Comments by "Megakoresh" (@gigakoresh) on "Thoughty2" channel.

  1. "Start with the fattest." How do I survive if I have to eat myself?
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  2. A lot of emotion-driven argumentation, but little research. Zero mention of those marvelous buildings being built by slaves or barely-paid workers who died by thousands building cathedrals "deus vult" and all that. Because despite the world having less than a billion in population for most of history, vast majority of it couldn't afford to live in anything more than a shitty hut. So go ahead and move out to a shitty hut somewhere on city's edge and surrender the cost difference for your apartment in a gray box to construction companies to prioritize "form over function". Modern architecture has it's problems, but to call the priority of cost and function over decor "disrespecting our past" is delusional at best. We live now better than at any time before and a huge portion of that is the fact that our buildings design and built "inside-first". Have you ever dealt with trying to install a modern climate control system in a 1904 building? Because I have. And it ain't pretty. Most of the issues are in cityscape design, as you called out in the video, which stems from lack of government oversight. A good example of this done right is St. Petersburg. The city's administration obsesses over the cityscape and what do you know? All architecture looks marvelous, often you can't tell if it's been built in 2010 or 1880. Take a walk though google maps. And of course the price per square meter in those houses in city center is around €4000. With an average salary of €600/month. While more affordable buildings are in peripheral districts and they all looks great with huge towers surrounded by fields and parks, with super-wide streets and malls, giving it spacious look, despite large population density. Most issues are only with placement. Architecture as a whole is way better now than it was a 100 years ago.
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  3. Birds are more intelligent than vast majority of animals. Parrots especially. They have very good long-term memories and are capable of visualization and conceptualization. So this "bird brain" analogy is contradictory. How are parrots so intelligent without a neocortex? UPD: Very recent research apparently shed some light on this situation - birds have an alternative brain part called nidopallium which has responsibilities similar to neocortex's. That's what gives birds their intelligence. But connotation of the phrase "bird brain" is still full of shit.
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  4. Many people had a stroke of genius but Da Vinci had a streak (☞ ͡ ͡° ͜ ʖ ͡ ͡°)☞ I'll show myself out...
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  5. This is why I play videogames. At least there, most of the high-budget titles actually deliver, though the direction games with the service business model are taking is down the same rabbit hole. But as long as studios like Larian, DONTNOD, Quantic Dream and of course CD Project RED exist, there will be good high-budget games. And if not - scalability is another major advantage games have over movies. You can't scale down a movie without compromising quality. Even with accessibility of modern equipment and CGI software, the sets and lighting alone cost a fortune and require specialized skills.
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  6. Or you could just play Doom: Eternal...
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  7. A classic example of how a bad title can lead to a flood of morons disliking a good video without watching it.
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  8. I find the biggest issue with this theory to be the fact that it is using a mathematical model, while mathematics is the language of our universe. If the number of universes and their variance are both infinite, then assigning logical constraints of our own universe to the creation process and some parameters of other universes is self-contradictory. So by that logic this theory is a paradox.
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  9. So is it the hippocampus that handles memory or the frontal lobe?
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  10. Thoughty2 in 2017: "Honeybee is absolutely fine. There's nothing to worry about" ( https://youtu.be/gqOzTh2pjEw?t=75 ) Thoughty2 in 2020: "The bees are dying and we don't know why!!!" credibility left the chat
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  11. No it's not providing "countless tax dollars" and "new jobs". The only thing this is doing is widening the gap between the ultra-rich and everyone else, and of course - killing the planet. It's very good at the latter. This is not capitalism, it's "consumerism" and those are completely different things. If people didn't have to buy new things as often and had more money, they could spend that money investing and improving their living conditions by purchasing real estate without mortgage or paying for kid's higher education. They could buy long-term bonds that governments can use in sustainability projects. There would be demand to remove artificial complications of financial market to utilize the citizen's wealth. Everyone would equally benefit from growth. Do not defend consumerism. It's a plague and if it's not eradicated within our lifetimes, our kids or grandkids will not have a lifetime.
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  12. People hate on Edison because of his asshole personality. Tesla's "special snowflake" personality is a bit easier to reconcile with compared to an outright asshole that Edison seems to have been.
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