Youtube comments of (@kunibald128).

  1. Basically this man is saying that the right of children to live can sometimes be overlooked and they can in fact be slaughtered with perfect peace of conscience in the case that some acquaintance or neighbour of their parents happens to be a criminal.
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  2. Ok but first (minute 05:17) we are told that capitalism is a system that works "without anyone needing to have an overview" and this is why it is "pure genius", then we are offered multiple demonstrations that extensive overview and supervision by governments, including drastic economic intervention (such as imposing a price on carbon), is absolutely required to make it work. Is this not a contradiction? Perhaps we would better accept from the start that invisible hands are not to be trusted for the achievement and maintenance of the common good.
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  3. Idem. I think I just find Angela's rants on whatever topic to be very relaxing for some reason.
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  4. Sabine I think that if there was a misunderstanding it probably originated from the sentence at 3:34 "I do not want to pay for it." This comes across as the cornerstone of the video and it really sounds like an endorsement of the trend that you now say you only meant to describe without endorsing.
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  5. ​ @vicnighthorse  No, the "profit motive" is not a universal necessity. Many endeavours in human history (including but not limited to many scientific discoveries) have been driven by entirely different motivations, such as (among others) genuine curiosity and love of the truth. The idea that personal profit is at the basis of every human behaviour is nothing more than a working assumption, which does explain several aspects of reality, but definitely not all of them.
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  6. ​But why should we starve? If less work is needed to produce the same goods, why can't we just work less and leave everything else unchanged?
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  7. Thank you Angela, these plots are really terrible and this video was liberatory.
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  8. Well done Angela, we very much need people like you who can combine intelligence and knowledge with empathy and an actual understanding of the difference between good and evil. I really hope that many people will hear your message loud and clear.
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  9. Indeed. And in fact not only science communicators, but also many professional astrophysicists (I am one of those) use the expression "dark matter" not to refer to a list of observational evidence, but rather to refer to a broad (although vastly unsettled) theoretical framework that could explain them: specifically, invoking some so far unknown form of matter, as opposed to theories of modified gravity or modified dynamics, which are commonly regarded as alternative to dark matter. Most of the confusion probably arises from the fact that Angela is adopting her own definition of the expression "dark matter" (which to me personally sounds perfectly reasonable and after you accept it the whole reasoning is flawless), but does not really match its most common usage.
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  10. Trump en de carnaval zijn onderwerpen die goed bij elkaar gaan.
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  11.  @constantchange1145  I would suggest: certainly stop the slaughter, then focus on getting the hostages free through negotiations (for instance offering in return the end of the siege), at the same time call for some serious international interposition force to overlook the interruption of violence and prevarication from both sides and on all fronts, including the West Bank. In due time, those responsible for atrocities such as those of 07 October should be arrested and brought to the International Criminal Court just as any other war criminal.
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  12. The Israeli president must have flexed all his best propaganda skills to secure that "widespread support" among himself!
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  13. ​ @SabineHossenfelder  But would not this line of argument apply to literally everything that is currently being paid by taxes? Public spending is needed in some areas and education (from basic school to PhD) is one of them.
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  14. I am mainly worried by the robot uprising 😳
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  15. Ik vind het ongelofelijk dat er in een ontwikkeld land medicijntekorten zijn. Ik hoop dat de apothekers ook daarover gaan protesteren.
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  16.  @SabineHossenfelder  Thank you for your reply. Now you have clarified that with "I do not want to pay for it" you meant: "I understand that some people are angry that their taxes are funding some mediocre research." It is perhaps true that some publicly funded research is mediocre, but the example chosen in this video is very bad because (by your admission): 1) The work in question may not be mediocre. 2) Many of the people who are angry at it formed their opinion in an irrational way, merely triggered by a set of keywords. From these premises, the logical and most educational conclusion should be to call out the angry people for their fallacy and try to explain why often research that is seemingly useless is instead actually useful. Then again, do expose (if you wish and as you have done in the past) examples of actually mediocre research, strictly limited to the field where you are in a position to express such judgement, but please always make sure to put a very clear and explicit distance between those examples (on which you can offer solid arguments and knowledge) and the examples on which the public is forming irrational opinions on. They simply are not examples of the same phenomenon and conflating them together in one single discourse is highly dangerous (in my opinion).
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  17. ​ @alexanderlau770  You make an important point, although I am not sure that a money incentive for reviewers would resolve the issue. Academics generally do not need more money, they need more time (less duties of all sorts). Also, many qualified academics are forced out of academia (due to shortages of open positions) and thence are lost to the reviewing system, aggravating the situation. Both problems would be resolved by hiring/retaining more people.. so in the end it is indeed a money problem, but at a much broader and more systemic level (in my opinion at least).
