Comments by "bj0rn" (@TheLivirus) on "PowerfulJRE" channel.

  1. 39:03 Joe Biden wants to get rid of fracking? Are you sure about that? Biden: "I am not banning fracking. Let me say that again... I am NOT banning fracking." https://youtu.be/KL0PaPRa6aI?t=14
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  3. He refers to it as neurotoxin and describes vaguely that the potent chemicals comes from flowers. Yeah I'd be careful too. Could have long-term detrimental effects.
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  4. On the discussion on Boston Dynamics around 2:00. Joe seems to have forgotten the discussion with Lex Fridman where he explained that Boston Dynamics doesn't really use AI. These robots aren't able to learn, they are hard-coded to do specific tasks.
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  5. The cardiovascular system is not fixed at all. Stuff goes in and out of the walls all the time, red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, etc are created, destroyed and removed. Sugar, fat, salt, water goes in and out of the walls. Vessels expand and contract. Blood volume and pressure is regulated short and long term through various mechanisms. In other words, if the blood pressure is too high, that seems to me like a regulatory problem, no?
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  6. America is a nation of _immigrants. I wonder how all these people picked up the fat-gene after they moved.
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  7. Kudos to Joe for pushing back against this Zealot.
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  8. This was really interesting. Daryl exerts a good deal of intellectual honesty.
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  9. I'm not into martial arts at all, but the way Kevin opened up and exposed vulnerability and honesty about his past: wow! It's a good metaphor for a lot of life's struggles, whatever that is.
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  10.  @aaabbbccc985  Sounds like a healthy balance of chaos and order haha.
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  11. 1:39:30 I think what Joe is looking for here is the Peppered Moth which was observed to change from white to black in areas of heavy industrial pollution. The accepted explanation is that the white color had evolved in order to hide on birches, but birches in heavily polluted areas were covered in soot and easily seen by predators, making them evolve towards black by natural selection. It's is commonly cited as an example of unintentional human impact on the evolution of species.
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  12. What a way to break the ice.
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  13. 25:00 The discussion that needs to take place here is where to draw the line between the very natural process of learning and strategic "flip-flopping".
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  14. I agree, but I'd also add Mark Blyth to that list.
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  15. However, it is also important to acknowledge that there are people who work hard who do not "make it".
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  16. Wow, what a rabbit hole. If this becomes a series or movie, go ahead and take my money!
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  17. While using unnecessarily complicated language, I think Eric Weinstein's description of the problem is probably more accurate. He says that the "distributed idea suppression complex" is interfering with our "sense-making apparatus". With idea suppression complex he means something like the collection of mechanisms preventing the spread of good ideas, such as cancel culture, media bias, censor, taboo, career incentives, etc.
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  18. An entirely new fetish at his age? Ok I'll keep looking.
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  19. So beating people up isn't enough for a man nowadays, you also have to enjoy it? Got it.
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  20. As long as the next President will hold the same powers as Putin, there will be plenty of aspiring successors, probably with less noble intentions. There may be need for constitutional change to improve balance of powers.
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  21. Chistopher Hitchens wrote in his memoir Hitch22 that he never sought to and rarely got black-out drunk, he just enjoyed that slightly altered state of mind that a little alcohol provides.
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  22. Matt talks about the inevitable societal harm that follows after letting gay people marry, he even asserts that we can already see the harm happening, yet he can't point to any specific example. Sounds like a belief rooted in fear of the unknown.
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  24. Hate to say it, but this episode would be better without Joe. He keeps interrupting and going of on tangents. It's his show, I understand, but come on.
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  25. Great episode!
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  26. It would be much easier to listen to this guy if he wasn't so fucking arrogant. Jesus dude, relax.
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  27. He grew a beard.
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  28. I felt during most of this episode that Joe was a bit sh1itty towards Jim: interrupting, ignored most of his awesome impressions and good points, went on and on about stuff Jim clearly don't care for, etc.
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  29. Randall is a gem.
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  30. This is so dumb. Russia runs on market economy and is mainly Orthodox Christian. USSR ran a centrally planned economy and was atheist by constitution. It's not the same, not even close.
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  31.  @ryansr1343  3,000 years is a pretty good run, no?
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  32. Would have been funny if WhoEverEditsTheseVideos chopped this episode into nice sub-second clips, just to piss Bill off.
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  33. Dam, I'm too late.
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  34. All under the same dome.
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  35. And what is that? To warn people that nuclear war is a real risk so that they call back their war mongering politicians from the brink of armageddon? I don't see the problem.
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  36. Please elaborate on what you mean. I don't get it.
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  37.  @signsofbias9640  Funding for who?
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  38. I think Joe should have turned his rhetoric against him on pot. Given that the role of government is to protect the citizens natural rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, is it the role of government to stop people from using pot recreationally? Isn't drugs a type of pursuit of happiness? Isn't using drugs for one's own pleasure a liberty that should be protected?
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  39. My best guess is the drone hysteria is either a decoy for some BS they're trying to pass or a fundraiser for drone surveillance infrastructure.
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  40. Eric more likely makes Joe feel dumb.
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  41. Let me guess: planes flying in formation, disappears behind clouds.
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  42. I don't think "common sense" is any less wishy-washy than "centrism". It seems to be a lazy way of avoiding a proper description of the problem.
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  43. I lost so many brain cells listening to Kristin haha. He's a conspiracy theory glutton.
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  44. I can relate to the fear of not having a firm point of reference, but it is very strange to call this unnatural. We've known for a long time that everything in nature is relative. The search for a fixed medium to house all matter came to an end once we learned that the speed of light in vacuum is constant relative to all observers. Mass, velocity, momentum and the passage of time is all in the eye of the beholder. You may feel that you're firmly grounded in your chair, but you're also orbiting earth once a day, which orbits the sun once a year, which orbits the center of the galaxy, which fumbles around the Virgo Supercluster, which is ripped apart by dark energy.
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  45. There's no point in introducing Eric as anything less than a polymath.
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  46. I wish Joe would interview members of the global elite: Rockefeller, Rothschild, Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, etc. You never hear from these guys in freeform conversation.
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  47. 1:15:00 I think Wiz is probably right in that companies probably don't push out their most capable and effective technology, but the reason isn't that they want to milk low-tech first, the reason is that they aren't able to produce the tech to a price that is affordable for the masses.
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  48. Mel caught my attention within seconds. He's got some real energy in him!
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  49. How is this one different from all the other sh1tcoins?
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  50. So maybe the incredible human progress we see in our historical record isn't a consequence of some hard earned innovations, but a consequence of an unusually long period of stable climate.
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