as a "layman". But this artist does the same thing, she has the exact same lack of necessary skillsets, and she's called a "designer". I mean, an architect knows their material and howto make buildings from them. A mechanical engineer knows their material and howto make machines outof them. If you have been trained in a profession where you know nothing about your chosen medium (lol how do i 3d print things?!), then of what use was your training? How would your results be of a higher quality than that of any other layman hired off the street? Maybe that came out as more negative than i intended. I'm just confused why we elevate these people to a class label like "Artist", put them on stages, listen intently to what they have to say, when they clearly deserve no more respect nor attention than any other layman. Why is it a thing? Don't get me wrong - what she's doing is indeed quite cool & interesting, but it's no more interesting than what any other maker is doing *, why has she been elevated to a higher status class? *infact less so, because other makers tend to know their mediums and thus more often are really pushing the boundaries of what's possible. All this artist is doing is buying off-the-shelf 3d printers & flexible filaments and repeating what others have already done, why does she bother? But more importantly - if this is so banal and derivative, why do we bother listening? Shouldn't our time be better spent listening to those who know their medium and are truly pushing the limits? TL;DR: TED your entire stage is broken.
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  30. *washes hands forever*
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  31. +BisdremisKostas >"is there anything more fascistic than a corrupt government imposing unbearable taxes and not offer a proper educational or healthcare system?" Is there anything more fascist? Well yes, a fascist state is more fascist than that. You do understand that Fascism has a specific meaning, yes? It's Authoritarian Nationalism, ie: everyone's primary loyalty is to the state at all costs. As to your presidential war sex example: If i were fighting in a war, i'd be wondering why there was a war in the first place, i'd be wondering how many lives could have been saved had my state & leaders & culture not been so belligerent. I'd be wondering if maybe it'd be better for the world if we were wiped out.
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  32. masculinity
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  33. Notrollhere Might have consumed too much "Design Fiction". ie: Devices you see in the media all the time, that only exist as shiny 3D renderings, done by designers and other arty types, not engineers. Any 5 year old kid can dream up "wouldn't it be cool" technologies, tho actually creating something that works with the known laws of physics (and is economically viable) in the real world requires a different skillset.
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  34. What sort of Broccoli pipe do you use to smoke it?
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  35. +White Van (Blake) it only works with music
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  36. Would have been a better talk if delivered by a gamer.  The concepts in this talk are not new to kids at all, they are in many popular games, a missed opportunity for engagement there. When she mentioned at the end that no historian had previously modeled the terrain into their battle analyses, i was kinda appalled.  Sounds like the field is filled with a useless bunch of naval gazers. ps: scout is spy
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  37. McKnowledge1000 Modern phone batteries (lithium ion) will last the longest if you try to keep it near 50% charge at all times, also try to avoid letting it get hot. Keeping it constantly near a fully charged state (ie: plugged into the charger after it's already at 100%), or near a fully discharged state (ie: when the battery runs out, you leave it turned off for a long time instead of re-charging it) will both shorten a lithium-ion battery's lifetime. It doesn't effect it that much, not really enough to bother, but if you're obsessive about extending your battery's lifetime - that's how you do it. If you want to keep a lithium-ion battery on the shelf for a while, charge it to around 50% before you put it away.
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  38. +Joshua Guillemette wait... i don't see anything on that page that says the animation work is voluntary. It says "Freelance", that's paid work. (good)
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  39. +Jordan Benjamin >"I'm asking in reference to this point in time" Then ask "why DO you need" instead of "why WOULD you need". The word "would" refers to the future, so the answer there is obvious: the future is always coming.
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  40. why is everyone suddenly talking about his soothing voice just now? He's been narrating these videos for years
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  41. D:<
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  42. +Osman Oglu >"your nation shall soon fall " Oh yeah, North Korea is coming for me eh? haha
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  43. ArtezzGaming yes, if you ignore the rest of the video and only hear "6000 years" i can see how one may get that impression.
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  44. Emissions are regulated based on their "CO2 equivalent", so methane emissions are regulated more than CO2.
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  45. +Fidel Castro do you have this dream a lot? Tell me about your father
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  46. It's turtles all the way down.
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  47. Roberto Giménez Genetic engineering increases biodiversity
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  48. Finn Loki Mad I'm not saying it's aliens, but it's aliens.
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  49. Aussies (and Brits?) sometimes refer to Americans as "Yanks", and in my experience it tends to come across as a sort of racial slur, so care must be used.
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  50. Suvi-Tuuli Allan Maybe the Finns invented Tourettes syndrome or something
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