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  18. ​ @amentrison2794 You would still like a school teacher to be a decent role model. If I were a high school student, I would not enjoy being taught science by a notorious science fraudster.
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  19. Concerning the aftermath of the incident in the Harz mountains (04:00), it would be interesting to know more about the "reprisals against local villages".
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  20. Dank u wel voor de nieuws!
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  21. Sabine, I have not understood why you say that eternal inflation must also have had a beginning at some finite time in the past. My understanding of this theory is quite limited, but what I get is that it should, on large scales (much larger than any individual universes), more or less resemble a de Sitter model (spatially flat with Omega_Lambda = 1). Under these conditions the expansion law is a pure and simple exponential, it does not admit any beginning or singularity and more in general there is nothing special about any point in time.
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  22. Many of them are very sad though..
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  23. ​@vladimirnadvornik8254 Only at a very superficial level. If you want to go deeper, you need to formulate hypotheses in a mathematical language, then conduct experiments to test them.
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  24. Thank you for the additional context. The results shown here do seem quite inconclusive when it comes to the magnitude, so I am happy to learn that there are also complementary experiments with a focus on that.
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  25.  @vicnighthorse  I may have misinterpreted your words. I have no interest in arguing with you specifically, so I will reply not to contradict you but to refine my earlier observation and perhaps even find a common ground with you. I obviously agree that greed predates capitalism. It is however a distinctive trait of our epoch and in particular of our capitalistic civilization to organise our societies under the assumption that the maximization of individual profit is the main driver of everyone's behaviour. Perhaps this is not your own thought (happy to learn that) but it is a very widespread view, which has a negative impact on many apsects of our societies, including (among many others) the way academia and scientific research are organised.
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  26. They are reporting on plenty of hateful actions, but this does not amount to promoting hate. Staying silent would probably be more harmful.
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  27. I have bad news, Canada is in America already (just like the USA, Mexico, Belize, Suriname and many other countries).
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  28. ​  Exactly! Also strings, as the elementary constituents of matter, are unbreakable, so all the problems related with the resistance of the cable are automatically solved. We just need to wait ten more years XD
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  29. Indeed, as a model of the Universe, we don't need it to be expensive, as long as it is expansive!
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  30. Also ChatGPT is technology, not science. It is very ordinary that people have discussions about technology (denoting an interest in what they might do and how) and not at all comparable to having discussions about science (denoting curiosity about the nature they happen to be a part of).
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  31. Dank u wel!
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  32. Fijne avond!
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  33. I agree that AJ is openly biased (even in this video they acknowledge that they are promoting the Palestinian cause). However I don't recall them saying that houthi attacks on vessels are "normal" or any other similar qualification.
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  34. Why would the doctors allow the old lady's daughter to speak to her mom on the phone only in their presence when they can hear what she says? I hope I am mistaken but it might suggest that she is not being treated very well. I hope she will be able to speak more freely when her mom visits in person. Perhaps something to check out on your next visit?
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  35. Van welk land werd het nieuwe wapen gekocht?
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  36. My opinion is highly subjective and is not meant to be disrespectful, but I have the impression that Sabine's take on this one is almost borderline with populism. Again I may be wrong but these are the steps that I see in this video and make me think of that: 1) Take a complex subject which for some (usually irrational) reason has come to be hotly debated by the public despite most people being illiterate about it. 2) Present a superficial analysis of the subject (in this case, drawing conclusions on an entire thesis based on its abstract), mainly in the direction of reinforcing the public sentiment, especially when it is negative. 3) Apply wild generalizations (in this case, from this thesis to the whole academia) and on this basis declare without an actual proof the existence of a huge problem or even an emergency. 4) Suggest drastic and simplicistic solutions that may superficially sound satisfying to the laymen but cannot work in practice (in this case, cutting public funding to fundamental research).
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  37. Dank u wel en tot volgende week!
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  38. Thank you for speaking the truth about the cookies, indeed my grandma is very upset that also this year she didn't get the prize. It is a scandal!
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  39. What is the truth in this particular case and which trusted media outlet is reporting it?
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  40. I love that you specified "almost", as "it depends" being or not a good answer to a question is itself somewhat dependent on the circumstances.
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  41. These would be good suggestions for a thesis in science, not for literature.
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  42. Hi. It seems that what you are missing are the basic laws of physics.. But your question is not stupid, so let me try to explain. Yes the cable must rotate together with the Earth or otherwise it will wrap up and fall down. And yes at some initial stage you will certainly need some energy to assemble the cable in the right configuration and make sure it has the right velocity. Once the set up is complete, however, you do not need further power, because the relevant forces balance each other out and the system is in equilibrium. More in general, you should keep in mind that you do not need to apply forces, or consume power, "just to keep the speed constant". A force is needed when you want to alter the state of motion of an object, for instance to accelerate or decelerate it, but not if you just want to keep its speed constant. This is the first law of dynamics. The situation gets more complicated in many everyday situations because of air resistance (to overcome that you need power even just to keep the speed constant) and this complication is why the principle is not immediately obvious and it took Galileo and Newton to figure it out. In space you have no air resistance and applying laws of dymamics is relatively easy. Hope this helps!
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  43. Fijn weekend!
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  44. And the beginning as well!
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  45. Top culinary metaphors in this one!
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  46. I think you are raising a very interesting point about the instability of the intermediate steps. This sounds like a formidable problem to me, it would be nice to hear if anyone has any suggestions on how to possibly overcome it.
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  47. One small correction: I think that the pi mesons were already known before the advent of the Standard Model, so they should perhaps go in the category of "previous observations which are successfully accounted for by the new theory". All the other examples are correct (as far as I can tell). Thank you for the interesting and enjoyable video!
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  48. This is an interesting remark, but I thought that massive particles could also be entangled. Am I mistaken? What would the explanation be in that case?
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  49. For the record, "Swiss cheese" models of the Universe do indeed exist, they are used to study the effects of inhomogeneities (compact mass concentrations within large voids) primarily on the propagation of light.
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  50. Mooie avond!
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  51.  @mhk9063  Nice that you agree that everyone should want this, whether they also would it does not really seem the case at the moment. To answer your question, I suppose that they should fire back as long as that is the only way to not be killed on the spot, or to avoid the killing on the spot of civilians under their protection, and no they should certainly not be allowed to kill civilians themselves in retaliation and certainly not as a form of prevention from hypothetical attacks in the future. I would also say that any serious attack would above all indicate a serious failure and a need to urgently revise the necessary diplomatic efforts that must continuously accompany such a mission. I am not saying that any of this would be easy or even close to be easy, but I would argue that the main obstacles here are not the risks but the political will.
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  52. Definitely not the main point here, but I am just wondering if I am the only one thinking that very simplistic answers are good for 6-7 years old, not 10. I mean when I was 10 I had been taught in school about Jews, the Torah, the Roman Empire, the diaspora, the Arabs, the Ottoman Empire, World War Two and the United Nations and I would have, to some extent, understood an answer in those terms.. Obviously school programs are not the same everywhere, but probably a child's brain is..
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  53. "Couple things:" Proceeds listing three things.. Me: "I was not expecting the Spanish Inquisition!"
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  54. I totally agree, awesome and compelling indeed. I guess that was meant to be a dinosaur's foot.
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  55. Wow, I was never a fan of Elsevier but did not expect them to publish this level of rubbish. I am astonished and seriously concerned.
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  56. The watching back caught me off guard 👀
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  57. Dank u wel!
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  58. @JamesLevineAndSons Legit point, but what is then your take on Sabine's main argument? Reading the account of this traveller is an experience that you have directly made by yourself and you need to make sense of this experience of yours in one way or another. If you maintain that the Earth is flat you should also necessarily conclude that this person is a liar. Is this your position on the matter?
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  59. The AI clones having a videoconference is indeed probably the dumbest idea among all the hilariously dumb ideas you have covered in your videos so far.. perhaps only paralleled by the alcaline water with lemon. Love this series about awfully embarassing and yet socially normalised forms of stupidity, keep it up! :)
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  60. I loved the point where Angela imagined that perhaps in two generations from now it will be socially acceptable to send your AI clone to visit your grandmother.. I wonder whether she was also realising that in precisely two generations from now she would run the risk of being the grandmother in question!
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  61. Bedankt!🌹
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  62. Angela, I think this is brilliant. I am impressed by your ability to communicate how amazing all of this is in a way that is accessible to everybody. I am also totally with you when it comes to admiring D. Lynden-Bell. One small correction, if I can: at minute 06:00 you say very correctly that n represents "the amount of the gas you have", but in the written version I think you should erase the word "density" (you probably had a lapsus, having in mind some other version of the equation without the V on the left-hand side). I hope this does not qualify for Mann-Gell effect :) I actually think you can prevent some potential confusion with very small editing. Keep up the very nice work!
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  63. Bedankt!
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  64. You mean "unnecessary precision". The accuracy was lacking entirely.
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  65. I love the guy who says he would like to go to North Korea and also that you have to respect the laws of the country and yet his very haircut would be outlaw there.
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  66.  @justseffstuff3308  It is true that temporary contracts exist in many industries, not only in research. However, two aspects of this phenomenon occur in research to a considerably greater extent than in most other fields. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong: 1) When your contract expires a researcher, it is not enough to look for a new employer or even to relocate to a different city: most of the times you need to relocate in a different country. This is actually good once or twice, but after four or five times this may legitimately be described as an exaggeration or a distorsion. I believe this does not happen so frequently in most other "industries", but again correct me if I am wrong. 2) In most other "industries", permanent jobs can also be found for intermediate roles, not exclusively at the top level. This is different from academia, where (with some exceptions) there is usually no permanent research job at a level lower than a professor.
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  67. Jokes apart, Sabine is totally right here. More in general, I find it very concerning that we don't seem to be able to see the difference between science and technology anymore.
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  68. We need more of those public funds to be used for actually retaining qualified academics inside academia (instead of forcing them out of the system after a few years). In this way we will have more qualified reviewers available (paid by their salaries as Sabine said). This would also alleviate the publish-or-perish nonsense and thence reduce the number of papers of dubious quality to be reviewed to start with.
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  69. This liked wine of a fine age.
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  70. Someone here may find it interesting to notice that the reason why the measured duration of Jupiter moon eclipses depends on whether the Earth is on the approaching or receding side of its orbit (relative to Jupiter) is identical to the reason underlying the Doppler effect. In its essence, the Doppler effect goes about arrival times and emission times and applies equally well to any sequence of events (including moon eclipses), as long as the information about the events in question is propagated at a finite speed. The most known formulation of the Doppler effect in terms of wave frequencies is essentially just a corollary of that.
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  71. That elliptical galaxy looks like a disc galaxy to me :) Or at least I think I can see some dust lanes..
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  72. I have not understood the key point here. How would we know that the vibration was caused by a graviton rather than by a classical (non-quantized) gravitational wave?
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  73. Fijn weekend!
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  74. If we do not have free will we also cannot choose whether to act as if we had it or otherwise.
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  75. But why should every participant country aim to eventually be able to build the entire machine in house from scratch? What would be wrong with each participant specializing in the production of some components and then exchanging them with other equally important parts produced by the others?
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  76. By the way string theory is also down the stack.
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  77.  @yeboi5478  I agree with you, the Industrial Revolution was certainly a net good for humanity as a whole, but it should not be idealized either. Also during that period a countless number of lives were lost, or made utterly miserable, in completely preventable ways.
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  78. Sun has left the chat.
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  79. I guess that the proponents of this theory could object that perhaps the purpose is not to fool anyone, but just to do an experiment, and perhaps it does not take much effort to the authors of the experiment to do so. I nonetheless very much agree with you that the entire idea is ridiculous, I would say because of Ockham's razor: in the considered scenario an objective reality exists somewhere anyways, so why can't it just be ours, especially in the absence of any indication whatsoever of the contrary? I find the hypothesis wholly unmotivated and unnecessary and have not yet understood whether its proponents truly find it plausible or they just think it is something cool or original to say.
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  80.  @Brooofs  We have no memory of how we got here but in most cases our parents do!
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  81. "Democratically flooded with crap" is an excellent description of our civilization.
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  82. A real solipsist would never tell anyone because of course it would not make any sense to do so.
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  83. Half an hour after watching this I am still in denial that some dudes actually wrote a paper and got it published to gift humankind with this nonsense.
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  84. Even at fixed pay, the person with managing skills would still have a strong incentive to take on the role, because in this way they would be exempted from the physically hard labour.
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  85. I want a space elevator to lift a giant glowing violin plot for everyone to see!
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  86. Simple answer: you can move some matter with your mind and specifically what is connected to your brain by your nervous system.
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  87. ​ @incognitotorpedo42  You could take a look, for instance, at Chile in 1970-1973, when people tried to pursue a very different path in a fully democratic way before being forced to abandon their chosen way forward precisely at gunpoint.
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  88. Respectfully I think that this argument is not correct. In the described scenario, our presence within reality does not cause it, it simply adds to it the property of being perceived.
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  89. Sure it is very late to start taking any of these measures. Still better late than never I guess.
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  90. Ma in questi casi non dovrebbero piuttosto intervenire le forze dell'ordine?
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  91. Misschien is een bril duurder dan een telefoon.
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  92. It was Yoav Gallant, Minister of Defence.
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  93. Fijne avond!
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